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Finding and exploiting hidden features of Animal Crossing’s NES emulator

>While looking for ways to activate the developer menus left over in Animal Crossing, including the NES emulator game selection menu, I found an interesting feature that exists in the original game that was always active, but never used by Nintendo. In addition to the NES/Famicom games that can be obtained in-game, it was possible to load new NES games from the memory card. I was also able to find a way to exploit this ROM loader to patch custom code and data into the game, allowing for code execution via the memory card.

[Incredibly detailed and well-written article](https://jamchamb.github.io/2018/07/11/animal-crossing-nes-emulator-hacks.html), goes super deep into reverse-engineering the technology.

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Anonymous takes control of North Korea’s Twitter and Flickr accounts, defaces websites

[Expect them.][link]

[link]: http://thenextweb.com/asia/2013/04/04/anonymous-takes-control-of-north-koreas-twitter-and-flickr-accounts-defaces-websites/ “Anonymous takes control of North Korea’s Twitter and Flickr accounts, defaces websites – The Next Web”

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sonic xl

[A modification of Sonic The Hedgehog in which the rings are now fried food][link]. Sonic eats them and gets fat. Eventually he gets so fat he can no longer move. I’m waiting for Sonic XL2: The Hoveround.

[link]: http://www.auntiepixelante.com/?p=623 “auntie pixelante › sonic xl”

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How moot “Won” the Time 100 Poll

[Paul Lamere’s coverage of the Time 100 hack continues with this in-depth examination of the how-they-did-it variety][link]. It includes a lot of Time-bashing, as evidenced by the following parenthetical:

>(And if you have any doubt about Time’s incompetence, take a close look at the Poll. Notice that Oprah Winfrey and Ratan Tata have the exact same number of votes. That’s because they both shared the same ID in the poll. A vote for either one was a vote for the other. Same goes for Michael Bloomberg and Gustavo Dudamel. If you vote for one, you vote for the other.)

Previously: [4chan’s precision hack of the Time 100][prev].

[link]: http://musicmachinery.com/2009/04/27/moot-wins-time-inc-loses/ “moot wins, Time Inc. loses « Music Machinery”
[prev]: http://extrafuture.com/2009/04/13/4chans-precision-hack-of-the-time-100/ “4chan’s precision hack of the Time 100”