Game Console Hacking

Hardware hackers have always been especially fond of improving video games, and Game Console Hacking: Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo, Game Boy, Atari & Sega documents the fun they have dismantling video game consoles, altering them, and putting them back together. It explains how you can do this yourself and go beneath the casing to invigorate your console and make perform in ways its designers never imagined. This book lists the proper tools for proper hacks and explains how to use them properly without electrocuting yourself or harming the console. It shows you how to modify the casing to make it aesthetically pleasing, replace batteries in old game cartridges, build a cartridge for an NES game you write yourself, modify an Atari 2600 joystick for left-handed players, and more. The book also tackles the more difficult topic of modern consoles such as the Xbox, Game Boy, and Sega, as well as reverse engineering projects