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SylverReZ

Let's All Love Lain!
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Since not many people know much about me, and considering how small the community is, I believe it is time to let others ask me anything. I'm cool with it. :D
 
What got you into homebrew and modding?
It's a long story, but I'll tell it regardless. I think my first introduction to console modding was around 2011 when I got a glimpse as to how copy protection worked. I had my laptop next to the corner of our sofa, and our parents had a PlayStation 2 in the living room, directly beneath our Sanyo CRT television. Since we couldn't afford to get new games, I always wondered if it would be possible to play burned PS1 games, and I wanted to know if my theory was correct. I began looking up on Google where to download PS1 ROMs and visited a notorious ROM website to which I can't mention since it's still up after those years later, but it's the kind of site that has a download timer and several pop-up ads every so often (you'll know which one I'm on about).

The first game I came across was "Crash Bash" as this was the game that I enjoyed the most, to which I began downloading to my laptop and burned the CUE file to a CD-R using ImgBurn. I popped in the disc into our PS2 and was greeted to the usual red screen, I thought "Huh, must've been a bad burn or the fact that I'm using poor CD-R media," second attempt also failed. But when I inserted an original game, I knew something must've been up. Well, that my friends, is the time I learned about a clever protection since the days of the PlayStation known as the "wobble groove," pressed on every licensed game there is.

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Four years in the future, I was browsing YouTube when I stumbled across a video called "What a Hacker's Wii Looks Like." Upon clicking on it, I was shocked and amazed by how different the Wii Menu appeared and how "customs channels" could be installed—a concept I later learned was homebrew and a thing called "The Homebrew Channel" which was what I would see with my neighbor who had a modded Wii similar to that. I started searching online because I wanted to hack my family's Nintendo Wii and want a piece of the cake of what other people were having. I came across what would be known as "Letterbomb." It's an exploit for the Wii that runs on the most recent System Menu, doesn't require modchips or old methods requiring a game, and all it takes is an SD card—it was a dream come true for me.

Began spending 20-minutes installing BootMii and The Homebrew Channel, learnt how to install .WAD files (commonly known as the same format used by channels), was super chuffed with how it turned out in the end.

The rest is basically history and here I am—I'm a part of the scene, an underground community who share the same hobbies with me, and that is modding consoles and improving hardware, computers basically at the end of the day. I love creating and contributing work for others and have met many people who now I've become close friends with (one day, maybe real life).
 
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I... don't really know who you are but you seem cool! What's your most prized/treasured item in your video game collection?
A tough nut to crack, I have several beta copies of M$ titles and retail games that have gone up in price. Probably the most prized item/s if it's game-related would have to be the original PC release of OutRun 2006: Coast 2 Coast which goes for around 150 bucks, as well as my Action Replay MKIII for the Amiga (boxed) for about the same price - in total, you're looking at 300$ worth of stuff here.

(P.S. I bought OutRun: 2006 for really cheap at a thrift store.)
 
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