Homebrew

Fablecraft Wants to Lower the Barrier for Virtual Tabletop Gaming

With a guided character creation and a very specific kind of game available, the fantasy TTRPG is focused on creating an experience.

Games Linda Codega May 17

You Can Run Mac OS on the Nintendo Wii and Turn it Into the Ultimate Gaming and Productivity Machine

Just don't make it your main workstation unless you've got the patience of a saint.

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Nov 24

This $50 Emulator Box Might Be the Easiest Way to Play Game Boy Cartridges on Your Computer

The GB Operator even comes with a built-in controller and cheat support, and it's compatible with Windows, Mac, and Linux PCs.

Gadgets Sam Rutherford Jun 30

My Eyes Hate Me for Loving This Impossibly Tiny Game Boy Clone

If someone dared Nintendo to make the smallest handheld console imaginable, the results would be the FunKey S, a keychain-sized retro gaming machine that can emulate more than 10 different classic consoles. Only this console wasn’t made by Nintendo—instead, this pint-sized device was created by a group of retro enthusiasts whose love for gaming has…

Gaming Andrew Liszewski Apr 9

‘Unpatchable Exploit’ on Nintendo Switch Opens the Door to Jailbreaks

On Monday, anyone looking to hack their Switch or run their own software on it got some good news and more good news. An exploit has been released that opens the homebrew floodgates—and because it’s hardware-based, Nintendo can’t just patch it. The news of the unpatchable exploit first broke when Katherine Temkin and her colleagues…

Games Rhett Jones Apr 24

Old Apple Security Flaws Mean the Nintendo Switch Is One Step Closer to a Jailbreak

It took a week—eons in the world of consumer tech hacks—but the Switch, Nintendo’s new handheld hybrid, looks like it’s finally been cracked, and it’s thanks to Apple. The Switch’s operating system is notoriously closed. This means you can’t load homebrew—applications built for a device and published without approval from the device manufacturers—on it, or…

Tech News Alex Cranz Mar 13

How to Get Even More Out of a Raspberry Pi

No doubt about it, the Raspberry Pi is nothing short of a homebrew phenomenon. Since its release in February 2012, the British micro-mini-computer has enabled legions of amateur inventors to develop projects both weird and wonderful. Here’s a run-down of the most impressive applications, ranging from weather stations to retro arcades to a supercomputer array…

Tech News Bulent Yusuf - Gizmodo UK Oct 25

Microsoft Wants You to Jailbreak Your Phone… For a Fee

The merry team at ChevronWP7 Labs just announced that, in collaboration with Microsoft, they’ll be unlocking Windows phones for a small fee. This creates a wholly legitimate route for developers to access WP7 users. Apple could learn something here. [ChevronWP7 via Engadget]

Tech News Kwame Opam Jun 18

Synergy Home Beer Brewing System: Mr. Beer’s Rich, Crazy Uncle

If you’re a fan of brewing your own beer—which, hey, it’s about time you were—you can’t do it much better or more expensively than this. The Synergy Home Brewing System is a $1900 beer behemoth, featuring 304 stainless steel, two 155,000 BTU propane burners, a 20 PSI high pressure regulator, and room for more hops…

Tech News Brian Barrett Apr 1

After Some Brews, Test Your Drunkenness on the Homebrew Breathalyzer NES Game

If Nintendo really wants to step away from its do-gooder family-friendly reputation, it should license this DrunkenNES homebrew game, which houses a breathalyzer inside a cartridge. Coming to a Wii near you soon! The various breathalyzer rankings are a must-see. If that kitten thinks she’s drunk, she obviously hasn’t met this Kat *hic.* I’m tipping…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Mar 3

Homebrew Technology: The $100 Airplane

Click to view At last week’s Maker Faire, Breck Baldwin and Mark Hader built DIY planes that used recycled materials and cost less than a $100. Here’s how. Take an evening stroll through a park in Brooklyn, New York, and you might spot what looks like a luminous stingray whizzing through the air above. Follow…

Tech News Catherine de Lange - New Scientist Oct 2

Zune HD Gets Homebrew Apps and Games

And older Zunes, too! But let’s talk about the HD: With the new OpenZDK toolkit, developers can make homebrew apps for the Zune HD, and by following a relatively simple set of instructions, you can install them. First, a little background: Zune and Zune HD homebrew isn’t entirely new, but it’s never been terribly exciting.…

Tech News John Herrman Apr 16

WebOS Getting Doom, Quake, OpenGL, and Native SDK

With some elbow grease, we’ve been able to play Doom on our WebOS devices for a while, but now we can do so without any messy terminal commands. Oh, and there’s a playable version of Quake, too. https://gizmodo.com/palm-pre-lands-hardware-accelerated-doom-courtesy-of-h-5288147 The folks of the webOS Internals global team have been throwing new things at us each day…

Tech News Rosa Golijan Jan 4

Ravaging the Nook, Part II: We Have Apps!

For the B&N Nook to be rooted—that is, broken open and readied for software modification—is one thing, but the real reason people are excited about hacking this ereader is obvious: they want apps. And apps they will have. https://gizmodo.com/ravaging-the-nook-a-teardown-a-spec-list-and-android-5425878 Users at nookDevs are reporting that, after a little clever input tricker, they’ve managed to get…

Tech News John Herrman Dec 16

Ravaging the Nook: a Teardown, a Spec List and Android Hacks

Let’s face it, nobody was too upset by the opaqueness of the Nook’s spec sheet—screens and software, not board-level componentry, are what make ereaders great. But with this teardown comes something glorious: the Nook’s Android software has been hacked. And not hacked like “oh, cool, now we can change the system font” hacked, or “sweet…

Tech News John Herrman Dec 14

Palm Pre Gets Video Recording with Precorder HomeBrew Software

That’s right, 480 x 320-pixel video recording at 30fps is now go. The homebrew software is only an alpha (so there’s bugs like not being able to preview what you’re recording), but the app works, and is free to download. When WebOS 1.3.1 skipped updating the camera app, the developers of Precorder decided not to…

Tech News Danny Allen Nov 24

Sony eBook Readers’ Hot Secret: Homebrew

For all the interesting hardware crammed into any given eBook reader, they can’t really do that much. That is, unless they’ve got a “Sony” badge on their foreheads, and you’ve got a little bit of spare time. Sony’s PRS readers run a stripped down variant of Linux, which apparently makes loading homebrew code fairly straightforward.…

Tech News John Herrman Aug 12

Palm Pre 1.0.4 Update Kills Homebrew, Patches Security Holes

The 1.0.4 update for the Palm Pre just got released, but along with patching some security holes, kills the homebrew ability that made everyone so excited. https://gizmodo.com/palm-pre-gets-homebrew-apps-no-rooting-required-5300882 Why, Palm, when your SDK isn’t available until late summer, would you go and patch the homebrew? At the very least, developers have the leaked SDK to work…

Tech News Jason Chen Jun 29

Palm Pre Gets Homebrew Apps, No Rooting Required

Installing the Pre’s earliest homebrew apps required you to “root” your device—easy enough, but not for the faint of heart. Now, there’s a new method, with no rooting, no risky hacks, and one simple secret: email. https://gizmodo.com/running-custom-firmware-on-the-palm-pre-is-rather-easy-5288989 Seriously. Apparently, there’s a gaping security hole in the Pre’s email app, which allows certain applications to be…

Tech News John Herrman Jun 23

Palm Pre Gets Its First Homebrew App, WebOS “Easy to Modify”

Within hours of a leaked WebOS root image spilling onto the internet, would-be developers have coaxed a respectable number of hacks and tweaks out of their Pres—including the phone’s first homebrew app. https://gizmodo.com/palm-pre-news-flurry-konami-code-used-for-dev-mode-we-5285381 Their accomplishments are modest in the grand scheme of things, but this is an auspicious start: My first application works!! I’m so…

Tech News John Herrman Jun 10

Homebrew

Fablecraft Wants to Lower the Barrier for Virtual Tabletop Gaming

You Can Run Mac OS on the Nintendo Wii and Turn it Into the Ultimate Gaming and Productivity Machine

This $50 Emulator Box Might Be the Easiest Way to Play Game Boy Cartridges on Your Computer

My Eyes Hate Me for Loving This Impossibly Tiny Game Boy Clone

‘Unpatchable Exploit’ on Nintendo Switch Opens the Door to Jailbreaks

Old Apple Security Flaws Mean the Nintendo Switch Is One Step Closer to a Jailbreak

How to Get Even More Out of a Raspberry Pi

Microsoft Wants You to Jailbreak Your Phone… For a Fee

Synergy Home Beer Brewing System: Mr. Beer’s Rich, Crazy Uncle

After Some Brews, Test Your Drunkenness on the Homebrew Breathalyzer NES Game

Homebrew Technology: The $100 Airplane

Zune HD Gets Homebrew Apps and Games

WebOS Getting Doom, Quake, OpenGL, and Native SDK

Ravaging the Nook, Part II: We Have Apps!

Ravaging the Nook: a Teardown, a Spec List and Android Hacks

Palm Pre Gets Video Recording with Precorder HomeBrew Software

Sony eBook Readers’ Hot Secret: Homebrew

Palm Pre 1.0.4 Update Kills Homebrew, Patches Security Holes

Palm Pre Gets Homebrew Apps, No Rooting Required

Palm Pre Gets Its First Homebrew App, WebOS “Easy to Modify”

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