‘Pokémon Let’s Go Pikachu’ Is the Console RPG I Desperately Wanted 20 Years Ago

Pokémon Let’s Go Pikachu and Eevee have been called a dumbed-down version of Pokémon for beginners. Instead, it’s an amazing re-entry point for old fans. Continue reading ‘Pokémon Let’s Go Pikachu’ Is the Console RPG I Desperately Wanted 20 Years Ago

Pokémon chooses Vera’s data-centric security platform to protect critical IP worldwide

Vera unveiled that The Pokémon has chosen Vera as the company’s enterprise standard for data security and rights management. Responsible for brand management, licensing, and marketing, The Pokémon is harnessing Vera’s data-centric security platform to … Continue reading Pokémon chooses Vera’s data-centric security platform to protect critical IP worldwide

Game-Ception: Pokemon Red Playable Inside Minecraft

If you’ve ever wanted to take a dive into and visualize a game’s code, this could be a seminal example in a literal sense. After twenty-one months of effort, the entire Pokemon Red game is now playable inside Minecraft.

[Mr. Squishy] is the mad genius behind this project, laboriously re-coding the game literally block by block. A texture pack is needed for the specific sprites, but otherwise it is playable without mods. It’s not immediately apparent when loading in to the level, but chip your way through the floor of the stadium and you are confronted by something awe-inspiring: sprawling …read more

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There’s A Mew Underneath The Truck Next To The SS Anne

Before we dig into this, I need to spend a paragraph or two conveying the knowledge of a twelve-year-old in 1996. Of course, most Hackaday readers were twelve at least once, but we’re just going to do this anyway. The payoff? This is an arbitrary-code-execution virus for Pokemon, and maybe the most amazing Game Boy hack of all time.

In the first generation of Pokemon games, there is a spectacularly rare Pokemon. Mew, the 151st Pokemon, could learn every move in the game. It was a psychic type, which was overpowered in the first gen. You could not acquire a …read more

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Hackaday Links: March 5, 2017

Statistically, more celebrities died in 2016 than would be expected. 2017 is turning out to be a little better, but we did recently lose the great [Bill Paxton]. Game over, man. Game over. A few years ago, [Benheck] built his own pinball machine. It’s Bill Paxton Pinball. A great build, and worth revisiting, just like another viewing of Aliens and Apollo 13.

Some of the most popular 3D-printable objects are [flowalistik]’s low-poly Pokemon series. They’re great models, even though he missed the most obvious Pokemon. Of [flowalistik]’s low-poly Pokemon models, the Bulbasaur is a crowd favorite. Because this model is …read more

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A week in security (Jan 30th – Feb 5th)

A compilation of notable security news and blog posts from the 30th of January to the 5th of February. This week, we look back at phishing, ransomware, nation state attacks and banking malware.Categories: Security world
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