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This week is my 3rd weeks of playing Nintendo WII console. Hehehe … I bought this console after discussing with a friend about providing a game devices for our children. He said that, better for me to buy the WII, because playing WII means doing a moving activities, not just pushing the button like all other game devices, and that is good for our children.

And now, I totally agree with that. WII is different. WII means “body activity”, not just moving our finger.

But wait … this blog is not about talking what WII is. I like to share about hacking the WII console. I’m purely newbie in this area, that’s why I googling intensively about WII, and after 3 weeks, I found some interesting stuff about WII hacking.

1. Bannerbomb is a tools (or exploit?) to run an external application (ELF/DOL file) stored in the WII SD Card. This exploit need a specific binary file stored in the SD Card, and WII Channel menu to active it.

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I just bought some PSP’s for my family (I have 2 kids) … Hehehe … yes, it is old stuff, but new in my daily activities. I just realize that playing PSP is fun enough, especially if we play it with others wirelessly. Our favorite game is Pac Man World Rally. It support up to 4 players …

I won’t write that fun situation, but PSP hacking stuff :)
Fortunately, almost all PSP that sold in my area is using CFW (I bought a used PSP, not the new ones). CFW is Custom Firmware, a firmware which is hacked, and have a capability to run PSP games saved in the memory card. Using this firmware we also able to run third party software, which is called homebrew. Read this article to get more information about that.

One of my PSP has an abnormal analog pad. The stick is too sensitive, and sometimes, it move accidently in the middle of the game. Disturbing enough … :( Googling, and I found a homebrew called joysens created by raphael@fx-world.org. This application has a capability to change the sensitivity of analog pad, and if you need it, fully disable it. Very helpfull application.

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Opera Mini is probably the best mobile browser in the world. You can download the latest version of this java midlet from this site. The difference between normal browser and Mini Opera is the way the web data is transferred. Using normal browser, we connect directly to the destination web, but not in the Mini Opera. Using Mini Opera, we connect to the destination web through the Opera Proxy Server. Yes, sure … there is a minus thing (because we surf through the proxy), but in most cases, there are many good thing doing this way.

The most important thing is : the total data transferred to the user is smaller compared to the original ones. Sometimes, it is very small, so it become more more faster to open the web. And for some reason, it can bypass an internal rules because the firewall (or proxy) think that the user connect to the Opera sites (unless they really block Opera Proxy Server off course).

Usually, Mini Opera is running from the mobile phone which has Java capabilities. But, sure … it also possible to run in from the PC. Using the help of microemulator software, a Java ME (Java for Mobile - J2ME) Emulator for PC, it is possible to get Mini Opera running in the PC. There are some J2ME Emulator which is probably better than MicroEmulator, such as SJBoy, but the problem is : SJBoy is not supporting yet a proxy configuration. If you are not behind the proxy, SJBoy is better, because it is a stand-alone application which is not need a Java Runtime installed in the PC (MicroEmulator need it).

Both SJBoy and MicroEmulator has a capability to resize their display just like a normal/PC screen sizes (just to remember that the original purposes of J2ME Emulator is to emulate the Java which is running in the mobile phone with their screen size).

Good Luck.

Usually, we (a Windows Mobile users) use RapiConfig.exe to execute an XML script (for WAP Provisioning) to modify some values in the phone. For some reasons, we probably need to execute it directly from the phone. To do that, we can use AEConfig.exe and modify some extension mapping in the registry, so we can just click the selected XML file to execute it.

I, personally, use xmlc extension to accomodate that.
So, I use these setting in the registry :

HKCR\.xmlc
Default = xmlcfile

HKCR\xmlcfile\Shell\Open\Command
Default = "\Program Files\AEConfig.exe" -ui -input="%1"

and of course, I copy the AEConfig.exe file in the \program files\ phone directory.

Afther that, we can create a WAP Provisioning file, for example, test.xmlc … and execute it directly (by clicking it) from the phone itself (no PC connection needed).

Buat temen-temen pemakai Windows Mobile 5, dan penyuka java kemungkinan besar sudah meng-install JBED. Kalau JBED yang diinstall temen-temen adalah JBED yang bukan Claudya (versi paling awal, kalo ndak salah), JBED yang sudah bisa diinstall di \Storage Card (bukan yang di \windows\appd), — saya sendiri menggunakan yang JBed_20071119.3.1_3dMod_HeapSizeFix_v3_wm5 — dibawah ini ada trik untuk mengubah font midlet java.

For Windows Mobile 5 users, who really love java, JBED is a really good application. If your JBED is NOT a Claudya (the 1st version if I’m not wrong), if your JBED is the one which has a capability to keep the installed midlet in the \Storage Card (not in \windows\appdb), (I am using JBed_20071119.3.1_3dMod_HeapSizeFix_v3_wm5), here is my explanation to change the java font.

By default, font yang digunakan oleh JBED di WM5 adalah Tahoma (kecuali di versi WM6, jbedRose yang sudah bisa diset dari registry JavaFont). Supaya bisa gonta-ganti font, dan TIDAK mempengaruhi software lain di WM5 yang juga pake font Tahoma, kita bisa lakukan:

By default, that JBED use Tahoma (not like jbedRose which use a JavaFont registry value to set the font). To modify it, without affecting all other application use the same Tahoma font, we can do these:

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