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Posts with the tag BOOT:
The booting process of the Nintendo DS and its Dual-CPU architecture
2025-09-19
2883 words
14 minutes
Nintendo DS
BIOS
CPU
ARM
BOOT
Augustin CLAUDE
Overview of the Dual-CPU architecture of the Nintendo DS, how its BIOS and its firmware work when booted up, and how games are loaded from the cartridge.
How the Nintendo Switch booting process was hacked
2023-12-11
2298 words
11 minutes
switch
tegra
buffer overflow
boot
recovery mode
c++
english
Victor-Emmanuel Provost
Introduction to the Nintendo Switch booting process and how it was hacked using a buffer overflow in the recovery mode.