Talk:Cheat cartridge

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[edit] History

I merged from Game Enhancer; see there for some history (Playstation section). — brighterorange (talk) 20:55, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] No more cheat cartridges

Cheat cartridges are unfortunately a thing of the past. All consoles and portables starting with the Microsoft Xbox use unbreakable digital signatures to ensure that unauthorized software never runs on the system, at least without hardware modification or a software bug. Unless RSA gets broken sometime soon, that is. -- Myria 23:09, 10 September 2005 (UTC),

• True, but software bugs are available in plenty, so I don't think it's time to pronounce them dead, yet! — brighterorange (talk) 20:55, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
  • The Xbox has remained secure in this manner despite the large amount of time spent reverse engineering the system. Not a single hack has been made that would allow direct booting of custom software. Only things that use a back door in a specific game disk have been used. Such bugs aren't enough to make a commercial cheat product. -- Myria 23:20, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Caetla

There is a section on "game enhancers" for PSX but there is no mention of "caetla". A group of hobbyist programmers in Japan created a replacement ROM for the GameShark called "caetla" (pronounced as ça et la (saw eh la, サエラ)). This ROM was designed to allow remote debugging of hobby programs for the PSX. An accidental side effect of this ROM was that it allowed the swap trick to be used to play copies. Once pirate companies found out about this, they cloned the hardware and this ROM, and changed its name. -- Myria 04:17, 14 November 2005 (UTC)