@scarlet :drgn_owo:

@alina same

ayy, my Pokémon event spoofer got accepted as an art project at 38c3! :drgn_sparkle:

if you have a copy of Pokémon Diamond, Pearl, Platinum, Heart Gold or Soul Silver (even some ROM hacks work), bring it by for some Mystery Gifts

there'll be re-runs of old events (Shaymin, Darkrai, etc.), some unreleased content (The Azure Flute), and a silly illegal Pokémon to collect - all hacked to allow DS-to-DS sharing, even after the end of the event

electronics is my passion

it's 4AM and I can't sleep, but I'd be the envy of the playground in 2007

ooh but now that I'm doing rust crimes at build time anyway, I could like. precompute all the cryptography and checksums and stuff

this doesn't need to be nearly this optimised, but I have the technology

ok this doesn't actually look half bad if the variables have actual names, don't mind the transmuting

arrested for rust crimes

ok so my new plan is to get out of having to pay €2 + shipping for a working SD card reader (on which I would put a schedule file + a bunch of pokemon sprites), by generating a big pile of JSON and turning that into compile time constants and embedding the images they reference in the binary

I've got 4MB of flash on this ESP32, I sure hope this actually fits w

ah, the reason why it still doesn't work is because uh

the reader has onboard circuitry whose only purpose is to make a 3V3 SD card require 5V, by converting the voltage both ways. why

I've been trying to figure this out for like an hour

oh, the reason why this SD card reader isn't working is because I forgot to connect the power

why waste valuable cycles on this ESP32 parsing/validating input, when you can simply not hold it wrong

or what if I just `mem::transmute`d it
this feels more in the spirit of embedded

today I will write a 3rd parser for the Pokémon Gen 4 mystery gift format (I'm rewriting the event spoofer in Rust)