Automated Pokemon Stadium Hacking 

Im a dumb and forgot to actually mention the exact library I'm using: github.com/NicoHood/Nintendo

pit stopping to remove the popup is so funny to me

using ghidra on an executable with a compilable open source project is much funnier than it has any right to be.

As someone who has opened a hex editor once in my entire life, I find these videos really interesting and fascinating.

"So I'm gonna get rid of it" Lost my shit when the Ghidra logo came up

fun fact: some models of N64 gameshark have parallel ports in back specifically to upload new codes to them

Fun fact; Pokémon Stardium Gold Silver /2 has a full-fledged Pokémon and save editor build into it. It's hidden away in the retail version, but there's a ROM out there where its enabled.

The "second" trainer name might be the trainer/catcher id. It's the thing the game checks for to see if the pokemon was traded for the exp bonus.

There's also a n64 gameshark version with a parallel port on the back that you can use to upload codes. I think it needs to be version 3.2 since 3.3 revisions had parts removed that it needs to work. The software is pretty ancient though and only works on Windows XP. You can also use it to dump carts or read the games memory on real hardware which is cool.

one more pokemon stadium video and tou will forever be know as the guy obsessed with pokemon stadium

Great video! I really like your channel. The sorting algorithm you're using for the gameshark codes is essentially the same as an algorithm called "selection sort"

This is kinda nostalgic to me, as someone who also looked at the Stadium pokemon data structure, I remember the exact same confusion about why they had trainer name in two different encodings (and yet not the nickname)... Anyway, looking forward to see more from the channel for sure.

I really like how this personal project is going for you. And it's even more amazing how entertaining you show it to other people. And hey it's Pokemon Stadium (guy)✌️

RU-vid recommended your 3 most recent videos to me a few weeks apart, and I have to say they exactly caught my interest and earned you another subscriber.

Your production values are excellent considering the size of your channel. I've been really enjoying your content and wish you the best of luck here on youtube :)

oh I know I'm gonna love this video and would kill for a stadium 2 version of this (gen 2s my favorite generation)

Holy crap. You did it! Well since you made a video idea out of my last comment, now I'm going to ask you to make an Arduino device that allows a game boy color to communicate with a 3DS wirelessly so that you can trade pokémon between your 3DS saves and your cartridge games. I know that you can buy 3DS Wi-Fi cards, and when you try to trade between 3DS pokémon virtual console games, it kind of enters this pause mode for the 3DS's to connect. So theoretically, if you can get something to mimic a 3DS wireless signal to connect to that plugs in to a game boy colors, trade cord slot, you could connect an actual gen 1 game with a virtual console game. This idea forever but I'm a junior developer and I do not understand enough to build it myself 😅.

I forgot you're such a small channel because of how good your video is. I live those other channels you draw inspiration from too.

I trust that one day, I'll be the first guy to make the Game Boy tower work

8:11 You could probably speed it up by having it check the last character before moving onto the next one.

been loving the videos, just as good as matt and abe if you ask me.

This is cool as hell dawg

Do you think that the second trainer name is space for the original trainer name in case it’s been traded?

Cool video! There's a parallel port on the back of the GameShark 64, right? At least the ones I have have one. Couldn't that be used to upload codes?

Pretty awesome man!

its the pokemon stadium guy !!!!

Any chance you could drop that sick as hell chemical plant zone remix you used in the video? Great video, btw, this is genuinely fascinating!

2:10 I wonder if the two trainer names are "original trainer" and "current trainer", so for example, if the Pokemon is traded it would have two different names there. I'm not sure if that information is ever used in the final game, but for sure it would make sense someone thought to program it in during development.

meanwhile here i am, with a CS degree, a master's , and half a PhD and i can't do anything near what you do, i feel useless

Does your GameShark have the serial port? I remember seeing that as a kid and always wondering what it was for

Really cool video!

I have an idea for you: pokemon red ace to jail break from pokemon stadium

The algorithm has blessed me this day. Your content is great, and I look forward to what you end up doing in the future!

Some n64 game sharks had a parallel port interface you could program them with

There are versions of the N64 GameShark with a Parallel Port that is there for the purpose of uploading codes from your computer...

Fantastic video. How do you figure out what the values are for specific species id and moves?

Though I fully appreciate the commitment to your specific approach, I can’t help but consider the more straightforward paths. The GameShark could’ve had codes set using the parallel port, or perhaps even save editing the GameShark itself. And then of course, there’s the fact that Pokémon Blue save editing is exceptionally mature. Dumping the save, modifying with PKHeX, then restoring the modified save would’ve been the most obvious and direct approach.

I vaugely remember that RBY stores the trainer name twice and it interacts with the OLD MAN catching tutorial as the game temporarily changes the player name to OLD MAN before reverting it. I could be totally off though.

A random look on the internet makes me think that the mhz of your chip was something weird.

So, I haven’t looked at it since I became old enough to drive, 15 years ago, so I have no idea how useful this would actually be, but DK64 had a ludicrously long Enable Code that might be worth looking at. I would imagine that if there is some kind of method of dealing with using a metric ton of GS codes at once, it’ll be in that Enable Code.

On the serial rate: Did you use the hardware serial pins on your board? Because all pins can emulate serial, but higher speed timings might get unreliable. And that might vary wildly in every way conceivable.

I came for the pokemon stadium, i stayed for the pokemon stadium

Good stuff

Dropping the baud rate might be because you're overloading the buffer before it can finish. Are you waiting for the code to finish inputting before sending it another? Also, with a simple state machine, you could have different button press delays to speed up the time it takes to input them. As for the race condition, unless changing the order of the codes messed with how they work, it's possible the gameshark maybe can't interrupt the console in time for values to actually be changed. But, I'm not sure. 🤔

Well if you would like a challenge could you create a code for stadium 2 to make the game think you beat rounds 1 and 2 to unlock Dodrio mode for the gen 2 games?

If there's a way to get rom hacks like Yellow Legacy and Crystal Legacy to work in the Stadium games, people would immediately flock to it.

Neat

Oooh is that Professor Layton music I hear

You have done a service to PJ64 users everywhere. Also that’s receiving payment for Nintendo stuff they shouldn’t(sure it’s only delay of service but does Nintendo ever do that to us? No, they haven’t , especially not like this) because yeah it’s payment to remove that window. You’ve effectively given the people the method to make PJ64 truly free

You also dont have charming/creepy smile of MattKC, but none the less, keep up the good work!

✅ Can't RTFM ✅ Loves ZIF sockets ✅ Fw weird outdated hardware for fun ✅ Dropped out of CS Oh my god he's just like me fr

No Cat

The trainer data is there twice because of trading, I believe.

I'm also a fan of lego island man

Did you bite your blue cartridge?

how do you only have 2000 subs, crazy

Real fed hours

You should have just use that game shark to re-enable the debug menu in Pokemon stadium 2 rather than all of this complex work

is "green drink" a "brown bricks" joke?

Epic.

Could of made life easier by buying a game shark for gameboy lol

Lol i get that intro, once i hacked out the license check from a thunderbird addon😊