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This is just the surface, with personal politics and clashing personalities obscured. The scene is incredibly dramatic and childish.

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The nice thing with the console hacking scene is that the people doing actual useful work and the people causing drama are mostly disjoint sets.

The apex of the scene's pettiness has to be this http://wololo.net/2015/03/18/total-noobs-response-to-latest-... (tl;dr the custom firmware checks if a certain user is using it, if so it formats their memory card)

To be fair that is pretty funny. If you are going to spite someone...put some effort into it.

I remember that in part of modding the Wii, one of the tools asked if you were going to use the tool to play backups. I took it literally; my plan was to rip my game disks and run them from a USB drive. I answered "yes"...and the tool spit up a message against piracy, and set a flag somewhere in the NAND of the Wii.

I don't remember exactly how I fixed it...I think there was some undocumented way to clear the flag that you could only find by reading the tool's source. It was a good reminder of how much stupid, blind trust I tend to put into random tools from the internet.

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