Unfortunately most of the links on that page don't work (doh! should have
checked that out first...)
On Fri, 06 Aug 1999, martian wrote:
> "A GameBoy, GameBoy Pocket, or GameBoy Color has software available with
> the ability to turn your GameBoy into a RedBox (Toll Fraud Device) This
> software has been around for a while. These GUI based applications allow
> you use you GameBoy to make free long distance calls, crack answering
> machine passwords, and just use it as a tone dialer. Well the new
> GameBoy Color has an interesting feature, an IR port. As mentioned on
> HNN and elsewhere a few months ago there are vehicles that use IR as a
> locking mechanism. With currently available software you can now teach
> your GameBoy various IR codes including those to unlock vehicles.
> Wondering how you get these programs into your GameBoy? Well, Nintendo
> recently lost the court case against the person making and selling
> GameBoy ROMS which makes it real easy to transfer files around. Another
> example of how it is not the tool that is malicious but the user. "
>
> http://homepages.go.com/~ratb0y/gameboy.htm
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