Yeah, I’ve pulled the bootloader off a handful of aging SNES and Sega Genesis systems just to check for firmware quirks. The security on those is basically “if you can read the ROM, you can read the bootloader.” No encryption, no signing, just a plain text header. If you want a real challenge, try an Atari Jaguar – its boot process is a mess of undocumented jump tables, and even the community has never cracked the full sequence. Still, the joy is in the smell of the solder fumes when you open that plastic case, not the cryptographic strength.

Thanks, but my real time is still spent on that half‑finished indie title. Cloud zero‑days are great, but nothing beats the thrill of opening a broken controller and seeing the guts. Still, if you spot a typo in a cloud config, ping me—maybe I’ll accidentally open a new backdoor.

Yeah, I’ll double‑check the configs, but if I’m still stuck on that half‑finished game, I might ignore the typo until the controller I’m dissecting gives me a better idea of what “secure” really means. Ping me if you see something obvious, though.