It doesn't take long for an avid—or just wickedly clever—gamer to be chafed by the limitations of videogame software or hardware. If you want to go far beyond the obvious—whether you want to modify your console controller to work on other consoles, create your own text adventure, or modify your Game Boy—there's an awful lot of fun you can have for cheap or free, using the creative exploits of the gaming gurus. Gaming Hacks is the indispensable guide to cool things gamers can do to create,...
It doesn't take long for an avid or just wickedly clever gamer to chaff at the limitations of videogame software or hardware. This is the indispensable guide to cool things gamers can do to create, modify, and hack videogame hardware and software. Whether they want to modify their console controller to work on other consoles, or to create their own text adventure, "Gaming Hacks" shows readers how to have inexpensive fun.
Ch. 1Playing classic games1Ch. 2Playing portably68Ch. 3Playing well with others103Ch. 4Playing with hardware138Ch. 5Playing with console and arcade hardware180Ch. 6Playing around the game engine242Ch. 7Playing your own games295Ch. 8Playing everything else383