• sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 month ago

    They did that here too, but students would use a cheat program that made it look like teachers were resetting it, but really the memory was safe

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      1 month ago

      I don’t remember if they fully closed the loopholes, but there are inputs that programs cannot catch unless you actually replace the OS.

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        1 month ago

        My memory is pretty hazy but the cheat application emulated the process that teachers used to do a system reset.

        Iirc, it let you press menu, select reset, confirm, and showed the (fake) confirmation screen.

        Also IIRC, you had to install it from Mirage OS, which I don’t think was an OS (?) but rather an app that everyone had to play games from.