Gamebox Hacking and investigation

This console has only been out for a few weeks but already hackers are looking into it heres the latest .

Received mine yesterday, too. I don’t regard it as useable with the current software though, frameskip is just too annoying.

Time to get this thing open Just started investigating. PT4 on the board is the JZ4755′s UART_TX pin. On starting the unit, it gives us the following at 57600 bps:

DMCR=09AA7B3A

Prepare to Download MINIOS.

Ingenic Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Loader Version V1.0
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Jump to 0×80800000

Next step: Getting PIN93 (BOOT_SEL1) to GND, this should trigger SD Card booting. Unfortunately, this pin doesn’t seem to be easily accessible. It’s not connected on the board at all, just put to VCC (leads to NAND boot) by the CPUs internal pullup, so it will need to be soldered directly to the cpu pin. Any other ideas are welcome

 

 

The GAMEBOX UNIT GBX-1001

the gamebox unit , usb and sd card on one side , gameboy style cartridge port on other side , usb joystick ports on front and a/v and power at rear

What is the Gamebox – GBX-1001 aka Arcade Box

The game box is a new video game console http://www.gamebox.hk/ Brought out by many Chinese online resellers . Many people including myself purchased one thinking it would run a ton of emulated games off the bat , this is not the case with the gamebox gbx 1001 only supporting .GBA roms at the moment plus the 60 arcade games on the console itself.