On Sunday 05 October 2003 22:36, caitsith6502 wrote:
> > By the way, the creation of any program that encodes or decodes
> > the barcodes will probably need to be done outside the US, due
> > to the DMCA. The makers of that Cuecat barcode scanner claimed
> > that their nearly standard barcode encoding was an effective
> > access control mechanism, so Nintendo certainly could do so,
> > especially if the resulting data stream has encryption that
> > needs breaking.
DMCA ?! *evil laughter*
> Very much true. Also, not only would the encryption breaking have to
> be done outside the US, the information would also have to be hosted
> on a server outside the US as well.
whatever you do, i'd start with looking at US patents - the barcode N uses for
gamecube disc authentification is patented and described in all detail there
atleast. (and its also a slightly modified version of a years old industry
standard)
... The best I have had with trying to print, was a read error, meaning some of the codes were scannable in the e-reader, and some of them were not. If only...
... DMCA ?! *evil laughter* ... whatever you do, i'd start with looking at US patents - the barcode N uses for gamecube disc authentification is patented and...
... mmmh there was also a simelar site for european and japan patents... (google should find it for you :=P). didnt have much luck there previously either, but...
If print quality is a problem then write a program to generate the output to a tiff file. The file can then be taken a professional graphic arts shop and they...
Daniel
webmaster@...
Oct 3, 2003 1:31 pm
Here's how to e-reader works for the most part. After plugging the E-Reader into the GBA as if it were a cartridge, turn on your GBA. Then you'll go into some...
I got a package fro ups the other day which has a small label that looks just like the code on an e-reader card (Not the usual clustered mess of a label). ...
webmaster
webmaster@...
Oct 4, 2003 9:05 pm
It would probably be much easier to just disassemble the e-reader rom to find out exactly how it works. I'm assuming this would be much easier than staring at...
I tried to decipher the e-Reader dotcodes last year by staring at the dots but had to give up, all those dots were starting to give me a headache :/ Here is a...
... the dots ... headache :/ ... the dotcode ... Maybe you could write something to output a higher quality error free dot code image, that might actually...
... An error free dot code image? You mean something like http://users.skynet.be/firefly/gba/e-reader/slp100.bmp :) Btw, I printed it on a label using my Seiko...
Sunday, September 28, 2003, 9:44:04 AM, you wrote: DA> I posted some time ago regarding need for an e-Reader dissection. All DA> the leads that turned up as a...
Leonid Zaprudsky
leprud@...
Oct 8, 2003 2:46 pm
That might have something to do with the fact that the dot code is 360 dpi ... -Stephen ... From: "Tim Schuerewegen" <Tim.Schuerewegen@...> To:...
Pretty much. The dots should have some white space between them. Also, can you provide me that same image, but in 1200 DPI, length = 7.3cm, width = 0.3cm?...
that image is dot-accurate :) you can easily do image processing on it to attain the correct size. -Stephen ... From: "Damien Good" <d_good@...> To:...
Me either... I compared the printout of mine to another dot code though, and see it's a little bit smaller... I wonder if maybe it's not 360dpi (As I suspect),...
Did the printout scan and work? ... 3650 (brand new) to get the...
Daniel
webmaster@...
Oct 11, 2003 8:24 am
... No, it did not. I guess the 203 DPI dotcode was too large for the e-Reader because the quality was perfect. Now some good news ... I bought a HP DeskJet...
Well as I said I would here is my effort to stimulate our efferts to understand how to use the e-Reader to 'play our code'.. A cash prize is now offered for...
Daniel
webmaster@...
Oct 12, 2003 9:07 am
Cool Tim, keep up the good work. Did you see that website posted in the previous topic? They're offering 300 big ones ($300) to anyone who can figure out how...
http://www.alpha-ii.com/caitsith2/ereader/dot-code%20block.jpg - explanation on how the raw data is stored in the dotcode blocks in the strip. Now, the only...
more e-reader info at http://www.alpha-ii.com/caitsith2/ereader the released bin/raw data of the e-reader cards might cause controversy, but at the same time,...
One important thing that people ought to know is that the RAW data is not 100% error free. If you would scan/dump the same dotcode over and over again, you...
although, if the reed solomon encoding/decoding process gets figured out, then I am sure a 100% error free raw file can be made from the error free bin file. ...
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