11-24, 14:30–15:00 (Pacific/Auckland), Ngaio Marsh Theatre
Over the years, counterfeiters have forced game console manufacturers to develop more advanced authentication and licensing systems for peripherals. This presents a problem for the competitive fighting game player: how do I use my fancy DIY custom controller?
This talk will explore the inner workings of the peripheral licensing system on recent PlayStation consoles, how certain third-party vendors work around it, and currently-known methods of extracting or re-using secrets from peripherals to build our own.
Kay Ward is a Computer Science student at UC, an embedded systems aficionado, and occasionally a game developer. They're also a solidly okay fighting game player.