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→‎Hardware: clarified exploitation result of HW_BOOT0 bug
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|  HW_BOOT0 not clear-only
 
|  HW_BOOT0 not clear-only
 
|  To prevent [[boot0]] from being dumped, [[boot2]] clears register HW_BOOT0 that allows the boot0 ROM to be read. However, Nintendo forgot to make this register clear-only, so simply re-enabling it allows boot0 to be dumped from 0xFFFE0000 or 0xFFFF0000 in memory.
 
|  To prevent [[boot0]] from being dumped, [[boot2]] clears register HW_BOOT0 that allows the boot0 ROM to be read. However, Nintendo forgot to make this register clear-only, so simply re-enabling it allows boot0 to be dumped from 0xFFFE0000 or 0xFFFF0000 in memory.
|  boot0 can be obtained.
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|  boot0 can be obtained on consoles that do not support custom boot2 installations.
 
|  Unfixed
 
|  Unfixed
 
|  {{SortableMonth}}
 
|  {{SortableMonth}}
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