[HN Gopher] Show HN: Play Pokemon to unlock your Wayland session
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       Show HN: Play Pokemon to unlock your Wayland session
        
       Hello everyone!  I've created a gameboy emulator to unlock my
       Wayland session and wanted to share this project to everyone here!
       I've been a Linux enthusiast since I was a kid. What always
       captivated me was the freedom to customize my system exactly the
       way I wanted. With Wayland, we've reached an incredible level of
       performance. It's like turning your operating system into a video
       game! I've always been fascinated by the blend of fun and the
       serious, technical nature of an OS. That's what inspired me to
       create this project.  I started by studying Wayland, its protocol
       and how to build a compositor. Then I became particularly intrigued
       by the concept of a locker, which reminded me a bit of an escape
       game. That's when I thought: how cool would it be to solve a puzzle
       to unlock your session, instead of just typing a password? Since
       I've worked with emulators in the past and I'm a huge Pokemon fan,
       the idea of building the puzzle around that game came to me
       instantly!  Technically, the locker code and the wayland protocol
       have been implemented from scratch ( using EGL and
       wl_keyboard_listeners ). My locker runs a version of the gbcc
       emulator modded by myself. This emulator waits for one precise
       value to be set in a given memory address.  I have modded the
       Pokemon game to my needs: when the password is good, I put the good
       value in the good memory address so the emulator knows it needs to
       unlock the session.  Hope you will appreciate this project!
        
       Author : anajimi
       Score  : 26 points
       Date   : 2025-08-10 12:15 UTC (1 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (github.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
        
       | d3Xt3r wrote:
       | Ah, goody. Looks like I found the only other Wayland user on HN.
       | ;)
       | 
       | You should also post here:
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44837981
        
         | anajimi wrote:
         | Thank you for the link! Hope to see more people using Wayland
         | then :D
        
         | righthand wrote:
         | There are dozens of us...dozens!
        
       | skerit wrote:
       | Incredible that we're getting something like this before a plain
       | good old screensaver
        
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