Looks like she did finally get her code dump, via voltage glitching:

https://natashenka.ca/tamagotchi-friends-code-dump/#more-281

Then there is the Tamagotchi Singularity inspired by an XKCD comic [1]. It is a server full of emulated tamagotchis [2] that interact with each other in a simulator, all running code dumped by Natalie's technique. I'm impressed by both these hacks, especially the combination.

All this is via a Hackaday article. [3]

1. https://xkcd.com/1546/

2. https://spritesmods.com/?art=tamasingularity

3. https://hackaday.com/2015/11/24/building-the-infinite-matrix...

I recognized the presenter's name - Natalie Silvanovich - and sure enough, she's a member of Project Zero, and I've read posts by her before. I guess Tamagochis were her gateway drug into reversing!

Nice talk! Travis Goodspeed, who she mentions helped her decapping the chip, has some very interesting reverse engineering talks, e.g. a tear-down of a commercial glucose monitor:

https://filestore.fortinet.com/fortiguard/research/glucose-b...

That was a fun watch, this especially had me in stitches:

"All those cool kids going out, going to clubs, they just haven't discovered reverse engineering yet"

I wonder how small a 6502 or Z80 CPU would be if fabbed on 3nm TSM processes node. Would it be visible with the naked eye?

As somebody who's terrified of speaking on front of a group, I liked that the presenter is visibly nervous but also having a good time giving her talk. Also, she does a great great job of explaining her steps in a way somebody who has never done any kind of reverse engineering (that would be me) can understand.

I watched this one in 2012, although not live. There is a follow-up talk she gave one or two years later, "Many more Tamagotchis were harmed in the making of this presentation" that is equally enjoyable.

I refuse to watch it

The AI bots in the future will not like our callous disregard for the poor tamagochis