Entries from July 2005 ↓

House backs federal investigation of Rockstar Games - PlayStation 2 News at GameSpot
( http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/07/25/news_6129723.html )

Hot Coffee scandal intensifies as legislators vote 355-21 to support a Federal Trade Commission probe seeking answers from the Take-Two subsidiary.

This is definitely not good. The cold hand of Uncle Sam is coming down on Rockstar and Take-Two.

Sims 2 content “worse than Hot Coffee” - PC News at GameSpot
( http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/07/22/news_6129609.html )

In the statement, Thompson says, \”Sims 2, the latest version of the Sims video game franchise … contains, according to video game news sites, full frontal nudity, including nipples, penises, labia, and pubic hair.\”

What the fuck is going on here? Read on if you want to get a headache.

So, I broke down and went out and bought myself a PSP. I got version 1.50 yay! I didn’t buy any games or any of that nonsense but I did spend my time in the waiting room at the doctors office this afternoon playing ‘Doom 2′
( http://www.lantus-x.com/PSP/ ). It was great. I also loaded the memory card up with a bunch of Namco PSPMame 96 roms. A couple of days ago I installed and configured the PspDevKit ( http://www.ps2dev.org ) and have managed to compile a few simple things. It’s a nice system to play around with. I might have to go pick up a couple of games too.

Anyway, it’s been a long day I’m going to sleep.

PREMIUM.PHP

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2005 20:15:06 GMT
Server: Apache
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.11
Set-Cookie: premium=0; expires=Mon, 18-Jul-05 00:15:06 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 16

var premium = 0;

When called premium.php checks to see if you have paid for a premium account. If you have paid the cookie value premium is set to true and Java script value is also set to true since it is the Java script on the site that does the work if you are a premium subscriber. What you see above is the response to premium.php after being called form the index.php Due to the way the site is coded premium.php seems to be called from every page. Why they are setting the cookie value and not using it I have no idea. So, in order to pretend to be a subscriber it is necessary to check the servers reply and change it before Firefox gets it. I have a proxy running over here so I just set it to modify the returned data. I bet you could use the Greasemonkey Firefox plugin to change it on the fly for you. I’ll have to look into that later…

MaxConsole ( http://www.maxconsole.net/ )

The inquirer’s knowledgable friends confirmed that only the CPU for next generation Xbox 360 console will be developed by IBM in its Fishkill factory. This facility will not play with a GPU design as it’s not ready for good yields on a 90 nanometre process.

Maybe I should get my old job back. Or maybe I’ll just hit the raised floor and see what I can find. Remember IBM employees they give you those badges for a reason.

Looks like the PSP scene hijinks are continuing. According to the ‘We Are Back’ web site someone leaked the source code to the 2.5 launcher. What was WAB’s response? Release the 2.5b sources.

12-07-2005 : 2.5 sources since leaked. ( http://www.wab.com/ )

We are very proud to bring you all, the wab ms launcher 2.5b sources.
We hope you will learn a lot with this code and perhaps build your own
launcher from this.

Thank to psp-dev for faireplay

Since now, we pause all our psp developpemnt.
We need to think about re-organition of internal work
(two leak in less than 2 weeks)

Keep the scene clean….

See ya….

Wab Team.

Then shortly after that they released decrypted ELF versions of the 1.0 and 1.5 update. ( http://www.psp-spot.com/ )

- =www.wab.com =-

You can now work on a downgrader 1.51 & 1.52 from the decrypted elf
updater 1.50.

you can get many info and prx like PSAR.prx embeded on the elf the
version.txt for the updater embeded in the elf too many good info .

happy.gif Kernel Flash device

“lflash0:0,0″
“lflash0:0,1″
“lflash0:0,2″
“lflash0:0,3″
“fatfmt”
“flash0:”
“flash1:”
“flashfat2:”
“flashfat3:”

//Updater Version Checker
release:1.00:.build:89,0,3,1,0:root@psp-vsh
system:17756@release_103a,0×01000300:
vsh:P4231@updater_for_day1,v11488@updater_for_day1,20050304:
//

This release is just to show you that we aren’t be gone cause :

-= WE ARE BACK =-

we just make a little halt about psp releasing “in progress” stuff
to public or friends… SOrry….

Wab Team.

According to the WAB irc channel we should see V3 in two weeks. We’ll have to wait and see what happens…

WAB ( http://www.wab.com ) and PSP-Dev have released Wab Launcher 2.5b a couple hours ago. Looks like the full iso launcher is not too far behind. From the readme:

Wab launcher Version 2.5b (auto patcher)
use original boot.bin without any modification !!

More stable with other game now you can use 2 Methode :=)

put the common folder on root of your memory stick .
and copy all the PRX you got in it

and put your game on roots of your memory stick on PSP_GAME

can remove the umd check like on bubble

Note this is an alpha version.
THIS IS NOTE A v3 PREVIEW!
V3 IS AN ISO FULL LAuNCHER !!

Wab team & PSP-DEV team .

-=Yoshihiro=-

www.wab.com

It’s almost time to pick a PSP I think.

It’s been a bit since I’ve posted anything. With my nice long 4th of July vacation taking me away from computers and *gasp* the i’net, and with work being very crazed recently I’ve been too tired to post. Well, I should be able to get myself back on track as I’ve got a nice stack of games and stuff to look at. But, I’m going to have to wait until tomorrow to get started on that though.

Till then…