[perfect genius]

Originally Posted by SuperDre Yes it does, because in normal circumstances you would only be able to try those games if you bought them, but that is something that doesn't register with a lot of 'pirates' which use this excuse.. Just pirate, but don't come with excuses to try to sweettalk the pirating, there just isn't a good excuse..

Ok thats your opinion fair enough, but there is no way I would buy those poor games. so you are wrong there.

As I said in the other post, we would be BETTER OFF without all the poor dross that these games companies spew out!

I also dont need to justify myself to anyone.

[advocatusdiaboli]

Originally Posted by DEFAULTDNB I had a BBC micro and a C64 as a kid, to get all the games I had again on TAPE's is impossible. Thankfully I can replay chase HQ via rom

Which C64 games are you after?

[DEFAULTDNB]

Originally Posted by advocatusdiaboli Which C64 games are you after?

I can get anyone I want as a rom . I dont have my bbc or C64 hardware any more, they broke

[Squarepusher2]

Originally Posted by stevorkz 1."Dude, this whole scene pirates" - Wrong.BS.Crap. Clearly you dont have many friends in the PS3 scene. There are LOTS of people who dont pirate and are pure hobbyists and homebrew lovers myself included. Sure a TON of people pirate too but dont mistake the ps3 scene as a pirates only party.

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaahhahaa.

OK then, why don't these pristine holier than thou guys you refer to show their IDA Pro license? Why don't they show their 'NDA'ed developer badges' - I mean, when they peruse 'stuff' (let's say) that have 'Epic Games' plastered all over it, I would assume some kind of non-confidentiality is at play here and somebody broke it, RIGHT? RIGHT?

Trust me kid - you are terribly naive and deliberately kept 'dumb' by the people that run these 'scenes'. In reality - these scenes are composed of 99.9% piracy - and frankly, I wouldn't see a problem in this at all if the people that run these scenes weren't such two-faced holier than thou blowhards that think they can wax lyrical about the 'evils' of piracy while they have 'stuff' (let's say) that fell off the back of a turnip truck.

Either be proud of warez, or don't - but don't be a two-faced hypocritical moron that tries to act as if he doesn't do all this **** just to create this pathetic 'illusion' on the Internet that you 'don't pirate'.

Oh BTW - these scenes believe in 'open source', right? RIGHT?

Now then, where is the source to -

ONE (PS3)

Where is the source to -

Homebrew Channel (Wii)

And I could name a lot of other examples of stuff by these 'holier than thou we believe in open source but we don't pirate - COUGH COUGH' people that won't reveal their sources. So it's 'preach open source', and then in reality it's 'hold onto tools as if it's the warez scene'.
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Originally Posted by SuperDre Yes it does, because in normal circumstances you would only be able to try those games if you bought them, but that is something that doesn't register with a lot of 'pirates' which use this excuse.. Just pirate, but don't come with excuses to try to sweettalk the pirating, there just isn't a good excuse..

Nobody needs to 'excuse' himself or create an excuse to justify himself, especially not before you. You are not a judge and if you want to be judgemental, well, frankly, nobody has to give a damn because your words don't hold any weight.

If right now in this ****ty world all you want to be 'morally conscientious' of is some ****ing videogame piracy - then oh boy, you've got your priorities set straight alright. Grow the **** up and face the 'real issues' this world faces - because piracy ain't it son - this especially applies to you if you're above 20 years old - you ought to have a broader scope of reality by now and a bigger list of things to worry about at this stage - otherwise this smacks of 'arrested development'.

[Gonzakpo]

Originally Posted by Squarepusher2 Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaahhahaa. OK then, why don't these pristine holier than thou guys you refer to show their IDA Pro license? Why don't they show their 'NDA'ed developer badges' - I mean, when they peruse SDKs that have 'Epic Games' plastered all over it, I would assume some kind of non-confidentiality is at play here and somebody broke it, RIGHT? RIGHT? Trust me kid - you are terribly naive and deliberately kept 'dumb' by the people that run these 'scenes'. In reality - these scenes are composed of 99.9% piracy - and frankly, I wouldn't see a problem in this at all if the people that run these scenes weren't such two-faced holier than thou blowhards that think they can wax lyrical about the 'evils' of piracy while they have 'stuff' (let's say) that fell off the back of a turnip truck. Either be proud of warez, or don't - but don't be a two-faced hypocritical moron that tries to act as if he doesn't do all this **** just to create this pathetic 'illusion' on the Internet that you 'don't pirate'. Oh BTW - these scenes believe in 'open source', right? RIGHT? Now then, where is the source to - ONE (PS3 - CrashSerious) Where is the source to - Homebrew Channel (Wii) And I could name a lot of other examples of stuff by these 'holier than thou we believe in open source but we don't pirate - COUGH COUGH' people that won't reveal their sources. So it's 'preach open source', and then in reality it's 'hold onto tools as if it's the warez scene'.

Just release what you've got or tell us what you've heard. Expose those f*ckers!

The funny thing is that when you read old IRC logs (like from a year ago) you start understanding lots of things and who is who in this scene. For example, if you search for the ps3dev irc logs where xx404xx was talking about the PCK0 (november 2011) you'll find how he says that the info on the wiki is inaccurate because someone wants to keep the CEX->DEX conversion for himself. I mean, ALMOST A F*CKING YEAR AGO! And this would be still be a secret if it wasn't for the leak. So, I'm really hoping somebody leaks the ****ing lv0 metadata AES256 key so this secrecy is over FOR EVER and anyone can extract their own ****ing keys from any PC.

EDIT: I just wanted to make clear that I'm really thankful to the devs that share their knowledge freely. I don't want to put all the devs on the same bag. I'm just pissed off with the ones that control and manipulate this scene.

[sewershark]

Originally Posted by alienjiz420 yes i'm aware of the other BC capable fats but the vast majority of ps3 owners still don't have one. your original point was to save money by buying a $30 cobra dongle and now your point is to dish out money for ANOTHER PS3 from ebay that will probably just YLOD very quickly, all for the purpose of ps2 games? if you're going to buy another machine you might as well just buy a damn ps2. I don't particularly need this "almost useless" hack either, as I have a ps2 with a HDD in it and pcsx2 on my PC but it's still nice to have, and it may even be improved in the future who knows

i am not getting your point either lets see if i can explain this in a easier way

1)if you have a slim=dongle is useless & this hack is useless as well

2) if you have any fat BC 3.55 fw=dongle is cheap and the best choice & this hack is a waste of time and money cuz it can't load backups

so in any situation the hack isn't usefull


3) if you don't have any ps3 and want to have a lot of ps2 and ps3 games and save money

buy a ps3 bc from ebay ,you can get one with a non working bd drive (very cheap)

4) ps2 + network adapter price = ps3 bc + dongle price

and cosidering:

a) ps2 + network adapter ---> plays only ps2 and ps1 games cost 70$
and

b) ps3 slim + useless hack or dongle--> dont play ps2 games cost 200$ to 230$

c) ps3 fat bc + dongle plays everything cost 70$

** you would choose a) + b) paying 270$

*** i would choose c) paying 70$ and must have 4 yloads from 4 different consoles to spend the money you did (you can still sell the dameged ones and save money but lets discard this last option and assume you throw all you damaged consoles away)

considering i only had one ps3 60gb in all my life ,still working without any repiars i am a LITTLE skeptical that i'll have 4 yloads from all the 4 consoles

can't explain this better than what i did i am only human

[BzG4m3r]

What about running pcsx2 now version 1.o and has Linux support just switch to the lunix partition on rebugs os+ couldn't you play backups that way has anyone tried this? isn't pcsx2 better than buggier older emulation from fw 2.x
? after i try it ill report back been wanting to play the old roller blade game "rolling" ,but was only release in Europe why does Sony always C@k block game i want to play thank Gd for all the developers keeping the scene alive. There may be hope yet xing fingers

[samson]

back on topic

Originally Posted by superfurry Bollocks to going into factory mode to play a ps2 game.

You dont need to dude, all i've been doing is: (mini-tut with links)
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1, replace the dev_flash files
2, launch LV2 Patcher (with new ps2 patch)
3, boot from disc or use boot_ps2.pkg, both work.
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Also second pad can be used and works, pressing ps button for five seconds on pad 2 just switches the pad off, on pad 1 it quits game back to xmb and you have to re-apply the patch. With boot_ps2 you need a pad plugged into usb.
I did try the fsm way and it's almost the same no audio via hdmi , but you do need the pad plugged to usb, and you dont get game apps.

@sandungas have you tried the non-fsm way? i did some qiuck tests and it looks to be about the same (but my way has toys) and whats up with the audio only via AV? and no vmc's? any way to fix? A big question is there any better/higher ps2 softemu's that work? or any way to hack the elf to give it more memory or up the buffers? just tossing ideas about, but if they can do it for psn Multiman shows cd ps2 (blue) games as ps1/psx so i'm sure there's another trick to be had with that.

Originally Posted by BzG4m3r What about running pcsx2 now version 1.o and has Linux support just switch to the lunix partition on rebugs os+ couldn't you play backups that way has anyone tried this?

that not a bad idea, worth a go but i'm guessing its gonna be slow.

[DEFAULTDNB]

Nice find @samson I hope this can be improved upon.

Is it possible to smoosh together any cobra related files to enhance what we have here?

[samson]

Originally Posted by DEFAULTDNB Is it possible to smoosh together any cobra related files to enhance what we have here?

I tried cobra ps2_softemu.self and crashed to black screen but multiman tried to start and went to xmb, but i'm guessing there may be a few other soft_emus that run, no harm in trying swapping elf headers might trick it.