DCEmu Homebrew Emulation & Theme Park News
wraggster
by Published on August 10th, 2005 15:19
The PSP while a great console with clearly a low battery life and a screen thats a bit too easily scratched has it seems a far greater problem and that problem is the Dead memory Card Problem, it doesnt matter if you are usin Homebrew/Emulators or just Games and putting Photos/Movies/MP3s on the Card it seems that a simple pressing of the power off button or indeed anything can fry the Memory Card, My card a Sandisk 1gb which cost me over £100 (yes im crying as i write this) died when the emulator i tried crashed and i did a restart by taking the battery out and now the PSP nor Card reader will recognise the Card so im stuck all ways.
At a £100/$100 a throw this is a major worry for all PSP owners, none of us can throw away that type of money, is it a dodgy batch of Sandisk memory cards in my case or is there some miracle cure to get the card working again.
(if there is let us all know)
Whatever the problem we and thats a big we need that fix sooner rather than later.
For those interested my card isnt recognised by my PC or PSP but when in the PSP the orange light is flickering nonstop.
UPDATE
Ok ive fixed it, it seems.
Firstly you need to get a PC Reader for the Mem Card this doesnt work on PSP at all or via the USB Lead.
Once you have your PC Reader installed then insert your 1gb card (in my case)
When i clicked on the drive it was slow to enter and it said there was nothing there.
Right Click the drive the card is in
Click format (dont quick format)
If your Lucky it will format and you will have a working card again.
This has just worked for me and the PC Card Reader cost me £8 so its a worthwhile investment., remember before you format and you click on the drive it wil say theres nothing there but if you right click and then format you may if your lucky be able to format and save your card.
Fingers crossed for you all, my card seems to be working fine now
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by Published on August 10th, 2005 13:32
Im sure im not the only one who has noticed this but since the Piracy Loaders etc have been released we have seen a massive drop in releases from our friends over in Japan, i was told that certain coders dont want their releases posted near any Warez news so have the sites that post our Emulation and Homebrew news as well as Piracy news caused a major downturn in releases from the Japanese PSP Community?
Whatever the case may be we thank all those like Mr Mirakichi, Ruka, KMG. TMK and the rest of them for the early work in the PSP scene and hope they arent put off by the warez news.
The real Emulation and Homebrew scene doesnt post warez news, stick to PSP Emulation News, Emuholic and PDroms.de for your fix of PSP news. ...by Published on August 10th, 2005 13:13
The Homebrew scene is impressive but we now have such homebrew as a port of Doom for the Ipod (check out our sister site Ipod News here --> http://ipodnews.dcemu.co.uk/ ), also this last week we have seen ports of ScummVM, Hexen, Heretic and Nes, Snes and Colecovision emulators released for the Nintendo DS ( Check out the leading DS news site here --> http://nintendo-ds.dcemu.co.uk/ ), also keep your eye on our new sister site at http://gpx2-news.dcemu.co.uk/ for the latest news of the new homebrew compatible GPX2 console. ...by Published on August 10th, 2005 13:08
The PSP scene is impressive but we now have such homebrew as a port of Doom for the Ipod (check out our sister site Ipod News here --> http://ipodnews.dcemu.co.uk/ ), also this last week we have seen ports of ScummVM, Hexen, Heretic and Nes, Snes and Colecovision emulators released for the Nintendo DS ( Check out the leading DS news site here --> http://nintendo-ds.dcemu.co.uk/ ), also keep your eye on our new sister site at http://gpx2-news.dcemu.co.uk/ for the latest news of the new homebrew compatible GPX2 console. ...by Published on August 10th, 2005 12:30
Mr Adults has ported over the FPS game Hexen to the Nintendo DS, heres the news from the readme file
What you need:
-The wad from the full version of Hexen (shareware not supported natively by code
released by Raven, may be integrated in later versions).
-A flashcart big enough to hold the binary with wad (well over 128mbit).
-gbfs by Damian Yerrick for appending the wad to the HexenDS binary. You can obtain
it here: http://www.pineight.com/gba/
-A way of getting your DS to boot off of said flash cart, which also allows the arm9 code to access the cart's rom. I personally use wmb and a F2A 256mbit cart.
How to use:
-Place your full version Hexen wad in the bin directory where makewadgbfs.bat is,
along with the ds and ds.gba files. Also make sure you have gbfs, lsgbfs, padbin, and cat somewhere on your path.
-After fulfilling the above requirements run makewadgbfs.bat, if all goes well you will end up with hexends_wad.nds and hexends_wad.nds.gba files.
-Flash the .gba file to your flash cart, use the method of your choice to get your DS to run arm9 code off of the cart. This method must support access of the flash cart's rom section or HexenDS will not run.
What is broken:
-Saves. Hexen save data is huge and needs work to be cut down. For the time being, a warp menu has been added under the "ds" section of the main menu for playing around.
-Memory. Occasionally the zone may get too fragmented and the game may run out of memory. This is indicated by the game freezing in place in a while loop. I have added more cache swapping for asset types and have not seen this occuring lately, but it's still possible.
-Speed. It's generally playable but does not run at full speed. More routines are already being converted to ARM assembly and optimized so this will continue to improve.
Download Here --> http://nintendo-ds.dcemu.co.uk/hexends.shtml ...by Published on August 10th, 2005 10:24
Wcars05 has released a Port of Doom for the Ipod, heres the news from this port:
Currently this is playable on the iPod Photo and will ‘work’ on the 1–4G’s and the Mini 1G/2G. You must also have the shareware Doom I or Doom II .wad files in the folder with Doom. (only one .wad at a time because there is currently no selector.)
To play, mount your iPod and make a folder like ‘doom.’ Copy over the doom bin file and the .wad file to the same folder. Unmount the iPod from your computer, start up iPodLinux and open the ‘File Browser,’ then the ‘hp’ folder and lastly the ‘doom’ folder (or whatever you named it.) Finally open Doom and shoot away =)
Keys:
-Rewind : Left
-Fastforward : Right
-Menu : Up
-Play/Pause : Fire
-Hold : Exit
-Action : Use
-Right on the wheel: Y
-Left on the wheel : Enter
Things to fix/add:
-Overhead map
-Weapon switching.
-Launcher.
-Better inputs.
-Scaled video
-Wad selector?
More Screenshots and download here --> http://ipodnews.dcemu.co.uk/doom.shtml ...by Published on August 10th, 2005 10:24
Wcars05 has released a Port of Doom for the Ipod, heres the news from this port:
Currently this is playable on the iPod Photo and will ‘work’ on the 1–4G’s and the Mini 1G/2G. You must also have the shareware Doom I or Doom II .wad files in the folder with Doom. (only one .wad at a time because there is currently no selector.)
To play, mount your iPod and make a folder like ‘doom.’ Copy over the doom bin file and the .wad file to the same folder. Unmount the iPod from your computer, start up iPodLinux and open the ‘File Browser,’ then the ‘hp’ folder and lastly the ‘doom’ folder (or whatever you named it.) Finally open Doom and shoot away =)
Keys:
-Rewind : Left
-Fastforward : Right
-Menu : Up
-Play/Pause : Fire
-Hold : Exit
-Action : Use
-Right on the wheel: Y
-Left on the wheel : Enter
Things to fix/add:
-Overhead map
-Weapon switching.
-Launcher.
-Better inputs.
-Scaled video
-Wad selector?
More Screenshots and download here --> http://ipodnews.dcemu.co.uk/doom.shtml ...by Published on August 10th, 2005 10:00
Music lovers who paid extra for their iPods because of a levy will soon be able to get their money back, Apple Canada announced Monday.
"Apple is pleased that the Supreme Court of Canada let stand a lower court ruling that blank media levies on iPods are invalid, and will shortly announce a claims process so consumers can request a refund for the levies they paid," the company said in a release.
In July, the Supreme Court refused to overturn a Federal Court of Canada ruling that quashed the levy, which was applied to iPods and similar digital music players. The tax had been passed on to consumers by companies like Apple and was collected by the Canadian Private Copying Collective, a non-profit agency that works on behalf of musicians and record companies. The levy was in effect from December 2003 until a year later, when the Federal Court overturned it.
The Canadian Coalition for Fair Digital Access, which represents retailers and manufactures like Future Shop, Wal-Mart Canada, Apple Canada, Sony Canada and Dell Computer Corporation of Canada, had lobbied to have it abolished. The tariff was $2 for non-removable memory capacity of up to one gigabyte, $15 for one to 10 GB, and $25 for more than 10 GB. About $4 million was collected by the CPCC from sales of iPods and the like during the tariff's one-year life.
The CPCC got the levy instituted in the first place because it successfully argued that iPod users were making illegal copies of songs, so money should be collected on behalf of the copyright holders. Details of how to apply for the refund from Apple were not announced on Monday. ...by Published on August 10th, 2005 10:00
Music lovers who paid extra for their iPods because of a levy will soon be able to get their money back, Apple Canada announced Monday.
"Apple is pleased that the Supreme Court of Canada let stand a lower court ruling that blank media levies on iPods are invalid, and will shortly announce a claims process so consumers can request a refund for the levies they paid," the company said in a release.
In July, the Supreme Court refused to overturn a Federal Court of Canada ruling that quashed the levy, which was applied to iPods and similar digital music players. The tax had been passed on to consumers by companies like Apple and was collected by the Canadian Private Copying Collective, a non-profit agency that works on behalf of musicians and record companies. The levy was in effect from December 2003 until a year later, when the Federal Court overturned it.
The Canadian Coalition for Fair Digital Access, which represents retailers and manufactures like Future Shop, Wal-Mart Canada, Apple Canada, Sony Canada and Dell Computer Corporation of Canada, had lobbied to have it abolished. The tariff was $2 for non-removable memory capacity of up to one gigabyte, $15 for one to 10 GB, and $25 for more than 10 GB. About $4 million was collected by the CPCC from sales of iPods and the like during the tariff's one-year life.
The CPCC got the levy instituted in the first place because it successfully argued that iPod users were making illegal copies of songs, so money should be collected on behalf of the copyright holders. Details of how to apply for the refund from Apple were not announced on Monday. ...by Published on August 10th, 2005 09:59
Apple today announced that music fans in Japan have purchased and downloaded more than one million songs from the iTunes® Music Store since its launch just four days ago. With over 90 percent of the songs priced at just ¥150 per song, the iTunes Music Store in Japan features a mix of local favorites and popular international artists, with Japanese artists claiming both the number one song (Def Tech) and the number one album (Ulfuls).
“iTunes has become Japan’s number one online music store in just four days,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “iTunes has sold twice as many songs in just four days as all the other online music services in Japan sell in one month.” ...- Search DCEmu
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