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According to an EETimes article, IBM is planning on releasing the full specifications and software libraries for the powerful processor that will be in the Playstation 3. The goal is to stimulate open-source development for other applications of the chip. The article doesn't mention if there will b...

A weird blob of data that changes once per second. Take that as you will. This is probably part of the crypto handshake. My guess is that it's probably either sending a salt or a block-cypher key, possibly encrypted with its private key (and therefore decryptable by using its public key), in which ...

Although having said that, why are mod chips legal? It depends on where you are. In some places, they're not legal at all. In some places, like the USA, they're not officially illegal, but they're sort of shady -- you won't find them at Best Buy. And in some places they're perfectly legit, and crea...

You should count it as a blessing that Sony has never asked you to change or remove anything. That means you're doing something right and you should keep on doing it. Well said. This site has always shown a very high degree of professionalism and respect towards commercial developers and their IP. ...

Happy Birthday, have a piece of cake: (OK, so I'm no artist)

Part of the difficulty in supporting the PS2 file system under Linux comes from the fact that the PS2 partitioning system (APA) is different than on standard PC hard disks, so you'll need to add stuff to linux/fs/partitions/ as well as supporting the filesystem itself in linux/fs/pfs. There are weir...

I must say I'm not sure how portable the Java VM is though. Isn't it closed-source? There are numerous open- and semi-open-source Java VMs. The source for Sun's HotSpot VM is one of the better-supported ones (it falls into the semi-open-source category). This is the VM that you get when you get Jav...

The "failed to open extra conf file" message is a warning, that's all. Everything should be working fine.

If you had searched the forums, you would have discovered that this same question was posted (and answered) here and here.

psp-robot wrote:My Aibo has leg problem and is unable to stand on the floor without crawling...

OK, I think that's the funniest thing I've read here.

FYI, the Linux kit does come with an X server, and it does run on a PAL/NTSC display (not just VGA). Looks like crap, IMHO, but there you go. You mentioned that want it to run without Linux or the HDD, but the Linux kit's codebase might be a good starting point. (Whenever I see the expression "...

VictorAdept wrote:Also, is there any way really for those of us without the technical knowledge to help out? All I could really think of was donating to pay for test hardware and the like.

PM me to get my mailing address, so you can send me a PSP (for "testing," of course ;-)

How about telling us what's in version 1.0, for those of us that have no idea what you're talking about ;-)

3) Lex & Yacc are code generator. They generate plain ansi C code. Only problem is, the generated code generally utterly rely on unputc. That's not nice since it's not supported by our current libc. Otherwise, it's okay, just generate code, it'll compile for PS2. There is an option you can use ...

The downside of automatic firmware upgrades, is that if we can find a weakness that allows us to do homebrew (e.g., the Independence Day exploit on the PS2), it will be pretty easy for Sony to close it up and distribute it to all the current PSPs that have been sold (as opposed to waiting until anot...

I have a broken down car, and my kids would really like to go for a ride in it. I don't know what's wrong with it, and I have no manuals. In fact, the car might even be stolen, but I really don't care about that. If there's someone who's nice enough to come over to my house and fix it on their own t...

bobby1989 wrote:Also maybe just maybe a conversion to ps2 is possible, without rewriting?

Maybe just change or add a few lines of code to make it compatible ?

Oh, man. Ignorance is bliss, I suppose.

Short answer: porting any game to the PS2 using the homebrew tools and libs is an extraordinary amount of work.

There is a search button at the top of every page here. I'll bet you haven't tried it, have you?

People here are very helpful, but you have to give up a little information rather than leave us to guess what you're trying to do. Simply saying "i cant [sic] figure how to install the libs" and "i cant get the headers to work" is pretty content-free. Here are some tips for infor...

As fas as I can tell, for native apps, all of the dependencies, etc. are all in the XML files that Xcode manages. It might not be super tough to write an XML-to-Makefile converter, especially since Java 1.4.2 (bundled with OSX) includes all of the Xerces XML classes... Oops, they're not XML, it's a...

Just to be clear, I don't want this to turn into a SCEI-bashing flamewar... I'm just curious: if they're distributing a patch to product(s) licensed under the GPL (e.g., gcc, binutils), are they required to redistribute the source to anyone, even if the tools are only available to licensed developer...

...but can't seem to find any "Export Makefile" menu item to see some examples of how to use/link Nibs and Frameworks with Makefiles From what I can gather, Xcode does not use makefiles at all, unless you specify that the project uses an external makefile (in which case you manage it your...

Something I noticed when reading the (publicly available) paper from SCEA Research Procedural Rendering on PlayStation 2 : Unlike the early days of the PS2 where everything had to be painstakingly pieced together from the manuals and example code, lately there are some new tools to help you program ...

JF, I think what he's talking about is connecting the PS2 USB port to the router's USB port (with a standard USB cable), then connecting the router's Ethernet interface to a PC. Is this correct, Vestrievan? In other words, he does not have the Network Adaptor for the PS2. If this is the case, your g...

From the very few fragments of 'official' code that I've seen, I'd say that if there's any compatibility anywhere, it's more of a coincidence than anything else. Maybe the syscall names are the same, but any higher-level functionality either doesn't exist in ps2dev, or is implemented totally differe...

checking whether to build static libraries... yes eval: Cannot fork: Permission denied eval: Cannot fork: Permission denied eval: Cannot fork: Permission denied eval: Cannot fork: Permission denied eval: Cannot fork: Permission denied I think it's just you, mate... I can't figure out why a fork() s...

From http://www.linux-mips.org/wiki/index.php/Endianess : One of the special features of the MIPS architecture is that all processors except the R8000 can be configured to run either in big or in little endian mode. But the R5900 core in Emotion Engine seems to be an exception to a lot of rules... I...

Also thanks for the tip about hexdump... I just assumed a hexdump was a hexdump. :-) A common misconception ;-) hexdump w/ no options dumps it in 16-bit words, but how it determines the byte order is platform-dependent. Same way if you do something like: hexdump -e '"%08_ax: " 4/4...

OK, finally I've gotten all three objdumps (ee, iop, dvp) to do what they're supposed to do. Here's the patch to binutils-2.14.patch. If someone wants to give me cvs commit rights, I can pop it in myself. diff -u ps2toolchain/binutils-2.14.patch ps2toolchain.mharris/binutils-2.14.patch --- ps2toolch...

Here is a hexdump of the correct demo.bin 0000000 0000 1001 02ff 0000 0efc 8000 02ff 0000 0000010 033c 8000 02ff 4000 033c 8000 02ff 0000 0000020 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 * 0000100 That's a little-endian hex dump, BTW ;-) hexdump -C gives you a byte-by-byte dump. carlosn is right, if...

hrrm, wonder if that could be the reason my ee-objdump gives no info on disassembly of something I built with the ee toolchain... $ ee-objdump -d syscall.elf syscall.elf&#58; file format elf32-littlemips Disassembly of section .text&#58; 00100000 <_ftext>&#58; 100000&#58; e0 ff bd 2...