EP has released a new version of his Unofficial version of LaunchELF. uLaunchELF is a front end or operating system or sorts for the Sony Playstation 2 that allows you to browse and boot homebrew from various sources including memory cards, usb devices, hard drives and the built in dvd-rom drive.

Changes:

- Fixed ‘disc control’ bugs in FileBrowser and JpgViewer browser
- Improved recognition of disc types, displayed in main menu. ESR discs are shown as “ESR DVD (off)” if ESR driver needs to be activated to access disc contents, but as “ESR DVD (on)” if no driver activation is needed (if already running, or when used with a modchip)
- Upgraded USBHDFSD of uLE to SVN rev 1516 by radad, fixing a bug in FAT16 usage

Thanks to http://www.tehskeen.com for the news.

http://psx-scene.com/forums/official-ulaunchelf-forums/37242-unofficial-launchelf-v4-36-a.html

EP has released a new version of his Unofficial version of LaunchELF. uLaunchELF is a front end or operating system or sorts for the Sony Playstation 2 that allows you to browse and boot homebrew from various sources including memory cards, usb devices, hard drives and the built in dvd-rom drive.

Changes:

- Fixed some bugs that could sometimes prevent ‘Left’/'Right’ buttons from activating elf launches defined by user for those buttons
- Changed to use fioGetstat instead of fioDopen+fioDclose to scan for USB drives
- Restructured main menu event loop and centralized GUI screen redraws to it
- Changed from dynamic to static font buffer allocation (as it’s always needed)
- Modified USBHDFSD to eliminate an irritating and unnecessary delay
- Added rom0:ROMVER content to “MISC/Debug Info” screen (shows PS2 bios version)

Thanks to www.tehskeen.com for the news.

http://psx-scene.com/forums/official-ulaunchelf-forums/37242-unofficial-launchelf-v4-34-a.html

EP has released a new version of his Unofficial version of LaunchELF. uLaunchELF is a front end or operating system or sorts for the Sony Playstation 2 that allows you to browse and boot homebrew from various sources including memory cards, usb devices, hard drives and the built in dvd-rom drive.

Changes:

- Added new “MISC/About uLE” subprogram, displaying a program credits screen
- Enhanced FileBrowser to support multiple hotplugged USB mass drives
- Upgraded usbhdfsd to SVN rev 1490 by radad, for multiple USB drive support. Note that this may require running the new “setup.sh” script, for those who wish to compile uLE themselves. (Or use the new script “upgrade_usbhdfsd.sh”.)
- Fixed various issues with TextEditor (inability to insert CRLF at CRLF etc)
- Fixed a partition unmounting issue, that sometimes caused non-fatal failure of the TextEditor to show proper partition contents when browsing for a text file

Thanks to www.tehskeen.com for the news.

http://psx-scene.com/forums/official-ulaunchelf-forums/37242-unofficial-launchelf-v4-31-a.html

NESemu is an extremly portable Nintendo Entertainment System emulator for various systems, such as PS2.

Changes:

Fixed ROM loading, tested with .nes, .unf/.unif, and .fds files. Also tried them all GZipped. All IRX’s and BIOS files should be placed in the “nesemu” folder on the first memory card. (ex: mc0:/nesemu/ with uLaunchelf, you will need to copy the files and create the directory on your own.). No longer requires two controllers to start up. No longer requires a hard disk, but hard drive support is flaky, and doesn’t support GZip. ROMs on the hard drive should be stored in the “+NES” partition. USB loading is still unsupported. PS2 NESEMU installer coming shortly, based upon the Wii “NESEMU Channel” installer.

This build is a TEST build, if you expirience problems with it running on real hardware, please let the author know!

Thanks to http://www.tehskeen.com for the news.

http://code.google.com/p/nesemu/

Ifcaro updated his Tetris game for Playstation 2.

Changes:

- Back to freesd. :D thanks lukasz
- Now it should run on the ps3 without the need of psxloader

Discussion: http://forums.ps2dev.org/viewtopic.php?t=11185

http://ps2dev.ifcaro.net/programas,15.htm

According to http://www.dcemu.co.uk/openbor-playstation-2-port-up-for-testing-174007.html the guys from LavaLit are currently looking for guys to test the PS2 Port of marvellous OpenBOR engine.

http://lavalit.com:8080/index.php?topic=2186.0

Eugene Plotnikov has updated his SMS (Simple Media System) multimedia playing application for the Sony PS2. Using this program you can view multimedia files including DIVX, AVI, XVID, MPEG, MP3, etc … on your Sony Playstation 2 video gaming console.

Changes:

- added “rotate image” function for JPEG viewer:
- “circle”/”angle” – rotate image counterclockwise;
- “R1″/”shuffle” – rotate image clockwise;
- fixed bug in MPEG4 decoder;

http://home.casema.nl/eugene_plotnikov/

Ifcaro updated his Tetris game for Playstation 2.

Changes:

- Fixed bug in the level 10.
- Now the top button makes the piece to fall suddenly.
- Added the possibility of personalized music from a usb.

Discussion: http://forums.ps2dev.org/viewtopic.php?t=11185

http://ps2dev.ifcaro.net/programas,15.htm

Eugene Plotnikov has updated his SMS (Simple Media System) multimedia playing application for the Sony PS2. Using this program you can view multimedia files including DIVX, AVI, XVID, MPEG, MP3, etc … on your Sony Playstation 2 video gaming console.

Changes:

- fixed incorect subtitle alignment when subtitle font horizontal size is not equal to the default value of 32;
- slightly changed file autodetection algorithm;
- added baseline JPEG decoder (written from scratch) and rather primitive JPEG viewer. Sequence of images can also be viewed using the same button combinations as for audio/video playlists (“circle” for folder and “R1-circle” for the current folder). While in viewer following gamepad and remote control buttons can be used:
- left: previous slide;
- right/cross: next slide;
- triangle: exit;
- rectangle: zoom-in/zoom-out (only for images with esolution lower than screen one);
Note: decoder supports only baseline JPEGs at the moment. Progressive, loseless and other “exotic” files are not currently supported. Maximum image resolution that has been tested is 6912×4608 though higher resolution images should also be processed without problems;

http://home.casema.nl/eugene_plotnikov/

LBGSHI posted news about a PS2 Hacking System which is in development. Check out the link below for his full statement.

Quote:

For some time now (several years, off and on), GSHI.org administrative staff and several select members of the scene have been working, in secret, on something tentatively called Project Artemis: a hacking system for the Playstation 2. The primary goal of this project is to allow users to create, or hack, their own cheat and game enhancement codes, using RAM-dumping, dump comparison, constant memory writes for testing, breakpoints, and as many other tools as feasible.

The project is far from complete. There have been quite a few stumbling blocks, and some impressive progress has been made. Through several primary coders (Sang123, Hit n’ Run Games, misfire, Shyam Narain, Xerxes Technologies, cYs Driver), it has been determined that…

http://forums.ps2dev.org/viewtopic.php?t=11260