EP has released yet another new version of the popular menu system uLaunchELF for the Sony Playstation 2. Using this homebrew program as your main ELF is common as it allows you to browse your hard drive, USB device, DVD/CD-ROM drive and memory cards to run homebrew and perform basic file manipulation functions.

Changes:

-Fixed a bug preventing detection of PAL/NTSC mode on some slim PStwo units.

(Now reads “rom0:ROMVER” instead of using gsKit’s function “gsKit_detect_signal”)

Thanks to www.tehskeen.com for the news.

http://www.tehskeen.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=8738

ScummVM is a program which allows you to run certain classic graphical point-and-click adventure games, provided you already have their data files. The clever part about this: ScummVM just replaces the executables shipped with the games, allowing you to play them on systems for which they were never designed!

Some of the adventures ScummVM supports include Adventure Soft’s Simon the Sorcerer 1 and 2; Revolution’s Beneath A Steel Sky, Broken Sword 1 and Broken Sword 2; Flight of the Amazon Queen; Wyrmkeep’s Inherit the Earth; Coktel Vision’s Gobliiins; Westwood Studios’ The Legend of Kyrandia and games based on LucasArts’ SCUMM (Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion) system such as Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, Sam and Max and more. You can find a thorough list with details on which games are supported and how well on the compatibility page. ScummVM is continually improving, so check back often.

Release notes:

We can call it a tremendous development. Half a year since 0.11.1 passed pretty quickly, and we are pleased to announce the release of 0.12.0!

This new version of ScummVM adds support for 5 completely new games. The games that now run smoothly on many more platforms than was initially intended are: The Legend of Kyrandia: Book Two: Hand of Fate, The Legend of Kyrandia: Book Three: Malcolm’s Revenge, Lost in Time, The Bizarre Adventures of Woodruff and the Schnibble and Drascula: The Vampire Strikes Back.

The number of supported platforms grew as well. The PS2 port has been revived, and the GameCube and Wii are now supported too. Take your Wiimote and make your beloved adventure game protagonist run around the screen :).

No need to go any further into details here, those who want to know the gory details can always refer to the release notes, and all of you are invited to go to our downloads page.

P.S. Soon, pretty soon, look out for more news from us.

Changes:

New Games:
– Added support for The Legend of Kyrandia: Book Two: Hand of Fate.
– Added support for The Legend of Kyrandia: Book Three: Malcolm’s Revenge.
– Added support for Lost in Time.
– Added support for The Bizarre Adventures of Woodruff and the Schnibble.
– Added support for the PC version of Waxworks.
– Added support for the Macintosh version of I Have no Mouth, and I must Scream.
– Added support for Drascula: The Vampire Strikes Back.

General:
– Added CAMD MIDI driver for AmigaOS4.
– Revived the PS2 port (was already in 0.11.1 but was forgotten in the release notes).
– Plugged numerous memory leaks in all engines (part of GSoC’08 task),
– Added audio double buffering to the SDL backend, which fixes the problems with the MT-32 emulator on Mac OS X (for now only enabled on Mac OS X).

AGOS:
– Fixed crashes during certain music in Amiga versions of Elvira 1 and Simon the Sorcerer 1.
– Fixed palette issues in Amiga versions of Simon the Sorcerer 1.

Queen:
– Speech is played at the correct sample rate. (It used to be pitched a bit too low.)

SCUMM:
– Rewrote parts of Digital iMUSE, fixing some bugs.
– Rewrote the internal timer code, fixing some speed issues in e.g. COMI.
– Improved support for sound effects in Amiga version of Zak McKracken.
– Added support for mixed Adlib/MIDI mode in Monkey Island 1 (Floppy).

http://scummvm.org/

EP has released yet another new version of the popular menu system uLaunchELF for the Sony Playstation 2. Using this homebrew program as your main ELF is common as it allows you to browse your hard drive, USB device, DVD/CD-ROM drive and memory cards to run homebrew and perform basic file manipulation functions.

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

http://psx-scene.com/forums/official-ulaunchelf-forums/37242-unofficial-launchelf-v4-21-a.html

Free MC Boot is an ‘exploit’ that allows a user to install it on official 8MB Sony MC’s as well as 3rd party cards. (with the exception of those needing a boot disc to be recognized or cloned Chinese cards).

http://psx-scene.com/forums/freevast/58292-official-free-mc-boot-releases.html

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.

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

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:

– updated .avi embedded subtitles handling. Thanks to ‘KingFire’ for sample clip, testing and patience.

This release is about a month old, but has been overseen.

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

Free MC Boot is an ‘exploit’ that allows a user to install it on official 8MB Sony MC’s as well as 3rd party cards. (with the exception of those needing a boot disc to be recognized or cloned Chinese cards).

Changes:

– Updated DVDELF Inject to 1.3R1 by Neme
– Custom elf file inject has been disabled (but now you can use the 75kb DVDELF)
– Added light loader to support 75kb dvdelf.
– Boot elfs can be differents if you press a button.

http://psx-scene.com/forums/freevast/58292-official-free-mc-boot-releases.html

Free MC Boot is an ‘exploit’ that allows a user to install it on official 8MB Sony MC’s as well as 3rd party cards. (with the exception of those needing a boot disc to be recognized or cloned Chinese cards).

Quote:

BE SURE TO NOT HAVE A BOOT.ELF or DVDELF.BIN in the installer folder if you want to install the default FMCB.

It creates only your osdxxx.elf file and an empty BOOT folder on the Memory Card. Place the elf you want to boot as BOOT.ELF in this folder, or in BOOT folder on usb stick (if you let the installer inject the default loader).

You can optionnally put in the same folder that the installer:
– “DVDELF.BIN” file to replace your rom dvdelf taken by default for inject (It must be encrypted, so just taken out from rom).
– “BOOT.ELF” file to replace the default loader, you can for example inject uLE directly (sometimes the elf you want to inject fails to load, this is a problem with load address, so try to pack it with another load adress).

The default loader boots in this order :
– mass0:/BOOT/BOOT.ELF
– mc0:/BOOT/BOOT.ELF
– mc1:/BOOT/BOOT.ELF
– mc0:/B?DATA-SYSTEM/BOOT.ELF (where ? is your region.)
– mc1:/B?DATA-SYSTEM/BOOT.ELF

The Cross-Linking trick has been removed, it will become optional in future release, but I need to fix some issues before.

If you have a red screen at boot, this means no boot file found, check that you have a BOOT.ELF file in boot folders.

Known Bugs:
– On newer PS2 it will fail to load “erom0: DVDELF”, these ps2 can’t hold the FMCB loader in their DVD player so try to get a DVDELF.BIN from an older ps2 of the same region
– The formatter will not work properly if the memory card have bad blocks.
– The installer uses XSIO2MAN and other extended modules, so PS2 without these modules will fail to run installer.

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

http://psx-scene.com/forums/freevast/58292-official-free-mc-boot-releases.html

NRLPack is a Playstation 2 executable files packer suited for 64k intros and the like.

http://neural.untergrund.net/

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 small problem (repeat glitch at the end) related to FLAC decoder (thanks to ‘vectis’ for the remark/sample clip);
– added suport for FLAC files containing ID3 tags (these are currently ignored) (thanks to ‘vectis’ for the remark/sample clip);
– updated USB mass storage driver;

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