Unofficial Llibplanar is library for to be used for PS2 coding.

Release notes:

Changes from the original version:

* Llib2D.c

– Added resize resolution PAL to NTSC

* Llib2DText.c

– Added resize resolution PAL to NTSC

– Added characters ñ Ñ and ¿

* Llib3D.c

– Added camera movement (position x, y, z, rotation x, y, z, pointing camera x, y, z)

– Added transparent objects

* Llibgs.c

– Added resize resolution PAL to NTSC

– Added the functions drawBoxLined() and drawBoxLined2()

* LlibTex.c

– Added the functions GetTextureDir(), SetTextureDir() and imageFree() Experimental!.
These functions are dangerous because they change the pointer of textures
no matter who is in that memory. (Used in the game “el boli” for
remove the last picture loaded without using the function textureFixDir()).

– Added imageLoadRawC() and imageLoadIIFC() functions to load an image in RAW/IIF format from memory.

* Load_IIF.c

– Added the functions IIF_vOpenFile(), IIF_vCloseFile(), IIF_vcountFrames(), IIF_vreadClut()
IIF_vreadImage() to upload files from the memory.

* LoadFile.c

– Added findMediaMode function () that automatically guesses if the program is running
from HOST, MC0, MC1, MASS or CDROM.

– Bars / or are changed automatically according to the accessed media.

– Added the functions vopenFile(), vcloseFile(), vreadFile(), vreadFileBlock(), vseekFile()
to read files from memory.

* Math.c

– Added the functions gradosaradianes() and radianesagrados().

NOTES:

In this version should not be used objectReset() in the program as it is called internally from objectTranslate() and objectRotate () functions. Also before gfxRender() must be added a camRender().

http://forums.ps2dev.org/viewtopic.php?t=11147

Here comes a Tetris game for Playstation 2 coded by Ifcaro.

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

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

Bricks-OS is an Operating System primarily for Game Consoles. It’s main goals is to share resources between different game consoles. This is achieved by using message passing for communication.

News from the Brick-OS project:

Interrupt support for the Playstation2 has been added. So now the work on preemptive multitasking, and interrupt driven drivers can begin

http://bricks-os.org/

Bricks-OS is an Operating System primarily for Game Consoles. It’s main goals is to share resources between different game consoles. This is achieved by using message passing for communication.

More release notes:

The list of currently supported game consoles:
– Gameboy Advance
– Nintendo DS
– GameCube
– Playstation2
– Playstation Portable
– Wii
– i386 PC

The list of current features include:
– Preemptive multitasking (even on the GBA and NDS)
– Message passing
– Hardware OpenGL implementation (on some consoles)
– Software OpenGL implementation (for all consoles not supporting hardware 3D)

Binary versions of the latest release (v0.0.3) can be downloaded, demonstrating a Software OpenGL implementation (GBA, GC, Wii, PC, PSP), and a Hardware OpenGL implementation (NDS, PS2). The source can be downloaded using SVN, hosted by sourceforge.net.

Please take a look at Maximus32’s website for more information, screenshots and downloads: http://bricks-os.org/

Discussion: http://forum.gbadev.org/viewtopic.php?t=16166

http://bricks-os.org/

Designed for the Sony Playstation 2, Argon, allows you to play multimedia files like XVID, DivX, and MP3. It is based off of the Simple Media Player (SMS) and offers an interface similar to that of the Playstation 3/PSP.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/argon-ps2/

Kernelloader is a free bootloader for PS2 Linux and other Playstation 2 operating systems. Loading can be done by “Action Replay Media Player”, by “memory card exploit”, by “Memor32” or any other homebrew loading method.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/kernelloader/

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.

Thanks to www.tehskeen.com for the news.

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

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 in the CNF parser, preventing variables from being accepted when not separated by any other character from the ‘=’ character preceding its value string.
NB: Since uLE always uses a space separator in creating CNF files, this bug has never affected CNF files created by uLE, but only CNF files edited by ‘hand’ and the SYSTEM.CNF files of game discs, causing some of those not to work with the PS2Disc command of uLE. So try again now, with games that failed earlier.

Thanks to www.tehskeen.com for the news.

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

Changes:

– some optimizations regarding avi indices;
– fixed some bugs in the FAT (USB) filesystem driver;
– fixed issues with .sub/.txt subtitles. Thanks to ‘Karol Nowak’ for the research and sample files;

Thanks to www.tehskeen.com for the news.

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

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