Danno

This is a fantastic Hack. My only issue is that Stella /PSP2600 recognizes the rom size incorrectly and half teh graphics don't appear. But it's money on the CC2.

MS made the external HD-DVD drive an option (quite smartly), knowing that ultimately one format would prevail, but not really knowing which one. MS will easily just make a Blu-Ray add-on if and when HD-DVD is declared dead in the water. Sony's built-in Blu-Ray was certainly more risky, but it looks like it will ultimately pay off. The last 2 weeks worth of Home Video industry articles keeps pointing more and more to a number of forthcoming announcements at the CES regarding the future of Hi-Def Optical media - and they're all pointing Blu.

http://www.variety.com/article/VR111797772...yId=13&cs=1

3.71 M33-4 is on Dark Alex's website, with the new multi-disc popsloader. www.dark-alex.org D_A doesn't have anything to do with 3.72 anything. His official latest is still using 3.71 as it's core. It it's not hosted on teh above site, it's not from Dark Alex.

At the rate you're going, Danno, I think the admins are going to keep that promise for you. I know. 4 or 5 people come into this thread and insult me directly, and I'm not allowed to respond in kind.

Funniest part of this nonsensical reply...he's claiming I "fooled" people. Looks like you got fooled, Gunstar. No wonder you're so upset, You're prominently featuring a shit-ton of HD-duds in your collection. Tell you what - lest put a wager on it. I Say Warner OFFICIALLY announces Blu-Ray Exclusivity at CES in January. If they do - you have to put this giant angry screed above in your signature, complete with a link to Warner's Press Release once it's available online, as proof of how wrong you were. If they don't - I'll stop posting here forever. Deal?

My only comment to those of you so sure of HD download services replacing Blu/DVD as the mainstream home video source.... If this were going to be true - wouldn't things like Cable Pay Per View and the current On Demand video download services have already put the DVD disc Market out of business? Of course not. Sure, it will be a viable means of obtaining content, but temperamental hard drives full of potentially erasable/crashable content will never replace good old "in your hand" collections of things like movies and music. They may compete for attention, and level the competitive playing field, but they will never completely replace it.

There are lots of legitimate questions being asked here about the two formats, which I'd love to answer because some people seem to not really understand the differences, etc. But since I'm apparently not allowed to answer here on any thread without moderator approval, it's pretty difficult.

Actually it was you that complained the last time this subject came up. And you did contact the mobs about it. I have proof of that.

Are you going to complain to the mods about me again, since you're here insulting me, AGAIN? Albert, Mitch, whomever else may be reading - ban this douche.

Blu-ray players are manufactured by nearly a dozen Companies, Sony being just one of them. Competition is fierce. Higher prices? Blu-Ray discs are, on average, 15% to 20% cheaper than HD-DVD's, and the price difference between the Base model HD-DVD player and blu-ray now stands at $2.45. Sony's customer service probably does suck. So buy a Panasonic, or a Samsung, or an LG, or a Mitsubishi, or a Harman Kardon, or a Pioneer, etc. Oh yeah - HD-dvd was manufactured by Toshiba, and NO ONE else.

It's a technology story that is completely relevant to Modern Gaming consoles. This is going to affect millions of people. And yes, I'm happy that the format I chose was the one that won. Is there something wrong with that?

The Warner quote in that article is their response from an August news story, not these most recent ones. Paramount denied going exclusive until just days before they made an official announcement. they had to Pull the Blu-Ray's of blades of Glory off of store shelves and out of consumers online orders to comply with the contract they signed.

Unless you have other information, I don't think they have made a definite choice yet. There are just rumors. 15 separate National publications have reported on it, including Business Week and the New York Times. 3 industry insiders on teh forums at blu-ray.com have been issued gag orders at their places of business, including Sony, following the leak by Lions Gate Vice President in the Business Week article. where there's smoke, there's fire.

What's your source on this? I'm curious to read about it. http://news.digitaltrends.com/talkback224.html

Not that many here care, but for those of you who do, it's now being widely reported this week that Warner Brothers, the largest remaining Hollywood Studio still on the HD format fence, will announce going exclusive to Blu-Ray in Q1 of 2008 for good, essentially ending the HD format war. Toshiba went as far as to knock their players price down to $99, taking a HUGE loss in Q3, and it backfired on them. For once, the better quality format (like Beta) wins out over the cheaper and easier to produce format. All Your HD Are Belong to Sony!

I know of at least one person posting in this thread who isn't even really married, but is claiming they are to be part of the conversation.

Somebody could use Kenfused's Trak-Ball code from Centipede TB as a basis for Tempest 7800 spinner control. Hell, you could code it to work with just the left/right spinner from a 2600 CX-22/80 Trak-Ball and the fire button. That way, no one would need to make custom controllers, just use an existing Trak-Ball.

This doesn't really happen. It's just a commercial.

It's a handheld system. designing external controllers for handheld systems defies the normal logic in having a HANDheld device in the first place. retro controllers for Console releases makes perfect sense. Not for handhelds.

You can google for a program called DeCSS, which will allow you to strip the copyright protections from commercial DVD's and save the VOB files unprotected on your PC's hard drive, and then any DVD to PSP ripping program should work.

Also - It's worth noting, although 3.71 M33-3 is the "latest" version of the Dark Alex/M33 custom firmware, it's is by no means the most stable or useful. 3.52 m33-4 is by far the most stable, and has the best compatibility rate with older homebrew. 3.71 basically eliminated ties to the 1.50 core that the custom firmware was based upon. 3.71 M33 added an after the fact 1.50 kernel module to install, but it's still not 100% compatible with some older homebrews like DGEN and a few others that rely on full kernel access. Downgrading back to an earlier version from 3.71+ can be a real chore too. It can be done, but it's a pain. Also - of note, there isn't a single PSP game on the market that "requires" the 3.71+ firmware to play. In fact - there aren't even more than 3 or 4 that require anything higher than 3.40. I find it a good practice to download the Dark Alex updates and any other necessary files as they become available, but not actually do the update until someone discovers/comfirms the "need" for it when running something or that it adds a distinct benefit. Since 3.52 M33-4, this has not happened.

Now the rest of the world gets to understand what life is like for those of us who run custom firmware, only they get to pay money instead of the hard work of building popsloader eboots. People have been ripping and packing their own PS1 games for a while now. (Sony has had their PS1 emulator around since 3.0x or so.) I've only done it twice so far because I have too many regular PSP games to play, but just about any single-disc game without red-book audio is pretty easy. As for the memory card, 32mb shouldn't have been enough for a long time. Get a 4GB card, they're affordable ($50 when on special) and can hold five or six average size UMD games. Popsloader isn't an eboot, it's a prx that allows the PSP to use the various different updates of their own internal POPS emulation software as it changed often between version 3.01 and 3.72. Also - PS1 games with CD Audio (Red Book) haven't been a problem in ripping since late 2006 when the PSX2PSP ripping programs incorporated that feature. Of the thousands of PS1 games you can rip for the PSP, there's maybe 5-10 that don't work on a PSP. If you still own the original CD as many people do, there is absolutely no reason NOT to rip them to PSP compatible eboots and play them. Paying again (even if it's only $5) for a downloaded version of a game you already own is silly and a waste of money.

where exactly would you plug a paddle into a PSP? Couldn't a paddle be designed to plug into the PSPs USB port? I am not saying it would be practical, just possible. but then it would be no different than the psp's controller. The nice thing about real paddles is that they are analog controllers. if you retrofitted them to work over USB, you're taking the analog-ness out of the equation because using a USB interface would render them to be nothing more than a digital simulation of an analog controller, since USB is a digital input method. Not to mention it would require you to have 4 hands, or you would need to set down the PSP on a table or other surface, thus removing all the advantage of it being a portable, handheld gaming system. In that case, why not just use a real Atari with real paddles?

where exactly would you plug a paddle into a PSP?