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test_account · May 23, 2011

Zoe said:
So you need to do a hardware hack?

It seems so. But if they can get the 3.60/3.61 keys with this method, then i guess that hardware modifications wont be needed after that.

Eiji · May 23, 2011

Naked Snake said:
Shit just got real?

Man will go to Mars?

endlessflood · May 24, 2011

DVD region free playback on kmeaw firmware: possible yet?

Hyllian · May 24, 2011

This is the result of my last work in shaders for Snes9x-PS3. A good article about this kind of work is here.

5xBR-v1.1 (for comparison with the last one.)

5xBR-v1-1 + sharpen-lighter2 (Effect Multiple Layers)

5xBR-v2

I NEED SCISSORS · May 24, 2011

Those look amazing - they make old games look like XBLA remasters.

Toby · May 24, 2011

I haven't updated multiman in quite a while. With new versions, do I still need my external HDD formatted FAT32, or will everything function fine with it formatted to NTFS?

Zombie James · May 24, 2011

Hyllian said:
This is the result of my last work in shaders for Snes9x-PS3. A good article about this kind of work is here

Very, very interesting stuff here, excellent work. I have to say, though, I think hq4x produces an image that's more faithful to the original, at least based on the material on this page. Is this open source? Any plans on improving it?

N.A · May 24, 2011

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Hyllian · May 24, 2011

Zombie James said:
Very, very interesting stuff here, excellent work. I have to say, though, I think hq4x produces an image that's more faithful to the original, at least based on the material on this page. Is this open source? Any plans on improving it?

The xBR shader isn't intended to produce that bump effect. I got it combining with the second shader (sharpening). So, the first and last raw of images are more faithful to what this shader is intended. Snes9x-PS3 can use two shaders in two passes. For now, it has more than 80 shaders available that can be combined among them to make 80x80=6400 possible graphical enhancements (though only a small portion is useful).

Really, it's interesting how xBR looks so similar to hq4x. My goal was different and yet I reached similar results.

HQ4x implementation works with a fixed lookup table to recognize patterns. It uses a highpass filter too, which blends lowres pixel regions.

My goal with xBR was to set rules (BR=By Rules) to recognize patterns without burring unresolved pixels. I don't use a lookup table, neither a highpass filter. This is a WIP shader, because I'm constantly studying new rules to insert. And yes, it's open source and is available on PS3 emulators. For now, there are 5 versions: v1, v1.1, v2, v2.1 and v2.2, each with its ruleset. If I find the golden ruleset ever, I'll get rid of those versions and release only one.

Zeth · May 24, 2011

Couldn't find this in the OP. If I buy a new Slim in the next few weeks around E3 (hoping for price drop) will it come with FW 3.55?

I NEED SCISSORS · May 24, 2011

New Showtime build is really great. It no longer says "CPU not fast enough to render stream" all the time and the subtitle rendering looks nice. I think at last the PS3 might be a worthy media center.

Mainline · May 24, 2011

Zeth said:
Couldn't find this in the OP. If I buy a new Slim in the next few weeks around E3 (hoping for price drop) will it come with FW 3.55?

I bought a slim 2 weeks ago and it had 3.41 installed on it.

squall23 · May 25, 2011

Does Showtime work with NTFS drives? If not, can we make it work with NTFS drives?

squicken · May 25, 2011

I NEED SCISSORS said:
New Showtime build is really great. It no longer says "CPU not fast enough to render stream" all the time and the subtitle rendering looks nice. I think at last the PS3 might be a worthy media center.

How do 720p and 1080p MKVs perform?

I NEED SCISSORS · May 25, 2011

squicken said:
How do 720p and 1080p MKVs perform?

It was a 720p MKV I was using. Funnily enough, after making that post, it did get a bit picky - such as an occasional weird frame transition every ~5-10 minutes, and pausing for a while seemed to fuck it up completely. It ain't perfect, but it's improving. At least subs are in sync now..

squicken · May 25, 2011

I NEED SCISSORS said:
It was a 720p MKV I was using. Funnily enough, after making that post, it did get a bit picky - such as an occasional weird frame transition every ~5-10 minutes, and pausing for a while seemed to fuck it up completely. It ain't perfect, but it's improving. At least subs are in sync now..

Hopefully he keeps plugging away at it. The things people did with XBMC were incredible. Hope the PS3 gets that kind of action

Reallink · May 25, 2011

Toby said:
I haven't updated multiman in quite a while. With new versions, do I still need my external HDD formatted FAT32, or will everything function fine with it formatted to NTFS?

NTFS works, but it's a fairly involved set up--not plug and play like FAT. You have to find your external HDD's vendor and product ID's (buried in Window's menus), add them to a config file in a very specific manner, transfer that config file to a specific location on your PS3's HDD, and manually activate NTFS mode through MM with a button combination.

N.A · May 25, 2011

Reallink said:
NTFS works, but it's a fairly involved set up--not plug and play like FAT. You have to find your external HDD's vendor and product ID's (buried in Window's menus), add them to a config file in a very specific manner, transfer that config file to a specific location on your PS3's HDD, and manually activate NTFS mode through MM with a button combination.

Also NTFS support is only for file management, you can't mount games.

Cloak · May 25, 2011

This may be a silly question, but is there a way in CFW to reorganize the order in which items appear under the game menu? Like if you wanted to move your FTP program to the bottom of the list under Showtime?

Hyllian · May 26, 2011

Finally MultiMAN with Snes9x integrated is OUT!

Hyllian · May 26, 2011

Something really cool is about to happen in PS3 emulators.

Shaneus · May 26, 2011

Hyllian said:
Something really cool is about to happen in PS3 emulators.

Any hints? YT is blocked at work

S. L. · May 26, 2011

Shaneus said:
Any hints? YT is blocked at work

some ridiculous dynamic overlay effect

nVidiot_Whore · May 26, 2011

Shaneus said:
Any hints? YT is blocked at work

Someone added a simple shader effect to an SMB game. (3 I think, or Mario World or something)

When Mario jumps in the water.. the screen get's wet.. then drips away.

Pretty cool.. they call it "game aware shaders".. so an emulator that allows you to load some sort of file on top of the ROM file that adds shader affects, and I'm assuming some sort of API or data format for defining what happens when. It's clever, but nothing really THAT exciting IMO

Rich! · May 26, 2011

Shaneus said:
Any hints? YT is blocked at work

An effect that looks like it'll irritate me and clash with the original game.

nVidiot_Whore · May 26, 2011

richisawesome said:
An effect that looks like it'll irritate me and clash with the original game.

Haha.. I was thinking the same thing..

It's the kind of effect I could do without in just about any game.. let alone the fact that it makes no sense in a 3rd person game.

Rich! · May 26, 2011

nVidiot_Whore said:
Haha.. I was thinking the same thing..

It's the kind of effect I could do without in just about any game.. let alone the fact that it makes no sense in a 3rd person game.

Mario jumps into the water...and SPLASHES IT ALL OVER THE CAMERA!

No. I'd rather not have that.

Shaneus · May 26, 2011

richisawesome said:
Mario jumps into the water...and SPLASHES IT ALL OVER THE CAMERA!

No. I'd rather not have that.

So it can be used to call external effects. I'm guessing it won't be far off until it can perform rumble. THAT will be a game changer, guaranteed.

angelfly · May 26, 2011

The effect doesn't work well at all in the example shown. There are probably a few games where it could add a lot.

nVidiot_Whore · May 26, 2011

angelfly said:
You post on GAF and can't tell SMB3 from SMW?

Hah.. I was actually a kid when those games released. I knew every pixel of SMB 1 and 2... games like Metroid or Zelda.. hell.. I had several 24 digit Metroid save codes memorized for various awesome parts of the game.

But by the time 1990 rolled around most of my gaming time was being spent tinkering on PC's. I all but forgot about consoles outside of the multiplayer games I enjoyed with friends.. which were mainly sports games back then.

edit: lol, you edited that out.. I look insane now.

I'm fine with that.

thuway · May 27, 2011

I don't know what we're all discussing right now but, someone just released an English language patch for El Shaddai :-O.

besiktas1 · May 27, 2011

thuway said:
I don't know what we're all discussing right now but, someone just released an English language patch for El Shaddai :-O.

See stuff like this is what I want to see from CFW. won't import this particular game but still it is good news for some...

Chesskid1 · May 27, 2011

thuway said:
I don't know what we're all discussing right now but, someone just released an English language patch for El Shaddai :-O.

just read about this on psx-scene. translated into 5 langs, wtf? must be a game short on text. pretty cool to see the first fan translation of a game, even though it's a game i've never heard of.

thuway · May 28, 2011

besiktas1 said:
See stuff like this is what I want to see from CFW. won't import this particular game but still it is good news for some...

I just want my Vesperia Patch. I'll stop bitching altogether. It sucks though, now I own two ps3s. One to do all this cool shit with, and the other to play my Unkartdz, Kllzonez, and everything else online.

valentine71 · May 28, 2011

Someone got the Infamous 2 working on 3.55... Just wanted to share with the other CFW users. Some guy got the game early and over at a famous scene forum, a guy made it work.

BoboBrazil · May 28, 2011

I just saw the video of Infamous 2 playing on cfw 3.55. That's great. All the big games are ending up playable so far. I hope work is progressing on a new cfw though.

Danne-Danger · May 28, 2011

Hyllian said:
Something really cool is about to happen in PS3 emulators.

We can finally have reddening screens with veins all over whenever we take damage in old games!

Maddog · May 28, 2011

So have they discussed how Infamous 2 is working on 3.55? Surely they haven't released a patch for it already.

valentine71 · May 28, 2011

Maddog said:
So have they discussed how Infamous 2 is working on 3.55? Surely they haven't released a patch for it already.

Yes they released the modified eboot. also they put up videos of it. I don't know if it would be right to put it here so i will send you a pm about it.

BoboBrazil · May 28, 2011

valentine71 said:
Yes they released the modified eboot. also they put up videos of it. I don't know if it would be right to put it here so i will send you a pm about it.

Typically that doesn't work with 3.60 games though, so the game must have been signed with 3.55 keys.

valentine71 · May 28, 2011

BoboBrazil said:
Typically that doesn't work with 3.60 games though, so the game must have been signed with 3.55 keys.

Yep possibly, but i am too drunk and lazy to read how they did. Anyway i am glad they made it work, i am so excited about the game.

Edit: it seems that they used debug update and modified Eboot. I guess update carries 3.56 eboot or something so they have been able to fix it.

test_account · May 28, 2011

What is a debug update by the way? A game update that is distributed through the internal networks, that people with debug PS3 can access?

Danne-Danger · May 29, 2011

Quick question, for games like Rock Band, Singstar and all that, are you able to use the in-game store at all?

N.A · May 29, 2011

Danne-Danger said:
Quick question, for games like Rock Band, Singstar and all that, are you able to use the in-game store at all?

No.

jonnyp · May 29, 2011

Quick question regarding blu-ray region "free" playback:

As I understand it, right now we have to check what region the blu-ray disc is and then manually run a small patch to switch the PS3 to the correct region before playing the disc right?

Is there any development that will make this automatic in the future? Like disc region detection, patching and then playing back the movie automotically?

Thanks in advance!

Wax Free Vanilla · May 29, 2011

so the debug eboot for infamous 2 was unsigned allowing people to sign it with 3.41 and 3.55 keys.

a total fuck up by sucker punch.

Zoe · May 29, 2011

Wax Free Vanilla said:
so the debug eboot for infamous 2 was unsigned allowing people to sign it with 3.41 and 3.55 keys.

a total fuck up by sucker punch.

How common is it to find debug eboots for games?

Chesskid1 · May 29, 2011

Shaneus said:
So it can be used to call external effects. I'm guessing it won't be far off until it can perform rumble. THAT will be a game changer, guaranteed.

squarepusher2 on the future of his SNES emulator

OK guys, in my test build I'm already playing with Game Aware Shading. It already works.

Now we have to get the config stuff just right.

So basically - very shortly from now on you have a very real 'meta script' engine with which to do all sorts of funky stuff with your SNES games. It will be the equivalent of the N64 high resolution texture packs except much, much better - and it will be limited only by your imagination.

I read some sardonic comments on *some forum* that implied this was only about 'overlaying' background files on top of the screen - like Call of Duty-style 'tint the screen red'. Nah son, it's about much more than that - imagine being able to apply shaders in/out that add a water ripple effect - or add HDR - or that darkens the screen - or, let's say that you press the Start button while you're playing Killer Instinct and the screen fades out and on the right hand side of the screen you get a page from the manual with the move list for that specific character.

Or, let's say that we have something like Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney (yeah, that's right - this system doesn't only work for SNES) and we have these really low-res backgrounds - imagine if we could swap that out with really high-res 1920x1080 backgrounds.

In Super Metroid - we could show a map on the right hand side of the screen that would be updated in real-time while the game is still playing - with Samus' position also indicated on that map.

Even better, later on I'm going to introduce PSP subdisplay support so you can actually show that map on your PSP screen and use the PSP as a gamepad. So you will have something like the VMU except much better - the map from Super Metroid will be displayed on your PSP screen while you play with the PSP as a controller - with the game still being outputted on the HDTV.

Yeah, that's right, that's the amount of customization that this thing affords us, and that's what I'm going to be aiming at.

This 'jump in the water and a waterdrop PNG gets applied + water ripple effect' - that is only the beginning. That took exactly half an hour of work or perhaps even less for Themaister. A 'POC' is just that - a POC - it doesn't mean - here is where the buck stops.

What do you need to start cranking out these 'game shading aware' scripts? You need to know which RAM values to look for (romhacking.net guides will prove very useful from now on) and you have to know how to program shaders.

Tiduz · May 29, 2011

Chesskid1 said:
squarepusher2 on the future of his SNES emulator

that sounds fucking amazing to the max

Chesskid1 · May 29, 2011

Even better, later on I'm going to introduce PSP subdisplay support so you can actually show that map on your PSP screen and use the PSP as a gamepad. So you will have something like the VMU except much better - the map from Super Metroid will be displayed on your PSP screen while you play with the PSP as a controller - with the game still being outputted on the HDTV.

just wanted to quote this by itself. if he achieves this, i don't even know what to say. gdamn amazing.

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