Poll results

Blogroll, General News

Ok, this poll is not 100% accurate mainly because checked out the log’s and found the same user voting multiple times.

With the PS3 getting closer to being hacked, what loading method would you prefer?

  • DVD9 (35%, 26 Votes)
  • DVD5 (28%, 21 Votes)
  • Hard Drive (IE: XBOX 1) (27%, 20 Votes)
  • Blu-Ray (15%, 11 Votes)

Total Voters: 74

Imperial Media Player v2.0

Blogroll, General News, Public Tools

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I would like to introduce the very first public version of “Imperial Media Player” by TheImperial2004, a regular visitor to the site. At this point TheImperial2004 has programmed all the basic functions that you would normally see in a media player. I personally love the fact that it is a lightweight application that just plays music, what ever happened to the days where MP3 media software focused on MP3’s?

No installation required, all required files are included in zip.

Download Imperial Media Player v2

Bad bad world…

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(Just venting……………)

Well more bad news, now my car’s been broken into, both my Zune and Ipod have been stolen. Now this didn’t bug me much till I realized my friends PSP was in the arm rest storage and was gone as well! Not sure what is going on, I guess the holidays are just not my thing…Hope nobody else is having as much bad luck as I am.

I hate computers!

General News

Well, it’s been a while since I last posted but there is a very good reason as to why. As I was updating the store with new items and before I could save the post my computer shut off. As I looked down at it I seen a puff of smoke, at this time I could have swore a tear came down my left cheek. It seems the southbridge heatsink/fan somehow shorted the chip, I have never had any problems with it before but that is what I seen when I took a closer look. First it was my RAID array and now this, hopefully Santa will be good to me and drop off a nice shiny motherboard.

As of now, I managed to clean the dust off of my old P3 and give you guys a update. Hopefully my house won’t go down in flames next, I have my fingers crossed :p

I have no access to my source codes and won’t have any for a while till I get a new board. Please support the site, I have a few items at the store that may be good stocking stuffers. And if you can’t purchase anything, no worries just please click on the G00gle ad links and that will help me turn this frown upside down.

New item - R4 for NDS (Game loading galore!)

General News, The Store

Deluxe MicroSD/TF Card Multimedia Flash Cart for NDS/NDS Litesku_15947_1_small.jpgsku_15947_3_small.jpg

 

- “R4″ Deluxe (the R4 here refers to the manufacturer of website: www.r4deluxe.com)

- Note: this product may not come with firmware/software CD. Customers may download it for free on the manufacturer’s website: www.r4deluxe.com

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- Manufacturer’s product description:
- The R4DS Cartridge is the current top-of-the-line in DS SLOT-1 flash carts. It is just an amazing little device like original DS cart size, it is a complete solution with no need to purchase any additional components or deal with any messy software and truly the easiest media enhancer you have ever done; To simply put it, this is a must have peripheral for any regular DS/DS lite owner.

R4特性

-2nd generation storage device (no booting tool required)
-Flush fitting slot 1 card
-Uses MicroSD card, FAT16 or 32
-Supports any MicroSD card speed with no lag in game
-Supports Clean ROM, drag and drop. Works on any OS
-Built in NoPass
-Automatically detect save type
-Save directly to MicroSD card, not to onboard chip
-Supports Moonshell and other homebrew. Open I/O interface
-User friendly skinnable interface. Touchscreen or button operation
-Supports rumble pak and memory pak
-Supports the WiFi game, DS Rumble Pak, DS Browser
-Supports changes of the background of Operation Interface
- Support Skin DIY by setting background and font colors on Main Menu and Game Menu manually and automatically
-Supports 4-scale-lightness adjustment ( DS Lite only )
-Supports the Soft Reset.
-Supports Action Replay cheat
-moonshell 1.6 support Software Reset function( Press START key back to the R4 Deluxe -DLDI auto-patching
-Full download play support

Buying Options

Grand Opening for the Apache Store!

Blogroll, General News, The Store

If you look at the page buttons on the top you will see a tab called “The Store”. From there you can access the items that are on sale. Currently we have some PSP unbrickers and memory card combos, you will not find a better deal, trust me. The items I post here will have the lowest price’s with FREE SHIPPING WORLD WIDE, you can’t beat that!

PSP Unbricker Pandora Battery for PSP 1000/2000 (1800mAh/3.6V)
 
$13.00 + FREE SHIPPING WORLD WIDE


Pandora Battery 2-in-1 PSP 2000 Unbricker Service + Normal 1200mAh Battery


$16.00 + FREE SHIPPING WORLD WIDE

There will be more items added shortly, I will be adding ND$ loaders soon as well.

RAID crash :(

Blogroll

Well today my RAID array crashed, luckily I don’t store my source codes on a RAID 0, that would be silly :P. But anyways, I am trying to backup whatever data I can by using R-Studio backup software. Can anyone recommend a better recovery software?

Xbox Live Banning

General News, Xbox

per MajorNelson.com
Original article can be found at majornelson.com

I’ve gotten a few messages and seen some forum
threads pop up on console bannings so I thought I’d post and let folks
know what’s up. In our our continued effort to keep gameplay safe and
secure for our community of more than 14 million members, Microsoft has
taken action against a small percentage of Xbox 360 consoles that have
been illegally modified in order to play pirated games. You should know
that modifying your Xbox 360 console is also a violation of the Xbox LIVE terms of use,
will void your warranty and result in a ban from Xbox LIVE. The health
of the video game business depends on customers paying for the genuine
products and services they receive, both from manufacturers and the
local companies that support them. We will continue to employ and
bolster anti-piracy security measures to counter piracy in the gaming
industry and improve security in the Xbox LIVE community.

AFSextract MFC GUI Source code

Tutorials

Here’s something I programmed back in 2004, it is super basic. It is a GUI (Graphical User Interface) for a DOS based application called “AFSextract”. When I look back at this source code I could really see how much I have learned, I would do a whole lot different now but that’s just me. The code may be altered, you can replace some text and make it compatible with another DOS tool of your liking.

This is a MFC application, you will need M$ Visual Studios (I use 6.0) to compile.

Feedback is appreciated! Don’t forget the G00Gle links!

Download AFSextractor GUI (Source)

New (well not really :p ) tutorial!

General News, Tutorials

As I was browsing around in my code archive I found this little app that I coded a lonnnnngggg time ago. It’s called a “Header Patcher”, basically it takes certain amount of bytes from one file and then copies those to another. I kind of forget the purpose of it but it had to due something with Hex Workshop lagging and batch editing.

Here’s the source code, its well commented. Its a good starting app for those interested in programming.

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

FILE * patchfile; // this is the pointer to the input file
FILE * mungefile; //this is the pointer to the actual bigfile that is going to be written
unsigned char Byte1; //the tool will only write one byte at a time or will use the number of bytes that we state
int loopcounter = 0; //used as a counter, starting at 0, so we can write the loop to be ‘less than’ the number of bytes we want to copy.
int loopend;

int main(int argc, char *argv[]) //main function. this is what is called when the program starts.
{
  //print to the user screen
  printf(”\n** Header Patcher 1.0 **\n”);
  //if there are not (argc-1) arguments, show usage instead of running the patch
  if (argc < 4)
  {
      printf(”Usage: Headerpatch.exe sourcefile targetfile #bytes\n\n”);
      system(”PAUSE”);
      return 0;
  }
 
  //open the file that you put in the argument (ex: sonic file.cvm **patch.cvm** 272)  in the Read Binary mode (rb)
  patchfile = fopen(argv[1],”rb”);
  //open the mungefile that you put in the options (ex: sonic **file.cvm**  patch.cvm 272)in the Read/Write Binary mode (rb+)
  mungefile = fopen(argv[2],”rb+”);
 
  //number of files that i put in the options, (ex: sonic file.cvm patch.cvm **272**)
  //atoi converts from text to a number, when you write 272 in the cmdln, it is actually 272 in text
  loopend = atoi(argv[3]);
 
  //bytes to copy
  while(loopcounter<loopend)
  {
  //reads one byte and writes one byte at time
  fread(&Byte1,sizeof(char),1,patchfile);
  fwrite(&Byte1,sizeof(char),1,mungefile);
  //loop upwerds , so it would be +1 not -1
  loopcounter++;
  }

  //closes both files that are being used
  fclose(patchfile);
  fclose(mungefile);
 
  //wait for user’s input.
  system(”PAUSE”);   
  return 0;
}

You will need a compiler, there’s
Bloodshed Dev-C++
Visual Studios (any version, I use 6.0)

PS. Cut me some slack for the noobish coding, I’m self taught ya know!

Download Header Patcher Source v1.0

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