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PSX Backup Instructions |
28-02-1999
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| Yesterday, at the IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference in San Francisco, Sony R&D unveiled the new multimedia super-chip which will likely power the PlayStation 2.
According to the presentation, the central processor for the new system will be fully 128-bit. That's external bus and internal pathways. The system has three parallel processors: a CPU, which runs at 250 MHz and has a floating-point coprocessor (called the FPU), and two floating-point vector units (which are referred to as VU0 and VU1 by the engineers who designed the system). |
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Final Fantasy VIII Patch |
14-02-1999
EMPiRE |
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| Here are the codes to by bypass the protection for (even if there is a ModChip!): |
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| Pocket Muu Muu |
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8001F7B4 - 576D
8001F7B6 - 106F |
| Final Fantasy 8 |
Asian Game Shark Code Creator |
D009B182 - 0000
8009B181 - 2402 |
| Kaizov |
8009B1B8 - 0000
8009B1BA - 0000 |
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New Anti-Mod Protected Games |
11-02-1999
PSX Japan |
Both Pocket Muu Muu & Final Fantasy 8 are using a new Anti-Mod protection.
When trying to play this game on a Modded PSX it will show the following japanese message:
Game will Abort!
PSX appears to be modified |
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7-Wire MOD-Chip needs updating |
11-02-1999
REI |
| It seems that an adjustment will need to be made to the new 7-wire Mod-Chip code. Pocket Muu Muu and apparently FF8 use an anti-mod routine that detects the chip faster than the code used on Popologue. This will be done as soon as REI gets FF8 in the mail. The times reported for Pocket Muu Muu are very close to the time limits that were set. Thus, the current beta code may work fine. Only tests will tell, however! |
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Battle of the ModChip Vendors |
11-02-1999
PKer.com |
| The guys at PKer.com have conducted tests to figure out who of the mayor ModChip resellers is acually the best in supplying the chips and giving support. Read their Battle of the ModChip Vendors article to get the insight. |
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PocketStation |
11-02-1999
EMPiRE |
| The PocketStation is a small PDA which plugs into the PlayStation. It features a LCD display, sound, real time clock, infrared communication and it also serves as a standard PSX memory card.
Here are some of the titles being developed for this device:
- Pocket Muu Muu
- Pocket Dungeons
- Pi & Mail
The PocketStation is now being sold in Japan but only in very small quantities. |
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Added PSX Backups Instructions |
08-02-1999
EMPiRE |
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PSX Backup Instructions |
08-02-1999
EMPiRE |
Added PSX Backup Instructions for the following CD-R Backup Software:
- CD-Copy & Toast (Macintosh)
- MakeCD (Amiga)
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The Smart II Colour Fix Unit is a NTSC to PAL converter which allows you to run NTSC import games on any PAL Television. Two outputs are available:
- RF Socket which connects to the TV ariel socket.
- Composite Video and Audio which connects to the SCART or A/V sockets on the TV.
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Added PSX Backups Instructions |
06-02-1999
EMPiRE |
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Connectix Prevails Over Sony |
06-02-1999
Connectix |
| The San Francisco Federal District Court rejected Sony's request for a temporary restraining order on shipments of Connectix Virtual Game Station.
The Connectix Virtual Game Station is a fully working Playstation emulation package which enables many popular PlayStation games to run on Apple's G3 Macintosh computers, including desktops, PowerBooks and iMacs. |
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PSEmu Public Beta |
05-02-1999
PSEmu |
| The PSEmu team just released PSEmu Pro v1.0.21 Update. It now supports CD-XA audio playback! The 1.0.20 full-version is required for this update. |
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Added PSX Backups Instructions |
01-02-1999
EMPiRE |
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