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Sunday, May 6. 2007
It seems that various events in my life mean that I won't be able to spend as much time on PSP projects as I would like for the near future. For one thing, my wife is expecting our first child (yay!), and there's a LOT of preparation to be done - not to mention more things that I need to help out with around the house. And it's not just time, but money that's in short supply. Since PSP development doesn't pay any bills, I've been having to do some web development work.
Continue reading "Busy busy busy"
Wednesday, May 2. 2007
Big thanks to Nathan Heaps, who told me about this deal at the Discount Computer Warehouse. They're selling new Targus PA870 keyboards (which are ideal for piKey) for just $17, which seems like a good bargain to me.
UPDATE: So, apparently people have had bad experiences trying to order keyboards from DCW, so I can't really recommend them any more. You can try viewing this thread in the piKey support forum for some more cheap suppliers, with better recommendations.
Wednesday, April 18. 2007
So, it's been a while, mostly due to a nasty, hard-to-find bug that took a few weeks to fix, but a new release for piKey is now nearly ready. All that's left to do is the packaging (documentation, installer etc.), so hopefully the release will be done in the next few days.
Continue reading "New piKey release on its way"
Tuesday, March 13. 2007
I don't know why so many people believe that I'm a good place to get help with pirating games. It's not like I make a secret of my anti-piracy stance. Still, time and again I get emails like this - without even an attempt to hide the intention...
Continue reading "Help me run my ISOz plz"
Sunday, March 11. 2007
You may have noticed that sites I run (this blog, Noobz, the Homebrew Database) include advertising. Why is that? Should you just use an ad-blocker to remove them? The simple reason is that, on the modern internet, unless you're
running a subscription service then some level of advertising is about
the only reliable way to cover the bandwidth and hosting costs.
Continue reading "Why so many ads?"
Saturday, March 10. 2007
Here's a great email I received, linking Windows Vista to some sort of bizarre Nazi conspiracy. It's wrong on so many levels, I just had no idea where to start with a reply to it. Enjoy!
Continue reading "The Great Nazi Conspiracy"
Thursday, February 8. 2007
We've been asked a lot about how it was that the Noobz team was able to resurrect the GTA exploit, for the recent v3.03 PSP downgrader. Well, you need wonder no longer...
The GTA exploit involves a classic buffer overflow attack, basically the original game does not check that the size of the savedata (as indicated within the savedata file) is the size that it expects. So, we can put larger data in there, and overflow the size of the buffer it is using to hold the data - which lets us overwrite some other control variables, ultimately allowing us to cause the game to jump to our code.
Continue reading "D'oh! How to mess up a security patch"
Wednesday, February 7. 2007
There have been times, during the 18 months or so that I've been involved in the PSP scene, when I've despaired of the PSP homebrew community. But then there have been times when the community spirit has really shone through. In the early days, there was a "golden age", when the only people who had even heard of homebrew were typically hardcore, enthusiast developers. Back then, there was genuine excitement over every little step forward, and people were working hard to push back the barriers on all sorts of frontiers. The community was open and friendly, and a great sense of sharing was all around - we were all in it together.
Continue reading "A sense of community"
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