PS Hard Disk Drive

I invented transistors

 

Yep, that's why I'm laughing about it.

Anyway, good luck with making HDD add-on for PlayStation :dance:

 

Are all your post counts like this?

Because your not helping at all. You just laughing.

If I need help, I will ask. Dont just troll and spam with crap.


As for the Wiki entry, I though why not. You know, for fun.

Makes me happy you look at my site...


If Calpis was such a great engineer, why hasn't he helped with information.

All he had been doing is posting:

'you suck',
'you dont have the skill to do this',
'I know everything'

Well good for you.

 

And instead of being the bigger man you insult him in an extremely childish manner.

There is no way you can possibly PR your way out of not looking like some sort of horse's ass.

 

See the thing is, he was being a bit cocky and starting to control the topic.

He was not helping, but rather shoving words in my face.

Leave us do our thing, and you can go and play with your pet turkey thing there.


If you want to help, then post USEFUL stuff. If not, piss off like I said!




Thanks for your help so far:

Tails,
Assembler,
SMF,
Gemini,
I_oliveira,
Danhans115,
Veggav,
Johhny,
Hi_Ricky.

Appreciated!

 

He pointed out the technical flaws in your approach (I would call that "posting useful stuff") and you took it personally. It's right here in this thread, mate. The mature approach would've been to take on his suggestions and adapt to or counter them, rather than dismissing them outright and resorting to namecalling.

 

Alright alright.

Were going nowhere with this.

Just forget it.


Back on topic please.


At the moment, we are just waiting to build the FreeWing so we can establish a comms. device between a computer and the PS. So, a Yaroze setup.

Then, I will get a FPGA dev board (Altera DE2) and mess around and learn about that.

Eventually, it will be wired to the PS PIO port, or the CD-ROM.

I will have to see.

My original intentions were to hack the PIO port for now, then try the CD-ROM for the PSone.

Again, all in time...

That is when I will ask for help mainly. Krikzz would probably help me out, as I have been talking to him a bit (I hope).

I will have to see how I go. But yes. I do not have any skills in FPGA development yet nor PS programming.

Just taking it slow.

 

Freewing isnt worth the hassle. Just buy an xplorer cart and use the pc parallel port, much simpler. I really dont see how this will help your endeavor but there it is.

 

I have an Action Replay, and it has a parallel port on it. I have flashed it with caetla I think or something in that fact and it does not work as a comms. at all.

Where can I get a xplorer cart from? There non existent right??

Thats why we are making a FreeWing. Blaze3927 is making it and he is going very well in that.

The FreeWing like I said, will allow us to establish a comms. so we can start off small with programming, and learning more about the PS and its programs. We never had a Yaroze so this is a good start I think.

Thanks.

 

Not all AR carts have a parallel port on them. The DB25 is for a the commslink card.

I believe it was the Pro Action Replay v3 that had the parallel port, the others dont.

look on ebay for an blaze xplorer cart. Caetla 0.32+ supports them

 

Awesome! So I have the v3 of it.

Yea, the DB-25 port was for plugging the card into your PC via a PCI card to send cheats and new firmware to it.

The FreeWing will allow me to use it as a comms. device to send .exe's to my PS.

I also searched eBay and found some. Expensive though, and not worth it. Unless your a collector for that stuff.

Making the FreeWing is more fun anyway and will improve the skills we need to know.

Besides, if you need one we can make them - lol.

 

Im not saying you have a V3. All AR carts had a 25 pin socket on them. Just on the newer ones it was for parallel port use. The old AR's were little grey boxes that plugged on the back, the V3 was larger and had the virtual memory card function i believe.

I built a freewing years ago but found it rather hit and miss so switched to the xplorer when caetla started to support it.

There are some tools selling them go for about £50 but on open auction they go for around £5 - 10 plus P&P.

 

Ohhhhhh ok. Well mines not a standard grey Action Replay. It is light blue, and NTSC. Japanese I think, as it has Japanese characters on it. I flashed it because it was useless and only some codes worked correctly.

Yea, have to see how Blaze goes with it......

 

Perhaps because it was intended to be used with NTSC-J builds of the games in question ?:shrug:

 

Yea it was. Your right.

The weird thing is, when I opened it up it had a PAL chip in it.

 

I'm back to say thanks for just giving me the best laugh of the day, I needed that.

 

Cool.

 

Hey, I wanted to help this project but now it just seems you haven't got the ability to do it at all. Think for yourself, learn how to do it, do it and then after that you *do* speak of it, not *before*. This just makes you look clueless. That said if anyone else is going to do another project like this I can help on the software side.

 

Sorry, just LOL.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmable_Array_Logic

:lol:

 

Yea a Programmable Array Logic (PAL).


'When I opened it up it had a PAL chip in it. I remember looking up the chip and all and what it did, but it was a PAL.'

So when I flashed THE EPROM / ROM / EEPROM or whatever with a NON-NTSC ROM, it was in colour for me.


Sorry, I didn't space it out and I missed an 'a' here or there...