[PS2] POPS stuff & POPStarter

Hacking and rebranding a closed source project is more fun and you get more rabid fans. While forks of open source projects live or die on merit.

There are some projects that benefit, like wii exploits (hackmii installer, twilight hack). I have also worked on a couple of closed source projects, which there are no good arguments either way for releasing the source.

I'd like to see SMB/USB loading in POPS & also the general emulation improved. I don't have much time to offer, especially not enough to rehack it all myself.

 

Thank you very much for enlightening me!

 

Pfff, that douchebag did post 2 binaries of OPL 0.8 today. No license nor readme and no source code included. The OPL logo was removed and the "About" section shows nothing but trash:dejection:.

EDIT : http://forums.sksapps.com/showthread.php?t=11781
The_Pot_Of_Greed = yeshuachrist

Can a SKSApps member report this scum to an admin ?

 

I'm not a member of sksapps but have registered on it, and sended a pm to a member
for report to an administrator, i hope there is any response.

Regards.

 

guys, it looks like that guy goes all out, though this one more falls under promotion of old software then ripoffs (maybe someone could classify this)
check http://www.theisozone.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=75&t=26694 (if the site falls under stuff im not allowed to link ill censor it)

 

I received a response from Sksapps saying that they will take the appropiate actions
about him and also talking with mods of other sites.

Regards.

 

@Delta_force :
Yep. Basically his POPS "tool kit" is nothing else than a batch file to join the 2 chunks of the POC2 and a text file altogether. The PSX2PS2 GUI coded by shenqifx, even if I don't endorse it's usage, was a way more clever tool.
As for the hexedited CUE2POPS of his tool kit, the mods won't improve anything. The dude has replaced a few strings with his hex editor to fake the "Game Fixer" switch; that has absolutely no effect (other than fooling the user).
The rest is n00b comments like "PSX Image Auto Patcher" will add a more compatible "Pops Station Header" versus the less compatible "POPS Header" and wrong statements like the only way to add PSX games is through ulaunchelf, and with a usb stick or drive or by ftp.
The only reason he did not mess up with POPStarter is because POPStarter is scrambled and packed. Tooooo baaaaad that this worthless piece of shit couldn't replace the debug texts with something as dumb as "Super PSX Loader 2.0".
The very first CUE2POPS binary was packed and scrambled too, but users had difficulties to run it. Since the CUE2POPS source code is public and free to modify/distribute, I didn't see any reason to protect it any longer. Now thanks to yeshuachrist, I'll have to rewrite some protection shit for CUE2POPS, all because lamers never die.

@ElPatas :
Thank you.
Back in 2008, yeshuachrist was banned of all dev forums for scamming people with a rip-off of FMCB 1.7. He pretended that his FMCB release was a bugfixed and "cracked" version of the "retaill" (WTF) 1.8.
What he does now is more or less the same bullshit, but with FMCB, OPL and CUE2POPS. He aims to earn reputation with others work, as long as he managed to disable nor remove splash screens, logos, author names and copyrights...

... and promotes his ripoffs under some other usernames, http://forums.sksapps.com/showthread.php?t=11777

 

when he first made that super soft mod post, he kind of caught me off guard (i was considering DLing it to have a look at it) but me being inconsequent as hell proves to be something good once in a while (yay!).
i hope you wont completely loose motivation to work on popstarter (would be sad if so) because of this "icanhazfames" guy... and hopefully people wont fall for his lies, as original is still the best
(also i really need to get myself to using popstarter... i got a few games around that id like to get on my hdd...)

EDIT: just tried to get popstarter rev 12 and the pastie is gone. googling for popstarter rev 12 worked though (just to let you know)

 

People are so damned disrespectful to those who do great things with the PS2. Fuck this "yeshuachrist" guy, he's a cancer on the scene.

 

How can i use those SBI and or CUE files??
Btw Die Hard Trilogy works without music, i'm trying a different cue file to see if i can fix the music.
I'm wondering if and how i can use the redump .cue file to try and fix the music?

 

I'm not liking this yeshuachrist guy at all! I may have done some wrong before but I know this guy is just... WTF, I just hope this does not stop you from working on CUE2POPS as it great work.
Love to use the next CUE2POPS but add some protection before uploading it for people to use. (As I sure yeshuachrist will try to f it all up.)

 

You just cant for now. Maybe krHACKen could add some handler into POPStarter for such files, like he did for the BIOS or OSD handler. Btw, you can find very easily patches for these games that have libcrypt protection. Apply the matching patch before the CUE2POPS conversion.

Protected games are :

PAL : [TABLE="width: 100%"]
[TR]
[TD="width: 50%"]Ape Escape
Barbie Race & Ride
Barbie Super Sports
Crash Bash
Crash Team Racing
Dino Crisis
Disney Magical Racing Tour
Eagle One- Harrier Attack
Final Fantasy VIII
Final Fantasy IX
Formula 1 99
Formula 1 2000
Formula 1 2001
Galerians
Gekido Urban Fighters
GTA - London - no disc swap
Hogs of War
Jackie Chan Stuntmaster
Le Mans 24 Hour
Legend of Dragoon
Legend of Mana
LMA Manager 2001
Medievil
Medievil 2
Metal Gear Solid 2 Special Missions (NO DISK SWAP)
Mike Tyson Boxing
Mission Impossible
Moho
Mulan
Need for Speed 5: Porsche 2000[/TD]
[TD="width: 50%"]N-Gen Racer
Overblood 2
Parasite Eve 2
P.G.A. European Tour Golf
Radical Bikers
Rallymasters
Resident Evil 3 Nemisis
Ronaldo V-Football
Saga Frontier 2
Soul Reaver- Legacy of Kain II
Space Debris
Speed Freaks
Spyro 2
Spryo 3 Year of the Dragon
Super Bike 2000
Sydney 2000
Tarzan
Theme Park World
This Is Football
TOCA World Touring Cars
Tomba 2
U.E.F.A. Striker
UEFA Euro 2000
Un Jammer Lammy- Mod Chip Protection
Urban Chaos
Vagrant Story
Vandal Hearts 2
Vib RIbbon
V-Rally 2
Wipeout 3[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]

NTSC-J

[TABLE="width: 100%"]
[TR]
[TD="width: 50%"]Ape Escape
Beat Mania-Gottamix
Biohazard 3
Breath Of Fire 4
Bust a move 2
Bust a Move 2 Dance Heaven Mix
Chase the Express
Chocobo Racing
Clash of the Superheroes EX Edition
Dance Dance Revolution
Dancing blade Katte ni Momotenshi II
Exceed My Corpse
Final Fantasy VIII
Global Force
Guitar Freaks
Gungage
Justice Academy 2
Konami 80's Arcade Gallery
Legend of Dragoon
Legend of Mana
Lord of Monsters[/TD]
[TD="width: 50%"]Magical Tetris Charange featuring Mickey
Marvel vs. Capcom
Metal Gear Solid Integral
Omega Boost
Parappa 2 (Um Jamma Lammy)
Pop n Music Animation Melody
Poprogue
Robbit Mon Dieu
Saga Frontier 2
Sarugecchu
Silent Hill
Spyro the Dragon
Street Fighter EX 2
Street Fighter EX 2 Plus
Tabidachi
Tabidachi no uta
Tears of Eden
Tokimeki Memorial Drama Series Vol.3
UmJammer Lammy
Wild Arms 2
Winning Eleven 2000


[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]

NTSC-U

[TABLE="width: 100%"]
[TR]
[TD="width: 50%"]Breath Of Fire 4*
Cool Boarders 2001
Crash Bash*
Dino Crisis
Emperor's New Groove
Grind Session
Legend of Dragoon
MediEvil 2
Mo-Ho Lost World
NBA Shootout 2001 US/NTSC
NCAA Gamebreaker 2001
NCCA Final 4 2001[/TD]
[TD="width: 50%"]NFL Gameday 2001
NHL Faceoff 2001
Resident Evil 3*
Resident Evil: Nemesis
Resident Evil: Survivor
Spyro 3 - Year Of The Dragon
Strider 2
The Grinch
Tomba 2
Toy Story 2*
Vandal Hearts 2
Wild Arms 2[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]

Simply edit that redump .CUE file with notepad, and replace names of tracks (if necessary) with the correct name (=name of your .BIN).

 

I see now, is not a new one, is anybody who disappeared a few years and comes back
now for ruin again all the PS2 scene, well i hope is banned again from all the possible sites.

You can't use SBI files without add suport for them in the emu, which would be very
interesting and useful for load fine the Libcrypt games without using patches.

About the cue file just replace it by the one you have changing the name, you can compare first both files opening them in the notepad and see if there any differences with
the tracks, but if the problem with the music is not related to the cue file then it think you
can't fix it.

Regards.

 

I tried the cue file, it was different, but still no music

I just ordered DHT USA/NTSC through ebay, i guess it will arrive in a week or two. Then i can dump it myself ...
Will post the result here

@DaSA, thanx for that info

 

Btw, did you check if you can listen to the tracks using the codebreaker OSD replacement?




Edit : I just tested DHT Pal version, sfx works, but no music. I will try with CB OSD and test it with POPS-00001 too later.

 

Long time lurker here, and member of theisozone. Been watching that tard, yeshuachrist, and I'm gonna spam any posts he makes with DO NOT USE HIS STOLEN WORK, and try to get a mod to warn/ban or remove his posts.

Keep up the good work fellas.

 

I will do the same as well.

 

I also did the same with all threads from him at Isozone.

 

Blahblahblah bullshit justifications.

OPL is licensed under the AFL.

FMCB 1.7 and up

Violating the FMCB license since 2008 makes him a LAMER and a PARIAH, not a respectable member of the dev community.

http://psx-scene.com/forums/f6/fmcb-1-8-a-59884/


And this is what yeshuachrist has done after he got kicked out of PS2 scene forums :


Obviously, BOOTLEGNINJA HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THOSE FAKE RELEASES OR WITH yeshuachrist, and the 1.8 sources weren't shared with yeshuachrist.

http://forums.sksapps.com/showthread.php?t=9224


Sorry, sorry for reviving all that crap but THESE THINGS HAVE TO BE KNOWN before JESUSoCHRIST/yeshuachrist/psalmsamuel/The_Pot_Of_Greed shit crimes take too much space in the cyberspace. Please don't support lamers that destroy others' hard work for their own glory or profit.
Fuck him, and fuck anyone who fucks up credit texts in homebrew apps. ZERO TOLERANCE FOR THIEVES.

EDIT : Last but not least, his "more compatible", "more stable", "enhanced" stuff is bullshit you cannot trust; as his main goal is to remove logos/credits, he ruins every piece of code he edits, and now I saw his FMCB+HDDOSD tests I can comfirm that he's a complete noob:stupid:.

 

I agree with what you say about thieves

Just a reminder thou is not the code you are using some one else code as well

and the removal of the logo as well

Please do not take it the wrong way
I do respect your work but F that guy
he is not worth the crap he posts and your work on POPS and others is outstanding
You are letting a small minded person control your work and to me
That should not be any one that is someone knows who and respect your work

As long as their is free stuff their will be someone who remakes it as their own
Now your up to you if you are going to keep going for the ones that respect you or let some a** stop your work and control your free code life
really up to you hope you keep up the good work :subdued: