Credits:
Concept & Design
BigDaddyWeaves
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5.00m33 Theme
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"system_plugin_bg.rco"
Wave and background mod
taken from: mugi (thanks!)
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Tools Used:
CTFtool GUI v5 beta – patpat
PRXeditor – patpat
RCOedit - ZiNgA BuRgA
RCOmage - ZiNgA BuRgA
XMB Multi Customizer – Takeshi
FHacker093 - Freeplay and Skylark
PSP Theme Converter – SONY
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Gameboot Tools
1) avi2wav
2) UMD Stream Composer
3) MPS to Gameboot
4) SUPER converter
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Adobe Products Used
1) Photoshop CS3 (Editing sprites, creating wallpaper)
2) Fireworks CS3 (Saving all .png files for .rco’s)
3) Dreamweaver CS3 (Editing .xml files from .rco's)
4) Premiere Pro CS3 (Editing and making YouTube preview)
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All icons provided by
http://www.spriters-resource.com/
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Custom Gameboot
I simply took the original SONY gameboot and faded in the
Intelligent Systems Logo and added sound from the game
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All custom click sounds are provided by
http://www.mfgg.net/
A great collection of .wav sounds ripped by Parakarry.
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Custom Font - Agenda-Black.otf by Greg Thompson (1993)
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I used the same paf.prx & vshmain.prx from Haunter Remixedv4.5

Here's the download link for the new and improved "Super Mario Bros. 3 Custom Home Screen"
I hope you like it, it took me quite some time to figure out how to make it without any graphical errors. I will be doing requests if anyone wants me to release it for other firm-wares, but on one condition. You have to provide me with the DECRYPTED/UNPACKED "impose.prx & impose.rsc" files that come from the firm-ware you want me to make the Super Mario Bros. 3 Home Screen compatible for. I don't really know much on how to do that so I'll leave it up to you.

What this will do…
Changes your boring old Home Screen Menu to the new revamped Super Mario Bros. 3 Menu

============= CREDITS =================
Imposer GUI v0.1
Imposer.exe v0.2 by Z33
All sprites from The Spriters Resource
(all except for the smiley face)
============= GUIDE =================

Directions…
Make sure you are on 5.00m33-6
Hold R trigger while booting PSP
Recovery menu will open
Now select "Advanced" and then "Toggle USB (flash 0)"
Plug PSP into computer and drag files from .zip file into the appropriate folders
(everything is already in the correct folder so it makes it easier)

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WARNING!!!!!!!!
If done wrong this will semi-brick your PSP some people may even fully brick, if done completely wrong. Make sure to follow the instructions carefully. I will NOT be held responsible for any damage you cause to your PSP if you just so happen to mess up somewhere along the way.
ONLY for 5.00m33-6 firmware (currently)
– hopefully requests come in for different firm-wares
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PSX Home Screen Pixelated Mess
(Non-Fixable to this day, I think)
When pressing the home button on a PSX Game you'll get this pixelated mess. Don't worry, everything still functions but the volume ticks don't show up anymore and the AVLS and battery icon blink continuously. Also the volume bar doesn't show up on the main XMB anymore and the mute icon is displayed. This really only looks good on homebrew games like EBOOT's and of course ISO's/CSO's
(so if you can deal with a few downfalls I think you'll definitely enjoy this.)

A little preview...






For help or any PSP related questions...
Message me on Chatango at bigdaddyweaves

The website is under construction.

Quote:The High Court recently overturned private copying exceptions introduced last year by the UK Government, once again outlawing the habits of millions of citizens. The Intellectual Property Office today explains that ripping a CD in iTunes is no longer permitted, and neither is backing up your computer if it contains copyrighted content.

Late last year the UK Government legalized copying for private use, a practice which many citizens already believed to be legal.

The UK Intellectual Property Office noted that the changes were “in the best interest” of consumers and that they would bring copyright law into the 21st century.

However, the new regulation was short-lived. Fearing a loss of income several music groups objected at the High Court, which subsequently agreed that the new legislation is unlawful.

As a result the changes were overturned last month and the previous limitations were reinstated. To find out what the public can and can’t do under the law, TF reached out to the UK Intellectual Property Office, which provided some very clear answers.

“It is now unlawful to make private copies of copyright works you own, without permission from the copyright holder – this includes format shifting from one medium to another,” a spokesperson informed us.

The IPO specifically notes that copying a CD to an MP3 player is not permitted. This means that iTunes’ popular ripping feature, which Apple actively promotes during the software’s installation, is illegal.

Also, under the current law iTunes is actively facilitating copyright infringement by promoting their CD-ripping functionality. This means that the company could face significant claims for damages.

There is more though, as the law affects much more than just ripping CDs. Simply copying a song in an automated computer backup or storing a copy on a private cloud hosting service is also against the law.

“…it includes creating back-ups without permission from the copyright holder as this necessarily involves an act of copying,” wee were informed by the Government spokesperson.

Strictly speaking this means that UK citizens are not allowed to make a backup of their computer. After all, pretty much every computer contains copyrighted media. Needless to say, this turns almost the entire country into ‘outlaws’.

The Government is not happy with the High Court decision but it hasn’t decided whether it will propose revised private copying exceptions in the future. Copyright holders previously suggested allowing private copying in exchange for a tax on blank CDs and hard drives.

“As this is a complex area of law, the Government is carefully considering the implications of the ruling and the available options, before deciding any future course of action.”

As reassurance, the Government notes that that people shouldn’t be too concerned because copyright holders are not known to come after people who make a backup of their computers.

“The Government is not aware of any cases of copyright holders having prosecuted individuals for format shifting music solely for their own personal use,” the IPO spokesperson says.

However, copyright holders can take people to court over both CD-ripping and computer backups, if they want to.

I don't quite understand the logic behind this decision. It really seems as though the High Court is trying to blanket cover any possibility of piracy.

Sauce - TorrentFreak

Microsoft has just wrapped up its Windows 10 Event making a slew of announcements, with the most intriguing being the HoloLens augmented reality headset.

Here's a round-up of what else was announced:

• Windows 7 and 8.1 users will be able to upgrade to Windows 10 for free over its first year after launch.
  
• Windows 10 will feature a return to the desktop as its main interface, borrowing the best of its Windows 8 Metro experiments to provide a good touchscreen experience as well.
  
• Refreshed icons. Finally.
  
• Microsoft's personal assistant software Cortana will be part of the new OS.
  
• Windows Phone is dead. As a brand, anyway. As part of their plans to unify Windows as wee know it across phones, tablets and PCs they've decided to drop the 'Phone' brand from their mobile experience.
  
• A really, really big Surface called Surface Hub.
  
• New browser Project Spartan was unveiled, set to become Internet Explorer's successor. It will use a new engine, have a new UI and will let you annotate the web, if you want to.
  
  There was some Xbox news, too:
  
• Xbox One streaming to any device running Windows 10.
  
• Windows 10 will feature an Xbox app for browsing your game collection, chatting to friends on Live and a Game DVR feature for recording PC game footage using the Win+G shortcut, including the previous 30 seconds.
  

And here's the crazy headset they announced along with Windows Holographic.


Source: YouTube


Certainly seems intriguing - apparently it will be priced with both enterprise and consumer in mind and will be released during Windows 10's lifecycle.

Good show Microsoft!

The Windows 10 Preview is now available!

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Quote:SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. -- A Southern California high school basketball coach has been suspended and faces accusations of mercilessly running up the score after his team won a game 161-2, one of the most lopsided scores in state history.

Arroyo Valley High girls' coach Michael Anderson was suspended for two games after the victory last week against Bloomington High.

Anderson said that he wasn't trying to run up the score or embarrass the opposition. His team had won four previous games by at least 70 points, and Bloomington had already lost a game by 91.

"The game just got away from me," Anderson told the San Bernardino Sun on Friday. "I didn't play any starters in the second half. I didn't expect them to be that bad. I'm not trying to embarrass anybody."

He says if he had it to do again, he'd have played only reserves after the first quarter, or, "I wouldn't play the game at all."

But Bloomington coach Dale Chung says Arroyo Valley used a full-court press for the entire first half to lead 104-1 at halftime.

"People shouldn't feel sorry for my team," Chung said. "They should feel sorry for his team, which isn't learning the game the right way."

Anderson has served one game of the suspension, a game his team won 80-19 with his son Nick at the helm. He'll return after sitting out one more.

"He's a great X's and O's coach," Chung said. "Ethically? Not so much. He knows what he did was wrong."

source: espn

so what the winning team do? just stand and watch? lol

Dust off your PSPs folks. It's that time again. Time to get some more of that "system software stability" with 6.61.

Quote:Today, Sony released firmware 6.61 for the PlayStation Portable. Um. What?

According to Sony, the update improves system software stability. For those keeping score, the last time Sony updated the PSP's firmware was in August 2011.1

The update, however, is currently only for Japan. It will be announced for elsewhere at a later date. Keep in mind that this year, there are still games coming to the PSP in Japan.

Source: Kotaku

New games? Well, this week Xseed Games released "Brandish: The Dark Revenant" for PSP on US PSN.

Interview of one member from Hacking group DerpTrolling with CNet.

http://www.cnet.com/news/the-gods-of-the-internet/

Quote:The The man behind the curtain

One of the first things he says is that he absolutely cannot offer proof.

This makes a disappointing amount of sense: he is a self-confessed DDoS troll, a member of the infamous group DerpTrolling. Since distributed denial-of-service attacks could be considered a federal crime under US law -- and, indeed, are an offence in many locations around the globe, including the UK and Australia -- he, understandably, won't give a name, location or even rough age. As a corollary, wee have no way of knowing that he is who he says he is.

Wee'll call him Incognito. To talk to him, wee plug into a private chat session from opposite sides of the globe (as indicated by time zones) using an encrypted Chrome add-on.

"I've seen Anonymous at its best," he tells us. "I participated in their major DDoS attacks against Visa and PayPal, although the role DerpTrolling played in those attacks is pretty much unknown. I've seen the rise and fall of LulzSec. So let's just say I am old enough to know how to stay hidden."

One thing is clear from the outset: Incognito believes that what DerpTrolling does is for the good of everyone.

"DerpTrolling as a group shows the world, particularly the gaming community, how big companies and corporations such as Riot or Blizzard only care about money," he explains. "Our methods are forcing big companies and corporations to upgrade their servers and make sure their clients are their top priority."

DerpTrolling has been around since around 2011 or so, and Incognito has been a member since the beginning. Its method of attack, as mentioned above, is DDoS -- overloading servers with external communication requests, rendering the target systems unusable for a period of time. DerpTrolling has attacked several high-profile servers over the years, including those of League of Legends, World of Tanks, EVE Online, DoTA 2, Blizzard, RuneScape and, more recently, Xbox Live and the Nintendo Web store.

Although their actions may appear inscrutably juvenile and unwarranted -- done for, as the saying goes, the lulz -- the team identifies rather strongly with Richard Stallman's assessment of DDoS as a form of protest against what it perceives as a callous disregard for gamers on the part of games publishers.

"A company that doesn't care only for money would make the effort, which includes time and money, to make sure their servers aren't able to be crippled by a simple DDoS attack," Incognito said. "Wee decided to take action because, if wee had the capability to stop corporate greed and wee did nothing, that in itself is a crime. Wee thought DDoS attacks were appropriate because they do not affect customers in a monetary way, unlike leaking data -- although wee are not opposed to leaking data."

Lines in the sand

He is careful to point out that DerpTrolling is against doxxing -- that is, the leaking of information about a specific individual, such as address, phone number, Social Security number, credit card and bank account details -- and swatting, a term for calling the police to the home of said doxxed individual for spurious reasons.

In one of the most famous incidents involving the group, though, one particular individual was doxxed and swatted -- Twitch streamer PhantomL0rd. While DerpTrolling was attacking Battle.net, EA.com, Club Penguin and Riot, it was allegedly because those were games PhantomL0rd was playing. At some point during the DDoS activities, PhantomL0rd was doxxed on several gaming websites -- and then someone called the police to his home, accusing the streamer of holding five people hostage.

Incognito is cagey about the incident, and won't comment on why the group targeted PhantomL0rd or what precisely DerpTrolling did do -- only saying that there is no hard evidence connecting DerpTrolling to the actions. "Yes, Phantoml0rd was doxxed and swatted," he said. "But wee never threatened to harm him physically and wee have never taken credit for that attack."

"Wee decided to take action because, if wee had the capability to stop corporate greed and wee did nothing, that in itself is a crime."
- Incognito

He seems determined to impress that there are lines DerpTrolling won't cross -- that what the group does, it does for the good of all. As an example, he mentions that the group is sitting on what could have been a significant customer data leak.

"Wee are currently in possession of over 800,000 usernames and passwords from the 2K gaming studio. As of right now, our members as a whole have decided that leaking data is not what wee do, and therefore wee will not leak such damaging data," he said, adding that he had contacted 2K to inform the publisher of the vulnerability in its system -- and received no response.

"I personally contacted them over a month ago. I did not send them an anonymous letter, I made sure they understood exactly who I was. And offered plenty of proof."

Unless the data is actually leaked, he believes that gaming companies are unlikely to spend the money to issue a fix. CNET has contacted 2K for comment and will update when wee receive a reply.

Incognito also goes out of his way to dissociate DerpTrolling's activities from those of LizardSquad, the group that claimed responsibility for calling a bomb threat on a plane carrying Sony Online Entertainment president John Smedley.

"I want to make it absolutely clear that DerpTrolling is in no way affiliated with LizardSquad," he said. Although LizardSquad had requested that the two groups work together, DerpTrolling had refused, he said. "LizardSquad is a run by an extremist hacker who has close ties to UGNazi. You could say that the ISISGang is the elite 'leaders' of LizardSquad. Wee have no wish to associate with any individual or group that has ties with such extremists."

ISISGang has been accused of making prank calls that see their targets swatted and posing as Middle Eastern terrorists, while UGNazi is allegedly responsible for several doxxings and data leaks. Incognito seems quite firm that DerpTrolling wishes to commit no actual harm.

The end and the means

DerpTrolling has more up its sleeve. Attacks on Xbox Live and the Nintendo Web store on Saturday, September 28 were "test fire" for "upcoming attacks", Incognito says -- although he won't go into any further detail about that. Nor is it easy to guess who the targets might be. DerpTrolling allows the community to select targets much of the time, Incognito said, via text or tweet.

The fact that sometimes the attacks achieve a result justifies the work in his view; Incognito says that League of Legends and Xbox Live have both upgraded their servers in response to DerpTrolling DDoS attacks -- in spite of negative public opinion.

"Children do not know what is best for them. Wee are basically the Gods of the Internet, wee know what is best for them."
- Incognito

"The public will always have an opinion that is based on what the media feeds them," he says. "Children do not know what is best for them. Wee are basically the Gods of the Internet, wee know what is best for them."

When asked if DDoS is a snake chasing its own tail -- that is, if no one engaged in DDoS attacks, then companies would not have to dedicate resources to protecting against them -- he once again pleads no comment.

There is a condition under which DerpTrolling will cease operations: "If the presidents of Sony and Microsoft will wear a shoe on their heads, then DerpTrolling will disband and wee will not attack any more servers."

As for Incognito himself, wee suspect he might be around for a long time. When asked if he himself would ever hang up his hat, he seems baffled by the question.

"Why would I want to stop?"