Quote:Pentium 4 overclocked to 8GHz: let's see your fancy Core 2 try that

Back in the olden days, before Abraham Lincoln put an end to the megahertz myth -- or was it Theodore Roosevelt, wee always get so confused -- the Pentium 4 ruled the land, with its deep instruction pipeline and PR-friendly xtreem clock speeds. Luckily, Intel wised up and started beefing up the quantity and efficiency of cores instead of just the megahertz, but the megahertz myth still lives on in our hearts, and OC Team Italy keeps that hope alive with its latest achievement: an 8000MHz (8GHz in layman's terms) overclocked Pentium 4. The lucky chip to reach such ridiculous frequencies is a "Cedar Mill" Intel Pentium 4 631, with a standard clock speed of 3GHz. It wasn't just a case of flipping a few pins here and there, the OC folks used a modified ASUS P5B motherboard, with an added copper pipe and a few voltage modifications, along with a little bit of your garden-variety liquid nitrogen to keep it all cool. Golf claps all around, OC, now can you do something to rev up a processor that's actually going to be useful for something? Wait. What's gotten into us? Keep up the good work!

• General:
  • fixed a bug when filer backuped flash image, the last cluster was lost.
    
  • Filer will skip to backup flash image when there is not enough space in MS Duo.
    
  • battery icon blinks when PSP is connected with AC adapter.
    
• Filer:
  • When pasting files from RAMDISK, filer will check free space of device, and will skip pasting if there is not enough space.
    

• PSAR Section 1
  
• PSAR Section 2
  
• TOC (Table of Contents
  
• ISO Indexes
  

00020800h: 41 00 A0 00 00 00 00 01 20 00 01 00 A1 00 00 00 ; A. ..... ...¡...
00020810h: 00 15 00 00 01 00 A2 00 00 00 00 69 59 74 41 00 ; ......¢....iYtA.
00020820h: 01 00 00 00 00 00 02 00 01 00 02 02 42 48 00 02 ; ............BH..
00020830h: 44 48 01 00 03 02 51 18 00 02 53 18 01 00 04 04 ; DH....Q...S.....
00020840h: 06 67 00 04 08 67 01 00 05 05 19 03 00 05 21 03 ; .g...g........!.
00020850h: 01 00 06 08 31 41 00 08 33 41 01 00 07 11 50 10 ; ....1A..3A....P.
00020860h: 00 11 52 10 01 00 08 15 01 54 00 15 03 54 01 00 ; ..R......T...T..
00020870h: 09 18 19 42 00 18 21 42 01 00 10 21 33 41 00 21 ; ...B..!B...!3A.!
00020880h: 35 41 01 00 11 21 43 10 00 21 45 10 01 00 12 24 ; 5A...!C..!E....$
00020890h: 07 34 00 24 09 34 01 00 13 25 04 25 00 25 06 25 ; .4.$.4...%.%.%.%
000208a0h: 01 00 14 26 18 25 00 26 20 25 01 00 15 29 42 38 ; ...&.%.& %...)B8
000208b0h: 00 29 44 38 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ; .)D8............

Sorting it out into 10 byte chunks:

41  00  A0  00 00 00  00  01 20 00   <-- describes the first track
01  00  A1  00 00 00  00  15 00 00   <-- describes the last track
01  00  A2  00 00 00  00  69 59 74   <-- describes the lead-out

41  00  01  00 00 00  00  00 02 00
01  00  02  02 42 48  00  02 44 48
   [...]
01  00  15  29 42 38  00  29 44 38

Note, TOC uses "binary decimal" for various things - that is 0x60 = 60 in "binary decimal".
Okay, here's the breakdown:

41  00  A0  00 00 00  00  01 20 00

Track "A1" - 01(type of last track?)  00  A1  00 00 00  00  Last track number 00 00

01  00  A1  00 00 00  00  15 00 00

Track "A2" - 01  00  A2  00 00 00  00  Length of disc in the same format as normal track entries, MM:SS:FF

01  00  A2  00 00 00  00  69 59 74

ISO Indexes
Each index is 32 bytes long:

Quote:Before you use this application, please take note that it only works through recovery. If you try to run it through the XMB, you will witness your PSP freeze. So beware.

Also, Team tOc added that Flash1 Formatter will only work if "lflash_fatfmt.prx" is located in flash0:/kd. In the event that it is not, the program looks in ms0:/lflash_fatfmt.prx.

There are still a few important details to take note of, so be sure to READ through the README before you do anything. (You do that anyway for EVERY piece of software before you use it, don't you?)

Furthermore, installation and usage is quite easy. After placing the folder in the root of your memory stick, all you have to do is follow the simple steps below. By the way, Team tOc is composed of well known developers EvilSeph, Moca, TUW, Ahadiel and kando.

1. Turn off your PSP
   
2. Turn on your PSP while holding down R to boot into Recovery Mode.
   
3. Scroll to "Run program at /PSP/GAME/RECOVERY/EBOOT.PBP" and press Cross.
   
4. Press tOc (Triangle + Circle + Cross) to unlock the program [this is to force people to read this readme.txt]
   
5. Read the on-screen instructions (can be found in the readme file).
   

Quote: Another rumor goes the path of the Aurora bomber, Crysis 360, and the cure for baldness. If you guys are having too much fun ogling over the PSP2 concept art made by Emre Husmen, look away - as Sony says there is nothing of the sort cooking up.

Sony Computer Entertainment Europe has just announced that "There is no PSP2." in the works, and that rumors circulating about a PSP successor are just that - rumors.

Among other features that the PSP2 would carry was an obscenely large 60GB HDD, a built-in camera function, Bluetooth capabilities, and a cell phone. Of course, there are far more features circulating out there, which carry over our best hopes for the portable. For now, wee resume the daily homebrew grind with the console that's already here.