Altimit OS from the first .Hack// game series!

First, I'd like to mention that this is NOT a release. Yet.

THANK YOU Zinga and company for reverse engineering a usable topmenu_plugin.rco for 3.30. While I love customizing stuff, I prefer functionality over being able to customize. Since I can now customize my PSP's topmenu, I've begun the area of my XMB theme that has been halted for quite some time. I just finished adding the base topmenu icons.



Now, obviously since I haven't touched the rest of the icons, this isn't quite finished. Also, the reason for the reuse of the triangle (with the original sony icons in small form in the bottom right corner of each) is because I haven't been able to get ALL the icons from Altimit's menu. Only the four used for the .Hack//Liminality DVD menus. I'm hoping these 'placeholders' will eventually get to be replaced with nice, clean captures of ALL the Altimit icons.

I tried using a PS2 emulator in order to screencap the icons from the Altimit desktop, but either the graphics plugin for the emulator, or my Intel graphics card (which isn't exactly designed to support PS2 emulation ;P) displayed them all garbled.

On a side note, I've had a Gameboot of the Blue Altimit 'boot up' screen, an "[Altimit]" cold boot, and Altimit sound scheme since before 3.30 OE-A. =P

If you're wondering why the hell my altimit background is pink like that, I made an altimit background to match each month's color scheme. ;P

PSP-Hacks.com Wrote:PSP-Hacks forum member, Calo, has brought this to my attention. Pass it through Google Translator for a clearer synopsis — here. As of me writing this, the supplied firmware EBOOT on the Korean site is in fact still 3.30; they’ve yet to update it.

So, looks like wee can expect firmware 3.40 very soon, for North America, and other regions. April 19th, perhaps? FIGHT!

Dark_AleX — 16, Sony — 17?

Wow looks like wee will be seeing 3.40 soon, now I went to the play station Korea and looked at the changed list and this is what I got

************************Game************************
• It enjoyed PLAYSTATION�Network tie frames and the function for was strengthened.

• [these sense civil officials] were eliminated.
   [Is indicated information which from this sense civil official] with afterwords it will be able to confirm as a same fabrication.
   After selecting the icon of the game information the reporter [it selects △ buttons information] consecutively from the option menu.

• It enjoyed PLAYSTATION�Network tie frames and the function for was strengthened.
  - [The disk the speed which it reads] was added in the menu.
*********************Network****************************

• [it will be able to indicate the island your day of item from RSS Channel] and.


*********************Video******************************
• It will be able to indicate the island your day of the video which is stored in Memory Stick Duo™ “VIDEO

Maxconsloe.com Wrote:Halo 3 has gotten so big nowadays, there's even a drink for it. Mountain Dew will release a liimited edition of the drink called Game Fuel. The drink has more caffeine than regular Mountain Dew and hopefully none of the side-effects. The cherry Citrus Halo 3 drink will be available this August.

Hmmm a halo 3 mountain dew? called Game Fuel?  cherry Citrus?


- Source: [Maxconsole]

QJ.net Wrote:In case you've forgotten, wee would like to remind you that PSP-Devolution's USB-JTAG Programmer for a lot of NAND FLASH ICs (aka modchip) is finally available. Actually, sales started last April 16 and will end on April 20. The delay was caused by an important improvement involving a 4-layer technology that makes the chip even smaller.

Also, the team behind this creation mentioned that the chip has actually two versions. The first one is a 3.3V version that works for PlayStation Portable (PSP) motherboards TA-079 to TA-081. The other one is a 1.8V version that is compatible to TA-082+ boards. That means TA-086 users are covered too.

Wee've already posted the PSP-Devolution modchip features before but for the benefit of those who missed it, wee listed them down again below.

    * Flash your PSP using the internal USB Port
    * No additional USB Port required
    * Latest ACTEL ProASIC 3 technology
    * NO power consumption
    * Doesn't touch the battery power in any way, powered by USB for the time being used to flash the PSP
    * Pre-assembled hi-tech flex pcb for easiest possible connection to the psp main board
    * Works on all available PSP versions incl. the new TA-082 and TA-086
    * Custom BIOS with a lot of cool additional features

- Source: [QJ.net]

Xilt, a mod for an Xbox 360 controller, will be available in about a week, letting you tilt forward and back or left and right with your wired or wireless Xbox 360 controller using an accelerometer similar to the one in the Nintendo Wii. It's a do-it-yourself kind of thing, and its creator says it takes just 10 to 15 minutes to install its seven wires.

Its hardware and software are created by an Xbox 360 modder who calls himself GreenGiant, who hasn't determined exactly what the price of this modification will be yet, but he says it might range somewhere between $35 and $45. Check out one more graphic, the Advanced View screen of the the Xilt Mod configuration manager, after the jump.


- Source: [Gizmodo]

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Looks like Google is moving faster towards the completion of their Microsoft-office spin-off. After completing the word processor and spreadsheet applications that would serve as their answer to Word and Excel, the internet giant has announced their acquisition of Tonic Systems which will develop a PowerPoint clone.

Google CEO Eric Schmidt insisted on the idea that their suite will not compete with the well-established Microsoft Office set. He didn't make clear, however, whether their product will be built by Google people from the ground up or they'll be buying the applications from smaller development firms.

The latest updates indicate that the Google strategy is right in between buying and building. What it does, essentially, is they don't build the programs themselves but they don't buy them either. What they do instead of buying applications is they buy the development firms and take them under their wing. Therefore, they have foreign people building under their flag.

- Source: [Gadgets]

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2008 is gonna be an interesting year if Intel keeps its promises. You see, on their 2008 roadmap sits a quad-core Penryn mobile processor designed for intense gaming and hardcore power users. Quad-core to go? You better believe it.

Intel's not saying how they plan on achieving this or what kinda battery life these lappies will have, but as long as they don't fry my kneecaps or burst into flames, this will definitely be worth waiting for, even if only for bragging rights.

- Source: [Gizmodo]

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A fifteen-year old boy in America was incarcerated for twelve days, wrongly accused of making a hoax bomb threat - because his school had forgotten that the clocks had gone forward.

Cody Webb was arrested last month, after Hempfield Area High School received a bomb threat on their student hotline – which provides a range of information to students about the school - at 3.17am on March 11th. They believed they'd found the culprit when they traced the phone number they thought was responsible to Webb.

Unfortunately, the school forgot that the clocks had switched to Daylight Saving Time that morning. The time stamps left on the hotline were adjusted by an hour after Day Light Savings causing Webb's call to logged as the same time the bomb threat was placed. Webb, who's never even had a detention in his life, had actually made his call an hour before the bomb threat was placed.

Despite the fact that the recording of the call featured a voice that sounded nothing like Webb's, the police arrested Webb and he spent 12 days in a juvenile detention facility before the school eventually realised their mistake.

Webb gave an insight into the school's impressive investigative techniques, saying that he was ushered in to see the principal, Kathy Charlton. She asked him what his phone number was, and , according to Webb, when he replied 'she started waving her hands in the air and saying “wee got him, wee got him.