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The ScummVM Team is pleased to announce ScummVM 1.4.1, a maintenance only release that fixes several bugs in 1.4.0.
The most notable changes in this release are:

• Support for the Beneath a Steel Sky Enhanced Soundtrack by James Woodcock
• Slight graphical improvement for the PlayStation version of Broken Sword 2
• Several bugfixes for Lands of Lore
• More logical sound settings for SCI games
• A fixed crash in the VGA version of Quest for Glory 1

Source: http://www.scummvm.org/
Download link at their site: http://www.scummvm.org/downloads/?p=downloads

PlayStation 3 developer PS3Hen has released some updates regarding his Hybrid Firmware 4.0. This firmware mod requires a hardware flasher as well as a PlayStation 3 that is on custom firmware 3.55. With this release you will need to patch the firmware yourself with instructions below. Changes include the XMBFM ported by PS3Hen, released by DeViL303, PS2 game disk recognition and icon changes.

To Quote:

How to install the 3.2 Update Patch:

1. Install PS3MFW Builder v0.2.1
2. Copy the ‘change_xml_files.tcl’ file to the ‘task’ folder of PS3MFW Builder
3. Put my “modded FW 4.00(releasev2).PUP” as the “Original fw” and whatever you want as the “Modified fw”
4. Uncheck every thing except “PS3HEN’s 4.00HFW Patch 1″
5. In “PS3HEN’s 4.00HFW Patch 1″ link each file on the task page to the ones in the “Dev_flash files to be patched” folder in this package
6. Select “Build MFW”

Download: PS3 4.00 HFW v2.5

Download link for custom Showtime®.pkg – http://www.mediafire.com/?8d7ftjm3q33ne2t

The things you will need:

PAMF Tools – http://www.mediafire.com/?afngnyklhdrp4ww

A 1920×1080 video file encoded with one of these codecs YUY2, UYVY, RGB24, Huff-YUV and DV-AVI type1/type2

To start install PAMFTools then open up the PS3StreamComposer and create a new project by clicking new or Ctrl+N. Name your project then click next.

On thext screen we use the default settings so just click next. Now we want to add a video to the project so click Video Source from the top toolbar and then open up the video you want.

Also highlight your clip to make sure the codec matches.

Next we need to re-size the video to 320×176 to do this click Filter Settings from the top tool bar then click setting… in the size section. Change the width to 320, the height to 176 and add black bottom to 0. Click update then ok.

Click ok to finish with filter settings. Now we need to adjust some settings so the PS3 reads the file correctly so click video enc setting on the top toolbar then adjust the settings to match these

Click advanced to change some more settings that match these (don’t forget the Entropy Coding it’s important)

Click ok to finish with video enc settings. We are ready to run the program but first we need to check/tick Create EP Map. To do this go to run in the menu bar and click Create EP Map (again really important to this process).

Now we just go to run and click Encode + Multipex + PAMF compose.

Once completed the .pam file will be loacated in your Documents directory folder like this C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\Documents\PLAYSTATION(R)3 Stream Composer\MuxWork\YOURPROJECTNAME\YOURCLIPNAME\

You can open your .pam video with the PS3StreamViewer to see the result. To use it on the PS3 simply re-name to ICON1.PAM and ftp(dev_blind not needed) into the homebrew/game/gamedata/savedata of your chioce (same folder as PARAM.SFO/ICON0.PNG). You can always make a package to install the ICON1.PAM if you know how.

Limitations

There is a 2.4MB limitation for ICON1.PAM. If you are using SND0.AT3 also this will be included with the 2.4MB limit. The simple equasion is ICON1.PAM + SND0.AT3 = 2.4MB limit.

There is a way to make the ICON1.PAM file size smaller without changing the video clip being used. You do this by lowering the value of the average and peak bitrate in the Video Enc Setting.

You can only use ICON1.PAM in the game category.

Have fun and enjoy making custom video icon files for homebrew and of course your backed up games.

Nathanr3269 has released an update for Dev_Flash/PlayStation 3 PUP spoofer. He has added spoofer_pup_repack.exe to his list of tools which creates a spoofed PUP file ready to be installed.

./spoofer_pup_repack.exe 06.4000 99999

./spoofer_pup_repack.exe 09.4000 12345 --> OK!
./spoofer_pup_repack.exe 06.4500 88888 --> OK!
./spoofer_pup_repack.exe 09.4000 1234 --> WRONG!
./spoofer_pup_repack.exe 09.40 12345 --> WRONG!

Download: PS3 PUP/Dev_Flash File Spoofer v4 Tool

Changelog:
1.50.1-SB61:

• Switched from using Git source back to SVN
• Synchronised with official r1024 from r1014,
  Changelog:
  • Updated MediaInfo for Windows and OS X to 0.7.53 from 0.7.52
  • Updated MPlayer and MEncoder for OSX to SB22, in sync with the Windows version.
  • Updated MPlayer and MEncoder to SB22 (Changelog: MPlayer & MEncoder SB22 released « Spirton)
  • Updated MPlayer and MEncoder for OSX to SB21, in sync with the Windows version.
  • Updated MPlayer and MEncoder to SB21 (Changelog: MPlayer & MEncoder SB21 released « Spirton)
  • Updated MPlayer and MEncoder for OSX to SB20 (Changelog: MPlayer & MEncoder SB20 released « Spirton)
  • Updated FFmpeg for OSX to 0.9.1
  • Increment year
  • Updated FFmpeg to r35509 from r31564
  • Try to fix tsMuxeR with newer FFmpeg versions based on FFmpeg #898 comment (https://ffmpeg.org/trac/ffmpeg/ticket/898)
• Updated to latest versions of libraries (codec, jdom, logback and slf4j)

Download: Windows
Download: Linux

04.00.01

• Added new display mode (Board 5x4x5), replacing the oldest “Game list (plain)” mod
• “Board” display mode shows ICON0.PNG game images by default.
• You can use covers by changing the option “XMMB Game Icon Swap” in Settings
• Improved File Manager visuals when used in SD resolution (480p/576p)
• Fixed an issue, which prevented operation on CFW/MFW 3.41 when Cobra USB is not used
• Added support for showing PSN titles in all display modes from internal/external HDD (PSN titles cannot be loaded and you have to put empty RELOAD.SELF in game’s USRDIR folder to make it show!) (requested)
• Added lastGAME2 and bdRESET applications
• Added 11 new themes to the theme download section (total of 14 now)
• Updated 15 language files
• Added separate background images for Board and XBDM display modes (PSVBG.JPG and XBDBG.JPG)
• Updated mmCM Original Theme (includes new images PSVBG.JPG, XBDBG.JPG, PBOX0.PNG, PBOX1.PNG)
• Preparations to support loading of network PS3, DVD and Blu-ray ISO files
• Preparations to support firmware version spoofer (auto-spoofing to latest official FW or to user-defined fixed version)
• Required Cobra USB update will be announced when network ISO and firmware spoof support is available

Remember all the recent v4 releases of ‘mmCM’ will work also on Sony PS3 Consoles running v3.55 CFW or with the ‘True Blue’ device.

Official Off-Site Download Link: –> mmCM ver 04.00.01 BASE (20120126).rar (30.08mb) via Sendspace

Shaitan has shared with everyone an easy way to change between CFWs, OFWs, and MFWs on your Jailbroken PS3 consoles; a new way that does not require a USB device in order to install the firmware of your choice. I will let him explain the rest.

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Hi guys, I’m always looking for ways to make my PS3 experience easier so this was awesome. It’s nothing special but I’m constantly needing to change firmwares like many of you so I thought I’d share it.

To do this it’s best to use QA Flag Extra since most firmwares can not enable “System Update Debug”.

1. Enable QA Flag Extra and go to the debug settings and enable “System Update Debug”
2. Use Multiman’s file manager(or other) and create a folder in /dev_hdd0 called “updater”, so it’s /dev_hdd0/updater/
3. Create folders in that directory for the firmwares called 01, 02, 03, ect.(Dont miss a number or it will error).
4. Copy whichever PS3UPDAT.PUP into one of those folders and……..
5. Rename it to whatever you want, you dont even need the .PUP at the end.
6. Go to System Update then Update via Hard Disk and it should look something like this:

P.S. Updates take only 3 minutes with this!

PS3 developer Deank has released Showtime Media Player version 3.4.000 for multiMAN.

Using multiMAN version 02.05.00 and above you can update Showtime within multiMAN or by deleting showtime.self from the USRDIR directory. Once done just play a video and Showtime will prompt you to update.

Version 3.4.000.dirty (January 25th, 2012)

Click Here to view what has been added and fixed.

Andreas Öman is the creator of Showtime Media Player. Showtime for multiMAN is compiled by Deank.

Download: Showtime v3.4.000 (multiMAN)

Spoofer v1.2
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* What does this program?
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- Find values of version and Image version on version.txt file
- Find values of version and Image version on vsh.self file
- Modify original values for you prefered
- Creates index.dat
- Rebuild self file

Put your vhs.self and version.txt files on folder where spoofer.exe is and put Version and Image Version you wish to spoof

*************************************************************************
***** CAUTION! ONLY USE FILES OF CFW YOU HAVE INSTALLED ON YOUR PS3 *****
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Spoofer v1.2″
By Evilnat”

Usage: spoofer.exe [FW VERSION] [IMAGE VERSION]”
Example: $0 04.5500 60917″
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It will retrieve info about version and image, decrypt self file, create index.dat and rebuild self file

Finally copy those three files to your PS3

***** If you do something wrong you will see red screen on your tv, if that happend re-install your CFW on Recovery Menu *****

Regards
- Evilnat