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How to tether a iPhone 3.1.2 3Gs – Tethering iPhone 3.1.2

Son Riku — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 09:28:11 +0000

Tethering basically allows you to use your iPhone as a modem in order to share the internet connection with a computer. These steps are for a freshly restored 3gs 3.1.2 iphone. They may work in other cases, but that is what I have tested it on

Step 1:Jailbreak or Unlock your iPhone. I used http://blackra1n.com/ to do this

Step 2:From your iPhone, navigate to http://m.peacefulinsanity.com/Tether.mobileconfig and hit the install button and confirm. This will install the custom IPCC file.

Step 3:Reboot your iPhone.

Step 4:Go to Settings > General > Network > Internet Tethering and turn it on.

If the tethering option doesn’t show up, go to http://help.benm.at/help.php to install the tether profile, then restart

You’re done!

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How to Remove NBA League Pass Restrictions on iPhone

Son Riku — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 09:09:19 +0000

Fix NBA League Pass Restrictions on iPhone app

I borrowed some of the steps from Xsellize and added the section for what to change in your xml file:

With this hack you can lift any blackout restriction of NBA League Pass.

Instructions:

1. uninstall any previous patched version of NBA League Pass

2. delete all the scripts/cells.plist/caches.plist that you have downloaded and installed

3. reinstall NBA league pass from the bottom of this thread. DO NOT open NBA League Pass yet.

4. Go to Cydia or Rock and add our source http://freedomforiphone.com/Documents. Then download the League Pass Fix.

5. Launch NBA League Pass app and you will see everything is blackout, don’t worry just quit the app for now

6. Use iFile/ssh/WinScp to locate the folder/directory “Documents” under NBA League Pass.app, I would strongly suggest using iFile because it’s the easiest.
The folder is located at var/mobile/Applications/League Pass folder.

8. You will see a plist file inside the Documents folder, open and edit it:

Remove
Edit the Zip code to a location you want to fake

< ?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
< !DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">

Latitude
61.222463000000002
Longitude
-149.867694000000006
ZipCode
99501
Save and quit

9. relaunch NBA League Pass and you should have a fully functional app !

Enjoy! It wont affect map or other location service based apps, and you can even have location service turned off.
And all credit to msft.guy, we all owe him a big one as this is custom made for us.
Mad props to msft.guy from FreedomforiPhone Blog, this shit works y’all. Get it.

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How-To: Run 5.55 and 6.00 PSP games on 5.50 Custom Firmware

MindysGrandson — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:04:11 +0000

Every once in a while when Sony releases a new PSP firmware to block modded PSPs from running new games or homebrew apps, the PSP modding scene beats it into submission. Though this time the release of CFW has slowed down considerably.

Anyone who might be trying to run new games releases are blocked from doing so because those new releases require either 5.55 or 6.00 firmware to launch. Since the latest custom firmware only goes up to version 5.50 (5.50 gen b-2) we’re going to decrypt those game images rather than updating our custom firmware. Note that this method is not a long term solution since Sony can easy block this method. Also, not all games can be decrypted.

To start, we will need a PSP with 5.50 gen b-2 installed (see one of our other How-To guides to see how to install a cfw). We will also need the following softwares:

UMDgen 4.00

Yoshihiro’s PSP Games Decrypter

Lets get started!

1. Open the Yoshihiro’s game decrypter archive we just downloaded and copy the folder named ‘GameZDecryptZ’ into the “X:\PSP\GAME\” folder, so it looks like “X:\PSP\GAME\GameZDecryptZ\”

2. Open up the desirable ISO with UMDgen

3. In UMDgen, go to to file->file list->export and save ‘filelist.txt’ into any directory on your computer. Don’t worry about it for now, we will need it later to rebuild the ISO.

4. Copy the file PSP_GAME\SYS_DIR\EBOOT.bin into the root of your PSP memory stick, so it looks like PSP:\EBOOT.bin

5. Go to PSP XMB menu>Games>Memory Stick>Games Decrypter Yoshihiro and run the app

6. Press X when prompted (again, decryption may fail for some games such as ‘Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2‘)

7. Connect the PSP to the PC again and there will be a folder named ‘DECRYPTOR’ in the root of our memory stick. The folder will contain the decrypted EBOOT.bin that we need.

8. Drag it into the UMD directory PSP_GAME\SYS_DIR\ and replace the original EBOOT.bin (don’t worry about the filesize being similar)

9. Now we’re going to rebuild the ISO. Go to file->filelist->import and choose the filelist.txt that we saved in step 3

10. Press ‘yes’ at the prompt

11. In UMDgen go to file->save as->uncompressed iso (actually doesn’t really matter which format we choose)

12. Copy the new ISO into your PSP:\iso\ and play!

How to Skype on iPhone over 3G Network

adm_snackbar — Wed, 06 May 2009 17:03:00 +0000

Skype for the iPhone was a highly anticipated app recently released in the Apple App Store. Disappointingly, it did not allow use over the more prevalent 3G network, limiting itself to wifi only even though 3G had the necessary throughput for it. Apple claimed this restriction was imposed simply because it was a carrier-dependent decision since transferring data over the 3G could be costly for carriers (yeah right).

To remove this restriction yourself, you need to first jailbreak your iPhone. Once that’s done, it’s a simple matter of installing from Cydia the “voipover3g” app. That’s it, simple as that. Note that this works for other VOIP programs as well, not just Skype.

Wii Hard Drive Hack: Load Wii Games Off a Hard Drive

adm_snackbar — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:07:00 +0000

Nintendo’s system menu 4.0 update provided a long-awaited storage solution in the form of SDHC support up to 32GB. Whoopee. Now we’ll tell you how you can actually load Wii game backups off a hard drive with this Wii hard drive hack for a real storage solution. Taking advantage of Nintendo’s 4.0 update support a costly solution since you are required to buy pricey SDHC cards, and it’s limited in size as well. With the Wii hard drive hack we’re about to discuss, you can load games off any USB hard drive with much higher storage capacities. Expensive 32GB flash? Psh, try cheap 320GB HDD. And not only that, if you’ve got any USB stick pen drives lying around, they will work just as well. Plus to top it all off, you will see a huge performance benefit as your games will load much faster as they’re being read off the hard drive compared to the slower DVD disc drive.

First of all, let’s list the hardware requirements for the Wii hard drive hack:

Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess (if you don’t have Wii Homebrew Channel)
SD card
USB hard drive
Wii system menu 3.3 (3.4 and 4.0 were untested as our Wiis did not have these installed, but anything 3.3 and prior should work)
Wii mod chip

And now, here are the much anticipated steps:

Install the Wii Homebrew Channel. If you don’t already have the Wii Homebrew Channel manager installed, you’re doing yourself a great disservice. It’s an absolute must for running great user-contributed homebrew apps on your Wii. If you’ve already got it installed, you can skip ahead to step 11. Otherwise to install it you’ll need to use the Twilight Princess hack. This means you need to have played Twilight Princess at least once on your Wii and had a game saved.
Format an SD card to FAT16 or FAT32.
Pick the proper game save to load based on the Twilight Princess version you played. More details can be found in our Twilight Princess hack guide.
If it does not already exist, make a directory called “/private/wii/title/RZDx/” on your SD card; replace “RZDx” with RZDE (US), RZDP (Europe) or RZDJ (Japan) as appropriate based on the inner circle text which varies depending on the version of Twilight Princess you played. Copy the correct “data.bin” file you chose from the hacked Twilight Princess gamesave package with the matching directory path into the directory you created on your SD card.
Copy the Wii Homebrew Channel hbc101-boot-dol.zip file to the root folder of the SD card (note that this is for 3.3 menu update and earlier, other versions can be found here). Extract the file which should be named boot.dol. You can delete the .zip package after you extract the boot.dol file.
Now, put the SD card into your Wii and turn it on. Go into Wii Options –> Data Management –> Save Data –> Wii.
Find your Zelda save, click on it, and click “Erase”, and click Yes.
Now, go into SD card, and select the “Twilight Hack” save (the icon says “Wiibrew Loader”). Click copy, and yes. Now, go back out of that menu.
Insert Zelda, and run the game. Load the file corresponding to the correct save slot as indicated in the table here (US only), and either walk backwards, or talk to the guy that’s standing in front of you. Worst case you picked the wrong file and try the other one.
Now the Wii Homebrew Channel will install itself as its own channel in your Wii menu. Follow the prompts to complete the install. You can delete the boot.dol from your SD card now.
Download Waninkoko’s custom IOS36-rev10 installer.
Create a directory "/apps/cios36r10" on your SD card.
Extract the cIOS36 zip to a directory. Grab the cIOS36_rev10-Installer.dol file and copy it to the "/apps/cios36r10" on your SD card.
In the "/apps/cios36r10" folder on your SD card, rename cIOS36_rev10-Installer.dol to boot.dol.
If your Wii has a network connection to the Internet, you can skip this step. Otherwise, download the IOS36-64-v1042.wad file and save it to the root of the SD card. You will have the option to install this later.
Now create a directory "/apps/usbloader" on your SD card.
Download WiiShizzza’s USB Loader Ultimate v7 homebrew to "/apps/usbloader" on your SD card.
In the "/apps/usbloader" folder on your SD card, rename UltimateV7.dol to boot.dol. For extra credit, you can read up on how to set up a config.txt for the USB loader, or else just use ours. Yes the screenshot’s directory name doesn’t match up, but we’ve changed the folder name in case you wish to go the extra mile and install the USB loader wad which is hard coded to look in the usbloader directory. WAD installation is covered in our Animal Crossing/WiiKey guide from step 13 onward.
Insert the SD card into your Wii’s SD slot and turn it on. Then open the Wii Homebrew Channel and start it.
The homebrew channel detects any homebrew you’ve saved to the SD card. Load the cIOS36-rev10 installer by clicking on it.
At the prompt, click “Load” to run the cIOS36 installer.
You’ll hear some cool music. Read the disclaimer carefully, and if you agree press the A button on your Wii remote.
At the next screen, choose whether you wish to perform a network install or not by pressing left or right. Then press A to continue.
As the install commences, do not panic if the music stops. Once the install completes (about 2 minutes), restart by pressing any button.
Now let’s test if the USB loader homebrew will work correctly. Load it from the Homebrew Channel.
If the install went through correctly, you should see this:

Now your Wii is ready to load games off the USB port in the back. Getting games onto the USB hard drive is a whole other process. You will need to have Wii game disc ISO backups available if you wish to play them off the Wii hard drive.

Download WBFS Manager 2.2.2 (other editions available here). Believe us, it’s the best WBFS game hard drive manager we’ve tried and we’ve tried a lot.
Extract the zip to a folder and open it. Double click setup.exe to install it. Note that it will install Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 if you don’t already have it installed.
Connect your USB hard drive or USB stick to your computer. Note the drive letter that Windows assigns it.
Now launch WBFS Manager. Select the drive letter of your soon to be Wii hard drive and click the “Format” button.
At the lower right of WBFS Manager, click the “Browse…” button and browse to a valid Wii ISO file.
Then also on the lower right, click the “Add to Drive” button and it will begin copying the ISO file over to the Wii hard drive.
Even if your Wii ISO’s are full 4.7GB images, the WBFS manager is smart enough to strip out the empty unused bits so many games will actually be less than 4GB. Keep repeating steps 5 and 6 until you’ve loaded as many ISO game backups as you wish. Keep your eye on the free space of your hard drive though.
Your Wii hard drive is now ready to be used. Load the USB Loader homebrew and when it displays “Waiting for USB device,” connect your new Wii hard drive and the USB loader will show all the games you’ve copied to your Wii hard drive in the menu. To play any game, just press the A button on your Wii remote.

Now you can play any game as if it had been inserted through the DVD disc drive except with better load times.

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How to Import Rock Band Songs into Rock Band 2 with Export Key (PS3)

adm_snackbar — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:45:13 +0000

If you own Rock Band 2, you may be keenly interested knowing how to import Rock Band songs into Rock Band 2 so that you can effectively double the number of songs to play. We personally find the original Rock Band songs a little more “accessible,” meaning there are more songs in the original that are familiar than in the sequel so if you just jumped straight into Rock Band 2, so do yourself a favor and import the original game songs. The trick is having a Rock Band 1 game disc available and buying something called an export key from the PSN (PlayStation Network) store. The process isn’t clearly documented anywhere, and game forums telling you “just get the export key” are vague and mysterious so we’re documenting the step by step instructions for PS3 with screenshots on how to import Rock Band songs into Rock Band 2.

To export songs from Rock Band you are required to possess the actual game disc, so borrow it from a friend, go out and rent the game from a video game store somewhere, or just buy it used off eBay and turn around and sell it after you’ve completed these steps for the export.

Log in to your PSN account and launch the PlayStation Store from XMB. Move the cursor down to the “Add-Ons” section and click it.
Click on the controller-and-disc icon (first one) to view disc-based game add-ons.
Navigate among the games and look for “Rock Band.”
Navigate to the last option past all the tracks to the “Song Export Key.”
Once you click it, you will be prompted to purchase it for $4.99, a small price to pay for all the great Rock Band 1 songs (minus a few you probably won’t miss due to licensing issues).
After purchasing, downloading, and installing the Rock Band song export key, insert the Rock Band 1 game disc. When the game loads, you will now see an additional option (under “Options”) that was not there before: “Export Songs.” Clicking on this will cause the game to dump all the Rock Band songs to your hard drive where you will be able to access them from Rock Band 2 similar to downloaded songs.

After exporting Rock Band songs to your hard drive, swap out the original game disc for Rock Band 2 and wave goodbye. You will no longer need the Rock Band 1 disc anymore so return it to your friend, return it to the video game store, or cash out and sell it on eBay for a decent price ($20 returns seem to be average).

How to Jailbreak iPod Touch 2G 2.2.1 (Untethered & No Custom Boot Logo)

adm_snackbar — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 18:40:13 +0000

Thanks to the advances made by the iPhone Dev Team, the iPod Touch 2G is finally jailbreak-able without requiring tethering to your computer or fiddling with boot modes. This is an unofficial redsn0w release for 2.2.1 firmware as the Pwnage and QuickPwn tools haven’t yet incorporated this unlock into the tool flow just yet, but eager iPod Touch owners who don’t want to wait can follow these relatively simple instructions to jailbreak and untether your iPod Touch 2G on 2.2.1 firmware.

Restore your iPod Touch to its pristine factory state.
Windows users can download and install the libusb and c++ redistributable if you don’t have them already (password is “coderetard”).
Download the unofficialsn0w 2.0 package and unzip it somewhere (password is “coderetard”).
Download the iPod Touch 2G 2.2.1 ipsw firmware to the /IPSW folder where you unzipped the unofficialsn0w package.
Rename the file iPod2,1_2.2.1_5H11a_Restore.ipsw to OriginalFW.ipsw in the /IPSW folder.
Run the IPSW.bat script by double clicking it (this process may take a while). This is going to attempt to create a custom jailbroken firmware for you in the /IPSW folder. Make sure you renamed the .ipsw correctly in step 5 or this step will fail.
In the /IPSW folder, open jb.ipsw by right-clicking with your favorite zip package explorer like WinRAR or 7-zip and browse in the ipsw file to /Firmware/all_flash/all_flash.n72ap.production.
Delete the LLB.n72ap.RELEASE.img3 file in there and replace it with the one in the /IPSW folder. If you’re using WinRAR, this is just a drag and drop from the /IPSW folder into the WinRAR window.
As an alternative manual process to steps 7-8, you can try to add a .zip to the JB.ipsw file so that it is JB.ipsw.zip. Then extract the contents, replace the LLB file, and zip it back up. Then rename the zip back to JB.ipsw. We haven’t tried this to verify it will work, but it’s worth a shot if you don’t want to install WinRAR or 7-zip.
Make sure your iPod Touch 2G is plugged into your computer yet via the USB cable. Then put it into DFU mode by pressing and holding the power and home buttons for 10 seconds. After 10 seconds release the power button but continue to hold home until your computer beeps and detects a DFU recovery device.
Run RUNME.exe located in the root folder of the unofficialsn0w package.
Launch iTunes and shift-click restore to get the browse window for firmware to install. Direct it to your modified JB.ipsw file and you’re done.

After you follow these steps, you will no longer be required to tether your iPod to your computer if you wish to jailbreak it.

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StarCraft Running on PS3

adm_snackbar — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:40:41 +0000

Think this is impressive? Want to play StarCraft on your PS3 as well? It’s definitely possible. The requirements? You need to take advantage of your PS3’s little known capability to run Linux. Linux you ask? Yes, because that’s the only way to run Windows. Since StarCraft came out way back in the day when Windows 95 was king, that’s all you need to install on top of Linux through an emulation layer. Fortunately, the PS3 has enough horsepower to run Windows 95, even via software emulation, so StarCraft is actually playable. Just imagine it, playing StarCraft on your big screen TV!

The steps to running Windows on your PS3 are a little bit involved, but we have step by step guides for you. Follow our guide on how to install Linux on your PS3. Then follow our guide on how to install Windows XP on your PS3 or Vista, except replace XP/Vista with Windows 95. Unlike Vista, Windows 95 is actually usable so StarCraft is playable.

After you’ve got Windows 95 running on an emulation on top of Linux, you can then install StarCraft on it.

Compare Directories and File Content in Linux without Dircmp

adm_snackbar — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 20:28:35 +0000

Dircmp is a great Linux tool that allows users to compare the directory contents of two similar directories in order to spot differences in between subdirectory structures or file content. However, dircmp is not a luxury afforded by all Linux distributions. CentOS, for example, does not include the dircmp tool and the source code is not easily available. Plus even if it was, who would want to spend time to build it when you can do the exact same thing with your trusty friend: diff.

Yes you heard right, diff isn’t just for files anymore. In fact, it’s quite useful to compare directory contents if you use it correctly. The important diff options to be aware of are:

–brief: This will not print out the actual differences between files as this level of detail is not necessary in a directory compare. Instead, brief merely points out the fact that there is a difference.
-r: This will recursively execute the diff so that you get a thorough comparison between the two directories

The full usage for dircmp with diff is:

% diff –brief –r dir1 dir2

As an example, let’s take two directories literally named dir1 and dir2. These are their file structures, starting with dir1:

dir1: total 20 drwxrwxr-x 2 user user 4096 Feb 17 11:53 dir3 drwxrwxr-x 2 user user 4096 Feb 17 11:49 dir4 -rw-rw-r-- 1 user user 16 Feb 17 11:49 fileA.txt -rw-rw-r-- 1 user user 460 Feb 17 11:50 fileB.txt -rw-rw-r-- 1 user user 338 Feb 17 11:51 fileC.txt


dir1/dir3:     
total 4     
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user user 0 Feb 17 11:52 fileD.dat     
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user user 2 Feb 17 11:53 fileE.dat

dir1/dir4: total 0

Here is dir2:

dir1: total 20 drwxrwxr-x 2 user user 4096 Feb 17 11:53 dir3 -rw-rw-r-- 1 user user 96 Feb 17 11:49 fileA.txt -rw-rw-r-- 1 user user 460 Feb 17 11:50 fileB.txt -rw-rw-r-- 1 user user 338 Feb 17 11:51 fileC.txt

dir1/dir3: total 4 -rw-rw-r-- 1 user user 0 Feb 17 11:52 fileD.dat -rw-rw-r-- 1 user user 0 Feb 17 11:53 fileE.dat

To sum up, dir1 contains dir4 which is not in dir2. Also the files fileA.txt and fileE.dat are different. Here is the result of the “dircmp” using the diff command:

Files dir1/dir3/fileE.dat and dir2/dir3/fileE.dat differ Only in dir1: dir4 Files dir1/fileA.txt and dir2/fileA.txt differ

And there we have the results exactly as we have expect. The file fileE.at is different, dir4 only exists in dir1, and fileA.txt is different. The results of this output is more than sufficient to give a clear picture of the differences between two directories without resorting to dircmp.

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How to Download Killzone 2 Demo

MindysGrandson — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 15:43:00 +0000

Guerrilla striked a deal with gamespot that gave them exclusive Killzone 2 demos to give out to those who preordered the game. The rest of the people who did not preorder the game will have to wait until release date (2/26). The only way for those in the America to play the demo early is to make a PSN account that belongs to a different region. Simply go to the UK PSN page and make an UK account. Log into your UK account on the PS3, and the Killzone 2 demo should be on the download list. Enjoy!