DiscoStarslayer

🇨🇦 Reverse engineering games software and hardware for preservation and repair.
Git: sky: |at|

[DiscoStarslayer @DiscoStarslayer]

Welcome to my gigathread where I try my best to hack the PSX DVR firmware to run on PCSX2.

I have barely any experience with emulation, this is going to be a rambling unedited thread that might lead nowhere at all.

[DiscoStarslayer @DiscoStarslayer]

Stay tuned as now the real work begins. In the mean time, if anyone is sitting on Konami Python games please reach out, thanks to hard work from
@El_Isra_a
it's easy and cheap to get proper dumps of this hardware now and we are seriously lacking in archived data.

[DiscoStarslayer @DiscoStarslayer]

Big 🧵time! Lets talk about my new friend, the Konami Python. It's kinda the odd duck of the family. The middle child between the Konami Viper and the Konami Python 2. The system was a short lived platform.

[DiscoStarslayer @DiscoStarslayer]

96 straight hours of compiling later, I finally have a modern kernel on this thing with a usable OS 9 dualboot with Linux, and oh boy is it magical. I can finally dump the firewire traffic as I need and have everything in place