For those interested in the web browser

DreamservVMU · Post by **DreamservVMU** » Mon Sep 30, 2002 7:52 pm

well as for links,i would suggest krypts site right off,he was a major part in just making the custom cds boot correctly.

Dont like the group owner very much,but it has most of what any dc browser user could need using the import browsers and planetweb.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dreamcastbrowsers

And finally my freinds vmu browser related site Dreamserv. It has many things for a browser user.

http://kefka.hypermart.net/forums

Was gonna add my dc site,but Im debating on whether to re-open it redesigned or just move on to something non-dc related.

Ive been playing with a very old OS windows 3x,doing all kinds of dasterdly deeds to it..even got it running with a win98 GUI...heh..

anyone playing around with win 3x can get a few things here...its where im decidng what to do with my old dc browser site.

http://pwo_4life.tripod.com/

fatheadpi · Post by **fatheadpi** » Tue Oct 01, 2002 9:06 am

Just a little progress update.

I've got my layout of files and test files done for my first ultra big test disc, as well as the ginsu.ini file. I'm testing many emulators, unscrambled and scrambled/binhacked. I want to see if this will do anything. Also making sure DP3 will launch. I still have to generate the Launcher Codes for DP3, create a fresh set of html files, and get the files properly binhacked. Hope to have this done soon.

fatheadpi · Post by **fatheadpi** » Wed Oct 02, 2002 10:54 pm

Alright, just tried a disc. Scrambling and / or binhacking is definitely NOT going to unlock the GD-ROM drive under planet web. Now I have to try this all over again under DP3 with the Launcher commands.

On a side note, I don't know if this has been discovered yet, but you can self boot the browser with multiple cdda tracks. Beats the hell out of trying to dummy up a cd, once I release a good plainfiles kit, I think this owuld be useful.

Back to the mine...

fatheadpi · Post by **fatheadpi** » Sun Oct 06, 2002 11:26 pm

Hey everybody, got bad news.

I haven't been around much lately, I know. Today I went to reinstall windows on my computer. I backed up everything onto my second hard drive, and went through the usual delete partition / reformat / reinstall bit. Much to my joy, when I restarted, and Windows 98 reappeared for the first time, I discovered that the install procedure had been kind enough to destroy every single peice of information I had on BOTH DRIVES. All my music, porn and movies are gone, but more importantly, everything I have put together thus far for the DC, and about 4 hours of techno music me and a friend recorded that I had just begun cutting into tracks. At the moment, I have nothing. I'm feeling especially burnt out, and have a certain sense of loathing for these boards anymore, so this might be the end of me here, we'll see.

I don't know that I'll be missed if I do hang it up, I don't really think I've contributed much to the scene anyways. Krypt has a guide on his reverse engineering site about how to make your own combo browser disc, I think the link has been posted here a few times. No point in posting this in the staff forum either.

Here's what I've been able to figure out with the browser:

1. We cannot now, and probably never will be able to, launch apps from planet web (well, emulators and players anyways).

2. Sofdec playback is pretty good, but you will have to play the movies under DP3.

3. ADX sounds alright, but you're better off converting it into mp3's and shoving it onto a nice To11 or DreamMP3 disc.

Once I get all my self boot tools back, I might continue on with the browser, but for right now, I've got way too much to do just to get back to where I need to be, and I'm on dial up, so this is really going to suck. There's a lot of my life over the last two years that's toast, and as I'm pretty friggin pissed, I'm calling it quits for the night.

pavelbure · Post by **pavelbure** » Sun Oct 06, 2002 11:54 pm

i know that stinks. didnt you back anything up to a cd ?

ps. dont leave. i need somebody with the right wing view like me when the political debates come up.

fatheadpi · Post by **fatheadpi** » Mon Oct 07, 2002 9:33 am

It's morning and the situation is looking better.

I'm about half way through a full windows update. My modem is chugging down surprisingly more bandwidth than normal, about 9.5 megs an hour. Not bad, considering it used to be doing good at about 7. As soon as I get all the windows updates and my norton reinstalled, I'll be downloading drivers like a friggin madman, already have a few.

In about two weeks, I should be back to a full windows setup with all my video and audio editing tools. After that, I should be able to rip my old demomenu and planetweb?dreampassport discs and get back on track. I'm all but done with PlanetWeb, only one or two more things I want to see if it will do. After that, it's on to DreamPassport.

Still pretty pissed though. Might ask someone in the staff forum to change my name from DCEmu Private Dick to DCEmu Burnout.

And nobody ask me about backing things up. It's a long list of shenanigans, and Bill Gates just made my list, along with Nero. I still hate DiscJuggler so much more, though.

What I really need, though, is someone who knows how to either selfboot and dummy Marcus's old ip uploader, or someone who knows how to make it boot on like DemoMenu, etc.

bizzle · Post by **bizzle** » Mon Oct 07, 2002 5:50 pm

i am very interested in a webbrowser. i cant wait for it.

Slamoid · Post by **Slamoid** » Mon Oct 07, 2002 9:33 pm

SWEET!!

PLEASE make it compatible with BoyCott Advance!!!!! PLEASE!!
That would be SOOO SWEET!!!
Then again, there's always RuneScape Java

I say this is incredibly kewl. GO GUYS!!

Will it have Flash ability? How about PSX FMV's?

THE POSSIBILITIES!!

DreamservVMU · Post by **DreamservVMU** » Mon Oct 07, 2002 10:16 pm

uhhh...psx fmv?

and boycott?

hmm...highly doubt it.

to me,the planetweb/isao browsers are not good enough for anything useful. ive custyomized the hell out of them and minor changes is all that can be accomplished with them.

we need the browser thats on dclinux running 56k..with multimedia support. now that the 56k modem stuff may be worked out..we can finally say goodbye to the inferior products of these two
companies.

fatheadpi · Post by **fatheadpi** » Tue Oct 08, 2002 3:11 pm

The FMV's are doable if they are prerecorded. I say this because, as memory serves, FMV's are usually just crappy MPEG movies. Don't really know tho, as I was never a very big RPG fan.

System is almost 100% set up, next I will begin acquiring all of my digital editing gear. There's so much stuff that's gonan be a bitch to find. Like my Dreamrip kit, I'd just finished reencoding all the tony hawk 2 vids to divx and all the music from tony hawk two and the good stuff of sonic adventure into mp3's. Also have to find all my adx tools again, that's really going to suck. Once I get my self boot kit rebuilt, we'll see what's going to happen.

az_bont · Post by **az_bont** » Wed Oct 09, 2002 3:34 am

fatheadpi wrote:The FMV's are doable if they are prerecorded. I say this because, as memory serves, FMV's are usually just crappy MPEG movies. Don't really know tho, as I was never a very big RPG fan.

Have you ever played Final Fantasy VII-X? They are definatly NOT just crappy MPEG movies.

fatheadpi · Post by **fatheadpi** » Sat Oct 12, 2002 10:36 pm

No AZ, I haven't. I get ultra pissed at rpg's. By the way, nice new sig, I dig it.

Anyways, I'm back to full computer status, downloading all my little bastard web editing tools and the PW browser. I'll see what happens tonight.

az_bont · Post by **az_bont** » Sun Oct 13, 2002 6:12 am

fatheadpi wrote:By the way, nice new sig, I dig it.

Thanks!

fatheadpi wrote:Anyways, I'm back to full computer status, downloading all my little fancy pants web editing tools and the PW browser. I'll see what happens tonight.

Good luck! I'd love to see how this all turns out.

fatheadpi · Post by **fatheadpi** » Wed Oct 16, 2002 9:40 am

Well kids, looks like uncle Fathead's back in the scene, thanks to my newest form of crack biscuits, aka DC Hakker. Thanks a lot Zac, I almost kicked my menu loader addiction. You and your never ending efforts at DC Homebrew. Bastard.

Anyways, my current accomplishment of the week is that I have the Utopia Boot CD files nabbed and launching from DemoMenu (thanks for the info Krypt) and DC Hakker, and I have DC Hakker and DemoMenu launching each other. This is good, because for some reason, DC Hakker seems to be a bit buggy. It won't launch nester or dc gnuboy, and during the epitech (Iris 3d) games, it jumps back to the DC Hakker menu a lot. I now have most of a layout in place to begin experimenting with a new hybrid DC browser image. What I'm thinking is:

PlanetWeb 2.6 Front End
DP3 PSO Edition With add ons for usability / better HTML UI, possibly capable of conventional MPEG playback
Vorlem (VMU serial cable upload tool)
Utopia Boot CD 1.1
Implemented DemoMenu and DC Hakker (so you can swap disc in your various DC apps which still won't load right under PWeb)

My last testing phase will be determining is any of the DP browsers can launch emulators, etc, with GD rom access.

fatheadpi · Post by **fatheadpi** » Wed Oct 16, 2002 11:39 pm

Ugh. Total burnout time. Any admins that see this, change my thing from DCEmu Private Dick to Homebrew Burnout. I'm gonna hafta talk to Krypt, since I can't get PW to launch anything but itself and vorlem. Those of you DemoMenu / DC Hakker fans will be glad to know that you can now launch the Utopia boot program off of your compilation CD's, no luck under PW yet though. Curtis, if you're still around, could you show me some clearer examples of the launcher system?

The project, ULtimateDream, is officially paused for now. If you'll excuse me, I'm gonna go mix a drink and play with the DK in PSO v2, it seems to look rather promising, more like a real browser. Porn heads will be stoked to know you can save jpegs to the vmu for later "offline viewing".

I'm gonna score disc juggler tonight, might see a special DK image from pso up soon.

fatheadpi · Post by **fatheadpi** » Fri Oct 18, 2002 12:11 am

Well kids, ULtimateDream is still officially paused, pending the return of my sanity. However, ALternateDream, a rip of PSO's Dreamkey, is done. I am waiting to see if I can assist Barubary in any way with his ongoing PSO project, something I feel is a to priority for the Homebrew App sector. Also, I'm getting damn near done with legal SFD encoding (finally!).

cad455 · Post by **cad455** » Fri Oct 18, 2002 7:18 am

this browser sounds very exciting

i know you're going through some hardships, but hey, if you get something done, it will make for one badass sense of achievement

don't give up!

fatheadpi · Post by **fatheadpi** » Tue Oct 22, 2002 12:46 am

You don't need pants to do a victory dance because Fathead is smarter than DP!!!

Great news, kids! I've got DP about 90% dejapped, as Cless once so eloquently put it. But man do I know how to screw things up. I put in a few font files because there weren't any, and the system it used was a broken half english half jap hack job. Then I converted almost all of the menus by using English DK pvr files and overwriting the Jap ones. Finally, I swithed the Message.ini with an English DK one, and remapped the font to what I thought was an English one. Turns out I mapped it to a proper crap font. So now everything is in proper gibberish, but the menus work. Kind of an odd tradeoff; I gave up being able to read the web pages for being able to read the menus.

I'll do another disc tomorrow on my PA. The version of DP I am using is a bit incomplete, but I'm going to try and add a few things to it, like the ability to load .vms files. Wish me luck!

Also, the original project, ULtimateDream, has been scrapped. PlanetWeb is a peice of crap, and I'm slapping the name on my new uber cool DP3 browser. Once I get the English font enabled, I'm going to see if DP can play back conventional MPEG files. This current font does not work at all. It's like a cross between Wingdings, Japanese, and posts made by idiot fanboys who can't spell. It's so bad, the browser actually doesn't understand it, and fires back a confused message in pure gibberish.

Naga Nootch!!!

wildfantom · Post by **wildfantom** » Tue Oct 22, 2002 7:30 pm

hey you people know that Dreamkey 3 is pretty much dreampassport 3 right, you know, if you know anyone in europe that is willing to call SEGA europe they will send it out to them without checking if they have the dreamcast or not, a couple of friends did it and so did I(have friends in europe call sega europe for the DK3 web browser that is)
I personally would like to find a way to get DK3 on to a bootable cd rom so I could use it in my US DC without a boot disc
anyway go here and look at the details
http://www.sega-europe.com/4/kvaj8oe0e1 ... index.html
its nice to have it in english and know its better than the planet web browser

fatheadpi · Post by **fatheadpi** » Tue Oct 22, 2002 8:34 pm

I'd like to use that. I've hit the limit of my de-japping abilities, to do more I'd need something capable of producing pvr files. All I have to do is get the text working right, and I've finally found the font file I've been looking for, getting ready for a new ULtimateDream test disc.

I may try and release the DK in PSO, it's a good one, I'll see what happens.

For those interested in the web browser

Are you interested in the web browser?

HAS ANYONE THOUGHT ABOUT THIS!!??

DK3 a way to get it