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PlayStation 3 TrueAncestor
TrueAncestor (mirror) is a multi-purpose program for extracting and repacking PKG files. You can also resign games to work on lower firmwares or create de…
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PlayStation 3 RetroXMB
RetroXMB Creator is a tool which will allow you to create shortcuts to launch any game directly from the XMB. This includes all cores in RetroArch, DosBox…
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PlayStation 3 PS2 ISOs on OFW BC Consoles (Swap Magic)
Swap Magic is a boot disc from the PS2 scene which allows you to run PS2 backups and homebrew content on a PS3 with any version of OFW. This includes the …
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PlayStation 3 PS2 Games, Multiplayer, and Fixes
One of the features introduced by Cobra is the ability to force any PS2 ISO (or BIN/CUE) to run in the software PS2 emulator used for PS2 Classics. Keep i…
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PlayStation 3 OtherOS
OtherOS++ is the rebirth of OtherOS, the feature in which you could run Linux on PS3 which was later removed by Sony in official firmware 3.21. OtherOS wo…
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PlayStation Portable Creating Game Save Backups
Game Save Data can be backed up by following some simple steps: The same method can be applied to use custom saves, or use multiple for games that only su…
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FM Towns Tower Power Supply Repair and Capacitor list
This power supply is not known to be a tremendous source of pain to maintain. However, it is sideways just like the Gen 2/3/4 cards. Very well known and t…
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FM Towns Using Hard Drives
FM Towns used SCSI hard drives with the DOS sector partition limit at 120MB. Most of these drives are likely dead or dying, really loud, and consume a lot…
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FM Towns Floppy Drive Emulators
All Tower models and U* models use a unique and semi-proprietary FDD that integrates the 5V power between the ground pins. Pins 7,9 and 11 are 5V. You can…
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FM Towns Upgrading RAM
FM Towns uses non-parity SIMM RAM from the same era. Generally, it's very cheap and available to buy on the net. It has been tested extensively that with …
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FM Towns Optical Drive Emulator for Tower Models
Deunan worked tirelessly and created an Optical Drive Emulator that works in all tower models. Soldering is 100% required for installation. There are zero…
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FM Towns CPU Upgrade for Tower Models
The tower versions of the FM Towns use a 386 CPU. For the Generation 1 and 2 tower models, the CPU is in a socket. It is simple to remove the CPU and plac…
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FM Towns CPU Upgrade for Desktop Models
Desktops have a slot to place CPU upgrade cards with some later models requiring the CPU upgrade card to be present as there wasn't a CPU onboard the moth…
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FM Towns Playing Game Backups
FM Towns didn't have copy protection on their CDs at all minus a few games such as Zack McCracken that merely checked for the presence of a CD in the driv…
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FM Towns Video Information
FM Towns video connector was a DB15, two-row connector that was very common for other Japanese computers such as the Sharp X68000 and PC98. The uniqueness…
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FM Towns Connector Pinouts
Most of these pinouts come from the "Towns Redbook" Version 3. The External SCSI and RS232 ports are the standard ports and have no crazy different pins. …
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Xbox 360 Niveus EDGE
The Niveus Media Extender EDGE is a device developed by Niveus Media, launched in 2008. This device, like other media extenders, was designed to seamlessl…
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Xbox 360 Block Xbox Live
The only way to prevent your console or account from being banned from Xbox Live is to disable Xbox Live access. Removing your console's access to the int…
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Xbox 360 Region Compatibility (Portuguese)
O Xbox 360 dá aos desenvolvedores a opção de travar seus jogos por região, o que a maioria dos desenvolvedores não fez. Além disso, conteúdos baixados do …
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PlayStation Vita / PSTV PSTV Incompatible Content
Most content for PS Vita is usable on PS TV. However, not all PS Vita games are compatible for two main reasons: Note that these points are tangential to …
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PlayStation 3 Optical Drive Emulators (ODEs)/E3 ODE PRO
The E3 ODE PRO is a Optical Drive Emulator hardware device that allows you to run game backups and homebrew on a PS3, without requiring a jailbroken conso…
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PlayStation 3 Optical Drive Emulators (ODEs)/Cobra ODE
A Cobra Optical Drive Emulator (ODE) is a hardware device that allows you to run game backups and homebrew on a PS3, without requiring a jailbroken consol…
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PlayStation 4 Save Wizard
Save Wizard is a paid application which lets users apply cheats to save games, resign encrypted saves and, to some games, export unecrypted saves, similar…
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