(Artemis) Cheat System released

[Lazy Bastard]

Ah, cool. I'll update links to point to that, and do some testing myself to cover some NTSC stuff across as many games as possible. The multi-ELF capability gives me hope for hacking Star Wars: Battlefront

[LiquidManZero]

Impressive work so far.

I guess I ought to do some more compatibility testing at some point here.

[Lazy Bastard]

I've updated the PS2SDK to the latest rev (on my PC, not on GSHI, until I've verified all functionality), grabbed Tortoise-HG, cloned a copy of the HG repo for Artemis, and tried to compile it after installing both required libs, but when I type 'make rebuild', it ends up erroring out here:

make[2]: Entering directory `/home/artemis-next/pc/ntpbclient'
gcc -std=gnu99 -Wall -pedantic -I/usr/include -I/usr/local/include   -c -o src/n
tpbclient.o src/ntpbclient.c
src/ntpbclient.c:39:21: pthread.h: No such file or directory

I'm guessing this is because it's trying to compile an app for Win32 with MinGW/msys...it might be better to separate the two, at least in the case of Win32...

[misfire]

It's Jimmi's fault.

Heh, to be serious, I think your MinGW installation is missing POSIX thread support.

This may be of help: http://www.mingw.org/wiki/pthreads_library

[Lazy Bastard]

Hmm...apparently, MinGW doesn't support pthreads, but it might work most of the time, and can be used "at your own risk". I'll grab a copy and see if I can figure out how the hell to install it properly...

EDIT: There's already a pthread.h in the PS2SDK, and I'm curious as to whether adding this PC pthread.h and accompanying lib will cause issues...

[misfire]

I'm sure Jimmi knows how to build it with MinGW. Actually, he compiled ntpbclient.exe for me.

[LiquidManZero]

I had an odd idea. Is there an established procedure for testing if games are compatible?

[misfire]

By definition, "compatible" means that you can dump as you please during gameplay.

Pretty much the only way you can influence compatibility is to change the hooking mechanism (auto hook or master codes).

[LiquidManZero]

I see. I figured it was possible something more to it was involved.

Also... What would "error -2" refer to off ntpbclient.exe? Just no connection or something to that effect?

[misfire]

I think Jimmi is the one to ask. He developed ntpbclient.

[jimmikaelkael]

I see. I figured it was possible something more to it was involved.

Also... What would "error -2" refer to off ntpbclient.exe? Just no connection or something to that effect?

It depends which message it prints along with.
Is it "failed to connect client! error: -2" ?

If it's the case then it means it fails to establish connection to server, failed on connect().

But I'm afraid that won't help you anymore since you already know connection fails

[misfire]

Artemis 0.4

Another month, another release. Here comes Artemis 0.4.

The changes are:

0.4 (Oct 13 2009)
- Added video mode patcher.
- Finally fixed relocation of common symbols for all ERLs - no more SDK patches.
- ELF loader: copy LoadExecPS2 args in kernel mode and nul-terminate them
  properly to fix some multi-ELF games (e.g. Splinter Cell). Try to load ELF
  with SifLoadElf() first, allowing PES 2008 to boot.
- Apply SBV patches a 2nd time before loading our modules, ensuring that
  LoadModuleBuffer() works for games like TimeSplitters (pink screen problem).
- Added automatic patching of _SifLoadModule() to prevent network games from
  loading their dev9.irx and smap.irx modules. This way, we can hack games like
  GT4, Sniper Elite, and TimeSplitters 2 (enable debugger.patch_loadmodule).
- Added ability to disable the IOP reset hook after the first reset (enable
  debugger.unhook_iop_reset). This is similar to HD Loader's mode 3.
- Setting debugger.rpc_mode to -1 disables RPC for compatibility tests.
- Now there's only one dump command for all memory areas (NTPB protocol).
- Removed unused modules libc.erl, libdebug.erl, and netlog.irx.
- Added more documentation, e.g. doc/colors.html and doc/compat.txt.

This version contains lots of compatibility fixes and non-working games should be tested again. Check doc/compat.txt for some specific steps to test compatibility.

Download: https://bitbucket.org/misfire/artemis/downloads/

[Lazy Bastard]

Nice. Now I should try again for Star Wars: Battlefront

[misfire]

Only one day after the 0.4 release, I managed to hack the first ASM codes using hardware breakpointing: https://bitbucket.org/misfire/artemi.../4d26eef808bb/

Actually, the new video mode patcher already sets a data address breakpoint to automatically fix the screen position. I only made a few (very ugly) changes to the source code...

[Skiller]

Not bad Misfire ..
is the BP fully working As in u can make it Start up again .. or is this kinda Break print address then returns to game on its own ?