"GoodCBC" - LET'S DO IT! (Codebreaker Day1 set decrypted and recompiled into RAW cbcs

[misfire]

It's not documented explicitly because it's a standard practice for (Unix) command-line apps. Text should always be printed to STDOUT, so it can be piped into other programs (grep etc.) or redirected to files (>) and much more.

That whole magic is implemented in the shell (console) executing cb2util, and is nothing cb2util does itself.

[sojakai]

Is it actually a feature if people don't know that its there? By my way of thinking, if its not mentioned, it probably doesn't exist. But then, that's why I asked. I know nothing of unix and if it wasn't for OPL, I wouldn't really touch Ubuntu. But you have to have it to compile it, so I am reading guides when I stumble across them, or more likely, when someone is kind enough to write one and make it followable by us newbs. Now that I have another command that I can use, I can start poking my fingers into the cheats file and see what tries to bite them off.

Thank you for making these, they are a great help.

Oh, bfoos, I did manage to export my cheats file, and I just managed to get it installed back to HDD from memorycard by re-importing a cbc for ghostbusters and removing the memorycard before hitting x to save.

[misfire]

You don't have to touch Ubuntu at all. There're cross-compiled Win32 binaries ready to be downloaded here: https://github.com/mlafeldt/cb2util/downloads

Windows' cmd.exe should provide the same redirect functionality (cmd > file).

[misfire]

In any case, I've added another example to the README showing how to extract cheats to a text file: http://mlafeldt.github.com/cb2util/

Should avoid confusion in the future.

[sojakai]

I got ubuntu so I could compile OPL9... and the day after I finally managed to get it all set up and got a fully compiled version of OPL, they released 9r641. If someone (DoctorXYZ I believe) hadn't released some scripts for downloading and compiling, I would still be stumped as to how to get it done. Even with the scripts, I don't understand the (manual) procedure.

I am sorry if I seemed a bit snapish, I really didn't intend to be. I am using the Win32 version, I just didn't know how get it to output to txt as its alot easier than having to read the screen and type them out into a txt file by hand, and the readme file didn't list or hint to any command for it.

[misfire]

Let me suggest a solution for your Windows/Ubuntu problem: http://gamehacking.org/vb/threads/68...ew-development

Also, in a previous blog post I've explained how to compile PS2rd using only four commands: http://mlafeldt.github.com/blog/2012...2-development/ Should be working on Windows as well.

[bfoos]

You don't have to pull your MC prior to saving changes in CB. If CB detects an HDD on boot, it will always defer to using it instead of MC.

[sojakai]

@bfoos It worked, I can't complain.

@Misfire It's not too much of a problem. I have ubuntu installed on another computer that I Frankenstein'd together. I normally turn one off when I turn the other on.

[misfire]

Just a quick note:

As of today, cb2util (and libcheats) are licensed under the terms of the MIT license: https://github.com/mlafeldt/cb2util#disclaimer (The diff: https://github.com/mlafeldt/cb2util/pull/10/files)

That basically means you can do with the source code whatever you want. No more GPL virus.

The next release of cb2util will officially include the new license.

[misfire]

I've tagged v1.8 of cb2util, see changelog at https://github.com/mlafeldt/cb2util/...v18-jan-2-2013

There're no prebuilt binaries as GitHub has deprecated Downloads and I haven't decided where to put them yet.

[bfoos]

Can someone assist me in getting cb2util to compile on windows? I had a setup that would compile this and omniconvert without issue but rebuilt my system and can't for the life of me remember what I had to install to get this to compile.

bfoos@bfoos-PC /c/cb2util
$ make
CB2UTIL_VERSION = 1.9
    CC libbig_int/src/basic_funcs.o
    CC libbig_int/src/bitset_funcs.o
    CC libbig_int/src/low_level_funcs/add.o
    CC libbig_int/src/low_level_funcs/and.o
    CC libbig_int/src/low_level_funcs/andnot.o
    CC libbig_int/src/low_level_funcs/cmp.o
    CC libbig_int/src/low_level_funcs/div.o
    CC libbig_int/src/low_level_funcs/mul.o
    CC libbig_int/src/low_level_funcs/or.o
    CC libbig_int/src/low_level_funcs/sqr.o
    CC libbig_int/src/low_level_funcs/sub.o
    CC libbig_int/src/low_level_funcs/xor.o
    CC libbig_int/src/memory_manager.o
    CC libbig_int/src/modular_arithmetic.o
    CC libbig_int/src/number_theory.o
    CC libbig_int/src/service_funcs.o
    CC libbig_int/src/str_funcs.o
    CC libcheats/src/cheatlist.o
    CC libcheats/src/libcheats.o
    CC libcheats/src/mystring.o
    CC libcheats/src/parser.o
    CC arcfour.o
    CC cb2_crypto.o
    CC cb2util.o
    CC cbc.o
    CC cheats.o
    CC cheats_common.o
    CC compress.o
    CC fileio.o
    CC pcb.o
pcb.c:16:17: fatal error: elf.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
make: *** [pcb.o] Error 1

I'm not at all accustomed to compiling on windows.

[bfoos]

Nevermind, I got it. Used a copy of ps2_elf.h renamed to elf.h and dropped it into x:\MinGW\include and it compiled.

[bfoos]

GoodCBC r4 attached to first post. This is a complete set replacement.

[bfoos]

Okay, can someone with FTP access to the site please delete the old set under /ps2/day1/ and upload the complete revision 4 set I compiled? I've already done all the annoying/tedious shit. Thanks.

Or perhaps there is some way you guys can set me up with FTP access and read/write to /ps2/* so I can maintain GoodCBC and not have to bother rimsky82 if I change something?

[bfoos]

Well, it took a month, but GoodCBC r4 is now live. And with that, there now makes 1,115 cbc files containing nothing but RAW codes.