Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!scea!peter_alau@playstation.sony.com From: Ed Federmeyer Newsgroups: scea.yaroze.announce,scee.yaroze.announce Subject: PAL Eater v1.0 Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 16:18:18 -0500 Organization: SCEA News Server Lines: 27 Message-ID: <36002B1A.5B84E6F1@mw.3com.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: charlie.cns.iit.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (WinNT; I) Xref: chuka.playstation.co.uk scea.yaroze.announce:100 scee.yaroze.announce:156 Hey all you SCEA members, don't you wish you could see what our SCEE friends are up to, but that really great game or demo only comes as an executable without source, and you don't have a TV that supports the PAL format? Well, give "PAL Eater v1.0" a try... It's a DOS program that takes a PAL-only Net Yaroze executable and converts it to an NTSC Net Yaroze executable! You can get it from my web page: http://www.scea.sony.com/net/yaroze/pages/efedermeyer.html Source and documentation is included if you are curious about how this program works. I should mention that since I don't have the official specs on all the file formats and compiler outputs, I can't guarantee it will work on ALL programs, but it did work on all of the dozen or so I tried it on. If you find a program it fails to convert, let me know and I'll try to fix it. I don't have a Mac, otherwise I would have provided a Mac version as well. If anyone wants to port it, that'd be great. I only had to make a few changes (ulong/ushort already defined, O_BINARY wasn't defined) to make it compile on a Sun, so a Linux port should be easy as well, for anyone who wants to support that platform. Have fun with all the new games and demos this opens up to you! Ed Federmeyer