Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: "Craig Graham" Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: Action Replay upload ? Date: 12 Jun 1998 09:49:51 GMT Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 58 Message-ID: <01bd95e7$375456a0$f30b0a0a@Angela1.intelligent-group.com> References: <357FD9F3.5F1B@livemedia.co.uk> <357FFD23.F5671FD5@scee.sony.co.uk> <01bd958e$4e2b5800$f30b0a0a@Angela1.intelligent-group.com> <3580E406.CCC0B558@scee.sony.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: d3-s16-181-telehouse.mistral.co.uk X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1155 James Russell wrote in article <3580E406.CCC0B558@scee.sony.co.uk>... > Check my email address. :O) Then check with your boss..... > Sony do _not_ support the AR. So if you've got a problem with your > AR, we can't help you. But that's different from saying that we > don't approve of its use. We neither recommend using it or not using it. Sony's official line (you should know this already James - shame on you) is that they do not approve of any third party development systems, which is in effect what you get from a re-flashed Action Replay. Ask Datel themselves about the DDX - basically a pumped up AR made specifically as development hardware. Sony forced Datel to withdraw them, and as you are at Sony, I suggest you check out the thread in scee.dev.freetalk (pro developer news group, sorry you cann't all read it) and read Paul Holman's comments on the subject - basically using hardware in that way violates the developer agreement. Also, ask Gil at SN Systems about the CartDev system (same sort of thing) that they developed - it got canned on Sony's orders as well. The problem with the re-flash ROM's is that at least one of them is ripped off from the Datel DDX, and allows you to use the full Psy-Q DOS debugger by pretending to be an H2000 dev card (a pro dev system for those who don't know), and infact the archive contains a ripped off copy of PsyQ. > James Sony may not be to worried about a few hackers using a ripped of dev system, but they'll come down like a ton of bricks on anyone who's supposed to be licensed who uses one. And yes, I would be the first to admit that Sony should have used the AR approach in the first place instead of using the Serial port. They didn't though, and we should live with it (and if anyone doesn't, they should consider not admitting it in these news groups as Sony are quite entitled to invoke the clause in your license that makes you give the access card back). Craig. (trying to be helpful in a subtle sort of way)