A Complete Tutorial to Install Homebrew on PS Vita (PSP) on TN-V8 Exploit

Following my successful attempt to exploit my PS Vita using NumBlast game, I shall now share my experience of installing home-brew (commonly known as emulators) on PS Vita in the form of pictorial.

First thing first, download some homebrews from a sea of home brew listed here.

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A Complete Guide to Install Windows 95 on DOSBox

Looking at how OS had marvelled over these three decades starting from the 90s somehow makes me reminiscent the good old days of Win 3.1, Win95 and Win98. I certainly missed playing my first ever computer games such as Prince of Persia, Mario, and Doom.

And so embark my journey to relive those memories again in the modern machine. To do that, I selected DosBox, which is an emulator that fully emulates those legacy machines. Like many others, I started off to search for related tutorials and what-not on Google, only to found that most of them are either too fragmented or requires me to piece up the tidbits.

To save time, I had decided to write up this tutorial just so you wouldn't had the same experience that I did.

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My Experience with Exploiting PS Vita (Gen 1) Using TN-V8 (Firmware 3.01) After Sony Releases Firmware 3.10

After missing out the TN-V exploit game last February - Persona 2 - Innocent Sin, I thought this is it. I will have to wait for the next firmware release from Sony and keep on waiting for another breed of exploit.

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Various Methods of Setting Up HTPC Using Raspberry Pi (With Tradeoffs)

With the latest addition of a 50' Sharp HDTV on my living room, I decided to purchase a Raspberry Pi and setup a HTPC. Just for prelude, I had been an avid fan of XBMC ever since version 8.0 and still is even now. Before the HDTV, I mostly watch my movies (approaching 1,000 movies now) on XBMC running on my Core i7 Desktop in my comfy room at 60 FPS using SmoothVideo Project. Having this said, performance is never an issue, i.e. no video stuttering, buffering, etc. I managed to enjoy every last bit of the videos without any quality degradation.

Raspberry Pi, or generally known as the popular embedded computer for setting up HTPC, dare I say, is only having a fraction of computing power when compared to my i7 Desktop. It is comparable to a Pentium II PC in the 90's. Henceforth, I realized that I can no longer put the performance issue in the closet any longer and have to resort to alternatives.

I must say that setting up my ideal HTPC had been a rollercoaster ride for me, and I finally seek one perfect solution that match with my demands. Following just shows some of the possible setups that you might be having now, or attempted.

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Pairing Wiimote Motion Plus with Windows using Toshiba Bluetooth Stack

Following after my previous post on how to connect your Wiimote Motion Plus on Windows here, I soon realized that there is yet another easier way to do so without having to resort installing BlueSoleil. Simply install the Toshiba Bluetooth stack and you're good to go. One reason I attempted this way is because I failed to get BlueSoleil to run stable (Windows Explorer keeps on crashing) after I reinstall it on my computer.

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Quick Review on Sennheiser HD 600

Hey guys, finally got my hand on HD600 today!

Just a heads up, my previous headphone was FA-003 and it really serves its purpose well and is definitely the best bang for buck. In fact, I had been taking a great amount of notice about this HD600 vs HD650 debate for a very long time now but decided to go for FA-003 previously for lacking the bucks to buy one of this. One thing I dislike about FA-003 is that wearing it to listen for music for a long period always makes my head feel uncomfortable (even after adjusting the head band in various level), particularly the clamping force that I had. The listening experience is good, but the comfort always prevent me from really enjoying music for a long time.

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PS Vita Unboxing!

Finally got my PS Vita today!!

Overall it cost me NTD 9410 (~RM 956) for all the items in the box and NTD 980 (~RM99) for Metal Gear Solid (US) and NTD 145 (~RM147)for Persona The Golden (JP).

The price for the console is actually NTD 9410 - NTD 2750 (the actual price for 32GB memory card (free due to promotion event by SEN in Taiwan) - NTD 580 for the 365 PSN Card (free) - NTD 190 for the AR Card) (free) = NTD 5890 (~RM598).

So here are some pictures for your viewing enjoyment.

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[Tutorial] Enable network connection in Android x86 4.0 ICS using VirtualBox

If you're an Android developer like me, you'll come to hate the sluggish performance of the emulator that came bundled with the SDK. So you try to install Android x86 as a VM in Virtual Box. Things work out pretty good and there's no more annoyance of the slow down. But one thing that you'll realize fast enough is THERE IS NO NETWORK CONNECTION! Googling for this and you'll come across to many workaround, which you might find it not working.

Following the instruction below to get the network connection working in Android x86 4.0 RC (eecpc version) on VirtualBox.

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Installing DLCs for Final Fantasy Theatrhythm (iOS)

If you were a FF fan like me, I believe you will feel happy when realizing that FF Theatrhythm was released on AppStore for Free. However, the developer had a plan behind that move, which is by implementing the dreaded DLC which will surely rip off your wallet unless you are uber rich. Purchasing all the songs will cost you more than twice the amount that you can pay for a 3DS version for similar game. Compared to the original release for 3DS, the iOS port has the RPG element removed. However it is compensented by offering several lengthly songs not available for the 3DS version, such as One-Winged Angel from FFVII: Advert Children.

Luckily there was a Thailand guy that had cracked all the DLCs and kind enough to share it with the rest of the world. Follow the instructions below to download the DLCs at zero $!

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[Tutorial] How to port forward in VMware Fusion 5

1. Edit the NAT configuration file.

$ sudo vi "/Library/Preferences/VMware Fusion/vmnet8/nat.conf"'
...
[incomingtcp] 3128 = 192.168.19.69:3128 
... 

E.g. I want to forward the client request from port 3128 into a web server running on VM using port 3128.

Typically you will need to restart the VM for the effect to take changes. Another solution is just restarting the NAT service by executing the following command:

sudo "/Applications/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/Library/vmnet-cli" [--stop|--start]

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