MegaDev9 plugin !!!

[kamilusPL]

First - thanks for your work.
But now you will see lots of beggings for ethernet support
FFXI for PC is just screwed by SE - by require of using 3-D secure cards - so many of EU players just can't pay for a game (lol).
The only way to pay is... PlayOnline for PS2 (because of PS2 limitations - no way to require 3-D secure cards ).
PlayOnline is kinda free tool - so i can send you link on PM if you will be interested in writing this

[Luigi__]

Yup, sure I'm interested by that PlayOnline tool, if it can help me to add ethernet support
to my plugin. ATM I'm unable to do it because I have only one game that's Ethernet-compliant,
and this game doesn't run at all under PCSX2 (yup, black screen and nothing. I'm so
unlucky )

Apart from that, you're welcome

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[zefie]

This is my patched version of MegaDev9 v1.0.1. All I did was tweak the creation process a bit, to speed up file creation (in theory by 1000x, however real increase is as fast as your system can do it.)

Nothing else was modified, so don't expect this to fix any bugs or whatever, as I said, I only modified the raw file creation process

Original memory buffer was 1Kbyte, new memory buffer is 1Mbyte, so it creates alot faster.

Attached Files

	megadev9-bin.7z (33.9 KB, 15 views)
	megadev9-src.7z (2.00 MB, 3 views)

[rama2]

Thanks a lot for that, zefie.
Had to recreate the hdd's a lot in the past when testing some stuff, this would've saved me quite some time

[zefie]

Originally Posted by rama2

Thanks a lot for that, zefie.
Had to recreate the hdd's a lot in the past when testing some stuff, this would've saved me quite some time

There is actually a super fast way on NTFS!

fsutil file createnew dev9hdd.raw (sizeinbytes)
fsutil file setzerodata offset=0 length=(sizeinbytes) dev9hdd.raw

without the ()

example:

C:\Users\zefie>fsutil file createnew dev9hdd.raw 8388608
File C:\Users\zefie\dev9hdd.raw is created

C:\Users\zefie>dir dev9hdd.raw
 Volume in drive C is Windows 7 System
 Volume Serial Number is CA72-EE5B

 Directory of C:\Users\zefie

09/04/2009  10:43 AM         8,388,608 dev9hdd.raw
               1 File(s)      8,388,608 bytes
               0 Dir(s)  118,342,463,488 bytes free

C:\Users\zefie>fsutil file setzerodata offset=0 length=8388608 dev9hdd.raw
Zero data is changed

Instant 8G zero'd dev9hdd.raw

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Last edited by zefie; September 4th, 2009 at 16:50.. Reason: typo on command

[Luigi__]

Wow! That's a nice way to zerofill the HDD image then!
I could implement this, however, I'll be using a more intelligent HDD image format in the next versions, which will omit zero-filled sectors (reminder: 1 sector = 512 bytes).
The pros are that HDD image creation will be instant, and it will save 512 bytes per blank sector (for a brand new image: lots of space saved!). The cons are that compatibility with programs such as WinHIIP will be broken.

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[rama2]

Hmm, maybe make it optional then? Dunno, your choice
Oh one slight thing though.
Can you please remove the debug message "Reading/Writing from/to the unknown reg"?

[Luigi__]

The "unknown reg" messages are just some debugging junk. They'll be removed in the next version.

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[rama2]

Great, that one was spamming away my own debug messages