Crystal Chip Mega Information Thread

[spedmetal]

Here you will find links to informative threads consolidated into one.

Crystal Chip Official Web Site

• Crystal Chip Official Site

Boot Manger and Firmware Related

• The Official Software Release 34
• The Hacked Software Release 34
• Jones23's Modified Hacked R34 This release comes bundled with ULE and SMS as well as other modifications Jones23 added for us
• Software Release 34 Bug Reporting

Home Brew Megapack Installers

• Yoc's Essential Pack for BM 2.1.x
• Theagent's MegaPack release 2x

Reviews and News

• CC2.0 SLE 2MB available for a limited time!
• N£TM£ÇH's Crystal Chip 2.0 Review
• spedmetal's Crystal Chip 2.0 Review
• fimble Crystal Chip 2.0 review

Help Improve Crystal Chips Boot Manager

• iLink ID List
• Console Information List(Please Read!)

Tutorials and Guides

• The Official Crystal Chip Wiki
• This is a mirror of the official ccwiki
• Downlord's APPINFO.PBT maker A great script for generating APPINFO.PBT files! Thanks Downlord!

Boot Manager Theme Related

• Yoc's iTunes Theme
• drazic2012's Crystal Chip/PSX-scene Web Themes
• A Collection of Boot Manager Themes
• An informative BM theme thread here at psx-scene

This list will be added to and updated as need be so be sure to check back from time to time.

[greyfox]

very very useful information spedmetal TQ
yeh I hope Crystal Chip Wiki will return soon

[tonybologna]

Great information indeed for us CC users! Thanks spedmetal!

[tester3000]

Wiki is back up.

http://ccwiki.ps2-scene.org/index.php/Main_Page

[spedmetal]

Originally Posted by tester3000

Wiki is back up.

http://ccwiki.ps2-scene.org/index.php/Main_Page

Thanks for the news tester3000! Here is a shorted version of the same URL

http://ccwiki.ps2-scene.org

[Bootlegninja]

Sorry to bump this thread, but I noticed the CC Wiki is restored on the site here. I corrected the link in the first post.

http://ccwiki.psx-scene.com/

[RedThunderNL]

I haven't checked the PSX-Scene forum for quite some time, only to find out there's been a huge "crash", which is a very sad thing. I've done some googling but couldn't find an answer to my question. Which has probably been asked too many times, but can't find an answer now.

What happend to Crystal Chips and the R35 release, has there ever been any formal/informal inside confirmation of the discontinuation of the project?

Sorry to bother you with probably a trivial question.

[grayfoxrx7]

Originally Posted by RedThunderNL

I haven't checked the PSX-Scene forum for quite some time, only to find out there's been a huge "crash", which is a very sad thing. I've done some googling but couldn't find an answer to my question. Which has probably been asked too many times, but can't find an answer now.

What happend to Crystal Chips and the R35 release, has there ever been any formal/informal inside confirmation of the discontinuation of the project?

Sorry to bother you with probably a trivial question.

Considering how old the current firmware is and that http://www.crystal-chips.com/ domain is no longer active, I doubt there will ever be a new firmware.

[b1tmaster0]

After a while, I try to enter the Official CC site and it's down!!!

What happen to them?

Is CC "dead"?

They have one of the most kick-ass mod-chips and now they are closed?

The market has stock of their chips. But if they are going to close, what will happen then? I wanna believe, they have a problem with their site. Besides, it had display/render problem to any browser. I don't want to bellieve they are gonne!

Please. If any one knows what happen to them...
Someone from CC will watch over this forum.
Please my friend, answer me/us.

With despair....

[JNABK]

Yep, the CC team is no more, but there is the Wiki that has been saved and regular members will still help provide some support when they can, so you came to the right place.

CC Wiki

And heres a general help page:
http://bootleg.sksapps.com/tutorials/ccusage/

[alexo]

Originally Posted by JNABK

Yep, the CC team is no more

What I don't understand is, if they got out, why not opensource the BM?
Leave on a high note, I say.

[Bootlegninja]

It would be nice if any of the chip teams did this with their software/firmware, but none have.

[ps2dragon]

Originally Posted by JNABK

Yep, the CC team is no more, but there is the Wiki that has been saved and regular members will still help provide some support when they can, so you came to the right place.

CC Wiki

That link to the cc wiki is currently not working. For anyone still looking for the cc wiki, the original wiki is still online and can be found here (see post #1 from spedmetal), or you can download the whole thing here for offline storage.

Originally Posted by alexo

What I don't understand is, if they got out, why not opensource the BM?
Leave on a high note, I say.

I know, I was actually just reading over an old post by the CC team about Release 35, saying how they were only a few weeks away from releasing it with BM 3.0 and a secret surprise feature, but sadly it was never released . I was thinking maybe one of the developers, or someone close to the developers might someday release the source anonymously, but that's just a hope. Thanks to all the new developments in homebrew (Free MC Boot, etc), I don't even need to use my ps2 with the crystal chip anymore, but still would be nice to see something new relating to the crystal chip. The only thing I was really looking forward to was IGR being fixed, quote from the CC Team: "In-Game-Reset, another feature only available on Crystal Chips, is now working with almost every single game with few black screens after reset!" I'm now hoping ffgriever's IGR - proof of concept release somehow becomes more then just a concept, since this is probably the last feature I feel would complete my setup (IGR in HDLoader) and make gaming on the PS2 even more enjoyable.

Originally Posted by b1tmaster0

After a while, I try to enter the Official CC site and it's down!!!

What happen to them?

Is CC "dead"?

The Crystal Team is definitely out of commission and have been for a while now, although Jones23 has made some further improvements to the Release 34 hacked firmware. It's minor compared to what could be done with the source code, but it's better than nothing.

I'm not sure if anyone really cares or would need anything from the official Crystal Chip website (now offline), but if you are interested, I am just finishing up restoring the site to its original state. I will upload it as a downloadable offline version as soon as it's done. I'm just missing screen shots from the "Burning disc images" tutorials for Alcohol and BurnAtOnce, and a few other unimportant images. But it basically looks exactly how it was when it was online, without all those code error warnings all over the place ; ).

[Bootlegninja]

I didn't think anyone still visited that incomplete version of the ccwiki, so I took it down from the site there.