Codebreaker site has gone down

[dlanor]

Could you check it then, if it will download the list, if you'll run it directly, like:

wget -O list.txt --header="Accept:" --no-cookies --no-http-keep-alive --user-agent="PS2NET Client" http://www.cmgsccc.com/ps2/day1/cb.php?date=$DATE_TO_FETCH

Just replace the $DATE_TO_FETCH with a real date YYYY-MM-DD .

I also have to replace "--no-cookies" with "--cookies=off", in order for wget to even attempt obeying me. So I started bash by my usual means and entered the command manually in this form:

wget -O list.txt --header="Accept:" --cookies=off --no-http-keep-alive --user-agent="PS2NET Client" http://www.cmgsccc.com/ps2/day1/cb.php?date="2005-10-25"

But this gave just the same result as earlier. The bash window shows some text like the following:

--11:38:11--  http://www.cmgsccc.com/ps2/day1/cb.php?date=2005-10-25
           => `list.txt´
Resolving www.cmgsccc.com... 70.86.92.227
Connecting to www.cmgsccc.com[70.86.92.227]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: http://www.cmgsccc.com/notfound.php [following]
--11:38:11--  http://www.cmgsccc.com/notfound.php
           => `list.txt´
Connecting to www.cmgsccc.com[70.86.92.227]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK

There is some more too, but that just shows how the error page found above is downloaded and saved to "list.txt". The only thing a little odd here is that the url displayed in the topmost wget response does not have the quote marks around the date, even when I did enter these manually. The response shown above is identical, regardless of whether I enter those quotes in the command or not...

It's either bash version that behaves a liitle bit different than mine or wget.

Probably, but if so there's not much I can do about it...

Anyway, if that will work, just replace the date in the script (or try to remove the " around the date...

The odd part is that the responses are identical regardless of whether I try to use quote marks or not. It's almost as if they were filtered out by bash before even passing the arguments to wget.

eventually use eval or direct command calling).

I'm not sure what you mean by that, or how it could help.
If bash+wget can't do the job with commands and arguments entered manually, I see little point in trying more complex methods of generating the command line.

My bash on cygwin is: GNU bash, version 3.00.16(14)-release (i686-pc-cygwin)
My wget on cygwin is: GNU Wget 1.10.2

Mine are:
GNU bash, version 2.05b.0(1)-release (i686.pc-cygwin)
GNU Wget 1.9.1

sed shouldn't play any tricks at this stage (it can, but only once a proper list is downloaded). But my sed is:

GNU sed wersja 4.1.4

And mine is:
GNU sed version 4.1.3

As you see all my Cygwin components are a bit older than yours, as a result of me having to reinstall Cygwin not so long ago. Since the new Cygwin installers are totally incompatible with PS2Dev stuff, I had to search a long while to find an installer old enough to do that job properly. But unfortunately it was a little older than I really wanted it to be, resulting in some incompatibilities with more modern methods (like needing "--cookies=off" instead of "--no-cookies" etc).

PS. I'm not really that much familiar with bash scripting, so this script isn't most likely optimal, nor bugfree. Usually all I need are simple scripts like this one, and I just make them to work .

I'm no bashing expert either. All I've done with it is what I've had to do in order to make all the PS2Dev stuff work properly.

Best regards: dlanor

[TnA]

Btw.: The person from PS2tools told me, that it isn't to easy to patch the CB.
So,... I wait, what he has done. My PS2 isn't connected to the Internet, so I didn't make a test.
Let's see, what "Fatman" has patched,...

[/misfire]

I've already done all of this before...

CodeBreaker PS2 Download Script
http://www.xploderfreax.de/phpBB/vie...=655&forum=4&5
http://www.codemasters-project.net/v...ead.php?t=5250

Download

CodeBreaker PS2 File Server
http://www.xploderfreax.de/phpBB/vie...=700&forum=4&3
http://www.codemasters-project.net/v...ead.php?t=7026

Download

The latest versions of the download script were meant to be private builds only, but I don't care about it anymore (check the README for complete story). I was using curl and not wget, btw.

With the file server, DNS spoofing is applied to redirect Day1 and game save downloads - no ELF patching required.

UPDATE: cb2get v1.51 with some minor changes.

[TnA]

Sorry, I'm not registered (on codemasters-project), but I will if you answer me 1Question.
I start reading on xploderfreaks.

Does it also work, without a PC@Home?
So, am I able to get another DAY1-DB (online with CB-ELF) if I carry around my PS2 (in vacation or something) and get I-Net.
Without a "server"/PC right by my side, just with my PS2?

THX i.A.

[/misfire]

You'll need two things:
- a file server, i.e., a website hosting the PHP scripts and Day1 files
- a DNS server with a fake record for cmgsccc.com

If both are put online, you don't need any extra PC/server.

[TnA]

- a DNS server with a fake record for cmgsccc.com

I'm not familiar with CB, but I assume I must put it (the DNS-Server you mentioned) in the Network-Configuration(?). ^.^

If both are put online, you don't need any extra PC/server.

THX, for "tidying up" my (and others) knowledge.

[/misfire]

Yes, you can go to the CodeBreaker's network settings and specify the DNS server IP. It's all mentioned in the README.

[/misfire]

For those of you unable to use the download script:

All Day1 files released by cmgsccc.com so far:
http://uploaded.to/?id=kntzs1

All PS2 game saves released by cmgsccc.com so far:
http://uploaded.to/?id=kgtjcv

[ffgriever]

Btw.: The person from PS2tools told me, that it isn't to easy to patch the CB.
So,... I wait, what he has done. My PS2 isn't connected to the Internet, so I didn't make a test.
Let's see, what "Fatman" has patched,...

I don't know what he meant by "not easy", but either he's putting you to some kind of trial or he doesn't know what he is doing. It's easy, I have no problem patching CB9.3 and CB10 (using the same method I did for the nodvd + hdloader patch). I assume the person just tries to get some attention, but doesn't know anything at all.

[dlanor]

I don't know what he meant by "not easy", but either he's putting you to some kind of trial or he doesn't know what he is doing. It's easy, I have no problem patching CB9.3 and CB10 (using the same method I did for the nodvd + hdloader patch). I assume the person just tries to get some attention, but doesn't know anything at all.

I'm afraid you're doing it again...
Assuming all others have the same skills as yourself I mean. (If only...)

But for the average user 'easy unpacking' simply means launching the unpacker program with just a simple file name as argument, possibly preceded by single unpacking option switch, but that is the limit.

Slightly more advanced users will be able to handle unpacking with a little more complex arguments, such as required for CodeBreaker unpacking. But only if they are handed a thorough launch example, containing the 'magical' switches and offsets needed. (Much like the examples you provided for CB 9.2 unpacking.)

But very few people have your skill of taking an already multi-segment-packed elf and analyzing it to find out how to unpack and later repack it 'safely' (so it still works like the original, apart from the patched feature). And for the average user, such things are simply impossible.

You keep falling into the trap of overestimating the skills of average users, which is nice of you in a way , but not very realistic.

Best regards: dlanor