PlayStation 2 Technical Reference CD September 2001 DTL-S4023

I got 2 copies of this in 2004 relatively cheaply. I sold one copy here years ago and kept the other. I found my remaining copy in a box of random paperwork yesterday. I believe I tried to upload this to the FTP back in the day but the service was incredibly unreliable. Now I rediscovered it, its sharing time.

Anyhow the disc basically contains a comedy amount of PDF's covering NGP/Next Generation PlayStation which later became the PS2 (The same NGP acronym was later used for the PSP2 Portable) Devcon 1999, 2000 & 2001, Developer Newsgroup chit chat regarding programming help and banter and also FAQ's with regards to all PS2 development hardware and software.

The separate archives have been updated to include a fully functional catalog.pdf and Acrobat redistributable assuming you grab everything.

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The archives use no compression, are locked and come complete with a recovery record to aid their long term preservation. As as a result of this they come with a little extra bulk. In the age of cheap mass storage and relatively high speed broadband connections this should be a non-issue.

There is no torrent, tracker, magnet link or any other form of Peer to Peer (P2P) download for this release so be weary of any alterations which may have been made upon further redistribution.

The disc image is supplied in Alcohol 120%'s .mdf/.mds format. It is an awesome program for backing up / nocd your games. I reccomend you purchase it (and the software you intend to use with it!). Other programs may make use of this format but you are on your own. If in doubt, download the separate archives and create and burn your own project in the program of your choice, such as Nero.

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PlayStation 2 Technical Reference CD September 2001 DTL-S4023 244.15 MB

600 DPI Disc Label Scan 10.21 MB
600 DPI Disc Underside Scan 7.16 MB

/010827_1505
AUTORUN 10.25 MB (contains the loose root files)
devcon2000 7.32 MB
devcon2001 9.1 MB
docsys 15.64 MB (contains the Acrobat redistributable)
faqs 1.13 MB
general_ref 2.08 MB
index 35.16 MB (contains the catalog files)
manuals 7.72 MB
newsgroups 56.12 MB (I strongly reccomend you DL this even if you hate Sony!)
nexgen_jun 17.49 MB
notes 717.76 KB
rtime 126.03 KB
runtime_library_release_2.3 18.15 MB
scee_devcon1999 5.69 MB
scee_devcon2000 6.43 MB
scei_sds_dec 3.33 MB
scei_sds_oct 2.56 MB
scei_sds_sep 3.65 MB
trc 451.19 KB

Enjoy!

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Thank you very much! :thumbsup:

 

An example of the Dev comedy contained within!

noisy T-10000's
From: "David Etherton" <etherton@angelstudios.com>
Newsgroups: sce.dev.devkit.dtlh10000
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 17:19:11 -0800

is it just me or do the T-10000's seem ungodly loud? When I turn mine off
at the end of the day, I'm amazed at how the ambient noise level drops to
almost nothing.

anybody know any non-warranty-voiding tricks to quiet them down?

-Dave

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noisy T-10000's
From: "Dylan Cuthbert" <dylan_cuthbert@nospam.hq.scei.sony.co.jp.nospam>
Newsgroups: sce.dev.devkit.dtlh10000
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 17:24:01 +0900
Organization: SCEA region PS2 developer

in no particular order:

place them as far away from you as possible

glue egg cartons onto all sides

put it in a lead box?



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noisy T-10000's
From: "Jamie Briant" <jamie@neversoft.com>
Newsgroups: sce.dev.devkit.dtlh10000
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 09:49:32 -0800

Yes, mine is in Florida. Doesnt distract me anymore, although I hear its
caused some problems with the locals.

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noisy T-10000's
From: "Pete Sheppard" <pete.sheppard@appeal.be>
Newsgroups: sce.dev.devkit.dtlh10000
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 09:59:31 +0100

Have a PC one side and a T-10000 the other, a similar noise in each ear will
make it easier to ignore!*

Pete

* - However, it is possible it could lead to psychological trauma, depression
and ultimately suicide.

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noisy T-10000's
From: "David Etherton" <etherton@angelstudios.com>
Newsgroups: sce.dev.devkit.dtlh10000
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 08:27:02 -0800

My 10000 is *marginally* quieter than a gas-powered leaf blower. Well, maybe
a electric vaccuum cleaner. Still, sometimes my ears are ringing by the end
of the day.

If I had a PC that loud I'd take it out back and shoot it.

-Dave

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noisy T-10000's
From: "Dave Mercier" <dmercier@ea.com>
Newsgroups: sce.dev.devkit.dtlh10000
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 11:26:23 -0800

Although mine is not painfully loud, it's much louder than a typical PC. As
an audio guy, it's just really annoying, as I can't hear the finer problems
in the audio over the whir of the fan (unless I crank volume WAY up). Plus I
feel like I am slowly going deaf from prolonged exposure.

I'd like to suggest a motion that Sony looks into making a quieter dev kit
for the PS3 or whatever. I don't see why it has to be so loud, it's just a
PS2 with an old PC wrapped around it. My consumer PS2 is quiet, and I don't
see the need for all that fanning power for an old 233 Mhz Pentium or
whatever it is (they should just under-clock things anyway). If they could
get a fan-less power supply going then I think it would be pretty quiet.

Of course for the price of a 10000, I'm sure they are pretty paranoid about
keeping it cool.

Thanks,
Dave.

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noisy T-10000's
From: "Buzz Burrowes" <buzz_burrowes@playstation.sony.com>
Newsgroups: sce.dev.devkit.dtlh10000
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 20:46:52 -0800

Buy 4 PlayStation controller extension cables (2 for each controller), and
some RCA extensions, and put the thing in another room... that's what I did
with my PS1 devkit. Controllers worked fine despite Sony's claim that
extensions that long wouldn't work.

I plan to move my PS2 devkit to the same equipment closet next week. Hope it
works!!!

 

An interesting easter egg you probably didn't know about and more!

Metal Gear Solid on PS2
From: "David Coombes" <david_coombes@playstation.sony.com>
Newsgroups: sce.dev.toptips
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 09:25:54 -0800

Theres a demo of MGS2 in ZOE which comes out in the US at the end of this
month.

We played it yesterday. Its INCREDIBLE. You have to check this out!!!
!!!!!!

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Metal Gear Solid on PS2
From: "Bret Rowdon" <browdon@artech.ca>
Newsgroups: sce.dev.toptips
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 13:22:16 -0500

MGS2 is something I've been waiting for and seeing all those clips on
the web just makes me want it more. I'm also eagerly awaiting ZOE so having
a MGS2 demo on it is just another excuse to get it

Now of course, I'm just jealous of you! ;-)

-Bret

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Metal Gear Solid on PS2
From: "George Bain" <ps2_support@scee.net>
Newsgroups: sce.dev.toptips
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 19:07:24 -0000

No need to buy ZOE in Europe, MGS2 demo will be coming out for OPSM2 very
soon

P.S. Play it on a T10K and check the VRAM......
--
Bain @ SCEE Tech Group

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Metal Gear Solid on PS2
From: Shaun Leach <shaun@surreal.com>
Newsgroups: sce.dev.toptips
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 12:24:10 -0800

Care to elaborate?

Shaun

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Metal Gear Solid on PS2
From: "George Bain" <ps2_support@scee.net>
Newsgroups: sce.dev.toptips
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 21:19:41 -0000

I think Dean sorted this one out...

--
Bain @ SCEE Tech Group

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Metal Gear Solid on PS2
From: "Dean Ashton" <Dean.Ashton@justaddmonsters.com>
Newsgroups: sce.dev.toptips
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 21:07:35 -0000

> P.S. Play it on a T10K and check the VRAM......

Notice how they're getting away with a 512 pixel wide screen..? Or how
nicely blurred their secondary buffer is..?

To be honest I'm surprised it runs as well as it does on a T10k... loads of
TTY stuff being spat out (IOP 0 and EE Kernel streams are v.busy).

Their VU1 code looks quite nice too..

Dean

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Metal Gear Solid on PS2
From: "George Bain" <ps2_support@scee.net>
Newsgroups: sce.dev.toptips
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 21:21:15 -0000

512 all the way....like anyone would notice ; )

--
Bain @ SCEE Tech Group

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Metal Gear Solid on PS2
From: "Robin Putters" <robin@games.lostboys.com>
Newsgroups: sce.dev.toptips
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 16:26:57 +0200

>
> P.S. Play it on a T10K and check the VRAM......
>

The counter was only at 28 last time I checked it (last friday)

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Metal Gear Solid on PS2
From: "Roar Flolo" <arne@kgb.org>
Newsgroups: sce.dev.toptips
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 12:42:43 -0800

It's probably increased more often by people checking in
again just to see how many other people have been
there...

Roar

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Metal Gear Solid on PS2
From: "Phil Weeks" <pweeks@idolminds.com>
Newsgroups: sce.dev.toptips
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 11:42:20 -0700

okay i'll bite...what are you talking about? i cant make your answer to the
p.s. make any sense. and a subsequent post furthers the confusion.

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Metal Gear Solid on PS2
From: "David Etherton" <etherton@angelstudios.com>
Newsgroups: sce.dev.toptips
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 12:34:58 -0800

my guess is that there's a URL to a website hidden in the vram but I'm too
lazy to track down the vram viewer app or write my own

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Metal Gear Solid on PS2
From: "Jean-Francois Dube" <jfdube@ubisoft.qc.ca>
Newsgroups: sce.dev.toptips
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 16:27:27 -0500

If it's true, can someone post the URL?

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Metal Gear Solid on PS2
From: "Mcc" <mccubbin@eshameless.com>
Newsgroups: sce.dev.toptips
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 17:38:22 -0800

http://www.kcej.co.jp/xxx/

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Metal Gear Solid on PS2
From: "Os" <os@scee.sony.co.uk>
Newsgroups: sce.dev.toptips
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 08:47:29 -0000

> Theres a demo of MGS2 in ZOE which comes out in the US at the end of this
> month.
> We played it yesterday. Its INCREDIBLE. You have to check this out!!!
> !!!!!!

I assume you're talking about the graphics, which are reasonable, rather
than the gameplay, which is laughable?

os.

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Metal Gear Solid on PS2
From: "Dean Ashton" <Dean.Ashton@justaddmonsters.com>
Newsgroups: sce.dev.toptips
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 10:50:26 -0000

What? You mean you don't like entities that re-spawn when you leave &
re-enter a room? What's *not* to like about that? :/

Dean

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Metal Gear Solid on PS2
From: "jeb mayers" <jeb@sdreams.co.uk>
Newsgroups: sce.dev.toptips
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 12:09:02 -0000

Sod Metal Gear Solid 2,

Whats Zone of Enders like? ;o)

Jeb

 

Dev talk :-D

 

Thanks LeGiT, these should prove useful.

 

Okay, I can't mount this nor convert using mdf2iso... is this some new mdf/mds format??? (On linux here )

 

Err it's not new

I personally use Alcohol 120% - when I'm lazy I tick all the boxes (as I cba to find out which protection to undo for backing up/nocd my PC games, but it seems to work with everything that way) and it uses that format

Other programs must work with it, maybe Daemontools or something? Though I don't use them personally.

The thread has had 170+ views, so presumably a fair few people have downloaded it yet you're the first to mention an issue I doubt the majority of the others are using Linux Any windows box or orther programs to try? Or maybe you have a program that will burn it straight to a CD?

According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.mds http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDemu will be the answer to your prayers!

 

Well mdf2iso is a linux util specifically designed to convert mdf/mds to iso. Furthermore, there are apparently ways to mount it with the standard unix mount command, but those aren't working either. Oh well, I dunno how much I'd use this info, but cool nonetheless to see it up

 

No problem mounting it in Alcohol here.

EDIT: all kinds of interesting stuff in there, too. Thanks for sharing.

EDIT2: for people struggling with the image here's an archive with just the files:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=HBIQM9GR
(If this is a problem, just say the word and I'll remove it.)

 

No need for permission I don't really own the files just a genuine copy of the original disc Do with it as you will (except selling clones or files!) though I would hope your unpacked upload includes the disc label and everything (ie the catalog) works?

 

Thanks for sharing the donwload

I just used Winrar to extract the .mdf

 

What do you mean by that?

 

### UPDATE ###

I've also broken up the files too for those that may have issues/links going dead.

 

I've never noticed anything like that, but then I adblock/noscript everything except the essentials so who knows. Fair shout, anyway.

 

You might want to check out SkipScreen if you're using Firefox. Should jump you past all that bullshit.

 

Thanks for the upload even if I do not have a PS2 it might be useful in the future.