This is what you’ll need to play games (homebrew offcourse) you can download from the internet. The card enables you to do a lot of things you cannot without. Depending of the country you live in it might even be legal to download roms and play them via this nice addon.

Besides the R4 card you will need a microSD card which you already have if you bought the full R4 package.  The full package also includes an USB stick that  enables you to put your downloaded software directly onto the microSD card.

The following features are currently available with the R4 card:

2nd generation storage device (no booting tool required)
-Flush fitting slot 1 card
-Uses MicroSD card, FAT16 or 32
-Supports any MicroSD card speed with no lag in game
-Supports Clean ROM, drag and drop. Works on any OS
-Built in NoPass
-Automatically detect save type
-Save directly to MicroSD card, not to onboard chip
-Supports Moonshell and other homebrew. Open I/O interface
-User friendly skinnable interface. Touchscreen or button operation
-Supports rumble pak and memory pak
-Supports the WiFi game, DS Rumble Pak, DS Browser
-Supports changes of the background of Operation Interface
- Support Skin DIY by setting background and font colors on Main Menu and Game Menu manually and automatically
-Supports 4-scale-lightness adjustment ( DS Lite only )
-Supports the Soft Reset.
-Supports Action Replay cheat
-moonshell 1.6 support Software Reset function( Press START key back to the R4 menu)

You can find much more information on this page

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Apple made Safari 4 Beta available today. The list of features looks promissing and I’m on my way to download this new browser as soon as I finish this post.  What seems to be a really nice feature is the new top sites feature. This enables you to browse thrue sites like you scroll thrue you media in Itunes coverflow. For all you people still attached to your Windows machine, it seems to integrate much more with your OS then before. Let me know if it works for you!

Well enough said, lets download it and see if it does what it promisses.

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Where are you waiting for?

I Have published several posts how to fix you blu ray drive. The PS3 or Playstation 3 drive will probably fail on u somewhere just after the warranty. Hopefully sony will change their attitude in the near future to resolve all these issues with the blu ray drive.
Check out my PS3 fix posts and let me know if it worked.

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Ok so, have you downloaded the new PS3 Media server software? Have you got it to work? Or did you get this:

Don’t worry about it , this is how I solved it.

First click the ” general configuration” tab. You can select you native language here if you like.

Probably you are running vm-ware or have multiple network port defined and PS3 Media Server selected the wrong port.

Select the port network port that you use. If you are not sure check your mac’s network settings in your system preferences.

In my case I have selected interface ” lo0″ which is the standard interface on my Imac.

After that enter you macs ip-adres in the ” force IP of the server” field. Don’t mess with the port option , you should be fine….

Once that is done save your work.

Restart the http server or just quit and restart to see if the application detects your ps3 now. If not search on you PS3 for media servers. It can take a little while.

If you get this following screen your done:

If you don’t get the screen above something is still wrong.

Let me know what you log says and maybe I can help you.

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I’ve been a fan of medialink since the beginning as you know, but there was always one thing missing…..

Subtitiles, medialink can’t encode data to stream. I’ve asked them if it would be available some time ago, this is the answer I got:

Subtitles are not supported by the console, the only way to add subtitles would be to re-encode the movie with subtitles burned into the video in the actual image. And realtime encoding isn’t currently possible on the Mac

You can use certain software to re-encode the video by hand and burn the subtitles in, far from ideal.

If you installed medialink on your mac just leave it there, it’s fine for most of the stuff you want to play. However now there is a new kid on the block…..and it’s GREAT!

PS3 Media Server!!!!!!!!!!

Wow, it can do a lot of things and it’s being updated pretty often and best of all it’s for FREE

Currently it supports the following features:

Ready to launch and play. No codec packs to install. No folder configuration and pre-parsing or this kind of annoying thing. All your folders are directly browsed by the PS3, there’s an automatic refresh also.

Real-time video transcoding via MEncoder, tsMuxer or Avisynth

DVD ISOs images / VIDEO_TS Folder transcoder

OGG/FLAC/MPC/APE audio transcoding

Thumbnail generation for Videos

You can choose with a virtual folder system your audio/subtitle language on the PS3!

All formats PS3 natively supports: MP3/WMA, JPG/PNG/GIF/TIFF, and all kind of videos (AVI, MP4, TS, M2TS, MPEG) the ps3 is willing to play

Display camera RAWs thumbnails (Canon / Nikon, etc.)

ZIP/RAR files as browsable folders for pictures/audio files

Support for pictures based feeds, such as Flickr and Picasaweb

Internet TV / Web Radio support with VLC, MEncoder or MPlayer

Podcasts audio/ Video feeds support

If you own a linux or windows machine (some people still do ) it also supports :

Lossless 5.1 PCM transcoding with DTS movies

Remux video and remux/reencode all audio tracks to AC3/PCM in real time with tsMuxer

FLAC 96kHz/24bits/5.1 support

I’ve installed it on my Mac and it works great, I ran into a few configuration setting that I had to set. I will come back on how to install in a next post.

Whoops almost forgot to place the links to this great software:

To the google code pages please

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