Saturday, October 16, 2010

ANARCHY COOKBOOK VERSION 2000

USE OF THIS GUIDE (COOKBOOK) IS AT YOUR OWN RISK!
AND MAY EVEN BE ILLEGAL IN SOME CASES.
YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!


ANARCHY COOKBOOK VERSION 2000
http://www.mediafire.com/?565nbe7ahljy2hw

Custom Internet Explorer Title

This is an old Windows trick you might already know, I've been meaning to post this for years now.

Open up NotePad and copy and paste the following into it (edit the title), then save it as ietitle.reg and double click it to import it into the registry. Open up Internet Explorer & Enjoy :)

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main]
"Window Title"="Cash reward for the safe return of my hard drive if found call 555-555-5555"

dohgames.com

A couple years ago I was downloading a few mame roms from a site called dohgames, I wasn't happy with the the download system in place, it meant too much waiting and clicking just to get a single rom. So I dissembled the site, and wrote a script to download the games much faster.

It's sloppy and could be cleaned up a bit, but it worked and was all I really needed.

As usual I began by deconstruction of the url;
http://www.dohgames.com/roms/download.php?id=148&sys=mame

http://www.dohgames.com
The website the files were hosted on.

/roms/
The Directory where the files were stored.

download.php?
The php script that managed the downloads.
Open in Notepad or another text editor to see how it works, and what files & directories it calls to.

id=148
The id of the Rom I was downloading.

&sys=mame
The System of the Rom I was downloading, in this case Mame.

I then did a few simple tests to findout just how many id's were in the data base.
In this case I found that an id of 1 - 5169 worked.

Example:
http://www.dohgames.com/roms/download.php?id=5169&sys=mame

A quick wget string would fetch the file fine:
wget -nd -p -np -t2 -k -a default.log -nv -A.zip,.exe,.rar,*mame* "http://www.dohgames.com/roms/download.php?id=5169&sys=mame"

Now to download them all just use a variable in place of the url and have a list of all urls you want to download contained within a text file.

dohgames.com has sadly closed it doors after 6 years of service, but the same method used in this post can be applied to other sites.

I've used it successfully on a few sites, though some more complex then others due to security measures in place.

Friday, June 4, 2010

RailWorks - Error: Missing File "GameManager.dll" (FIX)

After installing RailWorks for PC I got the following error when trying to test the video:
Error: Missing File "GameManager.dll"

This was easily fixed.

If you experience this error when trying to test the display settings of RailWorks?, or when attempting to run RailWorks?, please follow these instructions:

1] Navigate to C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\railworks\Install\DirectX9
2] Double Click on DXSETUP.exe
3] Follow any instructions to complete the installation

If you still have problems and you're using an NVIDIA Graphics card use the NVIDIA PhysX System Software. Otherwise, ensure you have correctly installed all software and rebooted your machine.

7900GTX Hacked to Quadra FX5500

I recently built myself another Hackint0sh system, my 7th if I recall correctly.
This time I picked up a cheap system off of Craigslist. I wasn't happy with the ATI card used in the system so I picked up a ASUS EN7900GTX King King Edition PCI-e Video Card.

It turned out to have more issues then the ATI card, so rather then buying a new card, I decided to use one of Aqua-macs rom files to flash the card to something more compatible.

The rom I used was "POV 7900 GTX 512 PCIe to Nvidia Quadro FX 5500 512 Modified Rom For Hackintosh OSX 86". It works great! No issues whatsoever.

For those unfamiliar with the Quadra series, the FX5500 is a $3,000 Card.

Checkout Aqua-macs site for more rom files and guides.