Dustcrazy

Project Stero

2008-05-29T15:51:00.000-07:00

Well my stereo receiver went out acouple of weeks ago and since then I've been thinking what I could do with it... After realizing how much I've missed my stereo I decided to turn it in to a media type of setup for my music. Well I had an old 166MHz, 82MBs of RAM, and a 20GB hard driver; which is plenty to run Linux + MP3 player with a dot matrix LCD screen to replace the original. The new dot matrix LCD screen will be used for the whole interface and should work out nicely. Well heres some pictures from the other day.

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Something New

2007-11-19T06:10:00.000-08:00

Well I decided to finial get around to updating dating my blog. But before you get your hopes up of something useful, please know that there isn't. I hope to update this page here soon with what I have been working on.

The End...

2007-08-27T09:26:00.000-07:00

The end may sound sharp and bad, but its only the end of a new begging. I'm finally leaving the Grand Thief Auto scene. In the last 3+ years I've spent alot of time having fun and learning from the ones I still look up to. I've always wanted to make a mark in the scene, but seems like that won't happen. Maybe there will be some advances in the GTA Stories modding/research. I currently don't have the time or effort anymore to contuine. Thanks to the people that have manage to put up with me over the years and also to the ones that have been leading the way. Theres too many to list now, but theres a couple I would like to give a shout out to. Delfi, Camaro, Falcon, cMc Jay, cMc Jacob, Steven-M, Racer_S, Team, Team, and all the other people that I can't think of off the top of my head.

On a other note. I want to wish my best friend Dylan Hatcher a great 16th Birthday today. :D

Small Update..

2007-07-26T12:43:00.000-07:00

Well theres not much to talk about. I haven't had much time lately to work on my current GTA projects. I've been getting things for school lately and trying to enjoy the last couple of days of summer break with friends. If your 17 like me then you know where I'm coming from. School starts back this Monday. Which really sucks, but it shouldn't slow my progress down. I hopefully will be getting a new PSP screen in the coming month too! More updates soon and peace to the homechickens!

Current Projects and Ideas

2007-07-10T15:15:00.000-07:00

I haven't been on in the last couple of days to due to me out having fun then getting sick. But I've been thinking about the future of GTA and PSP modding... As some of you may know before Dark_Alex left the modding scene he talked about a ISO loader in Sony's FWs 3.50 + 3.51 that could loaded encrypted ISOs. Well it just so happens that after I finish the model format decoding and the texture editor then this well be my new goal

On the note about the GTA model format I'm writing a program tonight that will help me get a grasps on all the common data in the model files...

Modding in the Air..

2007-07-05T19:36:00.000-07:00

Well it looks like the modding didn't end yesterday. The future of GTA Stories game modding is looking brighter everyday now. Heres some more screens from AJ that he done today, expect this time with Phil Collins. and Lance Vance. Just keep them coming....

As always you can find more of this screens here and here for Lance.

Also something worth mentioning is what matt11504 of GTA Forums done by switching model and texture of 1 and 9.. Also another model/texture switch, picture 3...

Let the Modding Begin!

2007-07-03T22:19:00.000-07:00

Quote Aj Collins from the YAIE topic at Rockstar Watch Boards

I think I'm the first one ever to mod the stories games! As a proof of concept, I replaced Vic's army model and texture with the fireman model and texture. Dustin, you rock man!
EDIT: Turns out that this is a beta model too! The firemen that come when there is a fire are more darker than this.

This is really interesting, it shows what can be done with the GTA Stories games. I'm currently working even harder to make it easy to mod GTA Stories. Heres some screens shots that my good buddy Aj posted on Rockstar Watch Boards.

Read the topic here for more information and pictures.

YAIE - Yet Another IMG Editor

2007-07-03T11:02:00.000-07:00

YAIE, Yet Another IMG Editor, is currently the only IMG Editor that supports GTA Liberty Stories and Vice City Stories. On top of that it also supports GTA3, Vice City, and San Andreas. The GTA Stories part of the program also creates a .DIR file which enables you to open the IMG files any other IMG editor that supports GTA3 or VC, which I don't see way any one would want to use another program . Other features include multiply languages with support for the adding of more, search, extract, add, replace, and so on.. In addition YAIE has plugin support which I plan to release a GTA Stories Texture editor later on, in a week or so..

Download v1.3

Please enjoy. If you find any bugs or have any comments please let me know.

LCS IMG Extractor v1.0.1 Released

2007-03-12T14:22:00.000-07:00

Well today I decided to release the much wanted LCS IMG Extractor Beta. I did this before school today and have enjoyed the reactions too. So have fun. The below is a quote from GTA Forums where I posted it.

Liberty City Stories .IMG Extractor Beta
ReadMe
Builds 1.0.1 and Up...

LCS IMG EXTRACTOR ON PSP-HACKS.COM!!! -- Digg This

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News
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March 13 : Release Day
News on Exophase.com
News on PSP-Hacks.com
News on Digg

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Information
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After getting a PSP for XMas and having a under-powered computer. I decided that it would be funny to hack Libert City Stories. My first project for LCS was a BASIC stlye decompiler, but stopped working it half way dew to the rapid devlopment of Sanny's LCS SCM support. So after looking and waiting to see the next batch of hacking tools for LCS I got disappointed. Intill I started looking at the files and started to understand them.
This program is a part of a bigger program that will be used simular to Delfi's versions of TXD Workshop, which is one of my favorite tools for the GTA3 PC series. Although at the current time this program has only been test on the main PSP/PS2 image files. It currently does not read a DIR type file. Although this will be impulmented into LCS Workshop, it currently exports to file names as Unknown1.CHK, Unknown2.CHK, and so on...
I plan on releasing the source code very soon. As I belive in having an open-source community...

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Requirements
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Either the PSP Image File, , or the PS2 Image File, .
40 MB Free RAM, or the size of the IMG. Note the twice as much memory than required will increase the speed.
Time... Do to the current process in the build it requires a good amount of time. I plan to improve the amount of time that this takes. Its due to the slower speed of Windows file reading/writing vs the Windows API version...
Visual Basic 6 Runtimes

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Install
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As with most tools you just need to copy the contents of this program to your desktop or where ever. The programs does require the "Extract" Folder, and inside of the the "LDM" folder + "XET" folder.

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How To Use
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This pretty simple. Just drag the IMG file to the program. Or goto Windows Open With and choose the LCS Extractor exe.

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Known Bugs
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--Currently doesn't support compressed IMGs.
--{Fixed} Possibility that program the program may lose focus. Making the program go white although its still running and working properly. This is due to VB6 lack of priority's and support for large loops. Suggestions on how to fix this is welcomed.
--Only textures and models at this time are exported. As this are the only ones in the main file I have seen.
--Theres a chance that the program may lockup on the last file, this file be fixed ASAP.

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Download Links
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Dustcrazy - Rapidshare
Mirror - MoeRonimoe
Mirror - WordsBG
Mirror - PSP Hacks.com
Mirror - Delfi
Mirror - x3sphere of Exophase.com

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