Custom scene boot menu's on PS1 Copies

[Cyantist]

I was checking all these PS1 games before I chuck them out and it seems a few have these custom boot menu's. I know its just copies and no value but atleast they should be documentated right?

First up is Kalisto's release of Army Men Air Attack

Video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HguMfPfQTIo

Red Screen with white text
X FOR PAL / O FOR NTSC
Faithless - Insomnia or Encore Une Fois by Sash! Plays in the background from here on
KALISTO
WE ARE PROUDLY PRESENTING: - ARMY MEN USA (C) 3D0 + 2FIX - TRAINED AND FIXED BY -=*<CISCA/KALISTO!<*=- GAME RELEASED BY KALISTO!!
DAMNED! THIS WAS A REAL TASK FOR A TRAINERMAKER! IF YOU DONT MIND.. TRY IT FOR YOURSELF!! EITHER THE GAME CODER IS JASON VOORHEES OR I AM CALLED MIKE MYERS! THIS PROGRAMMER MUST HAVE BEEN A REAL PAIN FOR HIS PARENTS!!! JESUS CHRIST...
HERE YOU HAVE GOT.... ARMY MEN +2 ... RELEASED BY THE LEADING FORCE OR DO YOU EXPECT THE MAJOR US TITLES COMING FROM YOUR LOCAL LAMERZ ??? 'HEY BILLY... I CAN CRACK BIO HAZARD III ...' 'WHAT?' YES .. I JUST USE PPF TO PATCH THE KALISTO TRAINER!' HAHAHA.. PAH! THE GERMAN VIDESTORE MONKS.. A CHAPTER FOR ITSELF! ... .GO ON FETCHING STATE OF THE ART TRAINERS, CRACKS AND WAREZ BY THE GLOBAL #1 !!! - K A L I S T O ---> THE LEADING FORCE! AT THIS POINT SPECIAL HELLOS OUT TO RUDI RATLOS OF SSR/EX. SKID ROW! NICE WEBPAGE YOU HAVE GOT... :-) .. BTW. THE ONE OF SELIM JUST SUX! 8-) WE HAIL THE BEST ..... CLASS - FAIRLIGHT - CIFE - ACCESION - STATIC AND TO AVH/PARADOX... /CISCO OF KALISTO!

Pressing X then makes the Kalisto logo at the right hand side move to the left removing the lettering. It then moves back to the right to reveal
PAL VIDEOMODE FIX........ SEGA
UNLIMITED WEAPONS ......... SEGA
UNLIMITED ENERGY........... SEGA
By pressing right on the D-Pad it will change these options to Sony
PRESS X TO PROCEED TO GAME
Pressing X then makes the Kalisto logo move once again to the left then the game begins!

Screenshots of whats on the Army Men disk.






Next Paradoxes release of Spyro 3: Year of the dragon
This is an odd release as most of the data says Crash Bash. Which was a mario party style game for Crash Bandicoot & Friends
Video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4ErLxY1UWg

Spyro 3 The Year Of the Dragon
PDX ParaDox teddy bear logo
=-=-=-=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=-
SPYRO 3 (USA)
THE YEAR OF THE DRAGON
* CRACKED * PAL-NTSC #02 *
=-=-=-=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=-
PARADOX PRESENT SPYRO 3 - THE YEAR OF THE DRAGON THIS TIME : CRACKED, NTSC-PAL PATCHED. AND TRAINER +2 HACKED BYTES DONE BY *BABYDOCK* GAME RELEASED BY PARADOX USA SECTION. VERY THANKS FOR ALL PARADUDES SUPPORT !!!!! PARADOX : MESS WITH THE BEST AND DIE LIKE THE REST !!!
Pressing any button brings up a menu.
Video Mode ................. NTSC (Changes to pal
Unlimited lives..................... No (Changes to yes)
Unlimited Diamonds............... No (Changes to yes
Inside a box made of Copyright signs their is
QUALITY...
INNOVATION...
SPEED...
ANOTHER GAME...
ANOTHER TRAINER!!
THIS TIME BY ...
BABYDOCK-PARADOX
Pressing any button (Apart from Dpad) then begins the game!

Screenshots of disc contents:



Last one I have Is Kalisto's release of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3
Video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6tKTzj0D0g

Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2
Wayne in a spectrum of colours at the top
KALISTO PROUDLY PRESENTS: - TONY HAWK'S PRO SKATERS 2 (USA) (C) ACTIVISION/NEVERSOFT SUPPLIED BY: TEAM KALISTO
-PAL/NTSC SELECTOR -
PRESS -X- FOR PAR
OR PRESS -O- FOR NTSC
which overtimes changes to Intro Credits:
CODE BY WAYNE KERR
FONTS BY ANTHROX (SNES)
-x-KALISTO! -X-
WE SET THE STANDARDS
WE ARE THE BENCHMARK
-X- IT'S A WRAP! -X-
Waving up and down is
KALISTO BRING YOU: TONY HAWK'S PRO SKATER 2 (C) ACTIVISION (USA) - PAL/NTSC SELECTOR, FIXED BY WK ON 11-SEP-2000... WELL, HOPE YOU ENJOY THIS LONG-AWAITED GAME... I GUESS IT'S ONE OF THE LAST MAJOR PS TITLES COMING YOUR WAY! SORRY FOR NO MUSIC, BUT IT'S LATE AND I'D RATHER STICKS MY TESTICLES IN A BLENDER THAN FIX ITRIGHT NOW... LIVE WITH IT! :) OK, ENOUGH CRAP - LET'S WRAP!

Screenshots of data on disk:

[Cyantist]

Also at this moment in time some of the videos are still processing so check back later.

I am wanting to release these if they aren't already available. If anybody wants to show me a quick guide to making a 1:1 copy please pm me?

[7Force]

Man, I love this stuff. Reminds me of the C64/Amiga days.

[Cyantist]

Man, I love this stuff. Reminds me of the C64/Amiga days.

Paradox were actually around back then I think!

[Undercoverlover]

Interesting, but I'll be damned if I can read that text at the bottom. All I could pick out was "jesus christ"

[Cyantist]

Interesting, but I'll be damned if I can read that text at the bottom. All I could pick out was "jesus christ"

Check the quotations. It's got everything it says in it. I transcripted it myself.

[3do]

If i remember correctly some games even had cheats available and they were displayed at these screens you talk about.

The only game (so far) that i remember having cheats was Resident Evil Nemesis as i think you could complete the game and get to the last cutscene/ending by pressing the shoulder buttons in some como that you read on the custom intro.

[Consumed]

If anybody wants to show me a quick guide to making a 1:1 copy please pm me?

Won't Alcohol120% make a 1:1 copy? Or CDR-Win? A mate of mine used to sell hundreds of 'scene' PSX discs back in the day and apart from Clone CD the two I've mentioned were the only progs he ever used for backing up and burning.

[nameless hero]

Tony Hawk 2 is already @ pouet (the demo/intro archive), the rest is not. Here´s all so far archived stuff by Kalisto:
http://pouet.net/groups.php?which=1608
Would be cool if you submitted those to pouet, not sure how to properly rip those intros out though. I think it´s the SLUS***.xx(number) file in each disc, not sure though. Try renaming it to *.psx and run it with epsxe... ^^

[Cyantist]

If i remember correctly some games even had cheats available and they were displayed at these screens you talk about.

The only game (so far) that i remember having cheats was Resident Evil Nemesis as i think you could complete the game and get to the last cutscene/ending by pressing the shoulder buttons in some como that you read on the custom intro.

Yeah these have some like I mentioned in the quotations (my transcripts)

Won't Alcohol120% make a 1:1 copy? Or CDR-Win? A mate of mine used to sell hundreds of 'scene' PSX discs back in the day and apart from Clone CD the two I've mentioned were the only progs he ever used for backing up and burning.

Tony Hawk 2 is already @ pouet (the demo/intro archive), the rest is not. Here´s all so far archived stuff by Kalisto:
http://pouet.net/groups.php?which=1608
Would be cool if you submitted those to pouet, not sure how to properly rip those intros out though. I think it´s the SLUS***.xx(number) file in each disc, not sure though. ^^

Now I know which software to use to make a 1:1 copy I'll yank them off tomorrow and somebody can try pulling the intros.

[nameless hero]

I think it´s the SLUS***.xx(number) file in each disc, not sure though. Try renaming it to *.psx and run it with epsxe... ^^

My edit obviously was too late. ^^
Well, i´d try this before uploading some huge 700MB games. :nod:
If you download one of the intros from pouet, you´ll see they are all 300-700 kb, so according to your directory screenshot it must be (in?) the SLUS*** files. :D
Another edit: Hmm, the Tony Hawk 2 intro from pouet is only 401k opposed to the 844k of the SLUSxxx file on your disc, so i think it must be extracted somehow or whatnot. If the renaming trick doesn´t do it, i´d ask @ pouet how to do it, they are smart.

[Cyantist]

My edit obviously was too late. ^^
Well, i´d try this before uploading some huge 700MB games. :nod:
If you download one of the intros from pouet, you´ll see they are all 300-700 kb, so according to your directory screenshot it must be (in?) the SLUS*** files. :D

So I should really just dump the intro? If that's so I can do that tonight probably

[nameless hero]

So I should really just dump the intro? If that's so I can do that tonight probably

Your decision, i´d think the games are the same as the retail versions? So there wouldn´t be much point in uploading the whole (copyrighted :DOH:) deal when only the intro is interesting (the games are interesting too ofcourse ^^).
Quite cool to see that there is still stuff missing from pouet. I always get a blast looking at oooold intros from the C64 days, which haven´t been seen at least 10 years and just been added to the archive.
But i´m a weirdo. :nod:

[Cyantist]

Your decision, i´d think the games are the same as the retail versions? So there wouldn´t be much point in uploading the whole (copyrighted :DOH:) deal when only the intro is interesting (the games are interesting too ofcourse ^^).
Quite cool to see that there is still stuff missing from pouet. I always get a blast looking at oooold intros from the C64 days, which haven´t been seen at least 10 years and just been added to the archive.
But i´m a weirdo. :nod:

Have yourself some fun mate :)

How do I upload them to Pouet?

[bearkilla]

i really miss these things, did intros ever appear on ps2 stuff?

i know certain dreamcast releases did

[nameless hero]

Awesome! :love2:
All work beautifully, for Spyro (the best one imho, really cool!) configure your video plugin to most compatible. And set an FPS limit. ;)
You need an account @ pouet and then click "Submit" on the right side. To make it a really nice release, you´d need to make a screenshot for each intro and pack each into a single zip though. They also don´t like one click hosters, but in this instance they´d surely understand it as a temporary solution until it gets uploaded to the scene.org servers (not sure if anyone can do that).
Again: You da man! :thumbsup:
Edit: IF you want to, i could save you the hassle and earn all the pouet fame, since i already have an account. But then again, what are 5 minutes of work for becoming a living legend?

i really miss these things, did intros ever appear on ps2 stuff?

i know certain dreamcast releases did

Only PS2 cracktro @ pouet: http://pouet.net/prod.php?which=8212 Also done by Kalisto.
No intros... there must be some more imho. Click on Playstation2 for the rest ("only" demos). I could dive hours into pouet. ^^

[Cyantist]

Nice new individual links (mainly for pouet)

Edit: You do it if you want. Pouet is taking the piss. The posts below have an nfo in it linking to my website anyway im not too fussed.

[nameless hero]

OK, i´ll do it then. Again, thanks a lot for releasing them, i´ll give you all the credit ofcourse. :-)

[Cyantist]

They were just going to end up in the bin if I didn't that and it feel good to finally give something back to the community.

[nameless hero]

http://pouet.net/prod.php?which=57390
http://pouet.net/prod.php?which=57389

Well, that was quite some task. ^^ Try to find a free hoster that allows for hotlinking... Luckily i found one, Kiwi6. I first uploaded it into the incoming folder of the scene.org FTP, but that´s not allowed @ pouet...
Pat your shoulder cyantist, these gems are now archived for eternity! :D