PS1 Tonyhax International v1.6.3

Changes:

• A completely new system to bypass additional anti-piracy copy protection routines found in some later PSX games which works on all consoles, including Japanese ones has replaced the old Socram8888 bios patch. This improves Tonyhax International by giving it the ability to play many more games then ever before, and makes support just as good on the Japanese consoles. Huge thanks to MottZilla for the method to implement gameshark codes in Tonyhax International, which provides this functionallity.
• Optimized Tonyhax International's loader for size and speed. Cleaned up source tree.
• Rewrote documentation in markdown.

Changes:

• Updated to FreePSXBoot v2.1 (my own fork for now so that it compiles on Fedora). This means among other things that those 'fake' 64KB chinese PS1 memory cards now work with the FreePSXBoot images.
• Tonyhax International FreePSXBoot memory cards no longer need to be removed after booting the loader if they are in slot 2 of the console. I have completely removed Socram8888's old FreePSXBoot patch. The new 'memory card timeout to disable' patch from the FreePSXBoot builder is now used instead of the 'pretend memory card is corrupted' patch from the original Tonyhax. The new patch works with all games, some games did not like the old patch method used. The new patch also works correctly on every single PS1 BIOS version, including BIOS v1.0, v1.1, and v2.0. The old patch never worked on BIOS v1.0, 1.1, or 2.0.
• Added tonyhax_scph-3000_v1.1_slot2.mcr, tonyhax_scph-3000_v1.1_slot1.mcr, tonyhax_scph-3000_v2.1_slot2.mcr, and tonyhax_scph-3000_v2.1_slot1.mcr FreePSXBoot memory card files (as there are actually 2 different BIOS versions found in SCPH-3000 consoles).
• All FreePSXBoot images are now created with the -fastload option on to improve how fast Tonyhax International starts with the FreePSXBoot exploit. The -fastload option also provides that cool loading screen you can see in Unirom.
• Japanese PlayStations with VC2 and VC3 CDROM drive controllers are now re-calibrated to improve CD tracking and read performance for these CDROM controllers. VC1 and VC0 do not have equivalent commands, hardware, or even a need for this really since Bias and Gain can only be set manually.
• TOCPerfect changes have been merged from PS1 DemoSwap Patcher.
• Removed documentation on PS1 CD drive repair as it is getting it's own webpage/document in the near future. Reduced the size of releases dramatically by using better compressed images in this document (thanks Berion of PSX-Place).
• Added notes about video mode switching support on PS2s using PS1VModeNeg v1.0.1 (thanks Berion of PSX-Place)
• Cleaned up source tree and we are back to a consistent coding style (Socram8888 would be proud).
• Stock (non-modchipped) SCPH-1000 and early SCPH-3000 can now play any real import discs or backup CD-Rs of games containing anti-piracy detection (excluding PAL region games that also contain libcrypt protection) with 100% compatibility, even better then the anti-piracy bypass for American/European consoles actually.

Version 1.0.8 (8/26/2022)

• tonyhax-v1.0.8-international
• source code

Changes:

• Fixed the anti anti-piracy functionallity regression for American/European consoles. You can now play backup or import PS1 games that have anti-piracy features (i.e. Dino Crisis or Spyro: Year Of The Dragon) without issue on all American console and European consoles.
• Removed the PAL licensed ROM flasher CD image, as it is not actually not needed. Any console that supports cheat carts (SCPH-1000 up to SCPH-750X models) will boot a CD-R burned via the current tonyhax-rom-flasher.bin+tonyhax-rom-flasher.cue files just fine.
• Updated documentation on burning PS1 backups. Added info on games containing anti-piracy and or libcrypt protection. Also added info on replacing and modifying PS1 CD drives and changing bias/gain/laser resistance values.
• Cleaned up build proccess and source tree.

The Tonyhax International loader memory card save file is now named HAX instead of BESLEM-99999TONYHAX to allow for more exploitable games. You will need to update both the save game exploit file for your game as well as the Tonyhax International loader file to use v1.0.7 if you are using a previou version of the save game exploit file for your game that is already on a memory card.

Removed the SetSessionSuperUltraCommandSmash and replaced it with MottZilla's new method of re-reading TOC data for VC0 A, VC0 B, and VC1 A CDROM Controller BIOS firmwares. This change reduces the time it takes to re-read the TOC data on the backup CD-R or import PS1 disc from 2-10 minutes on the SCPH-1000, SCPH-3000, and some SCPH-3500 japanese consoles to around 30 seconds with 100% reliability!

Added save game exploit support for Tekken 3 Japan/USA/PAL thanks to Patchouli (karehaani) and krystalgamer.

Added save game exploit support for Tekken 2 Japan (rev 1 only), USA (rev 0 only), and PAL thanks to Patchouli (karehaani) and krystalgamer.

Added save game exploit support for Downhill Snow Japan thanks to Patchouli (karehaani).