P.P. Center : Security at its Finest

Written by cafealpha 5 comments
Classified in : PPCenter, etc, Mylife Tags : fix, HomePage, motivation, pluxml
Just a quick article to announce that PPcenter (which gathers this blog, Planet de Pon, my custom cartridges, Pseudo Saturn Kai and some other projects) is now correctly supporting HTTPS !

Webou (which host PPcenter) was kindly providing HTTPS for already a long while but my homemade CMS was messing up the display of my homepage : for obscure reason (I honestly don't remember why) it was trying to load the page's CSS from an absolute URL, including the "http", and as HTTPS doesn't really likes to load something from an unsecured location, the CSS was discarded so that the page display was ... minimalistic

Saturn cartridges page before fixing HTTPS support


This is now fixed, and additionally trying to use plain HTTP should also magically redirect to HTTPS.
That's quite helpful, because all the labels for Gamer's Cartridge are referring my homepage as "HTTP" (*) and I really didn't wanted to have to re-design theses labels

(*) The labels refer to my old homepage "since 2005", http://ppcenter.free.fr/satcart/, which redirects to my "since 2014" http://ppcenter.webou.net/satcart/, and then redirect to the "ultra secure" https://ppcenter.webou.net/satcart/ ... it's a bit messy but it works

Forgive me for the link : http was still a thing when
Gamer's Cartridge labels were designed !



5 comments

#1  - vbt said :

i've hacked ppcenter using telnet and satcom !! ;)

Reply
#2  - cafealpha said :

I was sure you would be the first to find that hidden SatCom command that only talented programmers can notice :)

Reply
#3  - Henrique said :

I have a Pro Action Replay cartridge with a parallel port. One person installed Pseudo Saturn 0.832 on it and lost all functions.
I bought a parallel/usb cable, downloaded flasher_ARP (0.832), flasher_arp_20151005, SatCom_release_20110426, burned cds with N files but without success.
What do I do to get my original Pro Action Replay firmware?
I'll be buying another cartridge soon, but I wouldn't want to throw this one in the trash.
Thank you very much.

http://www.codelogic.com.br/arquivo/saturn/cart_ems.jpg

Reply
#4  - cafealpha said :

Please burn latest version of Pseudo Saturn Kai Save Data Manager :
https://ppcenter.webou.net/pskai/#download → pskai_release_20211113.7z → tools → pskai_sdm.iso
Then boot it on Saturn and from Save Data Manager main menu push R shoulder button and select "Firmware Flasher" entry. From there please select the firmware of your choice and follow the indications in order to flash the selected firmware.

Note #1 : Pseudo Saturn 0.832 doesn't works at all on a specific hardware variation of grey Japanese Saturn and in that case you must use disc swap trick to load Save Data Manager. If you are not in that particular case then simply put the CD-R in Saturn and select "Start Game" from Pseudo Saturn menu to start Save Data Manager.

Note #2 : there are two kinds of PC link type and unfortunately they are not compatible. So appropriate firmware is required to get communication with PC working correctly.

Reply
#5  - Henrique said :

Thank you my friend. Worked perfectly.

Reply

Write a comment

What is the third character of the word zgt3d?

Rss feed of the article's comments