PSP plugins are wonderfully hard to come by now that the golden age of the PSP scene has passed and so finding the latest versions of things require a bit of hunting. This list will just be the plugins I happen to think are rather convenient and for the most part, play nicely with each other.

Just a PRX:

• Hold+ v4.0: A number of features when the PSP is on hold (reduce power consumption, allow button presses after holding SELECT), adds faster music player scrolling, and a 5th brightness level.
• NoUMD 6.XX: Simply disables the UMD. Saves some power...

So the topic of the day is PSP custom firmware, specifically for firmware version 6.60 since most official updates are kind of just for online stuff and some of the newer games. Over the years, there has been a fair number of custom firmware like M33, HEN, PRO, ME/LME, etc. that seem to come around every major firmware release. The two main custom firmware as of now are PROcfw and ME/LME, both of which saw releases around the end of 2014 to early 2015.

Between the two custom firmware, there are a variety of features added beyond the official firmware....

So when talking about archiving things for the PSP, the main problem lies in how large PSP games are (they range from ~40MiB to ~2.5GiB). There are a couple archive formats that PSP custom firmware can use without any major issues most of the time, but at the moment the best standard is up in the air.

• iso format: The uncompressed release. All cfw should be able to use it just fine, but it tosses all file space to the wind.
• cso format: The defacto standard for the PSP since forever. Similar with iso format, all cfw should be...

So, it has been a rather long while since I made a blog post. Partially because I wanted to swap my blog over to jurassicplayer.github.io, and partially because I’ve just dumped a ton of my time into a sink grabbing some quality of life stuff. Recently, that also entailed getting a rather old and somewhat busted PSP1000. A couple housing cracks here and there, no joystick, button issues, and overall just grime that had caked up inside the console.

After merging my PSP with a second PSP that my brother recently bought, having believed that it was pretty much dead,...

It’s a brand new blog to spread the vast amounts of no knowledge that I possess in a single website that includes even the nifty stuff that I do on github every once in a blue moon.

Pretty much this is just a status update to say I’m currently moving my old posts from Blogger to my new github blog along with adding some new posts to bring all of my useless fiddling to a single place. At the moment, only the blog is really “working” and I suppose the about page can also be counted, but I still need...

So it has been a rather long year and sometimes stuff gets updated. To keep with that trend, I’m going to update my original opinions on the art programs that I tried out over a year ago. This time, hopefully with some place markers to see how much will get updated next year (because I can’t tell how far FireAlpaca has gotten since I last tried it…just a version number without a date). The list this time will also have a couple of extra programs dumped in because why not.

• Krita
• Gimp
• Paint.NET
• Pinta
• MSPaint
• OpenCanvas
• PaintTool SAI
• MyPaint
...

So I somewhat follow the Linux Action Show because at some point I started following it as a convenient source for possibly important linux news, but that is completely besides the point. I’m only bringing that up because they are having a firefox challenge sort of thing where they try to live in Firefox for a week. Today’s post is just a what-if situation where I would have to use firefox. Granted, there are probably tons of people who use firefox without a problem…so I’m ignoring those people.

Firefox itself doesn’t really surprise me or anything, it’s just a simple...

Around the beginning of the month, I decided I would take a jump and try to gentoo it up. After a day of derping around, I gave up on it for the time being, so don’t expect some amazing success story where my laptop became razor fast.

A lot of the day was spend doing partitioning and copying magics to re-organize my partitions and split my single arch partition into a root and home partition to share with my gentoo install. This included a fair amount of resizing and moving partitions as well, so much time was wasted.

Installing gentoo...

During the many hard times that may occur over the span of your anime otaku life, sometimes internet fails and leaves your tracking a terrible mess. Of course, this is under the expectation that even without internet, you are still watching anime because something so insignificant as internet obviously can’t inhibit anime consumption. So, for the most part, this is under the assumption that for whatever reason, your computer can’t be used to keep a history of your escapades or you just really want to keep your list bleeding edge despite nobody caring. With this assumption in mind, the goal...

The number of anime series to date is a vast and constantly expanding endpoint, thanks to there being a fairly large list of new series added each season. Sometimes it’s not always easy to remember that horribly obscure anime that had such a generic plot that it was completely unmemorable from any of the other similarly dull anime. Sure there are people that may find said series to be the grand tier of all anime and you are insane for not remembering any of it, but w/e I don’t remember anything important from KoiChoco or Fortune Arterial besides one having...

So with the wonders of having tons of android applications in the palm of my hand, it’s a good time to search for more anime/manga related things that can enhance our overall nonproductive past-time. This spans more than just simple things like wallpapers or ringtones, but actual apps that might count as objectively useful. First on the mental list is one that I have been searching for for a very long time is a manga reader. I’m not going to lie, this is going to be one hell of a fucking long post with multiple walls of text. Be prepared....

So obviously being a cool guy, you have an android device or two that you may or may not want to connect via usb to your computer. While in windows, mtp is either barely passable or you just can’t get the shit to work at all. In both cases, mtp is annoying to use and all around terrible in comparison to the old way of just mounting directly in my opinion. Fortunately, the Archlinux wiki has an article on that (as with almost everything else ._.) and all that really needs to be installed are gvfs and libmtp, though apparently...

So we are finally at the end of the great raspberry pi journey for media serving and the last thing we really need is a way to protect our precious collection. This can be encompassed into two main ideas: protecting what goes in and out of your computer via the network, and protecting the stuff on your filesystem. Most of this I can’t go in-depth about, but the general idea is to have a firewall for filtering what stuff comes in, encrypt and proxy around stuff that goes out, and encrypt the files in your filesystem. I have next to...

So we are finally complete with all of our wondrous automation on our raspberry pi and thus, now is the time for a recap of what remaining stuff we need to deal with.

A protocol to serve our media to another device on the network Maybe something to hide ourselves so we aren’t blatantly telling the world that anime is all we ever want

Today is a day where we will talk about another subject that I know next to nothing about, but that is totally fine because the internet never lies. Only truths here… Anyways, we are just taking...

Finally we are at the end of setting up our magical torrenting client and all we need to do is have a way to add our anime to an rss watch list. Luckily enough, we have just the plugin that can deal with RSS feeds, but to keep things in order, first we need to decide on a feed to follow.

The normal sites that I assume are standard when it comes to searching for this kind of media: Nyaa.se, Tokyo Toshokan, BakaBT, and ShanaProject. Out of these, ShanaProject is probably the most anime-oriented and is kind of specifically a...

So with our rutorrent and rtorrent set up, we can now move on to tackle more first world problems and start this stuff on boot. The main goal is to get lighttpd and rtorrent up and running when the pi starts up, so that we can instantly go to rutorrent after it finishes booting, and then do a little bit of configuration to rtorrent and rutorrent to smooth out some of the edges.

First is to install tmux or screen, though which one in particular is a toss-up (and I prefer tmux). After that, we need a systemd service to...

So getting rutorrent onto a raspberry pi is not nearly as amazingly easy as deluge, but hopefully it will be better in the end. Since a lot of the typing work has already been done, I’ll just link to the arch wiki which should get you most of the way there. Just make sure to copy the template .rtorrent.rc to your home directory with “cp /usr/share/doc/rtorrent/rtorrent.rc ~/.rtorrent.rc”.

After following the wiki, it brings you to the point where things almost fully work, but the log of rutorrent (when you open it in a web browser) gives you some of the...

So with a great file system on your hard drive, we need to do a quick addition to our /etc/fstab to mount it at boot, but first is a recap of the other stuff we still need to do.

• RSS aggregator of some sort to sift through the torrents we are looking for and grab the ones we want
• A torrent client to actually get them without killing our pi
• A protocol to serve our media to another device on the network
• Maybe something to hide ourselves so we aren’t blatantly telling the world that anime is all we...

So continuing the thread of the raspberry pi, we currently have some magically way of managing our raspberry pi via ssh.

• A storage place for the stuff we are hoping to use our torrent client for
• RSS aggregator of some sort to sift through the torrents we are looking for and grab the ones we want
• A torrent client to actually get them without killing our pi
• A protocol to serve our media to another device on the network
• Maybe something to hide ourselves so we aren’t blatantly telling the world that anime is all we ever want

So we finally have a wonderfully set up raspberry pi that is ready to have a bazillion packages installed to bloat it. First, we need a list of the things we’ll need in order to turn this pi into a media server that better be hauling weights for us. From start to finish:

• Some way to manage our raspberry pi if we want to update or something goes wrong
• A storage place for the stuff we are hoping to use our torrent client for
• RSS aggregator of some sort to sift through the torrents we are looking for and...

I thought I would make a post, or rather a log of setting up my raspberry pi in the event that I have to start over from scratch. Of course, this will mainly be covering the finer details of setting up the raspberry pi, since it’s pretty easy to install via NOOBS. While NOOBS is probably easiest, the option is available to install just a certain distribution such as Pidora, Raspbian, etc. if you really aren’t planning on using anything extra. In any case, I’m using the NOOBS lite version since I’m planning on having a cable anyways to update...

On the great quest for watching anime nicely, the raspberry pi could be a major part, but just don’t watch anime on it. It’s actually quite the simple story as to how this opinion came about. At the very beginning, omxplayer couldn’t handle internal subs, otherwise known and pretty much universally used in the anime community as softsubs inside of the mkv container format. Much time has passed since then, and for the most part, softsubs now work with omxplayer as well as custom fonts that might be included. Thus currently, you could watch anime with some semblance of decency...

So it has been quite a few months since I made my last post, mostly because every time I thought about it, I couldn’t think of what to write. Rather than talk about a specific topic, this post will just kind of be an accumulation of stuffs that happened.

First off was the Steam sale, which in my opinion was meh. The only real reason I have Steam was because of the free games that I happened to amass during my random raffle entries. During the entire sale, I only got a couple of games that I really felt like...

So the tmux + ranger duo. It’s something I have coveted for quite some time, though to be honest I almost never use it anyways (but it’s just that awesome). Tmux is a terminal multiplexer and that means that it can split up your terminal into multiple terminals in a single window. Ranger on the other hand is a badass cli file manager that you can add pretty much any shortcut in and do tons of other nifty things with. The problem that was present before was that combining the two generally resulted in the w3m image displaying capabilities to...

So after around two weeks of KDE, a sizable amount of customizing and other randomness, I decided to toss all of it out the window and go back to my usual openbox+tint2 setup. Some install somewhere borked the Kwin compositing and I decided that there would be too much effort in trying to solve everything I wanted out of the environment.

Since I did stay in KDE for more than a couple of hours, I thought I would write some of my thoughts about the KDE environment so before I ever think to go and try it again, I read...

It’s a new week, and after an entire weekend of just not doing much at all. With the amount of random testing of the KSplashX engine last week, I found some small tidbits here and there without much to offer in terms of making some really fancy looking splash screens. Sure you could add animations here and there using animated images which in and of itself is a LOT of work simply because each frame has to be made and then organized into a single image. I also found out that trying to put a fullscreen animated image isn’t something...

For the past couple of days, I’ve been living in a KDE desktop. Some would say this is insane, others would say that I made the right choice and to be honest, I haven’t checked out much of the actual environment to make a judgement call. In terms of what I installed, I went for a minimal kde setup to give me the settings and desktop to play around with.

For most of my times in linux I always seem to try to aim for a sweetspot between lightweight minimalism and eyecandy. I originally thought that I might try the...

So the PSX was a cool console system from ages ago with actually decent games. While thinking to myself “dam, I would like to play some of those old games”, I thought I would check up on the emulator sort of things that I almost never pay attention to.

Apparently there are quite a few emulators for the playstation now, though really I could care less about most of them besides PCSX-R because who doesn’t love stuff that is constantly being updated. That said, I’m a lazy guy so in my case, I just stick with retroarch anyways. Unfortunately the...

After leaving everything for around a month to do absolutely nothing, I magically ended up with a raspberry pi that I actually didn’t magically end up with. In other words, I bought a raspberry pi for myself and turned it into my very own server. Dubbing it RoriCandy, I made a nice little cardboard box case for it based off of a tutorial on the interwebs somewhere…mostly because I was too cheap to buy some nicer looking supplies.

After putting everything in a nice casing, buying an unneeded hdmi to dvi converter, I connected to my rPi via ssh and...

So a little over a month ago, I made a wonderful post about video players and the like. Funnily enough, after shuffling around the internet I happened to end up finding a video player that is perfect for windows. By perfect, I mean it’s just a build of mpv for windows. From what I can tell, the build works about the same as it does on linux, but of course instead of just direct build of mpv, there is a front-end that you could use instead…

It’s called Baka-MPlayer and although the interface is somewhat...

I have a tablet and it’s amazing even if it isn’t…but what can you do with a tablet? Obviously you can draw with it and thus we get to look at applications that our tablet can utilize.

• Paint Tool Sai
• OpenCanvas
• MyPaint
• Gimp
• Krita
• FireAlpaca

So to go down the list, we’ll start with GIMP because forget starting with the top of the list, we don’t need to follow normal structure of thought. All of the screenshots are taken from windows or linux and most of the self-drawn images were not exactly the most dedicated of drawings. The...

There are a ton of torrent clients, but we are going to simplify that list here. They may agree with your tastes, or there may be a torrent client that I didn’t talk about. This is because I’m not going to go around testing all the torrent clients just to tell you that I like how a certain one looks because that is a waste of time.

So a long time ago, there used to be a torrent client called limewire which was forked to a new client called frostwire…both of them are now held nowhere near their old regard...

So music players are kind of a thing, unless you use your media player as your music player, which works as well, but doesn’t provide the nicer functions of a music player. Of course, we are going to have a separate music player, and it is going to need to have iPod support. This pretty much equates to an iTunes replacement.

The Windows music players that are pretty popular consists of Songbird, iTunes, Spotify, Winamp, Clementine, MediaMonkey, foobar2000, and a ton of other ones that I could really care less about.

Quickly surmising reasons not to use some: iTunes: A...

With the second half of XBMC short how-to, we get to look at actually scraping websites among other things that are also of some importance. Even though XBMC management is split into these two posts, this post probably isn’t going to be quite as large due to XBMC supposedly handling the bulk of the work.

Currently there are three scrapers that can be used for regular anime series: tvdb, anidb, and anime news network. As far as I can tell, nobody really cares to use ANN for scraping and mainly stick with tvdb or anidb. Both have slight differences in...

There are pretty much three ways to get XBMC and anime to work together in a way that actually uses XBMC’s ability to scrape websites like TVDB or IMDb to present your anime with beautiful eye candy.

Path of Renaming: Manually go and rename ALL of your anime to comply with the standards used in XBMC.

Path of Convoluted Thought: Utilizing regular expressions to recognize your anime so scraping works and thus, possibly the least amount of thought AFTER figuring out the perfect universal way to recognize any anime from any series by any fansub group despite how they might...

So video players are kind of just a trending thing maybe…at least until the next amazing video player gets released into the world. Currently there are an enormous number of video players available for both windows and linux (and I don’t care about Mac so w/e), but for the anime lover that we all are, there are a couple requirements that must be satisfied in order to be a decent video player.

The staple of all anime lovers should be either MPC-HC or PotPlayer/DaumPlayer in windows and mpv or mplayer2 for linux. Everything else is stupid. And that includes VLC....

As of today, this blog is now completely about absolutely nothing amazing except stuff I want to remember pertaining to whatever I want. You can make use of the information however you please.

So, linux doesn’t have a problem with codecs because everything in linux just ends up fairing better eventually and for the most part, if you install mpv or mplayer2, you have no reason to give a shit about the rest in linux. Windows on the other hand requires some work in order for things to be nice.

My rules for dealing with codecs Rule 01: Codec packs...

Between these dates were originally 4 blog posts that I decided weren’t useful enough to manually bring to this new blog. Thus instead, I’m just going to put a link to all four blog posts.

• 2/4/13 - The Introduction Video
• 2/16/13 - Season 1 Episode 1
• 2/25/13 - Season 1 Episode 2
• 3/10/13 - Temporary Postponement

I like how I gave up on the venture after that. It took too much effort, and IIRC I reinstalled my box without saving the stuff I used the first time.

So it’s once again been around two weeks thanks to the wonderful vacation that is Thanksgiving. With the fixing of my computer, everything is now working well and no overheating. Not only that, my brother has offered to let me use his USB microphone, though “offer” is not really the true situation.

In any case, with a rather nice microphone and a computer that is once again in shape, I’m just about ready to make videos :D. Of course, I still have the introduction and background music I’m planning on adding to my videos so hopefully there will be a...

So relatively little to do with anime today, but recently I went looking at a new (well, new to me at least) web browser called dwb. It’s a browser reminiscent of luakit, uzbl, etc. and so there is fairly little to be seen when actually using the browser. It has support for tabs, has a status bar, and aside from that, has the web page. There are of course the other general sort of features that any normal browser has (history, bookmarks, etc), but there are a number of minor differences in comparison to my preferred browser of choice (which...

So it’s been about two weeks (the last post should have been later in the week…then it would be a bit more even, but meh it’s still an average of one post per week) and it’s time for another post. Eventually I’ll be posting videos, though that may or may not happen before I replace my laptop’s fan hopefully during the Thanksgiving break. In the meantime, I made a very simple opening sequence (terribly simple) that I am planning on adding to all of my videos and I might add thumbnails to the youtube previews if I split up the...

So it has been much less than an actual week, but accomplishment deserves some sort of timely banter.

As it turns out, I’m a person with a preference towards a little bit of eye candy, and by little I actually mean a lot. Unfortunately, I’ve never been one for burning too much resources for just eye candy, removing the more fun stuff like compiz, but there was one particular feature that I really wanted to have on my fairly minimalist styled laptop (Archlinux+Openbox+Compton). That feature happens to be wallpapers.

Now putting just a single wallpaper for all desktops is fairly...

Welcome to the Weeaboository, the blog about the misadventures of a lone anime/manga lover in the world of linux, specifically Arch Linux.

The idea is to post a blog post that deals with Linux as well as anime roughly once a month. What does that actually mean? Put in simple terms, I’m going to mess around with stuff in Linux, report back my findings, and possibly find some MUST HAVES for the common anime lover on linux. Maybe I’ll even throw in a couple of my thoughts on various anime/manga series, though that...