By now it's also possible to install 64 bit systems within Virtual Box - as long as your computer is ready for that. But what if that's the case and you still don't see any option listed to create such a machine? I can give you two things to check in order to solve that: First: Go to BIOS/UEFI and check if the virtualization technology is activated. Easy, but often forgotten. Second, check if no other Virtual Machine software is blocking Virtual Box - for example HyperV. If that's the case and you don't even need HyperV (which is included in Windows 10), remove it by going to Programs and Features. A reboot is possibly necessary, but afterwards you can start Virtual Box, create a new VM and see also see 64 bit versions in your selection.
This tutorial shows you precisely how you can change the background music from the classic PS2 game Dragon Ball Z Budokai Tenkaichi 3.
Back in 2013 I already made a tutorial about this topic here on my blog, but this time I want to go more deeply into it with having more knowledge and experience about it - also with additional video material. Note: Your PS2 has to be able to run copied games - either with having an integrated chip, using ESR or running the game from the local or external hard disk drive - or via LAN if you like it that way. For testing this whole scenario I would recommend you to have an emulator, but more on that later. 1) Copy the disk to your PC Select a folder to copy the content of the DVD on your local drive. It contains the folders 'BIN', 'DATA' and 'IRX' plus two files to give the disk an ID (also it looks different depending on the version - EU or US). For the music modding you just need to focus on the folder 'DATA'.
2) Open the AFS file with '2' in it using DKZ Studio Within the folder 'Data' you'll find a file named like PZS3US2 (in the US version) or PZS3EU2 (European version). You need to open this file with the tool DKZ Studio, which you can find online. As you can see then this archive is filled with a huge amount of files from the game, mostly with character voices or noises as adx files. With double-click you can listen to every piece of sound because luckily the software has en adx player included. With this huge amount of files it's divided in three pages and you'll find the actual background music close to the end of the third pages. The files are named like this: zs3_00_US.adx (again, US version). 3) Changing the background music So and here's the interesting part: In order to change the music you need to convert your music to the adx format. So you need to go and check for the PES Sound File Converter. With that tool it's pretty easy to do. Click on 'Add' to select the files you want to convert, go 'Next', select the output folder and the process will run. And: Also mark that the song should run in a loop!
Before in terms of the file itself there's only one thing you need to look after: The size. As you can see in the screenshot above all the files are having a size between 3 and 5 MB. The created adx file should have a lower size than the file you want to change it with in order to work without any conflicts or error messages. So you need to shrink your mp3 files to a lower quality. I used the video editing tool Sony Vegas for that, but there are surely better ways to manage that. So let's say you now have an adx file with a suitable file size, then you need to rename it to the file you are planning to change it with. Then, - in DKZ Studio - right-click the music file which is about to change, click 'Import' and select your converted file with the same name. If no error message shows up, the whole process worked out. Now, do the same with other music tracks you are planning to change. You'll also notice on the file icon which files were already changed. 4) Create a patch With every change done the whole thing should be saved. By using 'File' and 'Save' I sometimes ended up not having the correct size of the afs file which meant lots of files were missing. So I recommend the following way: Create a patch with all your changes! So go to 'Patch' and select 'New Patch (With Modified)'.
A dkz file will be created. The file includes your music and after double-clicking it you have to select 'Patch' and then 'Apply patch in folder' before choosing the destination folder. So go to the place where you extracted your DVD and select the 'DATA' folder. All changes will be applied. Now check if the file size didn't drop and also the changing date of PZS3US2.afs should be quite up-to-date. 5) Burn it and test it! I'd recommend to use IMGBurn to create an ISO file with the extracted DVD files including your changed afs file. Confirm the suggested label name and let the process run. With a completed ISO image you need to find a way to test it. A quick and fast check would be possible with an PS2 emulator like PCSX2. You only need to find a matching BIOS. Of course you can also burn it or copy it to your hard drive directly but it would be good to know if it really works. If you changed the first file (zs3_00_US.adx called 'The Meteor') you directly notice after the intro video if the process worked. To check all the background music, go to 'Duel', select two fighters and while selecting the stage you can move to the right to check all the BGM. Have fun to fight with your own music! And did you notice the screenshots with the new characters? If you want to see more, visit the blog and other channels of Kinnikuchu. A tutorial from my site will follow soon.
So you want to play a PS2 game with everything unlocked, but you don't wanna go through the whole game again - luckily the Internet is filled with savegames. But how can you use them? When you go through the Internet you'll find savegames in the following formats: xps, psu, max, pws, sps
But when you start ULaunchElfand check the Memory Card you'll find out that every savegame has its own folder with a few files included. So you'll have to extract the files and copy them in such a folder. For doing that you need this tool: PS2 Save Converter
Using the tool itself is quite easy:
1) Extract the savegame file
Open the tool, select your savegame and then you'll see three files listed below. Right-click each one and select 'Extract File'.
Create a new folder and copy all the files in it. Rename the folder to the same name as the ID of the game. Now you can copy the folder to an USB drive and start your PS2.
3) Copy savegame folder to your Memory Card
Open the homebrew tool ULaunchElf, connect your USB drive and select 'Mass'. Copy the savegame folder, go to your Memory Card and select 'McPaste'. Copying will take a few second, it's still USB 1.1.
4) Check and start the game
Reboot your PS2 and go to 'Browser' to check if you can see the savegame icon in your Memory Card. If so, start your game and your files will be loaded.
You want to start WhatsApp, but you can't because a message pops up that your phone date is inaccurate? The solution should be quite easy. The message is the following: 'Your phone date is inaccurate! Adjust your clock and try again.' So selecting 'Adjust date' doesn't solve the issue in the most cases - but sure, sometimes it's THE SOLUTION. But what if the date is correct and you're trying to change it all the time and it doesn't work? It's luckily just a bug having an older WhatsApp version installed. So just go to your app store and update your application. Following that the app will start regularly. Maybe you just have to confirm your phone number and username, but that's it. I've heard that if you have this problem with an iPhone you may have to reinstall the app completely. I've only seen it on Android devices so far.
I was trying to update Pokémon GO to 0.39,the latest version, but a message stops me from doing it. Using an older device with Pokémon GO can sometimes be a burden. The game itself freezes or stops more often. Also having an unofficial Android 5 version installed means that you have to do every update manually, because Google Play Store doesn't allow a download for your device. So you get your apk package mirror from other sources, but so far it wasn't a problem for me to install the latest software version. It was a working 'workaround'. But my attempt to install version 0.39 didn't turn out to work. I also have to admit that I haven't started the app for a few days. So I did the update manually and the message 'Unable to authenticate. Please try again.' appeared. I deleted the app, cleared cache & data and also made a reboot before trying to install the app again. No chance. Same error. While finding a solution I found a video where someone mentioned that he could make it work trying to start the game with flight mode and no Internet connection. Didn't work out in my case. So.. Is my account maybe banned for some reason? I filled out an ban appeal to find out if something's wrong with my account. Maybe they'll unlock it and if they keep it locked I may decide to use another email address.
The Dropbox camera upload is something truly convenient, but only if it works... After installing the Cyanogenmod on my Samsung Galaxy S3 mini everything went well until I figured out that the file names from the automatic Dropbox upload were.... different. The names were actually like this: 1969-12-31 16.00.00-487 1969-12-31 16.00.00-488 1969-12-31 19.00.00 1969-12-31 19.00.00-1 1969-12-31 19.00.00-2 1969-12-31 19.00.00-3 1970-01-01 01.00.00 1970-01-01 01.00.00-1 Yeah, definitely not the current date. So I was hoping to find a fix as I found several other people in different forums having the same problem, but it didn't seem like there was any solution. It was even mentioned that there's no solution expected. Obviously there's an issue with the camera driver. The thing also is that Dropbox changes the file name after the upload to the date taken from the EXIF information. And this EXIF data is wrong for some reason. Even if there's the correct date set within the file. That's why some people had the idea to find a solution removing the Dropbox feature to change the file name for the upload, but that doesn't even seem possible.
My personal workaround solution
But despite the issue you have to live with it or find a way to make it simple. Of course you can sent everything via Bluetooth or connect the USB cable to copy the picture to your PC or cloud folder.
You can also use a script to change the names of the uploaded pictures in Dropbox afterwards. Or even find another cloud to upload your photos.
I kept it simple: MANUALLY! I made an extra Dropbox folder and I'm sending the photos manually from time to time to the Dropbox.
And if my phone gets lost, I still have the wrong named photos in my camera uploads. So, could be worse!
Many videos from mobile phones are recorded in portrait format. If you edit such a clip the basic settings for rendering are offering you the video in landscape format - but what if you don't want it? Like if you want to share such an edited video on WhatsApp. Rendering from a video in portrait format to landscape is pretty impractical for a phone. In my case it was a video in portrait format where I added some subtitles in order to resent it. Luckily in Sony Vegas (my description is about Sony Vegas 13) there's a way to solve that problem in order to render a video in the correct aspect ratio. So what to do?
Edit your video in portrait format
Go to 'File', 'Render as'.
Click 'More filter options' and select 'Match project video aspect ratio'
Now you can chose between 720p, 480p and 360p
Click 'Render' and the process will finish your video in portrait format
So that's all. Have fun sending edited videos to your friends. And take advantage of WhatsApp Web.
