I love a cappella music, and a huge fan of beatboxing. Here’s what you get when you combine an awesome singer, awesome beat boxing, great video editing, and of course – awesome Michael Jackson music! Very entertaining.

A few days ago I blogged about how I could not get Dissidia: Final Fantasy to run on my Sony PSP slim running 5.00 M33-6 and the steps that I took to fix it.
Today I encountered a similar issue while trying to get Soul Calibur IV: Broken Destiny to run. I got the following error:
The game could not be started. (80020148)
Okay so I went on to find a solution, and among the suggestions were to enable EBOOT.BIN in recovery mode. This is how you do it:
There is a better way to get the game to run without having to enable EBOOT.BIN. This involves modifying the untouched European ISO using a Ripkit. This fix was created by Daveweed, so all credit goes to him.
Soul Calibur IV EUR [346 MB cso] Fix & Ripkit By DaveWeed
Tested on PSP Fat FW 5.00m33-6
Ripped : update,boot.bin fixed & renamed to eboot.bin
Extract the ripkit into a folder,Copy your Untouched iso game into same folder,
rename your Untouched iso to original.iso and double click rip.batUntouched iso must be 859 GB (900,923,392 bytes)
I have edited the boot.bin and renamed it eboot.bin using the following instructions :
- extract BOOT.BIN from euro game.
- Open extracted BOOT.BIN in hex editor
from 0×00399AF0 to 0×00399B0B
hex with zeros MEMSTICK.IND….MSTK_PRO.INDat 0×0039A1C9 change text SAVEDATA to PAVEDATA
at 0×0039C095 change text SAVEDATA to PAVEDATA- rename BOOT.BIN to EBOOT.BIN repack iso. approx 350 MB.
Features:
- No need to go to recovery menu.
- Boots on at least 5.00 m33-4 phat no deletion of mem stick files needed.
- Game Saving appears to work ok.
Credits to faceless81
Enjoy
Dissidia: Final Fantasy is Square Enix’s entry into the action RPG / fighting game genre for the Sony PSP.
The game features characters from different Final Fantasy games and centers around a great conflict between the heroes and villains, as the god of discord, Chaos, tries to wrest control of their worlds from the forces of good.
In the game’s story mode, the heroes of light who fight for Cosmos battle against forces of darkness, who fight for Chaos. Along the way encounter weaker doppelgangers patterned after themselves, called “mannikins”.
It was released back in August and I have been playing it ever since. Similar to other fighting games, Dissidia features alternate looks for each of the fighters, to help players distinguish one from the other in combat.
Another cool feature of the game is the “EX Mode”, which allows players to deal insane amounts of damage. Each “EX Mode” features a mini-game. Perfect completion of the mini-game deals the maximum damage possible.
Back when I started playing this game I wanted to see what each of the character’s alternate and EX Mode looked like. I could not find any back then. Now that I unlocked everyone except for Shantotto and Gabranth, I have decided to capture their looks and share it to the world.
Feel free to use these images on your website, but I would appreciate a link back to this page if you ever do. Enjoy!
Update: Added Shantotto, Gabrant, Cosmos, and Chaos
Warrior of Light – Normal

Warrior of Light – Normal (EX Mode)
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Warrior of Light – Alternate

Warrior of Light – Alternate (EX Mode)
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Warrior of Light – Mannikin (False Hero)
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Very good showmanship by the girls. Eye contact, coordination, and rhythm are just perfect.
Nabade nabade bachu! *swoon*
I was on my way to work today when I almost choked at the name of this cab owned by “Pacquing Transport”.
Could this be Manny Pacquiao’s taxi? Maybe he got tired of fighting and decided to retire and be a cab driver.
Either way, I wonder what people do inside a “pacquing taxi”? Guess I’ll have to ride one to find out!
I almost had a heart attack yesterday. I got myself a copy of Dissidia: Final Fantasy U.S. version, but it wouldn’t run on my PSP. My modified PSP was only running 4.01 M33-2. Apparently, Dissidia needs 5.00 firmware or higher to run.
Thus, I tasked myself with I upgrading the custom firmware on my Sony PSP, going from Dark Alex’s 4.01 M33-2 to Team33’s 5.00 M33-6. I did everything written in the instructions. I copied the 5.00 M33-6 updater to my /PSP/GAME directory. Since I was upgrading to 5.00 firmware I copied the official Sony PSP 5.00 firmware as well.
The firmware installation went smoothly. At the end of the update it gave me a confirmation message then did a reset. After resetting I went to System Information and it shows that I was able to successfully upgrade to 5.00 M33-6.
Ok, time to play! To my horror, none of my ISO / CSO games would run. Whenever I tried to load a game I would get kicked back to the XMB with the following message:
The game could not be started. (80020321)
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
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I have a hard time dealing with stress. It’s become so bad that over the past few weeks stress has prevented me from getting a good night’s sleep. Sometimes I would fall asleep at 5 A.M. Sometimes I do not get any sleep at all. It’s past 4 A.M. as I’m writing this.
I found this video which will hopefully help me reduce stress and feel more relaxed. I shall try it out and post my results here.
The awesome thing about this stress reducing exercise is that it only takes a minute or two and it is very easy to do. I’m off to try it out now. I hope it works for me, wish me luck!
Update (08/21/2009): I have been doing the exercise regularly for the past few days. The girl in the video makes it seem easy but it’s actually a lot harder to do, especially if your body isn’t really that flexible, like me. LOL. It really helps, though! I always feel much more relaxed afterwards. I have been doing this in combination with other techniques such as meditation and better time management. As a result, I am now sleeping and waking up earlier. I’m still far away from my goal of being able to fall asleep on demand – something that I used to be able to do until a few years ago when I switched jobs, but I think I’m off to a good start!
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