Programming with an Xplorer

Post by **henderson101** » October 1st, 2012, 10:42 pm

Hello,

I started looking as Playstation dev years ago. I got as far as buying a chipped playstation (it's a 5502 I believe, UK model) and an Explorer (I also have a parallel PC cable from a Zip drive, which I believe can be used to connect a PC to the Explorer.) What I never got round to was doing anything to the explorer to make it work with the tools. Can someone point me in the right direction? I remember it needed to be flashed with Caela or Catflap or something like that, just not what exactly is needed.

TIA!

Post by **Shadow** » October 2nd, 2012, 3:30 pm

Make sure you use Windows 98 for this process. Windows 7 needs more time and troubleshooting to get it working

1) Make your BIOS use SPP for the Parallel settings.
2) Download and burn X-FLASH to a CD-R: http://psxdev.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=54&t=135
3) Boot X-FLASH on your PlayStation 1, and flash CAETLA-0.34 to your Xplorer.
4) Turn off the PlayStation 1, wait a few seconds and then turn it back on.
5) Plug your Xplorer to your PC (using your Zip DB-25 male to female cable).
6) Run PSEXE.COM from a DOS window with the correct parameters (CALL C:\PSEXE.COM -P10 MAIN.EXE):
http://psxdev.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f ... psexe#p619

If all goes well, it should upload to the PlayStation 1. From there,
7) Setup and install PSY-Q: http://psxdev.net/help/psyq_install.html