Changelog for the FMCB v1.

9 series
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v1.966 - 2019/04/13
*(FSCK) Replaced Japanese font with NotoSansJP-Bold, to reduce space wastage.

v1.966 - 2019/01/14
*(FHDB) Added Japanese translation for FSCK. Special thanks to Oga.
*Updated USBHDFSD to fix the bug causing files to be unable to be replaced
properly.

v1.966 - 2019/01/07
*Added system shutdown function. The corresponding special menu item is
"POWEROFF".
*Renamed "Reload Configuration" to "Restart System".
*Updated USBHDFSD & HDD modules to reduce wear on some 2.5" HDDs (USB and the
PS2 HDD) when the PS2 is shut down. The User should use the shutdown function to
shut down these devices properly.
*Updated USBHDFSD to fix the performance problem from 2014.
*(FHDB) Recompiled FSCK with new HDD modules.
*Recovery mode will now once again be entered as long as mass:/RESCUE.ELF is
found. The START+R1 combo can still be used to force it (FMCB/FHDB will make an
infinite number of attempts to boot it).

v1.965 - 2018/11/03
*FMCB Configurator: prevent potential crash if config file cannot be opened
from device, by not closing the FD if it was not opened.
*FMCB Configurator: Avoid accessing the HDD unit, if possible.
Attempt to load configuration file from the device that
it is booted from, before trying all other devices.
When attempting to load USB modules, check memory cards
before the HDD unit.

v1.965 - 2018/10/21
*Updated USBD & USBHDFSD for compatibility with devices that have only one
Alternate Interface configuration.
*FMCB Configurator: fixed bug that prevented the PS2 from being switched off
when there is no HDD installed.

v1.964 - 2018/07/22
*Replaced bad HDDLOAD.IRX (fixed booting of FHDB on SCPH-10000, SCPH-15000 &
SCPH-18000).
*Increased maximum item count to 200, reduced maximum length to 128.
*Updated USBHDFSD.

v1.963 - 2018/07/04
*Fixed inability to boot the DVD player update, by re-addeding the
accidentally deleted code.
*Updated USBHDFSD.

v1.962 - 2018/06/20
*Fixed inability to boot DVDs from the browser, by re-addeding the
accidentally deleted cleanup code.
*Added a call to deinitialize libpad to the FMCB Configurator, for stability
after exiting.
*Fixed play history being updated twice, when a DVD Video disc is played.

v1.961 - 2018/06/18
*(FHDB) Re-released with the corrected PFS module.
*(FHDB) Updated FSCK to v0.961.
v1.96 - 2018/06/12
*Re-released with the corrected USBHDFSD and PFS modules.
*(FHDB) Updated FSCK to v0.96.

v1.96 - 2018/06/08
*Updated USBHDFSD, for better USB device performance
*Updated HDD modules.
*Updated to build with the latest PS2SDK, for reliability.
*Corrected logic error in history-updating code.
*Replaced DVD player booting code, to give the Sony-like behaviour. For
compatibility with all DVD players and projects.

v1.953 - 2016/12/16
*(FSCK) Fixed coordinate overflow in font-drawing.
*(FSCK) Changed version number to match HDDChecker's.
*Rebuilt to not have the full kernel OSD patch (PS2SDK update).
(prevents users of SCPH-10000/SCPH-15000 from being blocked from
changing the language setting)

v1.953 - 2016/12/15
*Updated to contain the fixed USBHDFSD module.
*Updated to contain the fixes to the HDD modules.
*Ported fixes to FSCK from HDDChecker.

v1.952 - 2016/06/18
*Corrected OSD setting initialization.

v1.951 - 2016/05/21
*Fixed USB device support; added 2s delay to the boot process + 10s timeout
to the FMCB core.
*Updated code to work reliably with the PS2SDK.
*Added button hints to FSCK.
*Corrected flipped button processing (OK -> Quit) in FSCK.

v1.95 - 2016/01/06
*Fixed language support in FSCK.
*Fixed ESR support.

v1.95 - 2016/01/04
*Fixed alpha blending for the hacked OSD.
*The FMCB version number can now be accessed through the %VER% variable in
FREEMCB.CNF, for the top and bottom delimiters.
*Updated for use with the latest PS2SDK.
*Updated to build with the new PS2SDK, for stability. This includes the use
of the new USB modules.
*Changed all KELF/KIRX files to type 01 (Update files), for compatibility
with Debugstation consoles.
*Changed PSX updater module to be loaded from a memory card instead.
*DVD video disc sector reading is now enabled by loading a dummy DVD player-
flagged KIRX from a memory card.
*Cleaned up sources and corrected (non-critical, disassembly-related)
mistakes in the v1.00 and v1.01 kernel patches.
*Added FSCK tool for FHDB.
*Removed HDD support for the PSX, allowing FMCB to boot on a PSX that has
lost its HDD unit.

v1.94 - 2014/06/25
*Corrected the stack address of all cores (FMCB main core, MBR and EE ELF
loader).
*Corrected the buffer overflow bug within the OSD history updating function.
*Added an additional IOP reset for the PSX to load the standard PS2 modules
into the IOP, since that the the reinitialization of libcdvd seemed to cause the
CD/DVD drive to strangely malfunction.
*Restructured the initialization code, for better integration of #3.
*The CD/DVD drive boot certification code has been replaced with a simpler
one that was copied from the Sony OSD.
*Updated to be compilable with the latest PS2SDK revision.
*Compiled with the latest PS2SDK revision for enhanced stability.
*The IOP will now be reset for programs that are loaded from the HDD. Sony
does this, presumably to clear the IOP of modules like DEV9 (or in our case,
hack'ish stuff like IOMANX), which would cause problems if loaded twice.
*Standardized the crt0 module's argument buffer size for the EE ELF loader,
FMCB core and main body.
*Corrected region handling for when an unsupported regions.
*Fixed the default language selection, for export consoles that have the
language set to Japanese (usually caused by having a dead battery) or some bogus
setting.

v1.93 - 2013/09/03
*Fixed support for the PSX (DVR unit). It will now boot properly, and sets
the EE and CD/DVD drive into "PS2 mode".
*Changed the way arguments are passed to the OSD program. FMCB will no longer
parse and repeat the arguments, but passes the arguments directly to the OSD
program "as-is".
*Recompiled the FMCB configurator to have the updated FMCB release version
number. Also, with this recompilation, the Protokernel patch within it has been
updated (Note: This doesn't really matter because the patch from the FMCB binary
would have already been applied).
*The MBR program's EELOAD module had it's argument storage widened, so that
it can take in 16 user arguments (To avoid buffer overflows, since the code within
it was always limiting the number of accepted arguments to 16).
*Added a clone of the kernel update for the SCPH-10000 (v1.01) and SCPH-
15000.
*Fixed OSD configuration setup for the SCPH-50009. Its OSD sets its "region"
field to 2 instead of 1, despite this console being in the NTSC region.
*Modified the "inner browser" setting to allow the user to specify how
FMCB/FHDB will handle booting into the OSD (Either always boot into the browser or
not, or just let the browser have its default behaviour).
For those who wish to edit this setting by hand, the valid values are
as follows: 0 = AUTO, 1 = force ON (always boot into the browser), 2 = force OFF
(always stay out of the browser). It was made this way for backward compatibility.
*Removed the "return to loader" option, since I had no intent on maintaining
it. The user can put uLaunchELF basically anywhere, and uLaunchELF isn't part of
FMCB anyway.
*FMCB will now no longer display the FMCB logo when software like the DVD
player quits, to match the behaviour of the OSD program.

v1.92 - 2013/08/22
*Fix for the SCPH-70000 series consoles: Added a IOP reset at the start of
FMCB, so that the IOP will contain the same modules across all console models.
*Fixed the kernel patch (See PS2SDK updates for today and yesterday) for the
SCPH-10000 and SCPH-15000.
*Removed IOP reset from the EE ELF loader, as some homebrew software depend
on the loaded modules for file access.
*The patch for sceCdForbidDVDP() will now be specially invoked earlier on for
the Protokernel OSD, as the bulk of the patch code is run after sceCdForbidDVDP()
is run by the OSD. This solves DVD booting.
 *Adjusted DVD video/ESR-patched disc booting code, so that a definite result
will result (Either a BootError or the disc boots).
*Optimized code.
*Fixed OSDSYS patch for the SCPH-10000 with boot ROM v1.00. The HDD modules
should now be loaded when the card is inserted in slot 1.
*Added code that kills all threads but the main thread. When control is
wrenched from the hacked OSD, any thread created by the OSD is left behind and that
can result in weird behaviour (e.g. if the stray thread(s) reinitializes a RPC
connection with the IOP, especially during an IOP reset). This fixes ELF launching
on the SCPH-10000 and SCPH-15000, when the OSD is reloaded.

v1.91 - 2013/08/19
*Fixed ESR support.
*Removed calls to FlushCache() before ExecPS2(). The Sony documents say that
it's a requirement because the game might be running on an unpatched Protokernel.
However, FMCB will patch the kernel at startup and this is not
required.
*Changed the splash image to a 16-bit bitmap. 30KB of space is saved... but
the overall gain (after packing) is minimal because graphics isn't a really
compressible sort of data.
*For FHDB: The HDD unit will not be powered-off when the ROM OSD is used.

v1.90 - 2013/08/17 (Initial public release)

*Updated ATAD drivers.
*Rebuilt the FMCB configurator to use bin2o and to have slightly cleaner
code.
*Removed the incomplete support for the PSBBN since it's not possible to ever
support it without it losing some functionality.
*Removed support for the osd110 and fsck110 folders, as I've learned that
those aren't official directories.
*Fixed the generation of the system data (Related to the history file) icon:
The Sony OSDs have this weird bug whereby the size of the icon file is exactly 1776
bytes in size, despite the actual data within the icon file being far shorter than
that.
Unfortunately, not doing that meant that at least the HDDOSD would deem
the icon file as being invalid. :/
*Added support for the Chinese consoles (Magicgate region 09, folder letter
C. e.g. SCPH-50009).
*If a valid HDD OSD installation cannot be loaded, FHDB will attempt to use
the ROM OSD instead.
*Fixed the rescue mode.
*Fixed DVD player launching (DVD player selection code has been replaced with
one similar to the one used by Sony).
*Optimized core core.
*FHDB will now disable the HDD update checking feature of the ROM OSD if the
ROM OSD has to be used in place of the HDD OSD. A loop would occur if the user did
not enable the SkipHDD option.
*If the DVD player cannot be booted, the OSD will now be relaunched with
"BootError".
*The BootError argument is now recognized.
*If BootError, BootBrowser or BootClock is specified, any inserted disc will
no longer be fastbooted.

Closed-beta update 2:
*Items stored on a USB device can be booted from off the hacked OSD menu,
when FMCB is booted from Memory Card Slot 2.
*FMCB configurator will now load USB modules that are stored in
hdd0:__sysconf/FMCB/.
*The system data save will now be created in two languages: Japanese, for
Japanese consoles. And in English for everything else.

Closed-beta update 1:
*The SkipHdd option is now re-enabled, unless when the HDD modules are
installed.
*(Fast) Disc booting support fixed.
*Programs can now be launched from the hacked OSD menu.
*Programs stored on a USB device can now be launched from the hacked HDDOSD.
*The HDD unit will now be switched off if a disc is (fast-)booted from the
HDDOSD.
*Support for the PSBBN has been added, although it will not be modified in
any way during runtime.
*Fixed path generation by the FMCB configurator for targets stored on the HDD
unit.
*The MBR had the path to FSCK v1.10 fixed (hdd0:__system/fsck110).