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Current ORP Bounty: $1,515.

Update: All right; ORP the Bounty Hunter here… Dashhacks will put $1,000 towards the bounty, and should you want ORP on the iPhone as much as the next guy (or girl to be politically correct), then feel free to donate using the PayPal button below. The first person to deliver a working ORP iPhone client takes home the whole she-bang — $1,000 + all donations.

Are you a developer? Do you have skills? What about an iPhone: you have one of those? If you answered yes to all 3 questions then boy, do we have something for [one of] you…

Dashhacks is putting out a bounty… Be the first to port Open Remote Play (ORP) to the iPhone, creating a fully functional touch-enabled ORP experience, and get paid $1,000 CAD. That’s 10 cold hard Canadian brown skins.

The heavy lifting is already done… Check my main man, Dashhacker; he’s got the key to success over at the Open Remote Play project page — code and all.

Bounty rules and stipulations:

1. Open Remote Play is licensed under the GNU General Public License v2; you must agree to that.
2. We’re paying $1,000 CAD via PayPal; sorry no cheques, money orders, or wire transfers.
3. Upon completion your final code will be committed to the ORP SVN repository.
4. You must email your final entry to orp@dashhacks.com.
5. After we test & confirm the first working client, we will announce the winner, which will effectively end the contest.
6. Feel free to email orp@dashhacks.com with any questions or concerns.

All right… You good? Good. Be the first — it’s success and nothin’ less.

svn checkout http://open-rp.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ open-rp

Related links:
open-rp project page | dashhacks | iphone-hacks

Sony! C’mon… For real?!

So if you’re able to quit and exit out of Fight Night Round 4 for a moment or two, you’ll see Sony has released PS3 Firmware Update 2.80. And despite what Mr. Lempel says —

The playback quality of some PLAYSTATION 3 format software has been improved.

Sony has also put a damper on Open Remote Play. Those tricky bastards have seemingly “poisoned” the video stream… If you start the ORP client and establish a Remote Play connection, you’ll notice the video quickly becomes garbled nonsense and eventually the client bails. The good news — you can still make the connection, meaning the authentication hasn’t changed any…

Open Remote Play Progress…

Now better than ever — Dashhacker’s Open Remote Play v1.2 BETA. All you Windows users, you’re going to dig this one… Most notably ORP v1.2 introduces support for the SIXAXIS/DS3 controller, the required driver is included for Windows, and on the Mac, it just works. Also added is mouse support and a much-improved full-screen mode. Check the change log for the rest…

ORP v1.2 changes…

• Vastly improved full-screen mode. Scales video to desktop resolution, much faster and now works as expected under Windows.
• Added proper padding for audio/video packets. This fixes the random read access violation crashes under Windows.
• Added support for SIXAXIS/DS3.
• Added mouse support.
• Added SELECT (F3) and START (F4) keyboard mappings.
• Fixed CTRL-key issues, thanks to lethalwp for the patch.
• And more…

Get it while it’s hot… ORP 1.2 is the last official release for awhile. Cheers!

Download:
ORP v1.2 BETA (Mac OS X)
ORP v1.2 BETA (Windows)

Join, contribute. ORP Source Code

Update: My bad… Forgot the README.txt in the Win32 archive. It’s included now, and for those who have already downloaded it, see here.

Here you go — Open Remote Play for both the Mac and Windows. And not only that — Dashhacker has released the source code. So if you’re a developer and wish to contribute: visit the Open Remote Play Google Code project page. Your efforts are greatly appreciated. And remember, you read it here first. Boom, posted.

Open Remote Play v1.1; things you should know:

1. ORP v1.1 introduces game launching, video scaling (1.5x & 2x size), full screen mode, and many bug fixes.
2. The Mac version, awesome, absolutely awesome. Little bit of key lag… Not much.
3. Windows, well some of you may have issues, some may not… In our case we’ve tested XP, it seems to work fine with some minor issues. Vista, not so much — seems to bail on something… Maybe someone can test and report their experiences below or in the forums. Windows 7 (64bit) users — it works. You may need to resize the Window (drag the bottom right corner) to see the “Save”, “Delete”, and “Cancel” options when editing your ORP profile.

What’s planned? Check this –

• Add joystick support with a default SIXAXIS/DS3 button map.
• Add proper audio+video synchronization (added a quick hack for now).
• Add ability to set/manage buffering and bit-rate profiles.
• Add error messages to the player instead of just bailing silently.
• Implement power-on support.
• Clean-up and document API.

Download:
ORP v1.1 BETA (Mac OS X)
ORP v1.1 BETA (Windows)

Join, contribute. Help improve Open Remote Play:
ORP Source Code

Drum roll please… You’re about to experience Remote Play like never before — on your [Intel-based] Mac, that is.

First and foremost, you will need access to a hacked PSP to export the remote play settings. All that’s included in the download package.

Open Remote Play Howto:

1. If you have not done so already, register your PSP with your PS3 for Remote Play.
2. Copy the ORP_Export folder (it’s included) to your PSP under /PSP/GAME
3. Run Open Remote Play Export on your PSP. This will create a file on the memory stick called export.orp. Copy this file to your PC.
4. Run the ORP GUI and click on Import, locate and import export.orp. You will have to manually change the IP address of your PS3, by default it will be set to 0.0.0.0. I keep two profiles, one for local LAN and another for when I’m connecting from the Internet. You can create multiple profiles by simply changing the Name field and clicking Save.
5. Click Import again, this time locate and import “keys.orp.” You only have to do this once for a new installation, or if there is a key update.
6. Select a profile, cross your fingers, and click Launch!

Dashhacker strongly encourages you read the included README.txt before proceeding; remember, this is beta.

The API and Windows player will be available within a week. Enjoy — now lets get drunk, beers on Dashhacks tonight!

Download: ORP v1.0 BETA (Mac OS X)

Progress updates; ongoing discussion…

Progress updates; ongoing discussion…

Prepare yourself for complete and utter devastation — presenting a Dashhacks exclusive, from our very own talented Dashhacker — PS3 Remote Play: successfully reverse engineered, authentication system broken, and a portable API on the way.

What does this mean? Well for starters you’ll soon be accessing your PS3 from just about anywhere — your PC, your iPhone, your whatchamacallit, and whatever other Internet-enabled device.

Stay tuned, for real.