Revisions:
12-13-09: Initial Release.
We would be fooling ourselves if we said to ourselves that we live in a perfect world. Unfortunately, we do not and one trait of human society that backs up this image is the proliferation of crime. Today I had a unique experience that I will never ever forget, and by telling this story, I believe it will give insight to the rest of us all how important our lives are, and that its time to get a grip and stop arguing about the trivial things in life.
Notice the new banner? Out of all the banner entries, banner number 4 from Zax wins with 10 votes out of 34!
Congratulations to Zax and be on the lookout for the next banner contest a few months from now!
Last week was Unofficial Screw You week, a week dedicated right after Thanksgiving for you guys to vent off and get back to someone who has been hassling you forever. Read more about it in this post.
Anyway, let’s start off with the user contributed stories, and then I will start with my own stories.
Gaming Cabinet
Define STD: STD for The Underground Blog is short for Savvy Tech Dude/Dudette. The STD story is my attempt to share some insight into some of my practices, as well as others as to how they are using technology to make their life better, saving money, or perhaps bettering the environment. (Hopefully, I can find a female contributor… 
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Frequency of Story: When it feels right.
Personal Comment: I really love the STD idea, and with topics so broad, I can go anywhere with this series. The question is, how far down the rabbit hole do you and I want to go? 
In the meantime, I encourage all forms of interaction. Please sound off in comments, I’d appreciate it. If you have an idea, or want me to consider something different, I will. If you want to spread the word, be my guest. As time goes along, I’m asking for people to contribute, or if you want to be interviewed (I’ll protect your identity), then we can dig deeper. Please consider my offer, thanks!
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The time has come. Below are the submittals for the contest. Please vote. Voting ends end of day Friday.
Revisions: 12-03-09: Initial release.
INTRODUCTION:
The SEGA genesis was a fourth generation gaming console, which became extremely popular all around the world in the early 90’s. SEGA was known to have a good an awesome processor to match the speed of Sonic the hedgehog. This tutorial is about playing SEGA on your ps2 with an Emulator called PGEN, with the assistance of the UlaunchELF CD.
You will need:
1) A ps2 (slim or fat) with modchip or swap magic or free mcboot.
2) The UlaunchELF CD.
Click Here to watch versatile’s YouTube video, on how to create the UlaunchELF CD.
3) A USB flash drive or pen drive (FAT32 formatted)
4) PGEN Emulator.
Click Here to download ‘pgen_codej_abcd_48.zip’
5) SEGA genesis roms. You could get them from romnation.net or by using p2p clients. read more…
Easy to remember URL = www.tinyurl.com/l4dguide2
Garena username = versatileninja, Tunngle username = versatile
Foreword: As we all know, L4D2 right now is an awesome game. Similar to last year, I was involved with writing Hamachi and Garena guides for L4D1. It was good for awhile, but in retrospect it was a pain and almost a mistake to talk about questionable practices. The tutorials got so popular that WordPress caught on and we had a 9 day suspension which turns out because we had links to so called “cracks” and the articles were removed to keep the blog alive. If you want to continue with L4D 1, see the unofficial L4D site here.
Now that L4D 2 is here, I am going to take a different approach. WordPress staff or other questionable readers I have this statement for you. No way does this tutorial indirectly or directly facilitate illicit methods or devious acts of behavior (also known as piracy). This tutorial shows legitimate gamers how to play Left 4 Dead 2 online without having to succumb to Steam and be forced to use it for their gaming pleasure. This tutorial shows users how to host and connect to LAN games online without having to resort to Steam. If you believe this is a mistake, search google and see how many gamers are resorting to other needs to play games without Steam. Now the tutorial has become more valuable. Left 4 Dead 2 is a great game. Support Valve. Support “innovation”. – Versatile
Revisions:
11-30-09: Initial release.
12-1-09: Added information on name changing method. Added some Garena items because honestly, they need help bad.
12-2-09: Did additional testing and simplified the hosting process instructions. Determined sv_allow_lobby_connect 0 and sv_lan 1 not required.
12-3-09: Added master patch to 2003. Rewrote the whole tutorial guide to make it even easier to follow and adding personal zing.
12-4-09: Added Hamachi 1.0.3.0 instructions.
12-5-09: Added stryder 2003 patch. Added 2004 incremental patch (tried a new one). Added subtitle/ammo files and more to the troubleshooting section.
12-6-09: Made note about revloader. Please get rid of it! Made all download links dropbox.
12-7-09: New links in download section for 2004 patch. The previous 2004 patch per online scan has a virus in it, and my local AV did not detect it. 
12-9-09: Added 2005 patch and stryder dec 8th update.
12-11-09: The master patch 2005 wasn’t working right. Fixed the download section and changed instructions. Added new stand alone. Added Tunngle instructions.
12-12-09: Added master patch 2006. Deleted name changing tutorial as it is now obsolete thanks to new standalone or stryder patch.
12-13-09: Added more links in download section and redone the instructions. Added misc. footage section, courtesy of Tunnglers.
12-14-09: Added different fix for the rzr-init file.
Note: This is a warm hello to all gamers who are looking how to play L4D 2 LAN online. Props goes first of all to the Tunngle team and the community there. Garena and Hamachi get no brotherly love. Read the rant below to understand why. Nonetheless, I decided to put up a quick Garena setup guide because they need help irregardless what the VPN program is and I am a nice guy.
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Foreword: This is an excellent tutorial that shows that the PS2 can be exploited in a non-conventional way. Yes, there is a way to play SNES methods on the PS2, but I did not realize NES roms can be played as well! All props go to author ICE, and I take no credit for this tutorial. Expect more of these to come in the future. ~ Versatile
Revisions: 11-30-09: Initial release.
[Update 12/1/09] Made critical changes on the button map of the FCEU port, Added link for NES roms and added a NOTE at the end.
[Update 12/2/09] changed the complexity of the title and made it easy to understand the concept.
INTRODUCTION:
Nintendo 8 bit, also known as NES, is the mother of all consoles. Now, wouldn’t it be nice if we could play those old classics on the PS2 using an emulator ???. Well, you have come to the right place because this tutorial might help you.
This is what you need:
1) A ps2 (slim or fat) with modchip or swap magic or free mcboot.
2) The UlaunchELF CD.
Click Here to watch versatile’s YouTube video, on how to create the UlaunchELF CD.
3) A USB flash drive or pen drive (FAT32 formatted).
4) FCEUltra Emulator.
Click Here to download ‘fceumm-ps2-0.90e-bin.zip’.
5) NES roms. You could get them from romnation.net or by using p2p clients.
This is what you do next:
Very rarely on the blog do we do something fun for the sake of living. Day in and day out it may appear that we are consumed with our jobs, or games, or real life events, and one of the the little pieces that we miss in life is just having fun.
To bring some of that element back, while retaining my own sanity, I am going to start a new tradition where the week after Thanksgiving is called “Unofficial Screw You Week”.
How does it work? It’s simple. Is there a person or some website that pisses you off? Maybe a co-worker that you wish you could just knee in the groin because they are so annoying? Maybe you have a blog and you wish you could just disappear but you know you can’t because you depend on it for money, or whatever?
During this week, I am giving you permission to just vent. Maybe you got the guts to send an email to your best friend and tell them to stop hitting on your sister because it makes you sick. Maybe there is a youtube user on your list you gladly want to say “Screw off mate”.
Of course in reality, we know that if you were bold enough to do any of this for real, the consequences could be dire. If you were to do any of these tasks, we want to hear about it and your story and what you did.
You have one week to basically tell someone to screw off, and if you did it, we want to hear how it made you feel.
If you are unable to do it for personal reasons, you are more than welcomed to leave a comment and tell us here how it would make you feel if you could tell that one person how great it would be if you told them off in their face!
The event starts on Sunday, November 29th through end of day Saturday, December 5th. On Sunday December 6th, I will post a thread for you guys to tell us what you did in the “Screw You” week, or a summary of what users have done. If you are ashamed to post your story here, you can email it to me at versatileninja [at yahoo [dot] com and I will summarize it while keeping you anonymous.
Am I going to participate? Oh hell yes. Don’t I care its going to hurt my image? Not anymore. I have been through hell and back, and I am willing to tell someone off (in an appropriate manner of course). Let the screwing begin! (ah you sickos!)
Real quick update here. The Underground Newsletter is not dead. For those privileged enough to see the first two editions, I had done them in Adobe InDesign, and although it looks great, it required a LOT of time.
This past weekend I sent out a quick update to the Newletter subscribers via e-mail in text format talking about an underground topic that I needed help with. >_> To those who know what I am talking about, please do not spill the beans here or I will ban you or even worse kill off the newsletter forever.
The reception was good, and I got to know a few of the subscribers really well. Anyway, I expect another text newsletter to come out in late December or early January. It will be a quick update on the current state of events in the Underground, some of my own underground views, and maybe some sick tips? (take it how you wish perverts)
Anything discussed in the newsletter is forbidden for talk here on the blog publicly as an incentive to get people subscribed. To subscribe to the newsletter, look in the sidebar and sign up on the google form —->.
It is that easy! Once again, thanks, and I will send out back issues upon request.
So far no one had requested it, which makes me believe you guys don’t care, which is fine to me but yet disappointing at the same time. Such is life, right?
