Stealth Unlocker is a replacement ROM for your Playstation cheat
cartridge such as the GameShark, Action Replay, or countless clones.
Stealth Unlocker gives you a plug and play modchip for any Playstation
with the Parallel I/O port, no soldering required. You will be able to
load Unlicensed and Import discs on your console. It was programmed
100% in assembly language.
Download:
Stealth Unlocker ( 220814c )
Features for American, PAL, and Net Yaroze Consoles:
- Unlocks CD-ROM to read Import and Unlicensed ( CD-R ) discs!
- Patches BIOS Shell to boot Import and Unlicensed discs.
- Anti-Mod Protection Patch (borrowed from TonyHax) to play many protected games.
Features for Japanese and Asian Consoles:
- Restores the CD Player menu Swap Trick on all models to boot Import and Unlicensed ( CD-R ) discs!
- CDDA Table of Contents fixed when booting with Swap Trick. Fixes games with cd audio tracks.
- vC2 and vC3 CD-ROM controller laser re-calibration when booting with Swap Trick. Improves disc reading performance.
- Removes the regional license check to boot American and PAL region discs.
- Coming soon: Game Specific anti-mod protection patches. See protected games.
Note: Japanese and Asian consoles have the NTSC/J ( SCEI ) CD-ROM
controller which does not support the secret unlock. This is why the CD
Player Swap Trick is restored on those consoles. This does mean you
will not be able to change discs mid-game. Most multi-disc games allow
you to save before the disc change but there are a few which do
not.
Requirements:
- Playstation Console with Parallel I/O Port (SCPH-1000 to SCPH-75xx
- Cheat Cartridge with EEPROM such as GameShark or Pro Action Replay
- One time method to boot a CD-R disc.
Installing Stealth Unlocker:
The process of installing Stealth Unlocker on your cheat cartridge is
very simple if your cartridge has EEPROM. GameShark and official Pro
Action Replay cartridges will have EEPROM. Clones may not. If you can
add and save new cheat codes to the cartridge it should probably have
EEPROM. Once you have your cartridge with EEPROM you simply burn the
ISO image containing the NXFlash program to a CD-R and boot it on any
Playstation console with the Cheat Cartridge plugged in. Use the menu
to choose to install Stealth Unlocker. If your cheat cartridge does not
have EEPROM inside and instead has a OTP ROM inside like an EPROM you
could still install Stealth Unlocker if you use a chip programmer and
desolder the old ROM chip and replace it with one that has Stealth
Unlocker programmed on it.
Options for booting the installer CD-R:
- Modchipped Console
- Swap Tricks
- FreePSXBoot
- TonyHax
If you do not have access to a modded PS1 console and do not have a way
to put data onto a PS1 memory card your best option is the Swap Trick.
There are a variety of swap tricks possible. Some are easier than
others. The most direct route would be to start your console into the
cheat cartridge menu with an original game CD-ROM in the console with
the lid switch held down by an object so you can have the lid open but
the console thinks it is closed. Wait for the console to verify the
disc and then carefully remove it and replace it with the installer
CD-R. You should hopefully then be able to select the Start Game option
in the menu and see the installer. If that does not work you may need
to look into other swap trick methods. An easy one to use that I
created is called PS1 Demo Swap. It is a program that will take an ISO
of a demo disc you have the original of and patch it to load TonyHax
when a certain demo program is loaded. Then you could use it to boot
the installer CD-R.
Why doesn't the Anti-Mod protection patch from TonyHax work on Japanese consoles?
The way the TonyHax anti-mod patch works to bypass the protection only
works on systems which have unlocked drives. All the protection checks
still happen but when they fail the anti-mod patch basically changes
the result to a pass. The problem for Japanese consoles is that one of
the protection routines is a secondary disc check which results in no
longer being able to read from the disc because we used a Swap Trick.
Protected games can be supported in the future on a game by game basis.