iROM Repository

Before you install any ROMs

iROM — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:45:36 +0000

Before you install any ROMs, you should move your applications to the bigger partition of your iDevice, this can be done very easily using Bosstool (If you’ve already done this, just ignore this post, I always do it straight away after Jailbreaking a device)

You should already be able to see Bosstools in installer, if you’ve installed the Community sources. If you don’t see it, the source is http://modmyifone.com/installer.xml

Once you’ve installed it, go to “Free disk space”, then go to “Relocate applications” and just follow the confirmation boxes. After you’ve done that, you’re applications have been moved to the bigger partition of your iDevice, whether it be 8, 16 or 32GB. This could fix problems that some of you are having, you probably don’t have much room for ROMs on the standard partition.

So once again, if you’ve already moved your applications earlier, just ignore this post. If you haven’t, you should do it - if you still experience problems, try the terminal fix as that seems to work well, if you have trouble with it, or just can’t be bothered; then try the Bossprefs fix (Go to the “Fixes and solutions” on the side of this website, and find the Bossprefs fix)

Thank you.

Still having problems?

iROM — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:36:01 +0000

Hey everyone, if you’re still having problems with game saves, or ROMs not showing up, or you have menopause, then this fix is for you!

alvareo, a coolkid commenter, commented on one of our posts saying that you could use Bossprefs to fix up the directory issue, if you had problems with our terminal fix (Some of you couldn’t login to terminal, incorrect password and whatnot)

1. Add Bigboss to your sources, http://sleepers.net/iphonerepo - Refresh sources etc

2. Install Bossprefs, open it up, go to the “More” button and hit something like “Fix user dir permissions”

All done.

Downtime

webadmin — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:03:17 +0000

The repo will be down for the day, and we’ll announce when it comes back up. we’re doing some remodeling of the table structures, so that the repo is faster and more efficient for the server. sorry for the inconvenience…

EDIT: The server is back up!!!!!

The day is even better

iROM — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 07:18:34 +0000

Along with the savestate fix…I just had an omfg moment.

iROM - the main website, has received over 400 unique hits yesterday, and over 600 unique hits so far today. Before we used to get a few thousand downloads per day, but not that many hits to the site. How awesome is that

Along with the good hits, 172,000 downloads have been made..~~this month I think~~ SINCE WE ADDED THE COUNTER!. How awesome is that! - I was looking through the logs, I noticed that more people use IE than firefox. Wake up people! The site looks pretty F’d up in Internet Explorer, which is a very very crap browser anyway.

Download firefox! NOW! Click here to download it.

Icecream for all. Ciao.

BEST DAY EVER!!!!!

webadmin — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 20:59:24 +0000

I Finally Figured out how to fix the savestates and hidden roms!!!
Here’s what you do:
Install Term-vt100 (if you haven’t already), and then the SUID lib fix and the BSD Fix(which are either in the tweaks, utilities, or the system category). Then, go open the Terminal App. You should see the following in the window:
Password:
The password is alpine, so go type it in and press enter. If you mistype it, you should then see the following:
Password: Login incorrect login:
Type in root for the login, and carefully type in alpine for the password. After that, you should then see something like the following:
Password: Last login: Fri Jun 20 14:45:19 on ttyp0 #
Don’t worry if its not exact. as long as that last # is there, your good to go. Next, you’ll want to type in the following, pressing enter after each new line:
chmod +s /Applications/Installer.app/Installer chown -R root:wheel /Applications/Installer.app/ reboot
When your ipod restarts, just install a rom for each platform thats acting up. Because of this fix, Every rom will automatically set file permissions for you, meaning you can now run any rom, save any game, and every rom will show up in your emulator.

This fix took me about 4 weeks of searching and hard work, so don’t forget to donate for our efforts.

new poll

webadmin — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 00:08:29 +0000

Please take the time to complete the new poll on the right. This poll might only be available on a non-mobile browser.

Also, we’re using rapidshare for getting roms, so we’re paying for a premium account. Help us pay for it and the rest of the site’s budget by donating.

Mass addition!!

webadmin — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:22:27 +0000

We just added a huge load of GBA roms to the repo (about 46 of them). They should be available now!

Ah….Memories…

webadmin — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 01:46:34 +0000

I was playing Star Fox 64 the other day, and i thought to myself “I bet our fans would like to play.” So i went and got StarFox & StarFox 2 for SNES, and put it on the repo. I tried em both out, and…

I recommend them to everyone.

Impressive, Star Fox.

Minor Tweaking…

webadmin — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 07:38:23 +0000

Date & Time = June 16th, 2008 2:33am CMT
Everything in the repo, from GBA to Genesis, and from gpSPhone to the BIOS, should now be fully functional.

Everything works, so feel free to download away. We’re trying to get to at least 75,000 Unique user downloads by the end of the month. Right now We’re at 46,045 since June 4th. This request from us to you is so that we can prove that we can keep up with the competition (other rom repo sites). The more users, the more possibility that someone will eventually donate to our efforts……..By the way, we’ve only gotten about $15 in donations since this site started up. Someone PLEASE Donate…
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……So anyways, tell your friends, family, teachers…Everyone with an iphone, about our site and repo. We want the world to know we exist, because we want to help the World be a funner* place.

*Yes i know its not gramatically correct.

Can’t find your roms?

webadmin — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 02:50:20 +0000

Use the New Rom fixes in the repo instead of this fix!

~~Here’s a fix that, unfortunately, requires you to get your hands a bit dirty, but at least you can play your games now.~~

≈ Summary ≈

The early repo would create a file to put roms in, instead of a folder or a directory, but roms were actually written into this file as text, instead of the roms being put in it (note that there aren’t any roms inside these files in the steps ahead). Since these files aren’t actually directories (containers for files, a.k.a. folders), applications, like gpSPhone and snes4iphone, are unable to read them. Since installer can’t distinguish between functional and corrupted rom folders, we will need to delete these files manually. Using the LS command below, the corrupt folders are the folders with NO contents.

≈ Instructions ≈

First, add http://hpcgi3.nifty.com/moyashi/ipodtouch/repository.cgi to your sources list. Then, install BSD Subsystem (if you don’t have it. Its under System), and mobileterminal (under System as well). Open Terminal from the home screen. Enter the password if it asks (password is alpine). Then enter the following text into terminal (except for the stuff in between “<” and “>” symbols):

cd /var/mobile/Media/ROMs/ <press enter> <for 1.1.2 and earlier, use root instead of mobile>
followed by the name of a folder (e.g. “ls GBA”)> <press enter> Repeat this step for each folder !!>

For each folder that is corrupt, follow the step below. This will remove the corrupt folders.

<Type in “rm” followed by the name of a folder to delete> <press enter>
ls <press enter> .

Now type in “reboot“.

Your device’s screen should go black and then it will turn on again. Once it’s done restarting, go to installer, uninstall all the roms for folders you just deleted, and reinstall them. Now go play those games, because they should be visible in your list of roms now!