How To: Cook your own ROM With DogGuys Kitchen

[Dc_Striker]

i still cant find the kitchen

[boggsie]

Originally Posted by Dc_Striker

i still cant find the kitchen

The latest version of his kitchen is located in this folder:

ftp://up.ppcgeeks.com/Titan/Users/DogGuy

[slyder33]

Ok I used No2chems rom in Dogguys kitchen and I finally got through all the errors til the very end and I get access denied when it is Creating registry. I am running as an admin and not sure what I'm missing. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[lllboredlll]

Its because something your are cooking in is trying to access the same reg key as something included in his ROM. With the new PPCKITCHEN out it's almost pointless to go thru all the editing required to use DogGuys Kitchen. Even though it was and is and awesome kitchen, it's kinda outdated at this point.

[slyder33]

Thanks, this is still new to me so I like being able to throw different roms into this, where it seems maybe a little more complicated in the PPCGEEKS Kitchen. Guess I will do some more reading!!!!!

[ccr41981]

This may sound ignorant, but can this kitchen work for a Hermes? (8525)?

[DogGuy]

Originally Posted by ccr41981

This may sound ignorant, but can this kitchen work for a Hermes? (8525)?

Wow... this is a dated thread I never actually saw :P. To the question above, yes, you can, but you need to make a few modifications to the prepit and buildit scripts. (The hermes does not use the same headers as the titan/kaiser/vogue, and therefore needs different switches for the tools.)

Originally Posted by slyder

Thanks, this is still new to me so I like being able to throw different roms into this, where it seems maybe a little more complicated in the PPCGEEKS Kitchen. Guess I will do some more reading!!!!!

To those who commented that the kitchen is out dated... you're absolutely right. I haven't done an update in quite some time. The main use of this kitchen is definitely for educational purposes, as in reading through the scripts and seeing the interaction of the various tools. The official PPCKitchen definitely supersedes it in every way when it comes to actual rom building.

As an aside, several threads have commented that making basekits for the PPCKitchen is a substantially more complicated process than it used to be for this older style of kitchen. I am still working out the kinks to my XML-based OEM Splitter. Once that is done, PrepIt will be morphing from a basic CLI batch script, to a full fledged multi-device, multi-kitchen format compatible, .NET application, with template based OEM splitting. Something to look forward to for those who like to have the drudgery automated for them. If you're interested in being a guinea pi... beta tester for the development of these tools, let me know via PM or find me in the chat room.

- DogGuy

[gguruusa]

Originally Posted by DogGuy

As an aside, several threads have commented that making basekits for the PPCKitchen is a substantially more complicated process than it used to be for this older style of kitchen.

Only if you want the bells and whistles. Regular kitchens should run about the same as they ever did.

[DogGuy]

Originally Posted by gguruusa

Only if you want the bells and whistles. Regular kitchens should run about the same as they ever did.

Sorry GGuru, never meant to imply that it actually was more difficult. Actually, PrepIt took all of 2 minutes to update to accomdate the correct structure. (5 if you count adding in a different method of pulling boot.rgu and recreating large .rgu's from the .hv's to handle no2chem roms.) But, in keeping with the theme of simplicity and useability, I figure a PrepIt.NET would be useful.

- DogGuy

[DogGuy]

http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=26967
... to those who wanted to check out the splitter tool, I actually posted about it. This is step one before PrepIt.NET. Step two will be adding some of the more advanced functionality, like .rgu parsing. Once that is ready, I'll get to work on the new PrepIt. For those who offered to beta test... thank you. Feel free to attack the splitter and let me know what works and what doesn't.

- DogGuy