mmCM 04.04.00 released. Added GUI Features and Major Compatibility Improvements

Published on 06-19-2012 08:49 PM

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Another update for just about everybody's' favorite backup manager. Major improvements to game compatibility which should be great for people without an external hard drive and should give everyone more flexibility about where their games can be played from. And that's not all. As always, more improvements and additions to the user interface. See the changelog below to see what this latest version has in store for you.

Changelog:

04.04.00 -

- Fixed something that annoyed some users of 5x4x5, 4x2 and XBDM display modes:
After restart (or going to mmOS and back) game modes 5x4x5, 4x2 and XBDM
will display the last selected entry (game/video/music/photo) and will *not* reset to dash mode
- Added option to "Default Display Mode" setting: [Disable];
If there is no display-mode-lock it will make mM start in the last used display mode
- FTP session timeout set to 1 minute

mmOS related:

Added context menu when desktop is selected (to Refresh, Create New Folder, Show Desktop, Reset mmOS, Restore Wallpaper)
Added "Permissions" to context menu when single folder is selected (to reset folder access permissions)
Double clicking on .p3t (PS3 theme) will copy/install the file/theme to PS3 XMB themes system folder (/dev_hdd0/theme); user can later install it from XMB
Added support for creating shortcuts to /net_host PC shares
Folders created on the desktop now open properly
Desktop shortcuts to /ps3_home/video, music and photo now have proper icons and open the virtual folder and not the /dev_hdd0/* one
Desktop shortucts to games/executables (EBOOT.BIN/.SELF) can be used to boot external apps or mount games

Game Compatibility / CFW Related (KMEAW/REBUG/ROGERO 3.55CFWs):

- Improved compatibility for the so-called "Black-Screen-Games" (BSG) which *until now* required
the "BD-Mirror" option and worked ONLY from external usb HDD (otherwise game would lock/loop/error during load).

- Now users of the listed firmwares can use the "BD-Mirror" option for game backups stored in the INTERNAL HDD.
It may improve the compatibility of over 100 games (some older titles, some newer),
for example AC1 / Colin Dirt 1 / Prince Of Persia / CoD / MW / Tomb Raider, incl. titles which had sound issues.

- A partial list of some games that may gain from the new option can be found here:
http://pastie.org/pastes/4115732/text (by GotIt4Free / www.tortuga-cove.com)

- It is now possible to set "BD-Mirror" option for games in Internal HDD and it enables the new functionality.
The option works both with PS3 Game Disc in the tray and in discless mode from /app_home.

- The option is available in the "Game Settings" menu for each game in the list

Games currently confirmed working with the new internal BD-Redirection.

AC/DC LIVE: Rock Band
Apache: Air Assault
Assassin's Creed
Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood
Blazing Angels 2: Secret Missions of WWII
Blitz: The League II
Brain Challenge
Brunswick Pro Bowling
Cabela's Dangerous Adventures
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
Call of Duty: World at War
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Colin McRae: DiRT
Colin McRae: DiRT 2
Condemned 2: Bloodshot
Dragon Age: Origins
Eat Lead: Return Of Matt Hazard
ENCHANTED ARMS
Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars
ETERNAL SONATA
Everybody's Golf: World Tour
F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin
FAMILY GAME NIGHT 3
Fit in Six
Golden Axe: Beast Rider
Green Day: Rock Band
Hot Shots Golf: Out of Bounds
Iron Man 2
James Bond 007 Quantum of Solace
Man vs Wild
Medal of Honor Airborne
Modern Warfare 2
Nail'd
NBA Ballers: Choosen One
Pinball Hall of Fame: The Williams Collection
Prince of Persia
Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands
Prison Break: The Conspiracy
Pure
Racquet Sports
Rapala Fishing Frenzy
Rock Band
Rock Band Song Pack 2
Rock Band Track Pack: Classic Rock
Rock Band Track Pack Volume 2
Rock Revolution
Rorona No Atelier Arland No Renkinjutsushi
Saints Row 2
SEGA Mega Drive Ultimate Collection
SEGA Superstars Tennis
Shaun White Skateboarding
Shaun White Snowboarding
Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing
Sonics Ultimate Genesis Collection
Summer Challenge
Surf's Up
The Godfather The Don's Edition
The Lord of The Rings: Conquest
The Tomb Raider Trilogy
TNA iMPACT!
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas 2
Tom Clancy's SplinterCell Double Agent\
Tomb Raider: Underworld
Tornado Outbreak
Venetica
We Dare
Williams Pinball Classics
Winter Sports: The Great Tournament 2010
Winter Sports: Go for Gold 2011
World Series of Poker 2008
WWE SmackDown vs. RAW 2011
Zumba Fitness Join The Party

Direct Download - Via PSX-Scene
Download - Via PS3SceneFiles

Official Site: Cobra USB

News Source: PS3Crunch

This is actually a major improvement and should allow much better compatibility across the board. As always nice work deank and the Cobra team.

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60 Comments

deeptrap - 06-20-2012, 10:15 AM
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Great work deank

i always play my games from external, i only wonder if its possible to use bdemu by default on all games. i know games that dont run without bd_emu , but i dont know games that would't run with bd_emu enabled.

also wonder if this version will fix the music from monopoly streets from external usb will try tonight

deank - 06-20-2012, 11:12 AM
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It will probably fix the music for monopoly, but only if you transfer to internal and enable bd-mirror for it.

Nightbird - 06-20-2012, 12:00 PM
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Originally Posted by deank

It means that the firmware you use has heavily modified dev_flash files and is not supported.

Thanks for the reply Deank.
I'm using Rebug 355.2 with the lastest update package 0.7. I know Update packages 0.6 and 0.7 do change 'vsh.self' to one compatible with ReActPSN. If I put Kmeaw back on and use a modified 'vsh.self' for ReActPSN am I likely to run in to the same issue, or do I have to sacrifice ReActPSN to use this feature?
Cheers.

Tranced - 06-20-2012, 12:13 PM
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I will be checking this out. Great release! Thanks to the dedicated devs, you know who you are!

deank - 06-20-2012, 12:34 PM
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Originally Posted by Nightbird

Thanks for the reply Deank.
I'm using Rebug 355.2 with the lastest update package 0.7. I know Update packages 0.6 and 0.7 do change 'vsh.self' to one compatible with ReActPSN. If I put Kmeaw back on and use a modified 'vsh.self' for ReActPSN am I likely to run in to the same issue, or do I have to sacrifice ReActPSN to use this feature?
Cheers.

I don't know about the patches in REBUG firmware. mM looks for unmodified libfs.sprx (original 3.55OFW/KMEAW/etc). If your libfs is modified you'll get the message you get

Quakes69 - 06-20-2012, 12:38 PM
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Desktop shortucts to games/executables (EBOOT.BIN/.SELF) can be used to boot external apps or mount games

Deank, Do you plan on making it so one can set a user icon for these types of files(EBOOT.BIN/.SELF)? or, Maybe when a user Creates the shortcut that he/she can select one at runtime from the PS3_GAME folder of the game at question or from another place.

Just wondering,

Thanks

Quake
aka
SubZero DeZigns

BTW, Nice fix on the right click menu's on open space via: desktop/folders.

fma965 - 06-20-2012, 01:03 PM
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Originally Posted by deank

I don't know about the patches in REBUG firmware. mM looks for unmodified libfs.sprx (original 3.55OFW/KMEAW/etc). If your libfs is modified you'll get the message you get

any bypass?

Tranced - 06-20-2012, 01:06 PM
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Hey Dean, while you are present and this might be answered a thousand times. Using external 2TB HDD one cannot run games/movies from EXT without freezing and or slow loading. I'm sure it's due to USB 3.0/2.0 compatibility. (an external that supports both USB 2.0 &3.0) Any improvements to this that one could expect? Or is the PS3's capabilities lacking. Searching the net gives one mixed messages. Thanks for your time.

fernan1234 - 06-20-2012, 01:07 PM
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I never got El Shaddai to work from internal before. Maybe now I could.

Jay-Jay - 06-20-2012, 01:21 PM
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That's strange. Yesterday when I installed the new version, it loaded up fine. I only tried it once, and it seemed normal. The only thing I did was return to my own theme and the close it and turned off the PS3 for the night.

Right now I tried launching multiMAN and it just freezes on the first splash screen. I can't exit nor do anything, so I have to soft-reboot my PS3. After it rebooted, tried again, and it keeps freezing up. Any suggestions?

Update:

I reinstalled 04.04.00 base. It launched good, switched theme, exit, tried launch it again, and same problem, it gets stuck at the first background image of the theme (using Simple Is Beautiful by Heapy83). I wonder if it gets stuck, because it's trying to remember whether I exited from the Game 2x4 display or the dash. I didn't try loading a game. I simple when into the Game 2x4 display (that is my default and locked display) and then pressed O to exit multiMAN. I tried connecting through FTP and multiman works on FTP. I then send a command to exit multiMAN through FTP and was able to exit the app, without having to soft-reboot my PS3. So I can still use it's FTP function, I just can't get passed it's first theme background.

I plan to revert back to 04.03.00 base... see what happens.

Update 2:

I never installed 04.03.00.. kept trying to troubleshoot the issue and discovered that it was the theme. I had a custom theme version of the one I mention above. And after trying other themes, and multiMAN was loading fine. I then deleted my custom theme and replaced it with the same version I still have on my PC and now it loads fine. I guess the thm file got corrupted? Weird! But now all is fine.

Update 3:
Spoke too soon. After I turned off PS3 and then tried launching multiMAN again, the same issue occurred.

I will tinker with it later on today.. I just received a new motherboard for a PC--I have to replace an old one with burnt caps.. be right back after a few hours or so.

Update 4:
I think I found the issue. My custom theme had a dummy SOUND.BIN file. It was simply a blank txt file renamed to SOUND.BIN. This way the audio would not play for this theme. I did this, because I don't want sound--I know I could turn off this feature in multiMAN's settings, but every now and then, I like to test a new theme and I like to know what kind of audio the theme creator placed in it.

In order to fix this issue of mine, I plan to repack my custom theme without a SOUND.BIN file. I think this will solve this issue. I am just wondering why the previous versions of multiMAN didn't have an issue with this? I don't think this is a problem with multiMAN. I think the problem is that I was forcing it to work with an "invalid" file--clumsy me!

minja - 06-20-2012, 03:26 PM
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The Lord of the Rings: Conquest work now some body know if works ??

aldostools - 06-20-2012, 03:26 PM
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@Jay-Jay
You could try this:
Use OpenPS3FTP Server or Awesome File Manager, browse to /dev_hdd0/game/BLES80608/USRDIR/ and delete (or move to another folder):
XMBS.003, XMBS.004, XMBS.005, XMBS.008

Hack-Ps3 - 06-20-2012, 04:28 PM
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awesome update. making something awesome even more awesome
guys if anyone had this problem when you run the game game by multiman and it gives a black screen you should delete it then reinstalled
'i mean multiman not the game'
and also ftp connection is way better in multiman believe me because in ftp ox sometimes it cannot process folders and i have to make them myself then copy the name but in multiman none of those problem just don't leave it long press the controller or the PlayStation will shut own
hope this help someone out their having this little problems

Jay-Jay - 06-20-2012, 04:43 PM
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@aldostools, thanks for the support! It's feels awesome having deank and you participating at psx-scene--seems like old times!

I think I figured out my issue. Please read Update 4 above.

deank - 06-20-2012, 05:37 PM
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Originally Posted by Quakes69

Deank, Do you plan on making it so one can set a user icon for these types of files(EBOOT.BIN/.SELF)? or, Maybe when a user Creates the shortcut that he/she can select one at runtime from the PS3_GAME folder of the game at question or from another place.

Just wondering,

BahumatLord - 06-20-2012, 06:17 PM
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Originally Posted by Jay-Jay

@aldostools, thanks for the support! It's feels awesome having deank and you participating at psx-scene--seems like old times

just worth repeating

AngelArc - 06-20-2012, 06:53 PM
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Does anyone have a problem opening the web browser in mM? I keeping getting 'Not enough memory'. A solution would be great!! Also I wonder if deank could make it possible to add greasemonkey scripts to the browser??

Hack-Ps3 - 06-20-2012, 06:57 PM
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i don't have this problem but adding scripts to the browser would be cool

Quakes69 - 06-20-2012, 09:41 PM
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Originally Posted by deank

Nice! That isn't in there now is it? Cause I made a shortcut to a few games(EBOOT.BIN's) and all they display is the Star icon.

Also have another question. Do you plan on in the future to have more then 48 icons? Like when you can choose to have the icons display(Default now) size 48x48(If this is the size or not.) or 32x32(72/84 icons can be displayed). Also do you plan on having toolbars? Like a quick launch or a user filled toolbar?

Looking forward to the User Icons.

Thanks,

Quake

Edit: oh looky there. I see a game poster in the background of the game folder. Cool!

ccfman2004 - 06-20-2012, 10:05 PM
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This version of MultiMan is definitely doing something funky with the Borderlands DLC. If I use MultiMan to load the backup from the hard drive, the installed DLC doesn't show up. If I run the actual disc, the DLC shows up no problem.

Can anyone else confirm?

EDIT: Upon running the actual disc again, it is reinstalling the game data. I was just playing the disc about 10 minutes ago and it didn't do that as the data was already installed.

I think I am just going to delete the install data, delete the copy from the hard drive and reinstall everything. Never had this issue before.