Open PS2 Loader Project Feature Requests

[barf]

This thread is for suggestions wishes for HD Homebrew Project.

Suggestions already observed:

• Network source
• USB source
• Emulators to run as part of HD Homebrew Project
• SMS to run as part of HD Homebrew Project
• In game reset

Here is my list of suggestion

• Username like in PS3 XMB
• VMC stored next to the game source pr username
• New menu mode that has one list of all sources with different background color pr source
• Forcing of progressive/interlace, perhaps also 480/576 modes
• IGR
• Display ( example SLES_531.94 ) in the options menu
• The possibility to install games from one media to another
• Theme loading from SMB, USB and HDD

Example vmc

PP.HDL.3 Lego Star Wars 1
total 611M
-rw-r--r-- 1 ps2 ps2 610M 2009-12-12 02:01 ul.C9B769C8.SLES_531.94.00
-rw-r--r-- 1 ps2 ps2 230K 2009-12-12 02:01 ul.C9B769C8.SLES_531.94.<<username>>.vmc
-rw-r--r-- 1 ps2 ps2   64 2010-01-07 19:41 ul.cfg

[romz]

SMS to run as part of HD Homebrew Project

What does it mean? Does SMS need a virtual CD/DVD media or a virtual memory card?

[barf]

Perhaps for storing DVDs on HDD just like is done with games?

I do not really know at this time, I just made a list of what I read in different threads.

I would picture most of them to run as iso images myself,
I do run SNES-Station and PGEN as iso images in HDLoader,
but if it could also execute ELFs I assume that might be what was in the suggestion.

My personal excitment is the potential of running Downhill Domination from HDD :-)

[donutman]

my suggestion is that someone moves on from this memcard stuff(dont get me wrong, i'm in love with it) and start with the actual "playing games off of hdd" concept

[Polo35]

my suggestion is that someone moves on from this memcard stuff(dont get me wrong, i'm in love with it) and start with the actual "playing games off of hdd" concept

You maybe didn't really understand how hombrew projects work, so i'll explain you:

One day a guy have an idea and want to see it working on his favourites machine ( yup favourites, because there is lot of other great plateform with better cpu/ram ), so he work at side of his real life 1 year or more to have a result, which is not all time near what he firstly though.
So he restart writing codes to improve his idea, but something happen in his life and the project have to wait...
For how many time ? He don't know. Maybe a year, or more... Sometime project just dead like Altimit, Ps2OS, ... , but sometime it survives, and restart growing.

I think hd hombrew project is at this step, Romz have his own real life at side of ps2 scene, we have to thank him for all time he pass to write codes he released here.
And don't forget everybody though hd hombrew project was dead some month ago.

So, why not doing it by yourself instead of saying nothing ?

Best regards

Polo

[hikarutilmitt]

I agree, any progress is good progress.

Also, a suggestion that may or may not be possible for HD Homebrew:

-exiting the game back to the game selection screen via some user-specified key combination
-if the above is possible, turning off the system the same way and/or via the game selection screen
-forcing a game into 480p mode even if it doesn't support it internally, but not the crummy way it "works" for the Xploder HDTV Player

[romz]

my suggestion is that someone moves on from this memcard stuff(dont get me wrong, i'm in love with it) and start with the actual "playing games off of hdd" concept

The "memcard stuff" is "adrenaline" for the project. The project was almost dead since most people didn't believe that they see anything usable someday. You can find an example there: http://psx-scene.com/forums/ide-hdd-...saves-hdd.html

[micpet1997]

I agree, any progress is good progress.

Also, a suggestion that may or may not be possible for HD Homebrew:

-exiting the game back to the game selection screen via some user-specified key combination
-if the above is possible, turning off the system the same way and/or via the game selection screen
-forcing a game into 480p mode even if it doesn't support it internally, but not the crummy way it "works" for the Xploder HDTV Player

I agree with the implementation of these suggestions if possible

[barf]

I agree, any progress is good progress.

Also, a suggestion that may or may not be possible for HD Homebrew:

-exiting the game back to the game selection screen via some user-specified key combination
-if the above is possible, turning off the system the same way and/or via the game selection screen
-forcing a game into 480p mode even if it doesn't support it internally, but not the crummy way it "works" for the Xploder HDTV Player

Well these are from my expectations all optional fun stuff, and fully achievable if you find the right person to implement it,
the exiting has been queried for a long time and it is very strange that it has not yet been made; in let’s say HDLoader,
perhaps it’s related to the fact that there is a poweroff function and not really an easily accessible softreset function?

[dlanor]

Well these are from my expectations all optional fun stuff, and fully achievable if you find the right person to implement it,
the exiting has been queried for a long time and it is very strange that it has not yet been made; in let’s say HDLoader,

No, that is not at all strange, since implementing this as it is always described (appx "exiting back to the GUI") is in fact completely impossible, since there is no way to keep a GUI program resident while playing generic PS2 games. Many games use virtually all available RAM of both the EE and the IOP memory spaces, so keeping a GUI program intact in RAM during such games is simply not possible.

The only generic way to get back into a game-launching GUI for normal PS2 games is thus not by "exiting back" to it, but only through a complete reboot of the console, repeating all the steps that were required to launch the GUI in the first place.

So the only real improvement of having a 'soft' way of triggering such a reboot would be to relieve the user of the necessity of twice touching the reset button (once to turn the console off, and then once more to turn it on again). Most other delays and procedures would have to be identical to the first launch.

Best regards: dlanor