Open PS2 Loader Project Feature Requests

[Xtremegamer]

I know you can't have it find the cover art for your games, but you can already store the cover art on the storage medium.

For example, my cover art is stored in C:\PS2SMB\ART and named SLUS_203.87.COV.png.

I'm an unsure if it needs to be .png or if it can be any image file like jpg, jpeg, ect. ect.

yes i know it can (p.s. it supports .png and .jpg) but could you explain why it can't download it from the internet ?

,greetz

Xtremegamer

[jimmikaelkael]

a great feature would be that OPL looks up the cover art itself (after approval of user) and downloads it to the SMB/USB/HDD folder like so.

would take a bit of code but it would look soooo nice if you see a progress bar of the content being downloaded

also themes and stuff maybe apps ?

last but not least , a divx player that takes advantage of opl's SMB ( XMB thingy ) ?

if all that comes into the OPL , i'll have my paypal ready because that just deserves a donation

,greetz

Xtremegamer

I don't see the reliationship between XMB/SMB.

This has been discussed and discussed and discussed and...
No OPL will never become an all-in-once app, such idea is just stupid. Guys of OPL team are concentrating their efforts to make a game loader, EEUG released an app to play divx, dlanor & EP have done a very reliable file manager/elf launcher and ffgriever knows better than anyone else how to make a PS1 emulator for PS2 and so on...

When the work is divided, it's always better.

I'm sorry but a donation will not change anything... We don't have a donation link anyway (OPL team I mean).

[Xtremegamer]

woot , lol don't jump on your horse lol , i didn't mean it like that.

i ment that maybe apps and games could be more integrated so OPL is the only thing you have to boot in order to play games / watch movies / etc..

and since OPL supports loading apps i don't see a reason why it couldnt be like this ?

by XMB i really didnt ment a real XMB but an app that has a library of the movies/music/photo's on the opl folder and can play/display them.

and i only have this request because SMS doesnt work for win7 (without alot of tweaking) via SMB.

sorry if you found my previous post out of line

,Greetz

xtremegamer

[guxtabo]

jimmikaelkael, do you know if I can compress the dvd folder, I am using OPL 0.8 and Freenas, how can I compress that folder inside Freenas?
Someone else could help me?
I know I can run terminal commands, which one do I need to install FuseCompress or ZFS?

[SlayVus]

i ment that maybe apps and games could be more integrated so OPL is the only thing you have to boot in order to play games / watch movies / etc..

and i only have this request because SMS doesnt work for win7 (without alot of tweaking) via SMB

I'm going to quote a co-admin here.

Attempting to combine all kinds of unrelated functionality into a single binary is a horrible idea, as unrelated functionality also implies unrelated limitations and special needs, and when all are combined in a single binary, that binary will suffer all of those limitations, instead of just a few (as with separate applications).

Special means would be required to isolate special needs and limitations to each subtask, requiring increased reinit when switching between special tasks, and you would end up with pretty much the same situation we have now, where each main task (like media playing or whatever) requires special launching with init delays. The main difference would be that this launching would be from internal storage in the elf instead of launching an external elf from MC or USB. And this also raises the runtime storage needs of the elf enormously. And on a platform with so little RAM as a PS2 has this matters more than most users of modern computers seem to realize.

The PS2 RAM size is microscopic compared to a modern PC: 32MB for EE CPU, 2MB for IOP CPU.

For these as well as some other considerations the best way to build a complex application structure like you want is not by integrating them into a single binary, but by creating improved methods for these applications to coexist and cooperate, without needing to occupy RAM at the same time. The overall effect can still be the same as if they were an integrated application, but without most of the downsides.

Best regards: dlanor

Also in regards to having OPL try and download cover art for games on SMB. This post was in regards to being able to play gaming online through OPL-SMB.

Doing so would be extremely difficult, so it will not happen anytime soon.

It is theoretically possible, but requires our networking routines to be able to adapt to the need of the games to 'seemingly' load new network drivers and activate those for the use of the game, while in reality that loading is inhibited and the work of those drivers is emulated by our own drivers, in parallel with the traffic with the SMB server for loading the game ISO.

This is a far more complex type of network emulation than any previously done on a PS2, so I don't expect such things to happen shortly, if ever...

Best regards: dlanor

I expect this would be the same problem with trying to download cover art from the internet. The network is already in use by SMB to connect to your computer.

[Xtremegamer]

thanks for taking the time to explain this to me, i really appreciate it

,Greetz

Xtremegamer

[jimmikaelkael]

I expect this would be the same problem with trying to download cover art from the internet. The network is already in use by SMB to connect to your computer.

You're absolutely wrong...
There's a major difference, going online while in the GUI is not the same that doing so ingame.
This is a 'technical' limit we have only during gameplay. The GUI does not suffer such limitation.

[SlayVus]

Pst... don't be so offensive. I was just trying to be helpful. I there might of been the same kind of limitation and all. I'm just trying to help him out.

So, downloading cover arts might be possible from what your saying. From my point of view though, I don't know why you would want that 'feature'. It'd be simpler to download the cover art for the game while your backing it up to your USB device or computer. What would that take? 3-4 minutes on a 4GB iso? That's plenty of time to download a 100kb file from a website that already has renamed it.

[jimmikaelkael]

Pst... don't be so offensive. I was just trying to be helpful. I there might of been the same kind of limitation and all. I'm just trying to help him out.

So, downloading cover arts might be possible from what your saying. From my point of view though, I don't know why you would want that 'feature'. It'd be simpler to download the cover art for the game while your backing it up to your USB device or computer. What would that take? 3-4 minutes on a 4GB iso? That's plenty of time to download a 100kb file from a website that already has renamed it.

Saying you're wrong is offensive ?
Well should I let you diffuse bad informations then ? Well I shut up.

[SlayVus]

The way you said it was offensive. Saying it in general wasn't.

How would you feel if your co-worker went "Your completely wrong..." in your face instead of going "Actually, it would work like this. Blah blah explanation."