Free McBoot Configurator

[suloku]

-Limited Enter and Version X/Y values to its higher values.
-Cross over an OSD item erases all it's values.
-Pasting over an empty OSD item won't ask for overwritting. Added button layout to the prompt.

Let's hope this is the last one ^^

[TnA]

Let's hope this is the last one ^^

I don´t think so.

[suloku]

Source included (was about time). It should be compiled with the same environment as ulaunchelf 4.16 (and up to current 4.30 I assume since I can compile 4.30).

-Added "OSDMENU" to configurable LK_?_E? entries.
-Added "OSDSYS" and "FASTBOOT" as configurable OSD items (press select to cycle).
-Added the 0x07 (\7) character to the virtual keyboard and made a font for it. It's represented by an inverted "L" (thus it looks somewhat like this "_|").
-Enhanced virtual keyboard to support up to 99 characters. It works, but the display has some bugs I haven't been able to solve yet, I can't succesfully erase the display of the second and third text lines (chars 34 to 66 and 67 to 99 respectively).

I hope I can solve the virtual keyboard problem soon, I've been more than an hour trying to figure it out with no result. I'm releasing this because the problem is related to the display, not to the actual input/output to the cnf file.

[TnA]

With source (complete, or part?).

THX suloku.
That´s a real feature, I was looking forward before (Num7-Support).
...and it should be also backward-compatible,... ^^

[TnA]

If I select one of the "Special Options" (OSDSYS, FASTBOOT, OSDMOD <-- I only tested the last one, but assume it matches to all...) and then use the "run"-command/press start, it goes to BSOD (I would say of course... But it maybe should just permit execution of those.).

Btw.:I hope, Num7-Support gets more expanded/userfriendly.

e.g. pressing a button on pad or visual keyboard, to reach another keyboard with Num7-Chars.

[suloku]

With source (complete, or part?).

Complete. In fact you could get ule 4.16 from there. It's all commented in order to be able to retrieve ule's removed features, such as hdd support.

Inside the "not used" dir you have all source file which aren't used atm, but in the used sources there are lots of commented non used ule functions or simplified versions of an existing function.

If I select one of the "Special Options" (OSDSYS, FASTBOOT, OSDMOD <-- I only tested the last one, but assume it matches to all...) and then use the "run"-command/press start, it goes to BSOD (I would say of course... But it maybe should just permit execution of those.).

This may have been there since the very first version. I'll make it prevent elf booting when one of those is selected.

Btw.:I hope, Num7-Support gets more expanded/userfriendly.

e.g. pressing a button on pad or visual keyboard, to reach another keyboard with Num7-Chars.

That may be a relative easy thing to do, but how many num7 chars are there? I'm not into enconding or anything, tell me which characters you want and I'll see what can I do.

[TnA]

Hm,... JAP&CH.

I´ll go and create the font for every sinlge char, if you want to.

There are so many hidden OSD-Functions.
Thought not only different chars, but also "colors per Item", X/Y per item, etc.


Edit: About source. Could it be included now in FMCBs source?
One Makefile for all.

[urbigbro]

The encoding is actually SJIS, not Chinese.

If SJIS is to be properly implemented there are some hurdles that need to be overcome.
1) We need to know the SJIS revision that is supported by the PS2 BIOS, or if it is a custom version, what characters are supported. Through my own testing in making the "Chinese" .cnf it appears that the BIOS doesn't use the latest revision as it won't display all the SJIS Kanji characters I tried to use.
2) A custom font that looks like the PS2 BIOS font and supports all the SJIS characters that the PS2 BIOS will display, needs to be made for uLE. (This has been partially done already)
3) The line spacing the PS2 BIOS uses for single and double byte characters needs to be able to be displayed the FMCB config preview.
4) An understanding of what type of method the PS2 BIOS uses to center items. Perhaps even a switch to use left or right justification.

I would be willing to help with item 1 if it turns out that the SJIS in the PS2 BIOS is indeed a custom version. Be warned as I understand Chinese, and really don't know anything besides the Kanji part of Japanese.
(Font Creation Tutorial)
Haro has made a custom Japanese uLE font, but, it only uses Katakana, and I'm unsure if he still comes here.
If it turns out that in order to find out which SJIS characters the PS2 BIOS display requires trying them all. I'm willing to do so. I would request the help of at least two other forum members that have Japanese knowledge though, as the list huge


Some optional things that could be done to make the FMCB Config even more useful would be. ( I realize some or all of these ideas may not even be possible with uLE is the origin of your program.)

1) simultaneous preview of all lines that are populated (ascii art would be so much easier)
2)WYSWYG display including font scaling, offset, etc.


In my exploration of Alt+Num7 codes I have posted the 1000 Alt+Num77o000-999, but only the first 20 or so are small enough to put in a virtual keyboard.

[suloku]

This is starting to feel like it's too much for me, I don't have the skills

Edit: About source. Could it be included now in FMCBs source?
One Makefile for all.

Probably not, as fmcb compiles on a diferent environment and it wouldn't be a good idea to merge both sources.

[jimmikaelkael]

I made the test on my environment, It was failing finding references to libjpg and libfileXio.
I added "-ljpg -lfileXio" to EE_LIBS var in your makefile and it compile just fine.

So the choice is yours

EDIT:
I've just figured out that in fact it's my GsKit that was requiring these dependencies, because mine was compiled with libjpg support, and yours not... Resulting in a configurator ELF that was more than 300Kb (not packed) while yours is only 171Kb.

I've recompiled my GsKit without libjpg support, and now it compiles the configurator just fine without any changes to it, and the size still the same than yours.

And the surprise is that I've recompiled my FMCB installer ELF and the size drop down from 520kb packed to 458kb