PS Home button and pausing

[Antony]

Is there any way to stop this happening by modding something? With that cheatdongle pkg being released the other week, I would like to take some screenshots but the game goes to the pause menu when you access the XMB, it doesn't pause when the cut-scenes are playing

[Three-Socks]

It should be possible. Are you familiar with script coding? If so then this native should get you what want DISABLE_PAUSE_MENU(true).

I like the idea of being able to take screenshots easily so if you don't know how code it yourself i'll do it

[Antony]

I haven't got a clue, but if you could do it that would be fabulous

[Three-Socks]

Give this a go: EDIT Updated: http://psx-scene.com/forums/showthread.php?p=983038

I don't have a ps3 handy atm so I can't test it. But i've tested on pc and I can't pause using Esc. But ps3 when the home button is pressed it might pause the game before my code runs, who knows.

Hold R1 and tap right dpad to enable disable pause menu (it should print "Pause Disabled")

Hold R1 and tap left dpad to disable hud (wasn't sure if you can hide hud on ps3 and thought it would be a handy feature.)

Let me know if it all works well on ps3 and I'll add into the next modmanager release and add the source code to example mods.

[DEREKTROTTER]

Is there any way to stop this happening by modding something? With that cheatdongle pkg being released the other week, I would like to take some screenshots but the game goes to the pause menu when you access the XMB, it doesn't pause when the cut-scenes are playing

that dongle allows you to take screenshots?

[Antony]

Yes.

You press the PS Home button to bring up the XMB, go to the photo column and select save screenshot, some examples on here of Killzone and Uncharted:

NeoGAF - View Single Post - Official Playstation 3 in game screen shot function

Some games pause the gameplay, some carry on playing and some go to the pause menu screen.


I've installed the pause disabled pkg but the game stays on loading 'starting new game'. I've done this with a fresh install of game & game data, also with and without the 1.06 update installed.

[Three-Socks]

I've installed the pause disabled pkg but the game stays on loading 'starting new game'. I've done this with a fresh install of game & game data, also with and without the 1.06 update installed.

hmm I'm not sure what would cause that. My script won't even be executed at that stage so I'm not sure what it is. Try backing up the game again if you don't run disk.

[Antony]

I tried playing off the disk and it works, thanks Three-Socks

example screen:



It still won't work when playing off my hard drive though, I'll back it up again and see if that fixes it.



Also, would it be possible to completely freeze the gameplay so you can capture your crazy moments? As it is now the game will continue play.

[Three-Socks]

Awesome that it works. Nice job getting it all sorted too.

BLES00229: BLES00229-GTAIV106-ModManager-V1-2-GarageModShop-V2-0BETA2.pkg

BLUS30127: BLUS30127-GTAIV106-ModManager-V1-2-GarageModShop-V2-0BETA2.pkg

Hold R1 and tap right dpad to enable/disable pause menu (it should print "Pause Disabled")

Hold R1 and tap left dpad to disable hud (wasn't sure if you can hide hud on ps3 and thought it would be a handy feature.)

Hold R1 and tap X to freeze/unfreeze game.

Source code: https://bitbucket.org/ThreeSocks/gta.../disable_pause

[Antony]

Excellent stuff, thanks!