Posts Tagged ‘PSP’

PSP on TV

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

I finally broke down and bought a component cable, to be able to play PSP games on a TV. The experience was… disappointing, to say the least. The entire PSP screen takes up a fraction of the television’s screen, somewhat killing the point of having a TV cable. The XMB/DVD playback screen is larger (it’s displayed in interlaced mode), but still relatively small.

This probably wouldn’t be that big of an issue, if the cable worked on traditional TV’s (it won’t, unless your TV supports progressive scan), but it doesn’t, and using it on a big-screen TV kinda makes you wonder why the whole thing was put together in the first place.

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Fuse PSP version 0.9.0.2 released (updated)

Sunday, July 27th, 2008

New in this version:

  • Added various game image types missing from the initial release
  • New virtual keyboard
  • Added monitor type selection (color/grayscale)
  • Fixed a serious memory leak, which would manifest itself when opening ZIP files
  • Fixed the “tape loading hang” bug
  • Added +3 support
  • Added Kempston joystick support
  • Added “hack cursor” support (keyboard up/down/left/right)
  • Lots of code reshuffling

This version also includes extended DSK support; however, this does not seem to work correctly at the moment. Since the next version of Fuse is going to have drastically revamped 765 support, I’m probably not going to work on this until the next version.

UPDATE At least one user has reported palette corruption problems, so I’m pulling the new version down until I can revert the psplib code back to an older version. Please bear with me, and if you have the version originally released, please don’t distribute it.

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psplib released under GPL

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

After some discussion at worldofspectrum, I learned that the problem with Fuse PSP is psplib’s restrictive disclaimer, which prohibited commercial use of the code. psplib is the library that I initially wrote for fMSX PSP; it is common to all the ports I’ve done to date. While the disclaimer wasn’t actually meant to serve as a legal document (as I mentioned in the forum, I’ve always considered psplib public domain software), Philip’s argument is that it went against GPL, which prohibits user restrictions.

To resolve this incompatibility, I’ve decided to license psplib under the GPL. The library is already undergoing structural changes (parts of it have needed tweaks for a while now), so now seems as good a time as any. The updated library is in the trunk branch of Fuse PSP’s repository.

Fuse PSP binaries are once again downloadable.

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Fuse PSP binaries

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

Philip Kendall (author of Fuse) has asked me to stop distributing binaries to Fuse PSP because of technical issues with the GPL license. I’m currently unsure which library is causing the conflict, but as I don’t wish to go against the wishes of the original authors, for now, I am removing EBOOT.PBP from the download.

You can still download and compile your own copy (svn).

UPDATE Fuse PSP is once again downloadable. See next post for more information

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