Portable Gaming Revolution

PSP Updates has posted a large number of new and update Homebrew applications today, but rather than post each one individually, I thought I would just make two large posts, one with applications and one with games.

First up we have uo_YDICT which is a portable dictionary.

This is the 1st release of the uo_YDICT which is based on ZYM’s fantastic and hard work, YDICT ver 0.2. YDICT is an dictionary homebrew application for psp users. This unofficial mod edition includes an Oxford dictionay and new features such as:

1. Redesigned keyboard.
2. Redesigned UI colors.
3. Some trival changes.

Enjoy !

Next up is a mod to PMP Mod v1.00 which adds some extra options so users can adjust the display properties a bit, as well as adding some more playback controls.

- a volume booster function (up and down can be used to change the volume from x1 to x2, x4, or x8 during play, usefull for the low volume scenes)

- a resume function (when the video is exited with triangle, the position is saved in a small file, and when the video is played again, it goes directly where it was saved)

- Left and Right trigger can be used to adjust the luminosity during playback (it’s usefull to add a bit of luminosity to remove the bad ghosting effect of the LCD screen in dark scenes)

- if START is pressed during play, it goes to the start of the video.

- if the .PMP.POS file is selected in the file selector, it launches the .PMP directly

On the subject of PMP Mods, BaLdMoNkEy has released his mod called PSPMPVerter v0.2 which assists in converting those video files to the right format for PMP.

his app requires:

- A copy of mencoder from [here] under “Precompiled Mencoder binaries” (mencoder.exe)

- A copy of PMP Muxer from [here]

- VB6 Runtimes (included in most windows anyway)

How to use:

Click browse, choose your file, click calculate to calculate resolution. You have 2 options, to make a bat file and not execute it, for your own purposes, and just a plain convert button which makes the batch file and then executes it.

The encoded pmp file will appear in the same directory as the original video file when everything is finished (when the dos windows disappears).During the process the original gui does not need to be open at all.

You can set video bitrate to whatever you want and compatible audio bitrates are in the drop down box.

The resolution and other settings can also be set in the batch file, you just need to be able to deduce which setting is which (not too hard at all)

- Download uo_YDICT here.
- Download PMP Mod – Malloc Mod here.
- Download PSPMPVerter v0.2 here.