PSP on Macs

Wednesday, September 20, 2006

Nethostfs for Mac Updated

Update v.0.5a:
PEnGUIn(Host) 0.5a Updated!!
fixed writing file from PSP to MAC without properties of privilege through nethostfs.

Download:PEnGUIn(Host) 0.5a
Attention: Remember to install libusb.pkg before launching of PEnGUIn(Host)!!

Update:
Added Usbhostfs support but not tested on Intel-based Mac.
Attention: Make sure you install libusb.pkg before launching of PEnGUIn(Host)

Download:PEnGUIn(Host) 0.4a
Download:libusb binary 0.1.12

We're pleased to introduce La'fear's third release of PEnGUIn. Actually it's the Nethostfs for Mac version with a simple GUI to simplify the user experience. You can now stream PMP files through irshell 2.1 & 2.2 (though 2.1 is the recommended version).

Any and all constructive feedback is welcomed.

Download: PEnGUIn(Host) 0.3a
Download: IRShell

Sunday, September 10, 2006

PMP Encoder UPDATED

Update logs 1.25u:
1. Add bitrate control for AVI & MP3 Encode.
2. Add high quality control for AVI Encode.
3. Universal Binary support.
4. Minor GUI fixes.

Update logs 1.16a:
1. Improvements of Audio/Video sync. (Both encoder and muxer.)
2. Compiled to support Universal Binaries.
3. Add CRF rate control of x264.
(Which means can adjust disk usage of videos)

Instructions
1. Make sure you used the PEnGUIn(Encoder) to encode the two files (video and a mp3).
(out.avi and out.mp3)
2. Open the PEnGUIn(Muxer) then press Video File to select your out.avi then press Audio File to select out.avi
3. Press AVI_Muxer button and set save name and place in the save panel. You will see your pmp file shows on the place where you specified in the save panel.

Download: PEnGUIn Toolkit 1.25u
Download: Quick Guide for PEnGUIn ToolKit 2nd Edition.

source: (penguintool)

Sunday, September 03, 2006

in memory of...

*edit*

Yesterday I broke the horrible news to the owner of said PSP, he took it quite well (much better than I would have). I was about to give it back to him when I showed my coworker, who knows nothing about PSPs, he popped the disk out and turned the wireless switch off and the damn thing came on! Not only did it come on it was downgraded already to 1.50. I popped on DevHook and it worked! sorry for the over excitement but it took a hell of a weight off of my shoulders (being that the owner is the guy who hired me). Though it still eats at me that my coworker was able to do something that I wasn't... oh well.

Friday's grand release of the xtrusion's 2.71 downgrader was watched closely by us here at PSPonMac 'specially since we have a 2.6 firmware PSP collecting dust because the GTA this person bought wasn't the original, We even tried to downgrade it on a pc.... long stories brushed aside, we knew that in our overt ~~pro~~fessionalism that this would be the moment we proudly return the psp to it's rightful owner with homebrew enable minus the need to find another copy of GTA. The downgrader dropped and after reviewing the comments made about the how amazingly easy it was to complete the downgrade we put our proverbial foot in cold water and tried. completed the process and restarted it... green light... blank screen... it bricked...

this was our first case, after overwhelming successes with hordes of psps, of losing *sniff* one. we would now take this moment to say R.I.P. to FW 2.6 PSP... now to explain this to the owner...

Friday, September 01, 2006

2.71 Downgrader Released!

From www.psp-hacks.com

Renowned PSP developer Dark_AleX, along side with Mathieulh & Yoshi, have managed to successfully downgrade a non-TA-082 PSP running FW 2.71 - thanks to the recently discovered TIFF exploit! The process entails several steps [and precautions] which closely resemble the same procedure taken to downgrade 2.50/2.60. With that in mind, it’s probably safe to assume someone will take the liberty in creating an “Easy 2.71 -> 1.50 Downgrader.”

Copy the files inside MS_ROOT to the root of your memory stick.
Wait someone with 1.50 to pass you a folder called DOWNDATER and copy it to the root of your memstick.
It is recomended that you have the psp at more than 50% batteery and connected to AC
Go to the xmb photo viewer.
At this point will one of the following things:

You’ll see a full red screen. This indicates that the downdater is doing its job. Wait for it to finish. When it finish it will crash on purpose. Restart your psp manually and you’ll probably have a 1.50 if nothing went wrong.
You don’t see the red screen. This indicates that the downdater code has not started to execute. (even if the memstick blinks(or no), it doesn’t matter! if the screen is not red, you can safely restart the psp at this point).

This happen because of inestability in the tiff.
Don’t worry, just restart the psp and keep trying until you reach the red screen of downdate.
The downdater code is NEVER executed partially. It’s either executed totally or nothing.

It depends of “luck” but usually the downdater will start to execute in a average of 1/10 times.
Things that may increase the probabilities:

- A fresh formatted memory stick.
- A 32 MB memory stick (and fresh formatted)

REMEMBER: THIS DOES NOT WORK WITH TA-082 MOTHERBOARDS!

Much respect for NOPx86 for discovering the libtiff exploit; Fanjita, Skylark, and everyone else involved with this phenomenal breakthrough!

Download: 2.71 Downgrader (includes all necessary files)

As always… with any flash-related tool, USE AT YOUR OWN RISK - good luck!

Wednesday, August 23, 2006

FFMPEGX issues for Intel Mac

My three week old MacBook and FFMPEGX (which gets religious usage) haven't been playing together well lately. Either it says that it encoded .avi files in one second flat (with zero kb showing) or the quality takes a deep dive (both video and sound).
We were wondering if anyone else had experienced this issue as well.

Prometeus (MacCISO-DAX) v0.81B

Dago^WATT an updated version of ISO/CSO/DAX for Mac OS X. It has been christened with a new name Prometeus v0.8B which now features support for ISOgen. Basically that means that you can take any ISO image and rebuild it to your liking all while in the comfort of Mac.

Totally unrelated sidenote: E us and let us know how we're doing here and remember we're here to strong arm nerdese to english for you so copy paste and we'll plop it up for everyone to see.

download:Prometeus v0.81B

Wednesday, August 09, 2006

Compressor for Mac OS X UPDATE

Update: Dago^WATT has released a quick bug fix update for v0.61B which fixes a problem when attempting to seize CISO decompression. The download link below has been updated.

Here is a new version of MacCISO-DAX from Dago^WATT! And it includes Major changes since the last version we posted - you won’t be disappointed!

Download:MacCISO

Tuesday, July 25, 2006

Compressor for Mac OS X

Now finally you too can convert your ISO images to CISO and/or DAX format, and vice versa - any which way you want!

Description:
MacCISO allows you to convert your existing ISO images to DAX and/or CISO compressed formats. The following conversions are supported:
ISO - CISO
CISO - ISO
ISO - DAX
DAX - ISO.
Released by Dago WATT and RnS

Download: MacCISO

Thursday, July 20, 2006

Devhook updated to v0.45! Launching Homebrew on Emulated 2.71 Now Possible!

And yes another great release from booster!!! this guy is just amazing

It apparently supports homebrew launching right on 2.71 firmware. Couple it with harleyg's custom firmware mod which allows you to directly load DevHook on startup, and you're practically in PSP heaven.

Here's a detailed changelog:

* Support for loading EBOOT.PBP on memory stick and EBOOT.BIN on UMD(ISO) in ELF format.
* Fixed problems that made 1.50 NoUMD not functioning.
* Added more exclusive controls added to flash emulation. As well as other memory stick breaking countermeasures.
* Memory map changed for rebooting

To-Do

* FW2.71 registry initialization failure problem.
* Stabilize flash emulation (file access).
* NoUMD for FW 2.xx
* NAND driver level emulation

Download::[Devhook v0.45]

Friday, July 14, 2006

2.60 2.71!

Booster must be on take speed and wash it down with Jolt filled Expressos because their work ethic would solve world hunger while getting rid of the deficit. somehow they, in less than a week moved up from 2.60 emulation to 2.71. it's over, really. can someone hire them?

download:[Devhook v0.44]

Monday, July 10, 2006

Emulate 2.60

Booster back at it with the release of the Devhook v0.43 which let you now run FW 2.6 on your FW1.5,and am pretty sure it wont be long before you see FW2.71 so just stay tuned.

Download:[Devhook v0.43]

Wednesday, July 05, 2006

Todays PSP Updates..

-Devhook v0.42: 2.5 emulator.If your a first time user check out this tutorial to get you started.

-Links 2.1 Stand alone Browser and the PSPRadio Plugin for FW 1.5 Well by now you probably using the FW2.5 browser but give it a try. The way you type is alot better than the 2.5 browser.

These two were in our must haves for 1.5 article.

Tuesday, July 04, 2006

PMP on MAC

For those without the Intel based Macs who want to stream PMP movies, here's what you will need to get your movies in PMP format .

- FFMPEGX
- pmp_muxer_1_0_2_source folder
- PMP Mod v1.02 (works only on FW 1.0 und 1.5)

Here's a great tutorial on how to create PMP on your oh-so-lovely MAC OSX..follow the instructions until you get to the part where you need to use your Terminal window then:

Take the files out of the pmp_muxer and have them on desktop (make sure you have your Video.avi and your Audio.mp3 also on your desktop)

The thing that Mastamind failed to mention for us not-so-tech-inclined (i.e. non-nerdy people) is we need to type "cd Desktop" in the terminal (copy and paste, it's case sensitive) then hit Enter. Now u can copy "perl pmp_muxer.pl Video.avi Audio.mp3 weltraum.pmp" then hit Enter again. It will take a few seconds until it says "status OK" at this point there should be a file on your desktop called "weltraum.pmp and thats it!

This is what you'll need for streaming:

- pmp_mod1.02-M4g3_bin

- Python

1. Edit the pmp.ini file in your PMPMOD_M4g3 folder then save.

2. Copy both folder in your PSP/GAME(PMPMOD_M4g3 and PMPMOD_M4g3%)

3. Start your server using Python Launcher

4. Look for "ROOT=" this is where you should type the location of your pmp ex. ROOT=/Users/psponmac/Desktop

5. Now start up your PMPMOD on your PSP and your done!

Let me know if this helps or you need some further instruction feel free to ask.

Good luck

Linky :-D - July 4th edition

Jeff Nolan over at Venture Chronicles linked us in his very compelling post about Sony's suicidal tendencies. We agree fully with his stance on Sony's missteps in regards to the PSP and their inability to conceive the concept of flexibility. He puts it much more eloquently, of course, but we appreciate the linkage Jeff, hopefully someone will listen.

In other news we're compiling a 'Wish List' of programs we feel should be moved over to the Mac platform and additions to already existing Mac programs. If you have any ideas please email us and give us your input.

Enjoy the Holiday and folks remember: Firearms are NOT Fireworks!

Thanks :-D

Sunday, July 02, 2006

Patience

We here at psponmac have patience, so much so that we've achieved perfection multiple times only to demote ourselves simply to extend the virtue of our patience. With that being said we, of course, patiently waited with a 1.5 firmwire while others spoke of web browsers, RSS and LocationFree.... One could say that people who upgraded shouldn't be allowed in our utopia, but since we hold 'nary a grudge (being perfect and all) we welcome you to our utopia.

You simply need a 2.5 or 2.6 firmwire and the GTA UMD and your in. Oh! We have but one rule here: Please don't feed the pink unicorns after 8pm.

Thank you.

Must Haves for 1.5 users:

1. devhook041d: 2,5 emulator (if u need help with this just let us know we can de-nerdify it for you)

2. Links2 r1195: this is a stand alone browser (the hands down best browser 4 your PSP if your spinelessness won't allow you to give DevHook a try.)

3. AFKIM v2: an instant messenger for almost all the major IM protocols (including AIM, ICQ, MSN, Google Talk and Yahoo! still one of my favorite give it a try..)

4. Amaryllis: PSP ad-hoc network for games that lack infrastructure gaming (basically your be playing all your ad-hoc games online with your friends and its FREE!!!!)

5. PSPRadio: Online Radio on your PSP, for the radio types (it lets you to stream music and listen to Shoutcast servers, like WIFI Radio, from the your PSP.)

6. PMP VLC: VLC player for your PSP (It will also let you stream video from your mac using VLC-8.5. It works, but not that perfectly yet but we'll keep you up to date with the future versions)

7. Coverbuddy: Control itunes with your PSP browser (this will ensure that you don't have to move more than 3 inches at a time because like you we too are lazy ass bastards :-D

If you need a little help feel free to leave a comment or email us a psponmac AT gmail dot com.

A reminder: To ensure that everyone gets the most out of this blog we would like to remind you that the more we work together the more we'll all get out of this experience so please remember to email us at psponmac AT gmail dot com. Please include the name you would like to be thanked on and we're all peachy :-D We also plan to have a wish list which will allow us to keep a running tab on non mac programs, and additions to already existing programs, which we effin' wish we could have or improve. If you have ideas please feel free to email us and let us know.

Thanks in advance.

Saturday, July 01, 2006

iSquint?

I thought this blog was for PSP then why are we talking about an IPOD program??....well, I'm gonna let you guys on one of my little secrets...i guarantee this is the fastest video converter for your MP4 movies..here's the trick, u need this: PsPlayerMT add that to your PSP/GAME folder. Now run you iSquint..drag your movie into Isquint where it says DRAG FILES HERE:)

step.1.Click advance

step.2.Leave default settings on crop

MyTunesRSS-2.1

You can play songs on your PSP(2.6--2xx) from your iTunes library over WLAN with this application. Very simple to install as long as you can read....just punch in your machine(mac) IP address and the port u choose look like this (http://0.0.0.0:port#) in your psp browser done..Enjoy
Download MyTunesRSS-2.1

Ir shell v1.6

Heres something finally for us mac users. This program let u access your hardisk on you mac with your PSP using a WiFi connection or Usb (i prefer the wireless option)did i mention stream all your movies to your psp:) read more here
download nethostfs
download usbhostfs
download ir shell v1.6
to be honest its a little difficult to set but i got it to work(finally) if u need help leave a comment..