WebMAN LaunchPad (webMAN MOD Add-On -Unofficial)

PS3 LaunchPad (Unofficial addon for webMAN MOD) v0.17

[MENTION=22544]DeViL303[/MENTION]
Here is what I can do the best I think
PNG icon 164 x 127 based on original

webman-launchpad-2.png

Very nice, Thanks. I think I will go for that one in the official release as everyone seems to have different tastes, its easy for any one to change their own icon anyway after install if they want as its not contained in a RCO like most other XMB icons. I prefer the background like on this icon myself as it has that shape highlighted on the XMB anyway. Good stuff.

have you tried the new webftp_server.sprx that autogenerates the xml?

[MENTION=89]aldostools[/MENTION] just so you know, there is not a limit to the amount of items anyway, I can add over 300 items anyway if I make custom xmls. I think the issue is either in the date in the xmls generated for each item, 01-01-2016, I think that maybe it only shows a certain amount of old items, there is a difference with how "new" items are handled, In my custom xmls I made the new stuff the date 2016-03-03, that stuff is what gets showed if you let all the items scroll up by themselves, then for the functions I set the date to 0303-03-03 , these items don't get the little "new" icon next to them and they don't display when scrolling up automatically.


I didn't set these dates just to get 303 in there (well I did really :devil: ) , they do have a function too. :) .

EDIT: after more testing, no Im wrong, it will show more than 36 old items. So I need to go and rename all my game folder cos maybe one of those is messing this up on my system. I have 115 backups and im only getting 36 items showing up, need more feedback from others too.


[MENTION=10028]all[/MENTION]So I think the auto generated xml has to have new dates for every game so they all display on xmb when it scrolls them slowly, I suppose the current date would be easiest. I also would like it to change the xml layout to something like this in the auto generated xml for easier reading modifiying, and have it so the link to https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/rcp3ykyt8jp36gj/NO_COVER.JPG is added for every game. I don't know how to do this though..

Code:
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<mtrl anno="picks=1" from="2015-02-29T00:00:00.000Z" id="1080756618" [B]lastm="CURRENT DATE HERE[/B]T23:59:00.000Z" until="2100-12-31T23:59:00.000Z"><name></name><owner></owner>

<!--Game Name-->
<desc>NAME HERE</desc>

<!--Game Cover URL-->
<url type="1">https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/rcp3ykyt8jp36gj/NO_COVER.JPG</url>

<!--Path to Game-->
<target type="u">http://127.0.0.1/mount_ps3/dev_xxx/PATH TO GAME</target>

<!--Age and Country Filtering-->
<cntry agelmt="0">at</cntry><cntry agelmt="0">au</cntry><cntry agelmt="0">be</cntry><cntry agelmt="0">bg</cntry><cntry agelmt="0">br</cntry><cntry agelmt="0">ca</cntry><cntry agelmt="0">ch</cntry><cntry agelmt="0">cl</cntry><cntry agelmt="0">cy</cntry><cntry agelmt="0">cz</cntry><cntry agelmt="0">de</cntry><cntry agelmt="0">dk</cntry><cntry agelmt="0">es</cntry><cntry agelmt="0">fi</cntry><cntry agelmt="0">fr</cntry><cntry agelmt="0">gb</cntry><cntry agelmt="0">gr</cntry><cntry agelmt="0">hk</cntry><cntry agelmt="0">hu</cntry><cntry agelmt="0">ie</cntry><cntry agelmt="0">is</cntry><cntry agelmt="0">it</cntry><cntry agelmt="0">lu</cntry><cntry agelmt="0">mt</cntry><cntry agelmt="0">mx</cntry><cntry agelmt="0">my</cntry><cntry agelmt="0">nl</cntry><cntry agelmt="0">no</cntry><cntry agelmt="0">nz</cntry><cntry agelmt="0">pe</cntry><cntry agelmt="0">pl</cntry><cntry agelmt="0">pt</cntry><cntry agelmt="0">se</cntry><cntry agelmt="0">sg</cntry><cntry agelmt="0">sk</cntry><cntry agelmt="0">tr</cntry><cntry agelmt="0">tw</cntry><cntry agelmt="0">us</cntry><lang>all</lang></mtrl>

<!---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------->

I had hoped that maybe the "lastm" dates could be used for the release date of the game, as a way of showing more info and as a way of sorting, but this might not be possible now. Release date and more info can be added easily after the game name as there is lots of space there.

So the title that comes up as you move to each game could display the content ID, and release date for example.
 
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Great thanks, Neat app. that is a little heavy but maybe people don't mind. I don't mind hosting them at 200kb. I might try them at 320x267(same aspect ratio), and the original multiman covers are only 300 high it shouldn't effect quality.

Can it be modified to output 320x267 jpgs as they will be smaller and there is no transparency needed?
 
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Great thanks, Neat app. that is a little heavy but maybe people don't mind. I don't mind hosting them at 200kb. I might try them at 320x267(same aspect ratio), and the original multiman covers are only 300 high it shouldn't effect quality.

Can it be modified to output 320x267 jpgs as they will be smaller and there is no transparency needed?

Resize WMLPcoverBOX1.0/ColorBOX/blue/PS3coverbox.png to 320x268 and edit the coordinates in PS3_Gen1.bat
Code:
composite -geometry +53+18 ( PS3cover\%cover_fname% -resize 196x228 ) -compose color-dodge ColorBOX\PS3coverbox.png PS3coverBOX\%cover_name%.PNG

The output files are ~120kb (aprox. 40% less).
 
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Thanks [MENTION=16840]0_obeWAN[/MENTION] and [MENTION=89]aldostools[/MENTION], that has basically solved the cover issue and will turn it into a feature. even if someone has 500 games its only like a 65MB download when they initially install it , then as long as they don't clear the cache by pressing triangle the covers stay there.
 
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EDIT: after more testing, no Im wrong, it will show more than 36 old items. So I need to go and rename all my game folder cos maybe one of those is messing this up on my system. I have 115 backups and im only getting 36 items showing up, need more feedback from others too.
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an ampersand "&" cannot be in the title string as it will not load any titles and throw an error at you :p



EDIT: Same goes for links, absolutely no "&"
 
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I found one issue with my games, not sure why but its picking up my ratchet and clank title wrong and that could be messing up anything it reads after that.

found%20one%20issue.jpg


Need to do more testing

EDIT: DUH! see the "&" now - WTH! :embarrassed:

So we need to modify the param.sfo so the titles don't include "&" ? or can the "&" be ignored somehow I wonder. probably can.
 
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So right now, the app has to download the covers from the net? I have all my covers with PNG format (using PScoverBOX)

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Yes , 0_obeWAN has done something similar. see his GTA5EXTRA project:

[video=youtube;m6uLTELSEdE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6uLTELSEdE&feature=youtu.be[/video]

All of it is in french :( gonna give it a try :p
 
So right now, the app has to download the covers from the net? I have all my covers with PNG format (using PScoverBOX)

Yep, all of the covers must be pulled off the net to get them onto the PS3 initially, you could try somewhere like gametdb.com for now or you can host them somewhere like dropbox and put in the links. In the coming release this will happen automatically so all the covers will just download depending what games are available at boot time. Once they download they are then stored in dev_hdd0/tmp/explore/cachepool/ and will not need to download again unless you clear the cache (I mean the Debug feature: Pressing triangle on the Launchpad icon and selecting clear cache).

NOTE: the link you put in for the cover must be direct, so it must end in ".png" or ".jpg" , so it can not be a link like mega etc.

[MENTION=89]aldostools[/MENTION] something I noticed earlier. for the recently played games in the Launchpad it uses the icon0... so that is a good sign that its possible for all games, maybe make the ps3 think they are ALL recently played. Im also thinking maybe its possible to fill the cache locally with the covers, as it must check that first before it downloads the cover. So there is definitely ways to get local covers working, just not sure how easy it is. Remote covers will do for now.
 
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Yep, all of the covers must be pulled off the net to get them onto the PS3 initially, you could try somewhere like gametdb.com for now or you can host them somewhere like dropbox and put in the links. In the coming release this will happen automatically so all the covers will just download depending what games are available at boot time. Once they download they are then stored in dev_hdd0/tmp/explore/cachepool/ and will not need to download again unless you clear the cache (I mean the Debug feature: Pressing triangle on the Launchpad icon and selecting clear cache).

NOTE: the link you put in for the cover must be direct, so it must end in ".png" or ".jpg" , so it can not be a link like mega etc.

[MENTION=89]aldostools[/MENTION] something I noticed earlier. for the recently played games in the Launchpad it uses the icon0... so that is a good sign that its possible for all games, maybe make the ps3 think they are ALL recently played. Im also thinking maybe its possible to fill the cache locally with the covers, as it must check that first before it downloads the cover. So there is definitely ways to get local covers working, just not sure how easy it is. Remote covers will do for now.

Well, i dont mind move my covers from multiman/webman to that mentioned location (dev_hdd0/tmp/explore/cachepool/) :P
 
Well, i dont mind move my covers from multiman/webman to that mentioned location (dev_hdd0/tmp/explore/cachepool/) :P

I really wish it was that easy, but the files get named randomly as they get downloaded with random prefix's added, like this 63593154199065949_BLUS30303.PNG , this is different for each user/ps3 (or seems to be), and then there is a attr_tbl.dat file that the ps3 builds that looks like this :
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/f6ue7ijald8vyj2/attr_tbl.dat .

So if we could figure out the filenaming and the .dat we could dump the files into the cache..maybe.
 
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edit...........nvm.

Thought for a second I had it figured out, but it turns out that even sony are using online links for the icon0 of the "Recently Played" game, after I mounted a game, then looked at the ,dat, this link had been added:
http://tmdb.np.dl.playstation.net/t...4C71ECC8E8C445AB9F8A5B31B6B2A09F4AF/ICON0.PNG


So it looks like sony already have a slightly resized version of the ICON0.PNG hosted for every game, this is what gets used as an icon for "recently played". Shame they arnt hosting all the covers too, we could just use their links. :)

http://tmdb.np.dl.playstation.net/t...9C5019A0DAB54C34E5DD31FECE652E639E3/ICON0.PNG
 
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I really wish it was that easy, but the files get named randomly as they get downloaded with random prefix's added, like this 63593154199065949_BLUS30303.PNG , this is different for each user/ps3 (or seems to be)

Is that a ps3 problem or downloading from dropbox? have you tried imgur instead of dropbox?
 
Is that a ps3 problem or downloading from dropbox? have you tried imgur instead of dropbox?

Its just the way the ps3 handles images as they come in, same with all images like the normal whats new ads, or the TV channels icons. In some cases they get put into folders with random names, but not in this case.

Anyway I have over 8,000 covers converted and its only 900MB so hosting them wont be an issue.
 
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[MENTION=22544]DeViL303[/MENTION]
Do you know if explore_plugin.sprx is the same for 47.8 REX and 4.78 D-REX ?
Yours does it support D-REX ?
 
I wonder if Cobra Stage2 is the same (hashes)

Well the explore sprx has the same MD5 in both REX and DREX, and so do both the stage2.bins, not sure if there are other files different that could effect cobra though. Don't know much about cobra, didn't exist when I took a break.

I have just got a server set up and paid for, for 2 years, covers and homebrew pkgs uploading as we speak. :chewy:
 
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