PS3 Optimising XMB xmls on CFW

kozarovv said:
Maybe simple removing

<XMList name="list_psn" unknown0="0x0" image="nothing" unknownRef3="nothing"></XMList>
<XMList name="list_friend" unknown0="0x0" image="nothing" unknownRef3="nothing"></XMList>

in xmb_plugin_normal.rco (without impose, now just test), can do the job?
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Yes is like that, you need to delete that 2 lines, but there is an additional edit you need to do

The "parent" object of them have an attribute that indicates how many childrens it have, by default is 0xa (for 10 categories), you are removing 2 so change it to 0x8

*This was tested and works fine

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ops, i had the thread opened and missed the last posts, sorry, but yeah, thats it :)
 
Another simple mod, is to add this to the bottom of video xml:
Code: 
<Query class="type:x-xmb/folder-pixmap" key="gameDir" src="xil://localhost/list?t=tv"/>

Then remove the tv category from the rco too, drop count to 0x7, and delete its xml from flash too..and then there were seven.. :)

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Here is the xmls and patched rco to do that.

NOTE: These xmls are only suitable for Starbuged 4.84, they only have CEX items, so dont use them on other CFW especially DEX based CFW, as all the root_for_dex sections are missing.

(USE AT YOUR OWN RISK)
 

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sandungas said:
Yes is like that, you need to delete that 2 lines, but there is an additional edit you need to do

The "parent" object of them have an attribute that indicates how many childrens it have, by default is 0xa (for 10 categories), you are removing 2 so change it to 0x8

*This was tested and works fine

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ops, i had the thread opened and missed the last posts, sorry, but yeah, thats it :)
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So reversing this, we can maybe add a new category?
 
Well, there is also an explore sprx for each category, so that would need to be created too, and probably some other stuff.

Its a shame, in pre release firmware the categories were made up from another master root.xml. It probably would have been easy to add a new category back then, Im not sure if this xml is still re created somewhere inside an sprx
Code: 
<View id="root">
<Attributes>
<Table key="user">
<Pair key="icon_rsc"><String>item_tex_ms_icon</String></Pair>
<Pair key="title"><String>User</String></Pair>
<Pair key="child"><String>segment</String></Pair>
</Table>
<Table key="photo">
<Pair key="icon_rsc"><String>item_tex_ms_icon</String></Pair>
<Pair key="title"><String>Photo</String></Pair>
<Pair key="child"><String>segment</String></Pair>
</Table>
<Table key="music">
<Pair key="icon_rsc"><String>item_tex_ms_icon</String></Pair>
<Pair key="title"><String>Music</String></Pair>
<Pair key="child"><String>segment</String></Pair>
</Table>
<Table key="video">
<Pair key="icon_rsc"><String>item_tex_ms_icon</String></Pair>
<Pair key="title"><String>Video</String></Pair>
<Pair key="child"><String>segment</String></Pair>
</Table>
<Table key="game">
<Pair key="icon_rsc"><String>item_tex_ms_icon</String></Pair>
<Pair key="title"><String>Game</String></Pair>
<Pair key="child"><String>segment</String></Pair>
</Table>
<Table key="network">
<Pair key="icon_rsc"><String>item_tex_ms_icon</String></Pair>
<Pair key="title"><String>Network</String></Pair>
<Pair key="child"><String>segment</String></Pair>
</Table>
<Table key="friend">
<Pair key="icon_rsc"><String>item_tex_ms_icon</String></Pair>
<Pair key="title"><String>Friend</String></Pair>
<Pair key="child"><String>segment</String></Pair>
</Table>
<Table key="avchat">
<Pair key="icon_rsc"><String>item_tex_ms_icon</String></Pair>
<Pair key="title"><String>AVChat</String></Pair>
<Pair key="child"><String>segment</String></Pair>
</Table>
</Attributes>
<Items>
<Query key="user"    class="type:x-xmb/folder-pixmap" attr="user"    src="xmb://localhost/%flash/xmb/category_user.xml#root"    />
<Query key="photo"   class="type:x-xmb/folder-pixmap" attr="photo"   src="xmb://localhost/%flash/xmb/category_photo.xml#root"   />
<Query key="music"   class="type:x-xmb/folder-pixmap" attr="music"   src="xmb://localhost/%flash/xmb/category_music.xml#root"   />
<Query key="video"   class="type:x-xmb/folder-pixmap" attr="video"   src="xmb://localhost/%flash/xmb/category_video.xml#root"   />
<Query key="game"    class="type:x-xmb/folder-pixmap" attr="game"    src="xmb://localhost/%flash/xmb/category_game.xml#root"    />
<Query key="network" class="type:x-xmb/folder-pixmap" attr="network" src="xmb://localhost/%flash/xmb/category_network.xml#root" />
<Query key="friend"  class="type:x-xmb/folder-pixmap" attr="friend"  src="xmb://localhost/%flash/xmb/category_friend.xml#root"  />
<Query key="avchat"  class="type:x-xmb/folder-pixmap" attr="avchat"  src="xmb://localhost/%flash/xmb/category_avchat.xml#root"  />


BTW, we can delete the explore sprx for the categories not used as well ;) actually we can delete about 30 sprx files at least if using these xmls, any sprx starting with "np" for a start, seems to make no difference. :)
 
The reason i said that is looks very hard to add a completly custom category is because there are going to be a lot of "connections" missing (sprx, rco, xmbml etc...)
But by repurposing a category that already exists you have the other official files doing that connections, so theoretically you could replace all the related files and keep the official connections in between them

Anyway... you gave me an idea when looking at that pre-retail list of categories, it seems it existed a category named "avchat"
We dont know if it was renamed later or repurposed, or his connections was removed but this could be a nice candidate incase there are parts of the firmware ready to load it
 
there was also the debug category with its own xml,
Code: 
<Query key="user"    class="type:x-xmb/folder-pixmap" attr="user"    src="xmb://localhost/%flash/xmb/category_user.xml#root"    />
<Query key="photo"   class="type:x-xmb/folder-pixmap" attr="photo"   src="xmb://localhost/%flash/xmb/category_photo.xml#root"   />
<Query key="music"   class="type:x-xmb/folder-pixmap" attr="music"   src="xmb://localhost/%flash/xmb/category_music.xml#root"   />
<Query key="video"   class="type:x-xmb/folder-pixmap" attr="video"   src="xmb://localhost/%flash/xmb/category_video.xml#root"   />
<Query key="game"    class="type:x-xmb/folder-pixmap" attr="game"    src="xmb://localhost/%flash/xmb/category_game.xml#root"    />
<Query key="network" class="type:x-xmb/folder-pixmap" attr="network" src="xmb://localhost/%flash/xmb/category_network.xml#root" />
<Query key="friend"  class="type:x-xmb/folder-pixmap" attr="friend"  src="xmb://localhost/%flash/xmb/category_friend.xml#root"  />
<Query key="avchat"  class="type:x-xmb/folder-pixmap" attr="avchat"  src="xmb://localhost/%flash/xmb/category_avchat.xml#root"  />
<Query key="debug"   class="type:x-xmb/folder-pixmap" attr="debug"   src="xmb://localhost/%flash/xmb/debug.xml#root"            />

in rco it looks like this:
Code: 
<XMList name="list_user" unknown0="0x0" image="image:tex_user" unknownRef3="nothing"></XMList>
<XMList name="list_sysconf" unknown0="0x0" image="image:tex_system" unknownRef3="nothing"></XMList>
<XMList name="list_photo" unknown0="0x0" image="image:tex_photo" unknownRef3="nothing"></XMList>
<XMList name="list_music" unknown0="0x0" image="image:tex_music" unknownRef3="nothing"></XMList>
<XMList name="list_video" unknown0="0x0" image="image:tex_video" unknownRef3="nothing"></XMList>
<XMList name="list_game" unknown0="0x0" image="image:tex_game" unknownRef3="nothing"></XMList>
<XMList name="list_network" unknown0="0x0" image="image:tex_network" unknownRef3="nothing"></XMList>
<XMList name="list_friend" unknown0="0x0" image="image:tex_friend" unknownRef3="nothing"></XMList>
<XMList name="list_test" unknown0="0x0" image="nothing" unknownRef3="nothing"></XMList>

I tried adding the list_test item to 4.84 rco and increasing the menu count by 1, not that easy :)
 
Both you should use the "rcomage psdevwiki mod" btw :P
The "unknownRef3" in the code you are posting is a text... you can load it from the multilanguage strings this way unknownRef3="text:msg_whatever"

If you extract the rco contents again with the "rcomage mod" it should looks like this:
xmlistText="text:msg_whatever"

Im just mentioning it because i was checking at it right now... you made me think i forgot to give a name to that attribute :)

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And the unknown0 in your code is still unknown (i renamed it to xmlistUnk1 for the rcomage mod), and i cant imagine what it does, if someone finds it please report it to the rcomage thread and we will give it a name
 
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I just made very VERY nice discovery (IMO) :D :D

I know how to run 2 different xai plugins at once. :) Its actually really cool, and so simple.

Rename your second xai plugin to strviewer_plugin.sprx, then call it like this from xml, no rco needed:
Code: 
<Pair key="icon_rsc"><String>item_tex_ms_icon</String></Pair>
 <Pair key="title"><String>rsod via str test</String></Pair>
 <Pair key="module_name"><String>strviewer_plugin</String></Pair>
 <Pair key="module_action"><String>rsod_fix</String></Pair>
 <Pair key="bar_action"><String>none</String></Pair>
 <Pair key="lbl_half"><String>1</String></Pair>

From reversing the str viewer plugin before I know it is not needed for anything so now we basically have another plugin slot that doesn't need Cobra.


EDIT: and we can do same with sacd plugin, and friendim plugin, i wonder how many more xai plugin type plugins we can run? :)
 
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DeViL303 said:
I just made very VERY nice discovery (IMO) :D :D

I know how to run 2 different xai plugins at once. :) Its actually really cool, and so simple.

Rename your second xai plugin to strviewer_plugin.sprx, then call it like this from xml, no rco needed:
Code: 
<Pair key="icon_rsc"><String>item_tex_ms_icon</String></Pair>
 <Pair key="title"><String>rsod via str test</String></Pair>
 <Pair key="module_name"><String>strviewer_plugin</String></Pair>
 <Pair key="module_action"><String>rsod_fix</String></Pair>
 <Pair key="bar_action"><String>none</String></Pair>
 <Pair key="lbl_half"><String>1</String></Pair>

From reversing the str viewer plugin before I know it is not needed for anything so now we basically have another plugin slot that doesn't need Cobra.


EDIT: and we can do same with sacd plugin, and friendim plugin, i wonder how many more xai plugin type plugins we can run? :)
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But have you tryed to unload the real xai_plugin.sprx ? (by renaming it or removing it temporally) and reboot the PS3 to see if the others continues working ?
 
sandungas said:
Both you should use the "rcomage psdevwiki mod" btw :P
The "unknownRef3" in the code you are posting is a text... you can load it from the multilanguage strings this way unknownRef3="text:msg_whatever"

If you extract the rco contents again with the "rcomage mod" it should looks like this:
xmlistText="text:msg_whatever"
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Yeah, I must start using that, been lazy. Will do it now.
sandungas said:
But have you tryed to unload the real xai_plugin.sprx ? (by renaming it or removing it temporally) and reboot the PS3 to see if the others continues working ?
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Yeah, I can confirm, I have deleted xai_plugin.sprx and rco off my console , but can use it through str viewer no problem. :) Sorry took me while to test, was going through one of the many soft bricks I get while testing this stuff. :) So far sacd plugin is a another good candidate too, no one uses that really.
 
Actually, str viewer is fine for the reboot commands which I tested it on, but it kind of hangs XMB on other ones, even though it succeeds in doing the action it just sits on the icon, you can still access PS button menu.


The sacd plugin , bd player plugin and friendim plugin dont hang XMB and work as perfect xai replacements.

EDIT: another good one that works perfectly, hknw_plugin ,
EDIT 2: and edy plugin, and wboard_plugin
 
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BTW: Anyone running these xmls can also delete the entire "icons" folder from flash if they want, that is all PSN related stuff (2MB+). ;)
 
just sayin but don't do this on dex or with dual vsh like with Rebug. those "_tool2.xmls" are important as well as those "root_dex/root_for_dex/tool_root" entries in xmls
 
kozarovv said:
I mean with removed icons/category of psn and friends. I got that version you posted here earlier.
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Well the rco included in last zip (post #22) will remove the categories completely, and then to remove the icons you just need to delete them all from dev_blind/vsh/resource/explore/icon/ , none of them are required if using these xmls, so you can empty the icons folder completely.
 
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