POPStarter

PS2 POPStarter 2019/06/05

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Is this purely an emulator or can it work off the older PS2 models' inclusion of the PS1's architecture inside them for native play? I've one of those and would much rather take advantage of what my console already has onboard if that's a feature.
 
KiloFox said:
Is this purely an emulator or can it work off the older PS2 models' inclusion of the PS1's architecture inside them for native play? I've one of those and would much rather take advantage of what my console already has onboard if that's a feature.
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There's no direct connection to USB/HDD/ETH when in PS1 mode, so this loader will never work like you mentioned. Compatibility is fairly high with POPStarter, though, and there is not much of any noticeable difference (if at all) between this emulation and PS1 mode with the games that are compatible.
 
Hi, has anyone been successful in getting Speedball 2100 to work using popstarter? In the Official Popstarter HDD compatibility list it states unsupported due to game freeze on loading screen. However, with Trojan_7.BIN it loads fine but I receive the message "no controller in control port 1.." within the game. There is nothing wrong with the controller as it works with other PS2 and PS1 games. The vcd should also be ok as it was taken from a bin+cue image which works fine in PSX emulator. Are there any cheats or options I can use to get Speedball 2100 (US) to recognise my Playstation 2 controller? I'm using OPL with HDD. Any help would be appreciated, thanks.
 
Jun_k said:
Hi, has anyone been successful in getting Speedball 2100 to work using popstarter? In the Official Popstarter HDD compatibility list it states unsupported due to game freeze on loading screen. However, with Trojan_7.BIN it loads fine but I receive the message "no controller in control port 1.." within the game. There is nothing wrong with the controller as it works with other PS2 and PS1 games. The vcd should also be ok as it was taken from a bin+cue image which works fine in PSX emulator. Are there any cheats or options I can use to get Speedball 2100 (US) to recognise my Playstation 2 controller? I'm using OPL with HDD. Any help would be appreciated, thanks.
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@Jun_k, as you have seen, the fix included in the Trojan_7.BIN file for that game only fixes the freeze, the controller
detection problem is another different emulation problem, and there is nothing to fix it.
Bad luck for this game, there are also other few games that they suffer this problem of controller detection.

Best regards.
 
El_Patas said:
@Jun_k, as you have seen, the fix included in the Trojan_7.BIN file for that game only fixes the freeze, the controller
detection problem is a different problem, and there is nothing to fix it.
Bad luck for this game, there are also other few games that they suffer this problem of controller detection.

Best regards.
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Pity, but thanks for your quick reply, much appreciated.
 
Jun_k said:
Hi, has anyone been successful in getting Speedball 2100 to work using popstarter? In the Official Popstarter HDD compatibility list it states unsupported due to game freeze on loading screen. However, with Trojan_7.BIN it loads fine but I receive the message "no controller in control port 1.." within the game. There is nothing wrong with the controller as it works with other PS2 and PS1 games. The vcd should also be ok as it was taken from a bin+cue image which works fine in PSX emulator. Are there any cheats or options I can use to get Speedball 2100 (US) to recognise my Playstation 2 controller? I'm using OPL with HDD. Any help would be appreciated, thanks.
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OPL DB is known to cause problems loading the TROJAN files, please, don't use OPL DB and instead switch to the official OPL for playing PS2 games.
https://github.com/ps2homebrew/Open-PS2-Loader/releases
For PS1 games via USB, use POPStarter Game Installer for OPL:
https://www.psx-place.com/threads/popstarter-game-installer-for-opl.34243/
For PS1 games via HDD, use wLE kHn:
https://www.psx-place.com/threads/19139/page-5#post-254888
 
HWNJ said:
OPL DB is known to cause problems loading the TROJAN files, please, don't use OPL DB and instead switch to the official OPL for playing PS2 games.
https://github.com/ps2homebrew/Open-PS2-Loader/releases
For PS1 games via USB, use POPStarter Game Installer for OPL:
https://www.psx-place.com/threads/popstarter-game-installer-for-opl.34243/
For PS1 games via HDD, use wLE kHn:
https://www.psx-place.com/threads/19139/page-5#post-254888
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I often find myself wondering why there never was a dedicated launcher/interface specifically for POPStarter. I always felt like it deserved one.
 
tktagmedia said:
I often find myself wondering why there never was a dedicated launcher/interface specifically for POPStarter. I always felt like it deserved one.
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Ehem.... PSXtreme...

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Ehem... SOON! (tm)
 
tktagmedia said:
I often find myself wondering why there never was a dedicated launcher/interface specifically for POPStarter. I always felt like it deserved one.
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For POPStarter and PS2PSXe You said? Someone should definitely make one. ;)

I hope I'm not revealing any secret here but in plans is combo: XEB boot manager, XEB Dashboard (XMB stuff like), PSXtreme and ESR Launcher. But rather all will be released at once instead one by one as they are dependent of dashboard. Idea behind that is making something which imitate OS (real OS is not possible of course). I actually done my part for all above with exception of few icons and font colours/alpha choose for XEBD theming, so the rest lies in programmers hands. ^^"
 
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It is but offering i.e running games in 640x480, and separated textures and bitmaps filtering. Some games works great, many horrible. But still it is worth a try.

From my memory, Crash Bandicoot 2 and Vagant Story was playable with turned on all those sweets (yet, without sound).

It was never finished, just like PS3PSXe.
 
how i enable cheats for hdtvfix on __common/POPS/ ? i put the file there but is going to green screen
something i'm doing wrong ?
 
Fanhais said:
how i enable cheats for hdtvfix on __common/POPS/ ? i put the file there but is going to green screen
something i'm doing wrong ?
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How was your file named?


Basically:
  • You can enable a code for ALL your games if you place the CHEATS.TXT file in POPS folder ;
  • You can enable a code for an individual game if you put CHEATS.TXT in VMC folder of a game that you want
Read this:
https://bitbucket.org/ShaolinAssassin/popstarter-documentation-stuff/wiki/cheat-engine,
https://bitbucket.org/ShaolinAssassin/popstarter-documentation-stuff/wiki/special-cheats.

CHEATS.TXT:
Code: 
$HDTVFIX
 
jolek said:
How was your file named?


Basically:
  • You can enable a code for ALL your games if you place the CHEATS.TXT file in POPS folder ;
  • You can enable a code for an individual game if you put CHEATS.TXT in VMC folder of a game that you want
Read this:
https://bitbucket.org/ShaolinAssassin/popstarter-documentation-stuff/wiki/cheat-engine,
https://bitbucket.org/ShaolinAssassin/popstarter-documentation-stuff/wiki/special-cheats.

CHEATS.TXT:
Code: 
$HDTVFIX
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yes I know everthing is correct but i have still green screen on internal HDD if I play on SMB is working fine,no green screen

can someone enable hdtvfix internal with hex on popstarter.elf ?
 

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