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PS3 webMan Classics Maker: Launch ISOs straight from XMB 3.0.0-beta3

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Firstly, I'm sorry for didn't answer quickly. I have to study for University.
Secondly, I really appreciate that you made a pkg for my iso, but I don't know why it didn't work:
 
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@aldostools
Hi. I was thinking to make a pkglaunch -version for PSP ISO's, any idea how I would be able to mount and autoplay an PSP ISO in one launch?
I managed to mount the ISO as a PSP-mini (using pkglaunch) to the placeholder of 'PSP Launcher'.
 
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jacobsson said:
@aldostools
Hi. I was thinking to make a pkglaunch -version for PSP ISO's, any idea how I would be able to mount and autoplay an PSP ISO in one launch?
I managed to mount the ISO as a PSP-mini (using pkglaunch) to the placeholder of 'PSP Launcher'.
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As PSPISO requires a launcher, once the ISO is mounted you would need to use explore_plugin commands to navigate the XMB and auto execute the icon of the launcher. The Auto-Play feature of webman works in a similar way.

You also may need to customize category_game.xml to focus the correct XMB icon properly.

You can use the following web commands in a batch script to perform the task.
/browser.ps3$<cmd> - execute explore_plugin XMB command

This is a reference of the allowed explore_plugin commands to auto-navigate the XMB:
https://www.psdevwiki.com/ps3/Explore_plugin

For a small reference of the allowed script commands, they are listed here:
https://github.com/aldostools/webMAN-MOD/blob/master/include/script.h

Optionally you could modify webman or xai_plugin to perform these commands directly from XMB calling a sprx module.
 
@aldostools
Wow, thank you for that elaborate answer!
I'm thinking of the chain of commands at the moment, please bare with me =)

1. Let's say I'm using a batch script, would that script be referenced to inside my launch.txt as the starting point?
I.e /webcommand.to.execute.scripts/<path_to_script>

Script (assuming PSP placeholder has index 0):
/play.ps3/path_to_psp_iso.iso;
/browser.ps3$focus_category game;
/browser.ps3$focus_segment_index 0;
/browser.ps3$exec_app

2. Or even better, couldn't I just have the script do these two in a chain?
/play.ps3/path_to_psp_iso.iso;
/play.ps3?col=<game>&seg=<seg_device>

3. Regarding (2.), would it possible to have my launch.txt run those two commands in a chain? (I have never managed to have two commands run in launch.txt so I think not).


Thank you very much for your help!

By the way, there is a GUI for building webMAN Classics almost ready for release, I hope you are willing to check it out in couple of days =)
 
jacobsson said:
@aldostools
Wow, thank you for that elaborate answer!
I'm thinking of the chain of commands at the moment, please bare with me =)

1. Let's say I'm using a batch script, would that script be referenced to inside my launch.txt as the starting point?
I.e /webcommand.to.execute.scripts/<path_to_script>

Script (assuming PSP placeholder has index 0):
/play.ps3/path_to_psp_iso.iso;
/browser.ps3$focus_category game;
/browser.ps3$focus_segment_index 0;
/browser.ps3$exec_app

2. Or even better, couldn't I just have the script do these two in a chain?
/play.ps3/path_to_psp_iso.iso;
/play.ps3?col=<game>&seg=<seg_device>

3. Regarding (2.), would it possible to have my launch.txt run those two commands in a chain? (I have never managed to have two commands run in launch.txt so I think not).


Thank you very much for your help!

By the way, there is a GUI for building webMAN Classics almost ready for release, I hope you are willing to check it out in couple of days =)
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They should work (as I commented earlier I'm using the same method for Auto-Play), but you probably will need some time to test the best combination of commands. Maybe you will need to use a wait command in some place, but you're near ;)

The new GUI for webMAN Classics should be a very useful tool for many users... Thanks!
 
@aldostools
Hi again.
I did some tests just now to see if I could run a .bat/.txt from launch.txt:
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TEST1:
in launch.txt: /play.ps3/dev_hdd0/PSPISO/Power Stone Collection.iso
[mounts ISO OK]

TEST2:
in launch.txt: /play.ps3/dev_hdd0/PSPISO/Power Stone Collection.bat
in Power Stone Collection.bat: /play.ps3/dev_hdd0/PSPISO/Power Stone Collection.iso
[Tripple beeps, no ISO mounted] <-- same goes for Power Stone Collection.txt


Any ideas why pointing out a .bat/txt wont work in launch.txt?
 
jacobsson said:
@aldostools
Hi again.
I did some tests just now to see if I could run a .bat/.txt from launch.txt:

TEST1:
in launch.txt: /play.ps3/dev_hdd0/PSPISO/Power Stone Collection.iso
[mounts ISO OK]

TEST2:
in launch.txt: /play.ps3/dev_hdd0/PSPISO/Power Stone Collection.bat
in Power Stone Collection.bat: /play.ps3/dev_hdd0/PSPISO/Power Stone Collection.iso
[Tripple beeps, no ISO mounted] <-- same goes for Power Stone Collection.txt


Any ideas why pointing out a .bat/txt wont work in launch.txt?
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The triple beep is due webMAN prevents to mount a game while another game is being mounted / played.
In this case, webMAN thinks that the .bat is a game being mounted.
To override that, mount the game using /mount_ps3 instead of use /mount.ps3 or /play.ps3

BTW the .bat also can be executed with /mount_ps3<script-path> ;) I haven't tested if it produce the triple beeps when /play.ps3 is used from the .bat

Maybe I should add an internal override for the mount check (triple beeps) when a .bat is running.

EDIT:
I uploaded a test build that skips the mount check that produce the 3 beeps from batch script
https://www.sendspace.com/file/fiasvi
I also implemented the safer method proposed by @DeViL303 to upload via ftp to /dev_blind
It now upload the file to /dev_blind with a different name, then replace the original file only if the upload was successful.
 
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@aldostools
I some of my testings turns out that I don't know the syntax i.e I'm using line breaks after the ; (semi-colons).
When removing the linebreaks I'm now able to mount the PSP Launcher with the iso and focus the cursor in the menu.
All of this is done directly in launch.txt :encouragement:

I also changed /play.ps3/iso_path to /play_ps3/iso_path, now it doesn't fail when trying to play the non-existent disc-icon.

Now to my logical problem: how do I find and start the 'PSP Launcher' in the menu w/o using coordinates, can the position be found by name? Something like "focus_segment_hit_first gameDir %s"

I tried moving the line in launch.txt -> script and then use:
/mount_ps3<script-path>. This resulted in nothing for some reason.

I going to test your build tonight to see if I have better luck running scripts, thank you!
 
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jacobsson said:
@aldostools
I some of my testings turns out that I don't know the syntax i.e I'm using line breaks after the ; (semi-colons).
When removing the linebreaks I'm now able to mount the PSP Launcher with the iso and focus the cursor in the menu.
All of this is done directly in launch.txt :encouragement:

I also changed /play.ps3/iso_path to /play_ps3/iso_path, now it doesn't fail when trying to play the non-existent disc-icon.

Now to my logical problem: how do I find and start the 'PSP Launcher' in the menu w/o using coordinates, can the position be found by name? Something like "focus_segment_hit_first gameDir %s"

I tried moving the line in launch.txt -> script and then use:
/mount_ps3<script-path>. This resulted in nothing for some reason.

I going to test your build tonight to see if I have better luck running scripts, thank you!
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The new build will not make a difference, due the change I made was only to make /mount.ps3 or /play.ps3 act as /mount_ps3 or /play_ps3. But you already solved this issue using /play_ps3 which I forgot that was supported :P

Regarding the use of semi-colons (;), they are mainly used to send multiple web commands in a single request. The next command should start with /, so the real separator between commands is ;/

As the batch script supports multiple lines, you should avoid the use the ; in the script since they are not necessary.

To start the PSP Launcher, I mentioned earlier the easier way to accomplish this is using a custom category_game.xml or find a way to make the icon be always in a static position of the Category list to use the commands: focus_category, focus_segment_index and focus_index. I haven't tried focus_segment_hit_first gameDir %s, I guess %s refers to title_id of the game. In this case the title id of PSP Launcher.

I suggest to experiment executing the /browser.ps3$ commands directly from Chrome, instead of execute them from the script on the PS3. It should help you make the tests faster until you find the proper explore_plugin commands. Once you set the focus over PSP Launcher you just need to send /browser.ps3$exec_push
 
@aldostools
suggest to experiment executing the /browser.ps3$ commands directly from Chrome
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Doh! I did not think of that, thank you. I'll come back when I've found what is working and not. I really appreciate your time!

EDIT: By custom category_game.xml, is this something webMAN are using when mounting discs for instance? My end goal would be that my installed webMAN_PSP_game.pkg would ad a "game shortcut" that mounts the disc icon at index x (in this case a PSP disc) just like PSX/PS2/PS3 discs would.

In other words something that looks exactly like how webMAN mounts and play ISOs.
 
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@aldostools
Unfortunately the /browser.ps3$ commands can only provide me with more basic navigation. For now it seems impossible to know what index a certain item have. I wish there was a function that could look for a title_id and return the list index.

I've tried using /play.ps3?col=<game>&seg=<seg_device>, where <seg_device> would be replaced with the title id of the PSP Placeholder (PSPC66820)
EDIT: Turns out seg_device is not connected to title_id at all

I don't really know how the PSP Placeholder works but maybe it could be moded auto-play during an PSP iso mount? I can see that it extracts and copies ICON0.PNG from the ISO somehow.
 
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jacobsson said:
@aldostools
Unfortunately the /browser.ps3$ commands can only provide me with more basic navigation. For now it seems impossible to know what index a certain item have. I wish there was a function that could look for a title_id and return the list index.

I've tried using /play.ps3?col=<game>&seg=<seg_device>, where <seg_device> would be replaced with the title id of the PSP Placeholder (PSPC66820)

I don't really know how the PSP Placeholder works but maybe it could be moded auto-play during an PSP iso mount? I can see that it extracts and copies ICON0.PNG from the ISO somehow.
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I can't help much at this moment, you could try something like these:
/browser.ps3$focus_category game
/browser.ps3$focus_segment_index PSPC66820
/browser.ps3$focus_segment_hit_first gameDir PSPC66820
/browser.ps3$focus_segment_hit_first PSPC66820

Maybe you should try adding a query in category_game.xml with these:

<Table key="my_psp_launcher">
<Pair key="icon"><String>/dev_hdd0/game/PSPC66820/ICON0.PNG</String></Pair>
<Pair key="title"><String>PSP Launcher</String></Pair>
</table>

<Query class="type:x-xmb/folder-pixmap" key="my_psp_launcher" attr="my_psp_launcher" src="xcb://localhost/query?limit=1&cond=Ae+Game:Common.dirPath /dev_hdd0/game+Ae+Game:Common.fileName PSPC66820"/>

Then use:
/browser.ps3$close_all_list
/browser.ps3$focus_index my_psp_launcher
/browser.ps3$exec_push

Or you could create the segment seg_psp_launcher (a sub-menu in XML) and use a sequence like this:
/browser.ps3$close_all_list
/browser.ps3$focus_segment_index seg_psp_launcher
/browser.ps3$exec_push
/browser.ps3$focus_index 0
/browser.ps3$exec_push

EDIT
Have you tried this?
/play.ps3?col=game&seg=PSPC66820
 
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@aldostools
The best solution imo would be if there was a way to query the segment_id's or query the item index by name, then we could just point to the item and launch it with the: I tried /play.ps3?col=game&seg=psp_launcher_segment_id
or /browser.ps3$focus_index index_of_psp_launcher_item

I tried /play.ps3?col=game&seg=PSPC66820 earlier, problem is that PSPC66820 doesn't seem to be a proper segment_id.
I might test the XML route, but I don't know if that's a good solution since it has to write to the dev_flash.

If an segment_id or item index can't be found it would be interesting to see if there is a way to inject the proposed xml during execution of the webMAN classics pkg or to modify the PSP Launcher to auto-play it's content some how (?).

Thank you for all the suggestions so far!
 
jacobsson said:
I might test the XML route, but I don't know if that's a good solution since it has to write to the dev_flash.

If an segment_id or item index can't be found it would be interesting to see if there is a way to inject the proposed xml during execution of the webMAN classics pkg or to modify the PSP Launcher to auto-play it's content some how (?).
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I think your options are:
1-You could distribute a category_game.xml including the segments that you need.
You can include in the readme the web commands to install files to /dev_blind and reboot
2-You could modify webman's updater to update category_game.xml with your segments or install your own category_game.xml
Or you could modify the XMBM+ installer
3-Use one of the existing slots for XMBM+ or HAN and link to a custom XML for your tool
(I think latest Rebug CFW includes like 5 slots for HAN tools)
4-Convince the CFW devs to include another link exclusive for your tool in future CFW revisions

I would go with option 3 ;)
 
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