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

[jacobsson]

Hello. So I've been trying to install this on my windows 10 pc but I cannot get it to work. At first I just tried to run the script and the exe but both gave me errors(seen here)View attachment 27910
So after reading the thread for a bit and reading about other peoples issues, I tried to run the following commands to see if it would fix the issue.

• pip install pillow
• pip install pyinstaller

It did not fix the issues, but the error codes given to me did changeView attachment 27909
Any help would be really appreciated. Thanks

Hi, firstly sorry for the short answer, I'm on mobile!
Can you try to move the webman Classics to c:/webman Classics Maker instead? Still the same error?

 

[codeyoc]

Am I allowed to post here some PKS's I have made of games that are not available on the PSN store? (Therefore have no official PKG)
ie. Lemmings, Tony Hawks Pro Skater series etc.

Simply to make booting these games from XMB a bit easier. They will also have snd0.at3 files in the pkg for background sound, anfd accurate PIC1.png & PIC0.png's

I also have made a few PKG's for a couple fanmade THPS PSX games that are the next best thing to playing THPS1+2 on PS3
(and some beta's of THPS1 all in a nice self bootable XMB package!!)

is this allowed, or is there a thread for this? The initial links will be hosted on my own MEGA site.

Thanks all!!

 

[Coro]

Am I allowed to post here some PKS's I have made of games that are not available on the PSN store? (Therefore have no official PKG)
ie. Lemmings, Tony Hawks Pro Skater series etc.

Simply to make booting these games from XMB a bit easier. They will also have snd0.at3 files in the pkg for background sound, anfd accurate PIC1.png & PIC0.png's

I also have made a few PKG's for a couple fanmade THPS PSX games that are the next best thing to playing THPS1+2 on PS3
(and some beta's of THPS1 all in a nice self bootable XMB package!!)

is this allowed, or is there a thread for this? The initial links will be hosted on my own MEGA site.

Thanks all!!

if they are copyrighted games, NO. that would be against the site rules.

 

[Fabio2598]

Hi, I'm having some issues getting my shortcuts to self-boot. Webman just loads the iso and then sits there on the xmb waiting for me to boot the game. Any advice on this? Thanks

 

[jacobsson]

jacobsson updated WebMan Classics Maker with a new update entry:

Automatic PSP & PS3 art-scraping over FTP!

This release main feature is the new automatic PSP & PS3 art-scraping over FTP.
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How does it work?
The FTP fetcher now request a small chunk of data per game from your PS3. In this chunk of binary data PNG-images can be extracted in order to automatically store your webMan classic pkg art (ICON0/PIC0/PIC1), then incorporates these in the build directories of your fetched game-list.

A lot of buggfixes has been fixed but new ones are certainty...

Read the rest of this update entry...

 

[jacobsson]

Hi, I'm having some issues getting my shortcuts to self-boot. Webman just loads the iso and then sits there on the xmb waiting for me to boot the game. Any advice on this? Thanks

Hi!
That sounds like a timing issue of the webcommand in the stored launch.txt in the /USRDIR -folder.
I just released webman classics maker 2.1.0, it has a slightly extended timing that might solve the issue for you.

Let me know if it works for you!

 

[jacobsson]

@Zoilus
Hi buddy!
Sorry for the long wait, of course it was more to be done than I expected, but here it is:
https://www.psx-place.com/resources/webman-classics-maker.995/updates

As usual be aware, there will be new bugs after every new release.
This release does incorporate the new art-fetcher for PSP & PS3 ISOs, which turned out to be really cool!

I'm looking forward to your feedback!

 

[Fabio2598]

I'm getting this error now every time I try to build a pkg
The art fetcher is an awesome addition (also a time saver)

 

[jacobsson]

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I'm getting this error now every time I try to build a pkg
The art fetcher is an awesome addition (also a time saver)

I found the problem, I just need to figure out why my release script doesn't include the resources/pkg/USRDIR folder correctly
If you re-download the software in 10 minutes I'll have a working version up!

 

[jacobsson]

@Fabio2598 I found the issue and v2.1.1 is now released with a fix. Please let me know your results. Thanks!

 

[jacobsson]

jacobsson updated WebMan Classics Maker with a new update entry:

Fix: A missing resource added

A missing resource added that prevented the initiating of the build folder at first start.

Read the rest of this update entry...

 

[Fabio2598]

@Fabio2598 I found the issue and v2.1.1 is now released with a fix. Please let me know your results. Thanks!

Thanks for the quick fix I can build PKG's again but sometimes my iso still doesn't self-boot. I was tinkering with the launch.txt and found the best setting to be wait.ps3?4;/play.ps3
With that setting it boots everytime, with just a bit more of a delay, is there any way I can change my default setting from wait.ps3?3...?
Everything else seems to be working fine so far, but I'll keep you updated thanks for this awesome tool

 

[Fabio2598]

Thanks for the quick fix I can build PKG's again but sometimes my iso still doesn't self-boot. I was tinkering with the launch.txt and found the best setting to be wait.ps3?4;/play.ps3
With that setting it boots everytime, with just a bit more of a delay, is there any way I can change my default setting from wait.ps3?3...?
Everything else seems to be working fine so far, but I'll keep you updated thanks for this awesome tool

Apologies for the double post but I'm unable to edit my previous post for some reason. Upon further testing it seems my shortcuts aren't self-booting sometimes despite the extended wait. I turned on the auto-play option on webman settings and that seems to have fixed it for now (even with wait.ps3?3) I'll run more tests when I have time and report back.

 

[jacobsson]

Apologies for the double post but I'm unable to edit my previous post for some reason. Upon further testing it seems my shortcuts aren't self-booting sometimes despite the extended wait. I turned on the auto-play option on webman settings and that seems to have fixed it for now (even with wait.ps3?3) I'll run more tests when I have time and report back.

I'm glad you found that bug, thank you!
Let me know what your findings show regarding auto-play function

 

[jacobsson]

@Fabio2598 @aldostools
I made a beta test-build where you can put custom webcommands using the "webcommand" field in the /settings/settings.cfg.
Make sure to keep the [filepath_var] as it's replaced by the real filepath during the build-routine.
Example: "webcommand" : "/play.ps3/[filepath_var]"

The above example might be worth testing as it's the official way of starting the ISOs, but didn't work in an earlier version (hence my 'bloated' workaround with pre and post timings).

LINK:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/b01qgw4kqa3zo7s/webman_classics_maker_v2.1.2_beta_win.zip

 

[Fabio2598]

@Fabio2598 @aldostools
I made a beta test-build where you can put custom webcommands using the "webcommand" field in the /settings/settings.cfg.
Make sure to keep the [filepath_var] as it's replaced by the real filepath during the build-routine.
Example: "webcommand" : "/play.ps3/[filepath_var]"

The above example might be worth testing as it's the official way of starting the ISOs, but didn't work in an earlier version (hence my 'bloated' workaround with pre and post timings).

LINK:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/b01qgw4kqa3zo7s/webman_classics_maker_v2.1.2_beta_win.zip

@jacobsson
The beta is not generating a launch.txt inside the pkg build
I've been trying different commands by editing the launch.txt (2.1.1 Version) and this seems to be working so far:
/wait.ps3?6;/mount_ps3/[filepath];/wait.ps3?2;/play.ps3;/wait.ps3?1;/combo.ps3?cross
Basically the play.ps3 command always moves to highlight the loaded game icon, even if it doesn't start it, so I tought the combo.ps3?cross command could fix that issue by starting it if the play.ps3 command fails, I'm gonna keep testing this but hopefully it works
I also tried going directly for /play.ps3/[filepath] like you said but it didn't work for me either, it mounted the iso but it didn't start it. Maybe @aldostools has some input on this?

 

[Coro]

@jacobsson
The beta is not generating a launch.txt inside the pkg build
I've been trying different commands by editing the launch.txt (2.1.1 Version) and this seems to be working so far:
/wait.ps3?6;/mount_ps3/[filepath];/wait.ps3?2;/play.ps3;/wait.ps3?1;/combo.ps3?cross
Basically the play.ps3 command always moves to highlight the loaded game icon, even if it doesn't start it, so I tought the combo.ps3?cross command could fix that issue by starting it if the play.ps3 command fails, I'm gonna keep testing this but hopefully it works
I also tried going directly for /play.ps3/[filepath] like you said but it didn't work for me either, it mounted the iso but it didn't start it. Maybe @aldostools has some input on this?

are you on hen or cfw?

 

[Fabio2598]

are you on hen or cfw?

Cfw, 4.86 Ferrox Cobra

Edit to my post above: the command only worked temporarily, now it's back to only mounting the iso and not running it, not sure if it's a timing issue? Does anyone else have the same problem?

 

[jacobsson]

@Fabio2598 it wise to delete the installed pkg before testing the new one. Did an older webman Classics Maker work for you btw?

 

[codeyoc]

Hi guys,
I Made a nifty YouTube tutorial going over the same idea. It Also has a link to a tutorial post I made about it . Unfortunately, I didn't even know this GUI existed at the time of making my guide, so I feel like webMAN ClassicsMaker will make the process I show a whoooole lot easier.
Still, feel free to check out the video here