PS3 XMB Package Downloader - An XMB MOD that intergrates a Homebrew Store on the XMB v0.70

[bguerville]

Yep.
For info I just got a new pstv in sealed box, including a 30 euros PSN voucher, for only 22 euros on eBay.
While I was looking for the cheapest pstv possible, I also found a couple of ads for PS3 slims already on CFW at 120 euros... Worth looking into...

 

[Berion]

Here are some screen shots of the new icon set on the XMB. Looking real good.

Looking horrible. All graphics looks like after meeting with steamroller. Something goes wrong. Have You scaled down icons to 178x178 or it's just artifacts made by CellOS which scaled them on the fly? We must solve this problem.

One thing I would like to change is the "note" icon inside the about section, I only really used the magnifying glass as it was the best I could find quickly, really I think an info sign like a little "i" would be better or maybe someone has a better suggestion.

Definitely would be better. I'll add this to TODO list.

My suggestion would be:
Emulators: NES PAD
Retro Games: Space Invaders
Homebrew Games: PS3 Pad

That will be perfect.
BTW: SNES joypad. NES joypad was like a plank, SNES was more "cosmic modern". ;p

Also the Tools/mods section and the XMBPD Settings are using the same icons for now in the screen shot, need to decide what to do there too, Im not sure of an icon for tools/mods, a spanner maybe.

Spanner definitely. Maybe two sided.

BTW: Berion , the icons only need to be 178x178, I somehow ended up with my ones at 179x179 but its not exactly right. I could resize them but probably better if you output them from editor at correct res. sorry about that.

I wanted to ask but finally I forgot about it. It was strange resolution, always developers stick to POT sizes (power by two).
Anyway, sure, no problem.

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I have on mind "multi skin", minimalist style with Rebug oriented wallpaper for all of those apps and XMB. But it's many work on this. Probably I will not do this in this year.

 

[DeViL303]

Have You scaled down icons to 178x178 or it's just artifacts made by CellOS which scaled them on the fly?

Must be the OS doing it, due to 179x179 size maybe..oops, my fault. Getting late here. I'll have a look tomorrow.

Spanner definitely. Maybe two sided.

Cool, whatever you think.

I have on mind "multi skin", minimalist style with Rebug oriented wallpaper for all of those apps and XMB. But it's many work on this. Probably I will not do this in this year.

Sounds good.

 

[DeViL303]

Just so people know, I am updating the WebMAN Mod pkg available via XMBPD all the time (checking it every day), current version available is the October 5th build.

 

[Berion]

Ok, I found some time. This is the complete (?) set. If everything is ok and nothing is missing I will publish project files.

fixed bluray icon
all resized to 178x178
added few settings variation icons
added information icon
added tools icon

 

[DeViL303]

Nice! that is really great. There is just one more icon I would like - the web icon unbubbled.

Im not sure what to use to indicate there is an update available /up to date, Im not sure if the update icon with the "i" is enough, maybe it is though?

I would like unbubbled versions of all of them sometime in the future if possible, then I can offer at least 2 choices in the style settings.

 

[Berion]

Sure.

Oh, and no longer steamroller effect? ^^

 

[DeViL303]

Ill put some screen shots up very soon.

Just remembered the Reboot icon aswell, not sure what to use for that, I was using the power icon but its not great.

edit:

Spoiler

Note: They look way better than this on the XMB up close, must be the way the screenshot plugin works, its losing some quality and making them blurry a bit.

 

[Berion]

Yeah, I have complete set now but I wait until we solve this puzzle.

This cannot be an artifact from screenshot plugin because fonts and other elements would be also broken. But broken are only icons and only my, yours was ok on previews screenshots. Look at this:

Maybe it is something with export. If You have time, please test those three icons from attachment. Author* of port of Artemis PS3 GUI send me an email in which he tell me that files which send to him are looks strange. And they was, I was also thinking that this is lack of 8bit support in pslight libs, so I change them to 24 and probably this was fixed. Here we have 24bit but I'm using an application named optimg which remove headers, compressed to maximum, and maybe if image let it changing palette to 8bit with indexed 24bit alpha - maybe this is problem.


BTW: *Someone knows if he still alive? One day he just stop answering on PMs and emails... And I really hate when someone do such things. :|

 

[DeViL303]

Yeah, I have complete set now but I wait until we solve this puzzle.

This cannot be an artifact from screenshot plugin because fonts and other elements would be also broken. But broken are only icons and only my, yours was ok on previews screenshots. Look at this:
View attachment 6742

Maybe it is something with export. If You have time, please test those three icons from attachment. Author* of port of Artemis PS3 GUI send me an email in which he tell me that files which send to him are looks strange. And they was, I was also thinking that this is lack of 8bit support in pslight libs, so I change them to 24 and probably this was fixed. Here we have 24bit but I'm using an application named optimg which remove headers, compressed to maximum, and maybe if image let it changing palette to 8bit with indexed 24bit alpha - maybe this is problem.

I didn't really understand any of that but I trust you

I see what you mean now, my eyes are not as good as yours.

Check these out, they all seem better, all 3 of them.

Spoiler

 

[Berion]

All of them are ok ("Photoshop (clean)" is the same as all before so it should be broken). I'm totally confused now.

 

[DeViL303]

hmm, strange. I don't know, could it be the other icon you are adding to it that is effecting it. the transparency is different maybe on the other layer? And because you wrote in on these it didn't effect it?

 

[Berion]

PNG have no layers. All images are 24 bit, only the "clean one" is 8bit with 24bit clut.

How can I test this on real console? The are somewhere packages? Do they not affect any of dev_flash files (or at least if this is restorable in other way than firmware reinstall)?

 

[DeViL303]

If you are on rebug 4.80 then install http://aldostools.org/xmbextras.pkg , then you can swap the icons with any of the "tex_xmbpd_xxxx" icons inside dev_hdd0/game/XMBMANPLS/USRDIR/IMAGES/

No dev flash files are touched. only hdd.

 

[DeViL303]

PNG have no layers.

Yeah, I know pngs don't have layers, Its just the only difference in these latest icons that are fine is that they don't have the other icon inside/behind them, so that other icon must be the cause of it somehow.

 

[DeViL303]

@Berion: This is very weird...check this out.

If I use this icon:

For download items it shows up like this:

If I rename the very same icon and use it here for something else it show up like this:

WTH??

It seems to be "steam rollered" if I use it in one place, but not in another. Note these 2 items are at the same depth on the XMB, I have no idea whats going on.

Actually, even if I link to the exact same icon, same name, but in a different place in the xml, it can be "steam rollered". its really strange.

Maybe we should try some different resolutions, I don't know.

 

[Berion]

For me it looks like issues with cache. Could You try reproduce bug with external GIM/RCO? Just for test purpose.

No-SEN icon You also used once, right? And it's also steamrolled.

 

[DeViL303]

For me it looks like issues with cache. Could You try reproduce bug with external GIM/RCO? Just for test purpose.

No-SEN icon You also used once, right? And it's also steamrolled.

Yeah only used no-sen once. Im not sure if its a cache thing, these icons can be switched on the fly , not cached I dont think, for example if I delete one via ftp it is gone straight away once I go back out of menu and back in, and if I swap an icon it is changed straight away too.

I will try reproduce the bug via RCO but got to go out for a bit now so it will be tomorrow before I get to that.

 

[Berion]

Sure, there is no pressure.

It's just a blind shot. If issue not occur with RCO at least give as some clue.

 

[DeViL303]

RCO test was no good, just getting white spinning squares everywhere and missing icons if I even add one icon. probably due to gimconv doing something wrong.

I don't know. They should work ok from HDD, Just seems to be random, my original icons are the same, some look better than others aswell. Might have to live with it like this, they look ok regardless.