PSP-HUD v1.3

[darko79]

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PSP-HUD v2.02 - August, 31st 2008.
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This is a plugin for PSP CWF 4.01M33-2 (not tested on earlier versions) that displays some basic info on screen:
- FPS
- CPU/BUS speed and CPU usage
- notification on CPU speed change
- battery status (percent and time left)
- local time
Besides displaying info on screen this plugin can:
- change cpu speed
- take a screenshot


Installation:
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Put hud.prx and hud.lang in seplugins directory on your PSP memory stick
and append ms0:/seplugins/hud.prx to vsh.txt, game.txt and pops.txt files.

Usage:
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Default configuration is to show cpu speed change notification, battery percent left, local time in bottom right corner.
Default button setup is:
- NOTE+LTRIG to access configuration menu.
- NOTE+RTRIG to turn HUD off and change between display methods
(this will only change method currently, it will not be saved, to save it you must enter menu)
- NOTE+UP to take a screenshot
When you exit menu configuration will be automatically saved in ms0:/seplugins/hud.cfg
If button configuration is changed and you can't enter menu anymore (or can't rembember) delete hud.cfg and restart PSP.

Display methods:
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Method 1: this is a new method that is not available always, it hooks to a system API to get accurate FPS reading and to draw hud display,
when current running application/game is not using this API, plugin fallbacks to method 2 and FPS will always display 59 or 60
Method 2: this is an old method (from pre 2.0 versions)

In most cases Method 1 gives better display and sometimes worse, if there is a problem with one you can switch between methods from menu or by
pressing NOTE+RTRIG (default key configuration).


Version History:
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August, 31st 2008. v2.02
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- changed option 'SHOW HUD', besides switching off HUD display it is used to switch between display methods
- new every info part has it's own custom position
- moving analog stick in menu, when positioned on FPS,CPU,BATTERY or TIME, will automatically switch that item to custom position

August, 31st 2008. v2.01
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- fixed a bug that caused a crashing when exiting a homebrew
- screenshots are placed in ms0:/PICTURE/ folder
- added french lanuguage (thanks to Mizou93)

August, 30th 2008. v2.0
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- new drawing method to reduce flickering (thanks to Raphael for suggestion)
- when in options keys are disabled for background process
- to reduce memory usade languages are not stored in memory and are loaded on overy language change (this is causing slow language change)
- cpu and bus speed are joined in one option
- show time option is expanded with more formats (24h, 12h)
- alignment is no longer unique for all options, now every option can have different alignment
- order of displayed items can be changed (useful when displaying multiple options in one place)
- new option: display fps
- new option: cpu speed notification, if on, when cpu speed changes old speed and new speed will be shown for a few seconds and will be blinking
- new option: cpu speed changer for xmb/game/pops, when set it will monitor cpu speed continouosly and adjust it to specified speed when it is different than specified
- new option: take a screenshot without hud info


January, 18th 2008. v1.31
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- updated for 3.80M33-4 (actually droped previously used NIDs for 3.71 and now using NIDs from pspsdk)
- new translations: german (two translations), dutch, italian, spanish, polish and turkish

I won't be accepting any more translations and I'm planing to drop translations for future versions (it's easier for me).

January, 10th 2008. v1.3
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- added language menu option
- added serbian and french language (thanks to Mizou93 for french translation)

January, 7th 2008. v1.22
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- fixed cpu usage display

January, 6th 2008. v1.21
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- slightly improved display

January, 5th 2008. v1.2
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- buttons for menu and HUD are configurable within configuration menu
- add custom alignment (adjust with analog)

January, 4th 2008. v1.1
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- added cpu usage and bus speed
- menu is now accessed with NOTE+LTRIG
- toggle HUD with NOTE+RTRIG
- redesigned menu selection (looks nice now)

January, 4th 2008. v1.0
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- initial version

Screenshot:
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[hypersonic]

finally someone attached here, cheers

[psp2468]

what do u have to press to make it come up??

[headlesslizard]

Kinda useful.

[darko79]

Originally Posted by psp2468

what do u have to press to make it come up??

If you installed it properly you should automatically see CPU speed, battery percent left and time in lower right corner. If this is shown then you can use NOTE to access menu.

If you are new to plugins then do following:
- extract hud.prx, game.txt and vsh.txt in seplugins folder on memory stick
- shutdown your psp, hold right trigger button and power up your psp to enter recoveru menu
- go to plugins menu and activate hud.prx [VSH] and hud.prx [GAME]
- exit recovery menu

[j3r3mie]

THis plugins is so nice No bug with the web browser and the vidéo playback. Working in game.

The only thing it missed is a on/off fonction. For removing every thing in one shot.

[JaX3RiR]

Looks really cool, and I bet that it's useful too! Thanks!

But like J3r3mie said, if you could make a button configuration (R+Volume Up) to turn it on, and (R+Volume Down) to turn it off. That'd be great when you're playing games so this won't be visible all the time.

[psp2468]

Originally Posted by darko79

If you installed it properly you should automatically see CPU speed, battery percent left and time in lower right corner. If this is shown then you can use NOTE to access menu.

If you are new to plugins then do following:
- extract hud.prx, game.txt and vsh.txt in seplugins folder on memory stick
- shutdown your psp, hold right trigger button and power up your psp to enter recoveru menu
- go to plugins menu and activate hud.prx [VSH] and hud.prx [GAME]
- exit recovery menu

oh ok, i thought maybe you had to press a button to make the things show up. thanks

[Korlithiel]

I like the idea of this but without being able to turn it on and off, as well as set whatever keys is uses to custom one's, then it really isn't very practical.

Still, I look forward to updates since it sounds like it could be very useful in the future.

[darko79]

Added new version 1.1:
- added cpu usage and bus speed
- menu is now accessed with NOTE+LTRIG
- toggle HUD with NOTE+RTRIG
- redesigned menu selection

[ixlr8a67]

I can see it when in psp menus, photos, music, but not when playing a game. Is this normal?

[psp2468]

hey,

can u change it to the screen button in stead of the note cos i use that with the music plugin....

[darko79]

Originally Posted by ixlr8a67

I can see it when in psp menus, photos, music, but not when playing a game. Is this normal?

Be shure to add it to game.txt and activate hud.prx [GAME] in recovery menu.

Originally Posted by psp2468

hey,

can u change it to the screen button in stead of the note cos i use that with the music plugin....

Maybe in the future.

[JaX3RiR]

I still think that LTRIG+Volume Up for on, and LTRIG+Volume Down for off would have been better. Or a config file where you could choose the button you want to use.

But that's just my opinion. Other than that, I simply love this plugin! Usually with these plugins the interface just sucks, but this actually looks cool and the font doesn't look so simplistic. And what's even better, it isn't even on the way when playing games or when navigating in XMB. If someone makes a contest like "The best PRX plugin in 2008", I've got a favorite so far. Thumbs up for you!

P.S. I'm amazed on how this plugin can even work. It looks cool, displays CPU speed, BUS speed, CPU usage, battely percent, how much battery usage time is left, and even the time! Now I need something to hide those crappy Sony battery icon and clock.


Edit: I found a bug... I can't exit any of my games... My PSP freezes on the Please Wait... screen.
Edit2: Now I can... Seems that it only freezes some games like WipeOut Pulse... I'm gonna try with my other UMD games as well.

[ixlr8a67]

[QUOTE=darko79]Be shure to add it to game.txt and activate hud.prx [GAME] in recovery menu.

Confirmed hud installed correctly. Enabled both in recovery, still not showing up in game.

PSP Slim
running 3.71-4
8gb Sony MS

Anything else I should check?

Update 1: Disabled other plugins anti.prx, UsbSlimCharge.prx = Still not showing up in game.

Update 2: Updated to PSP-HUD v1.2 = SUCESS!

[Korlithiel]

I definitely like the idea of a configuration file, especially so if we can choose what is displayed and what isn't as well as the controls since I tend to use a lot of the button mappings for screenshot.prx and music.prx.

[MSX]

But really, could you post up a screen or two of this in action?

[darko79]

Added version 1.2:
- buttons for menu and HUD are configurable within configuration menu
- add custom alignment (adjust with analog)

Originally Posted by ixlr8a67

Anything else I should check?

Try other game.

Originally Posted by MSX

But really, could you post up a screen or two of this in action?

Ok, I will put some

[suloku]

I'm very impressed on the display, a lot more good looking than the blit stuff. Did you code that display yourself? If not, where can I get information about it and if you did code it, are you planning on releasing the source for that?

By the way, a good new feature you could add is to lock the controls when in the menu, as in Dark_Alex's vsh menu.

Best regards, suloku

[JaX3RiR]

Yeah, I was also going to suggest the control lock while in the menu.

And the plugin doesn't seem to work under GAME150, I wonder why that is? I added it in ms0:/seplugins/game150.txt and I enabled it in recovery but it doesn't show up when playing 1.5 games.

[darko79]

Originally Posted by suloku

I'm very impressed on the display, a lot more good looking than the blit stuff. Did you code that display yourself? If not, where can I get information about it and if you did code it, are you planning on releasing the source for that?

By the way, a good new feature you could add is to lock the controls when in the menu, as in Dark_Alex's vsh menu.

Best regards, suloku

It's still blit stuff but I created my own font through code (I attached my code so you can try it).
About that control locking feature is there an example on how to use it?
Also do you know maybe why I can't get solid drawing in upper corners?
Using code that I attached, first I call getCanvas and then call drawSmallFont, thats it. Thread priority is 8 and thread delay is 2000. Flickering can be reduced with higher priority and smaller delay but it stresses CPU.

Thanks for any help you can provide!

[darko79]

Originally Posted by JaX3RiR

Yeah, I was also going to suggest the control lock while in the menu.

And the plugin doesn't seem to work under GAME150, I wonder why that is? I added it in ms0:/seplugins/game150.txt and I enabled it in recovery but it doesn't show up when playing 1.5 games.

I guess it's not being initialized. I can't get it to run from IRSHELL also.

[andrea_d86]

Hi to all.
I've a psp slim with 3.71 m33-2 firmware. I've extracted psp hud 1.2 in the seplugins folder. after i've enabled vhs and game hud.prx in the recovery menu.
The problem is that the plugin doesn't start on psp and pressing the note key with or without the triggers don't change anything. what I have to do?
Thanks for the work anyway :P

[JaX3RiR]

Hmm... Can't quite see why isn't it working. Are you sure that you added the exact line "ms0:/seplugins/hud.prx" to both vsh.txt and game.txt? And you might want to update to 3.71 M33-4 btw..

[DDark]

Would look nice with a nice GUI, the text is kind of hard to read on some screens.

[ericbravo]

darko79
Tnx! Cool stuff!

[123PSP]

hey guys

im not a noob or anything when it comes to plugins but i can't seem to get this 1 working. The only thing that im not doing is adding "ms0:/seplugins/hud.prx" to the game text file. i dont want to show in the games play so i didnt add it. that shudnt make a difference shud it?

if some1 cud tell me if they also had this problem and how they fixed it wud be very nice.

thanx guys

[Rbman]

This is really sleek in my opinion, great stuff and it doesn't interfere with mp3 plugin (so far). Really nice work.

[TheNeck]

Originally Posted by andrea_d86

Hi to all.
I've a psp slim with 3.71 m33-2 firmware. I've extracted psp hud 1.2 in the seplugins folder. after i've enabled vhs and game hud.prx in the recovery menu.
The problem is that the plugin doesn't start on psp and pressing the note key with or without the triggers don't change anything. what I have to do?
Thanks for the work anyway :P

Originally Posted by JaX3RiR

Hmm... Can't quite see why isn't it working. Are you sure that you added the exact line "ms0:/seplugins/hud.prx" to both vsh.txt and game.txt? And you might want to update to 3.71 M33-4 btw..

Originally Posted by 123PSP

hey guys

im not a noob or anything when it comes to plugins but i can't seem to get this 1 working. The only thing that im not doing is adding "ms0:/seplugins/hud.prx" to the game text file. i dont want to show in the games play so i didnt add it. that shudnt make a difference shud it?

if some1 cud tell me if they also had this problem and how they fixed it wud be very nice.

thanx guys

Had the same problem would not work for me, i have a slim 3.71 m33-2, so i updated to m33-4, and it works now.

[andrea_d86]

Originally Posted by TheNeck

Had the same problem would not work for me, i have a slim 3.71 m33-2, so i updated to m33-4, and it works now.

Perfect! I update my firmware to m33-4 and now it works