[RELEASE] - Alternative VSHMenù v5.0

[Red_Squirrel]

After a long pause, here is a new update to my Alternative VSHMenù!!!
Download from HERE

Changelog from README.txt attached:

Alternative VSHMenù by Red Squirrel
http://redsquirrel.forumitalian.com <-Italian
http://redsquirrel.pspgen.com <-English

N.B.: I'm Italian, so sorry for my BAD english :P

What's it?
It is an Alternative VSHMenù that has ALL same functions of the M33 VshMenù and other utilities such as the possibility to change the background color, to power off and to sleep the console, to activate and to disactivate M33 VshMenù from dashboard or to make screenshot of XMB!
Press HOME (by Default) in XMB to start the Alternative VshMenù!
Press CIRCLE (by Default) in Menù to close it.

Note:
-Do not flash this plugin erasing M33 satelite.prx! In this case Alternative VSHMenù does not work!
-To flash this plugin, follow the guide inserted in Patch2Flash folder!
-v5.0 is compatible ONLY with CF 3.90M33 and CF 3.95GEN!

Features
v5.0
{
CF 3.90M33
-Possibility to hide the MAC address in System Information page (like CF 3.93/3.95GEN option!)
-Now PSP will be rebooted if you change CXMB, MAC or M33 VSHMenù options (to enable the changes!).

CF 3.95GEN
-Added Hide MAC Address option.
-Changed "M33 NET UPD." line in "NETWORK UPD.".
-Added GEN Updater under NETWORK UPDATE option.
-Changed "M33 VshMenu" line in "SELECT KEY ".
-Added VSH Recovery under SELECT KEY option.

BOTH
-Possibility to enable/disable CXMB plugin directly from the VSHMenù (read the CXMB installation in CXMB_readme.txt to know how it works)
-Now config file will be saved in flash1, so if you decide to flash the A.Vshmenù, Memory Stick will not be required!
-Added a Slim Flasher
-Because of lack of time, language translations will be released in next update.
}

v4.2
-There was a bug in v4.1 on PSPs Slim that brought to the reboot of the console when you closed Alternative VSHMenù: FIXED.

v4.1
-Added German, Italian and French translations.
-Added a tool to flash the plugin in Flash0 (so you can free a space for a new plugin in your PSP!).

v4.0
-Added a security check to the plugin.
This because of a lamer team, called "Team Just Dead", creator (but I have some doubt about it too...) of the "JD-Battery", that when I released the v3.5 they diffused a hex-edit spanish version of my Alternative VSHMenù saying that they were its programmers and creators...
-Added the NO PIC0 AND PIC1 function
-Added the GAME KERNEL function for PSP Fat
-Added the USB CHARGE function for PSP Slim.
-GAME KERNEL and USBCHARGE functions share the same line, so if you use Alternative VSHMenù on a PSP Fat the GAME KERNEL function will appear, otherwise on a Slim the function USB CHEARGE will appear.
-Now when you change one of the functions that requires the reboot of the console to be applied (Game Kernel, USB Charge, M33 Network Update, No Pic1.png and Pic0.png), Dashboard will be restarted automatically, applying the change!
-Some minor bugfix and improvement to the code.

Note: Because of lack of time, translations will be released later.


v3.5
-Changed the disposition of menu lines to avoid to occupy all PSP screen height.
-Added a function to enable/disable M33 Network Update.
-Now when VSHMenù begins, the button "Shutdown PSP" will be selected as the first. In this way the process of PSP turning off, reboot and standby is quickly.
-Added 2 new versions of the PRX: one of them is the Italian translation (by Red Squirrel) and the other is the French Translation (by Britix).

v3.1
-[FIX]- In CF 3.80M33 Standby function did not work. Now it works.

v3.0
-Fixed problems with USB device setting when UMD9660 were selected.
-Last USB Device chosen will be saved, so at PSP reboot default USB Device will be last one chosen.
-Changes to CPU and BUS frequency will be applied immediately on menù closing, without requiring console reboot.
-Add UMD-VIDEO function (like M33 VSHMenù)
-ISOs in ISO/VIDEO directory will be checked on every VSHmenù beginning, so changes (adding/removing ISO) will be realized immeditely without requiring console reboot!
-Now pressing again the "start" key VSHMenù will close itself.

v2.0
-Improved the management of the colors
-Disposition of the commands on the screen is changed
-Possibility to make screenshot of the dashboard
-Possibility to activate/disactivate the function of screenshot
-Possibility to choose the key to start the plugin!
-Possibility to choose the key to make the screenshot
-Now options will be saved, so changes will be maintained also on the reboot of the console!
-If the file or th folder of options are not found, they will automatically be created to avoid crash of the system.

v1.00 Standard
-Same functions of M33 VshMenù
-Possibility to change the background color
-Possibility to activate or disactivate M33 VshMenù
-Possibility to power off, reboot and sleep the console
-Plugin will stop PSP to avoid conflict with pad

v1.00 Memory
-Same functions of standard versione except for usbdevice.prx that will be loaded from SEPLUGINS folder in Memory Stick and not from Flash0
-Dark_Alex fixed usbdevice.prx is already present in the Alternative VSHMenù folder.

Installation using Noob's Plugin Installer
-Connect PSP to PC through USB
-Start program and choose the "Install a new plugin" option
-Choose the "Indipendent Installation" option
-Select the PRX (of your language) and check the box corrisponding to VSH
-Click on Install button

Manual Installation (if no other plugins are installed)
-Connect PSP to PC through USB
-Copy the content of MS_ROOT folder in the root of Memory Stick

Manual Installation (if other plugins are installed)
-Connect PSP to PC through USB
-Copy vshmenu.prx (of your language) file in SEPLUGINS folder
-Open VSH.txt file (if it's not present, create it!) and at the end of the file add this string: ms0:/seplugins/vshmenu.prx

Any way you have choosen, remember to activate plugin from Recovery Mode!


Thanks
To users of psp-cheats.forumitalian.com and psp-ita.com for the help that they give me!
To all staff and users of PSPGen.com
To Britix for the French Translation
To KFR92 for the German Translation
To FreePlay for his tool to edit BIN files of the Flash0.
To my girlfriend because she is the only that believe in me...

[MiKeY188]

Nice thanks

[knuckles84]

wow, a new version!!! Thanks!!!!

I like this very much, i find it better than the Recovery in XMB because it is liter!

for me this must be intergreated in one CFW from the beginning.

One question:
is it not possible that the CXMB.prx can be placed in the flash0 ??
The PSP Slim has enougth free-space :-)

[Red_Squirrel]

Originally Posted by knuckles84

is it not possible that the CXMB.prx can be placed in the flash0 ??
The PSP Slim has enougth free-space :-)

Yes, It is possible, i will add it in next version
If you want to do it alone (and now), you can hex-edit the vshmenu.prx changing the path of CXMB (should be ms0:/CXMB/cxmb.prx).
Maybe flash0:/cxmb.prx should be ok

[MiKeY188]

i might try that lol thanks!

[knuckles84]

cool, but for me a hex edit don't work

when i flash my hex edited prx, the CFW make a semi-brik:
-i can enter the recovery but the xmb don't show up.

so i must wait for you

[MiKeY188]

Where in flash0 did you put it?

[Kratosjohn]

Works fine on 3.93 CFW

[Red_Squirrel]

Originally Posted by Kratosjohn

Works fine on 3.93 CFW

Really?! O.O

[maxexcloo]

I have a feature request: Would it be possible for the plugin to disable itself while the webbrowser is open?

(The official one does this)

[Red_Squirrel]

Originally Posted by maxexcloo

I have a feature request: Would it be possible for the plugin to disable itself while the webbrowser is open?

(The official one does this)

Yes, it is possible and will be added in next update
thx

[knuckles84]

an other question:
is it not possible to flash the alternative VSHMenu in the CFW so that the original VSHMenu is replaced by you version?
And that we can enable you version in the Recovery Menu?

[Saelvo]

hello
i´m on phat and the psp is always restarting when i leave the vsh menü. you said you fixed this bug for the slim, could you do this for the phat too?
thx

[Red_Squirrel]

Very weird, I have the Phat and it has not this issue :S
Are you sure you don't edit some of those option that require a system reboot? Because in that case it is normal

[Saelvo]

no, even when i don´t edit anything
so, when i just press HOME two times the psp reboots.
I´m on cfw 3.93

[Red_Squirrel]

Originally Posted by Saelvo

no, even when i don´t edit anything
so, when i just press HOME two times the psp reboots.
I´m on cfw 3.93

And this is the problem
Like said in the news, the v5.0 is compatible ONLY with CF 3.90M33 and CF 3.95GEN

[Saelvo]

oki flashed back to 3.90 M33
you should make your plugins compitable to cfw 3.93

[Red_Squirrel]

Usually i develop only on the last CF, but because today many have yet the D.A. CF, in this case I made an exception and create a D.A. version (on last CF naturally, 3.90m33)

[cheewongken]

hey thanks!

[patrck_744]

Can you change the colors, like the M33 vsh menu, so that it doesn't mess up the wallpaper.

[BlueScreenBug]

I am in CF 3.95-2 GEN when i press the home button the psp freeze and the memory stick light starts to flashing any help?

EDIT: nevermind it freezes when i try open this under settings logo. Under Game it works flawlessly


EDIT 2: Is this normal everytime I try to change something it does not stay. When I exit in this program psp restarts and nothing was changed. Sometimes the whole program does not starts and the program freeze even when I am under game logo! SO PLS HELP!!

[knuckles84]

hy, i would only say that this version works very good on the 4.01M33-2

only the Hide-Mac Adress don't work!

one think i have done for me is, i hexedited the kernel version to 4.xx!


so i hope we will see an new version from you in the next time, with all the bug-fixes

(only one question, will you in one time release the source? Why, i will [i'm not a coder but i can learn] make me a very slim version, only with the options i personnaly need! )