[Artillery-0.2] New Release!

[Blue2k]

Hey people! We have released a new version of Artillery Shell today, one of the most versatile shells around, and things got even better! Artillery 0.2 features:

+ MP3 Playlist
+ PSP Remote support for MP3 Player
+ Multiple themes support
+ In-Shell theme switching
+ Configurable icons on desktop
+ Custom icons on desktop (launch homebrew)
+ Extended config support
+ Extended theming support
+ Info displays added to LCD
+ And a lot of fixes
+ 3 Themes included

Artillery is now as dynamic as ever, fully adaptable and more stable at the same time. It has been written from the ground up in C++. We have been working very hard to be able to release it today and we hope you are as happy with it as we are proud of it. Don't forget to pay a visit to http://www.artillery-shell.com and have a look around on our forums.

Download it here:
Artillery-0.2.rar

Screenshots:

[DEATH b4 DISHONOR]

this is why i want 1.5

[hàrléyg²]

nice work.

[SodR]

Looks like a nice gui, I'm going to try this out later. Keep up the good work!

Nice work, seems cool.

[Bronx]

yeah this is gr8! very good job

[cyanide]

just freakin amazing...
btw, your site looks messed up in firefox...

[Blue2k]

Originally Posted by cyanide

just freakin amazing...
btw, your site looks messed up in firefox...

Thanks for the compliment
About the website, it was designed in firefox, so I doubt that, I'm actually running linux with firefox.

[CertifiedDORK]

OMG, this looks freaking awesome...

[Psypher]

Nice job, and it looks great!

[CertifiedDORK]

Two thins i can get help in, How do you get the shell to read your homebrew? And how do you overclock it?

[Blue2k]

Originally Posted by CertifiedDORK

Two thins i can get help in, How do you get the shell to read your homebrew? And how do you overclock it?

The readme file has a special section explaining how to add custom icons to the desktop and loader panel. You can choose to add a custom (own picture) icon to the desktop that will run your homebrew, or add it to the loader. If you choose the latter you have again 2 options, custom icon or the eboot icon (the homebrews own icon).

If you want Artillery to load the eboot icon in the loader put _eboot in the icon path setting in the icons.cfg. Everything is explained in the readme.

If people want to be able to overclock games / the shell I can add that in the next Live Fire! release.

[CertifiedDORK]

Well it would be nice to have some type of overclocking for homebrew like the n64 emu.. Im going to try and get the homebrew loading, Once again great app.!

[psp1003]

need help with the config file, can you not just make one with most of the homebrew in it already and post here

[Hardrive]

Originally Posted by CertifiedDORK

Well it would be nice to have some type of overclocking for homebrew like the n64 emu.. Im going to try and get the homebrew loading, Once again great app.!

That's already overclocked.

[psp1003]

i cant do it im gettin really frustrated with this and how do i edit the icons.cfg file?? do i change the file extension to txt and then open and do it in there then change back to cfg? coz i already did that and it still dosent work can someone not post a working cfg file for others

[cory1492]

How is the extensions SDK coming along? Havent seen a word on it since feb...

[psp1003]

ok it looks like this

<umd;
path = _umd;
icon = ms0:/Mbshell/themes/artillery/icons/icon_umd.png;
iconsel = ms0:/MbShell/themes/artillery/icons/icon_umd_sel.png;
posx = 10;
posy = 10;
desktop = 1;
>

<homebrew;
path = _hb;
icon = ms0:/Mbshell/themes/artillery/icons/icon_hb.png;
iconsel = ms0:/MbShell/themes/artillery/icons/icon_hb_sel.png;
posx = 10;
posy = 55;
desktop = 1;
>

<photo;
path = _photo;
icon = ms0:/Mbshell/themes/artillery/icons/icon_photo.png;
iconsel = ms0:/MbShell/themes/artillery/icons/icon_photo_sel.png;
posx = 10;
posy = 90;
desktop = 1;
>

<music;
path = _music;
icon = ms0:/Mbshell/themes/artillery/icons/icon_play.png;
iconsel = ms0:/MbShell/themes/artillery/icons/icon_play_sel.png;
posx = 10;
posy = 135;
desktop = 1;
>

<reader;
path = _read;
icon = ms0:/Mbshell/themes/artillery/icons/icon_reader.png;
iconsel = ms0:/MbShell/themes/artillery/icons/icon_reader_sel.png;
posx = 10;
posy = 180;
desktop = 1;
>

<DGEN V1.4;
path = ms0:/PSP/GAME/dgen/eboot.pbp;
icon = ms0:/PSP/GAME/dgen%/eboot.pbp;
desktop = 0;
>

<SNES9XTYL V0.4;
path = ms0:/PSP/GAME/snes9xtyl/eboot.pbp;
icon = ms0://PSP/GAME/snes9xtyl%/eboot.pbp;
desktop = 0;
>

so whats wrong?

[KRAID]

can you listen to mp3's while playing games or apps?

[NEvolution]

Sweet release...is homebrew loaded from its native directories and is it stable?

[PopcOrn DeVil]

This is one great app, I wish I had a PSP.

[Xero99]

It looks so good ,you 1.50'ers are so lucky

[Moose]

Nice, i'm going to try it out now.

-EDIT- It doesn't seem to detect any of the h/b i have on my m/s and doesn't find any of my mp3's, It may not detect my h/b as I use renamer to stop the corrupted icons showing, any help would be greatly appreciated?

[quick_kill]

seriously how do you put homebrew on this thing. I read the read me and it not helping. I put the homebrew in the Mbshell/game folder and nothing appears when i click the homebrew icon.

[Ciddan]

Originally Posted by psp1003

ok it looks like this
<DGEN V1.4;
path = ms0:/PSP/GAME/dgen/eboot.pbp;
icon = ms0:/PSP/GAME/dgen%/eboot.pbp;
desktop = 0;
>

<SNES9XTYL V0.4;
path = ms0:/PSP/GAME/snes9xtyl/eboot.pbp;
icon = ms0://PSP/GAME/snes9xtyl%/eboot.pbp;
desktop = 0;
>

so whats wrong?

Okay, its not far from right You need to have it look like this:

<SNES9XTYL V0.4;
path = ms0:/PSP/GAME/snes9xtyl/eboot.pbp;
path% = ms0:/PSP/GAME/snes9xtyl%/eboot.pbp;
icon = _eboot;
desktop = 0;
>

Originally Posted by quick_kill

seriously how do you put homebrew on this thing. I read the read me and it not helping. I put the homebrew in the Mbshell/game folder and nothing appears when i click the homebrew icon.

You cannot have read the readme :P It tells you everything you need to know. You need to add your entries in a config file called icons.cfg. The entries should be formatted as above if you want to use the eboot's own icon.

Guys! Read the readme ! You need to define what homebrew shows up manually in this release. That is in there for stability. You can also turn on the auto-detection feature - but that'll effecitly kill off all the new stability that the manual assignment brings. To turn that on - go to main.cfg and change autodetecthomebrew = 0; .

To clarify even further - I'll write some examples for you:

Homebrew List using Custom Icon:

<HomebrewName;
path = ms0:/PSP/GAME/HomebrewName/eboot.pbp;
icon = ms0:/PathToIcon/icon.png;
desktop = 0;
>

Homebrew List using Eboot Icon:

<HomebrewName;
path = ms0:/PSP/GAME/HomebrewName/eboot.pbp;
path% = ms0:/PSP/GAME/HomebrewName%/eboot.pbp;
icon = _eboot;
desktop = 0;
>

Desktop Icon:

<HomebrewName;
path = ms0:/PSP/GAME/HomebrewName/eboot.pbp;
icon = ms0:/PathToIcon/icon_name.png; (whatever filename works)
icon_sel = ms0:/PathToIcon/icon_name_sel.png; (this is for the selected state)
posx = 100; (or whatever value you want)
posy = 100; (or whatever value you want)
desktop = 1;
>


So there you go I'm not really 100% sure on the desktop icon, so verify that in the readme before you say it wont work. I don't have the files accessible right now - so I'm doing this off the top of my head.

[Snicks]

i get to enjoy this for a week before upgrading again.....will it ever work on 2.6?

[Blue2k]

This is just something I have to get out of my head, so bare with me or skip this post

I've been hearing some complaints about the config files. Ofcourse, I'll never be able to satisfy everyone, but these complaints do affect me, and not in a positive way. The previous loader did use auto detection, but because it's quite a process finding the two matching folders for 1 homebrew, parsing the eboot, extracting the name and icon and storing it all, it was not as stable as I would have liked it.

To solve this I've added the use of config files, but the autodetection is still available! The config files do make it a whole lot more stable, but for those people who hate config files the older option is still available. But for starters, surprisingly no-one seems to notice that. I know the readme is a bit long, but it's all in there.

Then for those who don't like editing config files, just keep in mind that I've been working for months on this shell, and the only thing I ask from the user is to configure the shell to their likings once. Take a look at linux, you wouldn't get far without editing a config file.

So, what am I asking? That more people should read the readme file, it contains most of the info you need, we spend quite some time on explaining the shell. And that people should be a bit more tolerant with homebrew. I'm not getting paid here for the months of work, and I'm doing this for fun. The only thing I ask in return is that you atleast put some effort into it. This goes for all homebrew, not just Artillery. Behind every homebrew app is a hard working person doing it because he likes it. The least thing you could do as a user is make him liking it even more.

[quick_kill]

I am really really sorry for asking. In fact prior to the responce i figured out how to put homebrew on artillery. Everything is in the readme file that it is. My only problem with this shell is that i can't save wallpaper to the psp. I have to change the theme.cft file so that when it boots up, it boots up with the desired theme. Does anyone know a better way than this?

[Ciddan]

Originally Posted by quick_kill

I am really really sorry for asking. In fact prior to the responce i figured out how to put homebrew on artillery. Everything is in the readme file that it is. My only problem with this shell is that i can't save wallpaper to the psp. I have to change the theme.cft file so that when it boots up, it boots up with the desired theme. Does anyone know a better way than this?

You can switch wallpapers in two different ways. One via a config file (theme.cfg) or in the shell itself. To change the wallpaper that the shell boots up with edit the config on the paramater preferredwallpaper = whatever.png; . To change it "in-shell" press the little psp icon in the systray and click "next wallpaper" over the themes list and that should have you all set

[Slasher]

Having the 'Next Wallpaper' thing above the themes seems more like a title than an actual option to changing the wallpaper, just a little confusing. Other than that little quirk, great shell guys, keep it up.