Hacking Custom PSX Eboots

[jurassicplayer]

Can you help me convert it to pmf?

Testing out this forum attachment business. If you think the quality of the video and audio is bad, then you might want to provide a better quality video. Trying to make a nice video myself ended up being too much of a pain...joined the forum, downloaded, unpacked the .pak, tried to get it working with OpenBor, only to get annoyed of trying to jump through hoops of inconveniences.

Also, if nobody noticed them before:
- Remade Bloody Bride sort of
- Metal Gear Solid
- Culdcept Expansion Plus (no preview video)

Nothing has actually changed though. My computer is still busted.

I could see an amazing collection being available.

Well, eventually this may end up being such a collection. Or not.

 

[Yuu Ho]

thanks bro, now I can update my castlevania.. you are the best pmf converter...

 

[Hargrun]

Dude, that Culdcept Expansion Plus... So beautiful. @___@

Again, thankz!

 

[Yuu Ho]

jurassicplayer, your convertion looks very awesome in repeat boot screen... thanks again...

 

[jurassicplayer]

Still no completely workable computer. I got some parts to hopefully repair my computer. Probably going to fiddle with that tomorrow or something maybe. I made a personal Ubuntu respin that had pretty much everything I needed (except UMD Stream Composer doesn't work under wine it seems) and so I've been using that on a potato computer that can at least do image editing and audio editing.

Otherwise, here are some more custom stuffs because I beat dead horses to pass the time. The Parasite Eve logo is kind of half-assed (sort of like that Policenauts one) because I didn't feel like hunting for a font. If someone has a way to make it stand out better or wants to add the text in front without making it look like shit on multicolored backgrounds, you can post that up too.

Added:
- Alundra
- Cyberbots Fullmetal Madness
- Parasite Eve

Still no video previews.

 

[Yuu Ho]

I hope someday that someone might make the software called Avi2pmfpsp...

 

[jurassicplayer]

So I've fixed my computer and it's working again. The thread is now back to "dead-ish" status because it's apparently still only me doing this. Anyways, I've added videos for the 4 that didn't have them (Culdcept, Alundra, Cyberbots, Parasite Eve).

Added:
- Final Fantasy VII

I hope someday that someone might make the software called Avi2pmfpsp...

Probably never going to happen. PSP is already pretty dead as it is and nobody cared to figure it out when it was still vibrantly alive. I don't blame them either because I tried looking into it myself to see if I could get ffmpeg to spit out something similar. The closest I've gotten is a couple of scripts that convert a media file to .at3 (requires at3tool.exe) and another to convert any video to "pre-UMD Stream Composer". Then you still have to dump it through UMD Stream Composer and add the PMF header (which I also made a script for in hopes of finding something).

UMD Stream Composer does some stuffs during encoding to decide where to split the stream and mux together audio (even when there isn't any audio) and video. Then it adds some padding to split the video at nice spots...but I'm not exactly sure how it decides that.

 

[TecXero]

Huh, neat. I should see if the ones I created years ago are still floating around on my one of my backups... as soon as I'm not being lazy.

EDIT: I did a basic search through my backups and came up with nothing. I could still have them, just under a different name contained in some compressed file somewhere, but I wouldn't hold my breath on finding them. I need sleep since I have work in a few hours.

 

[Yuu Ho]

man... that sucks... it might useful to the game developers...

 

[ceifadorx]

nice to see you are back to make those excellent eboot. thanks for your hard work.
i will only going to request game which doesn't have ps1 classic now.
requesting dragon quest VII

 

[Yuu Ho]

Jurrassicplayer, where's the FF7 ico.pmf files?

 

[jurassicplayer]

where's the FF7 ico.pmf files?

It's in the 7z archive... "icon1.pmf" or do you mean the actual video that I used?

 

[Yuu Ho]

yes, yor video.

 

[jurassicplayer]

yes, yor video.

I kind of wonder if this is posting warez :/. I mean, I guess at this point that would mean all of my eboots contain warez since it's all videos not made by myself personally and it's copywritten game footage.

LOOK AT ME P1NG . Skirting on the edge of totally not legal to provide PSX eboots that like 10 people look at.

Anyways, here is the video:
http://filetrip.net/dl?HWODEq0evf

 

[Yuu Ho]

I kind of wonder if this is posting warez :/. I mean, I guess at this point that would mean all of my eboots contain warez since it's all videos not made by myself personally and it's copywritten game footage.

LOOK AT ME P1NG . Skirting on the edge of totally not legal to provide PSX eboots that like 10 people look at.

Anyways, here is the video:
http://filetrip.net/dl?HWODEq0evf

lol...

 

[Yuu Ho]

Here is the tips, to make the music loop perfectly, leave an empty space about 0.250sec... then the next step just convert to at3...

 

[jurassicplayer]

Here is the tips, to make the music loop perfectly, leave an empty space about 0.250sec...

I split at every 8 bars, remove repeated pattern bars, and then convert. The only times I need to be mindful is if they have some vocal or instrument that carries over from the previous bars (like a progression up/down, etc.). Adding empty space is extremely noticeable and normally people just fade out/fade in. Fortunately, or maybe unfortunately, I don't use fading unless I absolutely need to (like if the beginning and ending bars aren't close enough and I merge the two together and just fade the ending).

 

[Yuu Ho]

I split at every 8 bars, remove repeated pattern bars, and then convert. The only times I need to be mindful is if they have some vocal or instrument that carries over from the previous bars (like a progression up/down, etc.). Adding empty space is extremely noticeable and normally people just fade out/fade in. Fortunately, or maybe unfortunately, I don't use fading unless I absolutely need to (like if the beginning and ending bars aren't close enough and I merge the two together and just fade the ending).

Sorry for late reply, yeah.. I just figure out yesterday... here it is, this might help ya, makesure this audio wav file "last-at3.rar" attached works if you follow correctly in the photo.

--------------------- MERGED ---------------------------

This time I tested with FF7 snd0.at3 and it works perfectly loop timing.

 

[jurassicplayer]

Sorry for late reply, yeah..

After realizing what the persistent ticking was from my video (potato status psp that can't send video and play custom eboots at the same time), I found out that apparently I did have a slight tick at the end of my loop too. Me and my sloppy end cuts (it looks so close to silent, and yet even that is audible :/).

- Fixed FF7 loop...all like 0.2 seconds of it

 

[Yuu Ho]

yeah, it actually works with a small files to fit in the end just to make the loop perfectly. I hope this maybe useful to everyone who is good in music editting.

 

[Yuu Ho]

jurrasicplayer, what model is your psp?

 

[jurassicplayer]

jurrasicplayer, what model is your psp?

PSP 1000

Unsurprisingly I haven't made an eboot in a while because #NewAnimeSeason.

 

[Yuu Ho]

Hahaha... mine Street... I guess it's a same model as yours...

 

[rewrewrew123]

Never tried the pdx-comp iso? (Compilation about Paradox PDX Team...here you can found A LOOOOOOT of cracktro used by others team and all used by this team).
Nice to hear music and/or watch art!