eReader v1.59 (Chinese program)

If you head over to PSPChina, you’ll find a post for eBook reader: eReader v1.59. We have written about eReader v1.4, and that’s a good place to start if you want to know how to use this program and navigate through it. Basically, the eReader by Aeolusc is an eBook reader program for your PSP. It lets you read simple text files, but more importantly, it lets you read HTML files, display images, and play MP3s. You can also download fonts in different sizes so you can choose one that’s easy to read.

We’ll update this as soon as we get more info. Meanwhile, if anybody out there knows more about it, then you can help out the rest of the non-Chinese-reading PSP community by telling us more about it.

Also, we’d like to welcome the PSP newbies who got PSPs for Christmas: Check out the FAQs, Guides, and Tutorials at our forums. You might look at Guides: General PSP for general PSP stuff (like figuring out the version of “firmware” you have in your PSP), and then you can jump into homebrew by reading the threads in the Guides: Hacks, Homebrew and Emulators forum. Recommended reading includes the ULTIMATE Homebrew Guide and the The Ultimate QJ Guide.

Update: Tom sent in a very helpful translation of the original eReader post and of the readme. He provided info on what the newest features of eReader v1.59 Xmas Version (Ebook and Image Viewer) are, including info on the controls. There’s also a very long and extremely important tutorial in this translation.

So for those who want to use this updated app ASAP, click on Full Article.

Translated text:

2006-12-24 eReader 1.59 Xmas Version (Ebook and Image Viewer) (supporting PMP AVC)

Caveats:

TTF Font usage: Name English font as ASC.TTF and Chinese as GBK.TTF, compress both into a font.zip, or put them in the font directory. Please notice that the software menu currently doesn’t support TTF fonts, as we didn’t want to delete the formerly used font.
Starting with version 1.5, the 16bit and 32bit versions will be bundled together, using the 7z format. Before installing, please refer to the readme.txt. There are three easy-to-setup versions, see download links below.
Version 2.xx standalone installation guide: When replacing the 1.5 version, please remember to delete the __SCE__eReader directory first. Otherwise the program won’t be able to boot.
Firmware 1.50 and 2.xx dual-installation method: First copy the two directories of 1.5 to your memory stick. Then move the version 2.xx EBOOT.PBP to your %__SCE__eReader, replacing any existing EBOOT.PBP. Don’t copy the fonts.zip, or any other additional files to the %__SCE__eReader directory!
You can disable wma support in the source code. Doing so will save you about 500K of memory. For further details refer to the source code link below.
When compressing using the RAR method, don’t choose a large dictionary size (you can select this in the WinRar setttings interface on the Advanced tab -> Compression), nor select a high compression ratio, as this will definitely result in data loss, since the PSP’s internal memory isn’t big enough.
The 12px font from version 1.04 has been re-designed from scratch, adding length and hence won’t be able to work on the old versions. Please don’t use the 12px font that came with the old versions.
If you only need certain special fonts, then you can go ahead and delete those from the fonts.zip archive you don’t need. The software will automatically decide which fonts to offer for selection. The fonts will come in a pair of two files, according to their individual sizes: ASC?? and GBK??, the “questionmarks” refering to the size of each font.
From version 0.9 on, the fonts will be compressed into a fonts.zip archive. You can savely delete the fonts directory from older installations.

For a tutorial on setting up the background images: http://bbs.pspchina.net/viewthread.php?tid=105979

1.59 Xmas Version (1.6 alpha 2) download links:

Regular Version: http://www.pspsp.org/down/eReader_1_5_9_xmas.7z
Power Saving Version (not including PSP’s headphone remote control and music support): http://www.pspsp.org/down/eReader_1_5_9_xmas_savep.7z
WMA Disabled Version: http://www.pspsp.org/down/eReader_1_5_9_xmas_nowma.7z

1.51 Version download links:

Regular Version: http://www.pspsp.org/down/eReader_1_5_1.7z
Power Saving Version (not including PSP’s remote control and music support): http://www.pspsp.org/down/eReader_1_5_1_savep.7z
Smallest Install Version (Everything removed but USB and digital stick support): http://www.pspsp.org/down/eReader_1_5_1_small.7z
WMA Disabled Version: http://www.pspsp.org/down/eReader_1_5_1_nowma.7z

Fonts larger than 16px aren’t included in above’s 7z packs. They are offered independently. For those who require these fonts, please add the two files to your fonts.zip archive. You will then bee able to choose the corresponding fonts from the options menu.

18px: http://www.pspsp.org/down/fonts/18pt.rar
20px: http://www.pspsp.org/down/fonts/20pt.rar
24px: http://www.pspsp.org/down/fonts/24pt.rar
28px: http://www.pspsp.org/down/fonts/28pt.rar
32px: http://www.pspsp.org/down/fonts/32pt.rar

For source code, please refer to:

http://bbs.pspchina.net/viewthread.php?tid=50673

The font creator tool released with version 1.04 has already been updated and now supports the creation of fonts up to 32px in size.

http://www.pspsp.org/down/eReaderfc.rar

Be aware: Don’t use English fonts for conversion. Some of the Chinese fonts only comprise GB2312 encoding and therefore can’t display SJIS/Big5 code.

Source code for the font creator tool (Visual Studio 2005 project)

http://www.pspsp.org/down/eReaderfc_src.rar

On May 6th, several English fonts (12px, 14px) were added. Just put the ASC12, ASC14 files of each Zip archive into your own fonts.zip and replace the ones that are already there. For download links, see below:

http://www.pspsp.org/down/fonts/batang.zip
http://www.pspsp.org/down/fonts/dotum.zip
http://www.pspsp.org/down/fonts/gothic.zip
http://www.pspsp.org/down/fonts/gulim.zip
http://www.pspsp.org/down/fonts/mincho.zip
http://www.pspsp.org/down/fonts/mingliu.zip
http://www.pspsp.org/down/fonts/simsun.zip
http://www.pspsp.org/down/fonts/terminal.zip (We don’t recommend the last one, since it’s really bad looking!)

Functions:

Ebook and picture viewer
Supporting fonts in differents sizes. Supporting documents with a maximum size of 20MB (PSP internal memory is the restriction here). HTML reading support. Character encoding conversions. Vertical reading support (turning PSP by 90 degrees). Bookmarks and automatic bookmarking. Access documents in Zip archives. Automatically dropping CPU step (when not listening to mp3).
Supporting bmp, tga, jpg, png and gif formats. Supporting rather large picture files. 2x interpolar and 3x cubic zoom, no distortions guaranteed.
Comletely resolving a problem with Chinese file names and long file names
Supporting mp3 playback

1.59 Xmas Version (1.6 Alpha 2) update:

PMP AVC playback，coded from 1.02M source，using original OSD，will introduce new OSD at later time
correcting a bug: after accessing flash0/flash1 software will crash
correcting some kernel patch to improve stability

1.59 (1.6 Alpha) Update:

TTF Font support (ASCII fonts to be named as ASC.TTF，CJK to be named as GBK.TTF, both have to be put in the fonts.zip archive or the fonts directory)
Access to flash0 and flash1 (read only，for research and copy purposes)
Supporting fonts with different widths in TTF mode
Fix for “vertical” reading mode crash
Fix for internal memory leak
TTF functions considered to be in alpha testing stage, please report bugs.

1.51 Update:

New menu entry: Quite program
Activating crash recovery for 1.00/1.50 firmware (after crashing the software, settings will be recovered in order to prevent another crash)
Changed error message (Blue screen will contain more inforamtion)
Corrected a bug where settings for the headphone remote control wouldn’t work
Corrected a bug where rotating the text by 90 degrees would result in undecipherable text
Corrected a bug where pressing SELECT+START on the first options menu wouldn’t return to software

1.5 Update:

Adding support for DevHook 0.45+2.xx firmware emulation
Adding scroll function using the analog pad
Added Music setting: Playback on Startup
New position of the Save/Load menu
Cleaning up with Makefile，Using configure for compilation
Corrected some bugs with vertical reading function
Corrected some button layout bugs
Corrected a bug where “continuous mode” for music playback became uneffective after restart
Corrected software bootup coding (1.00/1.50 firmware will now show dump messages when crashing)

1.4 Update:

Support wma playback (currently no fast forward/backward, using up a lot of resources while playback, use with caution)
Support for tag in websites
source code optimized

1.33 Update:

Added UTF-8 Encoding support
Rewritten mp3 info engine，now correctly analyses VBR mp3 length and bit rate，greatly improved access speed，however, there’s still a little lag while analyzing mp3 info
mp3 with UTF-8/16 encoded ID3 tag will be recognized correctly
Corrected spacing in lyrics

0.9991 (1.0 RC4 fix) Update:

Correcting a bug with the FAT engine resulting in problems with long file names
Added missing fonts for 1.50 firmware

0.2 Update:

Support bmp, tga
Suppporting zoom and rotation
Supporting files in zip, chm archives, as well as html documents
Adding scroll bars (pictures don’t have scroll bars, yet)
Corrected some older bugs as well as improving loading speed of pictures

Installation guide:

After downloading and decompression, the following file structure should be found:

readme.txt
history.txt
credit.txt
32bit/100/
32bit/150/
32bit/2xx/
16bit/100/
16bit/150/
16bit/2xx/

Everyone can just go ahead and put the corresponding folders of the version they prefer to their PSP memory stick to the PSP/GAME folder

Default key settings; these can be altered in the button setup config, except for left/right and Select

SELECT+START: Quit program

Menu:

up:       Move up one item
down:     Move down one item
left:     Switch options
right:    Switch options
L:        First item or decrease speed
R:        Last item or increase speed
CROSS:    Top directory or Quit
CIRCLE:   Confirm/Select on file menu
SQUARE:   Select file
TRIANGLE: en file
SELECT:   Options
START:    Enter/Exit mp3 menu

Reading:
SELECT:   Options
SQUARE:   Bookmarks
CROSS:    Return to menu
up:       Up one paragraph
down:     Down one paragraph
left or L: Up one page
right or R:Down one page
CIRCLE+L: First page
CIRCLE+R: Last Page
CIRCLE+left: Go up 500 lines
CIRCLE+right:Go down 500 lines
CIRCLE+up: Go up 100 lines
CIRCLE+down: Go down 100 lines
Analog Stick up/down: scrolling up and down

Pictures:
CROSS:    Return to menu
SQUARE:   Display/hide info bar
TRIANGLE: Swith zoom mode(no zoom->zoom to fit->zoom total)
CIRCLE:   Holding down will display picture info (while info bar is disabled)
CIRCLE+left: Rotate left 90 degrees
CIRCLE+right: Rotate right 90 degrees
CIRCLE+up: Zoom out (below 200% in 10% steps, above 200% in 50% steps)
CIRCLE+down: Zoom in (below 200% in 10% steps, above 200% in 50% steps)
CIRCLE+L: Change Zoom filter
Up:       Scroll up
Down:     Scroll down
Left:     Scroll up
Right:    Scroll down
L:        Previous picture
R:        Next picture
Analog stick:   Move picture

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