NeoCD PSP v0.7.1 Released

Zelurker has been busy! He has released v0.7 and v0.7.1 of NeoCD PSP, the Neo CD emulator for the PSP. The v0.7.1 release was just a small bug fix to the v0.7 version that caused several games to crash. Due to prompt error reporting, this issue was identified and resolved in a matter of hours. The big list of changes came with the v0.7 release, and there were a LOT of changes. Check them out:

Less bugs, better sound quality, a few little additions, and a loooong list of changes :

• Fixed crash in breakers : this is once again related to the upload area, so I can just hope it won’t break other games
• Try harder to recognise game files from ipl.txt : some originals have weird filenames in the ipl.txt (a double dragon version is in this case). Now if I can’t find the file type in the extension, I look for it in the whole filename, which seems to work for this double dragon version, at least.
• Fixed sound effects : they are now much clearer, and in real stereo. The difference is especially noticeable in bust a move.
• Fixed a last possible corruption of the memcard.bin file if quiting with the home key. Now it should be safe to use the home key to quit at any time, and there should be no way left to corrupt any file (mp3 or other) If you use fw 2.0, be sure to use the Exit command from the gui though, or do otherwise at your own risk (I am not testing neocdpsp with fw 2.0)
• The sound effects do not stop anymore after 3 or 4 games (finally !)
• Added some game messages at the bottom of the screen (now you know when an mp3 track is starting to play, if it didn’t find it, if there was an error decoding it, and so on…)
• In previous version, if an mp3 had some id3 tags it couldn’t be played in neocdpsp. This is fixed now, sorry for those who encountered this problem.
• Now you can also place your mp3s in PSP/MUSIC. Example :
  say you have a game in a directory mslug. The you can put its mp3s as previously in mslug/neocd.mp3/ but now you can also put them in /PSP/MUSIC/mslug/ if you prefer. After all these are mp3s, so you should be able to play them from the psp interface if you want to ! The directory in music where you put the mp3 must be named exactly like the directory of the game for neocdpsp.
• The mp3 decoder is a little more resistant to crashes, that is if you have an mp3 file at 0 or 1 byte after you have filled your memory card, it won’t crash anymore. I don’t say it will not every crash again though, there are probably files which can make it crash !
• Fixed sound and music in top players golf
• Fixed Art of Fighting 3 freezing at start of gameplay
• The loading of zipped games is even faster than in 0.6.2 !
• The ingame sound effects of samurai spirits rpg work now, the game is still very long to load, but it was already long on the original hardware and is now limited by the access speed of the memory card.
• Now the memory card is writen only when you quit the game, not everytime the game tries to write to it.
• Added “Select lock” option to the gui. When enabled the controls become:
  Select + LTrigger instead of LTrigger for the gui
  Select + RTrigger instead of RTrigger for snapshots
  and Select + Cross instead of Select alone (pause in most games).
  This for those who press the triggers by accident !

Download: [NeoCD PSP v0.7.1]

Zelurker has been busy! He has released v0.7 and v0.7.1 of NeoCD PSP, the Neo CD emulator for the PSP. The v0.7.1 release was just a small bug fix to the v0.7 version that caused several games to crash. Due to prompt error reporting, this issue was identified and resolved in a matter of hours. The big list of changes came with the v0.7 release, and there were a LOT of changes. Check them out:

Less bugs, better sound quality, a few little additions, and a loooong list of changes :

• Fixed crash in breakers : this is once again related to the upload area, so I can just hope it won’t break other games
• Try harder to recognise game files from ipl.txt : some originals have weird filenames in the ipl.txt (a double dragon version is in this case). Now if I can’t find the file type in the extension, I look for it in the whole filename, which seems to work for this double dragon version, at least.
• Fixed sound effects : they are now much clearer, and in real stereo. The difference is especially noticeable in bust a move.
• Fixed a last possible corruption of the memcard.bin file if quiting with the home key. Now it should be safe to use the home key to quit at any time, and there should be no way left to corrupt any file (mp3 or other) If you use fw 2.0, be sure to use the Exit command from the gui though, or do otherwise at your own risk (I am not testing neocdpsp with fw 2.0)
• The sound effects do not stop anymore after 3 or 4 games (finally !)
• Added some game messages at the bottom of the screen (now you know when an mp3 track is starting to play, if it didn’t find it, if there was an error decoding it, and so on…)
• In previous version, if an mp3 had some id3 tags it couldn’t be played in neocdpsp. This is fixed now, sorry for those who encountered this problem.
• Now you can also place your mp3s in PSP/MUSIC. Example :
  say you have a game in a directory mslug. The you can put its mp3s as previously in mslug/neocd.mp3/ but now you can also put them in /PSP/MUSIC/mslug/ if you prefer. After all these are mp3s, so you should be able to play them from the psp interface if you want to ! The directory in music where you put the mp3 must be named exactly like the directory of the game for neocdpsp.
• The mp3 decoder is a little more resistant to crashes, that is if you have an mp3 file at 0 or 1 byte after you have filled your memory card, it won’t crash anymore. I don’t say it will not every crash again though, there are probably files which can make it crash !
• Fixed sound and music in top players golf
• Fixed Art of Fighting 3 freezing at start of gameplay
• The loading of zipped games is even faster than in 0.6.2 !
• The ingame sound effects of samurai spirits rpg work now, the game is still very long to load, but it was already long on the original hardware and is now limited by the access speed of the memory card.
• Now the memory card is writen only when you quit the game, not everytime the game tries to write to it.
• Added “Select lock” option to the gui. When enabled the controls become:
  Select + LTrigger instead of LTrigger for the gui
  Select + RTrigger instead of RTrigger for snapshots
  and Select + Cross instead of Select alone (pause in most games).
  This for those who press the triggers by accident !

Download: [NeoCD PSP v0.7.1]