Replace Sony's MBR app with OSDMenu MBR:
- Remove BBN Launcher (BBNL); OSDMenu MBR handles launching games and apps directly
- Improve boot speed
- Launch games up to 6 seconds faster
- Improve Game ID handling for Retro GEM and MemCard Pro 2/SD2PSX
- Remove "Launch Disc" app; disc launching now handled by OSDMenu MBR
- Remove PlayStation 2 Basic Boot Loader (PS2BBL); OSDMenu MBR now natively launches ELFs by holding a gamepad button at startup
Patch HDD-OSD via HOSDMenu and add improvements:
- Support drives larger than 1 TB
- Allow launching homebrew directly from the OSDSYS menu
- See repository for full details: https://github.com/pcm720/OSDMenu
PSBBN installer:
- Show release notes when installing/updating
- Install HOSDMenu alongside PSBBN
- Lower minimum drive size from 200 GB to 32 GB
- Increase max APA partition to 112 GB
- Assign any post-partition unallocated space to the OPL partition
- Advise users to check archive.org or use a VPN if downloads fail
New HOSDMenu installer:
- Add option to install HOSDMenu-only for third-party HDD adapter users
- Allow creating a custom-size POPS partition and assign remaining space to OPL (up to 2 TB)
Game Installer:
- Require PSBBN Definitive Patch v4.0.0 and above or HOSDMenu-only
- Support HOSDMenu-only setups
- Update OSDMenu MBR and HOSDMenu when newer versions are available
- Update Navigator Menu with shortcuts to selected game launcher, HOSDMenu and wLaunchELF
- Update HOSDMenu config to show installed homebrew apps in OSDSYS menu
- Convert PS1 BIN/CUE files to VCD and PS2 BIN/CUE file to ISO
- Copy only valid game and homebrew files when syncing/adding
- Make rsync ignore Windows `:Zone.Identifier` metadata files to prevent sync failures
- Use PFS Fuse and rsync to install PS1 games
- Capitalize lowercase .VCD extensions to ensure compatibility with POPStarter
- Relocate `OPNPS2LD.ELF` and `nhddl.elf` to `__system/launcher` and `POPSTARTER.ELF` to `__common/POPS` from exFAT
list-builder.py
- Update to scan PFS __.POPS for .VCD files instead of local POPS folder
PS2 Linux Installer:
- Update OSDMenu MBR config so Linux can be booted by holding CIRCLE at power-on instead of interrupting PSBBN startup
NHDDL
- Update to version 1.2.0
Setup.sh and flake.nix
- Add bchunk to dependences
PSBBN Launcher for Windows:
- Reduce minimum disk capacity from 200 GB to 32 GB
- Improve user prompts
General:
- Add support for ARM64 systems
- Replace BOOT.ELF with the SAS-compliant wLaunchELF_ISR version 4.43x_isr-bb13043
- Remove PS1VModeNeg.elf
- Change locale from en_US.UTF-8 to C.UTF-8 to avoid missing-locale failures and ensure script output and logs remain in English and prevent related failures
- Improved mounting and unmouting APA partitions
- Fix bugs
- Add software licences
- Support multi-disc albums using disc number metadata
- Replace unsupported characters with safe alternatives
- Prefer Album Artist metadata for albums; use Artist for tracks
- Group and improve feedback for skipped files
- NEW! Central menu system; auto-setup if dependencies missing
- NEW! Music Installer supports .mp3, .m4a, .flac, and .ogg
- NEW! PSBBN Installer now uses ext2 (replacing ReiserFS), tar archives, and allows custom partition size for Contents; max Music/Contents/POPS partitions increased to 111 GB
- NEW! PSBBN Updater: update to latest patch directly from menu
- Game Installer: HDTV fix for PS1, improved Game ID extraction for VCD/ZSO files
- Extras: optional PS2 Linux install with custom home size; swap Cross/Circle button functions
- HDD-OSD (Browser 2.0): new PSBBN icon by Yornn; improved game icon background color
