PSBBN Installer:
- Add an option to select a language when installing PSBBN
- Install Japanese online game channels when Japanese is selected
PSBBN Updater:
- Install updates for the PSBBN System Software and language pack
- Install updates for online channels when the language is set to Japanese
Optional Extras:
- Add an option to change the PSBBN language in the Optional Extras menu
Game Installer:
- Display Japanese-region game titles in Japanese and sort them in gojūon (五十音) order when Japanese is selected
- Install the POPS IGR message for the selected language
- Install PS1 game manuals for the selected language
TitlesDB_PS1.csv and TitlesDB_PS2.csv:
- Add Japanese titles for all Japanese-region games
list-builder.py:
- Update to handle Japanese game titles
General:
- Add libicu-dev and pkg-config to the dependencies
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
* prevent users from picking a WSL folder
* explicitly use wsl 2 when installing the PSBBN distro
* run wsl --install --no-distribution to ensure wsl2 is available
* enforce 19041 as a minimum build number to run wsl
* remove the usbstor logic entirely and intercept the WSL error specific to usb storage mounting failure
* modify disk number input to support numbers greater than 9
* check that apt properly installed git, else gracefully exit
* handle selecting a folder that belongs to the wsl filesystem
* Add Windows-based launcher script
* Clone the test branch when running the windows-launcher
* Add warning related to unix username rules
* Add logic to check and install the WSL feature
* Add version number of the script to the title
* Use a label for the wsl distro to distinguish it from a potential existing install
* fix installed distro not being detected properly under powershell 5.1
* force wsl to output utf8 and improve wsl mount/unmount output messages
* move mounting the disk after apt update and clone to help with the disk not appearing in lsblk
* fix wsl encoding for PS5.1 and ensure only one restart is needed upon installing all 3 features
* improve disk size format
* add parameter -log to copy the output of the console to ~\psbbn-windows-launcher.log
* relaunch the script as administrator automatically if needed
* implement a folderpicker for the main content folder and pass it to linux scripts
* improve disk picker to detect OPL volume and allow to refresh
* add comments and linebreak the longer code lines
* checkout branch even if the repo is already cloned to another one
* add fallback logic in case the remote branch was deleted
* change target branch to main, and add some comments
* fix variable scope of $diskList
* change string.Split call to work with powershell 5.1
* move and rename the windows scripts
* resize the console to 100x45 and save the selected path to path.cfg
* offline/online disk before mounting on wsl to avoid locking issues
* silence error when plugging a disk with no partition + add path.cfg to .gitignore
* use utf8-bom on the powershell script to enable proper display of utf8 characters
* update title acsii art
* offer to keep using the previously used games' path
* fix disk picking issue and add serial to the disk list
* open the explorer even when the same path is reused
* improve UI of the restart prompt
