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PS2 pops2apps 2022/04/19

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Okeanos

Okeanos

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Inspired from the work of HWNJ with his POPStarter Game Installer for OPL I've created a simple script for Linux and Windows.

This script generate POPStarter ELF boot files ready to use with Open PS2 Loader APPS menu.

Tested and working on ETH, USB and HDD mode.

I'm looking for feedback :)

2022-04-19

This script generate POPStarter ELF boot files ready to use with Open PS2 Loader APPS menu.

There are two versions: "pops2apps.sh" is for Linux and "pops2apps.cmd" is for Windows.

POPStarter
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https://bitbucket.org/ShaolinAssassin/popstarter-documentation-stuff/wiki/Home
First follow Shaolin Assassin wiki to setup your POPStarter installation.
I recommend to visit also the download section, there are useful tools.
Once tested and confirmed that your setup is working you can go forward.

Requirements
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A Windows or Linux computer.
POPStarter installed and working in your console. https://www.psx-place.com/threads/popstarter.19139/
Official Open PS2 Loader installed and working in your console. https://www.psx-place.com/threads/open-ps2-loader.13415/
POPSTARTER.ELF file in the script folder.
Image files of your games already converted in VCD format.
Filename preferably shorter than 31 characters and without spaces.
File extension .VCD must be upper case.

HOW TO
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- Place your VCD image files in the "pops2apps/VCD" folder.
- Start the script and follow instructions
on Linux open terminal emulator in the same folder as script and start it with command: sh pops2apps.sh
on Windows just double click on pops2apps.cmd
- Transfer the resulting folders inside "pops2apps/APPS" to your "OPL/APPS" device path.

Open PS2 Loader
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In OPL first you need to enable in Settings: Application Start Mode = AUTO
and of course you must enable the AUTO start of your device (BDM, HDD or ETH).

Long story short
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If you prefer you can do all this manually for every game like this example,
assuming your game image is Game.VCD, you have to rename and place POPSTARTER.ELF according to your setup:
- for HDD must be OPL/APPS/Game/Game.ELF
- for USB must be OPL/APPS/Game/XX.Game.ELF
- for ETH must be OPL/APPS/Game/SB.Game.ELF
and you need also a OPL/APPS/Game/title.cfg containing:
title=your game name
boot=your file name.ELF

Troubleshooting
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If a game doesn't start from OPL APPS try to start it from LaunchELF.

Changelog
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2022-01-02: initial release.
2022-01-03: corrected a typo in Windows script.
2022-01-29: added info about how to start the script.
2022-04-19: fixed wrong title.cfg output from Windows script.

Now scripts are packed in a more conform way to the system. Thanks to Berion suggestions.

Special Thanks
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krHACKen, ShaolinAssassin, HWNJ, Open PS2 Loader Team, PSX-Place community.
 
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If I could recommend more, split Windows and Linux releases into separate archives. If You will do that, You could pack "penguin script" into i.e *.tar.xz which handle file permissions like allow executing (because of TAR) and offer max compression (because of LZMA from XZ). Again, that's just only cosmetics. ^^
 
@Okeanos

Using the latest version as of this post on Windows 7 x64 and I get this. It is not adding the XX. part when choosing USB.
 

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@Okeanos

My apologies. I found the issue.

I had to fix the PATH in Windows 7 under variables.
It no longer gives the error.

Edit: Even the older version works. I think I tried it first after fixing the PATH issue.
 
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