PS3 PS3 Cover Tool v1.0 by Rudi Rastelli

You may recall a pack of Cover Tools that Rudi Rastelli released a couple of weeks ago here on the psx-place.com forums (link) since that release, the developer has been working on a completly re-worked version. This release comes with that familiar look/functionalityof other tools by Rudi Rastelli such as PS3 ISO Tools, PSN Liberator & PS3 Game Updater. Features found in this release include the ability to FTP covers to your PS3, Resize covers with ease, features added to find missing covers and [Break]ss[/Break]more as seen in the developer release details found below:

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Hi !

I've re-worked my old cover tool and it's totaly different and at least it's now what i want it to be.
I slightly renamed it to PS3 COVER TOOL. Take it as a restart and i want to start with v1.0 for it's 1st version.

Ok... here we go:

PS3 COVER TOOL V1.0
by Rudi Rastelli
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Credits:

• No0bZiLLa, aldostools

Features:

• Searches an existing cover collection for covers which suits exactly to your game collection
• If covers are missing program tries to find them online and add them to the cover collection
• You can select a prefered region for the online search
• Covers which suit to your game collection can be optionally be resized to the resolution needed for multiMAN/webMAN
• Covers which suit to your game collection can be transfer to PS3 (via FTP)
• Covers which suit to your game collection can be packed as a PKG and optionally transfered to PS3 (via FTP)

Getting started:

• 1a)Copy your cover collection (if u have one) to 'CoverArchive'-folder (in 'PS3 COVER TOOL' folder)

or

• 1b)Select your cover collection folder at 'CoverArchive'
• 2) Select your 'PS3ISO'-folder or your 'GAMES'-folder at 'Game Collection'
• 3) Select your prefered region(language) at 'Prefered Region'

Notes:

• If your 'Game Collection' is on PS3 i recommend using a little program called "NetDrive". It allows to map PS3 as a real netdrive. 'NetDrive' is a 30 days trial, but allows to use 1 connection if expired. And that's all you might need. You need some tips for configuration ? See below !
• If program finds a cover in 'Cover Archive' that matches the GameID nothing will be downloaded no matter which settings you've made. This means: You 1st have to delete a cover from 'Cover Archive' whenever you want another version.
• On 1st hand any covers in any resolution have to be in 'CoverArchive'
• Covers which suit to your game collection will be optionally resized and copied to 'MyGameCollectionCovers'-folder (in 'PS3 COVER TOOL' folder)
• When downloading high quality covers with the selected region will prefered
• Whenever a cover with the selected region isn't available then the english cover will be prefered
• In 'CoverArchive' this name scheme is used for downloaded covers: '[GameID]_[Region]_[Quality].jpg'
• Created PKG-file is named 'MyGameCollectionCovers.pkg'
• last but not least a request: If you own covers in your prefered language not being in the online database please upload them to 'www.gametdb.com' and help growing the database.To help you with that task you will find a note in log file for each cover that has downloaded but does not have your prefered region.

Tips:

• 'NetDrive' :
  • 1. Click 'Add Drive'
  • 2. Typ = FTP
  • 3. Name = MyPS3 (or whatever you like)
  • 4. URL = ftp://[IP of your PS3]
  • 5. User = anonymous
  • 6. Password = ps3
  • 7. Check 'Save Passwort'
  • 8. Click 'Save'
  • 9. Click 'Connect' next to the name you've choosen(see 3.)

• Distored resized covers:
  • While testing i had some rare covers which looks somehow distored.
  • To fix this go into 'Cover Archive' open these covers in eg in 'Paint' and then save them.
  • No re-run PS3 COVER TOOL and the resized covers should be ok now.

Download: PS3 COVER TOOL V1.0

Source: PSX-Place.com
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Thanks for sharing

 

Excellent tool, thanks. I can not get it to resize though. I have it checked and the default 260x300 set. It says its resizeing but the images in the CoverArchive stays the same size as when downloaded from GameTDB.

I ran it once empty and had it download them all, then ran it multiple times again without any changes to the images. I also tried running it as administrator..

Edit: I see that it put the resized files in another subfolder called MyGameCollectionCovers.

Cover Archive set: I:\Emulators\PS3\Misc Stuff\PS3 COVER TOOL V1.0\CoverArchive\
Downloads fine to there but resizes to I:\Emulators\PS3\Misc Stuff\PS3 COVER TOOL V1.0\MyGameCollectionCovers\

Edit2: Which I can see is described in the readme =) Sorry

- Covers which suit to your game collection will be optionally resized and copied to 'MyGameCollectionCovers'-folder (in 'PS3 COVER TOOL' folder)

 

[MENTION=12217]Turranius[/MENTION]

yes it keeps a database of the original covers in programs dir. would be nice to be able to set the converted output dir i suppose, but its not really needed.

this little tool is about to get a little "mo better" too

 

UPDATE - PS3 COVER TOOL V1.1

Changelog:
V1.1
- Rearranged GUI a bit
- Added game search at 'PS3 and connected devices' (without the help of 'NetDrive')
- Added option to copy/move covers installed on PS3 to 'Cover Archive'
- Added selection menu for prefered image quality for the downloaded covers
- Added PNG support
- Added 'Extra Menu'-function to list games installed on PS3
- Added 'Extra Menu'-function to list covers installed on PS3
- Added 'Extra Menu'-functions to select and clear 'Matching Covers Folder'
- Added make if Singstar-Cover-PKG
- Added FTP-transfer to different possible cover directorys on PS3
- Added drag&drop

Special thx to [MENTION=11]No0bZiLLa[/MENTION] who joined forces and helped with testing, suggestions, coding

Download PS3 COVER TOOL V1.1

Regards
Rudi

 

Offline.

Thanks.