If you have not heard of sMAN already. its a new plugin from legendary developer deank. sMAN combines webMAN (vanilla) and recently developed sLaunch feature (that was a separate plugin complementing webMAN). So what is the difference between webMAN & sMAN, sMAN provides a UI experiance for changing games on the XMB, as seen in the ScreenShot provided directly from the XMB you will be greeted with this new way to mount a game. Prefer the original way? Then deank still has you covered with his original webMAN plugin as well. This update provides a new "Setup" option in the side menu and also completely does away with the "My Games" entry on the XMB and to launch the sMAN (slaunch feature) simple hold the START button on your dualshock controller to launch this new UI from the XMB. See full details in deank's release quote
Update: Deank also released a quick update to version 1.02 offering a few improvements/fixes outlined. Update 2: deank is on fire releasing another update to sMAN with the release of v1.05, note this version changes the START button to L1/R1 to launch the sluanch feature on the XMB, see all changes in the changelogs provided.
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sMAN (webMAN + sLaunch)
sMAN 1.01 (2/192017)
- Added "Setup" option in side-menu
- Removed xml generation - no need for custom category_game.xml anymore
- Removed xai_plugin/idle_plugin usage
- Added x2 upscale for small images/covers (w/h < 336)
- Added indication of current group mode (PS3 1 / xxx) under title name/path
- Removed "My Games" entry from XMB -
hold [START] to launch sMAN(Note: changed to R2/L2 in v1.05 see below)
- Changed netiso/rawseciso implementation (external) - use plugin slot #0
- Fixed crash when trying to load another PS1 title after one is played
- Use [L2+R2] to start sMAN
- The sprx is bigger (but actually uses less memory) because it contains some glued resources
- It will use standard PS1/PS2/PSP/PS3/Blu-ray/DVD icons when there is no proper cover/image available
- This version of the plugin must be named sman.sprx and loaded from (in this exact order):
- /dev_hdd0/sman.sprx or
- /dev_hdd0/plugins/sman.sprx or
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/dev_flash/vsh/module/sman.sprx
- otherwise it won't work. The first match of these three will be loaded.
sMAN resource files are located in /dev_hdd0/tmp/wmtmp/res folder. There are six icons, background and ntfs/net external plugins. You can play with them until the next reboot when they will be restored to defaults.NB: Renaming it to webftp_server.sprx and other stupid things are not supported.
Thanks to @bguerville for his help about loading xmb plugins: http://www.psx-place.com/......
Dean
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