If you’re a PSP developer then BenHur has another one for you — libLZR — a library for decoding and encoding LZR streams. Say what, LZR streams?! Yeah you know it, LZR streams –

The library de- and encodes LZR streams (as used in the Sony PSP firmware).

Decompression results should be identical to Sonys internal decompression algorithm. Please report incompatible streams to benhur(at)alpenjodel(dot)de.

Compression currently does not actually compress the data, but only produces a valid LZR stream. Future versions of this library might implement real compression.

Really, if you need to ask, it’s not for you. Happy coding.

Download: libLZR 0.11

- source: psp-programming

What PSP homebrew developers should be using to render their fonts with style — BenHur’s intraFont version 0.30. If you’re not a developer, then don’t worry about it; skip to the next article.

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Chalk up one more for BenHur and his intraFont. It’s, “a bitmap font library for PSP using the PSP’s internal font (firmware pgf files).” So again, you gotta make your homebrew real, use intraFont.

intraFont v0.25 changes:

• added text scrolling in intraFontPrintColumn() (flags INTRAFONT_SCROLL_LEFT/RIGHT/SEESAW/THROUGH)

Download: intraFont v0.25

- source: BenHur

If you’re a developer utilizing BenHur’s PSP font library for your homebrew, then it’s come time to rebirth your brainchild with the latest version of intraFont. And if you’re not a developer, we’ll have something for you later.

intraFont 0.24 changes:

• added column printing with automatic linebreaks – no need to worry about overwriting parts of the screen or printing outside the screen anymore (use intraFontPrintColumn())
• added full justification (flush left&right) for column printing (flag INTRAFONT_ALIGN_FULL)
• various optimizations related to UCS2 conversion (thanks to StrmnNrmn)
• added functions to print/measure the first n chars of a string (intraFontPrintEx() and other …Ex() functions; thanks to StrmnNrmn)
• bug fixed where intraFontMeasureText() could return a wrong value because multi-byte strings (S-JIS and UTF-8) and codepages were not yet properly handled

Download: intraFont v0.24

- source: benhur