A must-have update from Bubbletune — Game Categories v11… Plenty of optimizations and additions are packed into this one, for instance: a new network update feature allowing you to update Game Categories automatically, you can now show/hide uncategorized homebrew from system settings instead of the text file, and of course the odd bug fix here and there.

Note: the above video does not showcase the new features in v10/v11.

Game Categories Revised v11:

• Fixed a bug introduced in v10 that caused a lot of homebrew to malfunction.

Game Categories Revised v10:

• Added option under ‘Network Update’ to update Game Categories.
• Hiding Uncategorized now works for Content Browser mode as well.
• Fixed incompatibility with various plugins with Content Browser mode.
• Photo Player loaded if you listened to Music before going to Content Browser, fixed.
• Added option to System Settings to show/hide uncategorized (text file no longer works).
• Built-in Game Categories of GEN will be automatically disabled now.
• Optimized to reduce plugin size.

Download: Game Categories Revised v11

- source: bubbletune

Take a break from that Kit Kat bar and upgrade to Game Categories v9. It adds this new categorization mode called “Content Browser” that is no doubt, in my opinion, the best mode. It’s so seamless, so fine — Bubbletune’s Game Categories v9.

Download: Game Categories Revised v9

- source: bubbletune

Game Categories Revised v8 —

It’s the same must-have plugin you know and love, only this time, Context Menu Mode has been improved and now displays more than just 4 items. As well, v8 adds the ability to hide the uncategorized category should your homebrew be, well, uncategorized… And if it is, I gotta ask: Hello McFly!? Anybody home? Why are you using this plugin in the first place? That’s a rhetorical question, so whatever the circumstance, enjoy Bubbletune’s Game Categories v8.

Uncategorized ‘brew can be hidden by creating an empty file called “gc_hide_uncategorized.txt” in ms0:/seplugins.

Game Categories v8 Changes:

• UTF-8 support was not correctly implemented for language files, fixed.
• Improved Context Menu Mode, now shows a larger number of items instead of only four.
• Added ability to completely hide uncategorized even if there are files floating around (see readme for instructions).
• Tried to fix a rather strange crash that occured in all sorts of instances.

Download: Game Categories Revised v8

- source: bubbletune

Game Categories v7 Update:

• Should have finally isolated and fixed the crash that occured on some PSP’s when pressing triangle on an icon, sorry for the many updates.

Game Categories v6 Update:

• Did attempt to fix a few crashes, although I am unable to reproduce the bug on my own PSP.
• Changed name of config file to avoid issues with the new format (old config will be removed).

Awww yeeeah! It’s Bubbletune back again with the #1 PSP plugin — Game Categories Revised v5. I’ll let the video do the talking… For real, check this out –

You can’t tell me you don’t want it… So fresh and so clean with its seamless XMB integration… Nice work Bubbletune.

Game Categories v5 Changes:

• Fixed some firmware incompatibilities and related issues.
• A large number of internal changes aiming at memory conservation.
• If you change language in vsh the corresponding game_categories_xx.txt is now immediatly loaded.
• Themes which use space padding to position text should now be handled correctly.
• Introduced general support for UTF-8, including language files.
• Normal menu on Triangle for Game didn’t work in Context Mode, fixed.
• English and Japanese language codes were swapped internally, fixed.
• Plugin was causing an odd crash in Internet Search, fixed.

Download: Game Categories Revised v7

- source: bubbletune

Do you have a mess of homebrew loaded on your memory stick? Apps, games, emulators, PSOne EBOOTs, whatever… Make things easier for yourself with Bubbletune’s Game Categories plugin. It’s so slick, check how GameCategories integrates with the XMB –

GameCategories V4 changes:

• Recoded entire project.
• Added support for 5.50 GEN.
• Added new mode, “Context menu”, see below for more information (this replaces pre-game-menu mode).
• Added new option under System Settings to pick your mode instead of the ctrl combo.
• Added possibility to translate the plugin to your own language.
• Order of your categories is now calculated from their modification time instead of randomly.
• Changed remap code, a lot of character and count limits should now be gone or decreased, including SCE limits.
• Show All option was removed in order to aid the removal of certain limits.
• Fixed compatibility with a lot plugins.

Download: GameCategories v4

- source: bubbletune

A quick update from developer Bubbletune for those who wish to enable the Slim background colours on their old-school Fat PSP.

Changes:

• Added support for 5.02, 5.03 and 5.50.
• Made code more dynamic, should no longer require an update each fw.

Instructions:

• Obtain 13-27.bmp and flash it to flash0:/vsh/resource. Use PSARDumper on the 5.01 EBOOT.
• Install slim_colors.prx like any other plugin.

Download:
Slim Colours Patch v2
PSARDumper
PSP FW 5.01 EBOOT

- source: bubbletune

Simplifying the whole theme creation process for firmware 5.00 is Bubbletune & Davee with two handy tools — VSH Module Descrambler (for Windows) and Scramble Patcher (for the PSP itself).

VSH Descrambler:

In 5.00 Sony took a different approach by no longer storing the floats in separate words, but instead loading them using opcodes. This has made it harder to impossible for theme developers to find these floats, so we’ve decided to develop a tool to take it apart, and put it back together.

In order to use this utility, you must descramble the PRX file, and a file containing only the floats in the PRX will be returned. Modify whatever you want there, and then use the application to rescramble it again. All should be pretty straightforward.

Get it? Got it? Good. Onto the next…

Scramble Patcher:

This plugin allows to patch modules on-the-fly with the scrambles in ms0:/scrambles/*. To use this is easy, all you have to do is get a scramble for the VSH Module Descrambler and put it in the ms0:/scrambles/ folder named the same as the module which it came from (vshmain scramble becomes vshmain.bin) with a .bin extension.

Using this allows quick turn around times for finding values in the scrambles. You can simply just modify it from the memory stick rather than descramble it from the prx, apply edit, rescramble and then flashing it.

So there you have it. Each download comes with its own readme for further clarification. Happy theming!

Download: 5.00 VSH Module Descrambler | Scramble Patcher

- source: mformature & mformature