If you’ve ever been curious as to what’s happening behind the scenes when downloading games from the PSN Store, check out RainMotorsports’ PSPi for Windows.

Connect your hand held via USB and ensure a memory stick is inserted; PSPi executes the same commands the PSN downloader would, as well returning the query results so you can see exactly what’s what.

New Features:

• Manual SCSI Command Entry
• Output now SCSI Buffer max of 65536 Bytes
• Removable Drive Detection (I have yet to implement actual psp detection in this app)
• Hex editor style plain text output
• ANSI or Unicode Text Output Display
• Ability to use SHIFTJIS_CHARSET
• New Warnings (Format and manual commands)

Things to Know:

• Commands are in HEX
• Information type SCSI Queries will fail if the output isn’t set high enough
• Command type SCSI Queries may fail if byte length is greater than 0
• PSP Commands appear to be 10 Byte and Byte 2 is usually 00
• Byte 1 is the Query/Command while following bytes are parameters

Download: PSPi v0.5

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Don’t let the title fool you — PSPi works under just about any version of Windows — it’s not NT only. So with that said, get your hex hack attack on with RainMotorsports’ PSPi.

Quoting Rain –

It’s a little rough around the edges but it’ll do for now. I didn’t have the time to implement removable drive or PSP detection for this version so you have to type the drive letter, and I recommend using a capital letter.

Available functions include: Standard SCSI Query, Format Memory Stick (Device Level), Retrieve Unknown Data, Retrieve USB String, Retrieve Firmware Version, Retrieve Nickname.

NOTE: Submitting a Query for Format Memory Stick will format your memory stick.
NOTE: Firmware Version and Nickname can only be pulled on Firmwares 2.00 and newer.

If bytes to pull is less than what’s put out the command fails, the app is currently only setup to handle 128 bytes as none more is needed but I will allow more in the future. The app will select the known length when you change queries.

Download: PSPi v0.1

Credits: PSPi is based on code originally written in C for Linux by Jim Paris, which was then ported to Pascal/Windows by TheivingSix, which was then updated and modified by RainMotorsports.

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