If you’re sporting one of these bad boys — the NEO PSP Motion Kit Adapter to the left, then you best be downloading Raphaels’ MotionDriver v1.0 (for users) and the SDK (for developers).

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Welcome again one of my personal favourites — Raphael’s JoySens. Yesterday Raphael released [two] new versions correcting several bugs you likely encountered in JoySens 1.41.

If you’re the Johnny-come-lately type, you should know JoySens enables refined control over the PSP analog nub. Adjust sensitivity, remap D-Pad <-> Analog, fine-tune movement smoothness, and much more… Ensure you familiarize yourself with everything JoySens has to offer via the readme.

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Raphael’s JoySens — the one and only plugin for increasing/adjusting the usability of the PSP analog nub — in more ways than one…

• It changes the axial mapping to a cubic (or other selected) form so that small movements don’t get recognized too early. This means that you can move cursors more exactly and don’t have it jumping around on the screen. Also, this greatly reduces and fixes the ‘ghosting’ of a faulty analog stick
• It applies a sensitivity scale to linearly change the responsiveness (and maximal amplitude for values < 100%) of the stick. With this you can 'slow down' the analog stick.
• It filters movement of the analog stick so that abrupt changes are further smoothed (adjustable).
• It is possible to calibrate the analog stick so it centers properly
• It is possible to rescale the analog stick so it returns correct ranged values (when analog doesn’t work in one or two directions any more)
• It allows to remap the DPad or round buttons to the analog, so you can play games that require analog input with a broken stick
• It allows to remap the analog to DPad or round buttons, so you can for example control the XMB with the analog
• It allows to swap analog and DPad or round buttons, so you can easily change control of your games from analog to DPad (or round buttons) while still having DPad (round buttons) input

JoySens 1.41 changes:

• fixed crash when saving settings from game
• fixed JoySens not starting in homebrew
• made JoySens not boot in recovery
• Added support for configs for different modes (VSH/POPS) and game/eboot paths
• Added analog<->Buttons mapping modes
• Fixed primary button mapping
• Fixed HOLD button preventing analog input
• Fixed to keep PSP from suspending/shutting down LCD if analog was pressed
• Fixed font output shadow making it better readable on light background
• Improved auto-center function a bit
• checked compatibility with CFW up to 4.01-M33-2
• Made installation easier

Download: JoySens v1.41

- source: fx-world.org

You read this a couple days ago, now see this… An improved version of JoySens from developer Raphael. Uneducated users will be delighted to know JoySens allows sensitivity control over the PSP’s analog stick.

Here’s what Raphael had to say concerning version 1.3…

This release adds a DPad/Analog swap function on popular request as well as provides a fix for analog sticks that completely deny to respond in one or two directions, which is caused by the stick returning too small values even when pulled to the extremes. You now also can change the configuration for the primary plugin button, which was hardcoded to the NOTE button till now. The download also includes a 3.71 compatible (and only!) version of the plugin, so make sure you use the correct one. For 3.71 with 1.5 kernel patch you need both versions actually to make the plugin work in 1.5 homebrew – see the readme for instructions.

Also, look over the new FAQ.txt, should you have any questions.

Download: JoySens 1.3

- source: raphael’s devblog

Raphael has provided a 3.71 M33 compatible version of JoySens. Due to the nature of its release, you may experience some unexpected behaviour. Raphael states this particular version hasn’t been well tested, so there is no guarantee that it will work 100%. Leave your reports below.

JoySens is a PRX plugin which allows refined control over the PSP analog stick’s sensitivity levels. It works in the following ways:

• Changes the axial mapping to a cubic (or other selected) form so that small movements don’t get recognized too early. This means that you can move cursors more exactly and don’t have it jumping around on the screen.
• Applies a sensitivity scale to linearly change the responsiveness (and maximal amplitude for values < 100%) of the stick. With this you can 'slow down' the analog stick.
• Filters movement of the analog stick so that abrupt changes are further smoothed (adjustable).
• It is possible to calibrate the analog stick so it centers properly
• Allows to remap the DPad to the analog, so you can play games that require analog input with a broken stick
• Allows to remap the analog to DPad, so you can for example control the XMB with the analog

Download: JoySens 1.2 for 3.71 M33

- source: raphael’s devblog

Update: JoySens seems to have elicited a nice response in the PSP community, and now Raphael has released a new version implementing the majority of v1.01 TODO items…

JoySens v1.11 changes:

• Added better calibration method (keeps the axis scale in range)
• Fixed automatic calibration function (gives pretty reliable results now) and moved vertical and horizontal calibration into one function
• Added a movement smooth factor (how much changes in the axes get scaled, the lower the smoother any movement gets recognized)
• Added an adjust parameter which controls the exponent of the adjustment function (default 3.0 meaning a cubic form)
• Added button mapping configuration
• Fixed a small error in the axis mapping, where values were mapped in range -127 to 128 where it should be -128 to 127
• Added setting save functionality
• Improved the readme with better instructions

JoySens is a custom firmware plugin developed by Raphael; it allows refinement over the PSP’s analog stick sensitivity levels. Tweak it just the way you like it, here’s how JoySens works…

This plugin changes the analog sticks sensitivity to more usability in the following ways:

• It changes the axial mapping to a cubic form so that small movements don’t get recognized too early. This means that you can move cursors more exactly and don’t have it jumping around on the screen.
• It applies a sensitivity scale to linearly change the responsiveness (and maximal amplitude for values < 100%) of the stick.
• It filters movement of the analog stick so that abrupt changes are further smoothed (though only slightly).
• It is possible to calibrate the analog stick (though still imperfect) so it centers properly

JoySens is compatible with Dark_AleX’s OE and Team M33’s custom firmwares. Should you find any incompatibles, Raphael can be spotted over at the source link. Nice work!

Download: JoySens 1.11

- source: raphael’s devblog