After several weeks effort, finally, we make pspkvm 0.3.0 released before April 1. The new release is combined of two JavaME porting on PSP: pspkvm 0.1.0a and pspME 0.2.1, and come with some new features, e.g networking and user-defined key mapping. Since it's a big jump from previous pspkvm, the user experience is completely changed, I'd suggest to read the "Getting Started Guide" before you change to 0.3.0, you can find this pdf file on download page.
Plz don't surprise if you see some regression in the new release, e.g "Game ABC cannot run now but run well in previous version", or "Loading speed is slower than before". Feel free to report any of such bugs or regressions in the SF.net forum, on bbs of pspkvm, or directly email to us, we'll appreatiate your report to help us finding out all the regressions, which will be our target of the next release.

Enjoy!
M@x
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pspkvm v0.3.0
31 Mar. 2008
Author: Sleepper, M@x
Email: [email protected]
Project website:
http://www.pspkvm.com
http://www.pspkvm.cn
Project home on SF:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/pspkvm


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Change log
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- Merge the source codes from 2 original project: pspkvm 0.1.0a and pspME 0.2.1 . Please see Features below for details.

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General information
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This software is a PSP porting of SUN open-source JavaME implementation: phoneMEFeature. The words below is copied from phoneME's website to describe the project:

The objective of the phoneME project is to further expand the usage of Java? Platform, Micro Edition (Java ME platform) technology in the mobile handset market. The project scope includes a focus on the mainstream feature phone segment with phoneME Feature software, and the emerging advanced phone segment with phoneME Advanced software. Our goal in making these technologies available to the Mobile & Embedded Community is to reduce implementation variation, increase the rate of innovation and enable new devices to leverage the power of the Java ME platform.

You can also refer to the original website from here: https://phoneme.dev.java.net/

The goal of pspkvm is porting phoneMEFeature to Sony PSP game console. If you're seeking for phoneMEAdvanced porting on PSP, please take a look at the other project here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/pspme

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Fetures
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- Nokia UI APIs (partial)
- WMA1.1(JSR120) stub
- Networking (By PSP's WIFI)
- Java AMS with MVM supporting
- Several input methods: QWERTY/Abc/Symbol/...
- Directly browse and run from local jad/jar file, and auto-install without interrupting
- Jpeg support
- MIDI & Wave audio playback support
- Device emulation. You can choose device type to emulate for different screen sizes and key codes, either at installation time or from "Select device" menu
- Change default key assignment for specific application.

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TODO
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- Graphic optimization (High)
- Game loading time optimization (High)
- Resolve game compatibility regression (High)
- JSR179 implementation (Medium)
- JSR184 (Low)
- MIPS JIT compiler and Interpreter generator (Low)

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Bugs and known issues
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Known issues:
- javacall_file_truncate doesn't ported, so some file truncating operation, such as some RMS operations, may not work as expected
- Multimedia temporary files may leave on your memory stick sometimes, especially after VM crash. They're usually not big, but if you wanna delete the by hands, just goto your PSP's /PSP/GAME/pspkvm/ directory, find the file whose name likes xxxxxxxx_tmp_mus.mid, delete them.

Regrssions (comparing with pspkvm 0.1.0a):
- Game compatibility: Since we changed our code base to phoneME, some games MAY NOT run correctly on pspkvm 0.3.0, which ran well on pspkvm 0.1.0a. Although we tested many contents before this release, we still belive that there must be some app/games have regression. Any bug report of compatibility regressions is welcome, and important!
- CW90 is now supported now, but will come in near future.
- Some Chinese characters cannot be displayed correctly in file selection screen. But all kinds of memory sticks should work now.
- Loading speed: Actually it's a feature not regression :-p There's a speed/space trading inside of the new code. Some games decompress resources from jar when loading; To avoid too much memory consumption for large file decompressing, pspkvm 0.3.0 uses an fix-sized buffer to read and inflate files from jar, which slows down the speed of decompressing if the resource is larger than 32K. But pspkvm 0.1.0a always read-in completely regardless the resource size, and then decompress in memory, so some games loading speed is slower in pspkvm 0.3.0 than pspkvm 0.1.0a. But the good thing is it would never fail for lacking of memory when decompress large resources from jar.

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Run from binary bundle
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1. Download correct binary bundle:
- If you have a 1.50 kernel PSP:
Download pspkvm-bin-x.x.x-150.zip
- If you want to run pspkvm on 3.xx OE:
Download pspkvm-bin-x.x.x-slim.zip

based on r12452 (internal rev1926)

the NDS port now has a different toolbar, more suitable for the small screen

for better access with the touchscreen the toolbars have been moved to the bottom screen

a fully customizable on-screen keyboard has been added (click on a text field to open it)

a newsticker display on the lower screen has been added

some windows have been adapted for the NDS screen (more will follow in future releases):

intro menu

game creation menu

minimap

build vehicle window


when building depots and stations only one preview image is shown which you can rotate by clicking on it

information regarding accepted cargo when building a station is displayed as icons now

switching screens (left shoulder button L) now only switches the windows

many windows (e.g. confirmation dialogs) are now centered on the bottom screen

the amount of free ram (in kb) is displayed in the middle of the status bar. This is only a temporary change to help with tracking down a memory leak

additionally you can view some memory information by pressing the B button

always use new global pathfinder (NPF). the original TTD pathfinder crashes due to too many recursions

fixed loading screen glitch

Here's a very minor update...

All versions : smaller exe size, uses less ram, and runs smoother on high levels
Enhanced version : fixes in the funky shape menu

Also, not sure if it had made it in the previous version, should work well on VGA screens now...

Here's a new Alpha release !

Main additions : VGA support (crappy), Gravity control, and new graphics !

Complete changelog :
- Quick VGA support, nothing major, and non-optimal (just upscaling for now)
- New graphics by TWolf
- Cloning now also clones the static state
- Fixed bug when moving objects
- Action button now pauses simulation
- Added gravity control !!
- Added gravity to saves and undo/redo
- New exe icon
- More accurate saving/loading (experimental)
- Multiple pages on save/load
- Fixed save/load of more than 16 scenes

Notaz has brought a new version of gpSP the best Game Boy Advance emulator that there is no doubt for the GP2x.

Changes to the version gpSP 09-2xb_3:
Removed setting of RAM and overclocking.
Improved control system volume.
Removed options graphs unique to the PSP.
Help Text adjusted.
Now you can overclockear from the menu. By default runs 200MHz.
Corrected error centering first run.
The scaling 3:2 now functioning properly.
Recompilado options profiling gcc.