PKGi PSP

PKGi PSP is a PlayStation Portable port of pkgi-ps3.

This homebrew app allows to download and install .pkg files directly on your PSP.

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Features

• easy to use: list available downloads, including searching, filtering, and sorting.
• standalone: no PC required, everything happens directly on the PSP.
• automatic downloads: just choose an item, and it will be downloaded by the app to your Memory Stick (ms0:/PKG/).
• resumes interrupted downloads: you can stop a download at any time, switch applications, and come back to resume the download later.
• localization support: Finnish, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish

Notes:

• content activation: downloaded content requires a valid license to run. If your PSP hasn't been activated, you can use one of the following plugins:
  • npdrm_free plugin (PSP/PS1/PCEngine games and DLCs)
  • npdrm_free_mod plugin (PSP/PS1 games only)
  • nploader_mod (PSP DLCs only)

Download

Get the latest version here.

Changelog

See the latest changes here.

Setup instructions

You need to create a pkgi.txt file in ms0:/PSP/GAME/PKGI/ that contains the items available for installation. The text database format is user customizable. Check this section to learn how to define your own custom DB format.

Multiple databases

You can also load additional database files:

• pkgi_games.txt
• pkgi_dlcs.txt
• pkgi_themes.txt
• pkgi_psx.txt
• pkgi_demos.txt
• pkgi_updates.txt
• pkgi_emulators.txt
• pkgi_apps.txt

Items on each of these files will be auto-categorized to the file content type. Note: The app assumes that every database file has the same format, as defined in dbformat.txt.

Online DB update

You can refresh and sync an online database by adding the DB URL(s) to the config.txt file in ms0:/PSP/GAME/PKGI/.

For example:

url_games http://www.mysite.com/mylist.csv
url_demos http://www.demos.com/otherlist.csv
url_emulators http://www.example.com/emulators.csv

Using this setup,

• pkgi_games.txt will be updated with http://www.mysite.com/mylist.csv,
• pkgi_demos.txt with http://www.demos.com/otherlist.csv,
• and pkgi_emulators.txt with http://www.example.com/emulators.csv.

Next time you open the app, you'll have an additional menu option called Refresh. When you select it, the local databases will be syncronized with the defined URLs.

DB formats

The application needs a text database that contains the items available for installation, and it must follow the default format definition, or have a custom format definition file.

Default DB format

The default database file format uses a very simple CSV format where each line means one item in the list:

contentid,type,name,description,rap,url,size,checksum

where:

Column	Description
contentid	is the full content id of the item, for example: UP0000-NPXX99999_00-0000112223333000.
type	is a number for the item's content type. See the table below for details. (set it to 0 if unknown)
name	is a string for the item's name.
description	is a string for the item's description.
rap	the 16 hex bytes for a RAP file, if needed by the item (.rap files will be created on ms0:/PKG/RAP). Leave empty to skip the .rap file.
url	is the HTTP/HTTPS/FTP/FTPS URL where to download the .pkg file.
size	is the size in bytes of the .pkg file, or 0 if unknown.
checksum	is a SHA256 digest of the .pkg file (as 32 hex bytes) to make sure the file is not tampered with. Leave empty to skip the check.

Note: name and description cannot contain newlines or commas.

Sample DB file

An example pkgi.txt file following the contentid,type,name,description,rap,url,size,checksum format:

U00001-NP0APOLLO_00-0000000000000000,8,Apollo Save Tool v1.3.0,Save-game manager,,https://github.com/bucanero/apollo-psp/releases/download/v1.3.0/apollo-psp.zip,6885196,DFF88635A044F319686231ACABB548CC42EA1CF3A992856572C7AF20F70D30ED
U00001-CMFILEMGR_00-0000000000000000,8,CM File Manager v4.10,File manager,,https://github.com/joel16/CMFileManager-PSP/releases/download/v4.10/CMFileManager-PSP.zip,1815998,7A5FD10184546AB993A4D5F3054BCBA9E9B7A1C569EE26E366F1F5CC9DA5A554
UP0001-PSPTOOL10_00-0000000000000000,8,PSP Tool v1.00,PSP Tool,,https://archive.org/download/psp-tool.-7z/PSP%20Tool.zip,5023819,
UP0001-PSPFILER6_00-0000000000000000,8,PSP Filer v6.6,File manager,,https://wololo.net/download.php?f=filer6.6.zip,1295106,
UP0001-NZPORTABL_00-0000000000000000,1,Nazi Zombies: Portable,Nightly 64 Mb,,https://github.com/nzp-team/nzportable/releases/download/nightly/nzportable-psp-64mb.zip,36163686,
UP0001-IRISMAN00_00-VER4880000000000,8,IRISMAN 4.88.1,Backup Manager,,http://github.com/aldostools/IRISMAN/releases/download/4.88/IRISMAN_4.88.pkg,29411984,E6EF607F0002B31BFB148BE4FC9BDBACB4E53110751F0E667C701D40B5290570

Content types

Type value	Content type	DB File
0	Unknown
1	Game	pkgi_games.txt
2	DLC	pkgi_dlcs.txt
3	Theme	pkgi_themes.txt
4	PSX	pkgi_psx.txt
5	Demo	pkgi_demos.txt
6	Update	pkgi_updates.txt
7	Emulator	pkgi_emulators.txt
8	Application	pkgi_apps.txt

User-defined DB format

To use a custom database format, you need to create a dbformat.txt file, and save it on ms0:/PSP/GAME/PKGI/.

The dbformat.txt definition file is a 2-line text file:

• Line 1: the custom delimiter character (e.g.: ;, ,, |, etc.)
• Line 2: the column names for every column in the custom database, delimited by the proper delimiter defined in line 1

Note: For the columns to be properly recognized, use the column tag names defined in the table above.

All the columns are optional. Your database might have more (or less) columns, so any unrecognized column will be skipped.

Example

Example dbformat.txt, for a database using semi-colon (;) as separator:

;
name;TITLE ID;REGION;description;AUTHOR;TYPE;url;rap;size

Result: only the name,description,url,rap,size fields will be used.

Example

Example dbformat.txt, for a database using character pipe (|) as separator:

|
REGION|TITLE|name|url|rap|contentid|DATE|PKG FILENAME|size|checksum

Result: only the name,url,rap,contentid,size,checksum fields will be used.

Usage

Using the application is simple and straight-forward:

• Move UP/DOWN to select the item you want to download, and press .
• To see the item's details, press .
• To sort/filter/search press . It will open the context menu. Press again to confirm the new settings, or press to cancel any changes.
• Press left or right trigger buttons L1/R1 to move pages up or down.
• Press LEFT/RIGHT buttons to switch between categories.

Notes

• RAP data: if the item has .rap data, the file will be saved in the ms0:/PKG/RAP/ folder.

Q&A

1. Where to get a rap string?

   You can use a tool like RIF2RAP to generate a .rap from your existing .rif files. Then you can use a tool like hexdump to get the hex byte string.

2. Where to get .pkg links?

   You can use PSDLE to find .pkg URLs for the games you own. Then either use the original URL, or host the file on your own web server.

3. Where to remove interrupted/failed downloads to free up disk space?

   Check the ms0:/PKG/ folder - each download will be in a separate .pkg file by its content ID. Simply delete the file and start again.

4. Download speed is too slow!

   Optimization is still pending. (Optional) Set Power Save Settings -> WLAN Power save -> OFF , if you want to speed up the download process.

Credits

• Bucanero: Project developer

Acknowledgements

• mmozeiko: pkgi (PS Vita), pkg2zip
• qwikrazor87: Depackager

Building

You need to have installed:

• PSP SDK
• mbedTLS library
• cURL library
• Mini18n library
• dbglogger library (only required for debug logging)

Run cmake . && make to create a release build. If you want to create a .zip file, run make createzip.

Debugging

To enable debug logging, pass -DPKGI_ENABLE_DEBUG=ON argument to cmake. The application will write debug messages to

ms0:/pkgi-psp.log

You can also set the PSPIP environment variable to your PSP's IP address, and use make send to upload EBOOT.PBP directly to the ms0:/PSP/GAME/PKGI folder.

License

pkgi-psp is released under the MIT License.