moonshell

First step: check your PSP3000 firmware version

5.03HEN can be launch on official 5.03 system only. If you have either a PSP3000 or a PSP2000 which version can not be hacked/cracked, please check your firmware version first.

If your PSP firmware version is below 5.03, please update your PSP to official firmware 5.03.

(The sample in pic is a 4.21 version PSP3000, so it must be updated to 5.03 version)

(The update is going smoothly to 5.03 official version)

　 Then please set your PSP theme to default one, following the step below: “settings – Theme Settings – Theme – Original”.

Second step: downloading and launching 5.03HEN

1. Click here to download 5.03HEN R2 files.

2. Unzip the downloaded file and copy h.bin to root directory of your memory stick. Open folder SLIM, copy folder ChickHEN into folder Picture in your memory stick.

3. Turn your PSP power on and select photo option, then open CheckHEN folder, holding down direction buttion, until the bottom picture to be the selected one.

(This step a little luck is needed)

4. If you are lucky enough, PSP will be black screen and reset, then the system version will be “5.03ChickHEN R2″. If it fails, the system will be halted, then please format the memory stick . When PSP becomes default statue again, repeat 2-3 until success.

(If success the system version will be 5.03 ChickHEN R2)

After above process, you could launch homebrews, emulators on your PSP, but iso, cso games still can not be launched, and XMB, plugin is also not allowed.

Third step: downloading and launching CFWEnabler

Through above steps, this is the last and the most important step, when everything is done, iso and cso is able to be launched on your PSP.

1. Click here to download CFWEnabler.rar (348.68 KB)

2. Copy CFWEnabler into PSP/game folder, and launch it in game download option.

(Launching CFWEnabler)

(While launching CFWEnabler, follow the explanation is OK)

(After all done, push select button to open the XMB interface,
and shift to Sony NP9660 in UMD ISO MODE option)

Congratulations! Now you should enjoy iso and cso games.

Previously, it has been told that iPlayer team was developping external subtitle function. Now, their progress is revealed, that subtitles setting has been added into video playing setting, besides, font colour and subtitles time offset operation of external subtitle has completed. But there are still some multinational language code problem what needs to be solved, further more, subtitles background colour function is considered to be added, so that it could avoid colour superimposition problems, if the subtitles colour is similar with the video colour around. The expected external subtitle function is believed to be coming soon.

Recently, external subtitle function is whether limited by video formats or not, what was asked on some forum. Of course not, the external subtitle function is separated from video playing, and complete independence, so whatever the video format is, you could use external subtitle function freely.

For further informations, please visit iPlayer official website: http://www.dsiplayer.com

The iPlayer team have today announced that due to popular request they are currently developing a future firmware that will incorporate support for external subtitle files such as .SRT.

Not only will you be able to customise the font size, colour and more, they assure us that the font used is designed specifically for the DS screen to make for pixel-perfect reading.

iPlayer official site: http://dsiplayer.com/

A Chinese guy’s iPlayer review, seems a lot of people already got it in China.
OK, let’s look at it.
The outer pack
Looks simple enough, and beautiful ,truely.

Attachments:

TF reader：

handbook

CD

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review details
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iPlayer video playing

video parameter

the top is the name
format: realvideo VBR
file size: 787MB
playtime: 02:09:57
resolution: 768 X 416

the photoes looks no good, actual effect is better than the photoes you are looking.

My opinion on iPlayer：

smoothly or not：

The handbook recommend 640×480 videos, and I do not have much too videos on my computer, so I tried a 760×416 resolution video, which plays perfect. When I move the slider to fast forward the video, in surprise there is no delay.

clear or not:

Because of DS screen resolution limitation, the playing effect is very similar with DPG, not bad. But the subtitle is the problem, when you watch a video on your PC, the subtitle is clear, but the same video on DS, it is hard to see, I am expecting the external subtitle.

Flv format videos from tudou.com ：

the top is the name
format: flash video
file size: 2152KB
playtime: 00:01:01
resolution: 352×264

FLV is a popular format, easy to download from video service website such as youtube.com and tudou.com. most of FLV video’s resolution is suit with DS screen.

MPEG-4 plays no good

the top is the name
format: mpeg-4
file size: 561MB
playtime: 01:32:34
resolution: 480×272

I chose a mp4 original for PSP, and found that mp4 plays not well by iPlayer. Then I converted a 320×240 mp4 myself, this time is plays well enough. I consider it is not a resolution problem, but the format, because of former tested rmvb format and others, which resolution is higher than 720×480, plays smoothly.

Big problem: the sound is out of step

Launch YSmenu

The official claims iPlayer supports all homebrews, so I have Ysmenu in mind and copy it, but it still can not run any games. However, I think it is possible to run a game in future.

Launch moonshell

Moonshell launchs and plays DPG without problem by iPlayer

the effect of playing music：

I chose itouch, PSP, and iplayer for comparison, and earphone is from itouch set.

The result is below(my own opinion)：

sound quality：touch> psp , psp=iPlayer
format supporting：iPlayer>psp , PSP>touch

For a better experience, you’d better use a earphone, the speaker of DS litsens like no better than a normal radio, and the volume is too low.

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Conclusion
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advantages：

1.Play rmvb、avi、rm、flv directly no converting,
2.compatible all homebrews, including moonshell, neoDS.

problems：

1.Because of the resolution limitation, the subtitle looks no clear, expecting external subtitle
2.MP4 playing performance is not good.
3.Because of the onboard chips, the cart will get heat after a while.

Just a quick news piece to let you all know that the iPlayer, the new slot-1 media player that handles various video formats directly will be hitting retail stores on July 1st 2009.

Also, the team have released a new loader that adds the video bookmark feature and have also eliminated the syncing issues when seeking within videos.

For purchasing convenience, there is the dealer list through the link below:

http://www.dsiplayer.com/topic/worldwide-release.html

iPlayer English official site: http://dsiplayer.com/

iPlayer Chinese official site: http://cn.dsiplayer.com/

Recently, I sent dozens of applications to iPlay official for the product, finally I am lucky enough to get one iPlayer for testing. Formerly, official claimed iPlayer supports various video formats, and among these formats AVI consideriing as the stunt because of its popularity. But actually I prefer FLV. Why FLV? As we all know the flle size of FLV is small, so I think the loading speed definitely is the best advantage. Besides, Let us look more details about it.

Quoted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLV : Flash Video is a file format used to deliver video over the Internet using Adobe Flash Player (initially produced by Macromedia) versions 6–10. Flash Video content may also be embedded within SWF files.

Flash Video is viewable on most operating systems, via the widely available Adobe Flash Player and web browser plugin, or one of several third-party programs such as MPlayer, VLC media player, or any player which uses DirectShow filters (such as ALLPlayer, Media Player Classic, Windows Media Player, and Windows Media Center) when the ffdshow filter is installed.

OK, now I wander the effects of FLV playing by iPlayer. Look at the informations of some FLV videos I have prepared in advance below:

First video:
Complete name atongmu.flv (the original name is expressed by Chinese character, it is from a Japanese anime named astroboy)
Format : Flash Video
File size: 1.74 MiB
PlayTime : 48s 333ms
Bit rat : 303 Kbps
Tagged_Application : Tudou.Com
Codec: Sorenson H263
Width: 352 pixels
Height: 264 pixels
Aspect ratio: 4/3
Frame rate: 15.021 fps

Actual effect:

（photoes）
Sorry about my camera, so the photoes itself looks no good, in
fact the actual effect is better than the photoes you are looking.

　　 Second video:
Complete name :last friends.flv(also have Chinese characters)
Format : Flash Video
File size : 1.65 MiB
PlayTime : 45s 133ms
Bit rate : 306 Kbps
Tagged_Application : iku
Codec : Sorenson H263
Width : 320 pixels
Height : 214 pixels
Aspect ratio : 1.495
Frame rate : 15.022 fps

Actual effect

Because of protection film, the screen looks a lot of
rippleon it ,but the subtitles looks very clear.

　　
This video is not large. The resolution is 320 X 214, code rate is 306kbps, playing smoothly. From the first picture we could see the subtitles clearly, so I draw the conclusion that the standard resolution videos from common video service site(youtube and so on), is no problems with its subtitles.

Next a DS game trailer from game site GT, my favorite Dragon Quest 9. The resolution is perfect for DS screen.

Third video
Complete name :t_dragonq9_ovw_jp_v2.flv
Format : Flash Video
File size : 58.7 MiB
PlayTime : 7mn 14s
Bit rate : 1135 Kbps
Codec : On2 VP6
Width : 480 pixels
Height : 360 pixels
Aspect ratio : 4/3
Frame rate : 29.970 fps

Actual effect

Play smootly, but if move the scroll bar, there is pause happened.

Besides the three videos, there are more testing below:

Name
size Frame rate
Bit
resolution result
knights 19.6M 29.970fps 1148kbps 480 X 360 little frames dropped
Project Origin trailer
14.3M 29.970fps 1149kbps 640 X 360 frames dropped
seriously
mengshoumeinv 1.35M 14.896fps 297kbps 246 X 320 smoothly

Rexuegaoxiao
1.17M 15.030fps 292Kbps 243 X 320 smoothly

The Fast and the Furious
3.87M 15.008fps 254kbps 320 X 136 smoothly

xiaohaizibuben
5.67M 15.003fps 250kbps 320 X 240 smoothly

Final Fantasy VII Advent Children trailer
12.3M 15.001fps 247Kbps 320 X 262 smoothly

Crayon Shin Chan
1.05M 15.023 fps 293kbps 320 X 240 smoothly

2009 new Japan anime trailer collection
53.8M 11.585fps 299kbps 320 X 240 little frames dropped
DRINK IT DOWN 8.41M 15.004fps 258Kbps 320 X 240 smoothly

NARUTO 334 trailer
1.40M 14.966fps 290kbps 320 X 182 smoothly

Ice Age trailer
2.10M 15.016fps 285kbps 352 X 264 smoothly

The test results show us that most of FLV videos play well, except the first two video, knights and Project Origin trailer, which bit rate is too high, so frame dropped is not surprise. And the frame of 2009 new Japan anime trailer collection itself is low, so play effect by iPlay is the same.

Conclusions: FLV with 15fps/250-310Kbps is able to be played soomtly, subtitle also looks clearly, and it is the standard of Common video service site uploaded video. There are many advantages with FLV, including source is very abundance and popularity, file size is small, downloading convenience and so on.

iPlayer English official site: http://dsiplayer.com/

iPlayer Chinese official site: http://cn.dsiplayer.com/

Through hardworking development of multi-media playing aimed iPlay, finally it is going to be out. According to the information from tgbus.com, iPlayer will be released on July 1st, in the meantime, iPlayer Chinese official site will be online (the official site in English is already online as http://dsiplayer.com/). When the time comes, for purchasing iPlayer more convenience, the worldwide franchiser list will be revealed on the official site.

iPlayer English official site: http://dsiplayer.com
iPlayer Chinese official site: http://cn.dsiplayer.com

Prologue: DS does not lack for multimedia functionality by homebrews, Even though Nintendo itself does not give DS much too such functions. Now we already realized listening music, reading e-book, playing video on DS. And among these functions, listening music, reading e-book is considering as perfect, supporting all the popular formats. You only need to copy the files into your TF, then you can enjoy it. But the video playing function is still not very convenience. To watch video, We need the homebrew Moonshell, which supports DPG format only, so that we have to convert the videos to DPG format befor playing. Fortunately, iPlayer will be the ultimate solution for playing main format videos on DS.

【The packing】

The packing with pure white ground colour and pink design on it, which is the theme colour of DSi defined by Nintendo.

The blue in right bottom does not look very well

the back of packing

The mark “i” is the same to DSi

everything looks similar to common flash carts.

packing with a CD contains system files, and a multi language handbook.

【The presentation】

iPlayer looks no difference with common DS carts or any flash carts. I do not know why the back guard bar disappeared six. The screw is in flank place.

The sticker looks ugly, but who cares?

The TF slot is spring type, very well.

After removing the sticker, three chips appeared, what provide hardware decoding for videos.

Removing the sticker

Front side

Back side

【Interface】

We can see five icons on the bottom screen menu, easy to handle. In fact, every supported files could be launch in the Files option.

iPlayer is compatible with DS, DSL, and DSi.

The interface

When selecting the video and music, the top screen shows the play list. In the playing process, video is displayed on top screen, and bottom screen is control panel. When selecting operation menu, the playing process have to be stopped, but the system can record the place where stopped.

video player interface, and the audio player interface is the same

have to be stopped

The operation of video, includes three mode original, standard, and full screen.

default is original mode

The operation of audio player could be selected, no need to stop playing, Playing mode: Loop all, sequence play, random play, Loop single, single play.L/R button: could operate the function of music selecting on/off.

System Opreration menu includes Brightness Adjustment, Language, Skins,Backlit Time, Homebrew patch, and Restore defaults

System Opreration

System Opreration 2

【The quality of video and audio playing】

A KingSton2G TF is packed with iplayer(just for testing), which already contains a lot of supported videos. the list is below:

In fact, MP4 and MKV is also supported, but the performance is not good, there are slow down and crackles occured in the playing process, even if the code rate and resolution is not very high. So official video player banned these two format, but we can also play it in the Files option. There is no problem to play normal AVI and RMVB, but the subtitles.

352×288 resolution 3GP format, performance is perfect.

524×336 resolution rmvb format, subtitles is a big problem.

The official TF provide wav, mp3, ogg, ape, and wma five formats audio files, all supported perfectly, and beside the five kinds of formats, iPlayer also supports flac, aac, m4a formats and so on. There is no EQ like common MP3 player, but obviously is better than software decoding of Moonshell.

【Homebrew】

iPlayer is not like the other flash carts supported DS commercial roms, but all homebrews is allowed to be launch. We test Colours, NeoDS and so on homebrew softwares without problem. If enable the function of soft reset in system operation, we could use L+R+A+B+X+Y to restart. Interestingly, the official TF also contains Moonshell2 in it, but for now, maybe it is just used to browse pictures and read e-books.

Colors running is perfect

NeoGeo simulator

【Maximum endurance】

Official claims at 2 brightness level, with earphones and maximum volume, it could proceed to watch video for four hours. We tested with DSi maximum brightness, earphones and maximum volume, proceeded for three hours. We suppose if reduce the brightness, the maximum endurance will be the standard which official claimed.

【Overall】

iPlayer is worth enough to be considered is a milestone. No converting to play main popular video formats directly, So we can take the DS as a real media player. But we are expecting the solution of subtitles.

iPlayer official website：http://www.dsiplayer.com