Check PSP Firmware updates with your pc

Urb85 · Post by **Urb85** » Sun Mar 06, 2005 2:06 am

Hello Folks
I've just created a little utility program which allows you to check if there is any Firmware update available online! I know you can do it with your PSP but it saves the hassle to switch your PSP just for that, and you can do it just with a simple click! :-)

Let me know what do you think and if it works...

NOTE: The program require the .NET Framework to be run, and WinRar to be exctracted.

That's all for now!
Have fun

Urb85

Download it from here

senas8 · Post by **senas8** » Sun Mar 06, 2005 5:10 am

Nice.

MarfPSP · Post by **MarfPSP** » Sun Mar 06, 2005 8:07 am

Works well. Nice program, thank you :o)

Just one thing, it would be good if the "No updates found" would clear if you changed region.

Urb85 · Post by **Urb85** » Sun Mar 06, 2005 9:59 am

Thanks senas8 & MarfPSP, thanks for the compliments, I wanted just to say that the program is in very early stages, I written it this afternoon before I went to work, so it will still be plenty of bugs! Unfortunately that bug that you are saying is quite annoing, because to make it change for the others regions you have to shut it down and open it again! But obvously that will no happen if a new version will be available, even if you change from JP to US and to EU!

I will work on it a bit more in depth later today, because I will be free!
A new website about this little Utility and some more to come will be online next week!
Contact me if you wish!

Anyway thanks again to senas8 and MarfPSP to have tested it first!

segobi · Post by **segobi** » Sun Mar 06, 2005 6:14 pm

u need 2 hours to simply write an application thats checks a webpage ?

Urb85 · Post by **Urb85** » Sun Mar 06, 2005 9:54 pm

no well I don't but there are several properties in the .Net framework that can be used as you know (I hope !_! ), and the version I've got on my pc is slightly different from the online one because it will compress the Update into a rar and download to the client pc, ready to be extracted!

Took me quiet a while to find some info about the open-rar archive on the .Net!

Anyway this is not the correct time and the place to criticise people or programs, I just asked if it was ok and that I will modify it as soon as I can, don't want to be arrogant, but if you are fastest and more efficient, well why didn't you try to do it before??

segobi · Post by **segobi** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 4:49 pm

sorry. i was just fascinated ;) ok. was there any timeframe mentioned when the updates should be released ? Somewhat before the us launch ?

Urb85 · Post by **Urb85** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 8:53 pm

It's ok segobi, anyway sorry no idea about timeframe, because nothing is official yet!
Will probably be the Japanese market to get it first but really no clue about it, as anybody else have... :)

I was trying to port that little utility in c++ so I can share the source over different systems, but I will try to do my best because I am still learning that great language!

Thanks for testing it!

Yoorah · Post by **Yoorah** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 1:44 pm

Sorry for going off-topic, but isn't C# portable? Nice program, by the way.

Urb85 · Post by **Urb85** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 8:09 pm

Thanks Yoorah for testing it, anyway yes you are right, c# is becoming multiplatform thanks to the "Mono" project, which allows you to use it under Linux.
Could be a nice thing but because Mono is not installed in every linux distro, and not so fast and popular as C++ yet, wel we'll have to see! :-)

Thanks again Yoorah for using it;
Before the weekend I will have a newer version, and hopefully a new web-site relying on the hombrew side of the PSP.

See you in this great Forum, as usual!
:-)

mc · Post by mc » Wed Mar 09, 2005 7:14 am

Urb85 wrote:Thanks Yoorah for testing it, anyway yes you are right, c# is becoming multiplatform thanks to the "Mono" project, which allows you to use it under Linux.

Your program doesn't run under Mono though, as it uses the System.Windows classes, which of course are Windows specific. If you want to make a portable GUI program with .NET, take a look at GTK#.

Urb85 · Post by **Urb85** » Wed Mar 09, 2005 8:46 am

Thanks a lot mc, will have a look at GTK#
Never used mono yet! But will give it a try!

More news later! :-)

Ihsan · Post by **Ihsan** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 12:23 am

This does more or less the same in a linux environment;

#!/bin/bash
echo 'Connecting to update page...'
wget -q http://fj01.psp.update.playstation.org/ ... telist.txt
echo 'Updates available;'
cat psp-updatelist.txt | grep Dest | awk -F\; '{print $2}'
rm psp-updatelist.txt

Pikoro · Post by **Pikoro** » Wed Mar 23, 2005 10:18 am

I Moved mine to http://forums.ps2dev.org/viewtopic.php?t=1193

pdc · Post by **pdc** » Wed Mar 23, 2005 10:22 am

Pikoro wrote:I wrote something similar to this for my own use only in Perl.

Check all 3 regions and provides download links to the latest firmware. If anyone wants, I'll turn it into a website that you can check periodically.

Cheers
Pikoro
http://www.psphacks.net/

Yes indeedy.
I expect it will get plenty of hits too!

I can't check for updates with my PSP (no wireless LAN) so when I find out there is an update, I will have to walk down the street to no. 35 and sit outside their house updating ^_^

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Check PSP Firmware updates with your pc

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