After quite a long time of absence I’m here to notify you all that I’m still around and have returned to some PSP coding. I was really amazed at how many people have visited and written on my blog since the last time I checked and it seems that especially my JoySens CFW plugin is still famous.
Since the last release a whole bunch of new custom firmwares have been released (namely 3.90-3.93 as well as 4.01) and I had a lot of questions to add support for those firmwares to JoySens and release version 1.4 which was in development before. Today I upgraded my 3.71 M33 PSP to 4.01 M33 and first my plugins wouldn’t work and just make the PSP freeze on startup. However I knew that they had to work, because it was already reported and since the CFWs since 3.80 all have a NID resolver the old plugins (ie the non-3.71 joysens.prx) should just work. After a format of my memstick not helping I just decided to try and format my flash1 and reset the PSP and voilá – all plugins started working perfectly again.
So if you have problems getting the plugins to run on your > 3.71 PSP, just try formating flash1 from the recovery menu and be sure you use the non-3.71 version of JoySens.
I also started putting a little work back into JoySens and finished the new config file system that was planned for 1.4. The next steps will include working this system into the plugin and enable different configurations for all execution modes (VSH/GAME/POPS) as well as for different EBOOTs/UMDs. After that I’ll add a few small updates that got onto my todo list, like fixing HOLD button actually preventing any input (don’t try having remapping enabled and putting the PSP for mp3 playback into your pocket) or improving the auto-center function a bit. I’ve also got a request for analog -> round buttons remapping which would be an option for a new feature.
Unfortunatley there’s also one unlucky happening: I’ve lost a part of my motion kit driver source – namely the config file loader. But that’s only half bad, because the config file system for JoySens 1.4 will make it easy to rewrite that part. I also already added a few small changes to the motion kit driver and will release a non-beta version soon, probably together with JoySens 1.4 or shortly before.
Apart from all that I’ve also thought about releasing some of my code to the public. Into my mind came Mudkip Adventures – the first and till now only game written with triEngine, which was released already half a year ago, so there’s nothing stopping me from releasing the game source (apart from the sloppy design, but it was a 72hour project anyway so there’s not much to expect 
). Next thing could be JoySens, seeing how the community seems so interested in it, so maybe there might be some people that can advance it even further.
My biggest and highest-priority project at the moment though is finishing up my supposed-to-be Rubik’s Cube Compo entry, which died due to a graphical glitch that frustrated me so much that I just had to take a timeout from PSP coding. Well I’m back to finish this one up and release a fabulous game to the community, but there’s still a lot to do before (mostly interface design and implementation).
So far – enjoy the summer and I’m waiting for your comments 