v1.0.0

The first stable and feature-complete release of OSDMenu.

Changelog

• Improved modchip compatibility
• Menu patches are now mandatory
• Added support for custom menu separators
• Dropped support for UDPBD paths in OSDMenu
• Added support for visual game ID for applications
• Reduced the number of custom menu items to 200
• Introduced SYSTEM.CNF extensions for APA partitions
• Added support for loading discs and ELF files via Neutrino GSM
• Added support for running PS1 discs via the embedded PS1VModeNeg
• System software stability during use of some features has been improved
• OSDMenu: added support for embedding the OSDMENU.CNF at build time
• HOSDMenu: added support for hidden HDD partitions in HDD-OSD (PP.<>.HIDDEN)
• HOSDMenu: added fallback to usb:/RECOVERY.ELF when the HDD-OSD executable is missing
• HOSDMenu: the configuration directory has been changed to hdd0:__sysconf/osdmenu (lower-case)
• Added support for setting PlayStation Driver settings to values from OSDMenu config file on every boot
• Added visual game ID to the splash screen to trigger "OSDMenu" per-game settings on PixelFX RetroGEM
• OSDMenu MBR is now a fully-featured MBR with native support for PSBBN and the Definitive English Patch
• The MBR installer now also sets the MBR boot flag and copies the OSDMenu MBR configuration file if it doesn't exist

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Huge thanks to:

• @rickgaiser for Neutrino GSM
• @saildot4k for testing OSDMenu with various modchips
• @Konsolkongen for testing the embedded Neutrino GSM implementation
• @CosmicScale for extensive testing of both HOSDMenu and OSDMenu MBR

v1.0.0 Release Candidate 5

Changelog

• Improved gamepad handling in OSDMenu MBR
• Support for PATINFO paths in the launcher
• Code cleanup and bugfixes

v1.0.0 Release Candidate 4

Changelog

• Support for hidden HDD partitions in HDD-OSD (PP.<>.HIDDEN)
• Custom menu and browser launcher patches are now non-optional

v1.0.0 Release Candidate 3

Changelog

• New OSDMenu MBR
• The embedded loader is completely rewritten to properly support IOPRP and DEV9 handling, required for handling SYSTEM.CNF entries from the partition attribute area
• Support for booting custom payloads was dropped from HOSDMenu as it's no longer needed
• Visual game ID is shown on the splash screen to trigger "OSDMenu" per-game settings on PixelFX devices
• The patcher now passes through the arguments to OSDSYS/HDD-OSD
• "OSDMenu Patch" version menu string is changed to "OSDMenu"/"HOSDMenu" for consistency
• The HOSDMenu configuration directory is now osdmenu (lower-case)
• The internal OSDMenu argument was changed from fmcb to osdm
• The launcher now uses the PS2SDK xparam module
• Additional launcher bugfixes
• The MBR installer now also sets the MBR boot flag and copies the OSDMenu MBR configuration file if it doesn't exist
• Support for loading discs and ELF files via the Neutrino GSM (#4)
• Support for visual game ID for applications
• The automated CI build now contains all OSDMenu binaries, including ready-for-use KELF executables

v1.0.0 Release Candidate 2

Changelog

• Add support for running PS1 discs via PS1VModeNeg
• Add PSU package to the release archive
• Fix HOSDMenu and OSDMenu launcher not being able to mount password-protected partitions

v1.0.0 Release Candidate 1

Changelog

Common changes

• OSDMenu/HOSDMenu patcher and launcher now come as a single binary; the launcher is embedded into the osdmenu.elf/hosdmenu.elf
• Support for setting PlayStation Driver settings to values from OSDMenu config file on every boot

OSDMenu

• OSDMenu browser launch patch has been reimplemented to match the HOSDMenu behavior for consistency

HOSDMenu

• HOSDMenu can now launch a custom payload when the Cross button is held during boot
• Added fallback to usb:/RECOVERY.ELF when neither HDD OSD nor a custom payload is present

v0.3.0

Changelog

• Support for HDD OSD
• Launcher bug fixes

v0.2.2

Changelog

• Fix a launcher bug preventing certain homebrew from working when launched from the memory card browser
• Always clear the screen before launching ELFs
• Lower the number of custom items to 250 to avoid overlaps with OSDSYS memory regions

v0.2.1

Changelog

• Resolved stability issues with the browser launch patch

v0.2.0

Changelog

• OSDSYS version menu has been extended with additional information about the console
• Added support for SCPH-10000 and SCPH-15000 (protokernel) PS2s
• Added support for 480p (as line-doubled 240p) and 1080i video modes
• Added support for launching SAS-compatible applications directly from the memory card browser (might be a little buggy)
• Improved support for DEX consoles >=2.20.
• Added more PS1 titles with generic PSX.EXE executable to the title ID list
• Skip HDD patch is now always applied to avoid OSDSYS automatically booting HDD-OSD
• Config file has been renamed to OSDMENU.CNF
• Reduced the launcher size and added the ability to remove unwanted devices during compilation to reduce the size even further
• Launcher has been extended to support loading ELFs specified in SAS and custom config files (see README for details)