PS3 Game List v1.9.3

Download link: (download v1.9.3.1 instead)

Yet another revision bringing PS3 Game List to v1.9.3. This version implements an useful feature that was backlogged for a while due to its complexity: PKG file support (both release and debug).

This functionality allows users to manage their PSN games and homebrew apps, in addition to their standard game folders and games stored as ISO files, providing an all-in-one suite. Moreover, the app implements a decrypting method that allows the contents of the PKG files to be extracted quickly (just for comparison, it extracts PKGs twice as fast as Ifcaro’s PkgView; an excellent piece of software, btw). Further revisions will shorten the times even more.

Since Linux and Mac downloads are low (the Windows version seems to outpace the demand ten fold over), the platform specific versions will be put on hold for now (although it is very interesting to port the app to another OS, it is a whole lot of work to adjust, test and bug track). Perhaps if the demand is high, it will be resumed again.

As usual, feel free to suggest something new, and, if you happen to find any bugs, please report them as well.

PS3 Game List change-log and features:

v1.9.3

• PKG file support (both release and debug PKGs are supported, data stored as a PKG file will not be editable; an icon will overlay both avatar and background image in order to differentiate the entry from standard game folders, and the tooltip will display additional info about the file; note that PKG files, like ISO images, do not follow the ‘folder depth’ configuration, just have them stored at the root of a directory and they will be loaded as a regular game folder);
• Improved SFO parser;
• Fixed issue that prevented some ISO files from loading;
• Fixed minor tooltip issues.

v1.9.2

• ISO 9660 file system image support (currently read-only, data stored as an ISO image will not be editable; an icon will overlay both avatar and background image in order to differentiate the entry from standard game folders, and the tooltip will display additional info about the volume; note that ISO images do not follow the ‘folder depth’ configuration, just have them stored at the root of a directory and they will be loaded as a regular game folder);
• Linux version now allows game directory browsing;
• Fixed issue causing eventual background image distortion.

v1.9.1

• Hovering the mouse over a populated list displays tooltip containing the selected game info and background miniature (configuration via settings dialog);
• Additional tag _FIRMWARE_ for custom rename (e.g. “_TITLE_ – (_ID_)[_FIRMWARE_]” => “Gran Turismo 5 – (BCUS98114)[3.50]”, “[_FIRMWARE_][_ID_][_TITLE_]” => “[3.50][BCUS98114][Gran Turismo 5]”, etc.).

v1.9

• Allows users to hide the extra frames (avatar, video resolution and audio) in order to gain horizontal space and better display standard game info;
• Downloaded updates will be prefixed with targeted PS3 system version (e.g. 02.4000_UP9000-BCUS98103_00-UNCHARTEDDF1SCEA-A0110-V0101-PE.pkg);
• Additional language support: Spanish;
• Fixed issue while joinning files from multiple folders.

v1.8

• Splits files over 4GB using .666xx fragments for FAT32 compatibility (a file named “filename.ext” will be split as “filename.ext.66600”, “filename.ext.66601”, etc.);
• Joins file fragments back into the original file (joining will not be performed if the volume format is FAT32 ; configuration via settings dialog);
• Updates will be queued again after a hash test fail (requested feature);
• Fixed drive usage info for Japanese text;
• Fixed minor French translation issues.

v1.7

• Allows multiple simultaneous downloads (configuration via settings dialog);
• Supports download pausing/resuming;
• Displays download speed;
• Allows users to indicate whether a game loads from the external hard disk or not (double click on the correspondent cell to select the desired value, the info will be stored at ‘external.txt’ when the save action is performed; the file can be manually edited, the format is [GAME_ID] [CODE], where [CODE] can be 0 (Not Tested), 1 (Not Working) or 2 (Working); e.g. BCUS98114 0);
• Full Unicode support (UTF-8) (configuration via settings dialog; by enabling Unicode, the application will render non-Latin characters used in western languages, special symbols, etc.; text will be rendered using ISO-8859-1(Latin-1)/Windows-1252 otherwise);
• Displays check items (flags) as icons (configuration via settings dialog);
• Indicates whether a game update has been downloaded (partially or in full);
• Overwrite confirmation is no longer asked (the package SHA1sum is checked instead; if the hash test fails, the update will be added to the download queue);
• Additional language support: Japanese;
• Fixed _TITLE_/_ID_ order issue (custom rename);
• Fixed image loading issue after folder renaming;
• Fixed drive usage info;
• Updated German text (thanks to Whynot for the correct translation).

v1.6

• Loads info from multiple game folders (configuration via settings dialog);
• FTP renaming (via FTP context menu);
• Additional option to rename game folders to a user defined format using the tags _TITLE_ and _ID_ (e.g. “_TITLE_ (_ID_)” => “Gran Turismo 5 (BCUS98114)”, “[_ID_][_TITLE_]” => “[BCUS98114][Gran Turismo 5]”, “XYZ -_TITLE_” => “XYZ -Gran Turismo 5”, “[_[_ID_]_]” => “[_[BCUS98114]_]”, etc. ; notice that at least one of the tags must be present and the characters ‘\’, ‘/’, ‘:’, ‘*’, ‘?’, ‘”‘, ‘<‘, ‘>’ and ‘|’ cannot be used);
• Exports game list to Excel file format (requires Microsoft Excel installed);
• Imports game list from a previously saved Excel file [requires Microsoft Excel installed; games can be manually added (a game title and a valid ID must be filled), and the worksheet layout must be followed, otherwise the rows will be skipped];
• Additional option to display disk status;
• Displays number of games and total size permanently at the status bar.

v1.5

• Loads game info stored at the PS3 (via FTP context menu);
• Downloads updates of games stored at the PS3;
• Allows users to set a default download folder (via settings dialog);
• Game folder depth configuration (via settings dialog; e.g. “Z:\GAMEZ\Gran Turismo 5\BCUS98114\” instead of “Z:\GAMEZ\BCUS98114\”);
• Allows replacing of game avatar and background image with custom ones (backup option via settings dialog);
• Displays FAT32 compatibility (notice the “Bootable” column indicates whether a large file is split into smaller parts);
• Additional option to rename game folders multiMAN style;

v1.4

• Context menu support (right click on list items to activate);
• Initial FTP support (download/upload via context menu);
• Proxy support;
• Allows mass renaming of game folders (to match game id or game title);
• Choosing not to overwrite an existing update no longer aborts the download process (the next update in line gets selected);
• Fixed creation date sorting issue.

v1.3

• Allows further PARAM.SFO editing (video resolution and audio format);
• Remembers game folder location and language settings;
• Fixed crash while loading malformed PARAM.SFO.

v1.2

• Downloads all updates for a selected game instead of the latest one only;
• Fixed column order issue.

v1.1

• Allows PARAM.SFO editing (game title and firmware version);
• Allows directory renaming;
• Allows game directory browsing (through an external explorer.exe call);
• Lists available game updates (version and size);
• Downloads game updates;
• Fixed minor translation issues.

v1.0

• Makes use of multiple threads to load game info faster;
• Lists game title, id, firmware version, size, boot status, and creation date from any directory;
• Displays game’s avatar and background image;
• Allows game list to be exported to a text file;
• Multilanguage support: English, French, German, Italian and Portuguese.