2008/09/20 Finally… PSPKVM 0.4.2 is coming with Freetype font support
Looking back to the time of my beginning involvment into PSPKVM project, I was just a young man who full of passion; Now, 9 months later, I’m already a father who has a 2-month-old boy. Sometimes, when I play with my son or change his diaper, I would feel guilty for my another son: PSPKVM. Yes, I know he has been snubbed for a long time. I have to say thanks to all of you - faithful users of PSPKVM, your consistant support is the root of my motivity which kept me from giving up. Without your support, I might have abandoned this poor son on the street 
Well, don’t worry, PSPKVM is still living well finally, and now 0.4.2 is coming. The new version comes with Freetype2 support, which means that you can use your Freetype/Truetype font file in pspkvm, Polish/Spanish/Korean/whatever non-built-in character is now supported. Please see Running Tips of Release Notes for how to use Freetype font files. Here I attach the Release Notes and download links below:
pspkvm v0.4.2
20 Sep. 2008
Author: Sleepper, M@x
Email: pspkvm@gmail.com
Project website:
http://www.pspkvm.com
http://www.pspkvm.cn
Project home on SF:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/pspkvm
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Change log
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- FreeType2 fonts support. (Please see “Running tips: Use FreeType2 font files”)
- Bug fixes:
1) Mess display bug of NokiaUI for some games, e.g American Army.
2) Fix PlatformRequest() issue of not launching Installer for Jad/Jar files.
- Add missing character in Chinese Input Method. Now full GB2312 charset is supported.
- Optimize alpha-blending of drawRGB() with VFPU instructions.
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General information
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This software is a PSP porting of SUN open-source JavaME implementation: phoneMEFeature. The words below is copied from phoneME’s website to describe the project:
The objective of the phoneME project is to further expand the usage of Java? Platform, Micro Edition (Java ME platform) technology in the mobile handset market. The project scope includes a focus on the mainstream feature phone segment with phoneME Feature software, and the emerging advanced phone segment with phoneME Advanced software. Our goal in making these technologies available to the Mobile & Embedded Community is to reduce implementation variation, increase the rate of innovation and enable new devices to leverage the power of the Java ME platform.
You can also refer to the original website from here: https://phoneme.dev.java.net/
The goal of pspkvm is porting phoneMEFeature to Sony PSP game console. If you’re seeking for phoneMEAdvanced porting on PSP, please take a look at the other project here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/pspme
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Fetures
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- Nokia UI APIs (partial)
- WMA1.1(JSR120) stub
- Networking (By PSP’s WIFI)
- Java AMS with MVM supporting
- Several input methods: QWERTY/Abc/Symbol/…
- Directly browse and run from local jad/jar file, and auto-install without interrupting
- Jpeg support
- MIDI & Wave audio playback support
- Device emulation. You can choose device type to emulate for different screen sizes and key codes, either at installation time or from “Select device” menu
- Change default key assignment for specific application.
- JSR75(File Connection)
- Virtual Keyboard Input
- Chinese Input
- JSR179
- FreeType2 font support
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TODO
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- Graphic optimization (High)
- JSR184 (Low)
- MIPS JIT compiler and Interpreter generator (Low)
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Bugs and known issues
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Known issues:
- javacall_file_truncate doesn’t ported, so some file truncating operation, such as some RMS operations, may not work as expected
- Multimedia temporary files may leave on your memory stick sometimes, especially after VM crash. They’re usually not big, but if you wanna delete the by hands, just goto your PSP’s /PSP/GAME/pspkvm/ directory, find the file whose name likes xxxxxxxx_tmp_mus.mid, delete them.
- Fileconnection rmdir operation may fail for unknown reasons
- LocationProvider.getState() will always returns AVAILABLE once after GPS initialized, so LocationListener.providerStateChanged() doesn’t work as expected.
- gmail 1.5.0 cannot login. Always get “Username and password do not match. You provided ()”
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Run from binary bundle
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1. Download correct binary bundle:
- If you have a 1.50 kernel PSP and have installed pspkvm 0.3.2:
Download pspkvm-bin-x.x.x-150-upgrade.zip
- If you want to run pspkvm on 3.xx OE and have installed pspkvm 0.3.2:
Download pspkvm-bin-x.x.x-OE-upgrade.zip
- If you have a 1.50 kernel PSP and haven’t installed pspkvm 0.3.2:
Download pspkvm-bin-x.x.x-150-allinone.zip
- If you want to run pspkvm on 3.xx OE and haven’t installed pspkvm 0.3.2:
Download pspkvm-bin-x.x.x-OE-allinone.zip
2. Extract the zip to PSP’s /PSP/GAME/ or /PSP/GAME150
3. Here we go!
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Building instructions
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For the ones who are interested in our source code:
0. You have to prepare the building enviroment for phoneME at first. Please refer the document from here: https://phoneme.dev.java.net/content/mr2/buildenv_feature.html#win_setup
Now assume you have installed the building environment by following the above instruction. In Cygwin:
1. Grab the source code from svn to a local directory
2. cd ${your_source_dir}
3. export JDK_DIR=${your_jdk_dir} (example: export JDK_DIR=c:/j2sdk1.4.2_16)
4. ./build-psp-cldc.sh
5. cd psp
Now you should see the success message of phoneME libs building.
6. Make the executable:
- If build on 1.50 kernel:
make kxploit
You should get pspkvm and pspkvm% directories in this directory, just copy them to your PSP’s /PSP/GAME or /PSP/GAME150 directory.
- If build on 3.xx OE:
make BUILD_SLIM=true
You should get EBOOT.PBP in this directory, copy it to your PSP’s /PSP/GAME/pspkvm directory
7. Copy “lib” and “appdb” directory from ${your_source_dir}/midp/build/javacall_psp/output/ into PSP’s /PSP/GAME/pspkvm
8. unzip midi_res.zip to PSP’s /PSP/GAME/pspkvm (If you need MIDI support)
Requirement:
SDL_mixer
libvorbis
libogg
freetype2
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Running tips
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- Run MIDlet from memory stick:
1) Select “Find Application” item in AMS (the item on the top)
2) Select “Install from memory stick (ms0:/)”
3) Browse the file system of your memory stick now, and select jad or jar to run
4) After selected, the jad/jar will be automatically installed and run. You can choose the installed application from AMS next time you want to run.
- Input text:
You can’t use Qwerty input method on PSP since it’s lack of standard keyboard, but there’s still other input methods available. In any text input sence, you can popup the menu by Right Soft-button, and change to another input method. I’d suggest to use “abc” to input alphabetics, just like you’ve done on your phone, input english characters by 0~9,#,* keypad.
- Key map:
By default, the key assignment is blow:
NUM0: Cross
NUM1: Square
NUM2: UP
NUM3: Triangle
NUM4: LEFT
NUM5: Shift+Circle
NUM6: RIGHT
NUM7: Shift+Square
NUM8: DOWN
NUM9: Shift+Triangle
*: Shift+SELECT
#: Shift+START
CLEAR: Shift+Cross
SELECT: Circle
Left Soft: SELECT
Right Soft: START
UP/DOWN/LEFT/RIGHT: Analog joy stick
(* “Shift” = holding Left Trigger or Right Trigger)
Left Trigger + Right Trigger + Triangle: Multi-tasking key (Click to return AMS and put MIDlet to background)
Left Trigger + Right Trigger + Cross: Exit current running MIDlet
- Multi tasking
In and application, press Left Trigger+Right Trigger+Triangle will put current running MIDlet to background, and AMS screen will be shown. The background running MIDlet is shown in high-lighted, and you can choose another MIDlet to run without stop the previous MIDlet. To bring a background running MIDlet to foreground, just click the MIDlet item from AMS is ok.
Note that currently we only enable run 2 MIDlet to run at same time, will allow more in future.
- Connect to network
Before a Java MIDlet wants to use network, you need to connect your PSP to network at first. To setup this connection, please select “Network Setup” in AMS(the 2nd item in AMS MIDlets list), then all the wifi connections you’ve setup in PSP will be listed. Select one and until an alert popup to tell you if it’s succeeded. Once it says “Successfully connected by profile xxx”, that means your network is setup, and back to AMS and run you MIDlet which uses network.
*Tips for 3.xx OE users: you don’t have to setup network in “Network Setup” menu. When the first your MIDlet want to access wifi network, a PSP network setup dialog will popup and prompt you connecting. And also, you can press “L+R+Square” at any time to call up network setup dialog.
- Select device to emulate
When user select a jad/jar file from memory stick to run, a “Device Select” menu will appear. Choose you preffered device size and model here, and press CIRCLE key to decide. If want to change the preffered device setting, go back to AMS and move the highlight onto the MIDlet whose setting you want to change, then select “Select Device” from menu.
- Change default key assignment for specified game
Default key assignment may not fit your game, you can go to AMS and move the highlight onto the MIDlet whose key assignment you want to change, then select “Select Device” from menu. Change the key setting as what you want. REMEBER:”Shift” means Left Trigger or Right Tirgger.
- Change defualt JSR75 Fileconnection root directories mapping in pspkvm.ini.
The default root directories mapping is as following:
/root -> ms0:/pspkvm/
/music -> ms0:/PSP/MUSIC/
/photo -> ms0:/PSP/PHOTO/
/video -> ms0:/PSP/VIDEO/
/recordings -> ms0:/pspkvm/
/tones -> ms0:/pspkvm/
/graphics -> ms0:/pspkvm/
/private -> ms0:/pspkvm_pri/
However, you can change the default mapping in pspkvm.ini. Please open pspkvm.ini in PSPKVM’s install directory, change the values in [jsr75] section. If the value is left blank, default value is applied.
- Virtual Keyboard and Chinese Input tips:
“#” (SHIFT+START by default) -> Open/Close Chinese Input
“*” (SHIFT+SELECT by default) -> Switch input methods
4/6 (LEFT/RIGHT by default) -> Select candidate chinese chars / Move cursor
2/8 (UP/DOWN by default) -> Prev/Next page of candidate chinese chars
5 (SHIFT+CIRCLE by default) -> Confirm selected chinese char
CLEAR (SHIFT+CROSS by default) -> Backspace
- Use FreeType2 font files
You can have 3 type of fonts: System, Proportional and Monospace. Copy your .ttf files into ms0:/PSP/GAME/PSPKVM and rename them as below:
System font: sys.ttf
Proportional font: pro.ttf
Monospace font: mono.ttf
If pro.ttf or mono.ttf is not found, sys.ttf will be used automatically; If no any of three font files are found, internal built-in font will be used.