INTRODUCTION ------------ Hu-Go emulates the NEC PC Engine console on many system such as Linux and Windows. (see http://www.zeograd.com/ for details) PSP-HUGO is a port on PSP of latest HUGO version. Special thanks to my friend Nicolas C. for his support and kindness, without him i would have never found enough motivation to port Hu-Go to PSP. CONTROL ------------ - Virtual keyboard In the PC-Engine emulator window, there are three different mapping (standard, left trigger, and right Trigger mappings). You can toggle between while playing inside the emulator using the two PSP trigger keys. ------------------------------------- PSP PC-Engine (standard) Square Select Triangle Run Circle A Cross B Left Left Down Down Right Right Up Up Analog Joystick ------------------------------------- PSP PC-Engine (left trigger) Square FPS Triangle LOAD Snapshot Circle Swap digital / Analog Cross SAVE Snapshot Up Inc delta Y Down Dec delta Y Left Render mode Right Render mode ------------------------------------- PSP PC-Engine (right trigger) Square Select Triangle Run Circle A Cross Auto-fire Up Up Down Down Left Dec fire Right Inc fire Analog Joystick Press Start+L+R to exit and return to eloader. Press Select to enter in emulator main menu. Press Start open/close the On-Screen keyboard In the main menu RTrigger Reset the emulator Triangle Go Up directory Cross Valid Circle Valid Square Go Back to the emulator window The On-Screen Keyboard of "Danzel" and "Jeff Chen" Use Analog stick to choose one of the 9 squares, and use Triangle, Square, Cross and Circle to choose one of the 4 letters of the highlighted square. Use LTrigger and RTrigger to see other 9 squares figures. - IR keyboard You can also use IR keyboard. Edit the pspirkeyb.ini file to specify your IR keyboard model, and modify eventually layout keyboard files in the keymap directory. The following mapping is done : IR-keyboard PSP Cursor Digital Pad Tab Start Ctrl-W Start Escape Select Ctrl-Q Select Ctrl-E Triangle Ctrl-X Cross Ctrl-S Square Ctrl-F Circle Ctrl-Z L-trigger Ctrl-C R-trigger In the emulator window you can use the IR keyboard to enter letters, special characters and digits. LOADING ROM FILES (.PCE) ------------ If you want to load rom image in your emulator, you have to put your rom file (with .pce file extension) on your PSP memory stick in the 'roms' directory. Then, while inside emulator, just press SELECT to enter in the emulator main menu, choose "Load Rom", and then using the file selector choose one rom image file to load in your emulator. You can use the virtual keyboard in the file requester menu to choose the first letter of the game you search (it might be useful when you have tons of games in the same folder). Entering several time the same letter let you choose sequentially files beginning with the given letter. You can use the Run key of the virtual keyboard to launch the rom. LOADING ISO FILES (.ISO) ------------ If you want to load iso image in your emulator, you have to put your file (with .iso file extension) on your PSP memory stick in the 'cd-roms' directory. LOADING HCD FILES (.HCD) ------------ HCD format describes CD tacks for Hu-go. Here is an example of that file format: [main] first_track=1 last_track=22 minimum_bios=1 [track1] type=AUDIO filename=Track01.mp3 begin=lsn,0 [track2] type=CODE filename=Track02.iso begin=lsn,3890 .... See Hu-go web site for more details. If you want to load a hcd file with all track datas in your emulator, you have to put your file (with .hcd file extension) on your PSP memory stick in a sub-folder of the 'cd-roms' directory. For example for Dracula X i have the following folders : cd-roms `-- dracx |-- Track01.mp3 |-- Track02.iso |-- ... |-- Track22.iso `-- dracx.hcd An example for dracx.hcd file is present in doc folder. Audio tracks are supported only in MP3 format with stereo 16 bits samples at 22k or 44k rate. LOADING TOC FILES (.TOC) ----------------------- TOC format describes CD tacks. Here is an example of that file format: Track 01 Audio 00:02:00 LBA=000000 Track 02 Data 00:49:65 LBA=003590 Track 03 Audio 01:27:23 LBA=006398 ... If you want to load a TOC file with all track datas in your emulator, you have to put your file (with .toc file extension) on your PSP memory stick in a sub-folder of the 'cd-roms' directory. For example for R-Type i have the following folders : cd-roms `-- r-type |-- 01.mp3 |-- 02.iso |--... |-- 46.iso `-- rtype.toc An example for rtype.toc file is present in doc folder. Audio tracks are supported only in MP3 format with stereo 16 bits samples at 22k or 44k rate. HOW TO CREATE TOC FILE FROM CUE/BIN ----------------- You can use TurboRipV100 to create CD rom files compatible with PSP-Hugo. Mount your CUE/BIN file using virtual CD tool such as Daemon tools, then run TurboRipV100 with the following arguments : TurboRip.exe /PCEP /RS=22050 After selecting your virtual CD-ROM id, TurboRip will ripp all audio and data tracks in a folder and it will generate a toc file compatible with PSP-Hugo. Copy the generated folder in the psphugo/cd-roms folder on your psp. Using the CD-Rom menu of the emulator you will then be able to enjoy your game. CHEAT CODE (.CHT) ---------- You can use cheat codes with PSP-Hugo. You can add your own cheat codes in the cheat.txt file and then import them in the cheat menu. All cheat codes you have specified for a game can be save in a CHT file in 'cht' folder. Those cheat codes would then be automatically loaded when you start the game. The CHT file format is the following : # # Enable, Address, Value, Comment # 1,36f,3,Cheat comment Using the Cheat menu you can search for modified bytes in RAM between current time and the last time you saved the RAM. It might be very usefull to find "poke" address by yourself, monitoring for example life numbers. To find a new "poke address" you can proceed as follow : Let's say you're playing PC kid and you want to find the memory address where "number lives" is stored. . Start a new game in PC kid . Enter in the cheat menu. . Choose Save Ram to save initial state of the memory. . Specify the number of lives you want to find in "Scan Old Value" field. (for PC kid the initial lives number is 2) . Go back to the game and loose a life. . Enter in the cheat menu. . Specify the number of lives you want to find in "Scan New Value" field. (for PC kid the lives number is now 1) . In Add Cheat you have now one matching Address (for PC kid it's 0DAF) . Specify the Poke value you want (for example 3) and add a new cheat with this address / value. The cheat is now activated in the cheat list and you can save it using the "Save cheat" menu. Let's enjoy PC kid with infinite life !! COMMENTS ------------ You can write your own comments for games using the "Comment" menu. The first line of your comments would then be displayed in the file requester menu while selecting the given file name (roms, keyboard, settings). SETTINGS ------------ You can modify several settings value in the settings menu of this emulator. The following parameters are available : Sound enable : enable or disable the sound Sound volume boost : factor to apply to the volume, useful to increase the sound volume on given game. Sound frequency : sound quality, it could be 22k/44k mono/stereo CD audio track : enable CD audio track support Active Joystick : Joystick player, it could be 1 or 2 Speed limiter : limit the speed to a given fps value Skip frame : to skip frame and increase emulator speed Overclock : useful to increase significantly emulator speed but you may encounter graphical glitches Display fps : display real time fps value Render mode : many render modes are available with different geometry that should covered all games requirements Delta Y : move the center of the screen vertically Vsync : wait for vertical signal between each frame displayed Swap Analog/Cursor : swap key mapping between PSP analog pad and PSP digital pad Auto fire period : auto fire period Auto fire mode : auto fire mode active or not Clock frequency : PSP clock frequency CD Clock frequency : PSP clock frequency used when a MP3/CD audio track is played PERFORMANCES ------------ By default the PSP clock frequency is set to 266Mhz and it should be enough for most of all games. If you run CD-rom games with audio tracks, PSP-Hugo will automatically increase the clock frequency while playing MP3 tracks to 300 Mhz. (You may modify this parameter in the settings menu). Some games such as PC-kid are fullspeed at 222Mhz with overclock parameter set to 32 and using 22Khz mono sound. If you want to save your battery and play longuer it might be a good choice. CD-Rom games are faster if you disable "CD audio track" support, so if you encounter speed issue it might be a solution. If you encounter graphical glitches then you may set Overclock value to 0 and increase the PSP clock frequency for a better emulation experience. Enjoy, Zx