Ability to add desired Clock speeds tag on PKG format games

[Wailky2008]

Hi Aldo, how is life going? Hope everything is well

So basically the idea here is to let the user apply the rsx clock tag to a PKG format game similarly like the "[RSXmhz-mhz]" prefix when renaming ISOs to apply that said speeds on launch

Now i know webmanMOD recognizes the tag when mounting the ISO, is there a similar way to do this for PKG (digital) format games? Im not sure where you would rename the file but maybe you know Aldo

[aldostools]

Hello @Wailky2008
Thank you for your comments and feedback. Everything's going well so far. I hope it's going well for you too.

PKG games launched directly from XMB are not handled by webMAN MOD. To be able to set the clock speed, they must be mounted through webMAN MOD through GAMEI or letting webMAN scan /dev_hdd0/game folder.

A limitation of PKG games is that the folder name cannot be renamed. Therefore I added the option to read the tag from a oc.txt that must be copied in the folder. e.g. /dev_hdd0/game/NPUB12345/oc.txt and the content of the text file should be something like [RSX650-850].

Here is a package that you can install to test the new feature.
webMAN_MOD_test_OC_in_PKG_games.zip

Note: oc.txt only works for games in folder format stored in USB FAT32 or in the internal HDD.

[Wailky2008]

hey aldo, wow this works too!
i will try this as soon as possible and let you know the results
thank you!!

[Wailky2008]

hi, i downloaded the test pkg but i dont know where the option is to let webmanmod also scan pkg games? what is it called and is it found in setup? i went through all but i couldnt find it 😿

[aldostools]

There are 2 options in /setup.ps3 > Scan Content:

/dev_hdd0/game - Scans the PKG games installed in HDD or redirected to /dev_usb000/GAMEI using SELECT+SQUARE
GAMEI - Scan the PKG games extracted to /dev_usb000/GAMEI or /net0/GAMEI without enabling the external game data redirection

app_home is required for both options

[Wailky2008]

Hi Aldo,
It kind of worked, the clock speed would change and it showed up at the fps counter but for some reason the game refuses to boot properly. i tried 2 different games and with one (life is strange) there was a black screen but it let me access the in game xmb, but quitting it would trigger the triple beep panic sequence. in the 2nd game (grand theft auto 4) it would also just show a black screen and no input would get detected following with the same triple beeps when force shutting it down

Now i know why there is a "playstation 3" folder in the game column, as i always asked myself why it would just give me an error code if i tried to launch that haha

[aldostools]

Unfortunately not all PSN games are compatible with the /app_home launch method. You could try other games and check if oc.txt works.

Maybe the best solution should be to implement something similar to oc.txt but handled by Cobra.

You could ask to Evilnat if he's interested to add the per-game overclocking feature, since currently Cobra main development is handled on his repository.