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[Urb85]

Hi all, I am pretty new to this forum but have been following it quietly "behind the scenes".

Quite interested on the "reverse" side of the PSP (even if I don't own one yet), I tried to help this great community of PS2Dev and actually I found something interesting that maybe could help one or two in this Forum:

If we look at the savedata of for example "Ridge Racer", we are able to see that 4 files have been created:

[DATA.BIN] [ICON0.PNG] [ICON1.PMF] and [PARAM.SFO];

having a more in depth look at the file PARAM.SFO we are able to find some nice little information on how the PSP saved the data, and thanks to Gorim at this post http://forums.ps2dev.org/viewtopic.php?t=923&highlight=sfo we can see that he was able to parse that information and show in a more formal order...

Now what I tried is to go inside the PARAM.SFO file, copied all the information inside and pasted into a little nice program, called NJSTAR, which on my UK version of WinXp allows me to read Japanese chracters, so all the information found on that file, now is moslty demistified;

Looking at what is inside the Ridge Race PARAM.SFO file in the normal Notepad, all the information comes up like this:

[mc]

http://mc.pp.se/psp/psf.xhtml

The string you were looking at was the SAVEDATA_DETAIL, to be displayed in the savegame menu. All TXT type fields are UTF-8 encoded, so you need some UTF-8 capable text viewer to display them correctly, yes.

See also http://mc.pp.se/psp/mstree.xhtml
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[Urb85]

Thanks a lot for the nice link you gave me, but I found some other interesting news about the stuff inside the SAVE_DATA, I found that the .at3 file is:

a wav file.
With 2 Channels, 44 Khz sample rate, 128 Kbit/sec.
Media Type 0:
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AM_MEDIA_TYPE:
majortype: MEDIATYPE_Audio {73647561-0000-0010-8000-00AA00389B71}
subtype: Unknown GUID Name {E923AABF-CB58-4471-A119-FFFA01E4CE62}
formattype: FORMAT_WaveFormatEx {05589F81-C356-11CE-BF01-00AA0055595A}
bFixedSizeSamples: 1
bTemporalCompression: 0
lSampleSize: 744
cbFormat: 52

WAVEFORMATEX:
wFormatTag: 0xfffe
nChannels: 2
nSamplesPerSec: 44100
nAvgBytesPerSec: 16020
nBlockAlign: 744
wBitsPerSample: 0
cbSize: 34 (extra bytes)

And while I was looking at some of my SAVE_DATA, I found that the SaveData of the game "Mojipittan", hasn't got any .BIN file but instead the actual PARAM.SFO is looking for a file called "MOJIDAJ.Dat", that actually is a FLEXlm License File, that seems to be a license from "Macrovision" which according to their website "it helps software vendors reduce unlicensed use and capture all potential revenue from new and installed-base customers".

Interesting, isn't it?
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[pdc]

I believe the SND0.AT3 found on the memstick is an ATRAC3plus file.

Encoding an ATRAC3 file and calling it SND0.AT3 does the job too.
e.g. http://pdc.me.uk/psp/brit_at3/SND0.AT3 :)

Edit:

forgot to mention, ATRAC3 codec available here: http://www.minidisc.org/atrac3.zip

And despite having what is clearly a PSP-friendly ATRAC3 file, the music player still doesn't show it in the playlist...!

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[pdc]

[Yoorah]

[Michael1980]

SonicStage 3.0 is the latest version.
It allows encoding of both Atrac3Plus and Atrac3 files.
HiMD (minidisc) play both while NetMD (previous gen) play only Atrac3.
Atrac's come with a very tight DRM, like there is no dran and drop from explorer, you have to transfer them using SonicStage.

Edit: Am I right in thinking that just by encoding an Atrac file (om*) extension and then renaming to at3 extension and sticking it to the save game file, the music would NOT play? Because if it does, then that means there is no DRM present in this case, that would be pretty big news.

[pdc]