Bleach: Heat the Soul 5 Trial - NPJG90020

[DragonNeos]

This trial game was tested with revision 5b6966e. Since this particular EBOOT.PBP is in the "MG" category and not "EG" category, JPCSP has trouble directly loading the file (since the KIRK key (0x60) for this PRX type is still unknown). When attempting to load this EBOOT.PBP file, the emulator will display "General error: File format not supported!". As stated in this Wololo.net post, there are a couple of steps that need to be taken before this trial game could run on emulators.

Procedure:
1) Extract the contents of the EBOOT.PBP with software such as PBP Unpacker 0.94
2) Use a real PSP to decrypt/decompress the DATA.PSP file with the homebrew application PRXdecrypter 2.7a
3) Assemble the EBOOT.PBP back together by using the new decrypted/decompressed DATA.PSP with PBP Unpacker 0.94

The new EBOOT.PBP plays fine on PPSSPP, but has a problem loading on JPCSP. On JPCSP, the following appears on the log endlessly while displaying a black screen:

Code:

08:13:14  WARN hle.ModuleMgrForUser - first_read - Unimplemented sceKernelLoadModuleBufferUsbWlan
08:13:14  WARN hle.ModuleMgrForUser - first_read - Unimplemented sceKernelLoadModuleBufferUsbWlan returning 0x0

[gid15]

Code:

08:13:14  WARN hle.ModuleMgrForUser - first_read - Unimplemented sceKernelLoadModuleBufferUsbWlan
08:13:14  WARN hle.ModuleMgrForUser - first_read - Unimplemented sceKernelLoadModuleBufferUsbWlan returning 0x0

This function should now be implemented in 4d5b957.

[DragonNeos]

The game still displays a black screen on revision cbc09e5. The game also seems to stop loading after a minute and stays in an idle state. There aren't any noticeable errors in the log (only WARN messages).

Code:

06:53:50  WARN      emu - GUI - .shstrtab section not found
06:53:50  WARN hle.SysMemUserForUser - GUI - malloc cannot allocate partition=1, name='ThreadMan-InternalHandlers', type=PSP_SMEM_Addr, size=0xE0, addr=0x08000000, maxFreeMem=0x3FE000, totalFreeMem=0x3FE000

I added the following to LogSettings.xml to see if the game would advance any further but it would stop at the same point:

Code:

<logger name='compiler'> <level value='debug' /> </logger>

When the PSP System Files are in the flash0 directory, the log will instead display:

Code:

15:29:30  WARN hle.sceSysEventForKernel - SceModmgrStart - Unimplemented sceKernelRegisterSysEventHandler handler=0x0800B140
15:29:30  WARN hle.sceSysEventForKernel - SceModmgrStart - Unimplemented sceKernelRegisterSysEventHandler returning 0x0

[gid15]

Code:

06:53:50  WARN hle.SysMemUserForUser - GUI - malloc cannot allocate partition=1, name='ThreadMan-InternalHandlers', type=PSP_SMEM_Addr, size=0xE0, addr=0x08000000, maxFreeMem=0x3FE000, totalFreeMem=0x3FE000

This is the root issue and happens while loading the demo.
Could you please start Jpcsp, enable the TRACE level, load the demo and press run. I just need the log file for one second, just to make sure the loading is complete.

Thank you!

[DragonNeos]

I tested the trial game under both situations (with and without PSP System Files) with the TRACE log setting on revision cbc09e5.

[gid15]

OK, thank for the logs!

Code:

06:53:50  WARN hle.SysMemUserForUser - GUI - malloc cannot allocate partition=1, name='ThreadMan-InternalHandlers', type=PSP_SMEM_Addr, size=0xE0, addr=0x08000000, maxFreeMem=0x3FE000, totalFreeMem=0x3FE000

This issue should now be fixed in 555cceb

[DragonNeos]

The game still doesn't display anything (black screen) as of revision f7df27d. I'm not sure if it will help, but I have attached a Debug Log of PPSSPP loading the game up to the Title Screen.

[gid15]

The game still doesn't display anything (black screen) as of revision f7df27d. I'm not sure if it will help, but I have attached a Debug Log of PPSSPP loading the game up to the Title Screen.

Is it possible to generate a DEBUG log for Jpcsp as well?

[DragonNeos]

I have attached a Debug Log from JPCSP using revision f7df27d.

[gid15]

Code:

14:22:03 DEBUG hle.ModuleMgrForUser - first_read_21 - sceKernelLoadModuleBufferUsbWlan buffer=0x00001AD0, bufSize=0x8ECE880, flags=0x0, optionAddr=0x09F7EA60

Upps, I inverted the parameters "buffer" and "bufSize" for this new function. It should be:

Code:

sceKernelLoadModuleBufferUsbWlan bufSize=0x00001AD0, buffer=0x8ECE880, flags=0x0, optionAddr=0x09F7EA60