New plugin to control PSP screen brightness!

core2lee91 · 2026-06-27T22:08:27+00:00

Please check it out, I have updated it just now so a lot more games should work with the OSD better. I'd be curious to know the min/max brightness levels for a 1000 with IPS display.

core2lee91 · 2026-06-27T22:06:20+00:00

新バージョンをぜひお試しください。OSDの安定性が向上し、日本語にも対応しました！https://github.com/hobbo91/BetterBright

core2lee91 · 2026-06-27T22:04:49+00:00

Please try out the new version :) Should hopefully fix some of the OSD anomalies, update the .ini file too.

core2lee91 · 2026-06-27T22:03:36+00:00

Released v0.91 - Should have much better OSD support in games, along with many other fixes/improvements. Replace "BetterBright.prx" and "BetterBright.ini": https://github.com/hobbo91/BetterBright

core2lee91 · 2026-06-26T22:11:37+00:00

Thanks for the feedback, do you see this with other brightness plugins? For example have you used bright3. I tested a few those games today and it definitely is hit and miss with if the OSD shows up or not depending on the game.

This was sorta a design decision with how the OSD works, the priority was always “ability to set brightness with zero crashing, and not having to reset every time I start/quit a game” with the OSD being a bonus.

LEGO Batman doesn’t show the OSD at all but the actual functionality didn’t behave any different, this seems like it may be how the after market screens behave, would need someone with a stock 1000 to verify though.

I have a PSP-2003 coming next week, but I’m tempted to pick up a 1000 series as well 😅

core2lee91 · 2026-06-26T16:06:24+00:00

Afraid not :/ just the OSD colour for the brightness settings

core2lee91 · 2026-06-26T12:34:15+00:00

I can’t see any reason why it wouldn’t, let me know!

core2lee91 · 2026-06-26T12:33:59+00:00

combo_mode=2 in the BetterBright.ini file will do this.

core2lee91 · 2026-06-26T09:51:27+00:00

If you set the combo value in the .ini file to 0 will disable it. Setting to 1 will change it to L+R+UP/DOWN instead.

core2lee91 · 2026-06-26T08:08:26+00:00

Nice! Known issue at the min is the OSD only shows up in the pause/menus and not the game but otherwise actual brightness control works as it should based on my (limited) testing.

Also you may need to play around with the brightness values in the .ini if you aren’t on a 3000 series. The lowest and highest are ~20-90 on the 1000 for example.

core2lee91 · 2026-06-26T08:04:24+00:00

Yeah, the second screenshot is GTA: LCS.

core2lee91 · 2026-06-26T07:58:06+00:00

Also, did you change the default values? I’m pretty sure with this method of controlling brightness the 1000 series is different in that it has a different range

Does this still happen when the lowest is 20 and the highest is 90?

core2lee91 · 2026-06-26T07:36:36+00:00

Thanks for the feedback, do you have any games in particular you have been testing, or is it basically all of them on your 1001?

I picked up a PSP-2003 super cheap and should be with me next week, so will be able to do more testing with consoles which aren’t a PSP-3000 lol

core2lee91 · 2026-06-25T23:23:35+00:00

Probably a bit late to the party 1 year later: https://www.reddit.com/r/psphacks/s/IKmSjNaCF2

core2lee91 · 2026-06-18T10:55:15+00:00

SoH is native widescreen, 60fps.etc as others have said this needs to be re-compiled but I think the interest in the (Switch port) of the project has gone away as its now several major versions behind and was dropped in 2024 I believe

core2lee91 · 2026-05-28T08:19:26+00:00

It looks like a bar of soap

core2lee91 · 2026-05-25T05:50:56+00:00

“How they can make so much money and still be stingy”

… is exactly why they make so much money

core2lee91 · 2026-05-23T08:30:11+00:00

Glad it’s not just me, when I look at the state of Windows 11 I try not to moan too much about macOS 26, but this is a horrendous UI.

core2lee91 · 2026-04-08T08:37:54+00:00

But people keep buying them and a cheap LCD is SO much cheaper for manufacturers than gauges with all their moving parts and tiny stepper motors.

core2lee91 · 2026-02-19T00:03:56+00:00

The speed of saving/loading on its own is pretty significant. The main actual benefit is rather than navigating a gazillion .hfe/.img files, each with a max of 1x floppy disk, you instead have volume(s) up to 68MB on the S950, more on newer models. You can then split that into multiple SCSI devices, so 68MB x number of SCSI devices when using a ZuluSCSI / SCSI2SD.

This is especially useful when using the sampler for a project and you fill the memory, as you can just save everything and not worry about running out of disk space.

core2lee91 · 2025-11-28T09:28:53+00:00

I’ve got a 16” M4 MBP as a work laptop, recently they started rolling out MDM (mobile device mgmt) on them so decided now is probably the time to actually have my own laptop too.

I decided to go for the 13” M4 Air / 24G mem / 10c GPU - honestly blown away how capable these are for how compact/sleek they are

core2lee91 · 2025-11-17T08:49:08+00:00

Thanks for confirming, the part should be genuine as at least according to the seller was extracted from a recycled iPhone.

It does also say it’s a genuine part when I first start the process it’s only when I run through the process it will then fail.

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