BetterBright changelog

BetterBright v0.93

A small plugin for the PSP (ARK-4 / FasterARK, 6.61). Stock PSP gives you only 3–4 brightness steps, BetterBright lets you set your own (including off and brighter than factory max), shows the level on-screen, and remembers it across games, reboots and sleep. Drop the two files in your SEPLUGINS folder, enable it, done.

Download

BetterBright_v0.93.zip → BetterBright.prx + BetterBright.ini

What's new since v0.92

• Fixed max brightness snapping to lowest on wake - when waking from dim at the highest level, the firmware's brightness bump could be misread as a Display press and wrap all the way round to the lowest level; a wake guard now treats that bump as a restore.
• Fixed a crash when exiting to XMB - in games that use the poll-draw method, having the OSD active on exit could write into a framebuffer as it was being torn down and reboot the PSP; the poll-draw thread now pauses briefly across the game↔XMB switch to prevent it.
• Tighter OSD spacing - trimmed the gap after the colon in "Brightness Level: NN" for Latin languages.

Known issues

• Waking from sleep above ~84 (factory max) can still drop back to firmware max
• A few games may still flicker the OSD slightly (e.g. Lego Batman).
• Tested on a PSP-3000 (09g) and a PSP-2003, stock LCDs - other models/screens may need different values.

Compatibility

6.61, ARK-4 / FasterARK. Other 6.61 CFW should work (untested); should work fine with 6.60.

Credits

hobbo91 — BetterBright · hiroi01 — bright3 · plum — original bright

BetterBright v0.92

A small plugin for the PSP (ARK-4 / FasterARK, 6.61). Stock PSP gives you only 3–4 brightness steps, BetterBright lets you set your own (including off and brighter than factory max), shows the level on-screen, and remembers it across games, reboots and sleep. Drop the two files in your SEPLUGINS folder, enable it, done.

Download

BetterBright_v0.92.zip → BetterBright.prx + BetterBright.ini

What's new since v0.91

• Per-model default levels - leave the brightness list empty and you get a sensible range tuned to your model (PSP-1000, 2000, 3000/Go each have their own), now starting at 0 (backlight off).
• osd_bg_colour=0 - Option for transparent / no background for the OSD
• oem_brightness_levels - new flag: with an empty list, cycle only the 4 stock backlight steps (the original L= levels). Intended for aftermarket LCD panels.
• OSD label is now "Brightness Level: NN" - still localised into your system language, incl. Japanese (明るさレベル), Korean, Chinese, Russian.
• **OSD sizes 1×–3x
• PSP-2000 fix - no longer need to press the Display button twice to change level (model-aware step detection).
• combo_mode 2 (L+R + Up/Down) - now auto-repeats when held, and L/R + Display no longer does anything in this mode (triggers are reserved for the combo). Also fixed the stray memory-stick writes.
• Debug mode fixes osd bug where it would still sometimes show regular osd
• detect_locale renamed to osd_detect_locale

Known issues

• Waking from sleep above ~84 (factory max) can still drop back to ~84.
• A few games may still flicker the OSD slightly (e.g. Lego Batman).
• Tested on a PSP-3000 (09g) and a PSP-2003, stock LCDs - other models/screens may need different values.

Compatibility

6.61, ARK-4 / FasterARK. Other 6.61 CFW should work (untested); should work fine with 6.60.

Credits

hobbo91 — BetterBright · hiroi01 — bright3 · plum — original bright

BetterBright v0.91

A small plugin for the PSP (ARK-4 / FasterARK, 6.61). Stock PSP gives you only 3–4 brightness steps — BetterBright lets you set your own (including off and brighter than factory max), shows the level on-screen, and remembers it across games, reboots and sleep. Drop the two files in your SEPLUGINS folder, enable it, done.

Download

BetterBright_v0.91.zip → BetterBright.prx + BetterBright.ini

What's new since v0.9

• OSD now shows in (almost) every game — auto-falls back to a second draw method for titles the old one missed (e.g. GTA: LCS).
• Localised OSD — "Brightness: NN" in your system language, incl. Japanese (明るさ), Korean, Chinese, Russian (detect_locale=0 for English).
• OSD sizes 1×–3× (was just normal / 2×).
• Leave the brightness list empty to just cycle your model's 4 stock steps.
• Crash fix: quitting a game with the OSD up no longer reboots the PSP.
• sync_fw_level (on by default) keeps the PSP's own backlight level in step with yours.
• Better debug/logging (debug_enable=2).

Known issues

• Waking from sleep above ~84 (factory max) can drop back to ~84.
• A few games may still flicker the OSD slightly (e.g. Lego Batman)
• Only tested on a PSP-3000VB (09g), stock LCD — other models/screens may need different values.

Compatibility

6.61, ARK-4 / FasterARK. Other 6.61 CFW should work (untested); should work fine with 6.60

Credits

hobbo91 — BetterBright · hiroi01 — bright3 · plum — original bright

Initial GitHub release of BetterBright, a PSP brightness control plugin for ARK-4 / FasterARK custom firmware.

Download

Use BetterBright_v0.4.zip for installation. It contains:

• BetterBright.prx
• BetterBright.ini

Notes

• Brightness levels are configured in BetterBright.ini.
• Tested default values are included for PSP-3000 0g9.
• Brightness is remembered using BetterBright.dat.
• Legacy plugin-loading examples are included in the repo, but are untested.

Known issue

Brightness may not restore after waking from sleep. Press the Display button, or your configured brightness combo, to re-apply the selected level.

Credits

• hobbo91 - BetterBright
• hiroi01 - bright3
• plum - original bright plugin