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Homebrew Sorter Ultimate changelog

v1.29 · Oct 25, 2026

  • Stopped treating \PSP\GAME\PSX and \PSP\GAME\Utility as detected paths and now treat them as a standard Category folders.
  • Optimized scrolling speeds in lists that include EBOOTs.
  • Fixed app icons sometimes going blank after Categories are deleted.
  • Potential increase in file copy speeds.
  • Blocked the Sleep & Home buttons during file operations.
  • Added a "blocked" message when attempting to manually create an Uncategorized or VIDEO Category folder.
  • Blocked auto-renaming TurboGrafx-16\PC Engine game data folders in \PSP\GAME (i.e. Blacklist them) when toggling Category sorting and/or CAT_ prefixes.

v1.28 · Sep 23, 2026

D-Pad Left & D-Pad Right jumps 10 apps up & down respectively in app lists (#5).

v1.27 · Sep 7, 2026

  • Added Grouped Alphabetize function (#5).
  • Allows dividing alphabetized apps into ordered groups:
  • ISO
  • PSX
  • Homebrew
  • Supplemental (DLC/Update/TurboGrafx-16)
  • Hold R on the app list to access.
  • Updated Categories Lite plugin functionality & icons.
  • Restored plugin support for legacy CFWs.
  • Support System Storage on Epinephrine 8.
  • Added USB Mode support to Adrenaline 8 (Epinephrine & ARK-5).
  • Updated EBOOT media.

v1.26 · May 2, 2026

  • Increased heap size from 4MB to 16MB (oops.) (Thanks, @Eywa186!)
  • This should prevent app icon load misses and memory-strain crashes, even in long app lists.
  • This also eliminates the need for Low-Mem Mode (Removed).
  • Refined wording in the Blacklist description modal and the Folder Mode warning message.

v1.25 · Mar 27, 2026

Added Low-Mem Mode in Game Categories Settings that makes the app cache data more conservatively to address disappearing app icons and app crashes under memory-stressed conditions. Prompts a full refresh after each file operation.

v1.24 · Mar 12, 2026

Add warning and built-in guards for the Categories plugin's Folders mode:

  • Prevent crashes: Only allow ≤8 Category folders.
  • Prevent corrupt games: Only allow ≤30 characters for the combined length of each Category+App Folder.

v1.23 · Feb 18, 2026

Always show Device Picker/free space pie chart(s) on Copy operation

v1.22 · Feb 16, 2026

Disable "Delete" for the currently-running app, as well as its Category

v1.21 · Feb 16, 2026

Hide the "Uncategorized" category folder in Copy/Move operations when the "Show Uncategorized" setting is disabled

v1.20 · Feb 16, 2026

  • Fix buggy UI when copying/moving files when Game Categories is turned off or the destination device only has the "Uncategorized" folder
  • Bugfix crashes on copying Mac junk files on LME CFW (and perhaps others)
  • Add app version to home screen

v1.19 · Feb 16, 2026

  • Cleaner detection and handling of existing installed category_lite.prx plugin stored outside the seplugins root directory
  • Clearer wording for the personal Categories plugin toggle

v1.18 · Feb 16, 2026

Refine the wording for the legacy Game Categories plugin toggle

v1.17 · Feb 15, 2026

Remove legacy /resources/raw2c.exe from release .zip

v1.16 · Feb 15, 2026

Don't back up the new Categories Lite plugin files in /SEPLUGINS after the legacy plugin option is toggled on.

v1.15 · Feb 15, 2026

Plugin corruption guards from toggling legacy Game Categories plugin and USB Mode

v1.14 · Feb 15, 2026

More robust legacy gclite_filter.txt conversion

v1.13 · Feb 15, 2026

  • Enable legacy Game Categories Lite v1.6/v1.7 support
  • Re-enable support for moving/copying/renaming the currently-running app (with a warning)
  • Enable renames that are exclusively letter-case changes

v1.12 · Feb 8, 2026

Block renaming of the currently-running Homebrew Sorter Ultimate app folder.

v1.11 · Feb 8, 2026

Improve date detection (and thus synchronization in the sorting between the XMB and the app) for ISO-like files

More reliable Game Categories Lite plugin install

v1.10 · Feb 8, 2026

Restore Game Categories plugin ability to hide specific app/update/dlc folders and integrate the ability into the App Operations and Category Operations menus.

v1.09 · Feb 5, 2026

Restructured the release .zip. Removed MacOS junk files from the release .zip.

v1.08 · Feb 5, 2026

Improved EBOOT icon clarity.

v1.07 · Feb 5, 2026

Icon change

v1.06 · Feb 4, 2026

Try fixing Category Folder Rename Blacklist behavior that broke after moving apps between folders.

v1.05 · Feb 4, 2026

Add bulk app deselect. Update button mappings to include bulk select actions.

v1.04 · Feb 3, 2026

Enforce 31-character limit in EBOOT folder renames

v1.03 · Feb 3, 2026

Stop periodic cache refresh

v1.02 · Feb 3, 2026

Hide Memory Stick capacity on Copy Operation when run from PSP Go Internal Storage.

v1.01 · Feb 3, 2026

Always show the Device Selection screen/capacity pie chart during a Copy Operation.

v1.0.0 · Feb 2, 2026

Initial release