Localizer™ By Draan (Genesis compo entry)

February 16, 2011 in Homebrew, PSP Genesis, release by wololo | 30 comments

The genesis competition started a few days ago, and entries are starting to come in. We’re getting impressive stuff. This plugin by Draan allows you to change the text of your XMB on the fly. There are many ways to use this plugin for customizing your XMB, but the main intended goal is to allow you to translate your XMB into a language that the PSP does not support by default. (For those who want to know, there are around 6800 languages in the world, and a PSP on OFW supports 12 languages, that is, less than 0.2% of the total…)

A major good point of this plugin is that it doesn’t require any specific theme, or rco manipulation. It is also theoretically compatible with any theme. It is very easy to use and I was able to get my PSP 1000 to display a polish XMB within a couple minutes.

As an example, Draan provides a Polish translation of the XMB (translation courtesy of krzychuuu and Erokesha) that you can play with. I’m sure some of you will start to add more languages to this awesome homebrew… or maybe just start to have fun and replace bits of your XMB here and there.

Download and installation

Download here (or alternate link here)

Installation and usage are described in the readme, more info on how to create your own string database, etc…can be found on the homebrew’s thread. (Note: the archive does not contain the localizer.dat file, you need to create it by first renaming one of the strings_*.txt into strings.txt, then running Paxor.exe)

You still have until May 15th to submit your entry to the Genesis competition

http://wololo.net/talk/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=3073&p=34900#p34658

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sooormath on February 16, 2011 at 3:05 pm

i really don’t understand the instructions, can someone give me some translated in filipino?! thanks!

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pablos199 on February 16, 2011 at 3:13 pm

can somesone give me polish translate?

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zulzahid on February 16, 2011 at 4:04 pm

@wololo

can u give instruction for using this……???????

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pablos199 on February 16, 2011 at 4:17 pm

@zulzahid this is normal plugin. Search for plugin solucions on the board.

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svenn on February 16, 2011 at 4:43 pm

very nice plugin, congratz & goodluck

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kafa1942 on February 16, 2011 at 5:02 pm

please a create plug-in to extend official mp3 player functionality …
e.g. select all folders to play …

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equis on February 16, 2011 at 5:04 pm

This Homebrew sounds amazing!

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Zen on February 16, 2011 at 6:11 pm

Question: Can you translate a japanese text XMB to English with/without this?

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pablos199 on February 16, 2011 at 6:56 pm

@Zen
Sure, you can translate to English.

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Irfan on February 16, 2011 at 7:04 pm

SO it supports hindi

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rockfan on February 16, 2011 at 8:07 pm

we can do it with CTF themes. but they dont work at TN-HEN and Pro hen lol

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1. toBsucht on February 16, 2011 at 10:37 pm
  
  ? ctf theme work with tn6.20 or pro hen…. and the winner is wow …i do need it but wow! ^^ should i make my own lang.file so nobody can ready my xmb
  
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the baba on February 16, 2011 at 8:41 pm

THIS IS TOO CONFUSING tooo use???

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cure on February 16, 2011 at 8:55 pm

amazing psp stuff rising early in the genesis compo.

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jammy on February 16, 2011 at 11:38 pm

@Wololo
Hey I see your very popular on CSPSP 1.82

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jammy on February 17, 2011 at 12:10 am

Man this is too cofusing. Im not going to use this.

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Spider Monkey on February 17, 2011 at 2:10 am

There’s 6800 languages!! Didn’t know that

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Kagero on February 17, 2011 at 2:49 am

DOES PS3 CFW 3.41 SUPPORTS OTHER OS like LINUX? please respond thanks

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Apple Pi on February 17, 2011 at 4:02 am

PSP in BUSUU! Save BUSUU! A language on the verge of extinction.

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Kagero on February 17, 2011 at 6:10 am

Does PS3 AMAZEBREAK 3.0 have downgrade capability? Mine is ofw 3.41 want it to downgrade to 3.15

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asyllum on February 17, 2011 at 7:10 am

@kagero this is mainly a psp site not a ps3 site ” well im liening there were a thread when the ps3 keys came out but thats about it” try googling ps3 cfw im sure geohot got hacks for it but you have to wait “{Cuz im gettn sued by soNy}”

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minhjirachi on February 17, 2011 at 10:45 am

I think eveybody want to install the custom theme which was on PSP Ghost Of Sparta or PSP Monster Hunter 3rd to their PSP (very special). But no HB can do that.

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mr-crazy on February 17, 2011 at 10:50 am

can anyone help me here in polls
http://wololo.net/talk/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=3095&start=0

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KAGE033 on February 18, 2011 at 3:40 am

cool but i hope someone can create a avi player for psp without changing the resolution to 480*272(I really Hope So)

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1. Alexander on February 18, 2011 at 8:36 am
  
  Download XviD4PSP 6 Video Converter
  fast and best
  
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2. toBsucht on February 18, 2011 at 1:52 pm
  
  yeah or a psp file converter but how fast it could be and the free space @ms lol
  
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RV on February 20, 2011 at 11:49 am

it Does not work on 5.03 Gen

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manobon on February 21, 2011 at 1:47 am

Is there a PTF version of that beautiful CTF Flower theme? I’m guessing it wouldn’t be dynamic, but I’m okay with that.

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1. toBsucht on February 26, 2011 at 9:23 pm
  
  yeah i lke it to..
  btw i´ve done a just for fun translation it was not difficult and i writte with 2 finger and my english isn´t good. !hour and i got the main entrie translated. A lot of word are double or 3x. It is just for fun (music=mukke or lala, etc.) and ~50% is in english. Get it here http://www.megaupload.com/?d=Y1419G8O or @ submission.
  
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