StoneCut: I can only speak for myself, not the other judges. I rated it 3rd. To me, it isnt all that original to integrate others' open source projects to extend the functionality, and duplicate functions I already perform with the default XMB. I personally was under the impression AhMan continued coding it for all his iRshell fans and not this compo... though I could be wrong on that point since I don't personally know AhMan. By the way, the public vote did count, as much as one judge... possible cheaters as well got their say.
Ecoles: who said that? I didnt. I just said it lost points on my scorecard for originality because alot of what it does I was able to do without it, before it, sometimes without running a homebrew app at all (ie: xmb and its USB connection). iRshell, aside from the XMB, is the only shell I have run more than once (and both those other days it was to see if I had finally found a proper pronto code to make the app useful to me), so I
honestly couldnt compare it directly to anyone elses projects.
AhMan, you got alot of points for a solid app that does what it is supposed to well (within the limits I was able to test it, no wifi AP, no headphone remote).
Most of your extensions were made by other coders before being integrated, and some of the features are simpler for
me to use from the originals for the things they were made to be used for.
I think if there had been alot more PSP entries, your app still would have scored very high with me even though I find no personal use for multitasking things in a round-about way of running a program to run a program, especially when there seemed to be no real "crash recovery" - I froze it twice in that I remember being annoyed the return hotkey didnt work, when testing it. Whatever genius or time went into the code, I dont know, but I can see the app and say it "works as its supposed to" (which, imho, is
alot more than I can say about some things I have coded).
As it stands, I personally have enough semi "multi-tasking" (with vshexec.prx and dark alex's custom firmware loading it at the get-go), MP3's, video and image viewing in my XMB, and awesome compatibility with my 4G microdrive (when I want to use media files) with the original PMP player. (That I guess is something to note, quitting bookr extension using its exit function on the 4gig causes a "game could not be launched" error.) Unless someone can find a simple way to capture new remotes... I doubt I will find a home on my PSP for iRshell.
You other two (now three)Some people simply dont get that the features they list can be had by dedicated, smaller (slack space) apps that were generally made before being "absorbed" into iRshell and only need to be run when I want them to do what they were made for, wrather than launched from within a shell that has to be fit into a process, to do things I dont really care/need to do.
In fact, I'd bet alot of the "inspiration" came from apps I already use... like bookr (txt/pdb/pdf reader) and psplink (usb/wifi/serial host access) ( both of which are open source) and the XMB's shortcomings. Though I also bet, in turn, that psplink has also benefited from AhMan's work on the link code.
You'd act like some of the features built into iRshell should be a
big surprise to me, as if I didnt actually consider them
when I was trying them. I get it though, your fanatics and you appreciate AhMans work (just not in the same light I do, which is more of a "holy crud, how did you do that so it works like that?" kind of thing).
-What good is a iR remote program that doesnt have codes for
every major device I own
except the xbox and the family PS2 (my own doesnt have an IR receiver)? And yeah, I even went to the point of trying my brothers Palm Pilot to capture the codes, only it has bluetooth instead of iR, and PalmOS isnt all that helpful anyway. (I still tested it, and still consider it the "orgional" factor in this app)
-What good is playing MP3's "anywhere" when you only want to play the $60 game or lovingly crafted homebrew game as it was made to be played?
-What good is a program that you have to re-run every time you crash the PSP and want to run something else, when you could just run what you wanted instead?
-What good is having a hotkey to take screenshots... when you probably wont ever take screenshots? (or could just use the other screenshot app?)
-What good is host access when it ties you to a PC by a usb cable?
-What good is setting up iRShell first and going through it, to test compo entries... only to find it simpler to do it the "old way" (ie:original way) instead of on the spot learning and adjusting to iRshell?
PS: I'm still spelling original wrong, somewhere along the way my fingers learned it wrong so it will take some breaking of bad habits. Thanks for pointing it out because it did indeed
look correct to me (and in case you didnt know, the spell check button has
never worked for me on this site yet).
PPS: I have a fake MS Duo, and no matter
how many people say differently, I still
know its not original.
