Kill it: RIPPS2 v1.0.2 beta (build 102)

Kill it: RIPPS2 v1.0.2 beta (build 102)

Download RIPPS2.elf (one file, about 3 MB) and put it in place of your old one. Your settings stay in your memory card's RIPPS2 save. The theme pack has a new edition (v102: Adapt and Adapt Rx): replace your Adapt folders. RIPGRID and RIPFLOW are built in.

Sound

• No more beeping while a load is stuck. When the music's read stalled (a drive coming back after an in-game reset, a busy card, the ripped menu music read from a drive), the PS2's sound driver ran out and played its last tenth of a second over and over. The music now fills the gap with silence until its next piece arrives.
• Switching away from stuck music no longer freezes the menu for seconds while the read finishes.
• The console boot sound starts with the towers, not the moment it has loaded.
• Adapt plays your ripped sounds (a new theme key, sounds=audio), even copied over an older Adapt that shipped sounds of its own.

Every theme

• No info page switches the source. Left, Right, Up and Down go through the games on every theme.
• Colors and More edits every theme's colours. On RIPGRID and themes from a drive the colour rows were greyed out and the cursor skipped them. Now they change that theme's own colours, kept for it alone; Reset gives its own back.
• Apps show a square PS1 case by default. Triangle on an app: Case Shape PS1, PS2 or Theme, kept for that app.
• Reflections and cased covers fade with their page, long text slides smoothly a pixel at a time, and About and STATUS read in RIPPS2's own type on every theme, About's credits wrapping evenly inside the panel.

Memory Files

• A game started from the file browser starts its drive's games itself. A drive opened only with START DRIVES could not launch a game until it was opened once in Storage.

Themes

• RIPGRID: Standard glyphs (L3 and R3 included); the grid raised so the space above and below it match; the info page lined up, its logo just above the text; the CD player and file tree like RIPFLOW's, Launch Disc and Memory Files like RIPPS2's.
• RIPFLOW: White glyphs, hints in RIPPS2 Sleek Case, badges and stars at their true shapes in one row.
• Adapt and Adapt Rx (edition 102): the disc and case at real-life proportions (a 120 mm disc over a 135 x 190 mm case), lined up with the list's box; logos just above the info box (valign=bottom); readable hints on every page; the apps page under the category bar with a square case.

Full changelog | Watch the beta reel | Talk about it on psx-place | RIPPCSX2 for seeing a theme in true 720p and 1080i

Beta: keep your usual loader close by, and tell us what breaks in the psx-place thread or an issue. The sound fixes especially want ears on a real console.