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_v0.92.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