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Helltaker PSP – ARK-4/ARK-5 Compatibility Update

This update improves performance, stability, and compatibility with both ARK-4 and ARK-5.

What’s changed

  • Added ARK-4 and ARK-5 compatibility.
  • Rebuilt the game as a standard user-mode PSP application.
  • Added PSP-1000-compatible memory settings.
  • Fixed framebuffer swapping, reducing flickering and screen tearing.
  • Optimized background rendering and cached static animation frames.
  • Fixed music streaming races and playback interruptions.
  • Corrected the playback speed of the menu music.
  • Reduced audio resource usage to one PSP audio channel.
  • Fixed distorted audio caused by sample overflow.
  • Added proper HOME-button exit handling and resource cleanup.
  • Fixed several animation timing and out-of-bounds bugs.
  • Improved support for PSP Go internal storage (ef0:).

Important installation change

Music is no longer incorrectly embedded inside EBOOT.PBP. The release now contains two required files:

HelltakerPSP/
├── EBOOT.PBP
└── MUSIC.PAK

Copy the entire HelltakerPSP folder to:

ms0:/PSP/GAME/

For PSP Go internal storage, use:

ef0:/PSP/GAME/

Do not install EBOOT.PBP by itself. MUSIC.PAK must remain in the same directory.

Compatibility

The build targets:

  • ARK-4
  • ARK-5
  • PSP-1000, 2000, 3000, Street and Go
  • Memory Stick and PSP Go internal storage

No expanded-memory option or special ARK setting should be required.

Please report any problems with your PSP model, ARK version, installation location (ms0: or ef0:), and the point where the issue occurs.

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