Guide To Making Gameboots
Introduction
This is a guide on how to make your own gameboots for you PSP. A gameboot is the little video thats about 2 seconds long that plays when you start a game. But beware this can result in your PSP becoming a brick because gameboots are flashed to the PSP's internal drive called Flash0. In this guide I'll be using quite a number of different applications. Ok, with that out of the way we can start the guide.
Downloads
SUPER Converter - Used to convert videos to .AVI (Specifically .FLV videos)
Download
TMPGenc Xpress - Used to edit the video
Download
avi2wav - Used to extract the sound from the .AVI into a .WAV
Download
UMD Stream Composer - Used to make the .MPS file
*Note: This was leaked by Sony and if anyone wants me to take down the link I will without questions
Download
Mirror Link - MEGAUPLOAD
MPS To PMF - Used to convert the .MPS file created by UMD Stream Composer to make the actual gameboot file.
Download
Preparations
- PSP with custom firmware
- A video you want to use, only 1 1/2 seconds of it is used though
- Video editing software with the ability to see the frames
- UMD Stream Composer
- The MPS To PMF files
Table Of Contents
[DYV] Downloading Your Video Off of Youtube
[CYV] Converting Your Video Source
[VED] Video Editing
[ESV] Extracting Sound From The Video
[UMD] UMD Stream Composer
[MTP] MPS To PMF
[FYG] Flashing Your Gameboot
[END] Finished Gameboot - Download
[DYV] Downloading Your Video Off of Youtube
1.Find the video you want off of youtube
2.If you are using Firefox just use the Download Helper to download the .flv file. If you are using Internet Explorer open a new tab/browser.
3.Go to the site: TechCrunch
4.Once you're there simply copy the URL from the youtube video and paste it into the "Enter YouTube URL" box and hit Get Video.
5.Save the file with the extension of .FLV
Firefox
Internet Explorer
[CYV] Converting Your Video Source
1.Install SUPER converter and run it or use any other converter that you know that can convert .FLVs to .AVIs.
2.For the users of SUPER the settings are..
Video Options
Aspect - 16:9
Frame/Sec - 29.97
Options - Hi Quality/Top Quality (Takes a while to convert with Top Quality but has the best outcome),
Audio Options *Only do this if you want audio, if not hit disable
Sampling Frequency - 44100
Channels - 2
3.Now drag your .FLV video into the gray box at the bottom and make sure it's checked and then hit Encode.
4.When it's done go into the folder where you installed SUPER and look for the Output folder, that's where your video will be.
[VED] Video Editing
1.Install and run TMPGenc Xpress. Your also going to have to run the crack thats included.
*Note: You can also use your own video editing software but the maximum length is 72 frames long, frames not seconds.
2.For the TMPGenc users, hit the Set Source tab and drag your video into the box.
*Note: If you come across an error saying that the video cannot be loaded, only the audio part can, you need to hit New Project then add your video.
-Thanks to cold dog for pointing that out for me
3.Once it has loaded your video a popup should appear, make sure you set the Aspect Ratio to 16:9 or it wont be full screen on your PSP.
4.After that click on the Cut-Edit tab, now this is the hardest part. You want your video to be exactly 72 frames long, not seconds the gameboot itself wont even be 2 seconds long.
5.Now there are two VERY IMPORTANT rules here.
A - When you cut the video that is in front of the part you want, find the exact frame you want then subtract two from it, this will give you that exact frame
B - When you cut the video that is after the part you want, find the exact frame again and add 1, that'll cut off all the frames after that.
6.Now that you know the two rules, you can start cutting the video. Look for the two boxes that say Start Frame and End Frame. That is the boundaries of where you want to cut off. So if you wanted to cut off part of the beginning it would be 0 in the start frame and whatever frame you come up with using Rule A. For cutting the end you put what frame you came up with using Rule B and the very last frame of the video in the End Frame box.
7.Now to fix the audio, go to Filter at the top and scroll down to Audio Correction and enable and click on it, then a few settings should come up to the right.
8.Now click on Volume Change, then check Activate Volume Change. The default of TMPGenc is to reduce the audio to 95% of the original video, so all you have to do is set it to 100% again.
9.After you do that, just hit OK at the bottom. Then hit Set Output and choose .AVI Output.
10.The size of the video has to be 480x272, make sure the Framerate is set to 29.97 progressive.
11.Output Codecs must be set to the settings below for audio..
1.Video Output - Uncompressed RGB
2.Audio Output - Uncompressed PCM, 44100 Hz, 16 bit, 2 ch (stereo)
12.click on Encode at the top, and hit Output Preview to make sure it's exactly how you want it. After that set the save destination of your choice then hit Start Output.
[ESV] Extracting Sound From The Video
Open avi2wav, then browse for you edited video. Once you find that highlight your video and hit ".WAV" at the top left corner of the application.
[UMD] UMD Stream Composer
1.Open the UMD Stream Composer, it should be in..
UMD Stream Composer/bin/UMD Stream Composer.exe
2.Click on NEW at the top left. And create a new clip name and project name. After that click on next and then check PSP Movie Format (for game). Very important to do that.
3.Go back to the same tool bar that you found NEW on and look for Video Source. Click on Open and choose your edited video. Do the same with Audio Source.
4.Go to the very top and click on Run, then choose Encode + Multiplex then just let it sit till its done.
5.The file will be under.. My Documents/UMD Stream Composer/MuxWork. Look for the 00001.MPS file and drag it to the desktop.
[MTP] MPS To PMF
1.Open the MPS To PMF folder and then drag the .MPS file into the gameboot folder.
2.Then run the Gameboot Converter and out comes your gameboot. It should be named 00001.PMF, you can change that to anything you want with the extension of .PMF.
[FYG] Flashing Your Gameboot
/!\This can brick your PSP, so follow this part word for word. I do not take any responsibilities for any bricks./!\
1.Go into recovery by turning on your PSP while holding the R Trigger.
2.Go to Advanced then Toggle USB (flash0)
*Note: Make sure you have a memory card in or your computer will not be able to open the flash drive
**Note: 3.71 M33-2 has problems accessing flash through recovery so you can also use the VSH Menu feature by pressing Select in the XMB. Then set the USB Device to Flash 0.
3.Open the flash drive through My Computer. Then go here..
X:/vsh/resource/
4.Then just back up the original gameboot and just replace it with your new one. Make sure your new gameboot is named gameboot.pmf.
*Note: Any firmware above 3.80 will probably have the gameboot hidden. You could either make it visible again through folder options or you could just drag your new gameboot in replacing the old (if you just drag it in you'll be deleting the old one).
[END] Finished Gameboot - Download
This is the gameboot that I made during this tutorial.
It's Rathalos from Monster Hunter flying towards you and then shoots flames at you.
Note: Make sure to change it to gameboot.pmf