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03-20-2007, 5:13 PM Auri Joined on 12-07-2005 Indianapolis, Indiana Posts 3,679 piKey keyboard driver Attachment: 13296_pikey_0_1.zip WARNING: Applications that write to flash can potentially damage your PSP beyond repair. Use this at your own risk. Fanjita (you know, the BBC star) and harleyg (of downgrader fame) have just finished piKey, a sophisticated homebrew application for the Sony PSP: it's a keyboard driver that lets you use almost any keyboard (or similar input device) as a natural method of input on your PSP. For the rest, we turn to the documentation included in the ZIP file. Imagine being able to use your keyboard to control any PSP game or homebrew, and even the PSP's XMB menu and on-screen keyboard, automatically and without needing any changes to the other software. This is what piKey aims to give you. This is an early release, demonstrating just some of the possibilities. The open, extensible framework allows piKey to be extended with new plugins, to allow support for different types of input hardware, and different input environments on the PSP. Use with Dark_Alex custom firmware. piKey runs best as a plugin for Dark_AleX's custom firmwares. Use as a standalone by homebrew. piKey can also be run standalone by homebrew that needs to use keyboard input. That's basically it. Now, for the usual PSP homebrew warning. WARNING: piKey comes with an "installer." The installer will ask you if you wish to copy the pikey prx to flash0 and if you want it to auto run in 1.50 game mode. Writing to flash0 will seriously damage or brick your PSP if you don't know what you're doing. BE SURE TO READ THE user_guide.html LOCATED IN THE docs FOLDER IN THE ZIP FILE if you don't like bricked PSPs. piKey comes with the following plugins by default: Input plugins IR - this plugin uses Monsti's IR keyboard library to support input via many different types of infra-red keyboards. SIO - this plugin supports input via Serial I/O cable. SIO cables plug into your PSP's headphone socket, to provide a serial interface. You can use the SIO plugin to simulate a keyboard via serial terminal, e.g. HyperTerminal on Windows. You can also use the SIO plugin to display debug information from other πKey plugins. Output plugins CTRL - this plugin simulates presses of the PSP's buttons, mapping selected keys on the keyboard to different PSP buttons. For instance, the cursor keys simulate presses on the directional pad (D-pad). OSK - this plugin detects when the PSP's built-in On-Screen Keyboard is active, and translates key data from πKey into the necessary button presses to enter that text into the OSK. The user_guide.html in the docs folder in the ZIP file has configuration, usage, and troubleshooting notes (in English). Thanks to Fanjita and harleyg for this amazing PSP homebrew application. Description Source: PSPUpdates --- Author, Hacking the PSP www.hackingpsp.com    Report

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