Written on Mar 27th, 2006 by Dave

Posted In: Sony PSP Hacks, Sony PSP News

PSP Choice Lite Interface

Over the weekend I managed to get the xart Choice Lite interface working on my PSP running formware 2.6.

The Choice Lite interface is a cut down version of Choice+, which should hopefully be available in April. The product replaces the standard front end of the eLoader, in effect giving you a new menu layout, with sub category features allowing you to split your homebrew games and applications up into their relevant sections.

Xart has yet (at time of writing) written instructions on how to install the software, so the following may help.

Download the lite+ file from the website and extract the contents. Copy the extracted files into the eLoader folder on your Memory Stick. Thats the initial software installation complete.

To get the Choice Lite interface working requires some tweaking of you eLoader setup, including changing the loader096.cfg file to point to the Choice Lite eboot.pbp file, which will be sitting in the eLoader/choice/resource directory.

You then need to remove any homebrew that uses the 1.5 method of loading - ie has a % folder installed. These currently don’t work.

Within each remaining homebrew folder in your GAME directory, you need to place a pegi.info file. This tells the choice software what category the game/app belongs to, along with its age rating.

So long as the loader096.cfg points to the correct eboot.pbp file for the choice application, and a pegi.info file exists in each homebrew folder, choice lite should work. You run the software in the same way as you would normally start up the eLoader.

First time you run it, you will be prompted to obtain a license key. This can be downloaded from the xart website, inputting the number you are shown on your PSP on the website license page. This will give youa license key file which you place in the root directory of your Memory Stick Duo. Restarting the eLoader, choice should now work.