Keep the games you own playable: Alembic now dumps an installed or disc game while it runs and turns it straight into an image, a folder or a package.
New in 0.7.0: dump a game
- Images → Dump a game: the game running now, with Dump…; Installed games… with Dump when launched…; and Dump the next game that starts…. The app queues the same dumps (opening the app closes the running game, so there you queue ahead and start the game afterwards).
- Any format, as in Convert (FFPKG recommended). The game's executables are decrypted and fake-signed so the image starts through ShadowMount+, the console's own title, icon and pictures go into sce_sys, and the AMPR emulator is added when the game needs it.
- A dump waits for its game and starts 30 s after the game does. Keep the game running until it finishes; if it closes, the console stays up and the dump continues from where it was the next time you start the game (a dump with zstd packs starts over if it was still packing).
- What a dump needs (package keys, an AMPR emulator, a pack runtime) is downloaded by itself when it starts.
- While it runs, plain progress toasts every 15 s: the percentage, the step and the time left. They are not kept in the notification list.
- PS4 games cannot be dumped yet.
Also new in 0.7.0
- Queue: every job lists its steps (ticked, current with its own percentage, then the rest), and its bar is the whole job, every step an equal share.
- Fix: with a larger text size in the console browser, Convert's buttons (Back, Next, Add to queue) no longer fall off the screen; the dialog scrolls instead.
- Fix: folders written by Alembic now have their files executable. Folder games converted with 0.6.5 or older cannot start (the console refuses an eboot.bin without it): convert them again, or convert them to an image.
In 0.6 (summary)
- 0.6.5: Settings → Whole file system (every folder of the console in Files; careful with system files), and smaller home-screen pictures as an experimental Convert option (issue #1).
- 0.6.3: Convert step by step (Format, Options, Where, Afterwards, Review; ✕ moves on, ○ goes back, □ jumps to Review), one Asset packs choice, FFPKG the recommended default, and a guide in the README in every language.
- 0.6.1–0.6.4: the AMPR emulator only for games that use the console's APR (read from the executable's imports), never for Alembic's own app; Update AMPR emulators starts at once and sends one notification.
- 0.6.0: the Images tab (every image, game folder and package ShadowMount+ scans, the downloads folder, paired engines' images; grid or list) and each game's AMPR emulator with updates to the newest build of its own emulator.
Install
- The app is in ProsperoStore; or copy alembic-app-v0.7.0.ffpkg (or the .zip folder) to /data/homebrew for ShadowMount+.
- Settings → Updates updates the engine and the app together.