Prospero Win

A maintenance release: support for more firmware versions, faster mod-heavy games, and a set of fixes that make larger Windows programs run better.

New to prospero-win? The v0.1.0 release notes explain what it is, what you need and which games are known to work.

What's new

More firmware versions

The app ships a small helper (lapy.elf) that gives it access to /data. This is the part of the app that depends on your firmware. This release bundles the helper's new version, v0.3.2-experimental, with two fixes from contributors:

• Firmware 13.60: the helper didn't start there. Thanks to leolobato for the fix (PS5-Lapy-JB-Daemon#49).
• Firmware 6.02: the helper crashed in the background on every launch, leaving a crash report behind, even though the app still got its access. Thanks to blackbearreloaded for the fix (PS5-Lapy-JB-Daemon#48).

Faster 32-bit games

• Games that patch their own code run faster. Some games and mods change the game's code while it runs, and this used to cost a lot of time with 32-bit games. On the console, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas with the Proper Shaders mod (medium preset) went from 37.9 to 41.9 fps on the same drive (#401).
• Faster translation of switch statements and calls through DLL imports. The same San Andreas setup went from 41.4 to 42.5 fps (#402).

Fixes for larger programs

These came out of getting a big, browser-based Windows program to run on the console. Thanks to heydemoura for all of them.

• Text through DirectWrite works now. Programs that measure or draw text with DirectWrite, such as anything with an embedded Chromium browser, used to fail on every call (#395).