UPSPEAR - Universal PSP Easy-to-use Application (R
!)
(Better acronyms are welcome! :D)
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Upspear is a new application to fully manage the Sony PlayStation Portable
(PSP), from a PC. It's thought for PSPs with firmware 1.50, at least for the
moment. Support for other firmwares may be added in the future, if you think
you need it, convince me :).

At the moment you can:
- Install new homebrews in a very simple way.
- See the homebrews you have installed, rename and delete them.
- Reorder installed homebrews to your liking.
- See your savegames and delete the ones you don't need anymore.
- Backup your savegames to zip-compressed files on your PC.
- Hide/unhide "Corrupt data" icons or push them to the bottom of the list.
- Kxploit a 1.0 eboot.pbp, making it work under 1.5 firmwares.
- Identify useless folders in psp/game.
- View the contents of a .SFO format file (i. e.: param.sfo).
- See information about the memory stick.

Upspear also has the following features:
- No spyware, adware or any other form of malware.
- No registry bloat, settings are saved in files within the user directory. No
  lost settings after a fresh installation.
- No awkward setup/installer, no system changes, system bloat and trash.
(Shamelessly copied from StaxRip - http://www.planetdvb.net/staxrip/)

All these functions can be performed through the nice graphical interface the
program has. The program itself is in English, but it uses GNU gettext, which
means that it can be easily translated in other languages. At the moment only
an Italian translation is available, but anybody can submit more translations,
see the "Contributing" section below if you're interested.

Upspear is a project hosted by Gna!, http://gna.org, and you can find its
homepage at http://home.gna.org/upspear/. There you will find the latest
releases, together with Upspear's Subversion repository, as well as some
mailing lists which you can join to talk with other users and with the
developers.

Upspear is programmed in C, using the GTK+ toolkit. Development is done under
GNU/Linux, but the program runs with no problems on other operating systems,
such as Microsoft Windows and Apple MacOS X. The program is released under the
GPL, so it is free software (as in "free speech", not as in "free beer"). This
gives every user many benefits, such as full access to the source code and the
rights to modify it to any degree. See the "Contributing" section below and
the COPYING file for further details.

Many things have still to be implemented, as I don't have as much time to spend
on it as I would like, but basic features are there, and it should never crash
(hopefully :D). People are welcome to use and test the program. Should you
encounter any bugs/crashes, you can open a bug report on the program homepage,
at http://home.gna.org/upspear/, or you can send an e-mail to
sukkopera@psp-tribe.com.


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Installation
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See README.UNIX, README.WINDOWS or README.MACOS.


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Contributing
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Upspear is free software released under the GNU General Public License (GPL),
which basically means that you can get the sources and modify them as much as
you like, as long as you release all your modifications under the same license.
Although, even though the license does not require it, I would be glad if you
mailed me any modifications you do, so that we can keep a single version of the
program around, which means less confusion for the users :).

Indeed, if you have a lot of ideas about the program, you are welcome to join
the development team. See the program homepage or mail me for any info. You can
also contribute translations in your language. If you know how to do it, just
mail me the corresponding .po file, otherwise mail me and I'll help you.

We also need packages for more GNU/Linux distributions: SuSE, RedHat/Fedora,
Mandrake, etc..., and testing on other UNIX flavours, such as the various BSD
systems, Solaris, etc...
