Fastloader works great.

However, I've noticed whenever I "suspend" the psp [just push the power slider up for a second] and then "un-suspend" the psp, everything is hay-wire [music is messed up, and when I access any menus it freezes]. Is this b/c the game is trying to access the UMD?

I've also noticed this when using other loaders [ie hookboot or other game-specific loaders].

TIA!

My opinion on this is the loader patches it only when you start the iso, when comming out of sleep mode, it doesnt load the patched information and yeah, it tries loading the umd instead

Well Hook Boot's ISO loading capabilities works perfectly when you enter and exit sleep.

I thought I read somewhere that it is a problem with the KXploit, and as such would effect everything loaded on 1.5 using it.

Dont know if it is true or not, but I wonder if anyone would go through the trouble of doing the Swaploit method to see if suspend works (assuming it doesnt have the same issue).

hmm... probably one of those "hurdles" that guy from wab was talking about a while back on that interview posted here

I'd imagine that suspending probably causes the PSP to do something with the "protected" area of memory that the loader is running in by re-initialising the UMD interface and causing it to un-hook the patches. Until they implement a separate hook to bypass that process as well, suspend mode won't work. (Assuming it can be done at all).

I'm impressed with how well suspend works. I left THUG2 running overnight and forgot about it, picked it up the following day and continued playing. Suspend mode seems to be pretty friendly with the battery as well as it hadn't used much of it.

I think Hook-boot does more low-down & dirty patching than Fastloader does which might be why it works "differently" (not always better) than things. With the sourcecode for both applications now available, I'd say someone (Humma or the Hookboot coder(s), or a 3rd party) may well amalgamate things and make a "super"-loader

so... what ever happened to that Kit guy? Im curious about these things

What was Kit doing?

He was the guy who was advertising someone else's ISO Loader (apparently it loaded 90% of all games) and yeah.. go search his username on here and look at his posts his name was "Kit"

Hook boot doesn't actually patch anything for iso loading. It just extracts a copy of the boot.bin to run outside the image. It's quite useful if you want to debug games apart.

I recall seeing that. Goes in the file with WABs 3.0 loader. Promises and vapour, then out of nowhere a previously unknown comes up with an ISO loader that works properly straight away. Made the promisers look a little weak. Especially as he's giving the source away, a true homebrew scene legend, along with the hookboot chaps

stevenz where is the source for Humma's ISO Loader?

Ooh, now you're asking, hang about, I'm sure I saw it somewhere...

Hmm, sorry, it would appear I am mistaken. I could've sworn I saw a source folder in one of the versions of it I had. Looks like I was wrong.

Yeah, I was wondering too. Since I would have wanted to have a look at it and optimize it for personal use. [More stable 1.0 usage... ]