You will also have to add the line "ms0:/seplugins/RemoteJoyLite.prx" to the game.txt, vsh.txt, pops.txt, and if your Custom Firmware PSP uses one, the games150.txt files in the SEPLUGINS folder. Figure D below provides an example.

FIGURE D


Add this line to the game.txt and other files in SEPLUGINS. Roll over picture for a larger image.

The PSP will then need to be put into Recovery Mode by holding the Right Trigger during the boot process. This will open the Recover Menu shown in Figure E, where you need to select Plugins, and enable Remote Joy Lite.

FIGURE E


Enable Remote Joy Lite in Plugins folder of the Recovery Menu. Roll over picture for a larger image.

Reboot the PSP and plug the USB cable into the computer you intend to use, the computer will detect new hardware and go through the install process. If it asks for the drivers, specify the Drivers folder of the unpacked Remote Joy Lite directory.

To activate Remote Joy, double-click the RemoteJoyLiteE.exe file in the GUI folder of the unpacked directory. You can double-click the display window to enlarge or minimize it, and hitting ESC will open the options menu. Here you can set the video codec to use, whether or not to capture audio, etc.

Joy or no joy?
So how does Remote Joy Lite measure up? Is it a joy or a pain? Well, it does exactly what it's supposed to do, and quite well actually. While in a minimized window the display is every bit as good as on the PSP. But if you maximize that window, the display will pixelate. Remote Joy doesn't do any up-scaling of the image, so you're taking a 3-inch display and just stretching that resolution into a larger image. It's not all that difficult to find a happy medium though.

The video capture is quite smooth, but the audio will likely take some tweaking. Most of us have the audio and volume on our PSPs turned up all the way so we can hear what's coming out of those tiny speakers, but mix that with the default microphone setting and what you get is a lot of static and feedback.

You'll want to turn those settings down for the best audio capture. I had my microphone level set at 15, and the audio settings of the game on 3; the volume of the PSP was still on its maximum setting. Once I had the audio set properly, the sound capture was dead-on. You'll have to rely on your joining utility to do its part in syncing them properly.

All of the captures you make with Remote Joy, whether a screenshot, or video and audio, will be found in the Capture directory of the GUI folder in your Remote Joy Lite directory; this is the same folder from which you activate RemoteJoyLiteE.exe on the PC.

All in all, for the "money," Remote Joy Lite does an excellent job of porting your video and audio from the PSP to a PC; especially considering all you need is a USB cable, and a stereo patch cord for the audio. Remote Joy Lite easily earns three out of five for putting your PSP display on a PC.

OUR RATING: 3 of 5

Dr. Humayun Bakht completed his Ph.D at the School of Computing and Mathematics in Liverpool at John Moores University. Prior to his current course of studies, he has successfully completed his MSc Software Engineering and BSc Electronics Engineering from University of Liverpool UK and Sir Syed University of Engineering and Technology in Karachi, Pakistan. Humayun's research interest is mobile ad-hoc networks, in particular, the development of a new routing algorithm for this type of networking. He can be reached at humayunbakht@yahoo.co.uk and you can visit his Web site at http://www.geocities.com/humayunbakht/.