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[rousseau]

Is there any maximum size for an EBOOT.PBP file? I'm working on a PSP conversion of a game and have built the exe for PSP (3.65mb), but get an error "The game could not be started. (800200D9)". Even running a basically empty main() function with the same libraries & exe size gives the same error, but without linking in all the libraries works fine.

Any ideas on this?

thx
Steve

[71M]

Hi Steve,
I came across a similar problem when developing FileAssistant++
The executable size you've reached does sound very familiar to me.

I never did work out why the executable size made any difference.

Another, possibly related, problem was people with slow memory devices like the 4gb drives where having trouble running the app at all.
I'm wondering if the PSP expects everything to be loading into memory in a certain time before it attempts to run it?

Thought I'd share my own experiences with, sorry I don't have an answer :(

Cheers,
71M

[rousseau]

Thanks for the info. Im running the app from a 1gb memory stick, so i dont think access speed would have any effect.

Steve

[rousseau]

btw, thanks for the tip about FileAssistant. Launching the EBOOT from your program gives me some more debug info:

[TyRaNiD]

You need to read your debug information carefully, based on that your app presents a memory image of 37MB, now considering the PSP only has 32MB of which only 24 is actually useable by a user application you can understand the kernels problem.

Have you got any large static buffers or anything like that in your code ?

[rousseau]

You're right.. i misread that as 3.7mb, not 37. Guess I'll need to spend more time looking at the code.

Thanks for the tip
Steve