Prospero Explorer

A file explorer for the console, built on the SharpProspero SDK. It browses and manages the file system, unpacks and builds archives, plays audio and video, views and edits text, views and converts pictures, installs packages from the writable area and from removable devices, launches an installed title, serves the whole file system over the network, opens a web address, and reports what the machine is doing.

The interface draws its text with the console's own font when the system provides it, falling back to the built-in one otherwise, and every page carries a breadcrumb of where you are and a header that says what its buttons do.

It exercises most of the SharpProspero SDK end to end, so it doubles as a way to check that a build of the toolchain works on real hardware.

Building

The result is always a module folder, not an installable pkg file (for now).

pwsh ./build.ps1

The module lands in out/module. Copy the whole folder, not just eboot.bin: it carries the metadata and the modules the application needs beside it.

The SDK is expected beside this project in the same checkout. Point elsewhere with -SdkRoot, or set SHARPPROSPERO_ROOT.

An installer treats a title already on the machine as present and declines to replace it, so a build meant to sit beside the last one needs a title of its own (or replaced):

pwsh ./build.ps1 -TitleId PPSA99108

What it does

Area	What is there
Browsing	Listing with sizes and kinds, sorting, hidden names, find within a folder, multiple selection, copy, cut, paste, rename, delete, new folder, new file, properties, checksums
Archives	Browse and unpack zip and tar, unpack a lone gzip or zlib stream, build a zip or tar from a selection
Media	Audio and video playback with seeking, looping, volume and tags; WAV and VAG play through the decoders when the player will not take them
Text	Viewer with line numbers, wrapping, a hex view and a table view for comma- or tab-separated files; editing by line, find, go to line, save and save as
Pictures	PNG, JPEG, BMP, TGA and GIF; fit modes, panning and pinch-zoom by touch, rotate, flip, grayscale, invert, brightness, contrast, blur, a screenshot of the view, and conversion between every form that can be written
Packages	Finds installable files in the writable area and on removable devices, installs them, reports whether a title is already present, and launches an installed title by its id
Network	A file service over the network reaching the whole file system, with optional login, a read-only mode and a root it cannot climb above
Web	Opens a web address in the system browser
System	Console, users, network, memory, storage and display readings
Settings	Every part of the above, kept between runs

Where it keeps things

Settings and the log live in /data/prospero-explorer. Nothing else is written unless you ask for it.

Controls

D-pad moves, Cross selects, Circle goes back, and Circle on the first page leaves. Where a page offers more, its header says so: Triangle usually opens the actions for whatever is selected, and Square usually toggles a selection.