pyoplm 0.71

Tool To Manage Open-PS2-Loader USB-Drives & Games

PyOPLM - Python Open PS2 Loader Manager

PyOPLM is a simple, Linux (and Windows using Docker, check this repo for a Docker compose setup with a helper PowerShell script), WIP python app to manage games installed in a directory used by Open PS2 Loader. Supports SMB and USB folders at the moment, hard drive games support is WIP.

IMPORTANT: Only supporting Python version 3.10 and greater at the moment

Features

• Add, remove and rename games in your OPL Directory
  • Support for ISO games, UL and POPS games (POPS and PS2 CD bin/cue game install support is only on x86_64 linux)
• Read, write and fix ul.cfg
• List all games on n OPL directory
• init OPL Directory with all needed folders
• Fix game names for all games on drive
• Update game titles and download game art from an online static file storage or local directory
• Comes packaged with Python translations of bchunk, binmerge and cue2pops, making this package officially cross-platform (yay!)

Installation

pip install pyoplm

The latest version is 0.71 (Do not download anything older, this app is under heavy development)

TODO

• CFG file editor, download game data from an open api like RAWG.io

Artwork and title database

Due to this being an open source project, a bit of "self hosting" is required to get these features that require storage to work

In order to have support for artwork downloading and game title fetching, you need to either download one of danielb's OPLM monthly art database backups (i tested this program on OPLM_ART_2023_07.zip) on your system or host the contents of a ZIP backup in a static file storage server (like Google cloud storage buckets, i like using Google cloud because of te free trails but you can place the files anywhere), and give this program the location where the backup is unzipped, and then you can download artwork and update titles for any installed game on your drive.

In order to be able to use storage features, you need to create a file named pyoplm.ini in your OPL directory, and insert your storage URL in there just like in the file example.pyoplm.ini in the root of this repo.

Indexing the zip backups

This program supports indexing for the zip files, which is a much faster way of downloading art and titles from online storages (for local storages too, but it doesn't make too much of a difference in speed). This is necessary because the types of art a game has on an online storage can only be found out through guessing without the data being indexed, which leads to the non-indexed usage of the storage features being much slower.

Perform these steps to enable indexing:

1. Go to the page of the Archive.org danielb backup you want to use (i'm using the August 2023 backup) and select the show all button in the download options.
2. Click the (view content) button next to the zip file in the list that appears
3. Copy the link of the page where you will be redirected to after clicking
4. Paste this link to the zip_contents_location key of the [STORAGE.INDEXING] section of the pyoplm.ini file in your OPL drive

   [STORAGE.INDEXING]
   # URL to the internet archive "(View Contents)" results for the zip backup
   # Placeholder is the archive to the august 2023 backup
   zip_contents_location=https://ia802706.us.archive.org/view_archive.php?archive=/4/items/OPLM_ART_2023_07/OPLM_ART_2023_07.zip
   

5. After running pyoplm, the indexing process will be performed and the results will be stored in the indexed_storage.db file in your OPL game directory. This process takes a bit of time but only needs to be performed once
6. Enjoy 2x+ faster online storage artwork and title download times :)

Usage

The argument opl_dir is mostly required to be supplid by the commands of this app, but can be avoided by putting your OPL Directory in an environment variable named PYOPLM_OPL_DIR

usage: pyoplm [-h] {list,rename,delete,fix,init,add,storage,bintools} ...

positional arguments:
  {list,rename,delete,fix,init,add,storage,bintools}
                        Choose your path...
    list                List Games on OPL-Drive
    rename              Change the title of the game corresponding to opl_id
                        to new_title in the given opl_dir
    delete              Delete game from Drive
    fix                 rename/fix media filenames
    init                Initialize OPL folder structure
    add                 Add ISO/CUE PS2 and PSX game to opl_dir
    storage             Art and title storage-related functionality
    bintools            Tools for processing cue/bin games

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit

Thank you danielb for the OPL Manager art database backups, great stuff