PlayView

PlayView

PlayView on PS3

Description

Generic

Game used to advertise PlayView

PlayView can be described as guide book for games. Using "ultra- high resolution (4K) digital data", PSP or PS3 will display the images with no effort. It can be compatible 3D and PS Move+EYE Camera on PS3 and can include possible extra content(themes, DLC).

Most of the time, each full screen page display is equivalent to 2 paper pages of an art book/game manual but other display have been release (Gran Tourismo PlayView: long highway road, with zoom you reach other visual content). Specific background music or sound and videos per page can be apply.

There are various kind of content, but it can be distinguish as for PS3 or PSP (Some games titles are present in both category). However, it work on the same way (with specific encryption/security, resolution/more sub element such sound channel etc...)

PS3 games can contain and embebed Playview (e.g. the "wizard book" inside "Ni No Kuni" uses a custom game module named libTGV_v1.45.07.sprx)

Playview might required FW 6.39 or so, and PS3 FW around 3.70.

Few full free content for PS3 & PSP are available online.

Transfer from PSP PlayView to PS VITA is possible for some PlayView titles (export PS3 to PSP also is possible but as not bootable, transfer with UMD passport?).

PSP/PS3 Digital comic/strategy/guide/manual are not PlayView, see below.

Codename of playview is TGV (Tiny Gigantic Viewer) and his derivates with an added or removed letter (TG, GV, etc...)

• Demo on PS3 (in English) : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LIdPOZGoDE

• Game on PS3 (Atelier Totori) : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HITguIxAPQ0

• Game list in Japan for PS3,PSP&PS VITA

example structure PSP(/PS3)

PlayView image layers for 1 page

Structure and display on both device PS3/PSP can be like flipping the pages of a book (see youtube game link and XML structure content.dat.edat) with specific background music for each page.

For one page (one page equivalent of 2 paper pages):

• Each page contain 6 (or 5) layers with the same graphical content, the layer display is according to the level you zoom.

• Aspect ratio is 1.77 (16:9) (all PSP models).

• The demo video linked/image show a little different structure (tile sizes only as 256x256 and grid) . Described as"authoring", it s easy to understand/manipulate/modulate.

	Level Layer visual	Atelier Meruru Guide Book  : Number Image	Note	Grid (WxH)	Other example: Atelier Totori Plus(PSP&PS3) or Atelier Meruru Plus	Other example: Atelier Ayesha Guide Book
Zoom in ∇
	0	1(sum: 180x101)	(180x101) "thumbnail" when slide	1x1	1 image (240x135)	1 (200x112)
	1	2(sum: 360x202)	Left: 256x202 Right: 104x202	2x1	4 images (480x270)	2 (400x225)
	2	6(sum: 720x405)		3x2	12 images (960x540)	8 (800x450)
	3	24(sum: 1440x810)		6x4	40 images (1920x1080)	28 (1600x900)
	4	84(sum: 2880x1620)		12x7	135 images (3840x2160)	104 (3200x1800)
	5	299(sum: 5760x3240)	Max_Zoom, the "deepest" into the page	23x13	no	375 (6400x3600)

• Level Layer order are reversed (layer 0 being the max_zoom) on the file who contain the image: gvd.dat.edat file (see DATA BASE Viewer) and effect as double page flip are defined into the content.dat.edat (second part contan the structure XML) .

Game Data

Can be slightly different and for convenience description, this term of "1.01" (based on disc_version from PSP title) is used for wikify but it not meant to be strict since there are not strictly two different model at this level of files (neither as PS3/PSP)

However, PlayView version "1.00" and "1.01" difference are cosmetic order (or divided file on some PS3 title) until content.dat.edat XML structure (to be picky) and PlayView setting (format +warning/logo/user interface screen...).

*Tgvtools-v0.81 (FW 3.70.001) and v.1.10 (FW 410.001)

*Ni No Kuni internal PlayVew book use Tgvtools-v0.81 (FW 3.70.001)

See note for JPG extractor tool.

gvd.dat(.edat):

1.00	1.01
TGDT0100 header 0x400	TGDT0100 header 0x400
Image ID.gvd for the first page	all name file.gvd+ padding
second image id.gvd	DATA BASE Viewer +padding
End Of File: 00	End Of File: 00

The file contain the image embedded as well as "database". Can be divided in 2 parts:

• "TGDT0100"
• "Image ID.gvd"

TGDT0100

Offset	Length	Value & note
0000	8	"TGDT0100"
0008	4	Total data entry (next 0x10) in hex
000C	4	Total Length first part/start second part (first image id.gvd)
0010	4	Offset file name.gvd (without header TGDT0100)
0014	4	Length file name.gvd (00 is not counted)
0018	4	Offset Data Base Viewer
001C	4	Length Data base Viewer file
0020	xx	Repeat last 0x10 for page
0XXX	xx	Filled with 00 until the first image ID.gvd start

Image ID.gvd:

Repeat for each page referenced. Can be divide into 3 part: Name file referenced into XML, data base utility and the embedded images.

Name file.gvd

Offset	Length	Value & note
0000	10	.name file.gvd
0010	00	Padding with zero for alignment (if variable per page: DATA BASE Viewer start at next offset 0X00 or according to the structure used)

DATA BASE Viewer

Offset	Length	Value	Note
0000	10	47 56 45 57 30 31 30 30 4A 50 45 47 30 31 30 30	"GVEW0100JPEG0100"
0010	4	00 00 xx xx	Length Width (hex) total layer 0 (variable per game)
0014	4	00 00 xx xx	Length Height (hex) total layer 0 (variable per game)
0018	4	42 4C 4B 5F	"BLK_"
001C	4	00 00 xx xx	Length Data Base (variable per game structure)
0020	8	00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00	Similar
Data Base
0028	4	00 00 00 20	Apps/machine code?
002C	4	00 00 00 04	Apps/machine code?
0030	4	00 00 00 xx	Grid position Width (hex): as horizontal line, left to right.
0034	4	00 00 00 xx	Grid position Height (hex): next position after each horizontal line.
0038	4	00 00 00 0x	Layer level: layer 0 (max zoom) appear first.
003C	4	00 00 xx xx	Length of the image (hex)
0040	4	00 00 00 xx	Length padding of the image (hex)
0044	4	00 00 00 00	Not used?
0048	4	00 00 0x xx	Width image (hex)
004C	4	00 00 0x xx	Height image (hex)
0050	...	...	Repeat last 0x20 for each image on the page
Data Base
XXXX	4	42 4C 4B 5F	"BLK_"
XXXX	4	xx xx xx xx	Total length embedded images (with FF padding)
XXXX	8	00 00 00 02 00 00 00 00	Similar
XXXX	xx	FF D8 ...	First JPEG (first from level layer on file 0, top left to right)
XXXX	xx		Padding with FF (16 bytes alignment)
XXXX	xx		Second JPEG until last image for the page. Start either next name file.gvd/data base viewer
XXXX	xx	xx xx	Padding with 00 for alignment if next is data base viewer

Images JPG

Embedded image (JPEG JFIF) per page. The second page start.

content.dat(.edat):

The file contain the XML structure to transport elements such video, music background etc...

• First part header:

Offset	Length	Value & Note
0000	8	"TGDT0100"
0008	4	Total data entry (next 0x10) in hex
000C	4	Total Length first part/start second part
0010	4	Offset (without header)
0014	4	Length
0018	4	Offset
001C	4	Length
0020	xx	Repeat last 0x10

• Second part XML:

On 1.01:

Code Sample

Note

• Image: JPEG (...)

• Video:

Property	PSP	PS3
Extension	.mp4	.mp4
Frame Size	480*272	1280*720
Display Aspect	480*272	1280*720
Video Compression	h264	h264
Frame Rate	29.970	29.970
Audio Format	mpeg4aac	mpeg4aac
Audio Frequency (Hz)	41000	48000
Audio Channels	Stereo	Stereo
Specific markers

*no auto scale on PSP? (fw 6.60 videos utility is more picky than fw 6.39)

*not all PlayView on PS3 & PSP contains videos, 3D content video and stereo 3D are supported.

• Sound: (only se.dat?)

Some PS3/PSP PLayview can have specific sound assigned to actions such cancel.

Name	Offset	Size	Example	Remark
Magic	0x00	0x06	53 47 58 44 50 01	"SGXDP"
Header size	0x06	0x04	00 00 60 01
Body size	0x0A	0x8	N.A

• Music: Used on background, for each page or when linked/zoomed. MP3 format (128 KBPS)

• PSP EDAT files (videos & sound also): see tool on main page for decrypt.

• Tiles_type also as Multiplane and Stereoscopy?

• Web Brower link in-game for PS3 PlayView?

• This tiny tool can extract embedded .JPG (some gvd.dat can have more than 10 000 images), heavily based on an MPO splitter by Christian Steinruecken.

http://rghost.net/48813321 (include Code-Compile-Credit. Drag and drop your file with embedded .JPG)

PlayView Config

PlayView apps itself can be configured per game/machine. Indeed one aspect of this Tiny Gigantic Viewer being authoring, it need to be quick and easy to port (...) the game data but also the apps to fit into different content/machine/user.

Following Config PSP & PS3 and config User Interface description are not necessary complete and don t necessary complete each other.

Config PSP & PS3: tgv.cfg

This file can be in different format up to the title.

Allow different settings for the title such background color.

This table is not complete.

Settings	Values	Comments & note
selection_mode_by_enter_button	(0/1) default: 0
selection_frame_margin	range: [0.0, 0.25] PS3 default: 0.15 PSP default: 0.01
key_repeat_delay	range: [0.0, 1.0] PS3 default: 0.266667 PSP default: 0.233333
key_repeat_interval	range: [0.0, 1.0] PS3 default: 0.083333 PSP default: 0.05
clear_color_normal	e.g. default: 0xffffffff	RGBX color outside the viewer: background color
clear_color_dialog	e.g. default: 0x00000000	RGBX color
clear_color_margin	e.g. default: 0x00000000	RGBA color outside Aspect ratio screen
disable_debug_menu	default: 0 (1/0)
disable_debug_hud	default: 0
enable_stick_guide	(1/0) PS3 default: 1 PSP default: 0
page_flip_speed_factor	range: [0.01, 10.0] PS3 default: 2.0 PSP default: 2.0
fixed_aspect_ratio_width = 16 fixed_aspect_ratio_height = 9	range: [0, 4096] PS3 only default: 0	On PS3, Aspect ratio can be adjust. See above setting about color normal and margin.
viewport_shrink_factor	range: [0.1, 1.0] PS3 only default: 1.0	Rate full screen/viewer : Works also on PSP (as resolution on full screen)
force_16_9_letter_box_if_4_3_sdtv	default: 0
letter_box_margin_color	default: 0x00000000
enable_screenshot_utility = 1 screenshot_photo_title = photo_title screenshot_game_title = game_title screenshot_add_date_time = 1 screenshot_add_overlay = 1	(0/1)
max_num_sgx_streams	2
guide_alignment	default: 5	0= Top left, 1= Top, 2= Bottom left, 3= Bottom left, 4= Bottom, 5= Bottom right, 6= Center
selection_frame_draw_margin	PS3 default: 0 PSP default: 0
selection_frame_draw_division	default: 0
xy_motion_speed_limit_factor	range: [0.01, 10.0] PS3 default: 3.0 PSP default: 1.0
back_speed_factor	range: [0.01, 10.0] PS3 default: 1.0 PSP default: 0.58
back_home_speed_factor	range: [0.01, 10.0] PS3 default: 0.7 PSP default: 0.58
bg_image_off	default: 0	Hide background image (when slide)
default_language_psp	PSP only default: 0	Language for home button (quit game): See Languages up to the ones available on PSP

Config User Interface: ui

This file can be in different format/name up to the title version.

Can be divide into 3 part:

• First part:

Offset	Length	Value & Note
0000	8	"TGDT0100"
0008	4	Total data entry (next 0x10) in hex
000C	4	Total Length first part/start second part
0010	4	Offset (without header)
0014	4	Length
0018	4	Offset
001C	4	Length
0020	xx	Repeat last 0x10

• Second part (example):

Code Sample

• Third part:

Title id.png followed by the image itself (contains boot screens, menu user etc..)

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Misc:

Digital Comic PSP

Not related to PlayView but for completion/comparison, we can make a quick review here.

On PS3, digital comic can also be repack and run as or .

Customization might be extremely limited by size of image (around 2MB?) per page/sum loaded although there are may be some possible setting (if not due to internal use) on emulation for PS3 and one SFO parameter on PSP. XML structure link seems also limited to only two xmlurl / action per page (left/right as backward/forward) .

it s simple to manipulate and make your owns .PNG (no need to be specific) slow slide show pack as PKG for your game column.

Pages can be added by simply expand the structure inside USRDIR/packages/comic name/

Structure tree

PSP_GAME/
    |
    |-SYSDIR/
    |
    |-USRDIR/
          |
          |-font/
          |   |  
          |   |-latin_22_serif_r.pgf files, latin_22_serif_i.pgf files,...
          |
          |-images/
          |   |  
          |   |-.bmp, .gim and .tga files used for GUI.
          |
          |-module/
          |   |  
          |   |-libfont.prx
          |   |  
          |   |-libmp3.prx
          |   |  
          |   |-libpsmfplayer.prx
          |   |  
          |   |-libsecure.prx
          |   | 
          |   |-psmf.prx
          |   |  
          |   |-psnet_ap_dialog_dummy.prx
          |
          |-packages/
          |   |
          |   |-comic name dir/
          |   |   |
          |   |   |-templates/
          |   |   |   |
          |   |   |   |-page1layout.xml, page2layout.xml, ...
          |   |   |
          |   |   |-_default_white_bg.jpg
          |   |   |
          |   |   |-001.PNG, 002.PNG, ...
          |   |   |
          |   |   |-AppTemplate.xml
          |   |   |
          |   |   |-packageInfo.xml
          |   |   |
          |   |   |-page00000001.xml, page00000002.xml, ...
          |   |
          |   |-background.jpg
          |   |     
          |   |-home_page.xml
          |
          |-AppTemplate.xml
                |
                |-config.txt
                |
                |-NTemplateMain.xml

Notes

• AppTemplate.xml : Contains application name of the app, font (size, type, style ...), buttonMap (L2/R2 included and related status), ...

• config.txt : home page URL, umd and ms root directory, ...

• NTemplateMain.xml :

USRDIR

USRDIR/font

PGF format for fonts is the format used on the psp

http://dl.qj.net/psp/tools-utilities-on-pc/ttf2pgf-font-converter.html

USRDIR/images

Images in game used for GUI.

USRDIR/module

libfont.prx, libmp3.prx, libsmfplayer.prx...

USRDIR/packages

• background.jpg

• home_page.xml

USRDIR/packages/comic name/

• _default_white_bg.jpg : used when the 0xx.PNG is not loaded properly (generic image used in other psp comic?)

• 001.PNG, 002.PNG, ... : are images specific to the comic book.

• AppTemplate.xml : Contains application name of the comic, font (size, type, style ...), buttonMap (L2/R2 included and related status), ...

• packageInfo.xml : contains Application Id, Name,...and Package Id

• page00000001.xml, page00000002.xml, ... :

USRDIR/packages/comic name/template

• page1layout.xml, page2layout.xml, p3layout.xml ... : contains buttons assigned

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Digital Manual PS3

Not related to PlayView but for completion/comparison, we can make a quick review here (or re/move later if there are custom manual or not documented well enough to got generic structure) . Named as Digimanual or Manual (Digital), they are stand alone pkg hdd games included in disc (PKGDIR for example) or available online.

Structure tree

NPUO30***/ (only from few US example)
    |
    |-ICON0.PNG (See Content Information files for HDD Game)
    |
    |-PARAM.SFO (SFO category HG)
    |
    |-PS3LOGO.DAT
    |
    |-USRDIR/
          |
          |-digiman.sdat
          |
          |-digiman_content.sdat
          |
          |-digiman_content_en.sdat (can also have others languages as digiman_content_es.sdat..)
          |
          |-EBOOT.BIN
          |
          |-assets/
                |
                |-image/ (can contain sub-directory such "screenshots", "modals"...)
                |    |
                |    |-.jpg and .png
                |
                |-sound/
                |    |
                |    |-.wav
                |    
                |-video/
                     |
                     |-.usm