This is another one of my occassional status posts that I do when there hasn't been news for a while.
Since the HomebrewStore is over 1 year old now
I thought it would be nice to do a recap of all version updates and all of the LivePatches that have been sent since version 2.50 was released in May 2011.
Version History (with some neat codenames when available, which might tell you what the real focus was when making that version update):
- 1.0
Initial Public Release
- 1.10
Chances of content download corruption when installing more than one item during a single use reduced
Content installation folder is now displayed on item description pages
A menu selection bug that could cause the user to be stuck when changing pages was fixed
- 2.00 [Codename: NUI] (short for New User Interface)
Revamped user interface
Content listings now report number of downloads (Data collected since 1/27/2011)
Categories can now be sorted by number of downloads
Content being downloaded will now display transfer progress
Firmware requirement dropped from 6.20 to 5.00
- 2.01 [Codename: Future]
Patches can now be automatically applied while the client checks for updates
- 2.10 [Codename: Click]
Improved patching support
Bugfix in patch error handling
Click sound added
Slightly modified user interface
Includes LivePatch 222416 (Adds percentages to download progress bar)
Includes LivePatch 2261007+3050410 (Adds search capability)
- 2.50 [Codename: Genesis]
Mobile Device Queuing Support
Adds Genesis Competition Splash Screen
Includes LivePatch 4190310 (Screenshots for items)
Includes LivePatch 4090644 (Scalable Storefront Categories)
Now for all of the LivePatches that keep the old 2.50 update feeling fresh. The following is straight from the version log we keep to ourselves in the source code for a file called HBPATCH.lo. (For this list, it goes from most recent to oldest)
Code: Select all
-- HBStore Patching data
-- Patch 0106121147
-- -- Performs fixes to Outdated Content Check
-- Includes Patch 12270958
-- -- Checks for Outdated Content
-- -- Visual Changes to Queue Downloader
-- Includes Patch 11270121
-- -- Displays Donation Banner
-- Includes Patch 8200940
-- -- Makes Feat1 an Ad Block.
-- Includes Patch 6301248
-- -- Removes Genesis Featured
-- Includes Patch 6221435
-- -- Category Image Caching
-- Includes Patch 5061026
-- -- Restores previous patches that were not included in 2.50 using new patch format
-- -- -- Adds tips to frontend
-- -- -- Creates access to Device Identifier dialog
Finally, some statistcal data.
Users Served: 61258
Number of Uses: 416279
Items in Store: 133
PSP Uses in past 24 hours: 92%
PC Uses in past 24 hours: 5%
Mobile Uses in past 24 hours: 2%
Hopefully this year has a lot in store for HomebrewStore