OrbisTTY

OrbisTTY is a simple terminal-style text renderer for PlayStation 4 homebrew that provides a printf-like interface using sceVideoOut and FreeType for the OpenOrbis PS4 Toolchain.

Note: Fonts that were tested with OrbisTTY are stored in tested-fonts/
Note: Try avoiding using escape sequences like \n or \r (...)

Features

• printf-style text output
• Automatic line scrolling
• FreeType font rendering
• Double buffered rendering
• Lightweight and easy to integrate

Required OpenOrbis libraries to link

• -lc
• -lkernel
• -lc++
• -lSceVideoOut
• -lSceFreeType
• -lSceSysmodule

Example

#include "OrbisTTY.h"

#define printf(...) OrbisTTY::orbis_printf(__VA_ARGS__)

int main() {
    if (!OrbisTTY::init("/app0/assets/fonts/Inconsolata-Regular.ttf"))
        return 1;

    for (int i = 0; ; i++)
        printf("Homebrew counter %d", i);

    return 0;
}

OpenOrbis PS4 Toolchain

OrbisTTY is an third-party additional library to the OpenOrbis PS4 Toolchain.

• https://github.com/OpenOrbis/OpenOrbis-PS4-Toolchain