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PSP Custom Firmware Thread
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Segata Sanshiro
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Unless some new custom firmware gets released in the next week, you're SOL.hirokazu said:So guys, Gran Turismo comes out in just over a week, and I hear it requires 6.00.
What's the best course of action to be ready for it, but still retain custom firmware? I'm on 5.00 M33-? Please tell me there's a solution.
SmokyDave said:
Even if DAX did stop, someone will pick up where he left off.
Also, I wouldn't be surprised if he's sitting on a huge exploit and is waiting until the GO gets released.
Release said exploit now and Sony patches it. Release it after the GO and bam, another hacked PSP.
They did something similar when Pandora came out. They knew about it for a while, but sat on it until the 2k came out.
dreamer3kx
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No cfw for psp 3001, correct?
hirokazu said:So guys, Gran Turismo comes out in just over a week, and I hear it requires 6.00.
What's the best course of action to be ready for it, but still retain custom firmware? I'm on 5.00 M33-? Please tell me there's a solution.
you can wait for CFW 6.00 or if you have a pandora battery, just upgrade to 6.00 OFW and when you need to go back to CFW, pandora back.
I did the whole CFW thing before the pandora battery, so do I need a second battery that I convert into a pandora if I want to swap between CFW and OFW?
I'm using a phat PSP and want to go to OFW to play some things, but want to be able to swap back to 5.00M33-6 for my PS1 games.
I'm using a phat PSP and want to go to OFW to play some things, but want to be able to swap back to 5.00M33-6 for my PS1 games.
gregor7777
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toneroni said:
yes
riskVSreward
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I can't even think of one game that you can't play on GEN B aside from Persona which just came out today and I'm sure will get a patch within a day or two.SmokyDave said:
:lol @ Sony "taking the scene down"
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=17689316&postcount=6513Macstorm said:
gregor7777
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riskVSreward said:
I downloaded the demo for Half Minute Hero just last night on GEN-B and it said I needed 5.55 or something like that. Am I supposed to download a shady pirated copy?
I'm patient, and don't mind waiting, but it is definitely a downside for a lot of people right now.
riskVSreward
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I don't know anything about Half Minute Hero, sorry. There's probably a patched demo, I don't see how there could be such a thing as a pirated demo. I was talking about full UMD games, you could rip them to your memory stick and download a patched file to get it to run. My friend is running Soul Calibur on m33-6 due to this method.gregor7777 said:
gregor7777
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riskVSreward said:
No, I don't believe you'd find a pirated demo. I meant that the game probably had the same firmware requirement, and that my only option would be to buy it at retail then download a pirated copy.
You say there are files you can d/l in lieu of downloading the entire game? Didn't know that. I bet the people that make them are still quite suspect.
Castor Krieg
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gregor7777 said:
That was the case with two most recent DJ Max PSP games. Pentavision put some crazy copy protection so if you wanted to put the game on memory stick (which made it load like 100% faster + it didn't kill your UMD drive) you had to rip it and then patch it.
Currently, most 5.55 games pose a barrier to CFW users. Only some of them (Soul Calibur, EU version of Dissidia) have been cracked and are patch-able to load on pre-5.55 CFWs. Some work is being done on a few others (like Disgaea 2), but honestly, I expect a new CFW to hit before the bulk of the existing 5.55+ games are resolved.
Let alone the newer ones that will be hitting the market going forward.
Also, depending on the model PSP, it is possible to switch between higher OFWs and lower CFWs, though clearly it's pretty tedious. Not worth the effort, IMHO. I can wait for this latest roadbump (as that's all this really is) to get surmounted.
Also, as others have mentioned, if new CFWs/exploits are in fact in the works, as is likely, the scene is not about to tip their hat too soon. They'll wait until the Go hits in the hopes that whatever they've got cooked up will be usable on the new hardware. Remember the seemingly quiet scene right before the PSP 2000 hit? And then the nicely updated CFW that quickly became possible on both existing 1000s and the new 2000s? Not saying that's going to be duplicated, but I am saying that the relatively rapid-fire releases of the UMD-only 5.55 and download-able 6.00 (right BEFORE a major hardware revision) are a bit suspicious. Especially since, it seems, that the Gos will be coming with an otherwise unknown 5.70 firmware out-of-the-box.
Let alone the newer ones that will be hitting the market going forward.
Also, depending on the model PSP, it is possible to switch between higher OFWs and lower CFWs, though clearly it's pretty tedious. Not worth the effort, IMHO. I can wait for this latest roadbump (as that's all this really is) to get surmounted.
Also, as others have mentioned, if new CFWs/exploits are in fact in the works, as is likely, the scene is not about to tip their hat too soon. They'll wait until the Go hits in the hopes that whatever they've got cooked up will be usable on the new hardware. Remember the seemingly quiet scene right before the PSP 2000 hit? And then the nicely updated CFW that quickly became possible on both existing 1000s and the new 2000s? Not saying that's going to be duplicated, but I am saying that the relatively rapid-fire releases of the UMD-only 5.55 and download-able 6.00 (right BEFORE a major hardware revision) are a bit suspicious. Especially since, it seems, that the Gos will be coming with an otherwise unknown 5.70 firmware out-of-the-box.
red shoe paul
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Larsen B said:
No, no ISO's will work on OFW.
vag 2.0 said:
Offhand:
1) No LEDA support. Not relevant for 1000 users.
2) No memory stick speed up hacks (probably irrelevant if you're using SD card adapters).
3) No 1.5 kernel support (largely irrelevant, even on 1000s that support it, due to most homebrew having been ported to more modern kernels ages ago).
4) No DARK-ALEX IS MY LORD AND SAVIOR!! bragging rights, which honestly seems to be the biggest issue with most idiots "in the scene" if you ask me.
Gen CFW is a little rough around the edges in certain respects. If you don't follow the proper upgrade path, you can potentially brick your PSP. But I successfully made the jump from 5.00 M33-6 to 5.50 Gen-B2, and I can still play all of my old PSP and PSOne games without issue. Hell, I can play MORE now. And access PSN. I'm content.
SonOfABeep
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Well, there's at least 2 PSP Games I'm not buying until they work with CFW or CFW comes out that works with them.
I got other stuff to play. I can wait until the hax0rs get one step ahead of sorny.
I got other stuff to play. I can wait until the hax0rs get one step ahead of sorny.
SecretBonusPoint
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Okay gentlemen...how do I play this Peace Walker demo :lol
Mailenstein
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+1 and I'm still on 5.00 M33-6. Still on the fence about switching to the GEN ones... :/SecretBonusPoint said:
SecretBonusPoint
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Jesus christ, FFVIII on PSN store as well supposed to be coming to USA and EU today as well? Someone put a bounty out on Dark Alex. Shit needs to be played!
Been playing Symphony of the Night on my PSP, but the screen size is really annoying me. On normal/original it's too small. On Zoom, it cuts off some of the top and bottom. That's not too bad, but I can't see what items I'm picking up. Full Screen just sucks.
Is there any solution to this? A plugin? Other pops versions? I just want it to be 4:3 using the full height of the screen.
Is there any solution to this? A plugin? Other pops versions? I just want it to be 4:3 using the full height of the screen.
matrix-cat
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This.SecretBonusPoint said:
I'm on 5.00 M33-6 and no end of version.txt alterations is giving me Peace Walker goodness. Is there an easy way to change to 5.50 GEN-A, which apparently works?
EDIT - Indeed there is. You just download the 5.50 GEN-A Update file (found here here, stick it in the Game folder on your memory stick and run the sucker. Very easy:lol
From there, go into the recover menu, and Enable Version.txt (under Configuration). Then, with your PSP USBed to your computer, go to Advanced -> Toggle USB (flash0). This'll open a folder on your computer with a text file named 'version' in it (it's under 'etc', you'll find it eventually). Replace the text in there with this:
release:5.51:
build:3062,0,3,1,0:builder@vsh-build6
system:50781@release_551,0x05050010:
vsh
target:1:WorldWide
and save. Back on your PSP, go up to Advanced Configuration, disable the plugins in there, and exit the recovery menu. When you get back to the XMB the Peace Walker demo should work perfectly.
SecretBonusPoint
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I'm on GEN-A now as well, this was the final push. Won't do GEN-B yet as some GEN-B users have found it harder to play the Peace Walker demo for some reason.
CFW is seriously lagging behind at this point. There are countless games and features now that CFW users aren't able to use. I understand the "wait for Go launch" advice, but if it launches on Oct 1 and theres still no CFW in sight, things are looking troubling.
CFW is seriously lagging behind at this point. There are countless games and features now that CFW users aren't able to use. I understand the "wait for Go launch" advice, but if it launches on Oct 1 and theres still no CFW in sight, things are looking troubling.
nolookjones
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im gonna wait awhile before switching to GEN from 5.0 M33-6...but the peace walker demo is making that very hard to do...
Not big on signing in and responding from the office, but people need to chill out, IMHO.
CFW is not "seriously lagging behind" anything. We're 1 major firmware revision behind, which is quite the common occurrence, historically speaking. You're only further behind if you foolishly stick to M33 instead of upgrading to Gen, but that's entirely on you.
5.51 was not a major (or necessary, IIRC) revision, and 5.55 will never see a proper legal CFW release because it remains a UMD-only FW. Never having gotten a free, download-able distributable (which is necessary for installing CFW), you're not going to see a real 5.55 CFW come out; and you were never going to.
So we're at 5.50. Sony's at 6.00. Realistically speaking, we're one major FW behind, and the new firmware has only been out for about a week or two. 6.00 has been fully dumped and decrypted, so the major barriers to seeing it converted into a CFW are behind us. Gen aren't the fastest on the block, but with a bit of patience, we're very likely to see 6.00 Gen-A hit in the near future.
Also, please keep in mind that 5.55 and 6.00 represent a new generation of encrypted UMDs, so there are stumbling blocks to the development of a fully working CFW. Patience, folks. And for those lacking it, other options exist.
If you really can't wait and have a Pandora-friendly PSP, then go for the OFW 6.00 NAND / 5.00 M33 emulation route that a decent Pandora setup can hook you up with. It's cumbersome and annoying, but it WILL allow you to play the newest demos and the newest UMDs (only from disc, not ISO) in the interim and load up a temporary (and somewhat barebones) CFW instance for playing the most of the rest of your ISOs, emulators, PSOne games, etc.
The gist of the process involves flashing 6.00 official to your PSP, effectively killing your CFW, AFTER having set up (or updating) a Pandora battery and paired magic memory stick to call on Dark-Alex's Despertar del Cemeterio 8 (DC8) for its "Test M33" functionality. This allows you to load an instance of CFW from the memory stick (instead of from the flash, as per the norm). It's by no means a perfect solution, but it is viable for any PSP that supports a Pandora battery, that is to say, all 1000s and most early 2000s.
CFW is not "seriously lagging behind" anything. We're 1 major firmware revision behind, which is quite the common occurrence, historically speaking. You're only further behind if you foolishly stick to M33 instead of upgrading to Gen, but that's entirely on you.
5.51 was not a major (or necessary, IIRC) revision, and 5.55 will never see a proper legal CFW release because it remains a UMD-only FW. Never having gotten a free, download-able distributable (which is necessary for installing CFW), you're not going to see a real 5.55 CFW come out; and you were never going to.
So we're at 5.50. Sony's at 6.00. Realistically speaking, we're one major FW behind, and the new firmware has only been out for about a week or two. 6.00 has been fully dumped and decrypted, so the major barriers to seeing it converted into a CFW are behind us. Gen aren't the fastest on the block, but with a bit of patience, we're very likely to see 6.00 Gen-A hit in the near future.
Also, please keep in mind that 5.55 and 6.00 represent a new generation of encrypted UMDs, so there are stumbling blocks to the development of a fully working CFW. Patience, folks. And for those lacking it, other options exist.
If you really can't wait and have a Pandora-friendly PSP, then go for the OFW 6.00 NAND / 5.00 M33 emulation route that a decent Pandora setup can hook you up with. It's cumbersome and annoying, but it WILL allow you to play the newest demos and the newest UMDs (only from disc, not ISO) in the interim and load up a temporary (and somewhat barebones) CFW instance for playing the most of the rest of your ISOs, emulators, PSOne games, etc.
The gist of the process involves flashing 6.00 official to your PSP, effectively killing your CFW, AFTER having set up (or updating) a Pandora battery and paired magic memory stick to call on Dark-Alex's Despertar del Cemeterio 8 (DC8) for its "Test M33" functionality. This allows you to load an instance of CFW from the memory stick (instead of from the flash, as per the norm). It's by no means a perfect solution, but it is viable for any PSP that supports a Pandora battery, that is to say, all 1000s and most early 2000s.
dermannmitdemcolt
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matrix-cat said:
Yeah, very easy but now I can't start my PSX Games anymore (I get the 800200E5 message). There is an easy solution for this, RIGHT!!?
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
Mejilan said:
That explains why you're never on during the day! You should watch Office Space--it'll give you an inspirational plan for how to be a good worker.
xBerserker
Member
Thanks matrix-cat. I may give this a shot.