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PSP Custom Firmware Thread

VOOK said:
Alrighty I'm on 5.50 GENB, did the versions.txt thing and I can connect to the store, downloaded Fieldrunners but neither that nor UMD games will load now. Getting a game could not be started 80020148.

Any ideas :/

Did you change the NOUMD mode to Sony <whatever> in the CFW settings? Hold right-bumper on a cold boot to get there.
 
Ok, yeah, this guide made me think I could create the battery now, then follow the steps given at a later date to load up the required software on my stick, which would bring me from OFW to whichever CFW that software has with it.

I just read it again, and I must still be misunderstanding something because it looks like that's the case.

But no matter, I'll follow those steps to install the software then update to OFW 6.00.
 
So, i have a little problem here T_T

I gave ofr some das my psp fat to my friend, ad he wanting to play the peace wake demo, he updated the psp to the a legal 6.0 firm and now i need to instal a CF but my problem is:

I don`t have pandora and neither a friend or someone who can help me with that

Is there some way to instal it via chickhen or something similar?
 

Mejilan

Running off of Custom Firmware
Nope. No working exploit beyond OFW 5.03. You'll need a Pandora.
To add insult to injury, you can play the Peace Walker demo on CFW. ;p
 
lord, I made one of my batteries into a Pandora and now the PSP won't boot up properly at all. Just sits there with the power light on, but nothing on the screen and no activity on the card.

As soon as I pop the battery in, it does that. I don't need to hit the power switch at all.

That was my good battery too. I knew I'd mess this up. :(
 

dream

Member
gregor7777 said:
lord, I made one of my batteries into a Pandora and now the PSP won't boot up properly at all. Just sits there with the power light on, but nothing on the screen and no activity on the card.

As soon as I pop the battery in, it does that. I don't need to hit the power switch at all.

That was my good battery too. I knew I'd mess this up. :(

IIRC, you need a memory stick with some of the Pandora files on it too.
 

Mejilan

Running off of Custom Firmware
Take the battery out, plug the PSP to the AC adapter, and boot it up that way.
Once it's booted up, plug the battery back in, and either redo the process, or switch it back to a normal battery and forget about it.
 
Mejilan said:
Take the battery out, plug the PSP to the AC adapter, and boot it up that way.
Once it's booted up, plug the battery back in, and either redo the process, or switch it back to a normal battery and forget about it.

You're the man! Looks like it fixed my battery.

Well, I guess it's off to OFW for me. I have two batteries here, I followed the guide step by step, and no dice. Perhaps my batteries just aren't the proper kinds or something.

Anyhow, thanks again.
 

Mejilan

Running off of Custom Firmware
You're welcome.
Most likely the battery was fine, it's just that the memory stick / battery pairing didn't go as it should have.
 

VOOK

We don't know why he keeps buying PAL, either.
xero273 said:
What UMD games are you trying to run? If the games are 5.55 and you did decryptor and you still get that error, check to see if plain modules and execute boot.bin are disabled. You can check by going to recovery menu and then do advanced, then advanced configuration. If they are already off then I really have no clue

It's AFL Challenge, Fieldrunners Mini and my Prinny which I ripped previously. (Yet to try Prinny but I'm sure it won't work). Siphon Filter works fine.

Mejilan said:
I don't exactly have it memorized, but that looks like the error you would get trying to run an ecrypted (5.55/6.00) UMD/game on a system with OFW/CFW prior to 5.55. If it's a new game, you need to use Yoshihiro's app (Game Decryptor V2) to decrypt a file from the UMD's ISO. I posted a pretty handy tutorial a few pages ago. It's pretty straight forward.

I'll look at it tonight, thanks Mej
 

xero273

Member
VOOK said:
It's AFL Challenge, Fieldrunners Mini and my Prinny which I ripped previously. (Yet to try Prinny but I'm sure it won't work). Siphon Filter works fine.



I'll look at it tonight, thanks Mej

I googled AFL challenge and it is one of those 5.55 games that you will need to use Game Decryptor for. For Prinny, I read it works on the latest DA CFW so I have no clue why it doesn't work with gen FW. I'm not sure about Fieldrunners since it is one of the minis game.
 

Deadly

Member
I remember someone had linked a sort of program that could recover your corrupted saved games. Could anyone tell me what it was called?
 
Hey guys I have another question: I got a phat PSP with 5.00 M33-3 CW installed. What is the latest CW and how do I update? By the way I also have a Pandora batt (hard mod).

EDIT: I just found something called XGEN updater, is that safe?
 
ridley182 said:
Hey guys I have another question: I got a phat PSP with 5.00 M33-3 CW installed. What is the latest CW and how do I update? By the way I also have a Pandora batt (hard mod).

EDIT: I just found something called XGEN updater, is that safe?

Latest is 5.50GEN-B2, you go 5.00M33-6 ---> 5.50GEN-A ---> 5.50GEN-B ---> 5.50GEN-B2
 
I'm not sure if this is the correct thread to be asking but I didn't see a better one in the search.

I've got the PSP-2000 series with 5.00 M33-5 or 6 CFW installed. The last time I used it (a few months back), it worked well. This weekend I wanted to take it with me on a trip and tried turning it on but nothing happened. It didn't light up at all. I plugged it in using the USB cable and nothing, with or without the battery installed. I tried using a spare modified battery and still nothing. I'd try plugging it in to an outlet but I can't find the power cord. I doubt it's bricked. It hasn't been touched/modified since the last time it worked.

Any ideas or suggestions?
 
frailimbnursry said:
I'm not sure if this is the correct thread to be asking but I didn't see a better one in the search.

I've got the PSP-2000 series with 5.00 M33-5 or 6 CFW installed. The last time I used it (a few months back), it worked well. This weekend I wanted to take it with me on a trip and tried turning it on but nothing happened. It didn't light up at all. I plugged it in using the USB cable and nothing, with or without the battery installed. I tried using a spare modified battery and still nothing. I'd try plugging it in to an outlet but I can't find the power cord. I doubt it's bricked. It hasn't been touched/modified since the last time it worked.

Any ideas or suggestions?
If the battery's completely dead, you can't charge it via USB. You have to plug it in with the AC adapter. PSP batteries tend to drain completely over the course of about a month if they aren't used.
 
Segata Sanshiro said:
If the battery's completely dead, you can't charge it via USB. You have to plug it in with the AC adapter. PSP batteries tend to drain completely over the course of about a month if they aren't used.

Hmm, I guess I'd still out of luck with my friend's USB to mini-USB & DC-in cable?
 

Mairu

Member
I apologize if my questions have already been answered in the thread, but I've tried to skim through the last few pages to understand the current CFW situation and I'm just getting confused.

I just got my original PSP-1000 back from my sister and it has 5.00 M33-4 CFW on it. How do I update to the most recent CFW? I'd like to be able to rip recent UMD games and play them off a memory stick, because the loading on the psp-1000 through umd is outrageous (or at least it was back when I originally had this psp... it's been awhile). Which firmware should I update to, and how do I update it?

Thanks for the help and sorry for asking questions that may have already been answered.
 

firehawk12

Subete no aware
If you want the newest firmware, you should update to 5.50 GEN-B2, which you can do through some of the links posted above. I did the 5.00 to 5.50 GEN-A -> GEN-B -> GEN-B2 path. Newer games requiring post 5.50 firmware need to be decrypted, but if you have older games they should run fine.
 

Mairu

Member
I can see a large FAQ page with guides & compatibility on the maxconsole.net forums. I'll have to read through that a bit later to understand it. Thanks firehawk12.
 

Prezhulio

Member
i tried sorting this issue out for myself, but i'm still not sure so i figured i'll ask it here.

i ordered the photofast cr-5400 dual micro-sd to msduo adapter with a 16gb microsd card last night, and someone mentioned that psp-1000's are known to fry the card adapter on bootup in another thread. looked around, and there's conflicting opinions whether it was a bad batch of adapter cards that are susceptible to it or what. so does anybody here with a phat have experience on what the deal with the adapter exactly is? (i.e. will i have to pop it out everytime i turn on, or just disable some plugins and themes, though i read this has nothing to do with it).

thanks, i'm on a psp-1001.
 
Hey guys, i'm using the last CFW before the current one, I think (5.033 M33 or something like that). Can I connect to my Ps3?

I just bought a Ps3 recently, so I'm testing the waters of the system. I want to see what cna be done with this feature, but I'd hate to brick my PSP or something..


Any thoughts?
 

xero273

Member
Prezhulio said:
i tried sorting this issue out for myself, but i'm still not sure so i figured i'll ask it here.

i ordered the photofast cr-5400 dual micro-sd to msduo adapter with a 16gb microsd card last night, and someone mentioned that psp-1000's are known to fry the card adapter on bootup in another thread. looked around, and there's conflicting opinions whether it was a bad batch of adapter cards that are susceptible to it or what. so does anybody here with a phat have experience on what the deal with the adapter exactly is? (i.e. will i have to pop it out everytime i turn on, or just disable some plugins and themes, though i read this has nothing to do with it).

thanks, i'm on a psp-1001.

i use that card with the 1000 and it still works. I leave it in when turning on and off the psp.
 

Mejilan

Running off of Custom Firmware
Prezhulio said:
i tried sorting this issue out for myself, but i'm still not sure so i figured i'll ask it here.

i ordered the photofast cr-5400 dual micro-sd to msduo adapter with a 16gb microsd card last night, and someone mentioned that psp-1000's are known to fry the card adapter on bootup in another thread. looked around, and there's conflicting opinions whether it was a bad batch of adapter cards that are susceptible to it or what. so does anybody here with a phat have experience on what the deal with the adapter exactly is? (i.e. will i have to pop it out everytime i turn on, or just disable some plugins and themes, though i read this has nothing to do with it).

thanks, i'm on a psp-1001.

I hear that there are quite a few counterfeits making the rounds. Apparently ordering from the Amazon.com merchant "etech" is a good way to go. I've ordered two from them, and have had no issues. It bears mentioning that even the non-counterfeits are of rather unimpressive build quality. Be gentle!
 

Prezhulio

Member
Mejilan said:
I hear that there are quite a few counterfeits making the rounds. Apparently ordering from the Amazon.com merchant "etech" is a good way to go. I've ordered two from them, and have had no issues. It bears mentioning that even the non-counterfeits are of rather unimpressive build quality. Be gentle!

any distinguishing marks to tell the counterfeits from the real? i got mine from an amazon dealer with good feedback but i suppose that doesn't mean much. i have a fake 2gb msduo that i got duped into getting from ebay 3 or 4 years ago (ugh, so gullible for a deal but whatever it still works just unbearably slow writing) and it's pretty easy to spot the difference.

if all else fails i guess i'll just bite the bullet and try the on/off right away to see if it gets fried.
 
Prezhulio said:
any distinguishing marks to tell the counterfeits from the real? i got mine from an amazon dealer with good feedback but i suppose that doesn't mean much. i have a fake 2gb msduo that i got duped into getting from ebay 3 or 4 years ago (ugh, so gullible for a deal but whatever it still works just unbearably slow writing) and it's pretty easy to spot the difference.

if all else fails i guess i'll just bite the bullet and try the on/off right away to see if it gets fried.

Here ya go:

http://www.pspmod.com/forums/hardware/51059-photofast-cr-5400-questions-answered.html

I got a fake one that was for $5 from dealextreme.com so avoid them. It was only $5 shipped so I didn't lose much but when I got it, it was clearly obvious when I was comparing the packaging from the real one and the fake one.
 

fatty

Member
OK, this is the first time that I'll be buying PSP games off of PSN but I want to take advantage of the NIS deals on Disgaea and Prinny. What is the easiest way of downloading them to the PS where I can store them with my other ripped PSP ISOs?

If I go the PS3 route I don't know how easy it will be to transfer them to PC and I don't always want to connect my PSP to the PS3 when I want to put the games back on memory card (that and I want to store them with the rest of my PSP library on PC). Will I need to install Sony's Media Go software on the PC (hopefully the answer is no)? I'm just not sure what type of encryption Sony puts on these PSP downloads and how easy they are to transfer from PC/PS3/PSP(s).

And just FYI, I'm currently on 3.90 M33-3. I haven't had the need to bump up to 5.50 GEN-B yet and haven't had the time to see how easy it is (will probably do it this weekend) but wanted to make sure I took advantage of the NIS sale while I still had time.
 
fatty said:
OK, this is the first time that I'll be buying PSP games off of PSN but I want to take advantage of the NIS deals on Disgaea and Prinny. What is the easiest way of downloading them to the PS where I can store them with my other ripped PSP ISOs?

If I go the PS3 route I don't know how easy it will be to transfer them to PC and I don't always want to connect my PSP to the PS3 when I want to put the games back on memory card (that and I want to store them with the rest of my PSP library on PC). Will I need to install Sony's Media Go software on the PC (hopefully the answer is no)? I'm just not sure what type of encryption Sony puts on these PSP downloads and how easy they are to transfer from PC/PS3/PSP(s).

And just FYI, I'm currently on 3.90 M33-3. I haven't had the need to bump up to 5.50 GEN-B yet and haven't had the time to see how easy it is (will probably do it this weekend) but wanted to make sure I took advantage of the NIS sale while I still had time.

You'll need to update to 5.50 GEN-B and modify the version.txt before you can buy things off of the PSN store. As for downloading, the game is transferred directly to your PSP, nothing is stored locally, so you won't be able to store them on your PC.
 
fatty said:
OK, this is the first time that I'll be buying PSP games off of PSN but I want to take advantage of the NIS deals on Disgaea and Prinny. What is the easiest way of downloading them to the PS where I can store them with my other ripped PSP ISOs?

If I go the PS3 route I don't know how easy it will be to transfer them to PC and I don't always want to connect my PSP to the PS3 when I want to put the games back on memory card (that and I want to store them with the rest of my PSP library on PC). Will I need to install Sony's Media Go software on the PC (hopefully the answer is no)? I'm just not sure what type of encryption Sony puts on these PSP downloads and how easy they are to transfer from PC/PS3/PSP(s).

And just FYI, I'm currently on 3.90 M33-3. I haven't had the need to bump up to 5.50 GEN-B yet and haven't had the time to see how easy it is (will probably do it this weekend) but wanted to make sure I took advantage of the NIS sale while I still had time.

I'm not positive but I'm pretty sure once it's on the memory stick, you can just copy it off that to your PC.
 

fatty

Member
Thanks guys. For now I went ahead and bought them off of PSN from the PS3. I'll try to rip them to PC from the PSP like I do with my UMDs and hopefully that will work.
 
So I'm finally up to 5.50 GEN-B2 on my PSP-2000. It's a process I started a while back, and to be truthful, I'm not sure what to do with it now. I know it's been asked over and over probably, but can anyone recommend a short list of things I absolutely should be looking into? Good homebrew, demos I couldn't otherwise play, etc? I'm really out of the loop. I know about ripping your own PSP and PS1 games to mem stick and playing those, emulators for other consoles, 333mHz mode, a screenshot utility... that's about it, really.
 

MechaX

Member
So I'm trying to flash back to CFW, and it seems like something is seriously wrong with my Pandora battery at this point. I managed to make a Magic Mem Stick through Vista well enough, but my Pandora battery seems like it's just... dead. PSP won't turn on with it, and when the AC Adapter is plugged in, the PSP doesn't even recognize that there's a battery in it.

This is rather strange considering I used this very same Pandora Battery to flash this same PSP back earlier this year, so I have no idea what is wrong here.
 

fatty

Member
spats said:
I've used CFW since 3.10ish but was always kind of annoyed by the fact that my remote play didn't work. So, a few hours ago I took the plunge and replaced my firmware with the 6.10 OFW. Still my remote play doesn't work no matter what I do. I even restored the default settings.

Is my psp broken or am I missing something? It simply doesn't respond when I connect the usb and try to look for it in the remote play settings.

It's an old psp-1004 by the way.

Any help would be much appreciated.

This question was from a while back but since I didn't see any responses I figured I would post what worked for me in case anybody else has this problem.

I also had this problem where my PS3 would not recognize my PSP when trying to register it. What I used to fix it was a program called ChillyWilly’s Key Cleaner that I got from the maxconsole.net forums. I also have an older PSP (PSP-1000) and since I was using CFW for a while apparently one of the older firmware updaters I used didn’t exactly use the cleanest code and thus modified one of my ‘keys’ in the background, which would later affect Remote Play. After using that program it cleaned up those background registry files and I didn’t have any problems with it after that.

Not sure how to solve the problem now since you are on official firmware but just wanted to give you an update since I didn’t see anyone respond to your question. Good luck.
 

Mejilan

Running off of Custom Firmware
fatty said:
Thanks guys. For now I went ahead and bought them off of PSN from the PS3. I'll try to rip them to PC from the PSP like I do with my UMDs and hopefully that will work.

If we're talking about PSP games (not PSOne Classics), then you can use a PSP homebrew app called NPDecryptor. It'll only work on games you can actually run, but it takes the license information (from the purchase) that's stored on your PSP and uses it to strip the DRM out of EBOOT.PBP file you downloaded. It also converts the file into an ISO that you can store it with your other UMD rips, (or categorize it via a plugin).

Very handy. I use it all the time. I hate downloading shit from PSN and having to store it in only the specific gibberishy folder it is "supposed" to be in.
 

alr1ght

bish gets all the credit :)
MechaX said:
So I'm trying to flash back to CFW, and it seems like something is seriously wrong with my Pandora battery at this point. I managed to make a Magic Mem Stick through Vista well enough, but my Pandora battery seems like it's just... dead. PSP won't turn on with it, and when the AC Adapter is plugged in, the PSP doesn't even recognize that there's a battery in it.

This is rather strange considering I used this very same Pandora Battery to flash this same PSP back earlier this year, so I have no idea what is wrong here.

Put the PB in the PSP (no MMS), and charge it via a wall connection.
 

MechaX

Member
alr1ghtstart said:
Put the PB in the PSP (no MMS), and charge it via a wall connection.

I tried that and nothing happened. No orange charging light or anything. And when the PSP is turned on, it doesn't even acknowledge that there's a battery in the system.

At this point, I'm inclined to believe that my Pandora somehow died.
 

larvi

Member
Is there a list of psp games that currently require firmware higher than 5.50? Before I go spend money on a game I want to make sure I can play it without the UMD.
 

alr1ght

bish gets all the credit :)
MechaX said:
I tried that and nothing happened. No orange charging light or anything. And when the PSP is turned on, it doesn't even acknowledge that there's a battery in the system.

At this point, I'm inclined to believe that my Pandora somehow died.

Try connecting the PSP to the wall charger, wait for it to boot, then put the battery in. Mine did the same thing when I was upgrading to GEN-B (hadn't used it in a long time).
 

Mejilan

Running off of Custom Firmware
larvi said:
Is there a list of psp games that currently require firmware higher than 5.50? Before I go spend money on a game I want to make sure I can play it without the UMD.

You can decrypt and play just about any of the new breed of 5.55 and 6.00 encrypted UMDs... as ISOs. :p
 
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