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PSP Custom Firmware Thread
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hikarutilmitt
Member
BigNastyCurve said:
No, it's the 6.10 part. I'm running 5.03 on my 3000 with CFW just fine, even if it is just in ChickHEN instead of a full install.
Adam Prime
hates soccer, is Mexican
Bit-Bit said:
Yup
Adam Prime
hates soccer, is Mexican
SOLDIER said:
I dunno but decryptor works
seattle6418
Member
hikarutilmitt said:
That's what i don't get it. Must be because i'm a new owner. I'm running 5.03 on my newly 3000 and so far i was able to everything i wanted out of CFW...
What am i really missing from 5.50 gen b?
I mean, am i been wrong by just putting the PSP onto sleep mode instead of turnin it off? I recharge everynight, but instead of the 5 second power off, i just slide the button and the PSP goes into sleep... isn't this what all PSP 3000 CFW owners do? (that way you don't lose chick hen).
hikarutilmitt
Member
I used to not care about having to go into chickhen mode and then cfe/gen-a when I turned mine on simply because it's easy to activate every time and doesn't take long. Then I realized the PSP uses 1% of the battery in standby from the menu, so I just exit whatever I'm playing and put it into SB mode each time. It's all I REALLY need, I just hope some time we can get a newer FW exploit or a full install option.
Also, who is that in your avatar... >_>
Also, who is that in your avatar... >_>
Rummy Bunnz
Member
Nice. Guess I won't be buying any games off PSN for awhile. Good job on locking out paying customers, Sony!xero273 said:
gregor7777
Banned
What's the point of locking out a pirate from your store? The only reason to be there is to buy things. If the pirate wanted a demo, he'd just download the whole damn thing. :lol
They might as well take the pirates money.
They might as well take the pirates money.
Hey guys, is chickhen the way to go if I want to use different kinds of emulators on my psp3000?
ps. I didnt find anything in the OP but if talk about emulators is prohibited in this thread please inform me would you kindly. Thank you
edit : woops nvm, seems I'm pretty screwed, sitting on a 3000 with a 5.51 fw is pretty much a dead end
ps. I didnt find anything in the OP but if talk about emulators is prohibited in this thread please inform me would you kindly. Thank you
edit : woops nvm, seems I'm pretty screwed, sitting on a 3000 with a 5.51 fw is pretty much a dead end
Ken Masters
Banned
Fuzzy said:
thanks, but all that work? I thought all the FW updates were going to be easy :lol
Some fun new XMB icon sorting developments:
Fans of Bubbletune's amazing Game Categories plugin should be pleased to note that version 5 is out. It's primarily a bugfix release, but those of you that updated to v4 a month or two ago should probably still hit this up. I swear by this plugin, and the lack of a working version (before v4, that is) for 5.50 Gen was the main reason why I held off on ditching M33 CFW for so long. This v5 is intended to work on even more CFWs, apparently.
http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=255314
Have you been irked at that lack of icon sorting applications that support the Game Categories plugin? Or that PSP-based icon sorting homebrew has largely eschewed GUIs? Well, how about this, then? Here's a mod of an existing PSP homebrew app that features a spiffy GUI AND works with icons sorted into game categories?
It's not perfect, but it certainly gets the job done! The only real feature it's lacking is one that filters the icons to be sorted according to game category. Sadly, you have to work with all icons at once. A bit cumbersome for those of us with 32GBs of capacity, but a viable solution nonetheless! It'll allow you to sort the categories themselves, as well as the icons within!
http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=255313
Fans of Bubbletune's amazing Game Categories plugin should be pleased to note that version 5 is out. It's primarily a bugfix release, but those of you that updated to v4 a month or two ago should probably still hit this up. I swear by this plugin, and the lack of a working version (before v4, that is) for 5.50 Gen was the main reason why I held off on ditching M33 CFW for so long. This v5 is intended to work on even more CFWs, apparently.
http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=255314
Have you been irked at that lack of icon sorting applications that support the Game Categories plugin? Or that PSP-based icon sorting homebrew has largely eschewed GUIs? Well, how about this, then? Here's a mod of an existing PSP homebrew app that features a spiffy GUI AND works with icons sorted into game categories?
It's not perfect, but it certainly gets the job done! The only real feature it's lacking is one that filters the icons to be sorted according to game category. Sadly, you have to work with all icons at once. A bit cumbersome for those of us with 32GBs of capacity, but a viable solution nonetheless! It'll allow you to sort the categories themselves, as well as the icons within!
http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=255313
I finally got myself a Daxter PSP, thanks to GQman2121 from the buy/trade/sell thread.
However, my Pandora battery didn't show up yet. Since i'm still on OFW, i decided i should make use of the time and download a couple demos off the PSN store (since, from reading this thread, i understand they're blocking the store from CFW users).
I downloaded a couple of demos without a hitch yesterday. However, today i went to try a few more demos and the damn thing keeps giving me the "The installation failed. (80435061)" error code. I tried looking up what was that, and most people just say it fixes itself aftrer a while, but it's been the entire day. Funny thing is that it's happening in multiple demos, but i can download free wallpapers and themes without an issue.
Since i'm a new owner, i have to ask: is this normal? Is there something wrong? My psp is registered and allowed to download games and everything.
However, my Pandora battery didn't show up yet. Since i'm still on OFW, i decided i should make use of the time and download a couple demos off the PSN store (since, from reading this thread, i understand they're blocking the store from CFW users).
I downloaded a couple of demos without a hitch yesterday. However, today i went to try a few more demos and the damn thing keeps giving me the "The installation failed. (80435061)" error code. I tried looking up what was that, and most people just say it fixes itself aftrer a while, but it's been the entire day. Funny thing is that it's happening in multiple demos, but i can download free wallpapers and themes without an issue.
Since i'm a new owner, i have to ask: is this normal? Is there something wrong? My psp is registered and allowed to download games and everything.
RagolSlayer
Neo Member
milkham said:
With the decryptor, yes.
Adam Prime
hates soccer, is Mexican
milkham said:
yeah I own the UMD and have CFW on my PSP, used the Decrypter and works perfectly.
drizzle said:
Ive had that happen to me before too. I would try downloading the games from a different WiFi point. I think that's helped me in the past. For some reason its not downloading all the files correctly I think and that's why it can't install.
I haven't read this thread for some months now, and looks like everyone is using GEN-B instead of M33 nowadays. Two questions:
1) I still have my pspslim on 5.0-M33. Now, I wonder, why should I switch? What makes GEN better than M33? Is there any feature I don't know about? (Except for games that obviously require firmware 5.50...) I don't use PSN.
2) what's this decryptor thing, should I also use it with M33? Is it required?
1) I still have my pspslim on 5.0-M33. Now, I wonder, why should I switch? What makes GEN better than M33? Is there any feature I don't know about? (Except for games that obviously require firmware 5.50...) I don't use PSN.
2) what's this decryptor thing, should I also use it with M33? Is it required?
Adam Prime
hates soccer, is Mexican
Jefklak said:
The only reason you should upgrade is so you can play recent UMD and PSN releases. Using the Decryptor allows you to remove the check that would not allow you to play a game unless you're using the latest OFW.
... so if you haven't bought any games recently or are not interested in purchasing anything recent (past month or so) then you really don't need to upgrade. But you don't lose any functionality or anything in upgrading. Everything you could do in 5.0-M33 you can do in GEN-B.
Zoe said:
I don't use any programs to do it. Just put UMD in psp. start up psp, hit select to bring up the vsh menu and I think the option is called USB device. Go to that and switch to UMD disc. exit out and connect the psp to pc. You should be able to copy the umd iso to your PC and then you can go back to vsh menu and set it back to read from memory stick. From there you can drop the iso onto your memory stick.
Slightly Live
Dirty tag dodger
AgentOtaku
Member
hot!
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Yeah, now there's absolutely no reason not to upgrade. I wonder if it's on the fly decryption or something.
Nibelung Valesti
Member
Hot if true!Dani said:
GEN is my new love, huhuhu
SecretBonusPoint
Banned
Why is it still 5.50 Gen then? Is it just the normal 5.50 firmware with a hack that goes past whatever eboot encryption there was?
It sort of feels like 5.50 is going to be as far as custom firmware goes now, and we'll never see whatever added functionality new official firmwares bring
It sort of feels like 5.50 is going to be as far as custom firmware goes now, and we'll never see whatever added functionality new official firmwares bring
Mr. Wonderful
Member
Do we really need any of those features though? I'll be quite happy with 5.50 for a little bit longer.SecretBonusPoint said:Why is it still 5.50 Gen then? Is it just the normal 5.50 firmware with a hack that goes past whatever eboot encryption there was?
It sort of feels like 5.50 is going to be as far as custom firmware goes now, and we'll never see whatever added functionality new official firmwares bring
hikarutilmitt
Member
It's been so quiet on the front, I hope the later 2000 and the 3000 units are still being worked on.
Ah, just woke up, saw the news, and came to post about this.
I know that they've successfully dumped and decrypted 6.00 and 6.10, so I'm sure they're still dissecting those firmwares and "working" on them, in some fashion.
As to why remaining with 5.50 Gen for this update?
Clearly they're not ready to go any further yet.
Also, don't forget, the Game Decryptor was developed and released by Yoshihiro, a lapsed and since returned-to-the-scene member of Team Gen, so it's not all that much of a surprise that his efforts would be rolled into a CFW as a feature, if possible.
I'm very happy to see that it was possible.
One final note, Game Decryptor was initially created for 5.50 Gen (and only later patched to include better support for 5.00 M33, 5.03 Gen, 5.50 MHU, etc.) so clearly it's a natural fit.
Well, the update should hit this weekend. Excellent news.
This means that they're not all that keen with announcing updates well in advance, so we probably won't hear about 6.00 or 6.10 based CFWs until they're almost ready to drop.
I know that they've successfully dumped and decrypted 6.00 and 6.10, so I'm sure they're still dissecting those firmwares and "working" on them, in some fashion.
As to why remaining with 5.50 Gen for this update?
Clearly they're not ready to go any further yet.
Also, don't forget, the Game Decryptor was developed and released by Yoshihiro, a lapsed and since returned-to-the-scene member of Team Gen, so it's not all that much of a surprise that his efforts would be rolled into a CFW as a feature, if possible.
I'm very happy to see that it was possible.
One final note, Game Decryptor was initially created for 5.50 Gen (and only later patched to include better support for 5.00 M33, 5.03 Gen, 5.50 MHU, etc.) so clearly it's a natural fit.
Well, the update should hit this weekend. Excellent news.
This means that they're not all that keen with announcing updates well in advance, so we probably won't hear about 6.00 or 6.10 based CFWs until they're almost ready to drop.
red shoe paul
Banned
hikarutilmitt said:It's been so quiet on the front, I hope the later 2000 and the 3000 units are still being worked on.
As well as the Go. I don't even care for the other models when the Go is fully cracked open, I'm on it.
The Go is going to be REAL tricky to crack, IMHO.
You basically cannot rely on a software exploit, which is always the nice fall-back.
Why? Because lacking a UMD drive, you're completely reliant upon whatever software is on PSN. And the second a PSN game exploit is developed and released, Sony will pull the game, patch it, and basically kill the exploit before it even got started.
It's not hopeless, and I guess only time (and PSP Go sales) will tell.
If they ever manage to decrypt the later 2000 and 3000 pre-IPL though, those two hold-outs should very quickly fall.
You basically cannot rely on a software exploit, which is always the nice fall-back.
Why? Because lacking a UMD drive, you're completely reliant upon whatever software is on PSN. And the second a PSN game exploit is developed and released, Sony will pull the game, patch it, and basically kill the exploit before it even got started.
It's not hopeless, and I guess only time (and PSP Go sales) will tell.
If they ever manage to decrypt the later 2000 and 3000 pre-IPL though, those two hold-outs should very quickly fall.
mattiewheels
And then the LORD David Bowie saith to his Son, Jonny Depp: 'Go, and spread my image amongst the cosmos. For every living thing is in anguish and only the LIGHT shall give them reprieve.'
But if that does happen, won't it be all over the web even after Sony patches it up?Mejilan said:
Kurosaki Ichigo
Member
So, will we be able to play UMDs of games that need >5.50 or do they just mean playing them from the memory stick without patching them? :/
Kurosaki Ichigo said:
Probably the ISOs. If it does do on-the-fly decryption, it MIGHT need to soft-patch the game files, which wouldn't be possible on a read-only UMD. We'll probably know more this weekend. If you're already on CFW, rendering your UMDs to ISOs is trivial, though.
mattiewheels said:
No, because you need the PSN account tied to the DRM of that game to get it to run.
PSN PSX games bought have a keys.bin file for DRM purposes. I expect the PSN versions to be the same.
And awesome about GEN-C, finally I can run Disgaea PSN without having to use my old UMD rip probably.
MiniBossman
Member
Wow this is good news. I will wait for GEN-C before doing anything.
You mean Disgaea 2? Disgaea PSN runs perfectly fine on 5.03 without any modifications.TheSeks said:
I don't doubt there'd still be tons of people scrambling to buy the game the moment news hit the web. Sony should just release new titles stupidly overpriced, spread the rumour about an exploit, and after a week or so release the "patched" version for normal price.Mejilan said:
Reverse sales
Peronthious
Member
Mejilan said:
I may be misunderstanding you, but hasn't there been a PSN game exploit? Holy Invasion Of Privacy Badman is out floating around, as well as several other PSN exclusive titles.
Peronthious said:
Yes, PSN DRM (for PSP games, not PSOne Classics) was defeated a LONG time ago; whereby it's possible to convert a DRM'ed eboot (PSP game downloaded from PSN) to a DRM-free ISO. This is not news. But an uncracked PSP can't play those ISOs.
Going back to a potential PSP Go game software exploit scenario:
I say it's unlikely to happen because it would HAVE to require a game available on PSN (no UMD drive), and the second the exploit hits, Sony will pull the game from PSN until they can patch the exploit away and re-release it.
1) Exploit based on specific PSN gets released.
2) PSN game gets pulled early into the exploit's life.
3) PSN game gets fixed and re-released. Exploit is stillborn.
4) Most of current and all of future PSP Go users are shit out of luck.
I'm not saying cracking the PSP Go is impossible, I'm merely saying it's not going to be easy. No Pandora solution and basically no game software exploits severely limits the possibilities.
mattiewheels
And then the LORD David Bowie saith to his Son, Jonny Depp: 'Go, and spread my image amongst the cosmos. For every living thing is in anguish and only the LIGHT shall give them reprieve.'
i figured that one of those downloads would be the kind of 'loophole' way in to running custom firmware like that original tiff image exploit or whatever. i have no idea how the stuff works, or what i'm talking about, i just assume that when a chink in the armor's found, maybe it would be something that sony couldn't just patch up before it gets distributed all over.Mejilan said:
Dragona Akehi
Retired
Mejilan said:
The only real hope is to find a buffer overflow at the actual OS level, like Bannerbomb.