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PSP Custom Firmware Thread
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Jet Grind Radio!
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You can download them through the PS3 if it's, I believe, 5.50 with the version.txt trick.Red.Devil said:
gregor7777
Banned
So, I'm reading a few contradictory statements here. If I buy LBP today, can I rip it and play it on my CFW phat?
I'm still running GEN-B, but I can upgrade to GEN-D.
Sorry if this is a redundant question, as I can't seem to find any concrete info.
I'm still running GEN-B, but I can upgrade to GEN-D.
Sorry if this is a redundant question, as I can't seem to find any concrete info.
SecretBonusPoint
Banned
You can play it on Gen-D2 CFW, but you won't have access to any of the PSN features such as uploading your own levels, downloading others, upgrading the game via patch and so forth.
gregor7777
Banned
SecretBonusPoint said:
Oh, that's a shame. What about downloading levels through my PS3 and transferring them over? Is that possible or does it have to be done in-game?
SecretBonusPoint
Banned
I think theres some weird work around where you can share levels with a friend over Adhoc Party or something, but I've held off on buying the game for the very reason it will force me to personally upgrade to OFW rather than miss out on the whole point of LBP :lol
Adam Prime
hates soccer, is Mexican
anyone know if Kurluin Fushion will work on CFW? I really want to buy it, but want to know if it'll work first.
Dead Prince
Banned
Adam Prime said:
yes. but you have to run NPD to make it work.
Adam Prime
hates soccer, is Mexican
DMPrince said:
okay, but doesn't GenD-2 already have the NPD built in, doesn't it?
I bought LBP UMD popped it in and got that red screen, and then the game played... I figured that was the NPD doing it's thing.
Barkley's Justice
Member
GothPunk said:Yep, FFVII, FFIX, Suikoden 1 & 2 and Rival Schools all working great for meHell yeah!
hm, my rival schools stopped working...any ideas how to fix? cant get past the boot screen
PixelJunkie
Member
Anybody else run into a problem where PSX games are cut off at the bottom? There is just a black bar at the bottom.
The only thing I can find is that it has to do with PAL versus NTSC, but that doesn't make any sense really because my Vagrant Story copy and Silent Hill copy are both NTSC.
Think my poploaders is screwed up? Upgrading firmware, patching the eboot, redoing the eboot seems to have no effect.
The only thing I can find is that it has to do with PAL versus NTSC, but that doesn't make any sense really because my Vagrant Story copy and Silent Hill copy are both NTSC.
Think my poploaders is screwed up? Upgrading firmware, patching the eboot, redoing the eboot seems to have no effect.
Finally, my 16gb card arrived and I have to say... Game Categories v12 is a godsend..
Somebody should edit the OP with a list of the most useful plugins/homebrew apps around. I have a REALLY hard time trying to find out the good stuff. It seems that every site is obsessed with changing the way the PSP looks, as opposed to useful stuff.
Somebody should edit the OP with a list of the most useful plugins/homebrew apps around. I have a REALLY hard time trying to find out the good stuff. It seems that every site is obsessed with changing the way the PSP looks, as opposed to useful stuff.
I suppose it was bound to happen, as the price I pay for fiddling with CFW. For no discernible reason, my PSP went and bricked today despite several days of working perfectly.
I'm getting a solid green light but no display, which makes the system bricked, but not necessarily dead. I've been using some terrible Youtube videos to help unbrick the system, as I have all the necessary parts:
1. Pandora battery
2. Two memory cards (one that had all my games/saves in, the other which housed the original CFW file)
3. A pro duo USB adapter
As for my PSP details before the brick, it was a PSP-2000 Slim with 5.50 Gen D installed.
Now, using the card with the eboot file in it, I've been able to access the system and install the CFW, and even access the XMB. After that, I'm prompted to install firmware 5.50. From there, the system reboots but still remains off with a solid green light.
I've been trying to follow the tutorials, but they all keep mentioning different methods and firmware files to use. I'm hoping that you can help me on which files I need, what order I swap batteries and cards, and so forth so I can finally get my PSP working again.
I appreciate the help.
I'm getting a solid green light but no display, which makes the system bricked, but not necessarily dead. I've been using some terrible Youtube videos to help unbrick the system, as I have all the necessary parts:
1. Pandora battery
2. Two memory cards (one that had all my games/saves in, the other which housed the original CFW file)
3. A pro duo USB adapter
As for my PSP details before the brick, it was a PSP-2000 Slim with 5.50 Gen D installed.
Now, using the card with the eboot file in it, I've been able to access the system and install the CFW, and even access the XMB. After that, I'm prompted to install firmware 5.50. From there, the system reboots but still remains off with a solid green light.
I've been trying to follow the tutorials, but they all keep mentioning different methods and firmware files to use. I'm hoping that you can help me on which files I need, what order I swap batteries and cards, and so forth so I can finally get my PSP working again.
I appreciate the help.
Does anyone know if RE3 has been "fixed" and no longer has issues (I remember reading it would freeze up at a certain point?) on the most current firmware? I'd like to replay it, but if it's still not quite 100% working, then the Game Cube version it is.
SecretBonusPoint
Banned
New firmware out tomorrow then? Fucking finally? Or will they delay since they did originally say January. Feel as if I've been shunning my PSP on purpose because I'm so angry at the situation to be honest :/
I'm no PSP expert, but if you managed to boot into the XMB and install some sort of firmware, there's either something wrong with the firmware you're installing or the flash memory on your PSP.SOLDIER said:
I'd start fresh. Make a new Magic Memory Stick using Rain's UltraLite MMS Maker for 5.00 M33-4 (which works under Vista and 7), then use the GEN-D 5.50-D installation shennanigans.
Inside each archive there's a readme.txt that will guide you through it.
After that, you can apply the D2 quick patch on top of it and voila.
I'll give it a shot, but my only question is that aside from formatting my memory card (the one with the CFW files in it), should I also format my other card (the one with all the saves/games/etc), or can I leave that alone and just swap cards once everything else is installed?
SOLDIER said:
Do what drizzle said... use one of the programs that create the "magic" stick for you, just to be sure it's right.
My question to you would be, before you installed CFW the first time, did you make an original NAND dump, as is always recommended, before doing so? If you did, restoring from this dump first might save you if all else fails. I haven't been forced to do it myself, but from what I understand sometimes a PSP can get bricked in such a way that restoring from an original NAND dump is the only cure. I'm not even sure off the top of my head what app you use, but most of these all-in-one mem stick applications install the appropriate utility on your stick along with the CFW.
Here are the steps I did.
1. Downloaded both MMS and 5.00 Eboot.
2. Used MMS to extract 5.00 into the memory card (formatted).
3. Put the Pandora battery on the PSP
4. Put the MMS-created memory card on the PSP.
5. Ran the CFW 5.00
6. Switched the Pandora battery for the regular one.
7. Switched the MMS memory card with the regular card.
8. Upgraded to 5.50 Gen D (which was still inside the card)
9. Tried out a game for a few minutes to see if it worked (it did)
10. Turned off PSP
Now when I turn it back on, I'm back where I started: a solid green light with no display. Did I make a mistake somewhere?
1. Downloaded both MMS and 5.00 Eboot.
2. Used MMS to extract 5.00 into the memory card (formatted).
3. Put the Pandora battery on the PSP
4. Put the MMS-created memory card on the PSP.
5. Ran the CFW 5.00
6. Switched the Pandora battery for the regular one.
7. Switched the MMS memory card with the regular card.
8. Upgraded to 5.50 Gen D (which was still inside the card)
9. Tried out a game for a few minutes to see if it worked (it did)
10. Turned off PSP
Now when I turn it back on, I'm back where I started: a solid green light with no display. Did I make a mistake somewhere?
SOLDIER said:
Can you get into the recovery menu (by holding R)? If so, are there plugins enabled that you can disable and then try again?
Also, did you install the Gen D2 quick update as well? Gen D had bugs.
Otherwise, see my last post about the NAND backup. Do you have one?
Good to know. But, for future reference, yea.. Plugins are usually always the problem with CFW PSPs that suddenly stop to work. There's numerous compatibility issues with each and every plugin. Sometimes they don't work with eachother, and sometimes they don't work with newer CFW releases.
Always disable them first when troubleshooting.
Always disable them first when troubleshooting.
SecretBonusPoint
Banned
Team Gen said:
:lol CFW so fucked. Due to release later tonight.
Oh well, at least we'll be able to play new games now and hopefully all the new demos as the english Peace Walker demo is out this week.
xero273 said:
That's definitely the worst thing about this war of attrition between Sony and the Homebrew community. At this point, Sony has discovered a rather comfortable strategy by just adding incremental, new firmwares with new security keys with every new batch of games. When considering no one is as skilled as Dark-Alex, Sony can just keep it up until Team Gen eventually folds. Sure, users can just traipse between OFW and CFW, but I wonder how long that will hold up.
SecretBonusPoint
Banned
I'm so happy for you dual PSP wielding bastards ¬___¬
Great, so tonights release is only a patch to enable new games to be played on CFW!!
I'm giving Team GEN one more break though. If the next release does include any of the other improvements like MS speed up, Go camera, 6 kernels compatability, etc.. then the CFW scene is in big trouble.
I'm giving Team GEN one more break though. If the next release does include any of the other improvements like MS speed up, Go camera, 6 kernels compatability, etc.. then the CFW scene is in big trouble.
SecretBonusPoint said:
Thanks!To be honest, I wouldn't be envious. It frustrates the hell out of me that I always have my Go with me and buy all the latest games on it but if I want to play Initial D or The Gradius / Parodius collections I have to carry my CFW 2000 and usually a UMD or two.
Adam Prime
hates soccer, is Mexican
navanman said:
meh I'm at the point where as long as CFW can allow me to play newly purchased games, I'm happy. I'm willing to sacrifice all the other stuff, online netplay, PS Store, etc. I just want to be able to rip a new UMD I purchase or play a game I bought from the PS Store.
So long as I can do that with CFW, I'll be satisfied.
Adam Prime said:
Same. The one recent game I really wanted to play on my CFW 2000, Tekken 6, I can. If I want to buy something from PSN, that's what my PS3 is for. There have also been games released recently that work on the current CFW, which no one seems to be mentioning.
I still may trade up my old 1000 (or see about re-hacking it for a back-up) for a 3000.
Wickerbasket
Member
No, it's not safe.DarkUSS said:
Update to 5.00M33-6, then update to GenD then apply the GenD2 update.
The PSP GEN website is being hammered at the moment but if you can get on 5.03 GEN-C has been released.
I'll be updating shortly on my recently acquired PSP-3000 with 5.03FW.
http://www.pspgen.com/custom-firmware-5-03gen-c-for-hen-psp-3000-psp-2000v3-article-191442-3.html
I'll be updating shortly on my recently acquired PSP-3000 with 5.03FW.
http://www.pspgen.com/custom-firmware-5-03gen-c-for-hen-psp-3000-psp-2000v3-article-191442-3.html
so i don't pay close enough attention to this type of stuff anymore, but is the 1.5 ipl homebrew (i.e. stuff like old snes, genesis and cps2 emulators) basically gone for good with current firmware and upcoming firmwares because of how sony has been altering how the psp firmware runs? what latest cfw would i need to downgrade to/be running to have intact compatibility with these homebrews? i originally upgraded when i bought motorstorm....but it's not quite worth it to not be able to run my old brew.
i had my psp setup at one point (maybe with 5.00?) with the booting into different cfw but the pandora battery lost charge and i had to take it off or something because it was bricked and never got around to redoing it, but can you still do that? sorry i've forgotten all the specific terms for this stuff, damn grad school pushing this info out of my head :/
i had my psp setup at one point (maybe with 5.00?) with the booting into different cfw but the pandora battery lost charge and i had to take it off or something because it was bricked and never got around to redoing it, but can you still do that? sorry i've forgotten all the specific terms for this stuff, damn grad school pushing this info out of my head :/
SecretBonusPoint
Banned
No D3 yet then?
Sipowicz said:
Well, PSP 3000 users just got their new CFW through 5.03 Gen-C. Everyone else should be getting 5.50 Gen-D3 tonight, which can play all of the new games and demos (although, I don't think they fixed PSN support). Just imagine, we might have to go through the same old crap in a couple of months.