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PSP Custom Firmware Thread
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Mr. Wonderful
Member
Is there any way with Custom Firmware to enable a higher color depth for games that only use 16-bit color?
MiniBossman
Member
So I picked up a go to replace my aging launch system. The go has 5.7 out of the box. So I just need to update to 6.20 OFW then follow Scissors tutorial?
Saren is Bad
Member
Minsc said:
Well if you want to be that guy...
Minsc
Gold Member
Saren is Bad said:
Well it does annoy me to see people downloading un-released games (it doesn't even come out in Europe til the 25th).
I guess anyone using the CFW patch in the official thread is likely using a pirated copy too (though it is possible they got a physical copy early I guess, so I'm not calling anyone out), since it's unlikely they obtained a legal copy to use their patch on given the patch only works on the euro version.
Minsc
Gold Member
mclem said:
So wait for a patch to be made/work on the NA version, if that is the case, or go to OFW if you can't wait. Downloading an entire game from another region other than you paid for (as if that wasn't questionable enough), much less announce it to everyone who is actually waiting for the Euro version to come out. I myself have had a Euro copy pre-ordered and will be waiting for it to arrive, in addition to having a US version. Should I just say screw it and download the Euro copy in advance? No.
I just find it very flaunting, and unnecessary. At least if you're going to download the entire game off the net don't advertise it to everyone else. I know a lot of people don't have issues with this when it comes to older system that are no longer available, like SNES ROMs etc, but we're talking about a game that came out yesterday.
It's just a little unrespectful I think, to read people say they are getting it from the net.
AgentOtaku
Member
Sorry to ask but us HEN 6.20 users still out of luck for a newer one that retains all the prior features?
Still the reason I haven't upgraded and still am unable to play Oath in Felghana because of it. Also, anyone know what version Tactics Ogre is running off of PSN?
Still the reason I haven't upgraded and still am unable to play Oath in Felghana because of it. Also, anyone know what version Tactics Ogre is running off of PSN?
Mailenstein
Member
Why would you care about that in the first place anyway? If it's worth to you, to dish out 40 for this game, I don't see a problem there. I guess everyone has to decide that for him-/herself to wait for it to arrive or just go ISO. I usually can't wait, so I get my shit off the jap. PSN. But I really don't give a damn about what others do.Minsc said:
You said in the post above you already had the NA version. What's the problem?Minsc said:
Incidentally, if you're saying people should have to buy a game in every region they want to play it in, that's too extreme (and hilarious). If he can't get his ripped US version to work on his PSP, I have no problem whatsoever with him going through other channels to experience the game he dropped $40 on. Neither should anyone else.
Anonymous Tipster
Member
Alright, what really gets me are the "snarky" responses such as "There's a patch, google it." when in reality, that doesn't help at all with the NA version. Which is the version that came out yesterday and COINCIDENTALLY happens to be the same day people are asking about it.
Before posting, I attempted to google it, and I found what was probably the same site as EvilMario, concerning the EU patch. That isn't helpful to those of us with the NA version of the game.
The people claiming that there's a patch that works, either know something I don't (and at which point, why not provide a link instead of being an asshole?), haven't used said patch, or are pirating the EU version of the game.
Only one of those three are constructive and helpful, and it would be great if people took the time to be a little more considerate.
If all we can do is wait for a NA patch or update to the OFW, that's fine, but that's the kind of information I'm trying to get.
Edit: And thanks to those who actually are trying to help, I'm not venting at you guys.
Before posting, I attempted to google it, and I found what was probably the same site as EvilMario, concerning the EU patch. That isn't helpful to those of us with the NA version of the game.
The people claiming that there's a patch that works, either know something I don't (and at which point, why not provide a link instead of being an asshole?), haven't used said patch, or are pirating the EU version of the game.
Only one of those three are constructive and helpful, and it would be great if people took the time to be a little more considerate.
If all we can do is wait for a NA patch or update to the OFW, that's fine, but that's the kind of information I'm trying to get.
Edit: And thanks to those who actually are trying to help, I'm not venting at you guys.
Saren is Bad
Member
Anonymous Tipster said:
You are right and I was wrong. I have 6.20 HEN so mine works, I assumed the patch I heard about was for NA. Apologies for my snarkiness.
MushroomSamba
Member
Minsc said:
It'd be hypocritical of me to tell people they shouldn't pirate games, but I do agree that it can seem a bit obnoxious at times. Personally, I'll be buying TO myself only because the game hits me as a real labor of love and I desperately want it to do well.
RapidCancel
Member
Argh, screw this, I'm upgrading to OFW just to play TO.
AndyMoogle
Member
Eh, it's not THAT easy to downgrade (unless something has changed during the last couple of days). You can downgrade to 6.20 from 6.31 and 6.35, but if you upgrade to 6.37 I think you're screwed for the time being. At least if you have a PSP Go or PSP-3000.Oyashiro said:
RapidCancel
Member
AndyMoogle said:
Sounds good...I'll be upgrading to 6.35.
ColonelSkills
Member
Just trying to get all my facts in a row here.
There is no way to play the UMD version of the North American release of Tactics Ogre on a PSP-1000 running any sort of custom firmware at the moment (Personally I'm on 5.50 Prometheus but this doesn't exactly matter from what I can discern).
Currently, my options are to upgrade to 6.35 OFW and then downgrade every time I want to use popstation, or wait it out and then (likely) rip to ISO and patch it, since 6.20 HEN doesn't seem to work on the NA game right now either.
Running straight off the UMD seems unlikely any time soon? What if I return the UMD version and grab the PSN one? Will tools like psnfucker or whatnot help me out here or am I still boned for being on CFW at all.
There is no way to play the UMD version of the North American release of Tactics Ogre on a PSP-1000 running any sort of custom firmware at the moment (Personally I'm on 5.50 Prometheus but this doesn't exactly matter from what I can discern).
Currently, my options are to upgrade to 6.35 OFW and then downgrade every time I want to use popstation, or wait it out and then (likely) rip to ISO and patch it, since 6.20 HEN doesn't seem to work on the NA game right now either.
Running straight off the UMD seems unlikely any time soon? What if I return the UMD version and grab the PSN one? Will tools like psnfucker or whatnot help me out here or am I still boned for being on CFW at all.
Minsc
Gold Member
ColonelSkills said:
There was someone saying it works on 6.2 TN-C or something in the OT, just check the top of the most recent page (or one prior). I'm on GEN 5.5 D-3 so I don't think that's an option for me, from what I googled, you need to be on 5.5 GEN B or something to switch, plus I think I'd prefer to stay on CFW and wait it out for a patch or the Euro version. Here's the post actually:
Jinko said:
ColonelSkills
Member
Yeah, it was me on the previous page asking him about that.
But judging by his PSN gamertag in his profile and the posts from others about HEN not working on the previous page in this thread, I assume our good man in the OT there's probably playing the Euro version.
For all I know I could be completely off base and confused/retarded, and apologies to Jinko if so.
But I agree, I'd rather stay on CFW at this point so 6.35 is really not something I'm realistically considering at this point.
And do I lose any functionality from Prometheus going to HEN 6.2? The official release notes says it doesn't support popstation yet, so I assume I wouldn't be able to play any of my PS1 games if I go that route. If I lose that, it's a bit of a deal killer for me.
But judging by his PSN gamertag in his profile and the posts from others about HEN not working on the previous page in this thread, I assume our good man in the OT there's probably playing the Euro version.
For all I know I could be completely off base and confused/retarded, and apologies to Jinko if so.
But I agree, I'd rather stay on CFW at this point so 6.35 is really not something I'm realistically considering at this point.
And do I lose any functionality from Prometheus going to HEN 6.2? The official release notes says it doesn't support popstation yet, so I assume I wouldn't be able to play any of my PS1 games if I go that route. If I lose that, it's a bit of a deal killer for me.
I think I had noticed this earlier, but have used my PSP so little that I haven't really cared, but now it's really bugging me - the X and Circle buttons' functionality seemed to be switched on my PSP, but only in the in-game system menus (e.g. pressing the Home button to quit a game, or loading/saving). I'm pretty certain this wasn't the way it was before, so I thought this may have been something with 5.50 GEN-D. I downgraded to M33-6 (and then Prometheus-3), but it still seems to be the case. The registry hack for toggling X/Circle for confirm is set to X, and in the main XMB they buttons work as I expect them to - it's only in-game that it's switched.
Is there something simple/obvious that I'm missing here?
Is there something simple/obvious that I'm missing here?
So I borrowed a friends PSP 1001 with customer firmware and found the software to be 3.71 M33. I borrowed it for the sole purpose of playing Tactics Ogre (which is currently in the shipping process).
I want to play Tactics Ogre. Will I need to update my firmware to play? If so, I've simply googled "Update M33 Firmware" and found a few sites that have update steps. Is there any place that is recommended over others or is it pretty much all the same?
I want to play Tactics Ogre. Will I need to update my firmware to play? If so, I've simply googled "Update M33 Firmware" and found a few sites that have update steps. Is there any place that is recommended over others or is it pretty much all the same?
SonOfABeep
Banned
so 6.20 TN-C is the way to go for Tactics Ogre umd version on PSPgo?
Hey guys, I found this (http://forums.psp-hacks.com/archive/index.php/t-271751.html) PSP app that is supposed to be able to fix save files that became corrupt when moving from Prometheus to Hen. However, I can't figure out how to install it and make it work. Anyone have any experience with it? I have a Go, if that helps.
ColonelSkills
Member
The ISO loader will play the game from the UMD drive?Median said:
Is there any loss of functionality going from 5.50 Prometheus to 6.20 TN-C? In the case of not being able to roll back should I need to, I would like to know if I can still play my PS1 games on 6.20 TN-C, since I'm finding conflicting info on posts on gbatemp and psp-hacks and whatnot on what 6.20 TN-C can actually do compared to 5.50 Prometheus.
ColonelSkills said:
The ISO loader won't play from the UMD drive, you'd have to rip the game using something like ISO Tool.
I do believe you are losing some features by going from 5.50 Prometheus to 6.20 TN-C, since 6.20 TN-C isn't a full custom firmware. I don't think you can play your own PS1 games on 6.20 TN-C, but I'm not 100% sure about that.
ColonelSkills
Member
Median said:
Alright, fair enough. Thanks for the confirmation, at least.
I guess I'll wait if there's no way to run it off the UMD directly at all at this point. I think this Recovery Flasher app I found would assist in moving back and forth to 5.50 as needed but I don't have access to a big enough memory stick (at least not for a day or two) to rip the game directly to it, so on the actual "play off the UMD" front I'm shit out of luck.
Lion Heart
Banned
This isn't custom fw related but I hooked up a DS3 to my GO today and it was pure sex. Very easy to do, I just wish I had an extra controller lying around (only 1 ds3).
SonOfABeep
Banned
I'll give 6.20 TN-C with ISO loader a try. Picked up my pre-order finally today. Can't find my PSP-3000 data cable..
Edit: well it at least boots up with prometheus on 6.31 PRO on my 3000. I dunno about future crashes or whatever.
Edit: well it at least boots up with prometheus on 6.31 PRO on my 3000. I dunno about future crashes or whatever.
ColonelSkills
Member
Regarding TO: For anyone who was/is in the same boat as me, here's the solution I used to play the UMD version of the North American release.
If you upgrade to the 6.35 that's on the disc and use it to play the game off the UMD, you can use the 6.35 downgrader to get to 6.20 OFW, from where you can go to 6.20 TN-C, which can run Recovery Flasher 1.65 to revert back to 5.50.
Takes like 10 minutes each time you go back and forth so it's far from optimal, which I recognize. But if anyone else wants to run it from the disc I think this is the only real way to do it at the moment.
If you upgrade to the 6.35 that's on the disc and use it to play the game off the UMD, you can use the 6.35 downgrader to get to 6.20 OFW, from where you can go to 6.20 TN-C, which can run Recovery Flasher 1.65 to revert back to 5.50.
Takes like 10 minutes each time you go back and forth so it's far from optimal, which I recognize. But if anyone else wants to run it from the disc I think this is the only real way to do it at the moment.
Anonymous Tipster
Member
ColonelSkills said:
Thanks for sharing. I've been looking into the process of doing this, but one thing I can't seem to find is whether or not this works on a PSP-1000. So far it looks like I'd be able to get back down to 6.20 OFW, but I haven't been able to find a confirmation that 6.20 TN-C and then the Recovery Flasher works on the PSP-1000.
ColonelSkills
Member
My PSP is a PSP-1000.Anonymous Tipster said:
I should have added that, sorry.
So I finally got down to TN Hen C and everything is working fine. My iso's boot from the xmb thanks to iso tools v1.968. The one weird thing is that it can't even read my Tactics Ogre disc. The game shows up in the xmb along with the 6.35 update so it's not my drive. Anyone else having a problem with this? I can't even rip the umd.
Edit: Okay so apparently no UMDs can be read through ISO Tools or Filer 6.6. I have no idea why this is not working. The pop up in the XMB fine and I can run games off of the UMD drive in the XMB.
Edit: Okay so apparently no UMDs can be read through ISO Tools or Filer 6.6. I have no idea why this is not working. The pop up in the XMB fine and I can run games off of the UMD drive in the XMB.
deim0s said:
The problem is beyond that as both filer and iso tools cant see any umds. It wont even read Star Ocean 1 which is a 4.02 game.
Its a 2000 downgraded to 6.2. Umds show up and play fine out of the xmb.
Edit: Could this possibly have to do with the fact that I was running 6.35 Pro A which writes to flash? Maybe when I uninstalled it, something didn't properly revert?