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PSP Custom Firmware Thread

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Jaeyden

Member
vilmer_ said:
Yes! I just did it a couple of hours ago and it worked perfectly.
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Which method did you use? I'm curious to see if anyone can confirm that the exacto knife/pencil method works and if there are any battery issues once you convert it back.
 
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Jack Mehoffer

Member
Quick question for you all - do you need a CFW to run ISOs of PSP games? I'd rather stick with the official FW as I don't imagine I'll want to do much more than that and it honestly seems like a bit of a slippery slope. :lol
 
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vilmer_

Member
Jaeyden said:
Which method did you use? I'm curious to see if anyone can confirm that the exacto knife/pencil method works and if there are any battery issues once you convert it back.
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I used the knife/pencil method. I can't believe how easy it was! I've been playing Drac X and Tactics like crazy since, and I've had no issues with the battery.
 
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navanman

Crown Prince of Custom Firmware
Jack Mehoffer said:
Quick question for you all - do you need a CFW to run ISOs of PSP games? I'd rather stick with the official FW as I don't imagine I'll want to do much more than that and it honestly seems like a bit of a slippery slope. :lol
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You can't run unsigned code (ISO, EBOOTS) without being on CFW.
 
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Kestastrophe

Member
Jack Mehoffer said:
Quick question for you all - do you need a CFW to run ISOs of PSP games? I'd rather stick with the official FW as I don't imagine I'll want to do much more than that and it honestly seems like a bit of a slippery slope. :lol
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I think that it used to be a "slippery slope", but with the advent of Pandora's Battery the PSP is pretty much unbrickable now.
 
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Deleted member 22576

Unconfirmed Member
I'm about to take the hard mod battery plunge!
Wish me luck!

Anyone want to hop on xbox live and do theirs too? 2 heads are better than one. :p
 
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Deleted member 22576

Unconfirmed Member
Holy Fucking shit.
I just cut open a battery with a sheetrock knife.

I'm just about to cut the trace. :^O
 
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Deleted member 22576

Unconfirmed Member
Can anyone verify something for me?
I succeeded with the battery because the second i plugged it in the power light went on in my psp.

but the memory stick did nothing

im remaking, and am using windows xp but i wanted to know, does it automatically read from the mms or do i need to hit the power switch on my psp? i ask because the instructions dont say and im following them exactly
 
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navanman

Crown Prince of Custom Firmware
Your PSP needs to be turned on and functioning with active USB connection.
Power on your PSP with AC adapter and work through the guide.
 
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Deleted member 22576

Unconfirmed Member
Yeah, but I mean.
When I have a Magic Memory Stick made, and then put the Pandora battery in does it automatically do it's thing? Or do I need to turn the psp on?
 
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navanman

Crown Prince of Custom Firmware
Jtwo said:
Yeah, but I mean.
When I have a Magic Memory Stick made, and then put the Pandora battery in does it automatically do it's thing? Or do I need to turn the psp on?
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Yes it should do its thing automatically. When you insert the battery, the green power LED should come on straight away and then the wifi/MS access light should start flashing also.
 
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Deleted member 22576

Unconfirmed Member
Ok, well I'm remaking the stick so *crosses fingers*

I'm assuming that since the power light did exactly what it's supposed to and it didn't go to the xmb that the battery trick worked fine.
 
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navanman

Crown Prince of Custom Firmware
Are you trying this on a Slim PSP? Do as eznark did and try and flash it blind cos the display doesn't seem to work.
Press square and see does the MS orange LED flash as it makes backup of NAND to your Memory Stick.
 
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Deleted member 22576

Unconfirmed Member
Yes, this is a slim.
I'm just following the guide, but when it said for the memory stick would blink it didn't so I'm just about done redoing the magic memory stick?

I'm a total n00b and didn't really catch that, what do you want me to do?
 
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Deleted member 22576

Unconfirmed Member
One more snag
When the installer is writing to the memory card it takes an incredibly long time.. like 20 minutes. It got to 99% but then it went to this screen that says something about the sector, It didn't make much sense. Basically it quits before the IPL loader gets a chance to do its thing.

I'm using a 1gig memory stick with windows xp.
 
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Deleted member 22576

Unconfirmed Member
HOLY SHIT IT WORKED
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sweetness confirmed
 
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Deleted member 22576

Unconfirmed Member
Yeah, I didn't really know what I was doing.
The memory stick creator kept screwing up, but after like the 5th try it worked.

I think I'm gonna keep my battery as it is and buy a stamina pack.
 
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navanman

Crown Prince of Custom Firmware
If you update to 3.90 M33-2, you can keep your battery like it is now and use your PSP as normal.
Check out my UPMS guide in the OP and use it to create the UPMS Memory Stick with IPL loader. Skip the battery section as yours is hard modded.
 
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Rlan

Member
I updated my PSP all the way to 3.90 M33 or whatever. I have a wireless signal as well - so does that mean I can now just go "check updates" from now on and it'll download the newest Dark Alex upgrade? Does that include these M33-2's etc?
 
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homez99

Member
Rlan said:
I updated my PSP all the way to 3.90 M33 or whatever. I have a wireless signal as well - so does that mean I can now just go "check updates" from now on and it'll download the newest Dark Alex upgrade? Does that include these M33-2's etc?
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Yes, if you enabled it in the Recovery Menu. The default is set to enabled, but I recommend that you check by holding the R trigger when booting your PSP to go to Recovery, and then go to Configuration. Here, scroll down to "Use M33 Network Update" and make sure it's set to "Enabled".
 
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Deleted member 22576

Unconfirmed Member
Can anyone point me to a link of Prometeus?
I just ripped an iso but I want to compress it to a cso.

That's the program that does is under os x, right?
I don't want to have to keep switching back and forth on my computer.
 
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Ramune

Member
Jtwo said:
Can anyone point me to a link of Prometeus?
I just ripped an iso but I want to compress it to a cso.

That's the program that does is under os x, right?
I don't want to have to keep switching back and forth on my computer.
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Latest version. I don't think it's had an update in quite a while. It's also been hit or miss with ripping PS1 game disks as well. But for converting ISOs to CSOs on the Mac, this program is #1.
 
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Deleted member 22576

Unconfirmed Member
Strange, I dowloaded that one, 9.4 and 8.0.

The one you linked me to, 9.4 both fail to launch, but 8.0 seems to work fine.

Though It didn't compress lumines as much as that forum faq with all the filesizes said it should be.

Do you guys recommend I upgrade to 3.90?
I'm on 3.71-4

I know I'll have to do it eventually, but I've heard from a bunch of places that for newbs 3.71 is the way to go.
 
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vilmer_

Member
Congrats Jtwo, that wasn't so bad, was it :D I'm on 3.71 4 myself still as well.. I'm still trying to figure out how to get a NES emulator on this puppy with no luck.
 
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Khalid-S

Member
navanman

I followed your guide to upgrade from 3.71 M33 to 3.80 M33 and my Slim PSP bricked again.
Now I'm trying to unbricke it but I don't really know how. I plugged in my Pandora MMS/Battery and I see nothing but a black screen. The MS access is flashing by the way.

I don't really know how I did this before. I just turned it on using AC and it worked like you said. Now I am trying to do the same thing but no luck.
 
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Tiduz

Eurogaime
I recently discovered the sony umd emulation thing, ive been playing on my old psp with umd insterted and the battery drains WAY quicker.
 
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navanman

Crown Prince of Custom Firmware
Khalid-S said:
navanman

I followed your guide to upgrade from 3.71 M33 to 3.80 M33 and my Slim PSP bricked again.
Now I'm trying to unbricke it but I don't really know how. I plugged in my Pandora MMS/Battery and I see nothing but a black screen. The MS access is flashing by the way.

I don't really know how I did this before. I just turned it on using AC and it worked like you said. Now I am trying to do the same thing but no luck.
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That guide is ONLY for flashing a standard PSP, not for updating your from 3.71 M33 to 3.80 M33-5.

Now did the UPMS install correctly? Did you follow the Slim usage instructions correctly?
PSP power switch in hold position, wifi off, hold down L-Trigger when inserting battery until PSP powers off.
Move power switch to normal position, hold down L-Trigger and insert battery.
 
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DarknessTear

Banned
Mmm, noob question I guess, but...

How do you do the wifi custom firmware update? I have 3.80. Isn't there a way to update to the next custom firmware using the PSP itself and not the USB thing > PSP?
 
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navanman

Crown Prince of Custom Firmware
DarknessTear said:
Mmm, noob question I guess, but...

How do you do the wifi custom firmware update? I have 3.80. Isn't there a way to update to the next custom firmware using the PSP itself and not the USB thing > PSP?
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If you are on 3.80 M33, the Network Update SHOULD auto-update your PSP to 3.90 M33-2.
To be sure, boot into Recovery Menu / Configuration and check if "use m33 network update" is enabled.

Khalid-S said:
FINALLY!!
Now I just want to upgrade to 3.80 M33 properly.
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To update to 3.90 M33, download the 3.90 M33 files and the Sony 3.90FW. Rename the 3.90FW EBOOT.PBP to 390.PBP.
Extract the UPDATE folder from the M33 rar and copy the 390.PBP to the UPDATE folder. Then copy the UPDATE folder to your PSP/GAME on your Memory Stick.
Run the installer from the GAME / Memory Stick in PSP XMB.

Edit 2: Khalid-S, this is just for you! Then use the Network Update to upgrade to 3.90 M33-2. Now what I meant yesterday with installing UPMS is the following:
Download the UPMS program, run it and ONLY install the IPL part (Boosters IPL with sleep fix); run this on every MS you have.
What you will find is that when you are then on 3.90 M33-2, that you can use your hard-modded battery as normal again (dual-boot functionality)
 
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Deleted member 22576

Unconfirmed Member
I know literally posted probably the same thing, but I'm having a hard time figuring out how to get from 3.71 to 3.90

Also, with 3.90 will my hardmodded battery really be able to be used normally?
How does that work?

So I'm on 3.71-4. I can just download those two files and then update it like you said?
I don't need to go through every update until then?
 
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navanman

Crown Prince of Custom Firmware
The 2 of you please read my above post. My urge to kill is rising...

Every update is cumalitive, includes every other fix, addition.
 
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elbkhm

Member
Jtwo said:
Also, with 3.90 will my hardmodded battery really be able to be used normally?
How does that work?
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To my understanding, a hardmodded battery can only be used as a pandora, unless you hardmod it back into a regular battery (by restoring the trace). According to this you can use a mechanical pencil to fix the trace.
 
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DarknessTear

Banned
navanman said:
If you are on 3.80 M33, the Network Update SHOULD auto-update your PSP to 3.90 M33-2.
To be sure, boot into Recovery Menu / Configuration and check if "use m33 network update" is enabled.
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Thanks. It had me feeling a bit paranoid, but it worked. :D
 
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Fusebox

Banned
My mate hasn't updated his PSP for ages and he's still on CFW 3.01 (or nearby), what's the upgrade path he needs to take. Is it 3.01 -> 3.52 -> 3.90? Ta.
 
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Mejilan

Running off of Custom Firmware
Always worth it if you want to purchase one of the worst known brands of memory sticks out there! Fair warning!

1) Upgrade to 3.52 M33
2) Patch it to 3.52 M33-4
3) Upgrade to 3.71 M33 or 3.90 M33
4 Patch it to 3.71 M33-4 or 3.90 M33-2
 
Nester

Nester

Member
Mejilan said:
Always worth it if you want to purchase one of the worst known brands of memory sticks out there! Fair warning!
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I never said it was a good brand! :) I just bought a 8GB Sony stick at buy.com myself for $80 after shipping, but wanted to give the lower end option too.
 
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eznark

Banned
I'm pretty sure I'm on 3.71 (in class so I can't check) does the bigger MC (8 GB) work with all CFW? I could have swore I read somewhere that it didn't.

Oh, and navanman, I gave that SNES emu another shot and it worked, thanks a lot. Chrono Trigger on the PSP is nice.
 
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Mejilan

Running off of Custom Firmware
8GBs work with CFWs, yeah. Any reasonably modern one, anyway. At some point in the distant past, NO PSP firmware (official or otherwise) could handle 8GB mem sticks, but Sony added support for it long ago. And once the official fw was granted compatibility, so to were all CFWs beyond that.
 
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