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[SonOfABeep]

so 3.90 M33 works well? No major problems? No issues with PSOne compatibility?

I mostly use my PSP as a portable PSOne, but I really want that Space Invaders Extreme Demo, and it requires higher than 3.71, so I'm upgrading.

 

[eznark]

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.

Thanks, jumping in at this point is a bit tough catching up and filtering out which info is current. Which brands are generally acceptible? I got a 4 gig Lexar and it seems to work fine, but I put all my games on there and there isn't much room left over so I was looking to get an 8 gig. If there are brand differences, I have no problem paying a few extra bucks

 

[Khalid-S]

Thanks navanman, I already figured that out and now I'm on 3.90 M33-2.

Any plug-in recommendation? Thanks again.

 

[MoxManiac]

Thanks, jumping in at this point is a bit tough catching up and filtering out which info is current. Which brands are generally acceptible? I got a 4 gig Lexar and it seems to work fine, but I put all my games on there and there isn't much room left over so I was looking to get an 8 gig. If there are brand differences, I have no problem paying a few extra bucks

Lexar is okay if you're just running games and stuff off it, but if you have to do sensitive or critical tasks like updating your CFW stick to sandisk for that.

 

[Deleted member 22576]

8gig sandisk ultras are like 107 on amazon. but 4 gig ultras are 37...

 

[Carl2282]

Many thanks to Mejilan for helping me out (i suck at flashing firmware)
remote play... how i missed you

 

[Mejilan]

Sandisks are by far the best memory sticks, IMHO. Extremely reliable, built like bricks, with snappy speeds. Particularly for sensitive tasks, such as firmware flashing or backing up. It's well documented that they're faster than Sony's mem sticks (which though slower, are typically just as reliable).

Carl, I'm happy I could help. And good thing I got home from the office just in time. Would have been a shame to lose the work you sunk into this little project!

 

[Deleted member 22576]

So is there a new version of psp game structre utility?
The one linked on page 18 doesn't work.
On 3.90-2 btw, if that matters.

 

[Fusebox]

Aussies I got a good price for the 8GB Sandisk stick here:

http://www.citysoftware.com.au/Browse/9bcb3a3df709416488b7dd6c722173c0001ItemDetail.aspx

AUS$146 for genuine, avoid eBay knock-offs.

 

[JudgeN]

I just got an 8 gig Sony new off Amazon for $80.99 dunno about speed between scandisk and Sony thought, from what I read 8 gig Sony transfers at a min of 15mb/sec while the Scandisk do 10mb/sec. But i'm a PSP noob so I went with the went with Sony one because of the price.


http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000IGGCCG/?tag=neogaf0e-20

 

[Erebus]

It seems that no one bothered to answer my question a few posts back.

Anyway I just need to know this now, will I experience any slowdown in games with CFW 3.90m33? I have a Sony 4GB memory stick.

 

[Diseased Yak]

Just wanted to post and thank navanman for a great tutorial. I got my Datel battery switcheroo in, followed your instructions to the letter, then updated to 3.90 M33-2 and everything is fine and dandy like sour candy.

 

[Fusebox]

It seems that no one bothered to answer my question a few posts back.

Anyway I just need to know this now, will I experience any slowdown in games with CFW 3.90m33? I have a Sony 4GB memory stick.

I'm on 3.90 M33-2 with a Sandisk 8GB and I get no slowdown. Hope this helps!

 

[DiddyBop]

so i have a 3.80 m33 fat on the way. i can enable it to auto update the m33 firmware updates?

 

[fugimax]

Didn't seem to get an answer to my question I posted yesterday, so I'll try again.

Is there any tutorial / readme / whatever to understand what all the settings do in M33 Recovery Mode?

 

[Zoe]

Looks like it's finally time to switch over to my 4GB stick. Do I actually need to carry anything over from my old stick, or is really it all in the firmware?

 

[SonOfABeep]

has anybody successfully played through FF8 on their PSP? I'm near the end, just at the start of Disc 4 and the game freezes whenever Adel does some certain action in battle.

I'm using the Dino Crisis GameID SLPS02180 which has worked just fine through about 35 hours of gameplay, until now. It's so strange.

 

[elbkhm]

Didn't seem to get an answer to my question I posted yesterday, so I'll try again.

Is there any tutorial / readme / whatever to understand what all the settings do in M33 Recovery Mode?

Here (Gamefaqs link). Section VI goes over the settings for M33's recovery mode.

 

[rollingstart]

im not sure if it exactly belongs here, but I think it is CFW related.

does anyone know what the program was called that let you hook your psp up to your PC so you can run the steam on your monitor and play with a PS2 controller?

 

[MikeE21286]

It seems that no one bothered to answer my question a few posts back.

Anyway I just need to know this now, will I experience any slowdown in games with CFW 3.90m33? I have a Sony 4GB memory stick.

I'm using Sony 4GB and it's good to go....no problems.

 

[MikeE21286]

has anybody successfully played through FF8 on their PSP? I'm near the end, just at the start of Disc 4 and the game freezes whenever Adel does some certain action in battle.

I'm using the Dino Crisis GameID SLPS02180 which has worked just fine through about 35 hours of gameplay, until now. It's so strange.

I've played fine so far....but I'm not nearly as far as you are (I'm only about 3 hrs in)

 

[alr1ght]

Just had a really strange issue with my PSP slim (running 3.90-2 M33). I would turn it on and for a few seconds it would act as normal, then run really sluggish just going through the menus. If I clicked on anything it would freeze. When I hit select, the menu was flashing red, not letting me select anything. When I turned it off it would take a few attempts to get it back on. I just downgraded using an old pandora back to 3.71-4 and all works as normal. This happened with and without the memory stick in (authentic sandisk 4.0GB). I just want to know what the heck happened. Any insight?

 

[Splash Wave]

Anyone know why my copy of God of War: Chains of Olympus isn't working with the latest firmware? I'm running it off of the UMD and I'm getting the "Game can not be played" message.

 

[navanman]

Just had a really strange issue with my PSP slim (running 3.90-2 M33). I would turn it on and for a few seconds it would act as normal, then run really sluggish just going through the menus. If I clicked on anything it would freeze. When I hit select, the menu was flashing red, not letting me select anything. When I turned it off it would take a few attempts to get it back on. I just downgraded using an old pandora back to 3.71-4 and all works as normal. This happened with and without the memory stick in (authentic sandisk 4.0GB). I just want to know what the heck happened. Any insight?

You changed the XMB CPU instead of the GAME CPU SPEED. Boot into Recovery and change it back to default.

Anyone know why my copy of God of War: Chains of Olympus isn't working with the latest firmware? I'm running it off of the UMD and I'm getting the "Game can not be played" message.

What CFW are you on? Any US gaffers with GOW? What FW is on the UMD?

 

[Sagitario]

It seems that no one bothered to answer my question a few posts back.

Anyway I just need to know this now, will I experience any slowdown in games with CFW 3.90m33? I have a Sony 4GB memory stick.

As long as you're in 333MHz, it should be fine...

 

[Splash Wave]

You changed the XMB CPU instead of the GAME CPU SPEED. Boot into Recovery and change it back to default.



What CFW are you on? Any US gaffers with GOW? What FW is on the UMD?

I'm running 3.90 M33-2. The UMD comes with 3.8 I think.

 

[navanman]

Hmm, my recovery menu doesn't have any of those options...

All those options should be M33 Recovery Menu -> Configuration. If not go to Advanced and format flash1 and reset settings.

 

[Hazmat]

All those options should be M33 Recovery Menu -> Configuration. If not go to Advanced and format flash1 and reset settings.

I was having the same issue as Jimmy Stav and this fixed it for me. I was seeing all those options in the M33 Recovery Menu though. Thanks navanman!

 

[GasMan]

Quick query, is there a way to compress the image from a ripped UMD? I find I'm struggling to get everything I want on a card now.

/Goes looking for another memstick.

 

[NekoFever]

Quick query, is there a way to compress the image from a ripped UMD? I find I'm struggling to get everything I want on a card now.

/Goes looking for another memstick.

I like UMDGen. You can use it to simply compress an ISO (bear in mind that some games don't like being compressed - GOW in particular runs like shit) but it also has other features like a one-click 'optimise' button that'll strip out the firmware files and any padding (anywhere from about 40MB to hundreds saved) and that shouldn't give any performance differences if you're resaving it as a normal ISO. That strips about 120MB from the God of War ISO.

It also lets you dummy files that you don't want, like maybe cut-scenes in another languages. I used it on Silent Hill Origins and optimisation coupled with saving it as a CSO and dummying the foreign language cut-scenes saved about 500MB of space.

There are other programs like YACC which are more simple, but I like the features of UMDGen.

 

[GasMan]

Excellent, cheers chief. Getting rid of the excess is all I'm looking for at the minute. Every little bit helps!

 

[Kestastrophe]

If anyone is interested, FRYs has the 8GB Lexar Platinum II on sale for $65 right now.

*edit*
Does UMDGen optimize CSOs as well as ISOs? Thanks for the link Neko

 

[NekoFever]

Does UMDGen optimize CSOs as well as ISOs? Thanks for the link Neko

It can open them, but I'm not sure if it can optimise them directly. It can certainly decompress them to ISOs and then optimise them before being re-saved as a CSO, if you want to do it that way.

 

[Mutagenic]

I'm currently running 3.71m33-4 and would like to upgrade to a version of 3.90 to play Echochrome. I found this handy little easy installer and was wondering if it'd be safe or if anyone has tried it.

http://dl.qj.net/3.90-M33-Easy-Installer-v2-PSP-Homebrew-Applications/pg/12/fid/15846/catid/151

 

[SupahBlah]

I'm currently running 3.71m33-4 and would like to upgrade to a version of 3.90 to play Echochrome. I found this handy little easy installer and was wondering if it'd be safe or if anyone has tried it.

If you don't want to upgrade, I edited Echochrome so it will play using 3.71

I edited it to 3.80 for myself but don't have a 3.71 machine to test so just let me know if it works or not.

[QUOTE="Crisis]chochrome Japanese PSP Demo

Size: 3916 KB
Language: Text, Moonspeak. Voices (English, but it's not as if there's a lot of voicework in a 3 MB demo.)

To install:

1: Plug your PSP into your PC or Mac with a USB cable or insert your memory stick into the memory card reader.

2: Navigate to Memory Stick > PSP > GAME.

3: In the GAME folder make a new folder named "NPJG90019" without the quotes.

4: Drag the Echochrome EBOOT file into the NPJG90019 folder on your memory stick

5: Disconnect PSP/MS

6: Play Echochrome

7: Profit.[/QUOTE]

http://rapidshare.com/files/97828408/EBOOT.PBP.html

 

[Mutagenic]

Oh, thanks for that Mr. Blah. I'll try it out after lunch. Are you as weary of upgrading to 3.90 as I am? I figured I'd start needing it for GoW and FFVII:CC, so I was gonna just go ahead and upgrade soon. Hopefully that installer works all right.

 

[SupahBlah]

Oh, thanks for that Mr. Blah. I'll try it out after lunch. Are you as weary of upgrading to 3.90 as I am? I figured I'd start needing it for GoW and FFVII:CC, so I was gonna just go ahead and upgrade soon. Hopefully that installer works all right.

Nah, I'm just lazy. :lol

I have a replacement XMB for my 3.80 and I'm just too lazy to reflash the original files to my psp so I can upgrade, then see if there's a 3.90 version of my replacement theme.

 

[Manager]

World championship in stupid questions, but: Reading through some pages in this thread, why wouldn't you want the latest firmware (3.90 right?) in the PSP?
Someone here mentioned something about games (PS1), you can't play them on 3.90?

Thanks in advance.

 

[navanman]

I'm currently running 3.71m33-4 and would like to upgrade to a version of 3.90 to play Echochrome. I found this handy little easy installer and was wondering if it'd be safe or if anyone has tried it.

http://dl.qj.net/3.90-M33-Easy-Installer-v2-PSP-Homebrew-Applications/pg/12/fid/15846/catid/151

You can upgrade the ole fashioned way like this:

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.

Then use the Network Update function to upgrade to 3.90 M33-2.

 

[zsidane]

World championship in stupid questions, but: Reading through some pages in this thread, why wouldn't you want the latest firmware (3.90 right?) in the PSP?
Someone here mentioned something about games (PS1), you can't play them on 3.90?

Thanks in advance.

PSOne games runs just fine. I think that 3.80 brought some slowdown issues, that's why some people don't want to upgrade from 3.71 (most of the time) cause everything is perfect and 3.90 has nothing new (other that Skype for L&S).

 

[Manager]

PSOne games runs just fine. I think that 3.80 brought some slowdown issues, that's why some people don't want to upgrade from 3.71 (most of the time) cause everything is perfect and 3.90 has nothing new (other that Skype for L&S).

Ah I see, thanks for the fast answer. 3.90 didn't fix the slowdown issues?

 

[zsidane]

Ah I see, thanks for the fast answer. 3.90 didn't fix the slowdown issues?

Actually, not everyone experienced those slowdowns (I had none).
And everyone seems to agree that everything is ok with FW 3.90 (I'm using 3.90-2 M33 and everything is smooth).

 

[Mutagenic]

You can upgrade the ole fashioned way like this:

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.

Then use the Network Update function to upgrade to 3.90 M33-2.

Thanks nav, that looks easy. And Blah, it worked great on my 3.71 firmware (it took a few seconds to load from a black screen).

 

[Mutagenic]

So running the official Network Update function while in 3.90 M33 will update to the latest CFW rather than official FW? It looks no different so I want to be sure.

 

[Peronthious]

So running the official Network Update function while in 3.90 M33 will update to the latest CFW rather than official FW? It looks no different so I want to be sure.

Yes, indeed it will. Nicest new user feature, if you ask me.

 

[vag 2.0]

Are there any plans for WPA2 support on the PSP? I'm contemplating switching my router to vanilla WPA for PSP network updates (I'm very lazy) and other things, though I'm not entirely sure if this is a security hit or not...

 

[eznark]

Yes, indeed it will. Nicest new user feature, if you ask me.

wow, that actually sounds like a great feature. Everything is working so well right now though that I'm hesitant to upgrade to 3.9...

 

[playstencil]

Sorry guys have a really quick question. I already have a 3.90 cfw psp fat but im trying to hack my friend's. i started at 1.50 then went to 3.52 m33, im trying to go to 3.52 m33-4 so that i can jump to 3.90, however, to go to 3.52m33-4 the update requires a folder game150 but my friend's Now 3.52 m33 does not have a game150 folder and the update comes up as corrupted data.... help???

 

[Mejilan]

Make a GAME150 folder?

 

[playstencil]

ah i tried, comes up as corrupted, wtf???? fuck

im trying to do this shit mad quick, we're leaving for a trip in like 30 mins

that bastard coming to me last fucking minute with a fucking 1.5