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PSP Custom Firmware Thread

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Willenium

Member
now that cfw can use the auto-network update for its own purposes, is that retro-active?

what will happen if i choose network update on CFW 3.71 M33-1?
 
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GasMan

Member
Woohoo. Just figured out what the hell I was doing wrong with FF7. I'm such a dumbass. Can't wait for work tomorrow, err, rather, my lunch break. Portable FF7. Now I know why everyone was going loopy over it.
 
NekoFever

NekoFever

Member
I'm loving FFVII again, too. I really prefer to play RPGs on a handheld where I can play a bit here and a bit there without being tethered to the TV for dozens of hours, and it's not coincidence that the only FF games I've finished are IV-VI on the GBA. If we were to get a remake it'd honestly be a toss-up for me on whether I'd prefer a PS3 remake or a PSP one with Crisis Core graphics.

I'm hoping that I might actually finish it now that I can play it like this. With my save ported over I finally beat the boss that I was stuck on last time I played it (wouldn't you know it: I did it on my second attempt this time) and now I've hit a point where the story really starts moving forwards to give me some incentive. It's a great game.
 
M

Mejilan

Running off of Custom Firmware
GasMan said:
Woohoo. Just figured out what the hell I was doing wrong with FF7. I'm such a dumbass. Can't wait for work tomorrow, err, rather, my lunch break. Portable FF7. Now I know why everyone was going loopy over it.
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I'm approaching the end of disc 2 now.
 
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Peronthious

Member
Mejilan said:
I'm approaching the end of disc 2 now.
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Is your saving working perfectly? I found that the game would rarely store a game save properly, often opening it to find that my previous attempt at saving had stored nothing. On occasion it would work, and I thought I had found a trick to doing it, but it's not taking.
 
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Mejilan

Running off of Custom Firmware
I've had issues in the past were POPS would randomly corrupt a memory card, I now alternate between making slot 1 and slot 2 saves, usually using slot 1 as my primary file, and making periodic backups on slot 2 (and my PC).

I lost 30 hours of FFIX and about half an hour of DQVII. I've learned my lesson.

Edit - I've never had a save not "take" however. I have occasionally had a game not find a memory card, but trying again usually solved that little glitch.

Edit 2 - I put in over 140 hours into DQVII, about 50 in FFIX, and I'm up to about 35 in FFVII. So far so good.
 
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Peronthious

Member
Mejilan said:
I've had issues in the past were POPS would randomly corrupt a memory card, I now alternate between making slot 1 and slot 2 saves, usually using slot 1 as my primary file, and making periodic backups on slot 2 (and my PC).

I lost 30 hours of FFIX and about half an hour of DQVII. I've learned my lesson.

Edit - I've never had a save not "take" however. I have occasionally had a game not find a memory card, but trying again usually solved that little glitch.

Edit 2 - I put in over 140 hours into DQVII, about 50 in FFIX, and I'm up to about 35 in FFVII. So far so good.
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Hmm, must be something weird going on. The saves weren't corrupting; it wasn't saving at all. I'd save the game, and it would appear to work fine, as I'd double check by going back to the save point and looking to see if it was there. But most of the time, when I completely powered off and started the game up, the game save would be gone, as if it had only been written to the RAM or something. Odd thing is it only appears to happen in FFVII; everything else saves just fine.
 
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Miroslav

Member
Mejilan said:
I've had issues in the past were POPS would randomly corrupt a memory card, I now alternate between making slot 1 and slot 2 saves, usually using slot 1 as my primary file, and making periodic backups on slot 2 (and my PC).

I lost 30 hours of FFIX and about half an hour of DQVII. I've learned my lesson.

Edit - I've never had a save not "take" however. I have occasionally had a game not find a memory card, but trying again usually solved that little glitch.

Edit 2 - I put in over 140 hours into DQVII, about 50 in FFIX, and I'm up to about 35 in FFVII. So far so good.
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Im about to finish FFIX and I was wondering what should I play next. I have a HUGE backlog on the psp to play with. Patapon, crisis core, wild arms srpg... But dragon quest VII is a game I always wanted to play. is the game as good as the VIII part? I know that it is veeery long but, how much?
 
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Mejilan

Running off of Custom Firmware
I put about 150 hours into VII, but I did all of the post-endgame stuff too. By comparison, I just cracked 100 on VIII, and did MOST of the endgame stuff.

VII is much longer and tedious, much less user-friendly, but ultimately, I found it more rewarding. VIII is infinitely more accessible, however. VII certainly does require a certain kind of near-masochistic patience, at times. Shit, it can take up to 5 hours just to get to the first battle, and up to 15 before you even open up the job system!

Depends on your play style.
 
Zoe

Zoe

Member
Mejilan said:
I've had issues in the past were POPS would randomly corrupt a memory card, I now alternate between making slot 1 and slot 2 saves, usually using slot 1 as my primary file, and making periodic backups on slot 2 (and my PC).

I lost 30 hours of FFIX and about half an hour of DQVII. I've learned my lesson.
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Are you sure that was a POPS issue for FFIX? The corrupted saves thing was pretty notorious when the game was first released.
 
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Mr. Wonderful

Member
Anyone want to link me to a good tutorial for installing the FATMSMOD patch? I'm trying to figure it out but I'm getting nowhere without good instructions.

Edit: Okay. Maybe I don't need it since I have a Slim.

My problem is the CG in my ripped Crisis Core copy is stuttering like crazy. What do I do about that?
 
M

Mejilan

Running off of Custom Firmware
Are you playing CC compressed or uncompressed? Sony driver, or M33 driver? I recommend uncompressed via the M33 driver. No issues for me.

Zoe said:
Are you sure that was a POPS issue for FFIX? The corrupted saves thing was pretty notorious when the game was first released.
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No, I'm not sure, actually. But I play it safer now, regardless.
 
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Mr. Wonderful

Member
Mejilan said:
Are you playing CC compressed or uncompressed? Sony driver, or M33 driver? I recommend uncompressed via the M33 driver. No issues for me.



No, I'm not sure, actually. But I play it safer now, regardless.
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Yeah, after a whole day of pulling my hair out and ripping the ISO multiple times (and I also installed the fatmsmod,) I discovered that it was stuttering because the Memory Stick needed to be formatted. /Life.
 
F

Fuzzy

I would bang a hot farmer!
I'm one of the cool kids now. Time for me to pick up an 8GB MS because my 1GB is too small for CC:FFVII. :D
 
F

Fuzzy

I would bang a hot farmer!
Thanks for the help Mejilan.

One other question, does it matter if I rename my ISO files to something like CCFFVII.ISO and GTALCS.ISO when I place them on my PSP?
 
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amrod

Member
Fuzzy said:
Thanks for the help Mejilan.

One other question, does it matter if I rename my ISO files to something like CCFFVII.ISO and GTALCS.ISO when I place them on my PSP?
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in "/iso" on the root of mem stick
 
D

Dragona Akehi

Retired
Fuzzy said:
Thanks for the help Mejilan.

One other question, does it matter if I rename my ISO files to something like CCFFVII.ISO and GTALCS.ISO when I place them on my PSP?
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It doesn't matter what you call them, just where you put them. MS:/ISO/ as mentioned above.
 
F

Fuzzy

I would bang a hot farmer!
amrod said:
in "/iso" on the root of mem stick
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Yeah, Mejilan helped me with that. My question was whether or not it matters that I change the file name from UMD9660.ISO to CCFFVII.ISO when I place it in that folder.

EDIT: Thanks.
 
F

Fuzzy

I would bang a hot farmer!
alr1ghtstart said:
What's a good app (psp or windows) to sort all of my games/music/movies alphabetically?
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That's another thing I want. It's annoying as hell to place a bunch of pictures onto the MS and they end up all out of order.
 
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Mash

Member
I've finally got the custom firmware installed and I'm enjoying the hell out of the PSP radio and the ebook reader, that's useful for PDF's. Anyway, I was looking on the PSN store website and I was thinking about buying Flow, is that still possible with custom firmware?
 
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Dragona Akehi

Retired
alr1ghtstart said:
What's a good app (psp or windows) to sort all of my games/music/movies alphabetically?
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PSPFiler is your friend. Hold the Triangle button and press left and then you can customise your XMB homebrew list in any order you like. BE CAREFUL with the program tho, since you can really fuck shit up if you're not careful. If you just use it for XMB organisation, you'll be fine.

Mash said:
I've finally got the custom firmware installed and I'm enjoying the hell out of the PSP radio and the ebook reader, that's useful for PDF's. Anyway, I was looking on the PSN store website and I was thinking about buying Flow, is that still possible with custom firmware?
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Shouldn't be a problem.
 
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alr1ght

bish gets all the credit :)
Dragona Akehi said:
PSPFiler is your friend. Hold the Triangle button and press left and then you can customise your XMB homebrew list in any order you like. BE CAREFUL with the program tho, since you can really fuck shit up if you're not careful. If you just use it for XMB organisation, you'll be fine.
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I'm able to sort then through the PSPFiler program, but once I exit the program all of games/apps are in the same order as before. There is also no function of Triangle + Left.
 
D

Dragona Akehi

Retired
alr1ghtstart said:
I'm able to sort then through the PSPFiler program, but once I exit the program all of games/apps are in the same order as before. There is also no function of Triangle + Left.
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To get to the XMB sorter you have to press triangle then left. From there you use the circle button to rearrange but then you have to press start to save and exit. To quit the program with everything saved, press Start and Select together.
 
NekoFever

NekoFever

Member
g35twinturbo said:
Have anyone figured out how to get your ps3 ps1 game save to work on psp?
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As far as I know it's still not possible because the PS3 stores PS1/PS2 saves in some proprietary format that hasn't been properly reverse engineered yet. In my searches for a method to get my FFVII save converted I came across PSV Exporter which purports to extract them, but I had no luck with it. Might be worth trying for yourself and seeing if you can use the other apps to get anything workable from it, though.
 
The Faceless Master

The Faceless Master

Member
NekoFever said:
As far as I know it's still not possible because the PS3 stores PS1/PS2 saves in some proprietary format that hasn't been properly reverse engineered yet. In my searches for a method to get my FFVII save converted I came across PSV Exporter which purports to extract them, but I had no luck with it. Might be worth trying for yourself and seeing if you can use the other apps to get anything workable from it, though.
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PSV Exporter exports the raw save file, rebuilding it is the tricky part. an easy way is to take an existing .max save for the same game and just overwrite the files inside it with the files you exported with PSV Exporter
 
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Slightly Live

Dirty tag dodger
How do you update to the latest 3.90CFW with a 3.71 M33-2 CFW slim?

Is there any issues or bugs in 3.90?

Im asking because I want to enable remote play with my PS3 and my PSP is explaining that I need to upgrade and I assume 3.90CFW would be fine, I'm just abit worried some other programs may be affected.
 
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Jswanko

Member
Just put POPS and popsloader on my psp and i think everything is in order, but how do i play ps1 games now? Do i save the iso of my game to the iso folder?
 
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Slightly Live

Dirty tag dodger
Jswanko said:
Just put POPS and popsloader on my psp and i think everything is in order, but how do i play ps1 games now? Do i save the iso of my game to the iso folder?
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You need to make an eboot of the iso first and put the folder containing the eboot in the GAME folder.

If you don't know how to make an eboot, follow this guide here.
 
NekoFever

NekoFever

Member
The Faceless Master said:
PSV Exporter exports the raw save file, rebuilding it is the tricky part. an easy way is to take an existing .max save for the same game and just overwrite the files inside it with the files you exported with PSV Exporter
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Hmm, if it's a raw save file it might be possible to convert it into something usable with PSXRC. I'll have a look when I get home from work.
 
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lastendconductor

Put your snobby liquids into my mouth!
I don't have a PS3, but wouldn't it be possible to export the save to a PS1/2 memory card with the adapter, and then plug it into a ps2 or something else and dump it into a readable format?
 
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alr1ght

bish gets all the credit :)
anyone have a problem playing MGS (multidisc) with RS-GUI? I ripped a fresh copy with CloneCD and it refuses to boot disc 1. If I manually reset the game to boot to disc 2 it boots fine, but the audio is also pretty choppy on the starting movie. I used compression level 1, with a sandisk card (real), and am on 3.90 M33-3. anyone have a problem with this?
 
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Anony

Member
alr1ghtstart said:
anyone have any luck converting MGS PSX memory card files into a useable PSP file? I tried it with Castlevania:SOTN and it worked great. Every time I try with my MGS save it never works (the save works in ePSXe just fine). It doesn't see the new save at all. I'm using this method: http://www.gamerspress.com/index.php?title=PSX_on_PSP_-_Memory_Card_Handling

I'm still on disc 1 (right after Psycho Mantis) and want to continue on my PSP.
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how'd you get mgs to work, i have the same problem as you, the first disk doesnt do anything, it just goes to the ps1 logo and get a blank/black screen, whereas i booted from the second disk, and it boots into the menu and everything
using rs-gui 3.0
 
C

Callo Merlose

Banned
The only problem I have with mgs is getting from disc 1 to disc 2. I know this problem's been solved, but since I can't rip my own games (got a mac), I think I'm screwed.
 
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alr1ght

bish gets all the credit :)
Use popsloader and select 3.71. It works fine. I'm just trying to continue my game I started on my PS2 on my PSP, which is not cooperating.
 
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