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PSP Custom Firmware Thread
- Thread starter Mejilan
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Actually I bricked mine following your guide navanman haha. I was trying to write to flash with UPMS and screen went blank for a while. Probably should have waited longer but I tried resetting and now no luck...
I'm running 4.01 M33 and can get to the recovery menu but the "Run program at /PSP/GAME/RECOVERY/EBOOT.PSP" function doesn't seem to work. I tried it with hellcat's recovery flasher to no avail. Any ideas?
I'm running 4.01 M33 and can get to the recovery menu but the "Run program at /PSP/GAME/RECOVERY/EBOOT.PSP" function doesn't seem to work. I tried it with hellcat's recovery flasher to no avail. Any ideas?
suffah said:
DOH DOH DOH, That guide is obselete now and will brick your PSP if its on FW greater than 3.71 M33. Haven't had the time to update it.
If you have a Pandora Battery you can recover it easily with UPMT for PC
http://downloads.psp4noobz.com/download.php?view.60
Ninja Kn1ght
Member
suffah said:
I don't think so. You could also buy one of these:
http://uk.codejunkies.com/Products/PSP-MAX-Power-TOOL__EF000536.aspx
Mine still isn't working, I think the recovery eboot won't run because the fatsmod is screwed up. I'll Pandora it but I'll have to wait a while to do it since I don't have my battery here.
suffah said:
You may be able to fix the pin again afterwards, if not you can use the Pandora Battery as normal battery in any CFW PSP. I do, have mine as Pandora Battery at all times.
You can get Pandora cheap here:
http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.15153
http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.12472
http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.15612 (Slim only)
edit:
Back in a few hours, don't brick anymore PSPs please..
Ninja Kn1ght
Member
navanman is a legend and a hero!
:bow navanman
:bow navanman
mattiewheels
And then the LORD David Bowie saith to his Son, Jonny Depp: 'Go, and spread my image amongst the cosmos. For every living thing is in anguish and only the LIGHT shall give them reprieve.'
really wish m33-3 would show up on network update. any reason why it wouldnt?
Randam_Hajile
Member
I just updated my PSPhat to 5.00 M33-3 and I still can't run demos downloaded from my PS3. Am I missing something, or is it just not supported yet?
lowrider007
Licorice-flavoured booze?
Can anyone tell me if the new POPSLoader fixes the audio stuttering in MGS please ?
BTW they've now released new tools for 5.00 M33 for all your Pandora needs.
Ultimate Pandora's Tool v5.0.2
PSP Pandora Deluxe v2.5
Ultimate Pandora's Tool v5.0.2
PSP Pandora Deluxe v2.5
So I checked out the thread a few days ago. It's looking good. I've learned never ever take the first one because that's just Beta. But DA is usually pretty fast with the updates. I do make a Pandora Battery and CatB50 whatever it is stick. Oh boy am I glad I did that. Keep up the good work Mejilan.
Who the fuck has the default going to the Sony Updater! I updated and everything on my stick is invisible. Fuck, fuck, fuck. Break out the Pandora and the magic stick. I root around and find the other stick I used to upgrade to 4.01. Okay, all is well with the world in a bad and wrong kind of way.
So I know what I did wrong (hold the stupid R button down and make sure it defaults to CFW updating). So I figure while I'm at it I'll install CWCHEAT. That's right, the mighty Yian Kut-Ku will die this time, and painfully, and over and over again. But what, after I follow the fucking instructions "Press X to enable the SEPLUGINS" I exit and I can see the icons for the games but cannot run diddly squat... and all of my video is gone. What?
Oh, I'm getting real good at this, downgrade the bastard to 3.80, back to 4.01, net update to 5.00 m33-3. WAIT, WHAT THE FUCK, all of the SAVEDATA was deleted! Nooooooooo!!! FUCK! Four months of Hot Shots Golf OT2! Many months of Taiko 1 and 2. And worst of all my DJMAX FEVER WON"T RUN!!!!! I can't live without DJMAX FEVER! For fucks sake, Goddammit, this is stupid beyond belief. And it's not just me, even if I am a techie whore masochist confirmed.
So Pandora, stick, 3.80 and then 4.01 and I'm back to where I started from, yet, minus one months worth of save files. Yeah, luckily I did find a back up of the stick I did last month. But it still sucks. Lost over 100 matches of golf, 20 levels in DJMAX and gold starring all the easy and medium songs on Taiko (so I can get all the medals!). And then I lost a few missions from MHP2, but I guess that's penance for trying to install CWCheat. I love my PSP, but this shit must cease now!
Really, I don't know what to think. What reason is there for me to upgrade?
Who the fuck has the default going to the Sony Updater! I updated and everything on my stick is invisible. Fuck, fuck, fuck. Break out the Pandora and the magic stick. I root around and find the other stick I used to upgrade to 4.01. Okay, all is well with the world in a bad and wrong kind of way.
So I know what I did wrong (hold the stupid R button down and make sure it defaults to CFW updating). So I figure while I'm at it I'll install CWCHEAT. That's right, the mighty Yian Kut-Ku will die this time, and painfully, and over and over again. But what, after I follow the fucking instructions "Press X to enable the SEPLUGINS" I exit and I can see the icons for the games but cannot run diddly squat... and all of my video is gone. What?
Oh, I'm getting real good at this, downgrade the bastard to 3.80, back to 4.01, net update to 5.00 m33-3. WAIT, WHAT THE FUCK, all of the SAVEDATA was deleted! Nooooooooo!!! FUCK! Four months of Hot Shots Golf OT2! Many months of Taiko 1 and 2. And worst of all my DJMAX FEVER WON"T RUN!!!!! I can't live without DJMAX FEVER! For fucks sake, Goddammit, this is stupid beyond belief. And it's not just me, even if I am a techie whore masochist confirmed.
So Pandora, stick, 3.80 and then 4.01 and I'm back to where I started from, yet, minus one months worth of save files. Yeah, luckily I did find a back up of the stick I did last month. But it still sucks. Lost over 100 matches of golf, 20 levels in DJMAX and gold starring all the easy and medium songs on Taiko (so I can get all the medals!). And then I lost a few missions from MHP2, but I guess that's penance for trying to install CWCheat. I love my PSP, but this shit must cease now!
Really, I don't know what to think. What reason is there for me to upgrade?
prodystopian
Member
Is anyone else having any trouble with NexterJ?
After upgrading to 5.00 I have been having some problems with emulators. I also had a bad memory card and tried putting the backups that were on that memory card onto my new card. When I was still having problems with that, I went back and just put on the original folders from my PC. This fixed all of my emulators except for NesterJ.
It runs fine, but when I try to exit the emulator using the home button, it crashes and turns off my PSP. Anyone else having any problems like this or with other emulators?
After upgrading to 5.00 I have been having some problems with emulators. I also had a bad memory card and tried putting the backups that were on that memory card onto my new card. When I was still having problems with that, I went back and just put on the original folders from my PC. This fixed all of my emulators except for NesterJ.
It runs fine, but when I try to exit the emulator using the home button, it crashes and turns off my PSP. Anyone else having any problems like this or with other emulators?
prodystopian
Member
Mejilan said:
Edit: I don't have any plugins. I didn't put popsloader onto my new memory card so it can't be that. I do have an 8gb memory card if that matters, though.
If anyone has the same problem with 5.00 m33-3 be sure to post. Otherwise, I'll just assume it's something in my configuration and I'll try to figure something out.
can i use this http://pspslimhacks.com/psp-pandora-deluxe-v25/ to hack a psp slim without a pandora battery and/or a hacked psp slim??
*edit* nevermind, i answered my own question.
*edit* nevermind, i answered my own question.
CurlySaysX
Banned
Hello Everyone.
Would anyone be kind enough to tell me whether it is possible to install a Custom Firmware without all the trouble of flashing a battery etc.
I have a FAT PSP Launch Unit with whatever firmware was on Everybody's Gold 2.
Thanks for the help.
Sincerely
CSX
Would anyone be kind enough to tell me whether it is possible to install a Custom Firmware without all the trouble of flashing a battery etc.
I have a FAT PSP Launch Unit with whatever firmware was on Everybody's Gold 2.
Thanks for the help.
Sincerely
CSX
The Faceless Master
Member
seriously, talk about LAZY, you don't even say what firmware it actually has?CurlySaysX said:
how about you at least turn the thing on and check to see if it's lower than 3.51
prodystopian said:
Same problem here. I have tried a different version, the 1.20 beta, but it didn't run.
But this emulator always showed some problems here, it always freeze when I try to load a new game, so I always have to exit the emulator and run it again to play a different game.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
can you guys please tell me something that's been bothering me for quiet some time ..
so with CWCheat you can manually select the CPU rate, and its even possible to change it during Pops emulation, now i've read that normally pops runs at 333 mhz on default (is that true ?) but with Cwcheat you can even bring down pops's cpu usage to 222 mhz, and it would work fine even then, just saving you some battery life.
can someone clarify that ?
so with CWCheat you can manually select the CPU rate, and its even possible to change it during Pops emulation, now i've read that normally pops runs at 333 mhz on default (is that true ?) but with Cwcheat you can even bring down pops's cpu usage to 222 mhz, and it would work fine even then, just saving you some battery life.
can someone clarify that ?
The_Joint said:
"Temptress" implies that I'm a female. I'm not. But you're quite welcome about the tutorials! ;p
decon said:
You'd have to get 5.01 M33 and 5.01 M33-2 before getting 5.01 M33-3. That said, I highly doubt 5.01 M33 is going to happen. If Dark-Alex was interested in doing it, he'd have done it instead of releasing 5.00 M33-2 and 5.00 M33-3.
The only two real changes between 5.00 and 5.01 (as I understand it), are the PSN lockout (not an issue with 5.00 M33-3) and and the borked 5.00 memory stick driver. Well, the 5.01 memory stick driver can be manually flashed to 5.00 M33-x, solving that issue as well.
EGM92 said:
No. Currently, later PSP-2000s and all PSP-3000s are Pandora proof. For now.
Randam_Hajile
Member
Randam_Hajile said:
Does anyone know the answer to this?
Corran Horn
May the Schwartz be with you
So I ended up getting some fake memory sticks
Are these gonna fuck up while im playing? bleh
Are these gonna fuck up while im playing? bleh
Corran Horn said:So I ended up getting some fake memory sticks
Are these gonna fuck up while im playing? bleh
Back up your saves and whatnot often. Especially if you're going to be tinkering about your PSP and homebrewin'.
EGM92 said:
There are people (including Dark-Alex) looking into it. IMHO, we won't get any more solid info on it until they're cracked.
PixelJunkie
Member
I updated to the new popsloader500 and to firmware 5.00 M33-3. When I boot up one of my PSX games I get the popsloader to select a firmware and then after I select it and hit X the screen just goes blank with no response until I turn it off.
Any ideas what is causing this? I have tried several games and/or various pops firmwares? M33-3 the problem?
Any ideas what is causing this? I have tried several games and/or various pops firmwares? M33-3 the problem?
Popsloader is just a plugin to enable you to use the PSX emulator files from previous FW revisions.
You need to either decrypt and extract the POPS files from each supported FW as shown in the OP by Mejilan (superb guide BTW) or have a look around the interwebs for someone who has already done this and uploaded it.
I heard a little birdy say they may have seen this over on the psp-hacks forum. Could be wrong though.
You need to either decrypt and extract the POPS files from each supported FW as shown in the OP by Mejilan (superb guide BTW) or have a look around the interwebs for someone who has already done this and uploaded it.
I heard a little birdy say they may have seen this over on the psp-hacks forum. Could be wrong though.
PixelJunkie
Member
Yea, I had all my files from my old popsloader I had done and just added 5.00 stuff on top. This is counting the file from 401.
I think I messed up something somewhere in the pops, not sure what though as I have went over it quite a few times now, just trying to figure out what that is.
Thanks for the tip btw though.
Edit: Found out what I screwed up. I knew it had to be something in the popsloader but couldn't figure it out.
I think I messed up something somewhere in the pops, not sure what though as I have went over it quite a few times now, just trying to figure out what that is.
Thanks for the tip btw though.
Edit: Found out what I screwed up. I knew it had to be something in the popsloader but couldn't figure it out.
MEMORY STICK WOES: so i bought a cheapo 8gb memory stick knowing it might be a bootleg but whatever it was cheap and I can return it. Problem is PSP is giving me a "Format Failed" error, Windows says same thing (when hooked up to PC through PSP), but ps3 didn't seem to have any problems with it. Is it bunk or is it Firmware related? (I'm using 5.00 m33-3).
I'm tired of copying and then deleting Ape Quest whenever I want to play some stupid PS1 game.
I'm tired of copying and then deleting Ape Quest whenever I want to play some stupid PS1 game.
Depending on the build and components, it might be usable. But I'd never recommend it. Especially if you're going to be doing anything like flashing your PSP with it. It's possibly usable, but still some garbage piece of plastic. ;p
If returning it is still an option, as you indicated, I'd do that and buy a real stick.
If returning it is still an option, as you indicated, I'd do that and buy a real stick.