Yeah, the firmware keys from official firmware can be different than the custom firmwares, so yeah, flashing an OFW update on top of a CFW will brick your PSP pretty bad. The best way to reinstall official firmware is via Pandora, so hopefully you have the battery and memory stick set up for the Pandora process.
HOWEVER, since you say you have 3.5x, you could try updating to 3.71 using this program and following [media=youtube]CLzU2EF-ep4&feature=related"[/media] tutorial. The risk involved is, your history with custom firmwares may cause incompatibility problems in future official updatesā¦ but itās all risky, unfortunately, although Pandora is the safest method to install firmwares.
I can help with whichever you prefer to do (Pandora or the homebrew downgrader)
Well, the memory stick appears to be fine in āmagicā status, 'cause that Genesis emulator I picked up last night actually runs games. Sadly, I can only look at Zombies Ate My Neighbors and Boogerman in their demo/attract modes, as no buttons work on them. ZAMN was the first game I wanted on the genesis emulatorā¦top priority. Kid Chamelon and a few others actually work fine though. The games look amazing on the psp screenā¦they actually look better than what I remember back in the day on a regular television.
heh, Battletoads & Double Dragon = HILARIOUS. Yes, I had to get it. I got the regular Battletoads as well. Itās one of those āso bad itās amazing!ā things.
using DC3 or 4 or 5 is your best bet to use. you have an option of installing the official firmware or CFW.
depending on the version, 4 installs 3.80 and 5 installs 3.90. i didnāt get to use the older versions so iām not sure what are the older DC installs.
I used the Pandora downgrader to drop my CFW Phat PSP to the base firmware 1.50ā¦ I tried both versions of DC, and while it installed 3.71 or 3.80 fine, I had problems upgrading to any other official firmware. After I downgraded to 1.50, I upgraded my PSP to official 3.95 (eww official firmware) with no problem.
My friend came down the last weekend with his Slim. I didnāt think upgrading to the Slim was all that, but after seeing his, if I had the money I probably would.
this shit just doesnāt work no matter what I try, apparently. I found an Aliens vs. Predator cache, and it still doesnāt work. First of all, it seems everyone naturally has a āCacheā folder in CPS2 except me of courseā¦that bullshit didnāt appear for meā¦of course. I made a āCacheā folder and put the shit in thereā¦still nothing. Iāve put the cache in the gameās folder, nothing. I put it in the goddamn ROM folderā¦nothing. God Himself does not want me to have this particular game, it seems. I already know the next 10000 things I try wonāt work either.
Thanks a lot, Capcom and whoever for this particular game not EVER coming out legitimately on any system, ever. Iād love to choke the life out of something right now.
On the other handā¦the genesis emulator actually works great so farā¦well, at least with a few of the games I have. Kid Chameleon brings back some good old memories.
You may actually be using a version that no longer uses the cache folder. I have that version, but Iām also playing on a slim, and I think that particular version is slim only.
No cps2psp cache folder needed here either. Just roms. My mvspsp emu uses caches for the newer games, but stuff like aof2, kof 94 and samsho2 need no cache.
So I have a dilemma here. I want to get that red God of War PSP when it comes out but Iām not sure if I want to hack it or not. Can someone give me kind of a Pro/Con list of going either route? Also, does the current firmware(not sure which one it is atm, I sold my launch PSP over a year and a half ago) support the Pandora battery hack?
^^ if you want to use pandora to make your psp a cfw, yes. but if you want to convert the battery or jigsaw memory stick. possibly no. i heard that the new psp wonāt allow it to convert the battery or the memory stick or something like that due to $onyās hardware revisions.
iām assuming thats what you are asking for. iām not sure what do you mean support pandora hack.
such goddamn fucking asshole bullshittfgh gfhj sksfjvbzklbnmfd. I got a new memory stick (Sony Pro Duo 1 gig) and formatted it since I wanted to keep #1 āmagicalā. I put the shit on there and stillā¦nothing working.
I get a blue screen with that directory stuff at the top: ms0:/PSP/GAME/cps2psp/roms/
folder icon avsp/
folder icon xmvsf Folder/
I hit either button that supposedly launches the game and thereās nothingā¦it only acts as if Iām opening the folderā¦because of course I wanted to see even more of that beautiful blue screen. Iāve put the shit in āGameā, āGame150ā, and āGame371ā, and itās all the same result. I will never be able to play that or any other cps2 game, because apparently God wonāt allow it. Heās apparently ok with letting me play a Genesis emulator thoughā¦for some reason thatās cool with Him.
*yeah, this is all on a Slim.
MAME still gives the same 80020148 or whatever # it is error.