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The latest release of the custom firmware won’t be for PSP 3000 users. Finally, someone has taken notice to create a custom firmware for the Playstation Portable 1000 and 2000.

PSPGen’s GENyUS, the creator of the new CFW, released for the PSP 1000 (fat) and the PSP 2000 (slim) his Custom Firmware 5.50 GEN-A Build 4.

Here’s what you need to install the CFW:

• A PSP-1000 or 2000 v1 or v2
• A PSP running CFW 3.52 M33 or higher

And here’s what you can get if you install it:

• All features of Sony’s Official Firmware 5.50
• Launch UMDs / ISOs / CSOs and demos requiring 5.50 or below
• Launch homebrew
• Launch PSOne (POPs) games
• Access to recovery mode (change CPU speed, enable/disable plugins, registry hacks, flash access, etc.)

To install, just simply unzip the archive, copy everything under PSP/GAME/UPDATE to your memory stick and run the updater from the [GAME] menu.

Do not attempt, however, to install or flash the Custom Firmware 5.50 GEN-A Build 4 to your PSP 3000 or TA-088v3 handhelds. The results will not make you happy, believe me.

Download Custom Firmware 5.50 GEN-A (Build 4)

The brand new PSP Custom Firmware 5.50Gen-A was finally released as promised a couple of days ago. The new custom firmware is compatible with PSP 1000 and PSP 2000 (excluding those with TA-088v3), as opposed to the previously released custom firmware for PSP 3000.

Here’s how to install the new custom firmware and its corresponding features:

To install, it must have the following:

1. PSP-1000 or PSP-2000 (no TA-088v3)

• At least CF 3.52M33-4
• Copy the UPDATE folder into PSP / GAME
• Rename the fw 5:50 in SCE.PBP and copy the UPDATE folder
• Start the installer

Features:

• Under Network Playstation has been added to the Information Board.
• In the Internet browser was added support for web security provided by Trend Micro.
• In the menu bar of Internet Browser was added an icon for Internet search.
• In the menu of game options in the game is now possible to perform an internet search.
• You can now see another layer of folders under Photos, Music & Video.

Compared to the CF-A, the new 5.02Gen-A has all the functions of the 5:50 and has Pandora on standby. It also removed the reset options, the plugin classification Bubbletune and the Slim Colors Patch Bubbletune.

The makers of the new custom firmware says we can expect the release of popsloader 5.50GEN, CXMB 5.50GEN and many more in the coming days. So, stay tuned for more downloads!

Download Firmware 5.50GEN-A

As previously reported, Xenogears and Becus25—creators of the custom firmware enabler—steered clear from critics saying their previous homebrew plugins needed more fixes. The new custom firmware enabler v3.20 will let your custom firmware features (those that are already installed in your Playstation Portables) on your 5.03 PSP 3000 or TA-088v3 to be equipped with more handheld features.

CFWEnabler v3.20 changes:

• Now you can use plugins that are not on seplugins folder.
• Now we use our own systemctrl, not GENyUS ones.
• Version is now 5.00M33-6.
• Native 5.03 Pops is now supported.
• MS Speed Patch available.
• Fixed bug that did not patch version.txt properly.
• Quick Start mode (Autostart if you don’t press R Trigger).

For added security and function, use it with Team Typhoon’s ChickHEN. Now, let us see if this can surpass all previously released custom firmwares. If not, let us expect more from Xenogears and Becus 25—those guys are genius when it comes to creating improved custom firmwares for our download buffs.

Download ChickHEN R2
Download CFWEnabler v3.20 for ChickHEN R2

To top of Sony’s 5.03 beat down recently, another security-shattering blow is delivered by Xenogears and Becus25 through the new custom firmware enabler. The CFWenabler version 3.01 contains new codes to support the PSP 3000. It also enables most, if not all, features of CFW M33 on your PSP consoles.

But remember you’re going to need ChickHEN R2 as well so download both plugins below.

The CFWEnabler 3.01 has these changes:

• PSP 3000 is now supported.
• Graphical interface improved.
• Network update option added (Server Needed).
• Official network update blocking option.
• New configuration options.
• Free UMD Region.
• Pic0/Pic1 Hide.
• version.txt.
• Registry Hacks.
• CPU overclocking.
• Solved several bugs.

With the way our homebrew creators are updating applications and plugins, don’t be surprise when more and more new versions would come out in the following days. After all, what would an ingenious creation be if it does not fit all versions of the popular Playstation Portable? I’m sure my kid cousin would love these new downloads.

Download ChickHEN R2
Download CFWEnabler v3.01 for ChickHEN R2

In the past, owners of the Playstation Portable 2 and 3 would risk bricking their handheld consoles if they board it with CTF themes. But thank to Total_Noob’s unofficial version of Poison’s CXMB for Custom Firmware 5.03 Gen-A, PSP 2 and 3 users can now load CTF-based themes in their consoles and enjoy the different interfaces of a CTF theme.

Total_Noob also said that CTF 5.02 is already compatible with the PSPs 2 and 3 with this new unofficial version of CXMB custom firmware. But he failed to mention whether CTF 5.00 is also compatible with the two handhelds so for security’s sake, don’t try it out until we posted something here again from Total_Noob.

If you want to try out some more CTF themes than the ones posted here before, check out http://www.psp-hacks.com/category/61 for more theme downloads.

Holler below for your comments on this new CXM custom firmware.

Download Unofficial CXMB for 5.03 GEN/M33 v2

Get those Playstation Portable 3000 fired up with this new custom firmware, the CFW 5.03GEN-A For HEN. Its creator promised that it is entirely compatible with the OFW 5.03 and would work with both the Slim and 3000 version “without exception.”

Features:

• COMPATIBILITY PSP-3000 and PSP-2000 v3
• Reading of plays PS1
• Reading of the backups of plays PSP
• GEN VSH FINELY available
• Recovery in VSH available (some bugs remains to be regulated – to see further)
• Access to the PSN

There are also known bugs, however, of this custom firmware:

• Togle USB = OK
• configuration ok

1. Sony skip:  do not go (useless thus not engraves)
2. Hide corrupt let us icons = walk not and activeSkip Sony logo
3. range folder HB ok
4. autorun EBOOT ok
5. fake area ok
6. use vsh finely ok
7. XMB USB Device ok
8. Charge device with usb ok
9. Use M33 network update ok
10. use version TXT ok
11. hide MAC ok

• use range ok categories
• Reboot in official firmware > nonfunctional
• Run program At = Finely advanced
• advanced = CPU SPEED
• CPU SPEED = Plugins
• plugins = registry hack
• registry hack = suspends device
• device = reboot in official firmware suspends
• Reset system = quit

When you install the custom firmware, you can remove the “files” folder in the MS ROOT. Rename or erase the prx called “flasher.prx” in the Main App folder to avoid wrong flash times.

If the PSP crash, you will need to install again the ChickHEN R2 to load the main app and press O to reboot the custom firmware because if you don’t shut down the PSP, you’ll be in custom firmware forever.

For all CFW 5.03HEN-A concern, check this out: Click Here

Download CFW 5.03GEN-A for HEN
Download ChickHEN Homebrew Enabler R2

The latest custom firmware enabler was released by Xenogears and Becus25, or Akop’s C64 emulator, just a week ago but already there have been some comments from those who downloaded it that there’s something seriously whack about the new custom firmware enabler.

So here, through the Vice PSP 2.1.21, the bug fix updates can be downloaded.

CFW Enabler v2.51 (translated):

• Fixed bug that prevented either activate the plugins.

VICE PSP v2.1.21:

• Saving state while in NTSC mode resulted in a crash
• An extra line from the screen border appeared while in NTSC mode

Comments have been so far diverse as to whether the new bug fix updates work for all PSP types. Some have suggested that the creator release another bug fix update because the plugins are still crashing, but more than one user has lauded the creation of a fix this quick. Holler below whether this works for you. Maybe we can make a petition to the bug fixers to release another update if the majority are having problems yet again with the plugins.

Download CFW Enabler v2.51 for ChickHEN
Download VICE PSP v2.1.21

This is, as they say, the icing on top of the cake. And if it works, my kid cousin would probably go nuts and kiss my feet for discovering this trick. Dark_AleX has just released the PspStates for custom firmware 5.00 M33, which allows you to save everything—exact whereabouts, stages, high score, clothes, money, guns, accessories, etc—save it and you’ll find it the next day exactly as how you saved it. No frills, just like that.

It is still on its experimental stage but I believe it works with just about all games in the market today at it shares the same code or whatever.

By the way Dark_AleX notes that:

“This is same version as the one for 4.01 M33 but updated to do patches in 5.00 M33, that’s why version hasn’t changed yet.

Remember to discard old savestates from 4.01 before using the plugin. If you attempt to load a savestate made in 4.01 your ram would be in 4.01 M33 but the flash in 5.00 M33, and soon or later it will crash or give problems.”

Please do note the readme.txt included in the download so you won’t butcher your own installment of the plugin.

Download PspStates Experiment v2 (for CFW 5.00 M33)
Download PspStates Experiment v2 (for CFW 4.01 M33)

Playing games on a PSP console has never been that challenging, yet for some people, this seems to even more difficult than catching an Anaconda! For all of them, here is a quick fix. With the latest PS One emulator released for Firmware 5.0 M33-2, you cannot claim of PSP being an insurmountable task.

Here’s how you could use the Popsloader. Of course, for this, you need to have 5.0 M33-2.

Install PopsLoader from scratch:

• Copy seplugins to the memory stick root folder replacing files.
• Dump the desired firmware to extract the files needed (choose decrypt all option in PSARDumper).
• These are the required files for each firmware:

3.02-3.03: /kd/pops.prx, /kd/popsman.prx, /kd/meaudio.prx, /vsh/module/pafmini.prx
3.10-3.30: /kd/pops.prx, /kd/popsman.prx, /vsh/module/pafmini.prx
3.40-4.01: /kd/pops.prx, /kd/popsman.prx, /vsh/module/pafmini.prx, /vsh/module/libpspvmc.prx

• Copy the files to /seplugins/popsloader with firmware version as suffix (e.g. popsman.prx -> popsman380.prx)
• Additionally, no matter which pops you want to run, you have to get impose.prx from 4.01 and copy it to /seplugins/popsloader/ with the name impose.prx (no suffix).

Done! Well, all you have to do now is sit back and enjoy unlimited hours of gaming on your PSP Console. The Popsloader that you have installed just now will work like a cream on your PSP, alleviating you of most possible issues.

Download PopsLoader for CFW 5.00 M33
Download PSARDumper
Download PSP (Official) Firmware Updates

Hot on the heels of the latest official PSP Firmware release from Sony, v5.03, comes Dark AleX’s latest custom firmware update. The most current version is now M33-6, which came just minutes after the release of M33-5. CFW 5.00 M33-6 is an exciting piece of homebrew awesomeness that shows off the prowess of the PSP underground. The following text is from the changelog:

This update is a try to fix memory stick low speed since 3.80.

Instructions: Copy UPDATE folder /PSP/GAME/ and run.

If you come from a version prior to 5.00 M33, put sony update as 500.PBP in same folder, or let the program download it for you using a wifi connection.

Changes in 5.00 M33-5:

A setting has been added to recovery, that, when enabled it may increase memory stick reading speed. (only on the psp, not in the pc). By default it is disabled. If you installed 3.71 fatmsmod, do not use this setting, as its perfomance with 3.71 driver has not been tested. Instead, reinstall 5.00 m33-4 using dc8 and update to 5.00 m33-5

Changes in 5.00 M33-6, according to the developer:

• Fixed a bug that made unbootable psp without memory stick or with a bad one.
• The included file fat_comparison.html contains a comparison of perfomance between the 5.00 fat driver, the 3.71 one, and the 5.00 one with the speed up hack during     the   read of an iso. The test was done on the game Valkyrie Profile in cso format in march33 mode. Other games, modes and applications different than iso reading     showed similar results.

Grab the CFW 5.00 M33-6 download here, and stay plugged in for more updates from this clutch piece of homebrew. Yet again, thanks and big up to Dark AleX for all his hard work in the scene.

Download CFW 5.00 M33-6