PSP Homebrew Thread XI

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vkeios: May 7, 2007

Dizz posted:

Will it consider the adapter as one main source if there are 2 Micro SD cards in it?

e: would also like to know if i should get 2 Micro SD cards from amazon or ebay.

Yes, with the adapter, they'll show up on your PC or PSP as one single card.

You might want to check Newegg. They usually have some good prices. Also keep in mind the class of the cards. A higher number is faster.

# ? Jul 23, 2011 08:43

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# ? Jun 9, 2024 13:36

klen dool: May 7, 2007; Okay well me being wrong in some limited situations doesn't change my overall point.

What is everyone's experience with PspStates? I installed the version linked to in the OP, and it appears to be saving corrupt states - everything appears to work, it saves and loads again, but the game just doesn't run right.

I have only tried it with metal gear solid peace walker, which I have ripped and am running from the flash card. When I load a state, the symptoms are strange - when there is any subtitles (all the time in that game) their are characters missing - the space will be there for the letter, but one in 10 will just not appear. Also, continuing past the level is impossible - you get to the next zone and the game tries to load the next section, and it hangs.

Hmmm.

# ? Jul 24, 2011 00:14

Portfolio: Dec 10, 2004; The Department of Redundancy Department

So I've been trucking along just fine with 5.00 M33-6 firmware for the longest time, because I really only use my PSP to play old PSX stuff. I never bothered upgrading because I liked the popsloader functionality for trying to get some of the quirkier stuff to work. It was getting to a point in Final Fantasy VIII where the random freezing was getting way too counterproductive, so I took the plunge and upgraded to 6.20 PRO-B8 since it had finally got its own popsloader. And everything was looking good.

...except that now, when I play PSX stuff, FFVII is laggy as hell no matter what pops version I choose, even ones like 3.72 that weren't laggy in the slightest on 5.00 M33. Any idea what's going on? I'm using a PSP 2000--would this be some sort of hardware limitation I'm running into, since the 3000s and Gos have better specs? Is this an issue with 6.20 in general, or the PRO hack? Has anyone else found their PSX stuff laggy on this firmware?

It's honestly bad enough that I'm considering Pandora-ing back to 5.00 and dealing with the occasional freeze instead of this.

# ? Jul 24, 2011 18:14

dont be mean to me: May 2, 2007; I'm interplanetary, bitch
Let's go to Mars

Portfolio posted:

So I've been trucking along just fine with 5.00 M33-6 firmware for the longest time, because I really only use my PSP to play old PSX stuff. I never bothered upgrading because I liked the popsloader functionality for trying to get some of the quirkier stuff to work. It was getting to a point in Final Fantasy VIII where the random freezing was getting way too counterproductive, so I took the plunge and upgraded to 6.20 PRO-B8 since it had finally got its own popsloader. And everything was looking good.

...except that now, when I play PSX stuff, FFVII is laggy as hell no matter what pops version I choose, even ones like 3.72 that weren't laggy in the slightest on 5.00 M33. Any idea what's going on? I'm using a PSP 2000--would this be some sort of hardware limitation I'm running into, since the 3000s and Gos have better specs? Is this an issue with 6.20 in general, or the PRO hack? Has anyone else found their PSX stuff laggy on this firmware?

It's honestly bad enough that I'm considering Pandora-ing back to 5.00 and dealing with the occasional freeze instead of this.

Have you considered rebuilding your EBOOT?

PSX2PSP or Impaler. Use either or both which you haven't yet. And then try one with the one you did for good measure. And make sure your discs aren't reading wrong or anything (use ISObuster for this).

# ? Jul 25, 2011 00:29

Portfolio: Dec 10, 2004; The Department of Redundancy Department

It's the same EBOOT I was using on M33. It's a multidisc EBOOT built with whatever the latest PSX2PSP version is (1.4.2 I think?).

# ? Jul 25, 2011 02:25

dont be mean to me: May 2, 2007; I'm interplanetary, bitch
Let's go to Mars

Portfolio posted:

It's the same EBOOT I was using on M33. It's a multidisc EBOOT built with whatever the latest PSX2PSP version is (1.4.2 I think?).

Redo it anyway.

I wouldn't bring this up if it didn't actually work. Also the freezing suggests your old EBOOT didn't work right.

Also try other popsloader versions, but only if it's impossible to get right without one (or Gamers' Press says to).

# ? Jul 25, 2011 02:57

Portfolio: Dec 10, 2004; The Department of Redundancy Department

Sir Unimaginative posted:

Redo it anyway.

I wouldn't bring this up if it didn't actually work. Also the freezing suggests your old EBOOT didn't work right.

Also try other popsloader versions, but only if it's impossible to get right without one (or Gamers' Press says to).

Alright, I've tried a pretty exhaustive list of things now.

First of all, the freezing has nothing to do with building the EBOOT right--Final Fantasy VIII is just a notoriously picky game, and indeed that's why I upgraded in the first place. 6.20 pops is supposed to fix all the random freezing.

I tried rebuilding the EBOOT in a number of different ways--PSX2PSP, various compression levels, I even used the straight-up command line popstation_md.exe that all the GUIs are based on, always from fresh-ripped of the original discs. The result was always the same--no matter what version of pops I pick in popsloader, it's always laggy as hell, even versions a multidisc EBOOT ran fine under on 5.00 M33. So there is clearly something going on specific to 6.20--it's laggy even when I disable popsloader altogether. My best guess would be some sort of hardware limitation having to do with the fact that it's a 2000. It would be interesting to see how the official PSN version of FFVIII would run on this setup--if it lags too, that would at least clear up the cause, but I don't particularly feel like rebuying a game I already own just to test a theory.

Single disc EBOOTs work without lag on all pops versions, so at the end of the day I can still play the game. But it's a workaround, not a fix, and anyway it doesn't address the issue--that something specific about 6.20 is causing performance degradation in a feature that worked in a previous version, and it's the feature I use by far the most often of anything else that my PSP can do.

# ? Jul 27, 2011 01:31

riding gravity: May 7, 2007

Portfolio posted:

Alright, I've tried a pretty exhaustive list of things now.

First of all, the freezing has nothing to do with building the EBOOT right--Final Fantasy VIII is just a notoriously picky game, and indeed that's why I upgraded in the first place. 6.20 pops is supposed to fix all the random freezing.

I tried rebuilding the EBOOT in a number of different ways--PSX2PSP, various compression levels, I even used the straight-up command line popstation_md.exe that all the GUIs are based on, always from fresh-ripped of the original discs. The result was always the same--no matter what version of pops I pick in popsloader, it's always laggy as hell, even versions a multidisc EBOOT ran fine under on 5.00 M33. So there is clearly something going on specific to 6.20--it's laggy even when I disable popsloader altogether. My best guess would be some sort of hardware limitation having to do with the fact that it's a 2000. It would be interesting to see how the official PSN version of FFVIII would run on this setup--if it lags too, that would at least clear up the cause, but I don't particularly feel like rebuying a game I already own just to test a theory.

Single disc EBOOTs work without lag on all pops versions, so at the end of the day I can still play the game. But it's a workaround, not a fix, and anyway it doesn't address the issue--that something specific about 6.20 is causing performance degradation in a feature that worked in a previous version, and it's the feature I use by far the most often of anything else that my PSP can do.

Have you tried the version of FFVIII that's on the PSN store?

# ? Jul 27, 2011 01:35

Nebraska Tim: Feb 2, 2010

So I have a PSP 2001, OFW 3.72, 1gb Pro Duo card, purchased January 5 2008. I'd like to get Pro-B on it.

As I understand it from the OP, the steps I'll be taking are (1) Update OFW to 6.XX, (2) install Pro-B8 (3) install homebrews. The issue I have in this is what version to update to. The Module Checker linked in the OP shows up as Corrupted Data on the XMB, and I don't know what motherboard I have. Does anyone know (given the date of purchase) if the mobo in my PSP would work better with 6.20 or 6.39?

# ? Jul 27, 2011 01:38

FuzzyPickles: Jun 7, 2004

If you update to 6.20 the module checker will probably work. Also if it's old enough to be on 3.72, your unit should be able to do anything. You should be just fine. Literally, the worst that can happen is you can't run the 6.39 permanent patch that only works on units that can do full custom firmware. I'm pretty sure anything that can run 6.20 can be perma-patched, there are just certain 3000s that cant be downgraded to 6.20.

FuzzyPickles fucked around with this message at 01:53 on Jul 27, 2011

# ? Jul 27, 2011 01:50

Portfolio: Dec 10, 2004; The Department of Redundancy Department

riding gravity posted:

Have you tried the version of FFVIII that's on the PSN store?

No, I mentioned that. I already own the game (that's how I made the EBOOT) and I don't want to buy it again. At this point this is mostly academic.

# ? Jul 27, 2011 02:03

Nebraska Tim: Feb 2, 2010

Well, I updated to 6.20, and I'm looking at the XMB with the Pro-B files. There are four files (Permanent Patch, Fast Recovery, and Update) but the fourth is showing up as Corrupted Data. Running Update shows a black screen with the following text in the upper left:

code:

PRO-B by Team PRO
Press X to launch CFW.
Press Triangle to uninstall CFW.
Hold L to reinstall CFW.
Press R to exit.

I pressed X, it launches and returns to the XMB, but that fourth file is still showing up as Corrupted Data. Have I just horribly ruined my PSP?

# ? Jul 27, 2011 02:31

CaptainPoopsock: May 2, 2005; My dear cherry blossoms.. bloom in full splendor!

Nebraska Tim posted:

Well, I updated to 6.20, and I'm looking at the XMB with the Pro-B files. There are four files (Permanent Patch, Fast Recovery, and Update) but the fourth is showing up as Corrupted Data. Running Update shows a black screen with the following text in the upper left:
code:
PRO-B by Team PRO
Press X to launch CFW.
Press Triangle to uninstall CFW.
Hold L to reinstall CFW.
Press R to exit.
I pressed X, it launches and returns to the XMB, but that fourth file is still showing up as Corrupted Data. Have I just horribly ruined my PSP?

I think it drops a text file or some dev tools in the install that can be deleted. Check your PSP/GAME folder for anything out of the ordinary.

Also, after you ran the installer check your firmware version under the System settings. If it shows PRO you're fine!

CaptainPoopsock fucked around with this message at 02:49 on Jul 27, 2011

# ? Jul 27, 2011 02:40

barren_sky: May 6, 2004

Nebraska Tim posted:

Well, I updated to 6.20, and I'm looking at the XMB with the Pro-B files. There are four files (Permanent Patch, Fast Recovery, and Update) but the fourth is showing up as Corrupted Data. Running Update shows a black screen with the following text in the upper left:
code:
PRO-B by Team PRO
Press X to launch CFW.
Press Triangle to uninstall CFW.
Hold L to reinstall CFW.
Press R to exit.
I pressed X, it launches and returns to the XMB, but that fourth file is still showing up as Corrupted Data. Have I just horribly ruined my PSP?

I just went through this last night on my new PSP, and you can safely ignore that corrupt file. You just need to run the Update, and optionally the Permanent Patch, and you'll be good to go.

# ? Jul 27, 2011 03:02

Nebraska Tim: Feb 2, 2010

Yeah, it's running fine, no problems that I know of. Many thanks, goons.

# ? Jul 27, 2011 04:23

Portfolio: Dec 10, 2004; The Department of Redundancy Department

Portfolio posted:

No, I mentioned that. I already own the game (that's how I made the EBOOT) and I don't want to buy it again. At this point this is mostly academic.

A friend happened to have the PSN version, and I'm able to run it through the magic of custom firmware. Big surprise, it's still laggy. So it's a performance problem with 6.20 PRO, presumably something related to memory stick i/o since it doesn't happen with single disc EBOOTs.

# ? Jul 27, 2011 05:46

vkeios: May 7, 2007

Might be one of the misc settings messing with it. Try going to the Recovery Menu and toggling MS Speed Up.

Also try using a bugfixed popsloader.

# ? Jul 27, 2011 06:10

FuzzyPickles: Jun 7, 2004

Are you running any plugins besides popsloader? Try disabling them, especially if you have any older plugins from before you updated.

Also, are you using a micro sd converter with a slow card? Or maybe you have a bad card, maybe see if you can try a different one just to see how things run.

FuzzyPickles fucked around with this message at 06:13 on Jul 27, 2011

# ? Jul 27, 2011 06:11

tacosupreme: Jun 24, 2006; ask me about men.

Have been having trouble getting some of the homebrew stuff to work on my psp go with 6.2 pro b.

Doom worked, it only had one folder and one eboot.

Quake, the ddr, and quake 2 however, didn't. I think it has something to do with there being two folders, one that is the original game, and one that has a % next to it? Either that or perhaps those homebrews just aren't working with my firmware version?

Info appreciated.

# ? Jul 27, 2011 08:48

vkeios: May 7, 2007

Neur0n released an update to FuSa. I'll give it a try, when I remember to borrow some cables from a friend.

# ? Jul 27, 2011 20:47

Luminaflare: Sep 23, 2010; No one man
should have all that
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I've not really looked at any updates in ages, what's the current best 6.20 CFW and iso loader (Or is the latter :filez:

# ? Jul 28, 2011 13:31

vkeios: May 7, 2007

Pro-B has one built-in. The fellow who does their ISO work also made the Prometheus updates for M33 & GEN, so he knows what he's doing.

# ? Jul 28, 2011 15:24

Only Shallow: Nov 12, 2005; show

vkeios posted:

Might be one of the misc settings messing with it. Try going to the Recovery Menu and toggling MS Speed Up.

I did this a few weeks ago and it made Rock Band go from horribly laggy and unplayable to perfect.

# ? Jul 28, 2011 17:18

Luminaflare: Sep 23, 2010; No one man
should have all that
POWER BEYOND MEASURE

vkeios posted:

Pro-B has one built-in. The fellow who does their ISO work also made the Prometheus updates for M33 & GEN, so he knows what he's doing.

So just grab the latest version of Pro-B (8 I believe?) and I'm sorted?

# ? Jul 28, 2011 20:45

Portfolio: Dec 10, 2004; The Department of Redundancy Department

vkeios posted:

Might be one of the misc settings messing with it. Try going to the Recovery Menu and toggling MS Speed Up.

Also try using a bugfixed popsloader.

The memory stick speed tweaks do nothing. The bugfixed popsloader actually makes it slower, believe it or not. By a significant margin. I'm tempted to say this is a problem with the firmware itself and the way it loads multidisc EBOOTs, or maybe just large files in general.

I might try going to 6.39 and see if that changes anything.

# ? Jul 29, 2011 05:06

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Double-checking before I help a friend out with their 3000- any real difference aside from the perma-install between 6.20/6.39 CFW? Also will I need to downgrade to install either one since it's at vanilla 6.39 already?

# ? Jul 30, 2011 20:41

vkeios: May 7, 2007

6.39's permainstall won't work on a 3000 (1000s and early 2000s only). Some 3000s can't downgrade to 6.20, but that downgrader in the OP will refuse to work if you got one of those.

If you're going to install 6.39 Pro-B, you don't need to downgrade from OFW 6.39.

# ? Jul 30, 2011 22:04

Nebraska Tim: Feb 2, 2010

vkeios posted:

6.39's permainstall won't work on a 3000 (1000s and early 2000s only). Some 3000s can't downgrade to 6.20, but that downgrader in the OP will refuse to work if you got one of those.

If you're going to install 6.39 Pro-B, you don't need to downgrade from OFW 6.39.

So, if I wanted to go from 6.20 Pro-B to 6.39, I would just install OFW 6.39 and then Pro-B?

# ? Jul 30, 2011 22:10

vkeios: May 7, 2007

Yep, though if you got 6.20's permapatch, you'll want to uninstall that first (Use the patch's installer to do that).

Though not sure why you'd want to go from 6.20 Pro-B to 6.39 Pro-B, there shouldn't be a difference.

# ? Jul 30, 2011 22:20

SnakesRevenge: Dec 29, 2008; Remember the basics of CQC, Snake!

I didn't know where else to ask this. I picked up a PSP Go and have it hooked up to my tv and a Sixaxis. Is there a way to map the right analog stick to the D-pad?

# ? Jul 30, 2011 23:55

Falcon2001: Oct 10, 2004; Eat your hamburgers, Apollo.; Pillbug

So I realize that this is probably explained somewhere in the thread, but the OP wasn't very clear. I have a PSP Go running 6.35 PRO, should I bother updating to 6.39 or should I just update to the latest version of 6.35?

# ? Aug 1, 2011 02:37

dont be mean to me: May 2, 2007; I'm interplanetary, bitch
Let's go to Mars

Falcon2001 posted:

So I realize that this is probably explained somewhere in the thread, but the OP wasn't very clear. I have a PSP Go running 6.35 PRO, should I bother updating to 6.39 or should I just update to the latest version of 6.35?

6.35 is fine.

# ? Aug 1, 2011 04:33

redreader: Nov 2, 2009; I am the coolest person ever with my pirate chalice. Seriously.; Dinosaur Gum

Since my psp is busted in a strange way that makes it super hard to recharge it from a flat battery, I want to know: does sleep mode use battery power? I slept my psp about 2 weeks ago and it was dead on Friday. I also slept it and it was dead a week later, a few months ago. Is save then off better if you don't play it daily?

# ? Aug 1, 2011 05:50

8-bit Miniboss: May 24, 2005; CORPO COPS CAME FOR MY

redreader posted:

Since my psp is busted in a strange way that makes it super hard to recharge it from a flat battery, I want to know: does sleep mode use battery power? I slept my psp about 2 weeks ago and it was dead on Friday. I also slept it and it was dead a week later, a few months ago. Is save then off better if you don't play it daily?

Yes, that's how it's able to bring you back to the exact spot when you first put it to sleep.

# ? Aug 1, 2011 06:18

redreader: Nov 2, 2009; I am the coolest person ever with my pirate chalice. Seriously.; Dinosaur Gum

8-bit Miniboss posted:

Yes, that's how it's able to bring you back to the exact spot when you first put it to sleep.

I thought it just dumped the ram to the sd card, but I suppose it sleeps way too fast for that to actually be what happens. Thanks!

# ? Aug 1, 2011 07:19

8-bit Miniboss: May 24, 2005; CORPO COPS CAME FOR MY

redreader posted:

I thought it just dumped the ram to the sd card, but I suppose it sleeps way too fast for that to actually be what happens. Thanks!

Ah, I see the confusion. The game is actually already loaded on the onboard RAM of the PSP, not the memory stick. Since it's volatile it constantly needs the power to keep it there, once the power goes out, the memory is gone.

# ? Aug 1, 2011 19:05

Falcon2001: Oct 10, 2004; Eat your hamburgers, Apollo.; Pillbug

It makes me so sad that http://foosa.do.am/ doesn't work with the PSP Go.

It really should, the TV out on the PSP is such a lovely option and yet I want it so bad since the gamepad support on the PSP Go is pretty much the entire reason I bought it.

# ? Aug 3, 2011 03:22

heftyj: Dec 25, 2008

I couldn't find if anybody posted this question. I tried running hellcats recovery flasher but it didn't restore my PSP back to OFW, I am running prometheus right now, how do I remove Prometheus?

# ? Aug 3, 2011 04:54

dont be mean to me: May 2, 2007; I'm interplanetary, bitch
Let's go to Mars

heftyj posted:

I couldn't find if anybody posted this question. I tried running hellcats recovery flasher but it didn't restore my PSP back to OFW, I am running prometheus right now, how do I remove Prometheus?

Start the installer/loader and press the button that the installer says will uninstall it. I don't use Fast Recovery and don't know if it'll work with that alone, and you may want to uninstall the Permanent Patch with its own installer/loader first if you used it.

# ? Aug 3, 2011 09:52

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# ? Jun 9, 2024 13:36

Dizz: Feb 14, 2010; L L

Can i remove CFW by simply using one of the PSP updaters? I have a 1000 model that's running '5.50 Prome-4' And I have no idea how to proceed? reason I ask is because I want it to be fresh before I install my own preferred CFW.

e: this psp is loving wonky. the R button is like on hold or rapid fire or some poo poo. I'm gonna open this crap and see what's wrong

Dizz fucked around with this message at 22:11 on Aug 6, 2011

# ? Aug 6, 2011 22:01

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