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Cross posted on NicoBlog forums.
Here is what I have:
PSP 3000 that I modded originally back on 5.00 M33. It ran that for years and sat in my desk drawer for years until I found it again and decided to update the thing. I booted the device (being a 3000, it booted to OFW) and updated it over WiFi. That went just fine and it updated me to 6.61 OFW. So I looked around for 6.61 CFW and came up with PRO-C. It installed just fine and even came with a nifty enabler after a reboot! I was very pleased.
All my emulators worked just fine. I didn't notice anything wrong for a few days. It wasn't until I decided to play a PSX game (Intelligent Qube) that I noticed an issue. It never showed the PSx logo, it just booted into a menu that provided the following:
- Quit Game
- Switch Disks 1 2 3 4 (Only "1" was selectable)
- Controller Settings
- Memory Card Utility (Blanked out)
- Other Settings
- Software Manual
- Reset Game
Here is a video of exactly what happens. It is not my video and was posted in the thread in August. However, it is exactly what is happening.
hxxps://ttt.youtube.com/watch?v=BlLtlCW ... e=youtu.be
(I cant post links yet, so please remove the hxxps and replace it with https, and ttt with www!)
Remembering using PSX2PSP many years ago, I remembered that this menu was used to swap disks in multi-disk games. However the problem is that this is not a multi-disk game. It gets worse! It will not let me make any selection. Only the up/down and volume up/down appear to work. I was left with two options: hold power until it shuts off or pull the battery.
So I pulled the battery and rebooted the device to OFW and used the enabler to reboot to CFW. I then tried ALL my PSX games and every single one of them did this. Odd. Time to do some digging.
First thing I did was try Popsloader. This has become immensely harder without zload. But I managed to get it configured and working properly. It didn't help at all. I literally tried multiple pops on multiple different PSX eboots and every time it booted to this menu.
So, I started looking into the VSH menu. Unfortunately, 6.61 PRO-C apparently didn't come with a VSH menu because I couldn't make it work. No amount of pushing/holding select would make it come up. Getting pretty frustrated and blaming most of this on bad CFW, I looked into alternative 6.61 CFW. I found 6.61 LME-3.2. That installed without a hitch.
While I was tinkering, I just went ahead and reconfigured Popsloader. Worked great and I was ready to try a PSX game. I selected a single disk game (Intelligent Qube, again) and used the flash pops. Booted to this infernal menu again. (I'm getting really friggin tired of seeing this menu at this point.) So I rebooted the PSP twice to get into CFW and tried 5.00 pops. Again, that stupid, wretched, godforsaken menu that is now mocking my every molecule. (Can you tell I'm very very angry at this point?)
So, remembering that the whole reason I went to LME-3.2 was because of a broken VSH menu on PRO-C, I rebooted twice to get back into CFW. (This is getting tedious lol.) I pushed Select and got nothing. Are you friggin kidding me?! No #*%&ing VSH menu on this CFW either?! Got frustrated and just slid the power slider to hibernate the machine. Walk away, Bob, before you crush this stupid piece of silicon.
Came back to it about an hour later and turned it back on. HOLY CRAP! A VSH MENU! Well, it shows up anyway. I cant select anything. Literally. I cant even move to highlight anything. Basically the thing is locked. But wait! I plugged in the USB cable and sure enough, the XMB automatically went to "USB Connection" behind the VSH menu. Nothing will get rid of the menu at this point and I have to reboot the device.
Ok, while all this was going on I was Googling furiously looking for an answer. If firmware isn't causing it, and pops aren't causing it, then it MUST be a whole MS Duo card FULL of corrupted EBOOT files, right? So I came to this lovely site and snagged a copy of Intelligent Qube. (I seriously want to play this game, and thank you for providing copies to games I have on my PS1 but don't want to hook up to play!) This has to be a clean copy, right?! Well, I still think your copy is clean, however it STILL booted to that menu of the devil. Devil menu, thats what I'm going to call it.
Can someone please give me a hand before I smash this unit and buy another one? I've been out of the PSP modding loop for many years and I know very little about what is going on. But I promise that if I cannot get past this Devil menu, I will smash this possessed PSP. (Please dont use that as a reason to NOT help lol. I'd like to figure this out. Its driving me bonkers.)
Many thanks,
bobdamnit
Here is what I have:
PSP 3000 that I modded originally back on 5.00 M33. It ran that for years and sat in my desk drawer for years until I found it again and decided to update the thing. I booted the device (being a 3000, it booted to OFW) and updated it over WiFi. That went just fine and it updated me to 6.61 OFW. So I looked around for 6.61 CFW and came up with PRO-C. It installed just fine and even came with a nifty enabler after a reboot! I was very pleased.
All my emulators worked just fine. I didn't notice anything wrong for a few days. It wasn't until I decided to play a PSX game (Intelligent Qube) that I noticed an issue. It never showed the PSx logo, it just booted into a menu that provided the following:
- Quit Game
- Switch Disks 1 2 3 4 (Only "1" was selectable)
- Controller Settings
- Memory Card Utility (Blanked out)
- Other Settings
- Software Manual
- Reset Game
Here is a video of exactly what happens. It is not my video and was posted in the thread in August. However, it is exactly what is happening.
hxxps://ttt.youtube.com/watch?v=BlLtlCW ... e=youtu.be
(I cant post links yet, so please remove the hxxps and replace it with https, and ttt with www!)
Remembering using PSX2PSP many years ago, I remembered that this menu was used to swap disks in multi-disk games. However the problem is that this is not a multi-disk game. It gets worse! It will not let me make any selection. Only the up/down and volume up/down appear to work. I was left with two options: hold power until it shuts off or pull the battery.
So I pulled the battery and rebooted the device to OFW and used the enabler to reboot to CFW. I then tried ALL my PSX games and every single one of them did this. Odd. Time to do some digging.
First thing I did was try Popsloader. This has become immensely harder without zload. But I managed to get it configured and working properly. It didn't help at all. I literally tried multiple pops on multiple different PSX eboots and every time it booted to this menu.
So, I started looking into the VSH menu. Unfortunately, 6.61 PRO-C apparently didn't come with a VSH menu because I couldn't make it work. No amount of pushing/holding select would make it come up. Getting pretty frustrated and blaming most of this on bad CFW, I looked into alternative 6.61 CFW. I found 6.61 LME-3.2. That installed without a hitch.
While I was tinkering, I just went ahead and reconfigured Popsloader. Worked great and I was ready to try a PSX game. I selected a single disk game (Intelligent Qube, again) and used the flash pops. Booted to this infernal menu again. (I'm getting really friggin tired of seeing this menu at this point.) So I rebooted the PSP twice to get into CFW and tried 5.00 pops. Again, that stupid, wretched, godforsaken menu that is now mocking my every molecule. (Can you tell I'm very very angry at this point?)
So, remembering that the whole reason I went to LME-3.2 was because of a broken VSH menu on PRO-C, I rebooted twice to get back into CFW. (This is getting tedious lol.) I pushed Select and got nothing. Are you friggin kidding me?! No #*%&ing VSH menu on this CFW either?! Got frustrated and just slid the power slider to hibernate the machine. Walk away, Bob, before you crush this stupid piece of silicon.
Came back to it about an hour later and turned it back on. HOLY CRAP! A VSH MENU! Well, it shows up anyway. I cant select anything. Literally. I cant even move to highlight anything. Basically the thing is locked. But wait! I plugged in the USB cable and sure enough, the XMB automatically went to "USB Connection" behind the VSH menu. Nothing will get rid of the menu at this point and I have to reboot the device.
Ok, while all this was going on I was Googling furiously looking for an answer. If firmware isn't causing it, and pops aren't causing it, then it MUST be a whole MS Duo card FULL of corrupted EBOOT files, right? So I came to this lovely site and snagged a copy of Intelligent Qube. (I seriously want to play this game, and thank you for providing copies to games I have on my PS1 but don't want to hook up to play!) This has to be a clean copy, right?! Well, I still think your copy is clean, however it STILL booted to that menu of the devil. Devil menu, thats what I'm going to call it.
Can someone please give me a hand before I smash this unit and buy another one? I've been out of the PSP modding loop for many years and I know very little about what is going on. But I promise that if I cannot get past this Devil menu, I will smash this possessed PSP. (Please dont use that as a reason to NOT help lol. I'd like to figure this out. Its driving me bonkers.)
Many thanks,
bobdamnit