Hacking PSP hacking/modding F.A.Q.

[nukeboy95]

Are you using an actual memory stick, or one of those fake adapters? I use the work "fake" liberally because real MicroSD->MSPD adapters haven't been produced in years, so any one you buy recently is fake.

its a real one (mark 2)

 

[Rydian]

Hm, try formatting it with the PSP (so it recreates the folders), then only put the ISOs back on and see if it still misbehaves.

 

[nukeboy95]

Hm, try formatting it with the PSP (so it recreates the folders), then only put the ISOs back on and see if it still misbehaves.

nope still all but one game (and all saves) are corrupting

 

[Rydian]

New saves or using older ones?

 

[nukeboy95]

New saves or using older ones?

new
later im gonna try my bros memory stick

 

[nukeboy95]

my bros cards work like (insert some thing here)
soo its my card but i wonder why

 

[kaliflower]

Having a bit of a problem recently, it isn't too frequent, but the sound it makes worries me. When I go to play a game sometimes it randomly freezes then after a few seconds I hear a snapping sound and the system turns off. It was happening every time I tried to play any of the DJ MAX games and just happened when I went to load my save on Persona 3. (which is an UMD)

I have PSP-2000 perma-hacked with 6.60 Pro-C.

 

[xist]

Having a bit of a problem recently, it isn't too frequent, but the sound it makes worries me. When I go to play a game sometimes it randomly freezes then after a few seconds I hear a snapping sound and the system turns off. It was happening every time I tried to play any of the DJ MAX games and just happened when I went to load my save on Persona 3. (which is an UMD)

I have PSP-2000 perma-hacked with 6.60 Pro-C.

Disable all your plugins. Does it still happen.

(YES - ALL OF THEM!)

 

[kaliflower]

Disable all your plugins. Does it still happen.

(YES - ALL OF THEM!)

That worked. Loading P3P's save fine.
I just started using a nice custom theme with CXMB a few days ago. That might be the case? The DJ Max games were doing this before that, and I don't have them anymore to test.

 

[xist]

I just started using a nice custom theme with CXMB a few days ago. That might be the case?

If that was your only plugin, then yes. If you had more than that then maybe.

 

[Freestylexgp]

I just got a PSP 3000 version 6.31. You say in one of your guides, "if your PSP is on 6.60 right now but has had 6.20 or less installed at any point in it's life (meaning it's a 07g motherboard line or below)". Since mine is used, how can I tell if it's had 6.20 in it's lifetime? Is there a way to identify which motherboard it has without having the PSP hacked already? Or Is that even necessary in this case? I have the box that it came with if that helps. I'm pretty sure I can do a temp 6.60 PRO hack by upgrading to 6.60 and then from there installing the CFW. Which route do you recommend I go to install CFW onto my PSP? I have read all the guides here the and only thing that seems to be lacking is my comprehension of them.

I seem to have missed a small paragraph that refers to which OFW version the PSP originally came with.
Ah, but it seems I still don't know which motherboard though. "Initial release for a revision of PSP-3000 with TA-093 motherboard."

 

[Rydian]

You need homebrew to properly ID motherboards in 3K models. But temp hacks work on any PSP.

 

[Freestylexgp]

You need homebrew to properly ID motherboards in 3K models. But temp hacks work on any PSP.

Ah, that's what I figured thanks. If I were to use temp CFW I would not be able to access the recovery menu where you power down and old R or whatever? I remember I used to do that with my old PSP but if this ones CFW turns off when full power down I guess that wouldn't work. Or is it just 3000's in general that cannot go into recovery menu? Either way that would suck because that was one of my favorite things about CFW. I guess I will do the temp 6.60 PRO version for now. If I do that, is it possible to change into a perma version later? Lastly if I did have a perma version would that have the recovery menu? Thanks.

OT: Did you play PSO on schthack? I think I remember someone with that name and a dog avatar. My forum name was "Ichigo".

 

[xist]

The Recovery Menu can be accessed on the XMB via the Select button (i.e from the VSH menu)

Also, the temp firmwares are fine....Permanence is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay over-rated if it means jumping through hoops.

 

[Freestylexgp]

Yeah I have seen how it doesn't actually take long to redo the firmware everytime. The only reason I had for preferring permanent firmware was to use the recovery mode but since you said you can do it regardless I'm going for temp. Thank you.

Mine is: TA-090 v2, Bright 3001 (03g). So I guess that is below 07g and therefore capable of using perma 6.20 if I understand correctly.

 

[Rydian]

With the new PRO CFWs, the only difference between temp and perm is that perm is a patch to make it boot into hacked mode automatically/.

That's it. Temp is the same core and gives you the recovery tweaks, plugin support, all that jazz.

And yeah you can try the 6.20 downgrade. It's got a fail-safe and will refuse to launch if it's too late of a model IIRC.

 

[Freestylexgp]

Ah, that's good to know.

 

[098v]

Since I've recently gotten back into home brewing a lot of my devices I had re-modded my PSP running on 6.60 PRO C2 Temp Hack and I was wondering if I could change the Sony boot up screen, so it say's something like "My PSP" or "<Name>'s PSP" or something like that. You guys know how to do such things?

 

[xist]

The simplest method would be to modify a CXMB theme. However, since you're running a temporary hack you're not rebooting so the answer is you can't.

 

[Ashrow]

Is there a list anywhere of games that suffer the worst (or just completely break) from being compressed into .CSOs?