i was running ark 4 version build from 2 weeks ago on my psp 1001 ver 6.60... i was just using the live version not permanent through infinity, just stage 1 infinity so i can press home button when it would soft brick itself. so i would play and do a soft turn off every time so i wouldn't need to run ark loader every time. i was playing from iso and the game froze so i had to restart psp. i ran ark loader and now it loaded without the custom firmware settings section and pressing select wouldn't show vsh menu anymore either. i loaded infinity to try to make the firmware ark 4 cfw permanent but only a black screen and infinity wouldn't load... i took out battery restarted several times and still no luck.
then i said forget it ill just upgrade to 6.61 ofw and install infinity again and install the latest ark 4 released from a few days ago and now make it permanent from the beginning... so i upgraded to 6.61 everything fine... install infinity 2.0.5... its fine, run again infinity and select ark-4 to make permanent, next run ark 4 loader... it works yay the custom firmware settings section shows again and select button shows vsh menu again. i restart several times and see ark 4 permanent there every time and the custom firmware section shows every time plus select button shows vsh menu every time... now i say i can play in peace and can change my overclock and memory card faster loading when i need to.
so now im playing my same as usual iso that i that i dumped from my umd last week, after 1/2 hour of play i press home exit game, look at the settings and notice that the custom firmware settings section is gone again and select button to show vsh menu doesnt work. i restart and now the custom settings section comes back again, i load up the iso again, hit home exit game and see that the section is still there, now out of curiosity i restart the psp again and now the custom settings section doesn't show up again or the select button to show vsh menu doesn't work again. i load up infinity again but it just hangs at a black screen and psp restarts itself- after it restarts its still on permanent ark 4 infinity but again select button to show vsh doesn't work and custom firmware settings section doesn't show up. i took out the battery, took out memory stick and restarted it over and over again but no more does vsh menu or custom firmware section section show up. but its still on the latest ark 4 infinity permanent and the iso is there still shows up every time so i can still play fine.... it seems to me my psp just hacked itself and deleted the custom firmware section and vsh menu by itself? lol
now i don't think this is a ark-4 cfw problem as i didn't see others posting about this issue, it seems my psp just omits this custom menu section over time? if i were to use chronoswitch and reinstall 6.61 ofw and install everything correctly over again im sure the custom firmware section and vsh menu would show up again but i feel it would just last a short while before disappearing again?