Lali ho!

Right, here's the deal. I finally got part of my tax rebate today and as such find myself in possession of a PSP Phat (I dislike the slim models). I want to flash it to run custom firmware (I assume I am allowed to speak of such things here, if not please direct me to someone in the know) but I seriously don't have a clue how to do it. Therefore please explain it to me, preferably in short words. Like you're talking to a five year old. So here are my questions:

- The system is pretty out of date, currently running firmware 3.40. How do I install Custom Firmware from here, preferably without the whole Pandora battery/magic memory card thing because I tried reading up on it and it threw my head through a loop and crashing into the wall. I seriously don't get it.

- I have a 1GB mem card, will that be sufficient for flashing the firmware?

- I have Final Fantasy Dissidia on UMD, along with a few other games. In order to use them, I need to update the firmware settings on the system to 5.55 official. If I install the latest custom firmware, will that bypass this issue? Probably sounds stupid, I know. But like I said, I know literally fuck all about flashing a PSP.

- I won't be able to download any PSP games for a while as this is my old man's laptop and he won't let me use torrent sites, etc. I can download smaller games like GBA and SNES games tho. Are there any decent SNES/GBA emulators for the PSP? Preferably ones that will play stuff like Zombies Ate My Neighbours, Starwing (unlikely due to the SuperFX chip, but still), Final Fantasy 6, etc. When the rest of my tax rebate shows up (£1300, WOOT) I'll be buying my own laptop and putting Final Fantasy 7 to 9 on there, but for now I must settle, methinks.

- Are there any issues with CFW I need to be made aware of, aside from the obvious illegality of it all? Stuff that doesn't work, technical issues, etc?

- Anyone know where I can get a decent size mem card at a reasonable price? Something big enough to fit FF7,8+9 on, so at least 8GB.

 

With a Pandora Battery (you can convert a normal Phat battery to a Pandora one) you can always restore your NAND (of course if you made a backup) and you can always install a CFW btw OFW with it even if you delete everything on your PSP´s NAND so it´s totally safe

 

You can install CFW without tinkering with your battery... Just look up some tutorials.

 

http://gbatemp.net/t224035-psp-retro-emulators

 

EDIT: Never mind, blonde moment. Got it on Prometheus now. Just gotta figure out how to work the GBA emulator (it says I need some BIOS file. I got one off google but who knows if its the one I need?) so I can play FF6/Racing Gears/Golden Sun/etc. and that should tide me over until I get my own laptop and download Kingdom Hearts, etc. Many thanks to everyone who has helped me in this endevour. You should see the look on my old man's face. He paid about 150 quid for his busted ass never used PSP with only three games, only one of which is worth playing. I paid £40 for my PSP today (after a few neat tricks I know) and now I have whatever game I want, whenever I want. Fucking sweet. Combine this with my Cyclo DS Evo and I have the facility to play pretty much any game ever created as I have all the modern consoles and most of the retro ones too. Anything I don't own can be emulated.