Hacking Homebrew Questions about which firmware to use

[imtony]

Hey, my gf's brother just gave me his psp since he didn't use it and I will be putting a cfw on it. I was wondering if I should go with 3.71 m33 or 3.52 m33. I've been hearing a lot of discussion that a lot of people are still running 3.52 for some reason. I plan to use emulators for GBA,SNES,NES,GBC, and probably whatever else they have. I will also be playing my final fantasy 7,8,9 on it that I will rip. I was wondering which firmware would be better to use? I heard something about 3.52 doesn't have mutlidisc support for PSX games and was wondering how do people play PSX games like MGS or FF then? And how would I backup my flash or whatever it is incase of a brick? I will be borrowing my friends PSP to do the custom firmware installation that's in the Official PSP thread thats stickied. Any help would be appreciated. thanks

 

[jalaneme]

3.71 m33, you can still run emu's on this firmware and 3.71 m33 also have psx multi boot for for playstation games, you need to download and install version 4 to get the latest support for that feature.

 

[imtony]

Does it support all the emus or do I have to get a patch? And what are some of the emu names for the PSP that works the best?

 

[myuusmeow]

PSP Phat or Slim?! Why does no one mention this!?

Phat: pretty much all homebrew will work with 3.71 M33-4 with the 1.50 thing, that's all CFW homebrew and all 1.50 homebrew. (Which equals pretty much all homebrew)

Slim: Only homebrew written for CFW or 1.00 will work. (Daedalus is a emulator that runs on 1.00) There still are some notable homebrew that don't work with CFW, so you'll just be SOL AFAIK.


Best emulators:
SNES9x TTYL (SNES)
Nester J (NES)
Picodrive (Genesis/Sega CD)
gpSP (GBA)
MVSPSP (Neo-Geo)
CPS2PSP (CPS2, Capcom arcade games like Street Fighter and 19xx)
Popstation (Official Sony PSX emulator)
and much much more

General Homebrew: PSPTube, Doom for PSP, Quake for PSP, and even more

 

[Nero]

PSP Phat or Slim?! Why does no one mention this!?

Phat: pretty much all homebrew will work with 3.71 M33-4 with the 1.50 thing, that's all CFW homebrew and all 1.50 homebrew. (Which equals pretty much all homebrew)

Slim: Only homebrew written for CFW or 1.00 will work. (Daedalus is a emulator that runs on 1.00) There still are some notable homebrew that don't work with CFW, so you'll just be SOL AFAIK.


Best emulators:
SNES9x TTYL (SNES)
Nester J (NES)
Picodrive (Genesis/Sega CD)
gpSP (GBA)
MVSPSP (Neo-Geo)
CPS2PSP (CPS2, Capcom arcade games like Street Fighter and 19xx)
Popstation (Official Sony PSX emulator)
and much much more

General Homebrew: PSPTube, Doom for PSP, Quake for PSP, and even more

Why do some emulators have trouble running on the Slim?
Just wondering because I'm confused about it.

~Nero

 

[Armadillo]

PSP Phat or Slim?! Why does no one mention this!?

Phat: pretty much all homebrew will work with 3.71 M33-4 with the 1.50 thing, that's all CFW homebrew and all 1.50 homebrew. (Which equals pretty much all homebrew)

Slim: Only homebrew written for CFW or 1.00 will work. (Daedalus is a emulator that runs on 1.00) There still are some notable homebrew that don't work with CFW, so you'll just be SOL AFAIK.


Best emulators:
SNES9x TTYL (SNES)
Nester J (NES)
Picodrive (Genesis/Sega CD)
gpSP (GBA)
MVSPSP (Neo-Geo)
CPS2PSP (CPS2, Capcom arcade games like Street Fighter and 19xx)
Popstation (Official Sony PSX emulator)
and much much more

General Homebrew: PSPTube, Doom for PSP, Quake for PSP, and even more


Why do some emulators have trouble running on the Slim?
Just wondering because I'm confused about it.

~Nero

Alot the emulators were made to run on the 1.5 kernel. Slim psp can't use it. So only emulators that have been made for the 3.XX kernel will work.

 

[imtony]

I have a Phat. Guess I will be getting 3.71 m33-4. Do I need to do anything to my PSX games or can I leave em in ISO format? And how do i back up the flash or whatever incase of a brick?

 

[myuusmeow]

Using a Popstation creator (I recommend IceTea http://pspupdates.qj.net/IceTea-v1-3/pg/49/aid/81767), just pick your ISO/BIN/IMG etc, set the bar to compress it all the way and click convert.

 

[imtony]

How do I backup the file that is needed incase of a brick? I'm not too sure what I have to do.