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2.0 Required Games on 1.50

greg | November 27, 2005

source: joystiq

Aenea has released a PRX & EBOOT file decryptor. This will allow you to boot games off the memory stick which require the 2.0 firmware, such as The Hustle: Detroit Streets, Harvest Moon and Pro Evolution Soccer 5. Unfortunately GTA:LCS is not yet working, amongst a few other titles. No less, it’s a step closer!

Here’s how it works using PES5 ISOs:

  1. Extract the ISO file to a directory on your pc
  2. Remove the SYDIR/UPDATE folder
  3. In USRDIR, remove all the languages you dont want (e_text.afs is English)
  4. Copy SYSDIR/EBOOT.BIN to your PSP, in a folder called “Enc” to the MS Root
  5. Install the PRX & EBOOT file decryptor v0.1 on your PSP as you would any other homebrew app
  6. Run the application - you’ll require 1.50 for this part, of course
  7. Afterwards, you’ll be left with a EBOOT.BIN in a new directory called “Dec”
  8. Rename this EBOOT.BIN (in the Dec folder) to “BOOT.BIN”
  9. Overwrite the BOOT.BIN in SYSDIR with the newly generated one
  10. Overwrite all the PRX files in the USRDIR from another game which uses the 1.50 libraries
  11. Rebuild the ISO using UMDGen
  12. Load up UMD Emulator v0.8c in “Copy Load” mode and turn on “use BOOT.BIN”

Vola!

You can report below on which games are and are not working with this new hack.

Download the PSP 2.X PRX & EBOOT File Decryptor v0.1

Thanks to Scott for the email

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187 Comments »

Comment by zambito
2005-11-27 13:44:06

sweet im #1 this is cool

 
Comment by neil
2005-11-27 13:44:57

sum1 email me the prx to neilnpatel@gmail.com

 
Comment by RaiderX
2005-11-27 14:11:19

cool, if only we could get it for GTA (the only game i need it for) and if he made it to load form the UMD also. great work tho! keep it up!

 
Comment by Poulpc
2005-11-27 14:13:41

great work

 
Comment by rich
2005-11-27 14:14:55

how do u extract the iso file ? using fastloader ?

Comment by vatanen63
2006-12-09 09:40:59

using winrar,7 zip or izarc

 
 
Comment by shortywanabtall
2005-11-27 14:41:19

i got a few questions.

1. can u use the umd? im guessing no from everything i read on the front page.

2. Can u use fastloader or only umd emulater?

ne way good work

 
Comment by tommyr84
2005-11-27 14:53:00

Extract iso’s with winrar on your PC not on your PSP!!!

1. Use the JAP Version of VCDROMX, english Version wont work. (search on PSP sites for a TUT how to use it)

2. I think you can only use umd emulator

 
Comment by WhyYouCry
2005-11-27 14:54:41

Yea one step closer to GTA!!!!!!!!!

 
Comment by Maurizio81
2005-11-27 15:03:39

I confirm, The Hustle: Detroit Streets works after the hack!!!

Only wait for a GTA hack!

Comment by vatanen63
2006-12-09 09:42:42

you are right

 
Comment by vatanen63
2006-12-09 09:43:13

you are right!it works perfectly on my psp too!

 
 
Comment by 317 infantray soldier
2005-11-27 15:14:40

so dose this fill in the codecs that 2.0 games need?

 
Comment by Tommasi
2005-11-27 15:15:09

can anyone tell me how to shrink PES5 i wanna make it fit on 512 MB just like winning eleven but i donno how anuyone help me here

 
Comment by The Greatest
2005-11-27 15:26:07

brilliant stuff !, cant wait to try it out

 
Comment by iancloud2001
2005-11-27 15:43:21

Socom works up to the Deploy menu then crashes when loading.

There also seems to be no in-gamememstick detection either.

 
Comment by Jellyman
2005-11-27 15:59:25

LOTR?

 
Comment by theodork
2005-11-27 16:02:17

Socom?

 
Comment by 0m3g4
2005-11-27 16:40:27

I confirm on Socom with post 13. It crashes after trying to play campaign.

 
Comment by karmon
2005-11-27 16:45:06

dammit, i was looking forward to playing online.

 
Comment by CrazySam
2005-11-27 16:47:21

Socom doesnt work… it crashes the psp as it starts… doesnt brick it, so give it a try

 
Comment by Junkie Jedi
2005-11-27 16:59:03

Confirmed Pro Evolution Soccer 5 and The Hustle, does NOT work for Crash Tag Team Racing. Also noteworthy, PES5 runs using DevHook & The Hustle runs very well with Fastloader.

Comment by vatanen63
2006-12-09 09:45:37

the hustle detroit strrets works with devhook too

 
 
Comment by Lidan
2005-11-27 17:05:59

I have an error with this 2 stuff:

1.Run the application - you’ll require 1.50 for this part, of course
2.Afterwards, you’ll be left with a EBOOT.BIN in a new directory called “Dec”

im running the application but it gives me an decryptor error: “fffffff”..

hope any1 knows how 2 fix it, thanks.

 
Comment by dicktracy
2005-11-27 18:20:17

it mentions pro evo will work with this…. pro evo 5 allready works with umd emulator 0.8

 
Comment by Jack
2005-11-27 19:32:49

Can somebody estimate how long it will be before we can play socom and gta on 1.5 if ever i know its not the type of thing u normally estimate but i need to know weather to ask for these games for christmas!!

 
Comment by what_the_heck!
2005-11-27 19:45:41

Sure Jack, how long does it take until you sh*t into your pents. Your question is very f*cking compareable to that. Wait and sit on your ass or get it for Christmas or what so ever …
By the way for everyone else, a working PES5 iso has been pred just a few days ago and so did the iso of The Hustle: Detroit Streets …
so if the other games should work that way too they will be out as iso soon too

 
Comment by Pwnzie
2005-11-27 19:48:29

Legened of heroes also freezes.

 
Comment by qwerty
2005-11-27 19:59:07

wat does it mean bby replacing the prx? like if u have harvest moon and u download lumines and u overwrite the harvest moon files with the lumines files?

 
Comment by anonymous
2005-11-27 20:19:54

socom hangs at deploy confirm

 
Comment by dhu
2005-11-27 20:30:57

this is retarded just upgrade 1.5 sucked

 
Comment by Changis
2005-11-27 20:35:06

loving this, not only do we fart in sony’s direction, we get it to run on a 1.5 ;D F*** psp-upgrades, we don’t need them! (unless they get cracked somehow like the 1.5 ;)

(lovin my jap 1.5 orig w/lots o’ homebrew)

 
Comment by Matt
2005-11-27 20:52:39

@ #24 (Pwnzie) - Legend of Heroes works anyway on 1.50 firmware, although it hangs when you encounter an enemy most of the time.

I have Pro Evolution Soccer 5 working using this method, as well as WRC (World Rally Championship). Has anyone tried pursuit force with it? Anyway, good job Aenea, you’re onto something good here.

 
Comment by Pwnzie
2005-11-27 21:07:56

Yeah. It freezes when you encounter a enemy. And also when you save theres a error and when you load up that file miles is replaced with a monster making the game freeze.

 
Comment by Ed
2005-11-27 21:38:01

29 and 30: The Lightforce version is a bad rip! They fucked up somewhere so, just download the full 600MB one and it works perfect. BTW, it’s a kick ass psp rpg, one I’ve been waiting for sometime and the wait was very much worth it.

 
Comment by josh
2005-11-27 21:40:35

Working Titles using the decrypter: Pro Evo 5 and The Husstle
Pursuit Force works without method on 0.8c
and so does WRC.
Well it did for me

Lord of the Rings Tactics doesn’t work unless you use the patch (F1) method.

And Socom confirmed crashes.
Tested all by myself.

 
Comment by Dave
2005-11-27 21:41:13

Yeah, the 400-something MB Legend of Heroes has the problem. When I downloaded the 600-something MB Legend of Heroes, the problem was solved.

 
Comment by josh
2005-11-27 21:43:18

I forgot to mention I used PRX’s from Twisted Metal Head On. Don’t use the decrypter to patch you PRX’s or it don’t work.

 
Comment by Pwnzie
2005-11-27 22:23:16

Do you by any chance know the name of the 600mb legend of heroes? and maybe a link to where i may find it.

 
Comment by peeInMyPantz
2005-11-27 22:42:07

Matt,…
what emulator were you using???
I am using dev hook 0.22 and so far I don’t have any problem with legend of heroes.
No problem when encountering enemy or when saving.

 
Comment by peeInMyPantz
2005-11-27 22:42:28

by the way… i’m using the 600mb version

 
Comment by Pwnzie
2005-11-27 22:59:16

Yeah the 600mb one is fine. The 400 mb one is crap. And i would like a link to the place that you got the 600mb one.

 
Comment by Eddie
2005-11-27 23:24:45

Does anybody know if this works with Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire?

 
Comment by peeInMyPantz
2005-11-28 00:25:41

yeah.. anyone tried it on GOF?

 
Comment by dalenkwint
2005-11-28 00:50:28

Somebody needs to find a way to apply the codecs required for the GTA movies and then it’s set.I have no idea how this crap works but go for it somebody!

This means nothing to me personally until it works off the UMD anyway, I expect that to never happen. Homebrew isnt that impressive anyway I guess, I’ll stick with the awesomeness of the games for now.

 
Comment by pooooo0oooooojghf
2005-11-28 01:25:24

just upgrade

 
Comment by meh
2005-11-28 01:25:51

yeh agreed this isnt gonna change anything for me until gta, lotr and hp4 work well on 1.50

good find try crack all the games c’mon u crazy nerds u can do it i have faith!!
another round to the hackers…
suck shit sony :D

 
Comment by Bobo
2005-11-28 01:27:14

#39/40 GOF works without any effort. sucks but works. Try re-packing it with umdgen

 
Comment by peeInMyPantz
2005-11-28 01:45:32

#44. U mean it works with this, or it was working for you before this?

 
Comment by Ch@z
2005-11-28 01:46:09

I tried it on The Hustle myself, and it worked, great job guyz!

 
Comment by Topdim
2005-11-28 04:39:42

From which game do i have to take the PRX files, please give an example.
Thank you

Comment by vatanen63
2006-12-09 09:48:57

from 2005 world snooker challenge

 
 
Comment by indentsk8
2005-11-28 04:56:01

i used NFS most wanted Worked Grate

 
Comment by Matt
2005-11-28 05:37:20

@ peeInMyPantz - I’m using the 448mb version of Legend of Heroes. Theres only one kind of music in it all regardless of where you are in the game. Anyone know a source for the ~600mb one?

Also LOTR Tactics (with F1 patch) and NFS Most Wanted work on 1.50 without this method.

 
Comment by Gardar
2005-11-28 05:48:22

Matt,
Pursuit force doesn’t require 2.0, You can and allways was able to play it on 1.5 ;)

 
Comment by Eddie
2005-11-28 05:55:12

#44. I know GOF would load, but it used to crash after the third level. Anyone know if this gets around it?

 
Comment by martin
2005-11-28 06:58:32

Crash Team Raceing does not work gets to start load screen then hd runs on and on and nothing happens.

prior to the hack at least you got to checking mem/stick

anyone got this to work yet ? crash tag team raceing ?

 
Comment by indentsk8
2005-11-28 07:03:42

i got socom to load the menu and the movie but then freezes when you start the game

 
Comment by martin
2005-11-28 07:50:21

Does not work with Crash Tag Team Raceing loads first part but then hd runs and runs.

Without the crack you get to the mem/stick check but not further anyone got it to work ?

 
Comment by josh
2005-11-28 09:03:46

Trying Crash Tag Team Racing, think it only goes as far as the duo memory card save screen and hangs but I could be wrong I’ll know for sure in the next 5 minutes, also try using wab version changer 2.5 and trick your PSP to think its a 2.0, don’t know for sure what difference this makes but Crash Tag just gave an error mesage untill I changed it to think it was version 2.0. firmware

A good game for the PRX files is twisted metal head on but any game with mandatory firmware 1.5 will do if it has the right PRX files, also if the PRX your replacing is in a module folder then use modules from another game’s “modules folder” if the PRX’s you are replacing are in kmodule then find a game with a kmodule folder to replace them with.

Crash shouldn’t be to long before I know 1 way or the other.

 
Comment by josh
2005-11-28 09:49:26

I ve got crash on the ms and it’s not working (suprise suprise) seems to hang when it searches for the ms.

So lets have a pop at this together I’ll leave it on and keep trying methos variations and if anyone thinks they might know how to get the full iso booting using any method that doesn’t require formatting the ms than air your thoughts and I will check here if their is anyone with a request I could try in the next few hours.
Leave it be - or have a pop

 
Comment by josh
2005-11-28 10:18:06

Do you remember the time of the 1.6 and 1.6b xbox. Well I do like it was only yesterday, some dip hole who was chipping at this time pointed out to me that it was impossible to tell a 1.6 from a 1.6b my gut feeling when his lips spouted this utter rubbish was I doubt that very much normally the latter of the two models would have a cheeper feel maybe, anyway when my crapply modded xbox started showing bad signs i.e. not working it started to dawn on me what the modder had said which was when he chipped them he was guessing whether it was 1.6 or 1.6b and infact while he was guessing he was guessing wrong that’s why mine and a friends xbox both had to be re-chipped I on the other hand when my box started to blink on and off looked to see if I could tell wheter mine was infact a 1.6 or a 1.6b in the end after about five seconds I saw it was maybe a 1.6 as it said in crystal letters next to joyport 1 (1.6) backwards on inside of case. Anyway what I am saying is crash is on the drive and it’s still not working (take a second to think - just try decrypting the boot.bin and not the eboot.bin keep the eboot.pin un decryted and decrypt and rebuild the iso and try all over again. I ve noticed if you decrypt the eboot.bin it makes a file identical to the boot.bin so if thats the case then we know the boot.bin don’t boot decrypted eboot.bin I should say thats been tryed but has it been tryed with a decrypted boot.bin instead just incase $ony are onto the right tracks. Otherwise we wouldn’t be here with crash vecaude it would work. The testing will continue and I hope someone leeks that emultor for the PC soon.

 
Comment by josh
2005-11-28 10:45:20

Take it from me games these days that don’t load are using 2 firmware are they not, well get a dump of 2.0 firmware say the fable one flash0 + flash1 and put them on the root of your ms in folders renamed to f0 f1 for short and umd emultor 0.8c should spring to mind, any chance we have of getting these new games to work is slim so use the wab version changer aswell and you got at least two more options you can tinker with in umd emultor for starters,

Q: why does wab version changer 2.5 say umd video fix, I can see why but it dont work for euro region 2 movies on my us 1.5-2.0 r1 (still locked).

Q: Would anyone like to unlock the region of their psp and make them region free for all movies.
A: I know I would.

Summary: Locks all have keys we just need to find them.

 
Comment by arudo
2005-11-28 11:30:25

Is t working perfectly with TALKMAN? I really want to buy it but it does 2.0 required. I dont want to upgrade to 2.0 since I like to play my emulators and dev hook

 
Comment by Kemp
2005-11-28 14:01:53

#59:
Emulators are no problem on 2.0, just so you know.

 
Comment by need help
2005-11-28 14:03:51

Can someone help me. where i can load psp games

 
Comment by rich
2005-11-28 16:51:24

how do u get the iso file from the UMD e.g pro evo 5. somebody said use ur pc to extract it how ???? u cant insert a umd into a pc and the pc doesnt read the umd when u plug ur psp to the pc by USB.

 
Comment by Andrea
2005-11-28 17:29:10

62, by using a dumper. asd asd

 
Comment by zafran
2005-11-28 17:36:19

will starwars battlefront two work

 
Comment by Aquai
2005-11-28 18:30:28

#64, Star Wars Battlefront Two already works…

 
Comment by paulc24
2005-11-28 19:24:37

Pro Evo working perfect!!!

I too used twisted metel for prx files.

 
Comment by Wennier
2005-11-28 19:28:47

Once 2.0 Eboot loader works (for ISO’s) you will not require any of this? right?

 
Comment by Matt
2005-11-28 20:08:16

@ Wennier - Not really, since to run an ISO you need access to kernel mode, something which has to my knowledge not yet been achieved with 2.x firmware.

So far the games we know to require 2.0 firmware that work with this method are:

Pro Evolution Soccer 5
World Rally Championship
The Hustle: Detroit Streets

NFS Most Wanted, Harry Potter, and LOTR Tactics all work on 1.50 to some extent without being decrypted.

 
Comment by rdthug
2005-11-28 21:33:37

thats hot but only if it would of work with socom but is getting close i hope u people get that fixed……….. this page is awesome!!!!!!

 
Comment by Bobo
2005-11-29 02:01:05

#45 before this. but look at #51’s comment.

#51 ya, didn’t intrest me past the first level

 
Comment by Vince
2005-11-29 02:38:55

I ran The Hustle : Detroit Streets w/o having to use this file decryptor. I followed the downgrade from this site and the game works perfectly w/o it.

 
Comment by Legends
2005-11-29 04:12:09

Need for speed Most wanted worked without doing anything to it… i ran it fine like 3 weeks before this exploit came out…

 
Comment by MiaH
2005-11-29 04:20:37

hi guys….does the the socom work on this??thanks!

 
Comment by petepete
2005-11-29 08:27:38

Did someone test this with the monster hunter portable?

 
Comment by petepete
2005-11-29 09:02:34

ulol?

 
Comment by Masud
2005-11-29 10:47:38

anyone tried this with Infected?

 
Comment by rich
2005-11-29 10:47:43

i used fastloader to dump the gamei just get 1 iso file there should be more files ????????????????????????????????? i need help somebody help

 
Comment by Mike
2005-11-29 12:11:31

I read that Legend of Heroes already works without this program but it gets to a black screen and freezes there after the intro bandai credits. What should I do?

 
Comment by yrouf
2005-11-29 12:15:46

has anyone tried pes5 with fastloader…..or any of the other games mentioned apart from the hustle mentioned in 19

 
Comment by Matt
2005-11-29 13:14:19

Infected works on 1.50 firmware anyway so this method isn’t needed. PES5 runs fine on UMD Emulator 0.8c, though I haven’t tried it with fastloader. It may be the ability to use the boot.bin and to change the load method that makes it work. If it works on 0.8c though, why not just use that?

@ #78 - You need the ~640mb version of legend of heroes for it to work correctly. Unsure if i’m allowed to say where, so just search for it yourself.

 
Comment by petepete
2005-11-29 14:30:44

Ive tryed to run monster hunter portable using this but i didnt suceed.

 
Comment by gilmaxter
2005-11-29 15:16:49

how did you get harvest moon to work i can’t seem to get it to work for me?

 
Comment by DigitalGod
2005-11-29 17:32:14

Do you think the scene groups should publish rips that are re-compiled versions as a standard?

Just wondering? Saves everybody else doing it once it is published?

Plus my first effort with PES5 and UMB 8.0c after recompiling failed dismally :(

Ho hum… but many thanks to everyone who has helped us get so far already

 
Comment by Boshed
2005-11-29 17:51:52

HELP HELP please

After following the instructions with pes5 it didnt work for me, i went the umd emu pressed the x button on the PES5 iso i created and it just freezed can anybody help thanks

 
Comment by HASSAN
2005-11-30 10:32:52

Someone email my prx TY
mantuen.evisu@gmail.com

 
Comment by HASSAN
2005-11-30 10:33:13

prx from 1.50 or 2.00 game ??

 
Comment by skirocket
2005-12-01 17:14:59

u have to use the prx’s from a 1.5 game i used the madden nfl prx’s worked perfectly