He’s done it again!

whoa! guys been busy….

damn

YEAAA BOYYEE, KEEP IT UP

2.8 emu just around the corner? let’s keep our fingers crossed.

All these updates tis exciting

u do need the 1.5 reboot in the dh/kd fokder for the return to 1.5 program

reboot.bin

how do u intaill this devhook version i can only get dev hook 0.44 instilled and i tried devhook 0.45 but i still can’t emulate the homebrew future can and one post up instruction or can any one help me out pls? thx in advance

maaan! holi shit… first blood.. ownage, sony just got pawned… godlike!

sweet! so no more resarting ur psp to get back to 1.5?

Has anybody got this to work… my Garantee is way over expired… so i’m scared of bricking it… i just want to hear some good feedback that’s all.

the 2.8 firmware will probly have a built in “timebomb” type of bricking device. sony would have totally gotten smart.

so flashing devhook no longer requires you to have info on memory stick only iso ? just curious has anyone done so and will they right tut on it . still have 44 works great sure 46 is better but happy with what i have but interested in the flash option thanks .

good question, what is the main fix for this new installment?

Running of Flash is the main fix, and 333MHz sum people say.

Awesome. Flashing to the PSP NAND is an option thats of interest. But I’ll stick to loading the firmware 2.80 from my stick. Kudos.

But I’ll stick to loading the firmware 2.80 from my stick. Kudos.

^BULLSHIT^

i dont see the point of this release…i have no idea about the flash thing..when i first saw this i thought it was 2.80 emulated…but i hope he duz it soon..good work

@None/Or anyone having problems installing

On the homepage you will see a headline titled “Firmware 2.80 Dumped!”. Scroll down a bit and download the 2.80 eboot, PBP Unpacker, and the Dev Hook 2.80 Installer. Install PBP Unpacker (installation if for Windows). Using Winrar, extract firmware 2.80 from it’s compressed form. Then, using PBP Unpacker, extract the file DATA.PSAR into the Ms0:\ (the memory sticks root directory). Create a folder labeled “280″ under/in the folder labeled “dh” which is located it the root. Now extract the Dev Hook 2.80 Installer into Ms0:\PSP\GAME. Disconnect from USB mode. Now run the Dev Hook firmware installer in the PSP’s XMB. Now enjoy 2.80 emulation.

Well, this is an improvement as I’m not having corruption issues on the memory stick but iso loading is certainly having new issues. I’m about to download .42 or .43 and stick with that until all the issues are for certain fixed.

Slasher, why is it that you find my statement to be “BULLSHIT”? Please explain?

I just don’t enjoy tinkering with my fw1.50 system files.

Ace, I think your whole logic is BULLSHIT. Who do you think you are not wanting to flash? Don’t be gay man… This isn’t the 90’s anymore. If you want to give that attitude here, be prepared to back it up..

Nuff Said….

ok WHAT THE FUCK does this do??? i have no idea what writing to flash does? so what now we get 333mghz emulation now and what use is writing to flash? like WHAT THE HELL DOES THIS VER DO?!?!??

Slasher, dude, I’m confused, lol. What attitude am I giving, lmao…You’re being satirical. I’m cynic of you now. Dumb fucking kid.

Does this mean that you can now install Devhook to your PSP, and there is no need to have the files on your memory stick?

@ iann1965

Yep.

i tested this

333mhz is working
flash sites is working
wma is working

but internet my connection gets stuck at obtaning ip adreess ive tried ity on 333mhz also just seems worse dosent work!!!
any one got any clue whats wrong??

flash memory is where the normal firmware is stored. until now emulated firmwares were stores on memory sticks.

stop hatin on ace

he’s helping people understand how he does what he does

his attitude is selflessness if anything

For Everyone who does not know what this does, or writing to the flash meens, don’t fucking write DevHook to the flash memory (it’s like directly adding a Mac emulator to ur Windows system)!

I do not recommend this until it has been proven safe to use (and yes i meen as safe as the 2.00->1.50 downgrader).

I’ve read all the readable readme’s, none of them say anything about it also writing the dumped firmwares to the flashmemory, so u must leave them on there, it only writes the app to the flash, so u can run it a little faster.

@ace:
I read what u wrote about how to get 2.80 emulation early……..u sir a little off on that, considering the fact that the “reboot.bin” has not been decrypted yet. So it cannot run. Nor can it run with anyother reboot.bin

Yeah, my mistake. Could you explain what exactly is the reboot.bin and what is it’s exact function?

Are you also implying that this dev hook release is therefore unfunctional?

what is all this shit about firmware timebombs, is it confirmed such a thing?

This release only supports up to 2.71 firmware emulation if wanting to run from memory stick. Damn.

then why not make an instant bomb bricking your device at once?

Well, I just written to the flash using the devhook flash writer (it’s within the devhook main eboot, not exactly a good idea). My psp works fine. I’m not sure whether it’s actually doing anything or not.

I’d say it’s safe. :\

Ok, just tested it out, it does seem to be going a bit faster.

I hope an eboot is released where I can run emulate 2.80 off of my stick.

believe me devhook was simple use a dumped firmware and yipeeki yay there ya go but now theres all this techno crap and its confuuuusing! lets have it simple 2.80 eboot yay no flashing blah blah blah wtever

So how is this working for everybody?

I know that writing to the flash is unsafe…I’ll wait till they releaase the ultamate installer with 2.80 So anyway yeah… Tell me what you guys think of this version

i can nothing do with it still needs the umd drive..

ive just read through 88 pages of news, and back then what was we waiting for? homebrew and devhook?

Now what are we waiting for? N64 PSX emulators?
And devhook updates :P

yes and no reading umd drive for all iso,s

80 euro,s for a new umd drive !!! better a good release with no umd drive reading please devs help us!!

Off Topic

I’ve been keeping up with StrmnNrmn’s Daedalus N64 emulator. It’s getting better and better. R7 will be an awesome release. Not complete, but it’ll be something worthwhile.

my devhook randomly stopped working, now when i boot up 2.71 it gives me the blue screen that says data is corrupted in 10 languages. ive reinstalled devhook, formatted memorystick, tried dif iso’s, but nothing works, anyone know wuts wrong?

@aaa

Damn. That’s like the PSP’s BSoD (Blue Screen Of Death). If I were you I’d uninstall it as soon as possible while I could.

@Ace:
I don’t understand the function of the “reboot.bin”. I think it tells the firmware to run the specific processes that the PSP does when it runs, so basically, each firmware has a custom one that tells it to do the same things but in different ways……..

That’s my guess….

Oh, and no, i’m not saying that this version won’t work, i’m just warning the n00bs to not try the flash thing, they kinda don’t sell 1.5 PSP’s in the physical store, just online, and n00bs don’t go there to buy things.

so this version isn’t unfunctional, just a basic warning to ppl who don’t read everything through ;)

Again, ppl, i’m here to help as i did with the past versions, especially with .45 for some reason, so ask me if u need any help. But i won’t help with ISO’s or the flashing it to the PSP parts ok?

i also get the bluescreen i find it happens when u use the internet browser. i just manually uninstall the dh folder and the devhook folders from the root and gamefolders in my mem stick and then reinstall

hey i got that blue screen too i fix it with when i replace the firmaware 2.71 thas all

eso me paso lo arregle copiando el firmware nuevamente espero ayude

@aaa:
wait, is it only doing the BSOD for 2.71, or for ur real 1.5 after u reboot, i got the BSOD after i dumped 1.5 and tested it with DevHook, so if it’s only for 2.71, then i’d manually check the files on the memorystick.

If a bunch of randomly named files (such as squares or random shapes and so on) then delete it and put it back in there

If u can’t delete it then run a disk check by:
1) connect ur PSP to a computer and go into USB mode
2) clik start
3) clik on “run”
4) type in “chkdsk e:/f” (without quotes ofcourse)
5) a window with a black screen should come up, follow the instructions that come up

If this doesn’t work, then ur memorystick might be fake……..hope ya didn’t get it from eBay! ;)

@none:
Just leave the homebrew on 2.71 thing to the developers, just wait for some1 to create a program that does it for you, it’s a long and confuzzling process to do it, so don’t bother with it, ok? ;)

@Ryu:
No, u don’t need the reboot.bin to return to 1.5, DevHook will emulate the firmware, but when it returns to 1.5, it’s telling the PSP to get the firmware info from the PSP itself instead of the memorystick….which is wut is happening when it emulates the firmware but vice versa (hope that makes sense!)

@Mianvro:
as i said, i don’t understand how it works, but thanks for the info.

In a way i can understand the 2.60 version workin on 2.71 because nothing really changed, like nothing was added to the XMB, just added codecs so to speak….

I can confirm that 2.71/2.60’s reboot.bin doesn’t work on 2.80, tried it the second the 2.80 decrypter came out hehe :)

Just tested:
Without devhook written to flash it takes 15 seconds to make a new connection within the browser, while with devhook written to the flash it takes 6 seconds. Many things go a lot faster too.

And yes, I believe you do write stuff into the flash while using devhook (stuff like connections).

I also believe the flash mod only works with emulating 2.71.

Also, it says WORKS ONLY WITH AN UNMODDED 1.5 on the flashing screen.

My 1.5 has been flashed atleast 30 times by XFLASH, 10 times by Themepsp (including fonts), 3 or 4 times with the devhook thing, and 5 times, flashing custom firmwares on and off, so yeah.

@loyx:
good job on a succesful flashing
I just hope that 2.71 doesn’t corrupt itself while it’s flashed!

ppl: please report ur results if u do decide to flash ur PSP with DevHook.

@squidman
hey squidman its me w/another question technically it sort of involves devhook but neways well im not sure if ur familiar with ripkits but i cant seem to get ne1 working specifically “tekken dark ressurection usa 809 psp ripkit” at ps2nfo.com (same as last time) well the problem is that when it loads up the command prompt it says deltree is not recongnized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. any ideas

@pspforever:
I’ve never heard of ripkits, explain to me what it’s supposed to do, and give me a link to download it from, i’ll try and kick this pig again :)

a ripkit removes unwanted or unnecessary aspects of the umd image, and recreates it without these aspects. for example a ripkit might remove all languages except english, in order to fit it on a 1 gig stick, or one might remove the movies if they were not interested in the story. basically it is in the interest of memory stick space…
– mu

oops, there are a ton of them here:

hxxp://www.ps2nfo.com/

Ok i just went to ps2nfo.com ……..could ya give me the name, i found about 50…..or if it’s on a specific page, still give me the link

Y would a game not fit on a 1GB ms? i got Infected to fit on there……along with 4 Full CD’s, tons of homebrew and pics, maybe also 6 movies i forget……..

(for the anti-piracy ppl out there, i downloaded it first to test it out, then i bought it after i wus done testing it….which wus a day later!)

nice! thank you for the update

i cant understand why the psp must not have a custom fw, since it doesnt actually touch the 1,5 fw files…
i mean a recovery mode would come in handy in case sth went wrong…

@squidman
ok well first of all tekken is a big iso about 1.7 gigs i have a 2 gig but curently only 1.1 a Tekken: Dark Resurrection (USA) 809MB PSP RipKit its by hjacked its on the front page http://www.ps2nfo.com a little under where it talks about 2.8 features

@ @lexis
nobody said u couldn’t use custom fw just that it’s a little risky but ur right recovery mode help’s and people have confirmed it working even with custom fw but i haven’t personally tried it since i dont feel the need to

@pspforever
yeah true
if it works, dont fix it :p

Wait, the one by hijacked?….under the Gangs of London ripkit?

That’s apparently for the European version of the game……u need a different one

“And yes, I believe you do write stuff into the flash while using devhook (stuff like connections).”

I thought it was written to memory stick along with details such as browser history, etc.

Gangs of Londo you don’t need to rip it unless you have a 1g memory stick. by the way that game is hot!!!!

Guess I learned something knew. It’s always good to learn something new about this powerful device.

@Jry_Acr:
to clear something up, i wus asking if i got the right one….it just happens to be under a ripkit for Gangs of London.

@Ace:
I’ve found where the cookies are stored, by exploring the dump after i went online, so they kinda are written to memstick.

KNOWLADGE IS POWER!

@ Squidman
look a little downer its by hjacked under where it describes the 2.8 features

@ Squidman @Ace:
you know of any program that I can edit gameboot? or make gameboot

@pspforever:
well, the way i’m reading, i’m guessing that u must have the ISO in the uncompressed form, not the way that MPH or DevHook can read it.

then once u get it in that form, run the file called RIP.bat

press Y when it tells u to, then open the ISO with the latest version of UMDGen, and do “Tools->Advanced Options->clik on Disable Optional Paths”

then once u do that, rebuild it, and compress it with CSO set to level 9

I hope it helps, but i don’t know, i’ll have to try it myself with another ripkit on Coded Arms.

well the only program would be the one in the leaked umd composer but of course its illegall i don’t have one cough cough but

@Jry_Acr:
here’s a link to a program that can edit the file type that the gameboot is on the PSP:
http://www.esri.com/software/arcgis/arcreader/download.html

I don’t know how to use it, i didn’t download it. So ur going to have to wing it on how to use it

Thanks Squidman, I will play with it a little be I let you know the results, thanks again!. DevHook For life!

@pspforever:
did it work?

When i press home, my curser wont move to select YES, is this supposed to happen?

@Squidman

I already knew that things such as browser history and RSS feeds were written to the memory stick (ms0:\PSP\SYSTEM\BROWSER & ms0:\PSP\SYSTEM\RSSCH).

But I was wondering whether things such as connection status or better stated “Network Settings” (WEP Key, etc) were written to the PSP’s buit in NAND. I tested this by booting without my stick inserted, but it still had my Network Settings “remembered.

@Ace:
I thought u ment the settings of the emulated firmware. srry.
cause that stuff (i think ne ways, cookies r) is stored here “ms0:\dh\271\flash1\net\http”

@RileyEsco:
While emulating the firmware it won’t let u select yes when exiting from a UMD? it works for me, and no, that’s not supposed to happen, try re-installing the firmware on the memorystick.

If u wrote it to the flash, i feel so bad for u, cause i don’t know if u can overwrite what u just put there!

@ Squidman

well i dont know what you mean by what devhook can’t read. devhook can read iso’s and cso’s the only one it can’t read is dax but i dought thats what u need right now i have the iso in it’s original form (1.7 GB) but i still recieve that error

if anyone is having problems with installing and removing flash u wrote you can use the devhook launcher mod v1.10 it has everything i had problems myself kept getting the blue screen but i just removed the flash 0 files with it

@pspforever:
wut i meen is u need the uncompressed version…..but this is a wierd thing to work with……..

is the ISO on ur computer considered a “ISO file”

=== A few questions:
1. Can this be safely installed over harleyg’s custom firmware? If so, is recovery mode functional and accessible?

2. Can this be used to load ISO games off a MicroDrive or SD card (DATEL and NEOPSP users) ? Or is it still slow and can’t properly emulate 2.71?

I get the BSOD whenever I try to exit a game with the home key. For some reason the text is in Japanese. What I usually do is reboot my PSP by holding the power button for more than 10 seconds. Any of you guys have the same problem?

How do you run 2.00, 2.50 and 2.60 with devhook?

I load it and it just shuts off.

I can clear up some issues with the flash writing in devhook 4.6:

yes i tried writing to the flash and returning the flash to normal had no problems there and ran great.

Now I did run into a bug where it almost looks like your psp is bricked: I installed devhook 4.6 went into flash option and then pressed triangle to go back i pressed exit and restarted the psp when the psp came back on i put it into sleep mode and after about 30 minuts turned it on and reformatted the memstick after reformating the memstick i got the screen of death the one you see when your psp is bricked. thank god when i restarted it returned to normal. im thinking it has some kind of bug that messes it up when you go into the flash menu in devhook then reformat memstick it causes some kind of corruption