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Custom Firmware 3.03 OE-B Released!
greg | January 10, 2007
Dark_AleX releasing custom firmware updates like they’re going out of style! Yup, that’s right, another earth-shattering update from the man himself — 3.03 Open Edition Revision B (OE-B)!
3.03 OE-B changes:
- Patched the firmware to allow decrypted mp4-AVC videos to play at 480×272 resolution.
- pic0.png was not shown in psp isos. Fixed.
- The speed functions were not dummied after setting the speed. This could cause the few games that set the cpu speed not to run at the selected speed in the recovery menu.
- Changed the structure of the program to have more free ram in game mode. sysmemp.prx removed, systemctrl.prx splitted into systemctrl.prx and vshctrl.prx.
Note: due to the inclusion of pic0.png, the iso cache has changed slightly; as a consequence you will notice a slowdown the first time you access game menu after this update, just as if you have modified the iso folder.
Instructions regarding AVC @ 480×272, docmaker changes, and everything else is detailed inside readme.txt.
Only execute this update from 3.03 OE-A or 3.03 OE-A’ (A2)
Download: 3.03 OE-B Update
My spidey senses are tingling — something tells me X-Flash V18j is near. ;)
- source: lan.st
Woot he is a genius
Zzz i just posted my comment here so ppl can read it easier.
*Recovery Mode Still Works
*PSX Games DO Still Work
*This Is Like 99.99999999% It Will Work.
*The Current X-Flash Works (v18i)
*No Umd i think is not working properly
*sony sux, da rules
Sony “sux” and yet you love your PSP.
Whatever.
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Still have 3.02 OE-A i think ill grab this one
wow. there’s no stopping this guy. nice work.
Nox, make sure you upgrade to 3.03 OE-A FIRST
Ming thx for the warning ill do so, tho ive read ppl bricking psps using easy installer of 3.03 oe-a
Yeay I am an 3.02 OE-B user and I’m scared to upgrade because of bricking. Ive read more reviews of brickin gthan reviews of sucess
actually maniac re-released the file.
It’s good, i tested out on two psps and they all work fine. Including this one. Although I really don’t know what’s the difference between this one and the 3.03oe-a’
actually there was no bricking with 3.03 at all , if u did it manually like the instructions say… running the autoinstaller that was first posted caused all those bricks..
Good job :-)
Thx
installed! but psx games give me error 80000004 !! anyone know what the deal is?
anyone having same problem?
the error is because the folder name is different
do this psp/game/scusxxxxx/eboot.pbp
that work
hi, i discovered that my problem was an incorrect installation. going back to 1.5, then 30.2a, 3.03a, then this one. after that, everything was as it should be. amazing!!!!
did it work cus smae thing here
it should be fine. just downgrade back to 1.5, then back up, following the steps correctly. also, make sure your eboots are ccorrect, have the right names, and are in the game or game150 folder.
actually that wont always work, happened to mine i went back to 1.5 up to 2.0 back down to 1.5 cause someone told me 2.0 cleans ur flash if anythings messed up on it then all the way back up to 3.02 and i was still gettting the 800000004 error.
‘do this psp/game/scusxxxxx/eboot.pbp” i had not tried that so maybe this was the cause? my popstation named the folder automatically to something very differnet than this.
sweet but i dont get it whats the difference.
I wonder if this frustrates Art at all, now he has to come up with another version of X-Flash.
i keep picturing him going “dammit dammit dammit!” lol
Im going to agree with Paul Bourke. That is the most retarded post ive ever read.
I can guarantee that Art loves it ;) Updating Xflash keeps him at home for a few hours every week instead of going mountain climbing with his PSP and GPS :) If you like Arts Xflash come to our forum http://www.austech.info
Im sure Art will personally answer all of your enquiries and needs there :)
I hope Dark Alex can release a emulated of FW 3.03 OE-B and that will be sweet and It will be safe coz you don’t to flash your PSP :)
I would second this notion! PLZ make this!
And where’s dev hook @?
me too i hope he comes out with an emulator but i think im fine with flashing it as well
thats just fucking stupid
If only I had the guts to downgrade my 2.71 TA-082 PSP to 1.5. Tehn I could upgrade to Dark_AleX’s custom firmwares.
Dont worry mate, the ta-082 downgrade works fine and i was a total newbie and it worked ok for me and I have upgraded and downgraded 4 times since to try different things.
i second that, i was very hesitant about downgrading ta-82 mobo as well however i readfrom dax’s post taht it’s safe so i took his word for it.
3rd motion… me too was a newbie..
you have to read carefully though and make sure you follow the instructions and downloaded from a reliable source like psp-hacks
my friend has fw 2.71 ta-082 .. hes afraid of downgrading..so i wanna downgrade it for him
ive read the instructions here
http://www.psp-hacks.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=17935
uhmm do i need to leave the battery 75% or can i leave it 100% with the charger on?
i was the same way took me 2 weeks to work up the courage to downgrade, but it worked like a charm,
Same here. Newbie now I am about to install 3.03OE-B.
Just make sure you read the steps, step by step, 2 or 6 times before you carry it out.
damn! this is just getting better and better!
anyone know how to add custom font on 3.3OE-B with out using the xflash think
heh you can use pspfiler 2.5 to do it manually kinda scary though cause if you mess up (specially when you dunno where yer battery cover is like mine so it falls out all the time) you prolly got a brick but hey lifes all about livin dangeriously
I currently have 3.02A, ill upgrade to 3.03A… do i then need to do each on in turn .. ie. 3.03A2 then 3.03B?
no, you dont have to. you can skip A2, but upgrade from 3.02 to 3.03OEA first, then you’ll be up to date.
Nox, you should have read the readme and my warning…-_-
Great job DA.
I still dont need why people need to use the easy installer for 3.03 OE-A i mean you just palce a few folders, add a few shit, and it works!
DA, a word of advice.
SHOVE IT IN SONY’S FACE THAT THEY SUCK!
Except they make superb hardware and license superb games, AND discount the cost of their hardware so that it doesn’t cost a fortune to buy their kit. They suck except for that right?
Hmmm…. Is That A Paradox?
Sony don’t suck cos they MADE the PSP so that DA can HACK the PSP so that people can tell Sony how much they suck??? Interesting…….
I think so wattster. It’s pretty amusing seeing people bagging sony, saying they suck. If they suck, why are we wasting our time using their product, customising their product, discussing their product and our customisations on the net. I say thankyou SONY, you’ve finally sold me on one of your consoles. The PSP is my favourite device of the last few years, and gets more time than my XBOX 360 as IT RULES!!! Kudos to Dark Alex for making it rule so much i guess, but to Sony also for making it easy for him to do it.
Exactly Beej, Sony is one of the best comsumer electronics corps in the world. Sony has advanced human kind so far forward in technology its just insane to say they “suck” or “f**k sony”. The entire reason we have the digital music era is because of…. SONY! (and phillips, together creating compact disc) Dont bash the company thats responsible for pretty much all your entertainment. We would still be using tape decks and vcr’s if it wasn’t for sony. SO YOU SUCK, not sony.
It works with X-Flash
I have 3.03 OE-A and not A2. Has anyone tried to update from OE-A and sure it works?
I just did, works perfectly
“Only execute this update from 3.03 OE-A or 3.03 OE-A’ (A2)”…
Yeah, I read that but I wanted to see if someone did it. I got one of the fake updates once. Thanks a lot.
Does this finally mean 333mhz wifi? :(
nox did you brick using the 3.03oeb update? or did you brick using the easy installer for 3.03 oea?
if you bricked with the easy installer there is a fix
How we convert vids @ 480×272?
http://www.psp-hacks.com/downloads/brickfixer.exe if you bricked using the easy installer
So whats the difference, I dont see much or am I just blind?
Just a few minor tweaks, and something for video buffs i guess.
great nice :)
hi there peeps updated to dark_alex 303b have a problem with loading psx games on psp with my 4gb harddrive and i have been reading on the net that the hard drive is not compatible as it doesnt read info fast enough. does anyone know of a fix for this or can anyone help me contact dark alex for some guidance many thanks
anyone know if this supports no-umd mode?
does the non umd thing work now
So does this mean the video player can play .PMPs now?
its never a bad thing when dark_alex puts somthing out keep up the good work download a quick ps1 game for psp at:http://rapidshare.com/files/11080340/rainbow_six_-_lone_wolf.rar
Has anyone gotten the DocMaker to work? I’ve made a few png images and pass the right commands. But, When you try to view it on the PSP under the PSx Game menu all it says is there is no manual.
N/M I got it to work. Images made have to be 480×272 I ReSized them and now the DOCUMENT.DAT Made works.
use this so when you make the eboot you can make the doc at the same time with all the info allready there. it will even resize the images.
Could someone who updates please try FFVII and see if the battle swirl issue is resolved that was in 3.03a thank you.
danky, the updates with each release for the PSX emulator come from $ony, so if you have 3.03a, 3.03a’ or 3.03b you have the same PSX emulator in each.
3.04 will more than likely include some PSX emulator updates from sony, just as 3.03 did over 3.02.
Even so they don’t have FFVII as an actual ported game yet so the code they use would do jack to any games except the ones on the PS3.
no, its not swirlin’ in 3.03b
if u install this can u uninstall it?
yes but u have to go in to recovery and do that
i made a “recovery” folder in “game” and put the 1.50 eboot in it but when i tried to run it in recovery mode my psp just shut off. do i hav to rename it or extract sumthing from it or wut?
your recovery folder needs the decryptprx.prx , and EBOOT.PBP and extprx.pbp , libpsardumper. prx as wellas the 1.50EBOOT
The first thing I tried was to see if the FFVII battle swirl was fixed and sadly its not.
I used to get the battle swirl, but I compressed the iso and now I don’t. So I figure thats the cost for more free space.
X FLASH WORKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (X-Flash V18i)
stupid question ?
I think i saw somethin about homebrew NOT workin with 3.03OE+, but i cant find info on it anymore.
Is it the same as 3.02OE or not ?
Can i play homebrew on 3.03OE or not ?
(more specificaly, emulators)
Great work DA
thanks guys
yes u can but u have to go in to recovery and set the kernal to 1.5
u can go in to recovery by pressing r well restarting the psp. and switch it.
hi stacy, in the recover mod the main menu, to go back to 1.5, i need to set run program at /psp/games/recovery/eboot.pbp or choose advanced and flash pspbtcnf_updater.txt(1.5)
yes you can
yay I gotta try this thing… and FF7 battle swirl? lol who cares..!! I got it and thats 2 minor a glitch to bother me… lol And it’s probally not fixable at DA’s end cause its probally a sony emu bug and since that game ain’t downloadable thru a PS3 they have no reason to fix it..
dammm another one. sweet!!!!
Firstly, keep up the good work DAX.
On 3.02-OEB at moment. Not really seeing any point in goin up to 3.03 OEB at the moment.
Are there any real advantages of this as i’m not playing psx games that often?
p.s. will the flash drive run out of space if we keep flashing, or does it just over-write the current files each time?
it’ll overwrite or “update” the files. The flash wont run out of space.
Hahaha. Dark_alex da man.
Just when i was enjoying 303oea i can get to enjoy 303oeb.
Thanx again DAX.
thanks guys, this is great.
any popstation updates with this?
cuz mk trilogy didn’t work on oe-a2
I’ll install once It has the same no umd compatibility as 2.71se-b3 or whatever it was…
awesome work dark_alex
awesome work Dark_Alex! donation on the way!
Is it normal that 480×272 AVC’s are only viewed correctly in “full screen” mode?
(in normal mode they are displayed too narrow).
I’m wondering if the original pixel content is displayed without any resizing/blurring in full-screen mode. At least from a quick look I couldn’t see any difference between PMPMOD-AVC and the vsh video-player yet.
has someone else made observations in this area?
P.S.: It seems that wide-screen encodes (e.g. 480×224) are not supported by the vsh-player so the only options is hard-encoding black borders, is it?
P.P.S.: 25fps encodes work fine
HEY i have a 2.7 hen-d ta-o82 psp.WHAT DO I HAVE TO DO FOR THIS TO WORK ON MY PSP.INSTRUCTIONS PLEASE!!!
http://www.psp-hacks.com/download.php?id=754
Thats all full instructions STEP BY STEP for your psp. Read the 2nd Section for yours. I pointed this to my newbie friend and he followed it, and it worked for him in 30mins. (forreal he was a total complete noob). make sure u got FoxIt Reader or Adobe acrobat reader to open the PDF. (and winrar to open the downloaded file.)