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June 29, 2007
PSP Firmware 3.51 Released!

Posted by greg

That didn’t take Sony long… Here’s their response to the PSP 3.50 firmware downgrader. Rest assure this update fully patches the recent Illuminati vulnerability discovered by team Noobz.

3.51 is available via Network Update; I pulled down the version you see below just now (in North America).

BE WARNED! If you choose to upgrade, you will lose all homebrew compatibility and the ability to downgrade.

Download: 3.51 FW Update

The battle continues!

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129 Comments »

    Comment by sabbs
    2007-06-29 14:19:13

    fucking sony

    Comment by sabbs
    2007-06-29 14:24:08

    first post woot

     
    Comment by Gargantula
    2007-06-29 18:58:53

    Yeah I bet they just monitor this site, everyday when they go to work. Ugh!

    Comment by batman_247@htomail.com
    2007-06-30 03:33:14

    haha, your comment got tagged with an advertisement

     
     
     
    Comment by s
    2007-06-29 14:20:40

    Anyone rekon DA might scap the upcoming 3.50OE and put out 3.51OE?

    Comment by luciferangelus
    2007-06-29 14:37:54

    why would he? this new fw is probably only focused on fixing the exploit, not on bringin’ us new fantastic features.

     
    Comment by Gargantula
    2007-06-29 18:58:07

    No, no new features this is the only one.

    New for 3.51: A security patch was added to address security vulnerabilities in the system software.

    It is not a security vulnerability that I mind at all.

     
     
    Comment by sabbs
    2007-06-29 14:21:00

    maybe if sony wasn’t such a douchethey wouldent have a 3.51

     
    Comment by The Uncreated
    2007-06-29 14:22:19

    No worries. Damage already done!

    Comment by batman_247@htomail.com
    2007-06-30 03:36:23

    theres just going to be exploit after exploit, and sony is just loosing millions of dollars a month paying their security team trying to patch it over and over again. freakin sony, LEARN YOUR LESSON ALREADY!

    Comment by Will
    2007-06-30 09:53:48

    Yeah, time and money that should be making the PSP better (more fun), but no, they try to kill off the only people who DO make the PSP a great handheld. Sony is fucking stupid. They practically don’t even sell their own product! Hackers are selling the PSP now.

    Longlive PSP hacking!
    and lets hope Sony grows some brains!

     
     
     
    Comment by Cody
    2007-06-29 14:26:07

    if they were smart they would make it so that 1.5 updates arent even allowed to be on ur psp lol

    Comment by skeeve666
    2007-06-29 14:29:21

    who realy cares, there would be a patch to fix that anyhew ;]

     
    Comment by Xarek
    2007-06-29 14:35:49

    Sony did something like that. Its called the TA-082 Motherboard. But DAX found a way to change the keys and allowed it to downgrade.

    Comment by Haxxorr
    2007-07-01 14:31:43

    Sony= The dumbest of all chinese companies.

    How come they dont just straight up unlock the fuckin psp, forget about the stupid fuckin security patches and save some money. Sure the game developers will be pissed since this could allow their games to be pirated. But so what! Who gives a fuck..the psp only has like 3 game developers making games for it any ways..and most of them get old…fast..so fuck it..bring on some features..fuck the security shit…and stop being a bunch of cheap basterds.

    Im guessing they have nothing else to do at Sony though regarding the psp. They’ve run out of features to add since they’re so stupid so now they’re pumping all their funds into patching security holes..maybe they should go back to farming rice..thats all their fuckin good for

    Comment by bob
    2007-07-01 14:58:19

    sony isnt chinese you stupid bastard

     
     
     
     
    Comment by skeeve666
    2007-06-29 14:28:18

    you have to laugh realy.

     
    Comment by L
    2007-06-29 14:34:19

    *sigh* We’re not just going to give up.
    How many times has this happened before?
    Quite a few. There will be other exploits. We’ll keep looking, and we’ll keep finding. And this will continue.

     
    Comment by Mr Saibot
    2007-06-29 14:41:24

    So what do we get for upgrading? a 1 instead of a 0 is what it sounds like :P how cheap!

     
    Comment by MetalBLACKFOX
    2007-06-29 15:14:15

    i bet some dum as$ gonna upgrade..then come begging for a downgrader…

    Comment by G-hack
    2007-06-29 16:44:36

    That’s what i’m waiting for to see how many people upgrade and want to downgrade now!!!!!!!!

    Comment by Haxxorr
    2007-07-01 14:33:18

    Is their a 3.51 downgrader!?!? I searched google and all I found was porn.

     
     
     
    Comment by Netmonster
    2007-06-29 15:16:25

    Sony makes good hackers!!!!!

    Fuck sony!!!

    Comment by xshirox
    2007-06-29 21:56:09

    Amen.

     
     
    Comment by Lee
    2007-06-29 15:29:28

    wow sony your just ganna keep getting screwed lol i cant wait to see there “un hackable 4.0 psp’s” D_A is just ganne screw them up again!!

    Comment by xshirox
    2007-06-29 22:00:36

    maybe that unhackable 4.0 uses a fixed memory which makes it non-upgradable too… just a theory =)

    Comment by Crapattack
    2007-06-30 00:40:17

    PSP 4.0 ?? is this gona be a completely new version. or were you just kidding around and im an idiot!!

     
    Comment by pspizzle
    2007-06-30 03:37:06

    what are you talking about, what happens when a game comes out that has a prolem with v4 firmware, they would have no choice but to patch the firmware, something which they would be unable to do if it was locked. not going to happen.

     
    Comment by batman_247@htomail.com
    2007-06-30 03:38:23

    i cant wait until the psp2 comes out and gets hacked!! crap i just creamed my pants a little

     
     
     
    Comment by Manna
    2007-06-29 15:51:13

    oh no i upgraded! lol. one of the only reasons people downgrade is cos sony doesent do anything but make security patches anymore. fuck sony

     
    Comment by Sony©
    2007-06-29 15:57:14

    BE WARNED! If you choose to upgrade, your PSP will become useless.

     
    Comment by $New Jersey Finest
    2007-06-29 15:59:32

    rite sony is gonna get screwed over everytime they make a new firmware even tho im still on 3.03 oe-c…sony sucks at security but not at makin money

    $New Jersey Finest$

    Comment by Will
    2007-06-30 10:01:52

    Umm no, they actually suck at making money, they’re trying to destroy the very thing thats making them money….Well at least they’re acting like they are…

    Comment by NoiseReducer
    2007-06-30 21:50:00

    You are like an only one who finally got it here - THEY’RE JUST ACTING LIKE THEY ARE - thats exactly what is going on here. They can’t afford to make PSP homebrew proof, PSP will not sell any more, because there is not one “must have, must play” piece of game on it. Hacks maked it attractive. And also they can’t survive the legal battle disaster if they ignore that whole fact and not cover their asses with an security patch. They are HAPPY with this website as they are superhappy with the whole aura of hackability surrounding their product. It was their plan from the begining to make it possible and than capitalize on it. Can’t anyone see what is happening? And please - DO NOT WRITE COMMENTS LIKE: F..K SONY, it is like you do not understand without Sony there will be no PSP at all. It’s not like they are doing any harm to us with their updates - so grow up people and apreciate them a bit. Or you want them to go out of business? What would we do after that? Get some chinese PSP knockoff console with tetris on it? C’mon guys, why so much hate?

    Comment by TeOz-FrAnK
    2007-07-01 19:25:16

    hi noisereducer i agree totally with you!!!

     
     
     
     
    Comment by Brian
    2007-06-29 15:59:40

    This is all so funny to me!

     
    Comment by Xcal
    2007-06-29 16:05:28

    So if i upgrade to this version I’ll be able to use the lumines exploit and play homebrew??? Upgrrading now!! Hey i finished upgrading but it no work what happen? lol jk peeps. Noobz once again have a barrier to tear down!

     
    Comment by Comment
    2007-06-29 16:21:42

    can u downgrade if you have the lumines demo download

    Comment by drean
    2007-06-29 16:29:07

    no

     
     
    Comment by grim
    2007-06-29 16:27:02

    sony is a bastard company

    Comment by Will
    2007-06-30 10:03:40

    No worrys, they’re gaming ship will sink soon enough.

     
    Comment by Caullen
    2007-07-01 03:11:52

    AMEN!

     
     
    Comment by G-hack
    2007-06-29 16:37:36

    If anyone don’t have homebrew by now. And they update to 3.51 all I can say is sorry about your luck. This is the time if you want any type of homebrew on your PSP! Downgrade Now. I love my 3.40 OE-A never going back to sony’s FW (( NEVER )) :-)

     
    Comment by Aures
    2007-06-29 17:07:24

    It could be that the Lumines exploit was intended. :P
    [conspiracy theory to boost the sellings]

     
    Comment by wantedbymany
    2007-06-29 17:10:39

    rofl,dude i just upgraded to 3.40 oe-a.i used the lumines thing to downgrage from 3.50.i knew thay would make a patch for it.lol idiots.DO NOT UPGRADE PAST 3.50 OR YOU WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO USE DOWNGRADERS OR HOMEBREW!!!

    Comment by NoiseReducer
    2007-06-30 22:05:02

    Not never, but until they add some nice new function or feature in their future fw. Than people will be motivated to find out the way to get that in their hacked PSPs and thats a start on a path to the downgrader. So far there is no reason for anybody to be loosing his time with this temporary hotfix. I thing we all understand 4.0 is near. Sony will tie up some bomb game title in to it, like when they did make first GTA 2.0 only and lots of people upgraded just to be able to play their game. I hope it will be some kind of MMOG based on one of their existing licensed title.

     
     
    Comment by ILoveMySony
    2007-06-29 17:17:05

    Considering that this downgrade was new, that was a great tactics of Sony to releasing a anti-downgrade patch upgrade asap. Trust me, there millions of people with PSP out there didn’t even aware about the recent downgrade exploit. Once again kudos to Sony! *a thousand claps*

    Comment by ILoveMySony
    2007-06-29 17:26:26

    By the way, I’m a neutral person so I root for both parties. Since both firmwares have their own advantages. The Noobz, it’s time to wake up from your slumber party to get in the battlezone once again. Ermm please don’t disappoint your fellow supporters. All the best!

    Comment by pspizzle
    2007-06-30 03:40:57

    you helmet, what is more advantageous about owning and using official sony firmare, i cant think of any other than oe

     
    Comment by Will
    2007-06-30 10:09:01

    err…Custom firmware has all the advantages…think twice on that.

     
     
     
    Comment by Leeuwtje
    2007-06-29 17:17:22

    NEVER say never :)

    Comment by G-hack
    2007-06-30 03:14:31

    your right i shouldn’t say never. Only way i would go back to sonys FW if dax or someone else doesn’t make anymore updated OE’s. got to keep up with the new games that come out.

     
     
    Comment by fucksony
    2007-06-29 17:46:26

    FUCK SONY AND THEIR SECURITY THEIR SCREWED

     
    Comment by Musashiden
    2007-06-29 17:54:41

    -sigh- you imbeciles really need to stop flaming Sony.

    First off, you wouldn’t even have the >>>SONY

    Comment by Musashiden
    2007-06-29 17:56:24

    you wouldn’t even have the SONY PLAYSTATION PORTABLE if it wasn’t for them. stop flaming sony.

    Comment by batman_247@htomail.com
    2007-06-30 03:49:31

    perhaps we would if they hadnt charged so much for a system with NO GOOD GAMES!!! i bought my psp thinking wow, this thing is gonna rock!!! and it didnt even blip (a sound that is less than rocking) until people finally hacked it! so i for one will continue “flaming” (why did you go with flaming??) sony until they stop ripping me off as a customer!! props to the ps1 though

     
    Comment by Will
    2007-06-30 10:10:48

    How could anyone stand up for Sony? Tell me?

    Comment by NoiseReducer
    2007-06-30 22:46:25

    Try to be known all over the world as a leader in consumer electronics development and sales and you might gather some fans too. SONY is a flagship of Japanesse industry. Ask somebody in any metropolitan area on this planet where they have their store. Than go there and ask for the manager. Give him the IP address you have been sending this message from and you Will receive special DISSCOUNT.

     
     
     
    Comment by Gargantula
    2007-06-29 19:02:42

    I disapprove of their actions in a fair way, but I am thankful for a PSP and the upcoming new PSP.

     
     
    Comment by Edwin M.
    2007-06-29 17:59:25

    do ya see this
    sony keeps wasting valuable flash space in stoping the downgrade rather than makin the psp better

    Comment by xshirox
    2007-06-29 22:11:19

    well said.

     
     
    Comment by zachary
    2007-06-29 18:44:01

    it and the down grader have been out longer than this post has been

    Comment by pspizzle
    2007-06-30 03:43:26

    i should hope so otherwise sony can tell the future.

     
    Comment by dm333
    2007-06-30 10:19:39

    so they think they can win long live the hackerz

     
     
    Comment by green
    2007-06-29 18:44:57

    AHAHHAHAH pethetic sony pethetic sony cant beat these hackin ballers sony cant win they gotta just stop firnware updates there just so stupid sony is so stupid

    Comment by ILoveMySony
    2007-06-30 05:35:40

    Sony is a clever company. If they’re a bunch of stupid people, they won’t even bother to create psp, maintain and patch them from intruders who use it wrongly. Spare some thoughts to think about it. Put yourself in Sony position. Would you give up?

    Comment by NoiseReducer
    2007-06-30 22:56:30

    First at all - the truth is SONY (JAPANESE PEOPLE) are smartest and hardest working arround. Manouvering with a firmware updates is not a desperate fight, it is a necessity to keep PSP legal for dudes like me and you. Thats all at this point. What is the fuss about the 3.51 anyway - why do you people even care?

     
     
     
    Comment by Gargantula
    2007-06-29 18:56:43

    They allowed the PS3 and PS2 to be developed for with the Linux SDK I think. Why do not they just let homebrew live on!

    This is the only reason I bought a PSP! It brings more business to them! The main reason. When I found this site I went out and got a 2.01 PSP for $300 buckaroos. Sony please just let homebrew live on.

     
    Comment by stu
    2007-06-29 19:26:01

    have sony made profit on the psp unit
    ?they should open it up and advertise homebrew and all the cool legal stuff that it can do.

    Comment by batman_247@htomail.com
    2007-06-30 03:52:58

    that would be in violation of copy right laws, also they already did that witht the ps1 emulator

    Comment by stu
    2007-06-30 09:12:09

    im sure sony have broke the law once or twice

    Comment by Will
    2007-06-30 10:16:35

    Compare those to being sued hard up the ass by Nintendo.

     
     
     
     
    Comment by WizardEyes
    2007-06-29 20:02:26

    wow this is like a war now lol. they obviously have people that check this site and others like it repeatedly. some one should me some fake propaganda to fuck with them lol

    Comment by NoiseReducer
    2007-06-30 23:18:45

    It’s so funny how people think they should and can f..k with somebody. Those guys flaming sony here (Why? What is wrong with their products? My toothbrush is from Phillips, but if SONY makes one, I will get it the same day it makes the stores) are as smart as dogs bitting the hand that feeds them. Battle over PSP is only in your heads guys, if SONY stop providing you with an legal cover by their security updates, soon you might get your devices taken away by cops when they make it illegal to use. Please don’t be such a Dick about it. How would you like to be f++ked by SONY and in your case right in one of your magic eye?

     
     
    Comment by dd409
    2007-06-29 21:11:49

    OMG i jst upgraded 3.51 make a downgrader now!

    Haha, jk. 3.40 OE-A and proud.

    Anyway, Sony should just give up. I mean 2.81 was supposedly ‘un-downgradable’, and look how far we’ve come since then.

    Sony, just accept this as fact:
    Homebrew > Sony

     
    Comment by ffrank
    2007-06-29 21:42:17

    lol.. why is there a link to the 3.51 fw on this site? am i missing something here?

    Comment by ccfman2004
    2007-06-29 22:23:00

    Maybe someone who visits this site will find a hole.
    Hey, ya neva know

     
    Comment by NoiseReducer
    2007-06-30 23:23:37

    I smell conspiration! Your forbiden sites list just get bigger again.

     
     
    Comment by sean
    2007-06-29 23:12:15

    yea this recent downgrade juss brought in a whole mess of noobs i also believe now that it is the games that make the psp vulnerable to psp downgrades not juss the firmware well to bad for sony we got even more people in the homebrew scene thank god cuz im tired of seeing fake ass threads about fakeass downgraders lmao sony is losing the tugawar

     
    Comment by kyle chapman
    2007-06-30 01:48:35

    So when im downgrading it says:

    “7 - Unzip the 1.50 update to a temporary folder. Rename the EBOOT.PBP to
    UPDATE.PBP and copy it to :/PSP/GAME/UPDATE/ . DO NOT
    OVERWRITE PSP/GAME/UPDATE/EBOOT.PBP!”

    I don’t have a folder called Update nor do I have a file called Eboot.

    Is this normal? I’m currently on a 3.50 filmware

    Comment by defvayne
    2007-06-30 02:32:02

    Your an idiot if you update to 3.51

     
    Comment by pspizzle
    2007-06-30 03:46:14

    you’ve missed out a step then, it says you need to extract the ms_root folder contents from the downgrader archive you d/l on your mem stick, then you will have a psp\game\update\eboot.pbp, you then need to rename the 1.50 updatte you downloaded to update.pbp

     
    Comment by Dj Dumbi
    2007-06-30 07:23:42

    Go to the forums here and find yourself a Noob Proof Downgrader…….. and a real legit copy of Lumines.

     
     
    Comment by Khast
    2007-06-30 02:51:38

    Just a noob. I have been watching this site since I got my PSP originally. But I have noticed a few things about Sony.

    They spend millions to copy protect CDs to have the protection defeated by a 49 cent marker.

    They spend millions to protect the PSP, but their small think tank is no match for the thousands of hackers.

    All I have to say is Thank you for the D_A and Noobz team’s “Black Marker” for the PSP. I have played my PSP more in the last 24 hours than I had in the entire previous year!!!! (Lumeins is a great game, but it now holds an even better rank in my books due to the exploit!)

    Once again, Thanks Dark Alex, and Noobz teams for all your hard work and effort!

     
    Comment by Newbie
    2007-06-30 02:52:09

    Something went wrong with my 3.40 OE-A.
    Somebody borrowed my psp and put a fucking password on it and i cant access the browser feature of the psp.

    what i did was i restore the default settings.
    the password is gone (reset)

    but the problem is that everytime i put a UMD game, it doesnt work, it always say game cannot work, but it worked well before. also some of the CSO games are not playeable, it just turns black.

    I hope Dark Alex or Noobz can read this…. kinda fucked and depressed right now argggggggghhhh………

    Comment by L
    2007-06-30 03:28:43

    Just reinstall 3.40. OE, of course. Ive had something like this happen b4.

    Comment by Newbie
    2007-06-30 04:01:42

    I already did, i went even back to 2.60 the original sony firmware, and when i tested my UMD game it work. Then i tried to downgrading it again to 1.50 then 3.40 oe-a. but its still the same :(

    im already doing this downgrading and upgrading to any kind of custom firmware for about 6hrs now :(

     
     
    Comment by batman_247@htomail.com
    2007-06-30 03:58:27

    you might also want to check if the umd isnt damaged. this happened to me b4 and it was back part of the plactic had been slightly nedged inward. i forced it back and it worked fine…. though you might also want to do a hard boot while holding r and make sure none of those configurations have been tampared with

    Comment by Newbie
    2007-06-30 04:11:21

    nope the umds are not damaged i tried 3 umds and it dodnt work on my 3.40. but when i went back to 2.60 as i have mentioned before, the UMD all worked.

    Comment by NoiseReducer
    2007-06-30 23:43:21

    When and where did you buy your unit? My jap ceramic white unit does this with 3.4 OE, I fixed it by complete reinstalling the SONY 2.71 FW, than dwngrd to 1.5 with that HEN enabler thing (pretty old stuff) and than I did install 3.03-OE-C. It works fine now.

     
     
    Comment by Newbie
    2007-06-30 04:25:38

    can someone post me the configurations for 3.40 oe-a, i’ve already tried all customized firmware and still the UMD function doesnt work and some CSO also doesnt work :(

    Comment by ompak5
    2007-06-30 04:53:19

    he3 it happend to me before try!!! just dis-able and re-enable the flash and wma player on recovery menu bro… i think its just a bug on 3.40 oe????

    Comment by Newbie
    2007-06-30 05:05:19

    ill try it now, but i dont think its just a bug for 3.40 oe-A, cos i tried downgrading it back to 1.5 using recovery mode then upgrade to 3.02OE-A, 3.03-OE C, 3.10OE-A, 3.30OE A’
    Right now im back to 3.40OE-A still bugged, cant play some CSO, and UMDs. and lately if i luckily played a CSO after finish playing and returning back to XMB i got stuck on Please Wait.
    :(

    I hope the GODs Noobz and Dark Alex can see this :(

    (Comments wont nest below this level)
     
     
    Comment by Ken-Dawg
    2007-06-30 14:38:55

    Dude get a program psp-hacks called Remover 2.1 now disable everything then re enable everything if that doesn’t work give your email and I’ll send you a backup of my flash0 and flash1 folders. Goodluck

     
     
     
     
    Comment by The Matster
    2007-06-30 03:35:50

    Yes the hackers are winning right now at one time sony had firmware 2.60 which people never thought it could be hacked you notice no new firmware updates out for awhile untill the gta exploit. What sony should do is concentrate on new features rather then patches that prevent homebrew. However people shouldnt run illegal isos they don’t own thats all sony is trying to prevent

    Comment by dm333
    2007-06-30 10:30:39

    that and the nintendo roms lol

     
     
    Comment by stupid
    2007-06-30 03:51:10

    maybe if sony stopped worrying about all the downgrades they’d be able to focus on making a better ad campaign to better market the psp.

     
    Comment by Michael
    2007-06-30 05:04:39

    It’s sad really. You know every system since the Saturn and maybe even earlier has been hacked. But I’ve never seen a company go after it as much as Sony is with the PSP. I remember my friend and I 1 1/2 years ago, around PSP launch time, laughing at the DS. Who’s laughing now? I think Sony was expecting to take over the handheld market the way they did with the Playstation. But they can’t do that if software sales are in the toilet.

    Comment by NoiseReducer
    2007-07-01 00:23:14

    You are right sir! But stinky software belongs to the toilet. PS1 won the race first because of the GAMES, than because of hacks and smart price strategy. I don’t thing SONY lost a penny with PS1. With PSP phase one is almost over, enjoy it while you can, it allways was just a teaser. Real thing will have 1080P display and 4GB RAM, it will make PSP1 look like an Gameboy. It will cost $999 first year and geeks all over the world will be storming the stores to get them. Price will drop to $749 after manufacturing gets stores filled. It will be in 2018. Specs of SONY PSP 3 prototype will leak to the public. It will have an revolutionary holographic display unit fitting the users room in daylight and a small parkinglot in dark. 200W minisubwoofer in the main unit plus disattachable wireless surround speaker system. Controlling device will be in form of ring on users finger. Geeks will… (I know guys, I should stop dreaming, but you never know, why they should not do it, I would buy thing like that for right price.)

     
     
    Comment by Michael
    2007-06-30 05:17:48

    On the other hand, in the past, in order to cheat the system, consoles needed modchips, something many people either didn’t know about or know how to install. With the PSP however, all you need is a memory stick and know where to download the software. The only other homebrew ready system I can remember is Dreamcast, and look at it now (It did have great games;)). That and the explosion of interest in games, I can see why Sony is so nervous.

     
    Comment by PS3 rules
    2007-06-30 06:06:59

    please make a 3.51 downgrader i want homebrew back

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