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Custom Firmware 3.71-M33 Released!
greg | September 23, 2007
I just shit my pants… After much drama Team M33 has finally decided to release their new custom firmware — 3.71 M33! Get it while it’s hot folks!
Just to be clear — please make yourself aware that 1.50 kernel enabled homebrew WILL NOT WORK with 3.71 M33, yet… As mentioned below, “the main installer will not install 1.50 kernel anymore. A 1.50 kernel addon for 3.71 M33 that will install inside 3.71 M33 will be released in a few days (for fat only)”.
3.71-M33 changes:
- Now uses 3.71
- VSH Menu is not longer launched using HOME key, but using SELECT now. This is to not interfere with the XMB function of home, which is now more useful in this firmware.
- Psp Slim: umdcache was allocating memory even when homebrew was launched, wasting memory that homebrew programs may want to use. Now umdcache module is stopped before it can allocate any memory, only in the case homebrew is launched. Also, memory is unprotected for user memory usage by M33 core (only when homebrew is launched). Developer, for a sample of how to use the extra memory, see the extra ram sample of the M33 sdk.
- Both version boot now from 3.XX ipl, and are independent of 1.50.
- The main installer will not install 1.50 kernel anymore. A 1.50 kernel addon for 3.71 M33 that will install inside 3.71 M33 will be released in a few days (for fat only)
- Note: due to some changes in kernel nids by Sony, you can expect a lot of kernel plugins not working anymore. Programmers: refer to the sdk readme for details.
Installation requirements: A fat PSP with 3.52 M33-3 or 3.52 M33-4. Previous versions of M33 won’t work, due to a bug that affects them and OE; or a PSP Slim with 3.60-M33. Instructions can be found in the always important readme.txt. Resort to our forums should you encounter problems or difficulties.
No time for chit-chat, must go install. Enjoy!
Huge props to Team M33, Dark_AleX, and everyone else involved with the development of custom firmwares.
Download:
CFW 3.71-M33
FW 3.71 Update EBOOT
P.S. I found this interesting: on Team M33’s site, it’s stated, “M33 == Dark_AleX.” Also, dark-alex.org now points to M33’s site. Could it be?! Yes, of course it is!
Thanks for the heads up, EvilSeph
- source: Team M33
you took the words right out of my mouth Greg!
Can someone help me put on the 3.52 m33 4 or w.e..message me on AIM:Suits32..thanks
Dark Alex is M33…WiCKED
Coder M33 : Dark_AleX
HM33 : Adrahil & Alek
WebCoder : Alek
Betatester : Mathieulh
dark alex is m33 i knew it all the long it was so obvious dark alex leaves the scene and all of the sudden TEAM M33 what ever. dark alex you never seem to not amaze me
THX Dark_Alex!!
lol@greg!!
http://www.dark-alex.org/
:o
M33 = Dark Alex :o
3.71 M33 will be the last release from DA aka M33
I bet we can expect another AKA from DA. He’ll pop up again somewhere else. First Spain, then Russia, next… Let’s wait and see.
Nice, but sad they’re leaving :(
WOW
WTF ARE U FRICKIN SERIOUS
That was so unexpected. Thanks DA/m33. =D
This is good and all but I have always had PSX emu issues with M33 stuff. Sticking with 3.10 OE untill im sure it will work as good or better.
thats what popsloader is for man
wow your old school….
you know pops stuff still works on the new OE.
BTW? What games didn’t work for you?
very few, most of them froze constantly and various times and areas.
all psx games I have tried out (~50 GAMES) work with popsloader on m33 CFW
awsome!
holy moly….
tanks dude…whoever you are….@_@
Dark_Alex has also confirmed that he is the M33 team and has told MaxConsole exclusively he decided to reveal his secret identity because it is one of his last releases as he has gone as far as possible with PSP custom firmware.
from teh Read Me that comes with teh package..
“3.71 M33 by M33=Dark_AleX
….
….and it will be last thing from me.”
it says me not us as always….
so he’s russian? or was it just a disguise
no, he isn’t russian. he is from spain.
wow this is great but, i like the xmb that i’m using so i will be sticking with 3.52 M33-4 until xmb’s are compatible with this CFW.
You guys are doing a great job pissing sony off! keep up the good work.
long live dark_alex
yeah
don’t tell me you didn’t see this coming,
i mean darkalex announces that he’s leaving the scene and then out of nowhere appears a “team” equally talented in developing cfw and picks up from where da stopped.
But after a couple of M33’s interviews, especially when said “Hey, DAX, if you’re reading this, we expect you to contact us at this [email]“, everybody forgot about the DAX=M33 hypothesis.
I always new he couldn’t stay a way from the scene!!! thank you for all your hard work!
haha i bet dark alex said he was leaving so sony wouldnt hunt him down anymore but just changed his name to M33 so it would look as a new group
Just done my fat and slim PSP, without a problem thanx DA.
THANK YOU DA/M33 YOU GUYS ROCK AND DON’T EVER LEAVE THE PSP WITHOUT CF
Nice little dog finally M33 found some balls and stop lieing yey they got lucky again by using Dark_Alex’s Tools and claiming they did anything they cant even bring 1.5 kernel ahahah if i wanted psp slim i would waste my money buying one… m33 go call DA and beg him to help you on your cheap releases….
Face Off Quote:
… Now i got a gov’t job to abuse and a lonely wife to fuck.
Long Live Dark_Alex
Faceoff you a fucking retarded, M33 is Da you dumb shit.
There is one slight over looked text issue. When changing from the 1.50 kernel to 3.71 kernel in the recovery the text still says 3.52 not 3.71 under.
############################
When switching
Thnx
Me
Skip Sony Logo on start doesn’t work any more either.
so…could it be the return of devhook ?:( hope not :( we all gona miss ya Dark_Alex….you are a great man! ….good luck in life..
m33=Dark_AleX is sad news actually…
when m33 started releasin cfw, i thought ” so d_a left but new people as talented as d_a will come…” but i see m33 is d_a…
so no one knows psp as much as d_a..?
you’re so fucking right … but do you think that this is the end of DAX :)))
Yay M33 is quiting Nice Last PSP Fat CFW
Nice job with hacking DA’s Account & Website host
Its as easy as stealing his work.
…sad….
They didn’t hack his site, or steal his work. Dark_Alex IS THE CODER OF M33. IT SAYS SO ON THE SITE!
you are fucking stupid
“IT SAYS SO ON THE SITE”
You do realize how retarded that argument is against what he’s saying right? lmao
Hey, heres a thing that i don’t understand :/
it says it requires a Fat ass PSP, but there it uses the 1.50 kernel etc…
But i can’t see any connection to the 3.71 on a Slim, more on the Fat ass…
Is the 3.71 M33 also on the fat ass PSP?
Wow, thanks DA/M33.
On another note, this “scene” has gotten bloody hilarious..all that drama during the ps3news vs scene …lets hope Team Wildcard and that other team (AoP?) can meet up with the standards set by DA, our beloved PSP God working in the shadows
WoW
Dark_AleX part of M33—OR—M33 is Dark_AleX
well at any rate My love for the OE will never die
Awesome!!! 1337! I’ll wait for the update to allow 1.50 kernel and other stuff to run first before I update, though.
Dark_AleX…I have to hand it for him, this would not have been possible, I have to tip my hat to M33/DA.
Long live CF!
how can i donate????????
You can by going here http://m-33.narod.ru/
Now where are those BITCHES that said BULLSHIT?
Sweet just did it on my slim, works easy as pie. I was like hey I see an offical sony update screen, kinnda nervous I hit x and it all worked out 3.71 M33 woohoo
Please bring us a psp slim unbricker! i’ll donate!
There already is you fool.
Quote:
Unbricker for both psp slim&fat and 1.50 kernel installer for fat 3.71 M33, will be released in few days…
Read………………………….
wait so can i run hombrew with this??? srry im a noob
of course dude!
Bob, if you don’t already know, he’s lying.
wow !!!!!!! great news !!!!! thanks Dark Alex you’ve done it again
I’m pissed off with some of you lot thinking it’s Dark Alex. IT PROBABLY ISN’T! Stop f*****g giving someone credit that is likely to have nothing to do with it, the coding is totally different. Besides even if it was, YOU and I do not know so act grown up and don’t keep praising Alex until you got proof. Anyone could do this if they had the skill and time.
He said he didn’t want to do this constantly because (basically) he wanted an outside life, most of you who are adamant it’s him are basically saying that’s all he does. Shame on you.
moron … maybe read before talking out of your arse!!
how the fuck do you know the coding is totally different? did you compare both source codes (OE - M33)?
quit the crap! seriously!!
I would praise DA even if he took a shit on my front lawn. He pretty much kept the scene alive and gave people hope that all firmwares could be hacked. If DA is M33 then its all good to me.
Some of you really are idiots. I never said he didn’t and I think he did a great job. Maybe it’s you who needs to read before commenting. Fool. I just think you aught to be grateful that someone is doing this for big noses such as yourself so shut the hell up.
*cough* dickhead
YEEA, try and come up with more imaginative insults. even at American standards, that is poor.
Klid prosim.
this works awesome if anyone is interested to get the new sony themes after install format mem stick a new folder in psp i will appeer called theme add sony themes hear
i have the old. psp version is 3.70 ist possible to upgrade to 3.71 m33?
Use Pandora’s Battery buddy, it is probably the only way to downgrade to 1.50 and then install 3.52 M33 and the 4th update, then you can update to 3.71 M33, but I suggest to stay at 3.52 M33-4 for the time being…
Once again, an absolute legend of a release!
Thanks a million M33/DA. \m/ ;P \m/
But whats up with the 1.5 kernel being released later? Kind of stupid
I can’t help but think that if d_a were involved, Us Fatties wouldn’t be left without our 1.5 kernel - especially after a break like that.
Next thng you know there’ll be a post tomorrow saying the addon is finished and working but won’t be out until October, because they want to go on vacation.
good work guys…will this fix that 80410A0B error? the wlan not working? has anyone tried?
To get wlan working, just power down completely, remove the battery and power cord, reconnect power and battery then switch on your psp.
If your battery is a pandora, you might want to leave it disconnected.
PS I am typing this message on my psp 3.71M33 so my wlan is working.
i tried that a million times….once it started working out of nowhere, it only worked one day it hasnt worked ever again…
What’s your CPU speed. It won’t work if it’s not 222 mHz.
you dropped your psp didn’t you, and ever since you get this error. Well i hate to be the one to break it too you but the fragile wi-fi chip in your psp is now broken. good luck with that.
I don’t care who put This CFW out. Whom ever they/he is I am GREATFUL AS HELL.
this is good woohhhhhhh
Nice to see a new Custom Firmware release (I’m still using 3.40OE though) and this who’s Dark Alex soap opera is pretty damn hilarious. :) The man created a myth around his person, not bad. :P I for myself don’t know what to believe, on one hand I have no problems to believe DA=M33 as they released the next CFW’s pretty fast after DA’s departure, on the other hand DA’s releases had higher quality (for me at least, not meant to diss M33’s work!) so it is equally possible DA != M33. In either case, thanks for releasing the Firmwares, without them I could not code for my PSP and the whole PSP scene would be boring. So whoever created this FW, mad props and somehow I’m sure it won’t be the last released CFW. At least I hope so! :)
We at the Sony Firmware Lab geussed that this was DAX, Also Checking The M33.narod.ru site is EXACTLY the same as Dark_Alex’s website, Good one DAX, I wont tell SCEJ if you wont :D
so you work for sony eh.
just get the soucre code from SCEJ & give it to M33.
i bricked my psp when trying to put my old opening_plugin.rco files on my 3.71 M33.
So im looking for pandora’s battery in the South west of the UK (mostly west devon). e-mail me @ mattomcorp@googlemail.com if you got pandora’s battery & live in devon.
i aint dkling this yet, no 1.5 kernal:(
No Custom XMB, no custom gameboot, no cintros, no 1.5 homebrew no plugins.
Ill download the next update, still i was not expecting this
Cool, I got a brick.
Works Great but if you like homebre apps and games and don’t have 2nd psp wait for 1.50 mode update.
GREAT JOB
Note: restore your XMB to original before this update (thank you Pandora).
thank YOU for saving my ass
You are brilliant DAX! But what about ‘Team M33′ working with team wildcard? What was that whole sourcecode story about then? And are we forgetting something, everybody who has ever cussed team M33 for not being Dark-alex, look atyourself now fools.. though you should never do that anyway.. a CFW maker is still dedicating it’s time to the scene.
HOLYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY MUTHERRRRRR EFFFFFFFINNNNNNNNNN JESSSSSSSUSSSSS Im So Lost Can Sum1 Plz Tell Answer Me This. Is M33 Dark-Alex. N Is This For Slim Or Fat PSP.
Surely a custom firmware without 1.50 homebrew support built-in really implies that it’s purpose is for piracy? M33’s arguments about “unlocking” the PSP don’t really stand up unless they do it themselves…
They include an SDK for 3.71 so that homebrew developers can use 3.71’s kernel.
Another thing, M33 == Dark_AleX could imply that M33 has b