PSP-3000 and TA-088v3 owners — it’s your time to shine… Or at least I hope it is… Yoshihiro and Team GEN have released their highly anticipated PSP Custom Firmware 5.03 GEN-B for all ChickHEN-enabled handhelds. It’s on you; I don’t have a PSP-3000 to test with… So whether your 5.03 GEN-B experience be a positive or negative one, I ask you leave it below.

Core features:

• Play games (UMD or backup) requiring firmware 5.50+, including 6.xx
• Play games that introduce their own cfw detection / protection
• Play PSOne games
• Access to the VSH and Recovery Console

Known bugs:

• MGS demo refuses to run
• The Recovery mode menu is “mixed”

Keep in mind: you need a PSP-3000 or PSP-2000 with the TA-088v3 board. Your PSP also needs to be running [official] firmware 5.03; this is required for ChickHEN.

Download:
ChickHEN R2
PSP Custom Firmware 5.03 GEN-A
PSP Custom Firmware 5.03 GEN-B

- source: pspgen

Trick or Treat? PSPGEN decided on “trick” and made a ghost of 5.03 GEN-B for ChickHEN and PSP-3000 owners. Scheduled for release today; however, the GEN team encountered a last minute bug and is now working to correct this. The bug –

This is not a problem with the CFW but a recovery bug. If you remember, the recovery of 5.03GEN-A already had a problem: all option lines were shuffled. The correction of this problem comes with another bug in some options like the “use version.txt” which doesn’t work anymore and prevents the launch of the MGS.

Ah well… Ya win some; ya lose some. Check back tomorrow for a possible evening release. Happy Halloween!

- source: pspgen

Attention PSP-3000 owners, or those less fortunate sporting a TA-088v3-enabled 2000; a new custom firmware has been scheduled for release come Halloween day. I’m talking about Team GEN and CFW 5.03 GEN-B.

Considering it’s been awhile I’ll give you a little background; you know, in case you’re new to this… Back in May Team Typhoon released ChickHEN — the homebrew enabler — enabling homebrew on PSP-2000 TA-088v3 and PSP-3000 models running firmware 5.03. Shortly after we witnessed a flurry of CFWEnabler updates from Becus25 and Xenogears, which of course, you guessed it, enabled select custom firmware features — plugins, ISOs, etc. After a few of those, Team GEN showed up, and just like a mother abandoning her newborn, leaves 5.03 GEN-A on the scenes doorstep. Becus25 and Xenogears continued on while GEN focused on other successful endeavours. Now we’re left with today and the future that is Custom Firmware 5.03 GEN-B.

PSP Custom Firmware 5.03 GEN-B will feature:

• PSP-2000 v3 and PSP-3000 support
• PS1/PSOne game compatibility
• Run protected UMDs/backups
• Run 5.55+ required UMDs/backups
• GEN VSH MENU
• Recovery in VSH

In the meantime, get a head start by downloading:

ChickHEN R2

and:

CFWEnabler 3.60 or Custom Firmware 5.03 GEN-A.

- source: pspgen

Yoshihiro and Team GEN follow up with the quickness and release the Quick Updater for the much-anticipated 5.50 GEN-D2.

 

And the change log says…

• Evangelion anti-CFW patch fix
• Fix Wlan TKIP in game loop: pes 2009, fifa, motorstorm, GTA:CW etc.
• Fix video output with 5.5X and 6.X games like GTA Chinatowns War
• Fixed recovery menu with make Pandora and make battery normal
• Removed splash screen http://www.pspgen.com but you have another spash screen in red color for let you know if the decrypter work

And a few notes concerning select games:

• If Evangelion doesn’t work: Skip the intro.
• Use your own ISO and not a downloaded/pirated one. They’re gutted and often crap.
• If Full Metal Alchemist doesn’t work: At first launch create your profile. When done, choose an option like “free Battle Mode” and you are then returned to the start menu with an alert “Caution.” At this point, quit and relaunch. All works fine now because the profile was created.

Download:
Custom Firmware 5.50 GEN-D
Custom Firmware 5.50 GEN-D2

- source: pspgen

Bang! Pow! Boom! It’s Team GEN who makes the scene pound; Yoshihiro, GENyUS all around in surround sound. So get up out your seat and put your hands together for Custom Firmware 5.50 GEN-D.

$10 PayPal to the first person who correctly identifies that first sentence (or remixed lyric). Colin got it.

Don’t let the earlier 5.50 GEN-C release scare you now… Quality assurance ensures GEN-D will knock your mismatched socks right off your stankin’ feet. Or at least we hope. Updating now… I’ll keep you posted.

All right, all right… Everything checks out… The install went smoothly; mind you, my settings (flash1) were reset… Perhaps that’s because I updated from the dreaded 5.50 GEN-C. Nonetheless, my games and homebrew continue to work; MotorStorm UMD and others requiring 5.55+ run without any patching… Woot woot.

CFW 5.50 GEN-D Features:

• All features of 5.50 GEN-B2 are available.
• Ability to run 5.51+ games without having to patch them (UMD or ISO).
• Possibility to launch PSN demos requiring 5.51+ without having to patch them (as MGS for example).
• Possibility to connect to the Playstation Store by using MEDIAGO, to retrieve games and goodies without having to install Fake USB or other complicated stuff.
• Possibility to use the XGEN Updater to install the official firmware 6.10 (use it only if you have a Pandora XGEN to be able to return later in Custom firmware)
• 480×272 AVC Videos are supported

The option to accelerate memory stick access is coming… As well an iR Shell patch, I think.

Download: Custom Firmware 5.50 GEN-D

- source: pspgen

Update: Ok, so 5.50 GEN-C is cursed… GENyUS and Yoshihiro are working to get GEN-D out the door. Don’t turn that dial; stick around.

Update: Way too many problems… Download pulled. 5.50 GEN-C2 coming soon.

My PSP just finished flashing Yoshihiro’s 5.50 GEN-C… Sadly PlayStation Store access remains blocked. Otherwise, it is what it is… Play 5.55+ required games without the tedious prerequisites — decrypting, patching, rebuilding… You know.

Only install 5.50 GEN-C on PSP-1000 and PSP-2000 models. Do not install on a PSP-3000 or any PSP with a TA-88V3 board.

Note: If the XMB freezes after installing this update, boot (holding R-Trigger) into the recovery console and browse to Advanced -> Format flash1 and reset settings.

Another note: Personally, I don’t recommend updating just yet… Refer to the comments to see what I mean. Although, you can be a sport and install it, report bugs you encounter, and Pandora back afterward. Expect a patch or two soon as well as an option to speed up memory stick access.

Download: Custom Firmware 5.50 GEN-C

- source: pspgen

It’s about that time, time you upgrade to the latest and greatest from Team GENyUS. So rather than doing the incremental update thing: M33 -> GEN-A -> GEN-B -> GEN-B2 etc… Jump straight to 5.50 GEN-B2 with Yoshihiro’s XGEN Updater. Of course this only applies to PSP-1000 and PSP-2000 owners with a non TA-88v3 board. And if you’re already sporting GEN – continue on keepin’ on.

XGEN Updater installs Custom Firmware 5.50 GEN-B2 directly on your already hacked hand held, which needs to be running 3.71 M33 or above. XGEN Pandora will modify your Despertar del Cementerio v8 setup. So whenever you need to call upon Pandora, she’ll be restoring/reflashing 5.50 GEN-B2 instead of 5.00 M33.

Download: XGEN Updater / XGEN Pandora V2

- source: pspgen

Update: It’s fake – go figure… Read this (click for screenshots too):

I have installed this request and looked all the innards.

This is not 5.55 CFW.
It is 100% 5.50GEN-B2 with some files from the folder VSH of 5.55, which are responsible only for displaying the graphical interface.

So I checked the IPL – it is 100% identical 5.50GEN, although it should be from the official kernel 5.55.

So I checked the Pre-IPL – he is also 100% identical 5.50GEN. This loader cfw containing the BIOS file path activation, including the main executable file cfw: systemctrl.prx. Pre-IPL (16kb) basically contains file pspbtcnf.bin.

So it is no way 5.55CFW, but simply a hybrid.
It’s not what you run games that require 5.55 can be no question.

The problem it is that he does not decrypt add files that have signed and attached to a particular PSP. They must decrypt, and then pack it with a universal header.

If he did not have this knowledge, about any issue 5.55CFW, and even more so 6.00CFW generally speaking it is not necessary.
And it definitely will not!

So it’s all fake!!!

Download pulled.

Womp waaa… Don’t download this one – not yet anyway… I just copied this mess of files onto my memory stick, ran the 5.55 LDX installer, and within a moment or two I was holding a nice brick.

*Chucks it through Team LDX’s window*

No – but for real – good effort. It’s more than a video, I’ll give it that. Keep in mind the team claims this beta and surely that explains my now Pandora-fixed PSP. Back to 5.50 GEN-B2… By the way, I was still able to access the LDX recovery menu by holding R-TRIGGER on boot.

And now that I’m looking at their screenshots (more via source), I notice my LDX Recovery Menu was missing the “Reboot in to official firmware”, “Suspend device”, and “reset device” options.

Furthermore, Team LDX says any game (or ISO) requiring 5.55 or higher does not run, not yet *yawn*… That’s to be resolved in the full release. Anyway, should you feel inclined despite my experience and all that other stuff…

BE WARNED / USE AT YOUR OWN RISK:

Downloading and using this may possibly render your PSP a brick, and even worse, possibly render your non-Pandora-supportin’ PSP an even bigger brick – a cinder block.

The full version due is out September 24th. Check back.

Download: Custom Firmware 5.55 LDX BETA

Thanks for the e-mail, Johnny Boy.

- source: mcpsp

The GEN team has de-crypty-crypted PSP firmware 6.00, analyzed those unencrypted bits and bytes, and has now shared their findings…

Here’s what up –

(Translated by way of Google Translate)

First:

We have therefore launched a program to compare files of 5.50 and 6.00. You see below the result which indicates that all files are different and have been recompiled (normal since the change of key), and you can see the newcomers of firmware 6.00 – Rated Only in (first) – and disappearance compared to 5.50 – Rated Only in (seconds).

For that list; see here.

Second:

The PRX system directory that you were all set to jou(?) and again, there is a change. Note the appearance of PRX following: codec_01g.prx, codec_02g.prx, codepage.prx, libgameupdate.prx, libmp4.prx, mlnbridge_msapp.prx, mp4msv.prx, np_campaign.prx, power_01g.prx, power_02g.prx, umdcache. prx, usb1seg.prx, usbdmb.prx) and disappearance of others codec.prx, idmanager.prx, impose.prx, power.prx, umdcache_02g.prx, usb1seg_02g.prx.

Third (Conclusion):

The first stage of the discovery of 6.00 has therefore been reached and our team of developers will therefore continue its investigations to try to bring us more information about this topic. Note that Dark_Alex said he was not working on 6.00 M33 and that for the moment, no public 6.00 GEN is still expected.

The “no public 6.00 GEN is still expected” throws me off… I’m not sure if that’s an error on Google Translate’s part or what. If anyone is able to provide a better, more accurate translation, please do so in the comments below. Thanks.

Props GEN.

- source: pspgen

Update: Cool… A video showcasing 6.00 courtesy of WEED LOVER:

Update: Hrm… Even Lempel doesn’t mention any of the PSP GO features on his latest PlayStation Blog post. Why’s that?

Update: All right; first impressions… Nothing overly exciting… Plenty of new theme colours… Big whoop. 6.00!? C’mon… More like 5.56 or something. I’m more interested in the PSPgo and the Bluetooth Internet dealio. The change log posted below is spot-on with exception of the PSP GO specifics; I can’t confirm that until October. Anyway, let me reiterate:

PSP Firmware 6.00:

• PlayStation Store Games can now be grouped and displayed in folders based on their expire date under [GAME]
• Importing of playlists from the Media GO! applications is now supported under Music
• Under [Settings] > [Network Update] has been changed to [System Update]
• The number of Colors that can be selected under [Settings] > [Theme Settings] has been increased
• The PSP GO! system can now connect to the Internet via a Bluetooth modem such as a mobile phone

And furthermore…

• Revisions to strengthen security has been added. (Internet Browser)

Anyone spot anything that went unmentioned?

Now to Pandora myself back to 5.50 GEN.

It’s out — Get PSP Firmware 6.00 now via Network/System Update or download it below. More to come… Updating…

Download: PSP Firmware 6.00