And another one! Xenogears and Becus25 steering clear of the drama train with Custom Firmware Enabler v3.20. Again, this enables custom firmware features on your 5.03 PSP-3000 or TA-088v3 equipped hand-held. Use it with Team Typhoon’s ChickHEN.

CFWEnabler v3.20 changes…

• Now you can use plugins that are not on seplugins folder.
• Now we use our own systemctrl, not GENyUS ones.
• Version is now 5.00M33-6.
• Native 5.03 Pops is now supported.
• MS Speed Patch available.
• Fixed bug that did not patch version.txt properly.
• Quick Start mode (Autostart if you don’t press R Trigger).

Download:
ChickHEN R2
CFWEnabler v3.20 for ChickHEN R2

- source: sceners

Can’t say I saw this one coming… Dark_AleX has released custom firmware 5.00 M33-6. This new version attempts to increase read access, hopefully reducing the lag in heavier titles when playing from the memory stick, and in general, speeding things up all around.

See the comparison chart here.

Changes in 5.00 M33-5:

• A setting has been added to recovery, that, when enabled it may increase memory stick reading speed. (only on the psp, not in the pc). By default it is disabled. If you installed 3.71 fatmsmod, do not use this setting, as its performance with 3.71 driver has not been tested. Instead, reinstall 5.00 m33-4 using dc8 and update to 5.00 m33-5.

Changes in 5.00 M33-6:

• Fixed a bug that made unbootable psp without memory stick or with a bad one.

Download: Custom Firmware 5.00 M33-6

- source: dark-alex

Beep beep — get out the way and make some room… Special delivery from Dark_AleX: custom firmware 5.00 M33-4.

5.00 M33-4 changes:

• Speed selected for UMD/ISO was not properly locked in some new games that used scePower_EBD177D6 instead of scePowerSetClockFrequency to change speed.
• UMD/ISO speed settings now apply to PSN games too.
• Fixed libupdown.prx connecting to dark-alex.org instead of Sony when npsignin_plugin checks for a new version and M33 update is enabled.
• ISO file descriptor was not closed in driver deletion.
• Added a shutdown command to vshmenu.

Download:
Custom Firmware 5.00 M33-4 Update
Custom Firmware 5.00 M33
PSP Firmware 5.00 Update EBOOT (rename to 500.PBP)

- source: dark-alex.org

Still having problems accessing the PSN Store? Try this on for size — Dark_AleX’s custom firmware 5.00 M33-3. You’ll find it fits just right.

CFW 5.00 M33-3 changes:

• A bug was introduced in 5.00 M33-2 that made some games and homebrew not to work.
• PSN version check is now automatically bypassed without need of touching any setting.

Download: Custom Firmware 5.00 M33-3

- source: dark-alex

Boom-bam!

Custom Firmware 5.00 M33-2 changes:

• Popcorn bug fixes:
  • Fixed bug that caused some games with certain icons not to work, and caused document.dat not to work.
  • Fixed critical bug that caused continuous corruption of psx games in RAM.
• Core bug fix: Fixed sctrlKernelSetInit* functions not working.
• M33 network update doesn’t work in 5.00 M33, fixed.
• Added the possibility of loading version information from the file flash0:/vsh/etc/version.txt. By default is disabled. If you enable it in recovery, you could for example dump 5.01 firmware, copy the version.txt from it to the flash, and bypass firmware check restrictions like those that may be in PSN, etc… This will also fake official network update (not m33 one), and running the update eboot (again, not m33 ones).
• Plugins configuration file format changed. The new format is as follows:
  • There is no more conf.bin file.
  • Now each line in vsh.txt, game.txt, and pops.txt will have a 0 or a 1 at the end. 1 indicates that the plugin will be loaded, 0 (or anything else) it won’t be loaded. Entering recovery in 5.00 M33-2 will automatically convert the old format configuration to the new one (this may cause a delay first time you enter plugins because of conversion).
  • Added options under advanced configuration that allow enable/disable of plugins in a certain configuration. By default they are enabled.

Download: Custom Firmware 5.00 M33-2

- source: dark-alex

To Sony’s face with the belt… Dark_AleX, world-renowned PSP heavyweight, has released custom firmware 5.00 M33 into the wild. Get it while it’s hot folks…

5.00 M33 changes:

• 4.01 to 5.00
• Bug fix: when changing speed in xmb, and the psp turned the brightness to 0 automatically the speed was reset to 222 again.

Note to pspstates plugin users: this plugin won’t work in this firmware due to it being made specifically for 4.01. Running it in 5.00 M33 can cause problems, wait until an update of plugin.

Download:
Custom Firmware 5.00 M33
PSP Firmware 5.00 Update EBOOT (rename to 500.PBP)

- source: dark-alex

Concluding our action-packed custom firmware adventure is the promised 1.50 kernel add-on for PSP Fat owners. And in addition to that — Dark_AleX has corrected a few 4.01 M33 bugs; ergo, releasing 4.01 M33-2.

Custom Firmware 4.01 M33-2 changes:

• Nids resolver: Fixed scePowerGetCpuClockFrequency issue. This is the same bug that happened in 3.80 M33-1, it won’t happen again.
• Fixes recovery problems that have appeared in prior version (incorrect position of back string in language others than English, enable, and disabled strings not translated in plugins, hide pic0+pic1 couldn’t be changed, language file in flash1 wasn’t working…)
• Spanish recovery translation typos fixed.

Get down.

Download:
Custom Firmware 4.01 M33
Custom Firmware 4.01 M33-2 Update
1.50 Kernel Add-on for 4.01 M33

- source: dark-alex.org

Ah, ha! Where we last left off Sony unexpectedly released firmware 4.01 while Dark_AleX was in the midst of developing 4.00 M33. Today, the continuation of our episode has come to a delightful end. Dark_AleX strikes with force and delivers the much anticipated custom firmware 4.01 M33.

4.01 M33 changes:

• Bug fix: vshmenu didn’t let change camera mode due to camera_plugin using select button. Fixed, now vsh menu will not be loaded when using the camera.
• Recovery can now be translated, See how below. Translation to Spanish is auto included.
• Updated the M33 SDK with a new function and sample, and released the psp-packer tool to compress prx’s and PBP’s in the ~PSP format.
• The folder of 4.01 and higher homebrew will be GAME4XX so it won’t need change on update.

Also mentioned in the readme: the 1.50 kernel add-on for the PSP Fat will be released tonight.

Download:
Custom Firmware 4.01 M33
Sony’s 4.01 Update EBOOT (401.PBP)

- source: dark-alex.org

Thanks John Jutras, Demonchild, and David Roth.

The analysis report is in. The crew who delivered custom firmware 3.95 GEN have successfully decrypted and shared their 4.00 findings…

According to their report, many PRX’s were in fact modified — pops, popsman, npdrm, np9660, mlnbridge, sysmem, umdcache, sysconf, video — just to name a few. Fortunately it’s said these changes do not pose much of a problem for the development of future custom firmwares.

Whether Dark_AleX/M33 or MIRIAM release custom firmware 4.00; that’s another story. I guess we’ll find out one way or the other.

- source: pspgen

Roll out the red carpet; Dark_AleX back in the spotlight with two PSP updates… We got custom firmware 3.90 M33-3 and Despertar del Cementerio version 5 — the universal unbricker.

If you’re already running 3.90 M33, feel free to update via M33’s network update function.

CFW 3.90 M33-3 Update:

• March33 noumd driver compatibiilty has increased to support games like Coded Arms, Patapon, Harvest Moon Innocent Life and probably others affected by same errors.

Despertar del Cementerio v5 changes:

• Now installs 3.90 M33-3 instead of 3.80 M33-5
• Integration with timemachine in case it is installed.

Download:
Custom Firmware 3.90 M33
Custom Firmware 3.90 M33-3 Update
Despertar del Cementerio v5

- source: dark-alex.org