With so much drama in the PSP scene, it’s hard knowing who’s who and from what regime… But, somehow, someway, Dark_AleX sets the record straight like every single day… And today: a little background info concerning this bit of news — the GripShift kernel mode exploit video…

To quote Dark_AleX himself –

This is about how I trusted someone called “miriam” and I gave him a kernel exploit of C+D, which was found by joek (the ONLY ONE that deserves credit of that), just to play for HIMSELF, as it is being used to decrypt 3k modules, but the first thing he did was to show to others to get a bit of fame.

Now i realize not to trust anyone anymore, thanks.

So here we are today, stuck in user-mode land while completely HEN-less.

By now you’re feeling good and no doubt digging custom firmware 5.02 GEN-A. Although, perhaps you were a little saddened when you learned CXMB was no longer functional… But that’s all changed; Miriam has released an unofficial version of Poison’s CXMB that is now fully compatible with CFW 5.02 GEN-A. So boogie on down and enjoy countless user contributed XMB themes all over again. You can find a bunch here.

Download: Unofficial CXMB for 5.02 GEN-A

- source: pspgen

As promised — Miriam’s 1.50 kernel add-on for Custom Firmware 5.02 GEN-A. This is intended for use with PSP-1000 (Fat/Plus Size) models only.

Download:
CFW 5.02 GEN-A 1.50 Kernel Add-on
Custom Firmware 5.02 GEN-A

- source: pspgen

I hope you all had a bangin’ New Years Eve… And now, while we nurse our hangovers, we’re going to kick off 2009 with Miriam’s latest — custom firmware 5.02 GEN-A. Please see the included documentation for requirements, installation, and other important notes.

Custom Firmware 5.02 GEN-A features:

• All functions of the official 5.02 firmware.
• Suspend, Reset and Pandora options added in the recovery.
• Hide MAC Address can be enabled via configuration in recovery.
• VSH Recovery can now be opened with an option in the vshmenu.
• You can quickly exit the recovery by pressing the Select button.
• Game Categories Plugin by Bubbletune integrated (enabled by default, can be disabled in recovery).
• Option to reboot in to official firmware in the recovery, it will remain like this until the next cold reset. (Slim Only, support for the Phat PSP might be added later).
• Slim Colors Patch by Bubbletune integrated; enable in the recovery and flash 13-27.bmp to your flash0. This will allow you to use the Slim Colors on your Phat PSP.
• Higher homebrew compatibility compared to other 5.02 custom firmwares.
• Functional 5.02 pops (keep pops compatibility in mind).

Download: Custom Firmware 5.02 GEN-A

- 5.02 GEN-A Firmware Guide -

- source: pspgen

Thanks Demonchild

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

If you don’t got it, you need it, and here it is — MIRIAM’s custom firmware 3.95 GEN update numéro deux.

CFW 3.95 GEN-2 changes:

• Fixed issue which crashed the PSP if you had vshmenu mode ‘None.’ (if you have a GEN-1 pseudo-brick, change the vshmenu mode to fix it)
• Fixed SNES emulator issues, now works fine.
• Fixed few homebrew issues with the Slim.

Download:
CFW 3.95 GEN-2
Custom Firmware 3.95 GEN
Sony (Official) PSP 3.95 Update

- source: pspgen

MIRIAM of the PSP-GEN crew has released the much anticipated custom firmware 3.95 GEN. Overcoming the memory limitations, 3.95 GEN is fully compatible with both the PSP Fat and Slim.

A new version of PopsLoader supporting the 3.95 kernel has been included with the package also.

Installation:

• Copy the PSP folder to the root of the memory stick.
• Download the official 3.95 update and copy it to the root of the memory stick with the name ‘395.PBP’
• Run it and follow the onscreen instructions, the Sony updater will be used for the main flashing.
• At the end it’ll ask you to press X to reboot, do so or you’ll get a brick.

PSP CFW 3.95 GEN changes:

• Kernel updated to 3.95 (new nids, patches etc.).
• Option added in recovery to choose between VSHMenu and in-XMB recovery.
• Option added in recovery to choose between Sony, GEN and M33 network update modes.

Download:
Custom Firmware 3.95 GEN
Official 3.95 Firmware EBOOT (rename to 395.PBP)

- source: pspgen

P.S. A ton of Homebrew Idol submissions coming up…