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

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

Just a little update from Yoshihiro… Improved compatibility (for 6.xx) and bug fixes now leaves us at 5.55 & 6.00 Games Decrypter v4.

Again, Games Decrypter decrypts and patches EBOOT.BIN files from 5.55 or 6.00 required games. Once said and done you’ll be playing these titles on custom firmware 5.50 or 5.03 GEN. And if you want to take it one step further, play on 5.00 M33 using mc707’s app.

Update: Apparently v4 makes ‘em work on all custom firmwares. See Sh4d0w’s comment.

Download:
5.55 & 6.00 Games Decrypter V4
UMDGen 4.00

- source: pspgen

Back to back… Yoshihiro with yet another reason to upgrade: the #1 multitasking shell — AhMan’s iR Shell — it’s now 5.50 GEN compatible. It’s simple… You must have iR Shell already installed. So download it if you don’t. Then copy this patch to PSP/GAME, run it, quit, the patch will self destruct (for real), and iR Shell will work from here on in.

Read more about iR Shell right here. It’s awesome — you’re likely to replace the XMB with it.

Download:
iR Shell 5.0
iR Shell 5.50 GEN Patch

- 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: Problems? Yoshihiro’s Games Decrypter V2 should solve it. Give Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 a try now. And if you’re experiencing the black screen problem, change the UMD mode. I’ve had much success using the M33 driver.

We told ya… Now prepare yourself for absolute pandemonium… Nevermind PSP Custom Firmware 5.55 or 6.00; Yoshihiro has released his 5.55 and 6.00 Games (EBOOT.BIN) Decrypter.

In short: use this tool to decrypt the firmware 5.55 or 6.00 EBOOT.BIN from whatever [legitimately purchased UMD] game, build an ISO image using UMDGen with the decrypted EBOOT, and botta bing botta boom — you’re playing on Custom Firmware 5.50 GEN-B.

Instructions included.

All right, all right… I picked up my copy of MotorStorm earlier today and here’s the process I took. But first let me tell you about my PSP:

• 5.50 GEN-B2
• VshMenu is [currently] disabled; I got my reasons. You can no doubt skip a couple steps if you’re using it.
• UMD Mode: M33 driver -NO UMD-
• MotorStorm (US) UMD

The steps:

1. Install 5.55 & 6.00 Games Decrypter like any other homebrew.
2. Boot into 5.50 GEN’s recovery console by holding R-TRIGGER on boot.
3. Go to Configuration -> XMB Usb Device -> change to UMD Disc.
4. Enable USB mode from the XMB; copy UMD9660.ISO to your local; open UMDGen.
5. In UMDGen open the UMD9660.ISO file.
6. Navigate to PSP_GAME/SYSDIR; highlight EBOOT.BIN; right-click -> Extract Selected…
7. Save it somewhere; boot into the recovery console again (See step 1); set the USB mode back to Memory Stick (See step 2).
8. Enable USB from the XMB again; copy the encrypted EBOOT.BIN to your memory stick root.
9. Exit out of USB mode and run the Games Decrypter app.
10. Enable USB mode one more time.
11. If you closed UMDGen, reopen it and open UMD9660.ISO; browse to PSP_GAME/SYSDIR.
12. From the newly created DECRYPTOR directory on your memory stick, drag & drop the unencrypted EBOOT.BIN to the right windowpane in UMDGen overwriting the original file.
13. Save the ISO; copy it to the ISO directory on your memory stick.
14. You’re done.

Download:
5.55 & 6.00 Games Decrypter V2
UMDGen 4.00

- source: pspgen

Ya’ll know Yoshihiro, right? If not, you will soon… Yoshihiro of Team GENyUS has decrypted the EBOOT for games requiring firmware 5.55. At the moment it’s not released; it’s a work-in-progress… However, tonight is the night – if I’m reading Google Translate correctly…

You will need the original UMD game, MotorStorm has already been tested with 5.03GEN (PSP-3000 & PSP-2000 v3) and 5.50GEN (PSP-2000 & PSP-1000), and you will also need the technical know-how when it comes to generating ISO images using this tool: UMDGen 4.00. The rest will be available/explained later tonight.

Props Yoshihiro, Team GENyUS, and everyone else over at PSP GEN. Much respect.

- source: pspgen

Once again it’s Yoshihiro for the win… Yoshihiro’s PSP port of DeSmuME — the Nintendo DS emulator — just moved on up to BETA 7. Most notably it packs the familiar speed increase and for you SolidSnake117; Yoshihiro has implemented the ‘forgotten’ cursor.

DSONPSP BETA 7:

• Speed increase, again
• Use L & R for touch screen
• Cursor added with 2 colors: black or white.
• Frameskip set at 2 by default
• Fixed FPS counter as well
• Source code will be added on SVN soon

Download: DSONPSP BETA 7

- source: pspgen