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Help with Custom psp firmware?

right now i have a psp 2000 series with firmware version 5.02 install on it, i would like to copy ma psp games to ma memory stick and i recently found out that i would need to have a custom firmware to do that. i have seance found out how to get a custom firmware but my question now is, what happens when i install it? will my psp be down grated to the old 3.7 firmware? Will i lose all the binifits that came alone with the new Sony update? What will happen when some comes out wit additional updates, will i be able to down load them and install them or am i stick to this firmware? pleas can some one shad some light on this for me so i can now what im getting my self in to before i do it. what might i gain and lose by doing this. thank you in advance your pal Spitlava113

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  • 1 decade ago
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    YES YOU CAN GET IT ALL FOR FREE AND FUN!!!

    you can get free psp games to put on your memory stick

    all you need is a memory card,over 512 mb to hold all the games,

    windows xp(you can use a friends if you need to)(put all the folders you need on the psp and use windows xp to run them)

    winrar to open the custom firmware files, (you can get winrar here, and download the one with your language)

    http://www.rarlab.com/download.htm

    and a usb cable to connect your psp to the computer.

    You must be willing to cut open not your psp but your battery...

    if you screw up just get another battery (and its not are fault)

    you can lots of free stuff from it like

    psp,gba and nes games on your psp for free

    and homebrew which is custom made games by yes, ordinary people

    To get custom firmware follow theese steps...

    1. download this link (note you will need winrar for this)

    http://www.megaupload.com/?d=OU46MU0P

    2.Open up folder and run the autorun folder

    3.Finish the setup and turn your battery into the pandoras battery

    (you will need to look up how to make a pandoras battery on youtube for that part)

    4.The setup will run, then you restore your battery

    5.You will have custom firmware!

    6.*BONUS*if you want the latest custom firmware go here http://forums.exophase.com/showthread.php?t=9447

    Make sure after you have custom firmware you turn on your umd iso mode to m33 driver by pressing select on the main screen and changing it by selecting it till it changes to m33 driver

    Also you can change some of your options by selecting reset device on this menu and holding R to get to the recovery menu

    Heres ALL the websites I have used and liked to use for all my psp custom firmware stuff

    http://dl.qj.net/PSP/catid/106 ,

    this has all that homebrew I was talking about!

    To get homebrew on your psp you download, connect your psp, and put it in the PSP/game150 folder

    theres also emulators(things that can run games from other systems)

    i dont have enough room to put the emulators tutorial down so if you want them you need too ask another question

    http://www.pspiso.com/index.php

    http://www.psperspective.net./

    http://www.psphq.co.uk/

    those websites all you do is sign up and you can download most of all the stuff you need

    http://www.pspiso.us/psp-iso-downloads/

    http://www.pspisoz.com/

    http://websitef.webs.com/iso.html

    those websites are only for psp games, but you dont have to sign up!

    LASTLY.....to put games on your psp first make sure the file you downloaded is an iso or cso, then you connect your psp, and put them in the new ISO folder you have gotten

    PS:if you want to update you custom firmware to the latest,

    or have any questions just email me!

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    to get cfw u need a pandora battery and a magic memory stick.u can't buy these in stores and u have to make it yourself.the memory stick is stupid easy to make but the battery is pretty difficult. the battery downgrades your psp to version 1.50 and then u can put cfw on it with the files on your magic memory stick. now to answer your questions:

    1)when u install cfw u get to do all these awesome things with your psp that u can't do with a regular psp. ex)download psp games for free,play emulators for n64,game boy color,ps1 and more,youtube on your psp and a bunch more!!

    2)when u first get cfw it installs 3.52 cfw.(regular psp firmware looks like this:3.71,cfw looks like this:3.52m33-2.just so u know)and it stays at whatever firmware u have. u can update your cfw from 3.52m33-2 to the latest which is 5.01m33-4.the firmware are exactly the same as the sony meaning it has the same features but it is a hacked firmware which u need.it also comes with special hack firmware features.

    3)when sony makes new firmwares like a week later there will be a new cfw that goes along with it(the best site to check for new firmware is psp-hacks.com)there is a certain way to update it and u must do it right or u lose your cfw(email me if u need help with that)

    4)putting cfw is a bunch of stuff to gain.if u make a mistake doing something with your cfw u can lose your psp but the pandora battery can recover it. if u need any help just email me

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