The OcUK PSP CFW Guide

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Thanks very much. :)

As far as I know, my guide should work the same for both phat and slim PSPs. I have personally only tried it with my slim as I am unable to test it on a phat. (If someone with a phat was willing to try it out, I'd be very greatful).

As for the differences with the guide you've used, I'm not entirely sure as I've not run that guide. The differences may be to do with different steps that the tools used to make the magic memory stick require.

I've written the guide using an installer with as few steps as possible, so that it's as simple as I can make it. ;)

insane200 said:
the psp slim requires you to hold down the X button before inserting the pandoras battry iirc, the phat doesnt.
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This depends on the installer you use, not the version of PSP as far as I know. The installer I've used in my guide lets you pick between, none, Triangle, or Left Shoulder to be held down when the installer launches.

Qdos said:
Been following this thread for a while - some great stuff posted here, keep it coming! Let the naysayers go elsewhere...

One thing I'm after is about updating CFW. I'm on 3.52 m-33 at the moment and would like to go up to 3.90 or 4.01. Is it just a case of downloading and running it? Or do I need to get a battery again?
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What version of 3.52 M33 are you running, there's a few patches available for it. I'm guessing this is on a phat PSP because of the age of the version?

While you can do it with the pandoras battery, you don't need to, you can do it another way.

If you are on 3.52 M33-3 or later, I've added a step on how to update the other way at the bottom of my guide here.

As far as I know, updating 3.52 M33 to 3.52 M33-3 is done in a similar method to the guide. It's before I started using CFW so don't take that as given, but I still think the method is the same.
 
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looking at the system info it just says 3.52 M33, so I'm guessing its M33-1. Will try and get it to M33-3 and use your guide from there.
 
had a look at your guide and it seems to be straight to the point and very easy to follow, nice job :)

any news on the don's allowing the guide to be posted?
 
Margaret said:
Yep that's a good guide, that magic memory stick maker looks easier than the one I used aswell!
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agreed very simple guide which is awesome, i remember having to go about 10 different guides etc when i bought lumines for a downgrader and each guide would contradict the last one i read :)

might want to add to guide if you use a slim one you might have to mess about with the hold switch to get pandora to boot.
 
Yrkoon said:
agreed very simple guide which is awesome, i remember having to go about 10 different guides etc when i bought lumines for a downgrader and each guide would contradict the last one i read :)

might want to add to guide if you use a slim one you might have to mess about with the hold switch to get pandora to boot.
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Yeah some of the guides I was looking at said you had to have a PSP Fat to flash the PSP Slim, which was a load of BS!
 
word of warning stay away from u.p.m.s (ultimate pandora magic stick) on 4.01m33-2.

it semi bricked my psp when i installed the fatmsmod371 that came with latest upms install lol :)

most of the guys that done upms have moved on and have a compatible one for 4.01 i forget the name of it though :)

<-- 3.71-m33-4 ran upms no probs converted battery to pandora as a safe guard incase something screwed up when i went to 4.01m33.

got to 4.01 m33 no probs went to turn my battery back to normal, thats when probs started the old upms program wouldn't boot. i thought no prob ill get latest one and get my battery back to normal.

so i got the new upms installer up and bricked when i put in fatmsmod371 lol

solution was to make a dcv? stick with a mem card reader (could have used psp as a reader as i still had recovery menu)

once i got my psp unbricked with what ever version of dc has 3.90m33 i formatted it and made it a old upms stick (3.80m33) manually upgraded back to 4.01m33 after converting my battery back to normal :)

long winded story yes, but i believe it might help some one if they ever encounter a similar problem :)
sitting with a upms stick that whacks 3.80m33 onto any psp and converts my battery :)
 
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Thanks for all the nice comments. :)

I've still not heard back from a don at the moment. If I hear nothing I'll email another one at the end of the week.

Who would be best to ask?

Yrkoon said:
might want to add to guide if you use a slim one you might have to mess about with the hold switch to get pandora to boot.
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I tested my guide with my slim and I didn't need to touch the hold switch? what's the issue with this?

Cheers.
 
apparently on the slim you may have to set the hold switch to the hold position and flick it back down when you put in a pandora battery.

i cannot remember the exact details sorry :(

i thought my m8 was getting a slim after his fat psp got stolen so i posted on a psp forum asking if my dcv3 mms would work same as fat one and every one said stuff about the hold switch on slims.

my mate ended up getting a second hand fat one so i don't know about the slim stuff i was told.

that is all i know about that possible issue if i could remember more i would say it in more detail. :(

there is one thing i do know though (im drunk at moment and just thought of it)

MASSIVE WARNING FOR SLIM USERS do not ever attempt to put 1.50 kernel on a slim it will be a instant brick also slim users should not install any firmware below 3.60 as if that is attempted its a instant brick.

hehe add that massive warning bit to guide, reword it with what ever you want but a slim can only go to 3.60 ofw and custom 3.60 as the lowest one (3.60 was the original slim one any thing lower = brick :)
 
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You beauty! ;) [orderoftheflame]

Battery arrived just now.

Decided to just bite the bullet and go for it straight away.

Pulled my memstick out, inserted the MMS I made over the weekend following the other guide.

Battery in, menu appears, backup NAND, install M33-2, job done.

Quick, easy, painless, just ripped my first UMD to the PC, and am currently compressing to CSO ready to copy back.

I'm actually excited ;)

Now, there were some other VSH options that my guide recommended be set, that your guide didn't touch upon at all.
I've decided to leave the CPU speed stuff at default for now, and if I run into trouble, then I'll change it in the future.

This is what I'm talking about

5. Change the "CPU CLOCK XMB" setting to "266/133" by pressing either the left or right
analog button.
6. Change "CPU CLOCK GAME" the same way, except change it to "333/166."
8. Change "UMD ISO MODE" to "Sony NP9660."
9. Leave "ISO VIDEO MOUNT" on "NONE."
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I've left all on default. I don't konw what it means by UMD ISO MODE to Sony NP9660, but the UMD drive is working anyway.
Also saw to change the USB device to UMD, which is how I got my UMD onto the PC. Easy. Just used CSO and got the image from 450mb down to 374mb. Just used "5" compression ratio to start with, just to try it out.

So, off to play.

Thanks very very much.
A fun day of fiddling with the PSP again now!

Cheers

EDIT: OK, just tried my UMD game from the memory stick. Got an error "game could not be started" so, changed UMD ISO MODE to Sony NP9660 as directed in my guide. Loaded perfectly afterwards.
 
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Robert1986 said:
I'm still amazed at how good PS1 games look on the PSP screen. Shame about no L2/R2 triggers though, using the nub and the D-PAD at the same time is tricky.
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When you look at the screen resolution of the PSP and compare it to the native resolution of PS1 games, it is not really that amazing.


rp2000
 
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