Forum: Newbie Corner & Tutorials

I had M33 ver 5.0 on my phat PSP for ages and had been playing an ISO of Dissidia on it. I decided to get the UMD version because the ISO kept freezing in particular places. Got the game today and got Error 80020148‎ when trying to load. I thought i might need 5.5 so i downloaded 5.5Gen A and...

hi. i have an old, fat psp. long ago, a friend of mine modded it, (i believe he used some sort of crack using wipeout), and now it won't start up. i can get it into recovery mode, but nothing seems to restart the beast itself. i haven't played it in a while, so i'm not sure what firmware its...

hey guys, anybody experienced in fixing PSPs? I have a problem with a PSP 2000 (slim) when you insert the UMD, it wont even detect it. it acts like there is no disc. no spinning, no errors, nothing. the UMD door and the part that pushes the switch that detects when the door is closed is ok, it...

Ok, so im tryin to update my psp from cfw 3.90 m-33 to the latest through the system update function on the psp, but every time I try, it tells me this "Verifying u235.prx.... Incorrect file." then resboots...Why is this happening? Also, so I dont make two topics, is there a way to fix the...

Hey guys, ahvnt touched my psp in a couple years... anyways, just seen the new gran turismo jsut came out so i wanna update to the latest... i think im on 2.71 cracked firmware.. so how do i go about getting to the latest firmware.. btwi have a PHAT psp Cheers guys.

Does anyone know if there is a way to take screenshots from the PSP like say when you're running the PSX emulator? Cheers, Kyle

Hey guys, I'm just getting back into the psp scene after a few years and wanted to start playing some snes games on my psp. I have a psp 1000 and upgraded it to 5.50 Gen A. No problems playing psp games. I installed Snes9xtyl 0.4.2me and put it in the /psp/game5xx folder. I go to load any game...

i havnt done anything like this in a year so i need to refresh my memory... its cfw 3.XX (dont remember which one though) how do i update it to the newest one? dont i stick the update.pbp in the update folder? or game folder? cant remember... also whats the most stable fw thats very new?

Ok i'm new to this so bare with me I downloaded my first ever batch of PSP homebrew apps namely PSPWOL PSPssh PSPvnc PSPfiler and I assumed I just put the app folders for everything in

I have a PSP slim (psp-2003) that my friend put custom firmware 3.71 m33-2. Having been off the PSP scene for a while and want to get back into it I would like to upgrade it to a newer CFW. What firmware can I upgrade to which will give me the best compatibility for homebrew and especially backups....

If this is the wrong place to ask this question I am sorry. Anyways, on my phat psp, I started up a game it was taking longer then usual so I took out my battery, when I do this it usually turns on again. This time it didn't, it's like the battery got pandoraed or something. So seeing as I have to...

curious, my friend is using 5.03 hen (psp-3000) and im using 5.00m33-6 (psp-2000) i tried out wifi with him, and we could not locate each other to play. using my psp-1000 and my psp-2000 5.00m33-6 on both, i was successful with wifi play. is it a known problem that it wont work with 5.03hen?...

lets say im using a release date psp-2000 (daxter bundle) and for some reason, im on 5.03 loaded with chickHEN. without using pandora and mms, can i downgrade to 5.00ofw? i know its safe to do so with my particular psp model, but is there any "homebrew" that allows this procedure? ...

Ok, my psp wont load any application loaded on it, it just shuts off Its firmware is 3.71 m33-2 and is model 1000 any help, please? Its me and three of my friends working on this, and none of us can find the problem. Please post to tell me weather it is or not fixible...So I know to get a...