Uber Confused!

[High Roller]

Im new to all of this PSP business, the modding is something that has intrigued me, but also totally blown my mind apart. I cant understand any of it. Firmware, Kernel, downgrading, upgrading, playing psx rips, psp iso's etc etc.
ive looked at several guides, but non of them seem to talk about hacking the psp in plain english. im guessing a few of these peeps have been doin it for a while and certai terms and abbreviations make perfect sense to them and whoever has been doin it for a while. and some of the files and folders mentioned do not exist on my memory stick anyway. if anyone could help us out id be well appy.
My firmware is version 2.82
if anyone would like any other info just ask
and i dont have that dodgy motherboard either
Id like to upgrade to a decent custom firmware so i can play homebrew software

[dirtbikr6288]

Just a heads up...we can't talk about ISO's on this forum...but there are plenty of people to help you out with homebrew. I only got into it for a couple weeks then upgrade, so I'm not much help.

[Kernel Kev]

Firmware = the system version your psp is running on. For example Windows XP and Vista is like a PC's firmware. Make sense?

Homebrew = home coded games used for pleasure and some apps are useful like IRremote, takes advantage of the psp infra red port to control TV's etc.

Emulators: These act like another console, so an N64 (console) emulator is run on the psp and a rpi of an N64 game can be played on the PSP.

An ISO is an image of a psp game, they are illegal and we cant talk about them here, if you want to know more then a pm to me and you will find out.

Kernel is me, i am very famous. Nah, kernel is like the inner stuff of the psp, dont worry about that, you wont be dealing with it, thats coder stuff.

Upgrading is going from a lower firmware to a newer firmware, ie, XP to Vista.

Downgrading is the opposite, in order to play homebrew you need to go to firmware version 1.5, then you can upgrade to CUSTOM firmware.

Custom firmware is the newest firmware that sony has released but with homebrew capable features, basically sony removed the ability for homebrew when they upgraded the firmwares past 1.5, hence the reason we need to get back to 1.5

I think thats about it really, i have a thread in the homebrew section which guides through all of this.

P.S. - To the other mods/admins, i notice on my thread that the posts are getting jumbled up, i need to know if its just the forum doing it or other mods are trying to correct spelling errors of such, could you PM me if this is the case, as its bugging me as to why it keeps changing, cheers.



Kev

[High Roller]

Thanks for the description buddy, it was really helpful

My firmware software is 2.82, and ive looked through your entire guide and it misses this version out.
Can i use another tool to get my firmware down to 1.50?

[Kernel Kev]

My thread dosent say about 2.82 because there is no downgrader for that firmware.

You will need to upgrade to the next available downgradable firmware (3.03 or 3.50) and use GTA or Lumines to downgrade.

Maybe i should change my thread to make it clear that not all firmwares are downgradable.



Kev

[High Roller]

I knew it had to be something like that, i can see youre pretty damn knowledgable about this stuff, just dont want to wreck it and have myself a very expensive paperweight, cheers man
im sure ill have it down to T in no time

Also i would put forward a reccomendation for a sticky for the first post u wrote, for other air heads that are still dribbling and being spoonfed lol

peace

[High Roller]

So Lumines is a game! thought it was some program lol. Ebay time
Does GTSLCS work with 3.50? would have prefered that game tbh lol. doesnt really matter if not. is this possible? im on 3.50 now

[Monkey Business]

GTA lcs only works with 3.03 so luminies is your only option.
Make sure you get the UK or US version of the game cos the japanese version doesn't work.

[Kernel Kev]

Thanks for the appreciation.

Yeah, when i get time then i will put a post at the start which has defenitions of these diffivult words etc.

Thanks for the feedback.



Kev

[High Roller]

Im bidding on ebay as we speak! ill be a fully fledged homebrewee soon i hope