PSP M33 CFW Update #2

This was something I meant to blog about yesterday, but forgot to… The M33 team have released an update to their 3.52 custom firmware.
Changes:

• Document.dat of psx games were broken due to some important changes in popsman.prx and now is fixed.
• Plus, now document.dat does not need the same gameid as game which is played.
• The compatibility issue with irshell loading psx games in usbhost/nethost has been solved.

Changes in recovery:

1. Removed the advanced config option “use isofs on UMD inserted”, as it is not useful now.
2. Added “Format flash1 and restore settings” in Advanced.
3. Added speeds 20 and 100.
4. When in usb mode inside recovery, it is impossible to turn PSP off.

• The chineses and korean languages did not work in XMB, because they crashed homebrew and recovery.
• The issue has been fixed, but korean font is not there, so you need to take it with psardumper from official updater, and put it in flash0:/font/kr0.pgf.
• M33 driver: fixed SBK07, now it work.

With this release we also [include] a plugin to load pops from 3.40, 3.51, and 3.52. The plugin works in 3.51 M33 and 3.52 M33. In 3.51 M33 you won’t see option “3.51″, and in 3.52 M33 you won’t see option “3.52″ (use original from flash for same firmware).

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Installation details are in the readme. You can download the update from here. There is a possibility of bricking a PSP if you don’t follow the instructions properly, I hold no responsibility for any fuck ups that may occur, I’m just passing on information and whatnot!

R4DS Kernel v1.11 released

An update for the R4 Kernel has been released today. I’ve left the themes folder out to lower the filesize and for you to be able to transfer the files over to keep whichever themes you already have.

1. Solved the soft reset of some games, for example: 1158 Zelda
2. Solved the white screen issue of game 1209
3. Adding the on/off option for real-time cheats switch
4. Updated moonshell to v1.71 and supporting soft reset
5. Full download play support (Please use trim_tool 2.0 to trim ROMs)

Just unzip and transfer the files onto the R4, overwriting the existing files and you will be updated.

{Edit}See comment for link to official download, thanks to Jeremy!

Download removed due to v1.12 update.

New NiGHTS skins page and Sonic skin

After wondering what kind of skin to do next for the R4DS, I remembered that I had some NiGHTS images that were sitting there doing nothing, so I went and turned them into skins.

There are 5 to select from with another on the way soon as I’ve done 2 featuring NiGHTS, 2 featuring the girl and just 1 of the boy, but I’ve seen an image to make the 2nd boy skin with.

Not only are there some NiGHTS skins, but also a skin based on the DS game Sonic Rush Adventure. Another unique skin that features Sonic holding a DS on the logo screen with an actual screenshot of the game in the background, the icons are from classic Sonic with the Hedgehog as the Game icon, the E102 robot as the media icon and Tails for Slot-2.

The NiGHTS skins can be found on the NiGHTS Skins page, while the Sonic skin can be downloaded from the Game Characters page.

NiGHTS R4DS

Chocolate Rain

There’s nothing else to say, but watch and be amazed!

Chocolate Rain

Now for something a bit geekier

I managed to get a theme I’ve had my eye on for a couple of days and with a quick Google search, also managed to find out how to install it.

I like it and it was easier than I thought to install. Remember to backup any files you’re about to replace.

/!\Warning!/!\ Although a fairly easy task, there is still half a chance of bricking the PSP. This ‘guide’ is for M33 3.51 Custom Firmware themes ONLY, do not attempt to install any other themes or icons that haven’t been flashed for M33 3.51.

{Edit} My PSP is a standard install that hasn’t been updated to M33-7, so I can’t tell you if it works on the latest update or not.

1. Connect the PSP to your computer with the USB lead, hold down the Right trigger and turn on the PSP to go into Recovery Mode.
2. Go to Advanced -> Toggle USB (flash0) and the box should pop up.
3. Once in the directory, open the vsh\resource folder and copy the .rco files and .bmp image of the theme over.
4. Go back to the root dir and go into the font folder, copy over the pgf file.

That’s it, exit from Recovery Mode, go into system settings to change the theme and away you go. Remember that you’ll be overwriting some files, so if you want to replace them at a later date, keep them backed up somewhere safe.