6.35 Pro-B Released

6.35 Pro-B Released

6.35 Pro-B will support PSX games (the real deal)

Plans for Pro-C are already being made, and this will be the last closed source release of the 6.35 Pro CFW

Releases after Pro-C will be open source, and Coldbird announced this open source project might enter the PSP Genesis competition

Installation

1-Download 6.35 PRO-B and 6.35 PRO-B Fast Recovery

2-Extract both archives

3-Copy to 635PROUpdate and 635FastRecovery to PSP/GAME on your PSP

4-Run 6.35PRO-A Updater from Game-Memory stick on your PSP or PSP Go

5-Press X to install CFW. It'll ask you to Press X when it's done, Press X.

6-When it's done, go to Settings-System settings-System information. If it states 6.35 PRO-B then well done.

7-This CFW is temporary, so when you turn off your PSP, you're gonna need to reapply it by using Fast Recovery which you downloaded and copied earlier. Just run 635PRO Fast Recovery from Game-Memory Stick and you should be rocking back on 6.35PRO-B

You should be able to launch homebrew, plugins and ISO's now. ISO's go in ISO Folder in root of your memory stick or PSP GO internal storage ( Root is very first place you see once you open PSP or PSP GO drive on your PC ).If you don't have an ISO folder, then create one, all in CAPS.

6.35 Pro-B and 6.35 Pro-B Fast Recovery are Included in the download file

Metal Slug XX announced for PSP

Metal Slug XX announced for PSP - Recently the US publisher Atlus has announced a new PSP game: Metal Slug XX. It’s a new version of Metal Slug, SNK’s classic action shooter.

The game story is as follows: After General Morden is defeated and captured, a mysterious army arrives from the future to save him. They reveal themselves to be the Mars People and their goal is to provide their future leader with special advanced weaponry to take on his enemies in the present. Classic Metal Slug characters Marco, Tarma, Fio, Eri, Ralf, and Clark return once again to take on General Morden and his new and improved Rebel Army.

In addition to the usual side-scrolling action originated from the DS version, Metal Slug XX includes seven levels with branching routes, six playable characters, three difficulty modes, 70 Combat School missions and a special seventh character named Leona who could be downloaded from the PlayStation Store. And you should know that Leona will have her own special abilities too.

The game also has a local wi-fi co-op two-player mode, so you can play through with a friend.

Game trailer:

More Metal Slug XX Videos

Metal Slug XX is rated teen and is going to be released in the US on February 23 with a $20 tag price. (But don’t worry! As soon as it’s out you can download it along with other PSP games from this site.)

Game trailer:

6.XX Downgrader v4 (Tool)

6.XX Downgrader v4 (Tool) - Developer someone just released an updated version of his downgrader. This version now supports OFW 6.60.

Important Note: This Kernel Exploit was NOT found by me. It was handed to me by Zecoxao, and it was handed to him by Davee.
Another Important note: You run the application at your OWN risk. I am not held accountable if you screw up your PSP.

Changelog:
Added Support for 6.60
Fixed 6.60 problem that didn't allow to downgrade to anything greater than 6.20, thanks to Davee
Allows any updater that is greater than or equal to the factory installed OFW (Has not been fully tested, will most likely work on 500 and up)
Special Sauce added by Proxima

This tutorial is for people that want to downgrade to 6.20/6.35
[This downgrader only works on firmwares 6.31 / 6.35 / 6.38 / 6.39 / 6.60]
 (Note: If you are on 6.61 or higher your out of luck)

To start select your PSP to download a OFW: (Note: This is OFW 6.20 because a HEN is available for it)

Extract the rar file using 7zip or winRAR. You will then find a file named EBOOT.PBP.


1: Using your PC, create a folder named "PSP". Within the "PSP" folder, create a folder named "GAME". Within the "GAME" folder, create a folder named "UPDATE". (Folder names must be in all uppercase letters).

2: Copy the EBOOT.PBP you downloaded to your UPDATE folder.

Now you have to download a downgrader to downgrade your PSP's firmware to 6.20 OFW. 

(This downgrader works only for 6.31 OFW / 6.35 OFW / 6.38 OFW / 6.39 OFW / 6.60 OFW)

To start


Now extract 6.xx Downgrader.zip file using 7zip or winRAR. You will then find a folder named PSP open it up and you will see a folder named GAME open that up and you will see a folder named 6.xx Downgrader v4

Now copy the 6.xx Downgrader v4 folder to your PSP GAME folder.

3: To start the update data. Select either (Memory Stick) or (System Storage) under (Game) from the home menu, and then select . Press thebutton to start the update.

Then you will see this message. Now you laugh at SONY and Press the button on the downgrader. 

After the SONY updater is finished you will get a BSOD, all you have to do is press button

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Warning!            Warning!            Warning!

If your PSP's motherboard module is 07g/09g, this means you can only downgrade to 6.35 OFW. To find out if you have 07g or 09g you have to download PSP Module Checker v1.0.

To start

Now extract ModuleCheckerv1.zip file using 7zip or winRAR. You will then find a folder named PSP open it up and you will see a folder named GAME open that up and you will see a folder named ModuleChecker

Now copy the ModuleChecker folder to your PSP GAME folder.

Now run ModuleChecker from the PSP XMB [Game], the program will tell you what module you have.

Here is 6.35 OFW just follow the same instruction as 6.20 OFW, all you do is use 6.35 OFW instead.

       Credits to bsanehi

Game Categories Lite v1.4 for 6.60 (Tool)

Game Categories Lite v1.4 for 6.60 (Tool) - This plugin allows you to categorize your games/homebrews on your PSP

This plugin is based and uses source code from Game Categories Revised v12 (GCR) and Game Categories Light v1.3 (GCL), both created by Bubbletune. Compatible with 6.20, 6.3x and 6.60 CFW.

I changed the name of the project (doing a fudge in the process) to avoid confusion with GCL (this plugin doesn't use the folder categories present in firmwares 6.xx) and GCR (the plugin is based heavily in GCL since it doesn't use a kernel/user approach).

You can configure the folder prefix (use CAT_ for folders or not), showing uncategorized content and change the category mode in system settings.

If you want a translation of the visible options then edit the file category_lite_en.txt and save it using the language code that first you (e.g. "es" for spanish).

Note: you must use UTF-8 encoding for the translation files (without unicode BOM).

Languages supported: "ja", "en", "fr", "es", "de", "it", "nl", "pt", "ru", "ko", "ch1", "ch2"

The source code is also available in https://github.com/codestation/gclite

TODO:

* Add folder categories like GC Light

Known issues:

Change of category in the PSPGo requires a VSH reset.

Changelog:

v1.4:

• 6.60 firmware support

• Allow the uncategorized folder to be sorted

• Multiple language support.

• Added ja translation by popsdeco

• Added de translation by KOlle

Download Here!
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Phantasy Star Portable for PSP announced

Phantasy Star Portable for PSP announced - Sega has announced that Phantasy Star Portable, one of the most anticipated PSP games, will be released in March 2009 for North American PSP gamers.

The game is developed by Alfa System and was recently released in Japan, selling 500,000 copies in one week. Sega will no doubt be hoping for similar success in North America with the Japanese-developed RPG.

The story of Phantasy Star Portable takes place just after the events of Phantasy Star Universe, and players have to partner up with Vivienne – a new character for the series – to investigate an outbreak of wild animals that seem to have the remnants of a wicked force.

There are more than 150 new weapons and items to find in this PSP game, and you may choose from three Class types and four Races before you begin your long adventure.

In addition to a single-player mode, there’s also online co-op play where you can team up with three others via the PSP’s ad hoc wireless mode. And perhaps, the reason for huge success of this PSP game in Japan is because of its 4-player multiplayer support.

Exclusive new missions and ‘hardcore features’ are also included – such as Item and Enemy Book records and Titles unlocked by achieving difficult goals. This will add a few hundred hours of replay value to Phantasy Star Portable making it the most addicting RPG PSP game.

Xplora 2 - Update 6 (Application)

Xplora 2 - Update 6 (Application) >>> Xplora is a PSP shell programed entirely in C, it gives your PSP a whole new OS to play around in, packed with lots of nice features.

Changelog:
• PSP-Go internal storage support added
• German translation updated
• Drive selection screen configuration doesn't works « Fixed!!
• USB charge doesn't works well « Fixed!

- AUTOBOOT
|—- To enable Xplora autoboot just add to the vsh.txt (seplugins) the file name XfwModule.prx
under Xplora/module directory.
|—-Hold START when booting up the PSP to start the XMB
|—-Press NOTE to change the display brightness with 6 levels.
|—-The firmware Module also replace (in memory, the flash0 isn’t touched) the XMB Gameboot Video
with the one under Xplora/themes/FwGameboot.pmf
|—-Pressing START+HOME in the XMB will startup Xplora

- Desktop
|—-You can easily add\rename or delete an item to desktop 1, 2 or 3 simply
pressing O on a item in the file manager and choosing Create Link To…!
|—-Any internal application can be added selecting “New link” from the menu (Press O to open)
|—-ISO\CSO files and PBP files icons are displayed as the file icon

- Image Viewer » (JPG, BMP and PNG files are supported)
|—-Supports only images that are not bigger than 512×512 due to hw limitation,
I’m working to find a workaround (It’s a mine one graphic lib, that’s why!! )

- Music Player » (MP3 and OGG format supported)
|—-Press HOME to play backroung
|—-ID3 v1 & v2 informations
|—-Low processor and so battery usage.

- Text Editor
|—-Edit your favourite text files while listening to music or dumping an UMD Disk!!
|—-Hold HOME for a while to go to Xplora while the Text Editor is restricted to the System Tray,
just click on it to restart working on your documents.

- Arc Manager » (ZIP and 7z files are supported)
|—-I’m having some problems with my toolchain for RAR support,
I’ll add it as soon as possible.

- PMF Player » (Every PMF file is supported)
|—-Shell Integrated support, no need to use ext. apps or restart.

- Homebrew Sorter
|—-Let’s short every application as you want!!
|—-Directories configuration can be changed editing XhbSettings.db (rename as XhbSettings.txt to edit)
adding\removing any directory ( for example CAT_Games if you have the Homebrew Categoriser Plugin )

- Games & Applications
|—-Start any application just as the XMB obviously returning to Xplora when exiting a game
|—-Directories config. are the same as the Homebrew Sorter

- UMD Dumper
|—-Dump your UMD directly to Memory Stick in ISO or CSO format,
also the file name changes automatically depending on game title
|—-Background Dump supported –> Press and hold HOME for a while

- Nand Dumper
|—-Dump your PSP Nand memory to Memory Stick if .bin format compatible
with the most of the flasher applications.
|—-Background Dump supported –> Press and hold HOME for a while

- Plugins Manager
|—-Manager CFW plugins directly from Xplora with a simple but effective user interface.

- Internet & Xplora Home
|—-Surf the internet with full memory usage (PSP 2000+ only) and keep updated on the
Xplora offical webpage.

What else, let’s see any application writed for Xplora with the Offical SDK.

Download Here!

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PSP firmware update 5.00 released

PSP firmware update 5.00 released - Just after the release of PSP 3000, the new Playstation Portable handheld device, comes the news of another release from Sony: PSP firmware 5.

Unless you’re a great fan of PSP homebrews, you should be pleased with the additions in the new firmware update, since it offers many advantages to PSP gamers.

“[The company had added] a number of new features and improved some existing functionality to make your [PSP] experience even better,” said the director of PlayStation Network Operations at Sony, Eric Lempel.

In this version, you’ll see the addition of the PlayStation Network icon on the XMB. It means that you can now sign up for PSN (PlayStation Network), manage your account and access PlayStation Store directly from your PSP.

But you should remember that if you already have a PSN account, you can simply sign in on your PSP using your existing information. The same account and wallet can be used on PSP and PS3.

With the exception of a separate video storefront, it is functionally identical to the PS3′s PS store, including the option to enter PSN Card numbers and voucher codes from within.

Update v5.00 includes a sleep timer function that can be used for shutting off the PSP when you’re listening to music on your PSP. They’ve also added a full screen QWERTY keyboard option as a method of text input and have redesigned the background of the XMB.

In addition, PS1 titles played via PSP’s video out can be viewed in full 4:3 size, without the black border that surrounds PSP games played on 16:9 and 4:3 displays.

You’ll be able to download PSP Firmware v5.00 from here.