What? I don't have a problem. Customers who rang work had had problems with legit firmware updating, and I thought it meant you shouldn't upgrade a PSP with a foreign firmware, but this doesn't seem to be the case.

I've now updated to 3.03 OE-B and even managed to convert Vagrant Story and it's running well. Slight stuttering at certain moments, for instance transition into and out of first person view, but it runs smoothly enough, sounds good and looks sublime. Portable Vagrant Story is just.. sigh <3

Here's a treat for you:

http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/834/icon0gj1.png

http://img400.imageshack.us/img400/746/pic1rf7.png

http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/8645/pic0je0.png

http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/3606/screen19hl9.jpg

Haha wow. Yeah, I was just reconverting the game with my own background and icon.

http://staff.gamingforce.com/qwarky/...background.png

Your icon is a lot neater than mine, I just cropped.

http://staff.gamingforce.com/qwarky/Vagranticon.png


Would have been wonderful to add some music, but the whole at3 was too much of a hassle.

Rock, that looks pretty awesome. I think it's about time I upgrade my memory stick so I can replay the Chrono games on my PSP. I'd really like to beat Cross again. :3

Just in case it wasn't posted:

http://forums.maxconsole.net/showthread.php?t=40802

Big ol' thread with icons and pngs for PSX games on the PSP.

Good luck.

Apart from a few SNES titles excibiting some game-ruining skipping, my only real niggle is how using save states seems to mess up SNES games. Or at least that's been the case with Blackthorne/Blackhawk and Joe & Mac 1 so far.

With Blackthorne, loading a savestate results in losing all sounds in the game. If I go to the emulator menu, sound still works, so it's only in the rom. With Joe & Mac, I don't lose all sound, just sound effects for some reason. The music sounds strangely stuffy too.

Guess I'll have to rely on the old hard saves, but savestates would have been especially useful for games with no savepoints while playing on the move :(

Slowly getting the hang of converting PS1 games, though I haven't gotten compression to work even once since all my images have been either .bin or .img and popstation apparently refuses to do compression for anything but .iso. I need to redownload most of my games now :tpg:

Still no downgrader for 2.81?

Darn all this snes talk makes me wet my pants.

What exactly is your error? Are you getting an "invalid arguement" error or something like that when you set compression options then try to convert? You'll need the popstation.exe and cygz.dll that came with the 3.03 OE-A firmware, and just drop those/replace in /PSX2PSP/Files folder. Should work no problem from there. I've converted .bin no problem--6 games so far.

I've converted a number of games on it, so I know how to use it. I can convert .bin and .img just fine, but it won't do compression, it will give me an

"Invalid number of arguments.
Usage: popstation file.iso"

error when I click convert. When I go back and remove the digit from compression level it converts just fine, so I can only assume either popstation or psx2psp has some command line or something that uses/requires .iso instead of any image file type, which is why it won't do compression for .img or .bin.


Actually now I'm beginning to wonder if the popstation might be some older version for some reason, my 3.03 OE-A didn't come with popstation so I had to find it elsewhere. Maybe I have the oone that came with 3.02 and while my psx2psp has the option for compression, the older popstation doesn't support it yet.

That was the exact error I was getting. I'll zip the popstation.exe and cygz.dll I have for ya.

well I was never interested in homebrew for my psp but now that I read every comment on the psone emulator, I really start to regret to fully upgrade my psp :\

I think I'll wait before updating in case in about 6 month or a years there's a downgrade for the 3.03 version XD

Thanks, it seems to be working now.
I also installed the atrac 3 codec, so I'm trying my hand at custom sounds for the eboots. Transferring FF7 disc 1 right now. If it turned out well, I'll need to reconvert Vagrant Story yet again :tpg:

Try use CDGenPS2 to make ps1 iso much smaller than before.

http://dl.qj.net/CDGenPS2-General-To...2228/catid/193

Ironically a link in PSPUpdates about PSX compression techniques just happens to pop up:

http://pspupdates.qj.net/-UPDATE-PS1...g/49/aid/79103

I tried that CDGenPS2 thing and every game I used that method on refused to boot up. I would just be given a blank screen.

I had ignorantly upgraded the psp software to 3.03 not knowing that all the cool stuff was in the older software ~_~
Saw some videos of FFVIII on psp, I seriously need to try that when I get my hands on a 4gb stick....and older psp firmware

You can still play PS1 games on your PSP. You just have to go buy them through the PS3. >_>;;

oh well that sounds like total Bull =D
My sister has a psp that has 2.60, is there a way to downgrade it to 1.50 safely or maybe the 3.03a I've just heard about.
A link to the right site would be nice o-0

Sure. You can downgrade that PSP to 1.50 and then install 3.03 OE-A if you wish. First you need to upgrade to 2.71 because that is the firmware revision for which the most stable downgrader has been released. Then you need to accept that there is a chance you can brick the PSP. It probably won't happen, but you don't get a guarantee.

Then you need to visit http://www.dark-alex.org/

For tutorials and such, visit http://www.maxconsole.com

yeah that bricking scares the crap out of me but Ill see if I take the risk.
Does that usually occur with bad downgrading or just some defected firmware or possibly randomly happens?

If you follow the tutorials and don't interrupt or mess about during the downgrading or upgrading, the chances of bricking are very slim. It will take some extremely bad luck for it to happen if you've studied the instructions well enough.

Just make sure to check whether or not your PSP is a TA-082 psp or not.. Because I'm pretty sure the regular downgrader doesnt work on it. You have to use the one meant for TA-082 PSPs..

I went over the 2.80 > 1.50 instructions literally 4 times. I also repeated the initial step (activating xLoader and verifying it's active) several more times over. I was a complete noob, starting off with potentially the most harmful thing that can be done to the PSP (that is brick it), and still managed to do it fine.

I read through the forums of that site and went thoroughly through the tutorials but when I check inside my UMD drive I dont see any numbers to see if it has TA-082.
I also didn't see anything of that xloader thing