PSP Firmware

InvaderJim42

I've had my PSP for about a year now, and I play games often on it just before I go to bed or late at night (it's difficult to play it during the day in bright light). I've run into a few people who have custom firmwares on their PSPs, and they also are able to run emulators and whatnot with their custom firmwares. For awhile now I've been thinking about putting a custom firmware onto my PSP, but the fairly large number there are out there is making me a little hesitant. Here is where I turn to you, and hopefully some of you might know more about this than I do. I'm very technically inclined, so the complexity of the installation of a firmware is no issue for me. The question is just which one I should use. I'm using a PSP Slim & Lite (PSP-2000), firmware version 3.60, and some of the things I'd like to do with a custom firmware are run a GBA emulator, Super NES emulator, and run a handful of homebrew applications, one of which is OpenTTD. My question now is which firmware do you recommend I use? And how should I go about acquiring it and putting it on my PSP?

16_BIT_MARIO1

Well, I don't know about PSP, but for DS, this place has a lot. Maybe some of them defy the laws of physics and work on PSP!

doom saber

I have no idea if TT would allow specific info on their forums where to get and install a custom firmware because such a firmware is used to do other things beside playin emulated games, which is frown upon. Even talk about playin nintendo games on a psp might be bad to ask about here.....

However, I will say that other than the homebrew firmware, you require a sony made memory stick, a modified battery, and a bunch of normal firmwares. Your best bet is if you have a friend offline or ebay to get the stuff you need to alter your psp.

( if what I said is not allowed here, just let me know and I will edit my post)

Shauntron

While discussion of modifying consoles for piracy purposes is not allowed, there's no rules about trying to make property you already own more useful. Obtaining Roms for games you already bought and paid for is perfectly legal, although the current industry trend of selling people classic games all over again makes this a touchy subject.

I seem to recall emulators on the PSP to be imperfect. The 333mhz CPU wasn't ever enough to emulate complex scrolling graphics on Genesis and SNES (especially mode 7), and updates were slow to come in the Homebrew since its the realm of enthusiasts. Though the NES was just about perfect. It's been a few years since I owned a PSP, but the inconvenience of getting Homebrew to work right got old pretty fast.

doom saber

Actually, under nintendo's policy, usin emulation to play games you have is still "illegal". As for emulation, the gba & super nes ones have greatly improve to near perfect emu 17 months ago. l remember when snes roms were zlow but it was the psp was just released. I think it has 2 with the homebrewers skill in codin as oppose to cpu because it does not make sense seein how the ds is able to run snes with the orig speed and not the psp, which can also pcengine games perfectly

ShaggE

Shauntron wrote: »

Obtaining Roms for games you already bought and paid for is perfectly legal, although the current industry trend of selling people classic games all over again makes this a touchy subject.

I think you have to dump your own ROMs for it to be legal. I'm not sure, since emulation (and abandonware) is a legal mess. Especially nowadays, where it seems like you don't even own the software you buy legitimately.

InvaderJim42

Hmm... well, in light of what's been said, I think I'll just wait a bit longer and see if I absolutely NEED to run these programs from the comfort of my bed, rather than from the comfort of my computer chair 6 feet away from said bed. What a lazy man I am!

Jake

Regardless of the details of legality, you guys might want to continue this discussion on another forum or in private messages. As extremely cool and fun as homebrew stuff is, I don't think the Telltale forums is an appropriate place to talk about modding consoles and ROMs and such.