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DO NOT UPGRADE TO 2.6!!!

You will not be able to run homebrew or anything that Sony doesn't want you to, and you cannot downgrade. You have 1.52, that is great. You can do nothing on 1.52 because sony patched a bunch of stuff and homebrew doesn't work. So what you want to do is download the 2.0 update from www.pspupdates.com. Upgrade to 2.0. Then with a program call the "mph downgrader" you can downgrade to 1.50, which is the holy grail of homebrew firmwares. You're in good shape, just don't upgrade to 2.6!

The only bad thing is that 1.5 doesn't have a built in web browser but there are ways around that. And you can't run GTA or Socom on 1.5, but you can always upgrade to 2.0 for those and then downgrade back to 1.5 to play homebrew games and :gasp: isos that you've downloaded. Start reading up on the forums at pspupdates, there is a howto on using the mph downgrader. Let me know if ya need more help.

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wow i fi knew you could do all that ---- i would have hopped on the wagon long time ago

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well i went out n bought 2 games, need for speed most wanted and madden 06... it required me to update to 2.0 to play the games so i did... graphics are ------ awesome but i also want to run all those emulators... they dont have any emulators for 2.0 yet? i dont wanna go back n forth when playing games, its annoying. i read the how-to downgrade n it seems so unsafe for the system. "its gonna crash, force off, power on... it'll update til about 90% then crash again" that doesn't sound safe for the psp lol... n i dont even have a big mem card yet... i wish there was emulators for 2.0 so i could jus stay on it.

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The downgrader is based on an exploit, and was never meant to be by Sony. That's why the process to use it is a little funky. Just follow the steps and you have nothing to worry about. You won't damage your PSP.

You can run NFS:MW on 1.5 just fine, I do it all the time. Madden may require 2.0 though, never played it. I hate sports video games except for racing.

If that is the case (2.0 being required for Madden) then you can still run *some* homebrew on version 2.0 with a program called "eboot loader" made by Fanjita. There is an entire forum dedicated to this program on www.pspupdates.com Check it out. Basically it uses the same tiff exploit that the mph downgrader uses but it allows you to run some homebrew. I know there are a few emulators that work on it such as SNES, NES, Genesis, etc.

Anywhere that has an unsecured wireless access point. Or you know the password. So yea, you can take it to places that have wifi available to the public (Starbucks, your neighbors wifi connection) and you can get online.

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well i just successfully downgraded to 1.5... the reason why i said i needed it for NFS:MS was cuz i just bought it, i just put it in and tried to run it on 1.52 and it said 2.0 is required. n wont load... oh well. ill try madden n see what happens. i lost my browser and my option to set whatever background i wanted. ill play with the emulators n if i like it ill jus keep going back n forth lol. unless that eboot loader by fanjita works enough to use atleast the snes, nes, and genesis atleast then ill go back to 2.0... ill just read up on that site, i keep getting lost on that site lol

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Yea it really is a great site thought once you get used to it. The only other PSP site I go to is www.psp3d.com

Yes you lose the built in browser when downgrading to 1.5, but you can still use a custom wallpaper. It's just not built in ;) Download the program called PSPPersonalize and you can have custom wallpaper on your 1.5 firmware.

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how stable is the fanjita eboot loader? i can't even locate the newest download for 0.9... but if its pretty stable for using emu's then i just wanna use 2.0firmware so i can keep the browser n play the newer games as well... what emu's can i use with eboot loader?

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Here's a thread that discusses working homebrew with the 2.0 eboot loader:
http://forums.qj.net/showthread.php?t=21186

I'm not sure about version 0.9 but 0.85 will work for everything you need.

A list of the homebrew that I use (on 1.5, some may not work on 2.0 with the loader):

Squarez
AOTM
PSPRadio-this prog rocks. Lets you stream music to your PSP from a shoutcast server.
Fastloader =D (what I use to load isos, will definitely not work with the eboot loader)
Sudoku v2.0
PSP Revolution
Snes9xTYL
MPH firmware launcher (so I can use the web browser)
PSP-OSS (probably won't work on 2.0)

To convert video to a PSP compatible mpeg4 video file, I use PSPVideo9. I will never buy a UMD movie, what a waste of money, usually the extras are ripped out due to the UMD capacity of only 1.8 GB and you can only watch it on your PSP. Just rip the movie from your DVD or download it, then convert to PSP format.


And I also recommend getting a trackpoint cap to replace your analog pad. It works and feels so much better.
Get one that fits a Dell at www.trackcap.com and tell him jagojon sent you ;)

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well i didn't like how 1.5 looked... seem'd so out of date so 2.0 it was... got the eboot loader by fanjita and this thing owns. works well on the snes and genesis emulator as long as you have frame skip on auto and over clock the speed to 333mhz... the browser owns... the 2.0 settings own... and i can continue to own some GTA: Liberty City Stories in the palm of my hand lol... what else is this thing capable of jago