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3.03 OE-B Released - Movie Madness!

Posted Jan 10, 2007 at 02:32PM by Justin B. Listed in: PSP Tags: PMP, Sony, Dark-AleX, Custom Firmware, MP4, firmware updates

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Dark_Alex has just released his newest revision of his custom firmware for the PSP, Revision B of 3.03 Open Edition (OE). Seems like Dark_Alex has been more concerned about the PSP consumers than Sony is, issuing tons of new firmware updates (only updatable on 3.03 OE which was made possible by using firmware 1.50), so be sure to give him a huge thanks! With full resolution support for MP4-AVC videos (previously limited on Sony firmwares), you can now enjoy all your videos at "DVD quality" like it was meant to be. Having used PMP Player (which supported 480x270 resolution), this update adds the functionality directly into this new update.

You'll have to have 3.03 OE-A already installed onto your PSP in order to update to OE-B. Installation is easy as pie, just drag the PSP folder (found within MS_Root of the download) to your PSP's root directory and run the update eboot from your PSP's game directory like any other OE update which will only take a short duration since it is only flashing a few files onto it, not the entire firmware. Here's the newest additions to the world's greatest PSP firmware (at the moment) -

Patched the firmware to allow decrypted mp4-AVC videos to play at 480x272 resolution.
pic0.png was not shown in psp isos. Fixed.
The speed functions were not dummied after setting the speed. This could cause the few games that set the cpu speed not to run at the selected speed in the recovery menu.
Changed the structure of the program to have more free ram in game mode.
sysmemp.prx removed, systemctrl.prx splitted into systemctrl.prx and vshctrl.prx
Docmaker also now allows for 1000 png (images) to be used rather than the previous 100

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by jay (Unregistered) - 2007-01-10

» yay!

first
we all love u dark alex!

Re: mastermoe1 - 2007-01-10

» i dont get it

^^^ what is the real update what can it do that it couldent before

Re: redsand_man69 - 2007-01-10

» yeah...

lets not forget how cool chicken fingers are too. get some bbq sauce and those things are awesome! ...just like Dark_Alex

Re: PotFarmer (Unregistered) - 2007-01-10

» hmmm

hate to sound like a noob but what folder do i put my videos in and what should they be named? I've tried the MP_ROOT stuff and the video folder in the psp folder so am i doin something wrong or what?

Re: jscinoz - 2007-01-10

» Video Location

PotFarmer: Place your videos in MP_ROOT1MNV01

Each video must be named M4VXXXXX.MP4 where the X's represent any 5 digit number.

You can also include a .thm of the same name (E.G M4VXXXXX.thm) which contains the icon for the video.

Hope this helps,
jscinoz

Re: W. Jones (Unregistered) - 2007-01-10

» What about firmware version 2.81?

This is GREAT and all Dark Alex, but what about us that still have version 2.81 PSP's? Is their any hope of homebrew for people who have firmware version 2.81 on their PSP?

Re: fr@nk - 2007-01-10

» ohh god

who cares about videos

Re: PotFarmer (Unregistered) - 2007-01-10

» yeah thanks

ive tried that stuff already with the m4vxxxxx and the maqxxxxx in the other folder but it gives me this message that data type not supported on my psp. mabie im just encoding the video wrong or something. i used xvid4psp to encode it into a 480 by 272 mp4 avc file. i might try using another program and see if that works.

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Re: pspuser (Unregistered) - 2007-01-10

» ^^^^^^^

download pspvideo9 from pspvideo9.com, thats the best way to do it.

Re: COOL (Unregistered) - 2007-01-10

» COOL

HEY DARK_ALEX YOU SHOULD MAKE A WAY TO CUSTOMIZE THE"DO YOU WANT TO QUIT THE GAME"SCREEN WHEN YOU WANT TO EXIT A umd GAME!!....ND CAN YOU DOWNGRADE FRM CUSTOM FIRMWARES?

Re: helper (Unregistered) - 2007-01-11

» put video folder in root and videos in that

Name it VIDEO

Re: i h8 first posters (Unregistered) - 2007-01-11

» no first post stuff?

wown no 1st post sizer this time

BTW D_A i love u, but i'll give this a miss as mine works fine and i dont use my psp for videos

Re: Wind (Unregistered) - 2007-01-12

» I Don't Know What I say

Many thanks DARK ALEX.You Are The Best Of All

Re: DOWNGRADE (Unregistered) - 2007-01-12

» CAN YOU....

CAN YOU DOWNGRADE FRM CUSTOM FIRMWARES....PLEASE REPLY?.....

Re: psp dude (Unregistered) - 2007-02-10

» psp downgrade for 2.82

how to downgrade 2.82 when i bought it i had 1.50 but i upgraded it. HOW TO DOWNGRADE TO 2.82 to 1.50

by 2nd (Unregistered) - 2007-01-10

» 2ns

i love u to. and 2

by hockeyplayer9944 - 2007-01-10

» yes!!

first off D_A is the super coolest person ever! thank you so much for all the hard work you put into this fw. D_A is the BEST!!

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Re: upliftn (Unregistered) - 2007-01-23

» :)

P - E - N - I - S

by yay (Unregistered) - 2007-01-10

» yayay

james is teh gheyest

by shad0wflam3z (Unregistered) - 2007-01-10

» wow

nice. gunna load it now

by Sweet I've never been in the top ten (Unregistered) - 2007-01-10

» Well sweet

Sweet I've never been in the top ten. I loving this because we finally get full res. vids and movies. Thank god for Dark Alex

Re: spyder (Unregistered) - 2007-01-11

» WHAT

Can someone explain what the difference between full res and just normal MPG4 movies?????

by BeaR (Unregistered) - 2007-01-10

» Vivan los españoles

Viva dark_alex, vaya peaxo de curro ke se pega, Sony tiene que estar contentísima con él >_<

jeje

Salu2 ^^

Re: chepu (Unregistered) - 2007-01-10

» español?

dark alex es español?? ah pues con razon jejeje .... good job alex.... eres mi heroe!

by V (Unregistered) - 2007-01-10

» Ha...

Wow... this is pretty damn nice. Its so sad how a giant corporation like Sony is getting out done by a single person. Thanks Dark_Alex!

by sam (Unregistered) - 2007-01-10

» woo!

nice dark_alex rules

by TA 082 User (Unregistered) - 2007-01-10

» THX TO DARK ALEX

With this post i will say Thanks to Dark Alex for his great work... He made possible to down/upgrade my TA082PSP to FW 3.03 OE-A and in about 24 hours to OE-B... BIG HUGE THX!!!

Greetz the man with the ta 082 psp.

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by ME (Unregistered) - 2007-01-10

» ZOMG

do you need oe-a' or is oe-a fine?

TY Dark_AleX and his crew :).

Re: SAM (Unregistered) - 2007-01-10

» updating

u can update from either one.
it says so in the README.TXT

Re: ME (Unregistered) - 2007-01-10

» TY

thanks, I didn't download it yet so I didn't read the readme :P

by MiLO83 (Unregistered) - 2007-01-10

» yAHoOO Full Res Video!

This is exactly the feature I requested 3 Days ago for OE-B over at psp-3d.com! THANKS D_A :D

Re: Unregistered (Unregistered) - 2007-01-10

» but

your downloading it from here, so cheers.

by BlackShark (Unregistered) - 2007-01-10

» wo

in the time it took me to click comments, 10 comments were made, hehe cool, btw, great job DA, im going to test if lua player wifi works on this! /me crosses figures

by wer is the folder recovery???? (Unregistered) - 2007-01-10

» recovery help

were is the recovery folder it is not there ???????
when i press the right trigger get the menu but when u look in game for the uninstall or to unbrick ur psp eboot it is not there but it was in the 3.02eo-b

or am i looking the wrong place plz help

Re: unregistered (Unregistered) - 2007-01-10

» answer

you have to put it yourself
I think you can find it in one of the previous releases..

Re: ! (Unregistered) - 2007-01-10

» !!

download a fw1.5 and put it in the /psp/game/recovery folder and name it eboot.pbp it a bit hard to get through coz u cant see any writing

Re: jonnyp777 (Unregistered) - 2007-01-10

» recovery folder

you're suppose to rename the the 1.50 eboot.pbp to update.pbp, seeing as how there would be 2 eboot.pbp files in the same directory. the flash for recovery eboot program looks for the 1.5fw @ update.pbp and flashes it so that you'll have a 1.5 again.

by SHARE CRED! (Unregistered) - 2007-01-10

» Thanks!

Everyone seeming to forget that Dark Alex is not the only one who coded this, Maeluitth dude (sorry can't spell his name off the top of my head) also helped or was partners with Dark Alex so give him a little cred too!

Re: Zee (Unregistered) - 2007-01-10

» Sure...

Spells like this "Mathieulh" :P
Yeah thank you both Dark_Alex and Mathieulh for your great work...
Keep going..!!

Re: mastermoe1 - 2007-01-10

» and harleyg

no one can forget harleyg

by dark alex fan (Unregistered) - 2007-01-10

» conversation tool?

damn nice dark alex. great work!!!

i wonder which conversation tool supports the new resolution. im using the recent psp video 9 but its not supportet yet. any ideas?

ohh...and thx again!

Re: ebega (Unregistered) - 2007-01-10

» Xvid4PSP

Xvid4PSP should work just fine, I use it all the time to make amazing looking PMP files, now I'll just use it to make full res .mp4 files. Thanks to DA and Mathieulh and anyone else involved...still using 3.02 oe-b, guess I'm gonna have to make another leap now....thanks again guys, your hard work and dedication is truly appreciated.

Re: Akaikishi - 2007-01-10

» Or..

You can also use Videora PMP Converter. It looks and acts identically to PSP Video 9.

by DarksideRook (Unregistered) - 2007-01-10

» Yipee!

Dark_Alex is the man....I was skeptical with the previous 2.71 OE updates, cause of the flashing and the posibility of bricking my PSP, but I just had to try 3.03 OE-A and everything works great, and now, OE-B...DA works fast. This guy is the man.

PS....i read through the other threads on how ISO and CSO dont need a UMD to run...i cant get this to work, i start the psp and i enable no UMD but all i get is a black screen, can anyone help me with this.

Re: nacud (Unregistered) - 2007-01-11

» Play without UMD-disc

Hi! first of all u have to turn the psp off by holding power for 2secs! Now hold "rightshift" pressed at the same time u starta the psp. The recoverymode for 3.xx OE shall be open now. go to "Configuration" and take enabled on "Use NO-UMD" good luck!

by asd (Unregistered) - 2007-01-10

» asd

awesome!

by KaiYs (Unregistered) - 2007-01-10

» saves

does anyone else have a prolem with savegames?

Re: psy (Unregistered) - 2007-01-10

» Saved games

What kinda problem?
If you mean saving over Hotshots 2, all you have to do when you create the game from an image is to change the game ID dax allready set that up in the new popstation so that shouldnt be a problem anymore.

by Thanks bro! (Unregistered) - 2007-01-10

» Dax You Rawk

by sweeet! (Unregistered) - 2007-01-10

» sweeeeeeter!

dawm this thing is awsome!

by . (Unregistered) - 2007-01-10

» .

awesome. thanks alex

by Darksun does that mean ff8 works perfectly? (Unregistered) - 2007-01-10

» ??

??

by Zee (Unregistered) - 2007-01-10