we will wait a bit more then.

I'm happy with the last m33 firmware. Even if it never gets updated again, it hasn't prevented me from playing anything to date. Until that happens, I really don't care.



Relax DAX

I would say lack of loyalty, but he has done SO much in the past, I hope the community can let it slide.



Our hope now rests on GENyUS. I've never had a problem with GEN, I like all their firmwares, and use 5.50 GEN-B. It's just a lack of intuition and creativity on their part thats really holding them back, but at least it works and has consistent updates still.



DaX, thanks for the work, you've been great, you'll be remembered, but I think GEN have a leg up due to their abundance of free time, which I'm sure you don't have if you're still in school/searching for meaningful employment. Thanks for all the pioneer work, someone else'll take the reins now.

oe/m33 still thinks about us..



they've been out way longer than gen

GEN has alot of bug issues....for eg, you can't play some videos which after putting in MPROOT/101anvo1 doesn't work unlike M33.

D.A must have left the PSP. The forums are gone, no updated cfw in a few months, no PSN fix, no word from the man himself only Alek, Sceners is the only site left open apart from PSPwiki, which both Alek controlls. Everything points to D.A leaving, Alek just does not want to say. Oh well, I might, just might, have to go to GEN. I am sick of being on an old cfw when all the others are on 5.50 and above already. Now, just hope for 6.00 GEN.

Meh, no new games for the PSP catch my eye anyways.

I'll just sit here and relax until something meaningful for the PSP comes along.

Whatever. There sure be alternatives later. Seriously plenty of people here treat DA as god - for what?



This post will definitely be marked down by DA fan club.

I've read some news on 'pspgen.com' and I can assure you that they are confident.

They have already start looking on Sony's OFW 6.00 and they even start to joke with Spanish's (Remember DAX is almost my neighbor – I'm Portuguese and he is Spanish). One sentence calls my attention: "ne cherchez pas en Espagne, ils ne savent que nous copier ces derniers temps…". This means something like: "Don’t look at Spain. They don’t realize yet that we have copy/stolen their last times…"

It’s more or less like saing: "Now we rule…"

Came on DAX show up and kick some French's boastful butts... LOLOLOLOLOL

just saying...

I think you'r right!!! The PC and that blue pills are killing me... LOLOLOLOLOLOL

guess I'll have to gaze into other horizon, welcome GEN

Its been strange lately, being a M33 fan saddens me to the past turn of events of my false hope of having an update to my M33 firmware 5.00-6.Alot of M33 users are turning to new light of which GEN is shining so brightly. I get all good things do come to an end,right? Hmmm well am hoping for the best as M33 fan.





M33 for life!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!

I think that DaX is either part of GEN, waiting for some version 6.0x to come out, or going to release under a new name. He very specifically said there wasn't going to be a "6.00m33" release. Either it won't be 6.00, or it won't be m33, but it's coming.



He's done this before, anyway, starting with the OE releases, "quitting", and then releasing again as m33. He stopped at 5.00-6, saying that he was going to wait for another major version before releasing again. Now, we're at 6.00, and nobody can play the new games without giving up their homebrew. That security they added is a major change, and unless he leaves the scene entirely, I think he'll do something about it.

true blue mage dark alex has changed names before. I havent given up on m33 either but i updated to genb full on my other psp (got it for twenty bucks but the sound dont work anyone know how to fix that?) anyways i hope dark alex comes back with a new CFW or GEN makes a CFW that isnt so dam buggy and actually meets the necessery expectations.

The inability to play new games truly is a need for a new CFW.

The 2000 was released on 3.60 so your wrong.

belive me if i knew how to do all that firmware decrypting and stuff i would LOVE to make my own CFW team and try my best at it but i dont know how to make my own homebrew and all that stuff but if someone can teach me i would love to give it a try

just update to 6.00 (provided you dont have psp-3000 or ta-088v3)

and use despertar del cementerio to emulate 5.00m33 whenever you need to play brew.

After so many years of making CFW and of constantly being ridiculed by people for not releasing fast enough, or implementing 'X' feature fast enough for them... He probably got sick of doing it. It won't be the first time that he quite (anyone that's been there from the beginning knows that) and that's his choice. DAX did a great thing by creating the pathway for CFW on the PSP, and now that there are other sources for it I'm sure he feels like he can finally stop worrying about it.



Contrary to what you may think, DAX does not owe the community anything. It's very much vice-versa, we all owe him alot. Even if you don't use M33 CFW, the person who made it was influenced by DAX at some point. Without him and his motivation, there might possibly have never been CFW in the first place. So if DAX decidsed to finally put up his hacking hat for the PSP (And possibly find the time to start playing one) I think we should all give him a big thanks, and let him go in peace... it's the least we can do for the guy.

Agreed.

M33 dont think about us. They dont care.

IF they did there would've been a 5.50M33 then a 5.55M33 and there will be a 6.00M33 but as they dont care there is nothing for the last year.



At least we have GEN that DO care about the PSP CFW scene.

You cant blame the firmware for video faults. It's probably the video you have that's the problem.

I've got videos that I've had since 1.50 and they still work fine in 5.50GEN so it's not the firmware thats the problem.

Do the smart thing and reconvert them again properly.

You aren't very smart.... The newer games REQUIRE higher firmware, so even if you buy the UMD, with the ancient fw/cfw, you won't be able to play it. There's a crapload of games that aren't playable on the latest M33, so before you do your "ZOMG PIRATES LAWL I AM A GOOD PERSON BETTER THAN YOU" bullcrap, do some research.

Sharp eyes my ass. You need a sharper BRAIN. Good graphics do not equal good games. How about mario, sonic, megaman, donkey kong pacman, tetris, metal gear solid 1, resident evil 1,2 and 3. I still play all these classic games more than I play current gen games. It's the story and/or gameplay that make a good game. Nice graphics are a plus, not essential.

there i stopped using my psp.

im at 5.0m33 and will not update to anything other than dark alex's custom firmware higher version.

already downloaded dissida (works) and soul calibur (works)

but i think ill only play again when my psp is updated.

facebook farmville will wither my days away, until i go back to my psp.

anyways thanks to all homebrew people and their nice homebrew programs! no hate to any of you, just love and respect!

wish devhook is revived so we can emulate any new OFW.

"if something fundamental changes in new firmware, like in 1.50->3.00 on 3.xx->5.00 there is no real reason to make new firmware."



what i wanted to write was :



"UNLESS something fundamental changes in new firmware, like in 1.50->3.00 on 3.xx->5.00 there is no real reason to make new firmware."

Gosh, seems like people don't know how to read or try to understand what they are reading anymore.



b|ank Crossfire said if you wanna play newer games, upgrade to the latest Official Firmware and then when you want to play your homebrews or other ISOs that you obtained legally, then you can use Pandora to go back to 5.00 M33-X.



In other words, the only people who are complaining are the Pirates because they don't wanna upgrade to 6.00+ to play the latest UMD Games cause they don't buy their games at all!



get some common sense people. people like you give americans a rep, that all americans are "stupid"

@ Serosis:

so no new games that are coming out "catch your eye"? thats a load of bull.



@ UltimaArmorX:

LMAO! the graphics on the PSP are not supposed to be like XBOX360 or PS3 Graphics, ofcourse the quality is going to be lower but the graphics are WAY better than on other handheld consoles such as the DS and other previous home consoles like the PS1 or gamecube.



lmao! "sharp eyes"!!!!!

While i only trust in DA's work, i think he is already gone from PSP community a long time ago but just like to stay because of his fame.

If new games require 5.55 or 6.00 FW and could not be patched like Zman patched Soul Calibur to work with 5.00 M33, i probably will switch to GEN :/

Why get so defensive?



My opinion is that I can play any of those games on the main consoles so why would I fork over any money for a watered down version of it that I would probably never play?



Dissidia is about the only game I was interested in only to find out that it is another squeenix button masher, again watered down.



So you see, I'm a customer who is a little difficult to please so if you don't like it you can whine some more.

Sadly, I think that fix was kind of a freak occurrence, helped by the fact that there was an ISO floating around that only required Firmware 5.00. I don't totally know what went on to patch that game but I'm not sure if it'll happen in the future.



I hate to say it but if AleX can't come through, at least by the arrival of the PSP Go then I'm going to have to look elsewhere for PSP Firmware updates.

It's his choice though I feel almost like we need him more than ever in a way. All these big new games for PSP and us guys with the M33 CFW can't run any of them legally or illegally.



I had already pre-ordered LBP and Motorstorm - Arctic Edge and now I'm wondering if I should cancel them seeing as how it looks unlikely I'll be able to actually play them without having to give up all the lovely extra features that custom firmware opened up to me on my PSP Slim.

Yes I understand that the 2000v3 MoBo and 3000 users are in a bit of a pickle, but they should have gotten their PSPs sooner. The only reason most of the 2000v3 MoBo users got a PSP was cause they found out about "Piracy" and wanted to download free games. Same with the 3000 users.



As for people like me who have had a PSP since the beginning knew about CFW and all the benefits of homebrew were lucky enough to have a Full CFW on our PSPs.



And this is SONY's way of fighting piracy. And this is the point that I was trying to make, only pirates are the ones who are crying.



As for 2000v3 MoBos and 3000 users, sorry. HEN CFW can only take you so far. Maybe a Coder/Dev will be able to create a "Modern" Dev-Hok for PSPs with unhackable MoBos to emulate a higher FW Version.

I will be waiting for DarkAlex to release a new M33!



The Guy RULES! We should all be thankful for what he has done! We should actually collect money for him and send him some for all the work he has done thus far!

5.50GEN wasn't as supported as 5.00 in terms of some stuff (like themes). At least 6.00GEN will make people upgrade, so it'd get proper support. I guess I'll be upgrading from 5.00M33-6 to 6.00GEN.

Why are there some people on here that insist on making it look like ALL people that use CFW are pirates?



I for myself have a very legitimate reason to use CFW: I make ISOs out of all my UMDs and copy them to memory sticks. This makes the PSP even more portable without me having to carry the case with the UMDs around with me and risk losing them (especially on cross-Atlantic flights where it's cramped as it is). Also, until Sony blocked access, I was buying titles (4 before they blocked access) in the online-shop and find it retarded that they keep me from doing that now.



I just enjoy being able to do more than what the manufacturers thought of with my devices that I paid good money for. I can understand they're trying to keep people from pirating but at the same time, they should come up with a solution that still allows me to copy my UMDs to MS legally. Homebrew is nice too. Why not use the same approach for PSP as they did for PS3 where one can install a linux system?



Just don't generalize on here when it comes to using CFW! Not everybody uses it for financial gain. I can afford my games!

Yes, thats what I meant! lol. Now that I think of it, the graphics on the GameCube were better. My mistake.

The current CFW (M33/GEN) are good enough for now. Honestly, i dont get how people aren't getting the bigger picture. Besides his personal life, DA is most likely waiting for the PSP Go to be released. It's a very smart movie. I mean, why would you want to exploit the software if Sony is just gonna patch it before the Go comes out. Sit back and relax. Its not like your gonna die if you don't have it right way. It will be worth the wait.

wow... Seriously? if they really didn't care, why would they have released any type of CFW in the first place? Let alone make it FREE!? People always seem to forget that, they don't need to release any of this stuff free let alone at all, I'm happy with my current CFW PSP (5.00-6 M33), if Dark_AleX decides to stop fine what he has done is something that *NONE* of us can repay him for, and I'm happy with what I have, if I ever wanted to play any new PSP games I'll just buy a new one and keep my old PSP on CFW.

I've been with M33 ad Dax from my first hack on my old phat to my current slim, and pandora I use to help out all my friends.:D Thank you dax for everything you do! You have truly shaken the world.:D AMAZING job dax, and I truely hope many more amazing cfw's to come.:):):)

You, and stupid $|-|Its like you, are the reason these elite teams don't release any info. They don't want people to be pressing them for updates.



And as your insolent comment about them not being able to do it....epic fail.



Not as much as your parents phailed when they tried to raise you, but fail indeed. These guys have had one of the biggest companies ON THIS PLANET, on their phucking heels for close to 3 YEARS now. How many useless updates has $ony released to TRY to combat them? I've lost count.



You should be on your knees thanking these men for their hardwork. They have given the community countless FREE gifts, and liitle snot nosed punks like you are most likely the reason they don't care to help out anymore.



Would ANYONE like to helpout ungrateful phu|

@ yamabigdog



Fact remains, it doesn't matter if DaX can or not, or if anyone can actually make it work; he isn't producing. He didn't release 5.55 when we needed that and he's not releasing 6.00 either.



As far as I'm concerned he's useless.



He did great work in the past, but unless everyone is content strictly playing games from 2008 and early 2009 then he isn't really doing us any good.



All these fools said "wait for 5.55, DaX will release it then." Then it releases and he says no. Same fools say "wait for 6.00, he'll come through then" and lo and behold, nothing. Now the very same fools are saying "wait for PSP Go, he's really gonna make it happen then!!!", well... you guys keep waiting. I'll be here laughing and saying "I told you so."



Till then I stand by my statement, DaX has fallen off. I sure hope he proves me wrong.

this sucks cuz i just bought broken destiny and i canot play it in UMD or the other way which sucks......



good thing i own 2 psp_s one with cfw and the other with boring ofw

Dax is probably just keeping an eye on the so called "homebrew" community for now. Probably to see what his CFW has done for the PSP and it's games. The guy is a God when it comes to what he does but if all he sees is woe's for ISO support (legal or not) then why the hell should he even bother anymore. He made it specifically for HOMEBREW but it led to something bad instead (we all know what it is, we have all done it)



I'd gladly wait for his release, heck, take off the ISO support too. At least that's guilt off his back, I mean, if you were told that your invention or project was the cause of worldwide pirating... well, it doesn't sound so good now does it? There should be no qualms or complains right? I mean all the people asking for the 6.00 support have bought the game anyway so there should be no problem at all. It's all about HOMEBREW right?



And please don't go with the whole "I don't want to bring so many UMDs" crap... One game should be enough on the go, whoever plays 3-4 on a bus or outside, should just go and start a damn convo with the person next to you or read a damn book. GET A F.CKING LIFE or a damn UMD CASE (it's $5-10 only). Greedy Bastards.



Flame on....

ISO support is inevitable. Even if DaX did not add it, someone would make some homebrew or something else to do so.

I guess you did not do your homework on the GEN CFW lol as it makes more problems then it fixes Thus why Smart people don't install it.



As for 5.00m33-6 It's Doing Just Fine and ALL of the games that "did" not work before on it Now work fine, And like people have done said on here if a game comes out that can't be played on the 5.00m33-6 some one will find a fix or work around Like they do every time.

the really bad thing is - there is hardly a replacement for DA.



m33 was setting the standard, and other cfw groups were following it. almoste every custom firmware followed m33 feature-wise.



now most remaining groups are struggling with hacking the new firmware. i'm guessing there are big changes in features and security of 5.55/6.00. or the homebrew community was too reliant on DA, and now severely lacks skilled homebrew hackers.

maybe... just maybe waninkoko and dark alex and some devs/crackers are working together in cracking the ps3. here's to false hope... who know.

People ALWAYS assume CFW + pirate, but now it's so far behind that official store bought games can not be played. I think a CFW will come out after the GO is released.

I have a PSP 2000 with 5.00 m33-6 and tried to play GoW but said i have to update to 5.50.

Well the think is that i edited the EBOOT.PBP on a Hex editor the part where say 5.50 i changet to 5.00 and now it load but say "The game could not be started (80010087)"

why was this jumped back up after 2 months?