:O

I hope this works towards UMDs! Can't wait to hear more about this project!

About time.

Looking forward to this project greatly. Bought Persona, but have been unable to play it. And it's not practical for me to upgrade to OFW then Pandora back to CFW every time I want to play the one UMD that I can't play. Thank you, look forward to seeing this tonight.

YES!!!

WOOT

wth?

Wth are you talking about. It is practical, and don't talk as if you have an actual UMD copy. Seriously, people these days. Even if you did have a copy, it's practical to upgrade and downgrade to play a game. Who says it isn't. People talk about how they buy games that aren't playable on CFW, please. It's that they have an image file that isn't playable on CFW. If you really had the UMD, you would upgrade. Idiots.

@LeXiO

No, he wouldn't, especially if he has an "unhackeable" PSP using Hen+CFE.

the end of the Dark Alex saga

a new hero is about to take the dark alex throne

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I don't really remember names here, is Lexio a mad person or something? I almost bought Arctic Edge the other week (£19 at Gamestation) but I'm not prepared to go through the rigmarole of updating my PSP just to play 1 game. My PSP is primarily an emulation system, UMD's second. So no - I wouldn't upgrade.

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So is this only for the Gen systems? I'm not leaving M33 so if it's not - well I guess Sony isn't getting my money for these games and I'll continue with my existing library of games. Until a hacker comes along and rips the protection right out of them, I guess. Or until DA returns.

Yes

This dude is my hero... first a NDS emulator now this.

the issue

It doesn't matter if you have an unhackable one or not, it's simply a matter of you wanting to play the game you SUPPOSEDLY bought or not. Seriously, we all know new games, luckily, require 5.55 OFW, so if you really wanted to play it, and SUPPOSEDLY bought it in the first place, knowing or not knowing whether it'll work on previous FW versions, you would of updated. It's not a case about making the PSP unhackable and whatnot, it's that he most likely didn't buy the game in the first place, and just wants to pirate like so many other people. If you did buy it, we'd know, it's the act of pretending you bought it, that makes you look like you didn't.

i buy my games

just because i have a cfw doesn't mean i dont buy the game i bought persona but cant play it because i have a 3000 using a cfw but i also have a 2000 so i just updated that one to play i prefer an iso or cso but still buy

OMFG... legendary!

I don't give a ***** about the new PSP games, I'm having tons-o-fun with my sexbox 360, but when this comes out I'd totally give the good ones a try, so that means I won't be playing, Soul Calibur, MotorStorm, and least of all G.I. Joe.

sooo

does this mean we need to have the UMD to play or does ISO's work as well?

Umm...

On my PSP 3000 5.03, Chickhen R2 -5.03 MHU... I have a hybrid of 5.00 m33 CFWE and 5.03 Gen-A installed

darn.... "and 5.50GEN (PSP-2000 and PSP-1000)."

I still only have the 5.00 cfw in my PSP-1000 =(

UMD + ISO

I checked on pspgen, where yoshihiro is residing and they talk about that you need the UMD, and make an ISO from it. So it works with an ISO.... I'm not sure they talk about having the UMD for legal reasons (as just having the ISO is illegal ofcourse) or that you really need the two...

lets hope

well lets hope that UMD is not really needed since there are still lots of players that can't afford or import UMDs. If not lets hope this helps push 5.55Gen or 6,00Gen

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Honestly, why not just have a phat for CFW, and if you want to play the newer games, get another fat and use OFW? If you're someone who likes to have a hard copy, but still want to be able to use emulators or play backups of the older games, it makes more sense than waiting for a new CFW to come out.

Ermm

You really think getting 2 Psp's make more sense than waiting for CFW? Maybe in the world of millionaires and crazy people but back on sano world we only want 1.

Can it play with M33 firmware??

I still dont trust anything GEN.

I think...

...its working like this: As some of you know, the boot.bin was normaly decrypted, as the eboot.bin was encrypted. The article says, you need UMDGen, so the program will most likely decrypt the eboot.bin, so that it can be used as boot file (this trick was used on soul calibur - using boot.bin as starting file) - because most games dont have an encrypted boot.bin, just a dummy file. So I think it should work on old CFW too! Its Gen/M33 independent

:O

Come ONNNNN Gran Turismo!

LeXiO, are you retarded?

So, according to you, people that want to stay at a CFW are all pirates? I upgraded to 6.00 OFW and run 5.00M33 off my Mem Stick, does that mean I'm a pirate? No, it means I want to have homebrew and play games I bought from a store.

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someone please tell yoshihiro that i love him NOW!!!! anyway you guys said tonight right???? what timezone?

Yay!!!

QJ posted my tip! Haha. Can't wait by the way. Don't really feel like running M33 from the memory stick anymore to have both OFW and CFW. Thank you Yoshihiro!

"Yoshi!"

Go Yoshi! Go Yoshi! Go Yoshi! Go Yoshi!.. O yeah.. Go Yoshi! Go Yoshi! Go Yoshi!.. Lost my train of thought over the orgasmic excitement there for a sec.. ..I.. o_O ..I..

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symbal, are you ****ing serious? You can get a used phat for like $60 or less.

@Lexio

Actually, it's not worth it. I own Dissidia on UMD but I refuse to upgrade to GEN because the PSN purchases are messed up and it thinks that the same games aren't tied to that system. If I want to play Dissidia(in English) or Tales of VS(which won't play on anything under 5.55) I'll have to upgrade to official. Then take the time to redowngrade the system. I have a second PSP, but I'm selling it. Don't want to take the time to redowngrade it.

LeXiO you're an idiot.

I have the legal UMD of Motorstorm Arctic Edge but I can't play it. You say I should upgrade to the real current firmware? I'll lose my emulators which I play a lot. And I do not have time in my life to be constantly upgrading/downgrading firmware all the damn time.

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I'm not carrying two PSP's around with me. What a dumb comment.

I agree

Only M33 for me

Nice!

Sweet! Keep up the good work guys!

Seriously dude

It's all about practicality here, people don't want to carry around 2 consoles even if you did consider money in it, it's just common sense really i mean if i could get 1 device to replace all my portable devices i would be very happy and so would most of us.

@kupomogli

Ummm Dissidia EUR version works on 5.00m33-6 I have played it many times now, it's the same as the USA version (aka in English)

waiting is hard

I can't wait to play tales of VS and Tag force 4 if its still runs as iso.

Whine, whine, whine.

1. Set up your MS with DCv8. 2. Install 6.00. 3. Boot to CFW from the MS to use homebrew. You really don't have an excuse not to do this. You only need to flash *once*.

cant wait till tonight

yay i hope i can finally play gran turismo tonight.

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UPGRADE.

... No.

It's not just EBOOT.BIN. It requires the NID exports of the new firmwares. You would need a FW dump.

erm

but an encrypted eboot.bin (on older umds the boot.bin) can be loaded without firmwarecheck O.o

I swear people are *****ing stupid

for all practical purposes, when you have cusom firmware, your PSP reads an ISO that same way it would read a UMD... its pulling the same program, just in a different medium

You don't make sense

You won't be using the UMD if you plan to use this process, because he used UMD Gen to do it, and UMD Gen opens ISOs and CSOs

Cool

Hopefully I can play Disgaea 2 now - I picked up the US version with teh free Laharl Prinny but held off updating (since I'm still playing Disgaea 1) and hopefully now I won't have to. Major props to this guy.

It's released!!!

Go and download it. Update the article QJ, thanks.

hmm

When I changed the update.txt for one my games it worked.

URL

WHATS THE LINK?, THANKS

@ colin

google pspgen.com, then click translate this page. it's the first article on the page. you have to register to download though. QJ, put the decrypter up on your site.

GEN or M33

It only works for games needing 5.55 ofw so looks like won't work for Gran Turismo etc. and says it only works on GEN fw's, but if it gets the games working i guess i can give up M33 to try, but massive respect to Yoshihiro for this.

does it work for iso's?

^^^^^

Already out

Its already out : http://www.pspgen.com/game-decrypter-yoshihiro-backup-555-cfw-550genb-actualite-190006.html Tried GT,it started but then crashed,it looks like the game needs some 5.55 prx's.Trying to get Motorstorm to work.

link

http://www.pspgen.com/game-decrypter-yoshihiro-backup-555-cfw-550genb-actualite-190006.html

Downloaded and testing GT now

Lets see how it goes.

Already out

Already out on pspgen

IT WORKS

IM PLAYING GRAN TURISMO NOW!!!

CFWE to GEN-A

To go from CFWE to GEN-A do I have to uninstall CFWE or can I just power off, load up HEN and flash GEN-A firmware on my psp?

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You don't get it. The eboot.bin has been UPDATED with a new encryption that older firmwares cannot read. It has nothing to do with firmware checks.

Link please

i try to make acc. on pspgen and it won't let me. can some one upload it and put a link

Indeed.

It works as .cso too for those of you wondering.

Sorry Dax,

but goodbye M33, hello GEN with 5.55 and 6.00 games.

I dare you....

So, if I'm getting this right, you're all admiting that you pirate. Ahh...never would of guessed..not. Don't try to act as if you're using CFW for this and that. We all know what CFW leads to. Heck, talking about emulation. If you didn't notice, emulating snes/gba/etc... and playing roms, is the same thing as using the PSP to play isos. Don't talk as if they're different. Another note, don't give me no "I don't have the time to" junk. Seriously, if you have the time to write back at me, you obviously have MORE THAN ENOUGH TIME, to upgrade/downgrade. There is no other issue there. You're just trying to justify your means. CFW isn't illegal, but you can't say there isn't a connectiion between the two. You're the idiots, I don't have to say who, you know who you are....idiots.

not necessarily

If you have the actual UMD, and rip it into ISO format, it's not really illegal. It's the distribution of it, and not owning an actual copy that will count more towards it being illegal.

Tested

Motorstorm works fine, GT dont work! :S Slim 2001 - 5.50 GenB

uhh yea GT does work

did you rebuild it as iso or cso? I did ISO and it worked fine. Duno bout cso though but Foolmonkey says cso works. Are you on 5.50 GEN B2?

HELP PLS URGENT!!

how? when i try to decript the eboot.ini it says 'eboot cannot be decrypted"!! pls help me!! pls im trying to get GT to work since 2 days ago without sleeping teel me how did you did it? pls

someone help

how? when i try to decript the eboot.ini it says 'eboot cannot be decrypted"!! pls help me!! pls im trying to get GT to work since 2 days ago without sleeping teel me how did you did it? pls

@LeXiO

Uhh, I never said I pirated anything. I don't see a reason to pirate games since UMDs are more reliable than ISOs in my opinion. So, you might as well leave and stop being an ass hat. Just because 1 pirates, doesn't mean all. More than likely, you are just a pissed off 14 year old because you couldn't mod your PSP.

you need to decrypt the eboot.bin

il upload mine for you in a minute

thank you

thank you so much man!! you are my hero!! :D

lol its gona take 20min to upload

got ***** upload speed down under

ok

thats ok bro i will wait :D pls tell me when tell me when its ready to download pls! +d man i have been waiting for this game since it first was announced, and i have played all GTs. im a huge GT FAN!! :P

i still wait for

a working jaguar emulator... :[

haha ok. Um you could also try doing it yourself.

Just get the iso/cso of your game and open it in UMDGen. Then locate the EBOOT.BIN which is located at PSP_GAME\SYSDIR\EBOOT.BIN. Then right click on it and click EXTRACT SELECTED. Then choose your desktop and click OK. The copy the eboot.bin to the root of your memory stick and make sure the decrypter is in the PSP\GAME folder. Then go onto your PSP and run the decrypter. It will create a new folder on your memory stick called DECRYPTER. Inside this new folder is a NEW eboot.bin. Go back to UMDGen and DELETE the EBOOT.BIN. Then right click the empty space and select ADD then EXISTING FILES. Locate the new eboot.bin that you created and click open. Then click SAVE up the top and select ISO.

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i did exactly what you said but the decrypter says "EBOOT.ini FOUND! :D CANNOT DECRYPT GAMES EBOOT"

what fimware do you have?

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!!

5.50 GEN B

wont work with GT

damn. still cant play gran turismo :( gonna have to wait till an actual psp cfw come out

have you got msn?

I can help you on that

111

you have messenger? camargo250@live.com

it does work

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and its getting wilder

coz nowadays its also legal to have just the image of a game and not have the physical medium ex the UMD. the line has been erased, ever since they sold eboots, knowing legal and illegal has been changed, its not all about physical anymore. it all comes down to few questions... did you really buy it from psn or game retail if its from retail you should have a UMD or receipt? or... did you download it for free on illegal sharing sites? there are free and paid illegal sharing sites, but it doesnt matter coz their both illegal.

only pirates will say such

i am a pirate myself, but your comment is both pitiful and dumb. and no it will not require UMD to play. and it will also effectively slowdown the development of such custom firmwares because this patcher will make most games even new ones RUN/PLAY on older custom firmwares such as GEN-B-2 thus diminishing/lessening the need for newer custom firmwares.

PSP GO

ahahahahahahaha

some games will run

but that will be lots of trial and error for assurance have a friend near, a friend that has GEN-B-2, test the decrypted game on their psp, if it runs then copy it to your m33, run it with all the iso drivers available, if none make it work then sorry. try another game and good luck with it. hope someone makes a list of which psp games runs on which firmwares.

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"More than likely, you are just a pissed off 14 year old because you couldn't mod your PSP." lol I would agree but some people are just born pathetic. When he/she gets old he/she will probably be the type that calls the police on the kids kicking an empty drink can down the road

bah

eboots

LMAO

you have a 1000 model? upgrade and use DC8 jeez how hard is it for you idiots to understand. you are not reflashing everytime you want to play brew. it's loading 5.00m33 from the memstick, if you have the XGEN DC modifier you can boot into 5.50GEN-B OFF THE MEMSTICK. 6.00 on NAND, 5.50GEN on stick using test option. it really shouldnt be that difficult to understand yet still get people "i shouldnt have to reflash to play my emulators", and thats true, you shouldnt have to and you dont have to.

actually IT IS ILLEGAL

format shifting law only refers to music.

i cant afford a ferrari

so i'll just steal one!!! not being able to afford the UMD is not an excuse. sony are not responsible for your poor financial choices.

WOW!

If this works, Yoshihiro, you are my new god. Honestly, thank you so much, fingers crossed.

"Cannot decrypt games eboot"

I am having the same problem as camargo I am trying to get GIJoe running - I extracted the eboot and ran it through BOTH VERSIONS of Yoshihiro's decypter and both say "Cannot decrypt games eboot" I am running 5.00M33-6 any ideas?