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PSP CFW 4.00 to include in-XMB recovery mode, savestate support Update

Posted Jun 23, 2008 at 2:41PM EST by QJ Staff

Listed in: Homebrew Development Tags: Custom Firmware, Mathieulh, psp homebrews, Sony, XMB

This article was originally posted on June 22, 2008 at 5:28 a.m.

With the code for Sony's official PlayStation Portable Firmware 4.0 already decrypted, it's only a matter of time before the next custom firmware finds its way into the community. To prove this point, homebrew developer Mathieulh recently revealed some of the new features that will be added into the upcoming Custom Firmware 4.00 that Dark AleX and team M33 are already working on.

One of the new features include an in-XMB recovery mode, which will allow users to change their settings straight from the PSP's main menu screen. This is definitely beats rebooting your PSP and entering recovery mode the normal way.

The other feature is the inclusion of savestate support for UMD games. Users will now be able to save their progress at any given time during gameplay and be able to load their game at that point after restarting. It has not yet been confirmed if the savestate feature will be integrated directly into the firmware or will be released as a separate plugin.

That's all the info we have for now on Custom Firmware 4.00, but we'll be sure to post more updates as we get them.

*UPDATE*: Dark AleX' recent blog post has clued us all in to a tentative release date for Custom Firmware 4.00 M33, which if met under optimal conditions, will allow us to see the CFW hit the Internet download portals by the end of this week.

But the early arrival of the first 4.00 M33 comes at another condition: the development of the features promised - the in-XMB recovery and savestates - may not be fully implemented all at once.

Dark AleX says that updates would soon roll for the homebrew developer's CFW, and you're likely to see those everything working with M33-2 or later.

And since the Team M33 is now picking up on the firmware that Sony fell short of, the developers are willing to go the extra mile. Now they'll be addressing issues of shell compatibility and internally induced hiccups (homebrew app crashed by homebrew app), and a built-in prx and pbp utility to boot.

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i hope theres more addons than just inxmb recovery and savegame state.3.93 already had that,and no guys,teamgens custom firmware has never bricked my psp.chances are you just did something stupid.i do agree however 3.95 had a small bug whitch made you have to reboot to use mem stick after getting out of usb mode or booting with a umd disc in it,but meh team m33 and dax have had issues with their stuff as well.why you think they have 3.90 m33-3 etc.its trial and error guys.noones perfect.

team m33 might have made most the firmware,in fact the 3.93 and 3.95 were reversed 3.90 m33-3 with a couple added features and compatibility updates,but more or less the same as m33.ive used 3.93 cfw for some time now,and what they mention just sounds like 3.93 all over again.impress me team m33.you did create the best firmware dont get me wrong.but cmon now impress me with something other than the iinxmb recovery and the savegame option.add those but add some other things that will catch my interest.i have faith you can do it

# sweet — kevin1003 2008-06-22 07:42

better gaming experience on the psp

cant wait for this update

# ... — Silver-Tiger 2008-06-22 07:43

wow, Sony's "new" features are laughable against this...

Keep up the good work DaX, M33 & Co!!!

# So true — c74gta4smash 2008-06-22 08:25

Gen's firmwares were very crappy and full of holes. DAX M33's firmwares are always the most stable.

# Um... — GameLordOmega 2008-06-22 08:59

3.93 did not have savestate support for UMD games.

# Complete PWNage! — sage3k 2008-06-22 09:02

DAX and Team M33 have mod that Trump anything sony puts out.

# Save state! — Stinky_1 2008-06-22 09:49

That is awsome!!

Now I may be able to beat Metal Gear, and also Killzone. I only can play my psp in 15 minutes spurts, so this helps a LOT!

I am sure it will be nice for other games too.

Also I doubt it has to do with standby mode on the PSP. but if it works, who cares how its executed.

# agreed — majorbb100 2008-06-22 10:28

me too

# yeah — majorbb100 2008-06-22 10:30

yeah, but that is only because GEN is so new to the cfw game that they dont have any experience, dark alex's first cfw was the same way

# haha — majorbb100 2008-06-22 10:31

why can you only play your psp in 15 minute "spurts"? haha

# YAY! — DanWild 2008-06-22 10:52

Can't wait. I used GEN custom firmware and went back to M33 as it is more stable!

Hopefully the cxmb.prx plugin works on 4.00 M33!

# @majorbb — zoogr2 2008-06-22 10:57

I also have the same problem, I can only play like when im waiting in the bus stop or sometimes between clases (or in the can) , that made me play only hombrew games or little games like mario.This addition is AWSOME!!

# agreed — Dayo6 2008-06-22 11:28

me three

# @zoogr2 and Stinky_1 — m3rox 2008-06-22 12:05

wtf? Are your parents really that strict?

# no! — Stinky_1 2008-06-22 12:36

Not parents that are that strict, its my wife!!!! I play when the kids are occupied. I mostly play it at work. I work in maintenance, so I can only play while things are working good. Some days I only get 5 - 15 minutes between things breaking. So I have to shut it off and go fix them up. The problem is I put it in standby and then forget to put the charger on, the next day the battery is dead, my clock is reset and my game is NOT saved.

So if I have this I can save my current state, then shut the psp down (not sleep mode) that way the battery lasts longer and I can always resume my game whenever I want.

# only wayt to play it — b0ris84 2008-06-22 13:21

you never really beat that game until u play it on god mode. Its like the only mode that you really need to use the parry feature and fight with perfection in order to beat a bunch of ppl. Best game on psp without a doubt

# I don't think your being fair — Krisman 2008-06-22 13:34

I use 3.95 GEN-2 with no problems. Sure there were mistakes made but Miriam is still early in CFW development hasn't been doing it nearly as long as the others and Miriam is one person not a team of people like M33 so its harder to make sure everything is functioning properly.

# Save States — Krisman 2008-06-22 13:36

Thats a great feature I was wishing that I could make savestates earlier today so this is great news. In XMB recovery is cool. Thats my main reason for using GEN right now instead of M33

# BOOYA — Dodo 2008-06-22 14:02

Yeah baby YEAH!

# 4.0 — Binary 2008-06-22 15:09

This is going to be da ***** man!!!!! Can't wait!

now for the god for sake part. Leave 1.5 dead!

RIP 1.5

# Amazing.... — redbrick 2008-06-22 15:15

Sony posts a POS ware then comes CFW(DA) to save the stink from getting any worse. I'm impressed with the homebrew scene. I hope and pray that this scene cracks the PS3 to hell and the flood of crapware can then be filtered out. This save state feature is a significant feature you'd think Sony would have put out....but no...tsk, tsk. tsk....

# ... — m3rox 2008-06-22 16:13

What's your problem? You don't like people being able to run emulators?

# show me an emulator — Nathanias 2008-06-22 17:28

That hasn't been ported to 3.XX and I'll show you a liar

# heyyy — satanicdoggy 2008-06-22 22:19

ya leave 1.5 dead old firmware i got a new psp slim anyway with 3.90 on it n evereything works and all latest emulators no no problems...

# YES!! — pspj 2008-06-22 23:07

great to know the great one is still at it. i know you wont let us down. CANT WAIT!

# yeah — Bolec 2008-06-23 01:35

That's what I've been looking for in M33 CFW :) I only hope that there'll be no problem in updating from GEN-2 to 4.00M33 ;)

# skype for phat? — dieselboy27 2008-06-23 03:46

I was really hoping that DAX would find a way to put skype on the phat. I know that it only has 32mg of memory compared to the slims 64mg but I was praying for a way. I guess I'll have to let go of that dream :( On the bright side, woohoo 4.0 cfw sounds great!

# yeah — 73N5H1 2008-06-23 07:19

yeah, I've never understood why people are still hanging on to the 1.5 kernel either... There should be no reason to still be running it... most homebrew has been ported to 3.xx already and leaving the kernel just give's people a reason to still code things for 1.5 which is inconvenient for everyone.

# . — 73N5H1 2008-06-23 07:21

slims are pretty cheap now... upgrade. Then you can mod out your phat and not have to worry about messing it up.

# ***** sony — majorbb100 2008-06-23 09:57

i was hoping so much that sony would put youtube in the xmb, not *****ing google. Big let down. But dax saves it with his cfw

# Actual DAX Post — digicron 2008-06-23 16:31

Just a little update. Watching how many people were asking for 4.00m33, it's interesting to make somethings clear.

Due to the lack of updates from sony (features), this new cfw will implement new changes that will make easier to work on the future ones, within some internal tools.

You'd have probably noticed some features of this new cfw that were told on french forums, but, to tell the truth, neither the savestates or the recovery on XMB or etc would at 100% probability be implemented at once (maybe later on m33-2, ... etc)

Even though, recovery will be translated to spanish and you will be able to translate it to any other language without hex editing.

To sum up, main changes will come for compatibility and internal issues (with some functions to make life easier to the shells creators, launchment of an utility to compress prx's and pbp's, etc.)

It will be likely be done by the end of this week.

# .. — digicron 2008-06-23 16:32

copied from DAX blog on QJ link

# . — Covet 2008-06-23 18:04

I really hope DAX strips the Google search from this FW. I'd be surprised if he didnt. Honestly, who uses it?

# Savestates + Cheating Yey! — xche78x 2008-06-23 22:53

Hey Sony We Need A Fast Internet Browser That Can Handle The Latest FLASH and or other media formats.

Good To Know DAX is still very much active on producing homebrew such as his great custom firmwares. Without your custom firmwares there wouldnt be much PSP sales! this is fact hehehe.

thanks alex and team!

# Well.. — Dragoon 2008-06-24 03:26

While M33 is still the best, let us not put down other CFW devs in the *rare* occasion that DA disappears again. Where would we be then?

Sure, his stuff isn't quite as reliable, and it can also be directly linked to inexperience, but he is trying. And I'm thankful that he is even here at all.

In the end, it's always nice to have competition. Especially in the modding community, and when it's all 'freeware'.

# . — 73N5H1 2008-06-24 04:40

I was thinking the same thing.... please get rid of that useless feature taking up space on my XMB

# better yet — zoogr2 2008-06-24 12:19

Why not change it to another link (cos thats what it is just a XMB link) ? I think DAX can make it WAAAAY better

# This would be leet — Squirrels 2008-06-26 10:47

What I wish would happen most is integrating a better browser like one o the smaller Opera browsers. Everytime I visit sites in the PSP browser, they're either half scrambled or just act quirky.

3 Examples being... Yahoo Mail, this site, Myspace (but that site is crap as is so...), list goes on but I cant remember more off the top of my head.

# ..... — josefool213 2008-06-27 06:22

this is old already. still waiting for the 4.00 m33

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