HOW- TO: Run homebrew apps on your PSP! Here’s how- to run emulators, games and homebrew applications on your USA Play. Station Portable PSP. I cooked up a quick how- to, pictures, screenshots as well as video to watch on how to do all this. This is really a big deal, we’re all going to be able to play thousands of games, run hundreds of cool applications all for free and all from the community of tinkerers out there looking to do more with their PSP and here’s how…. Editors note: this has been republished as a special MAKE Extra How- To. For the multimedia folks- here’s a video (Quick. Time MOV) of how to do all this. And of course, here’s a PSP version (MP4) to download and watch on your PSP. Now on to the how- to, text and images. You’ll need 2 memory stick for this how- to and a PSP with USA firmware 1. Settings > System Settings System Information). A little tip, never update any device ever again, really. If you just got a Sony PSP or never updated, you’re set. I won’t buy a UMD game until there’s a 1. If Sony let people develop applications from the start there wouldn’t be the army of tinkerers figuring all this out, but hey- it’s a lot of fun and now we have homebrew games. First thing you’ll need to do is download the wonderful tool MSwap. Tool from here. There’s a readme/PDF included, or keep reading on how to get homebrew applications on the PSP. The application is Spanish, but it doesn’t matter- it’s really simple. Downloads > Sony Playstation Series > Playstation Portable (PSP) Homebrew. Sony Playstation Series: Playstation Portable. (PSP Homebrew Game). Can I put it in my PS2 with Wiinhip? Now, download a PSP game, I downloaded PSP chess from here– it’s a neat app, now my wife and I can play chess against each other. What else is there out there? Download the latest free homebrew games for your PSP. You can download many of the best and most popular homebrew games such as Deadly Garden. Homebrew Games: Homebrew Packs & ROMs: Magazines & Wallpapers: Media: PSP Themes.Gameboy, MAM, MSX, Neo Geo, NES, PC Engine, Sega, SNES and Wonderswan emulators. That’s right, you can now play thousands of games on your PSP (there are tons of freeware / homebrew ROMs). Homebrew games- Doom, PSP chess, Pong, Pocothin, Higher or lower, HTML game, PSP GO, Maze, Arkanoid and Puyo. The emulators can run at a full 3. Mhz, just be careful- it could damage your PSP. If you want to make your own, here’s what Clayton from PSPHacker. PSP Launcher was released, but is likely still applicable). How to hack your PSP Slim for homebrew! November 27, 2012 / by soverance /. Connect your PSP via USB to your computer, and copy these folders into your PSP/GAME folder. Once that’s complete, exit out from your USB connection. Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Heres The Guide : 1. Download your homebrew 2. Unzip the file 3. Open the unzipped folder 4. Drag the homebrew folder to the Game Folder On. How To: Put Flash games on the PSP How To: Put PS1. How To: Homebrew and hack the PSP How To: Watch. How To: Put Flash games in your PSP How To: Unbrick a. How to Put full free PSP games on your PSP. You can add full iso roms on your PSP to play on the go, for free! This video will demonstrate exactly how to download and enter full free PSP games onto our handheld. Okay this is a. Yamasan’s ELF to PBP converter which convert ELF files to PSP readable PBP files. You then copy the file to PSP/GAME on your memory stick. Currently for 1. 0 PSPs, this is one of the ways homebrew programs can be created.”Back to the installing of the homebrew. Once you unzip the file and install, run MSwap. Tool (Start > Program Files > MSwap. Tool). Click the first dotted box and choose a EBOOT. PBP file to “convert”. The form area is called “Fichero PBP”. Now, click “Directorio” this is the directory of the output of the MSwap. Tool. Flicke Generar ficheros (Generate files). It will give you a message in Spanish once it is complete. Outputted files. Once converted you’ll need to put the files on 2 memory sticks. Make a new folder called PSP- DEV on the memory stick (PSP > GAME > PSP- DEV). Make sure you keep track of which one is #1 and #2. Pop the #1 memory stick go games > memory stick and you should now see a lovely new icon PSP Launcher (and the name of the game/app you made). Get the 2nd stick ready, then select PSP Launcher, quickly swap out memory stick #1 with memory stick #2 and viola! You’re now running an application someone made. Most of the applications and games come with source code, so expect some amazing new things to do with your PSP. Just don’t update the PSP, ever, ever again. How to hack your PSP Slim for homebrew! I recently came across my old PSP Slim, and decided to breathe some new life into it by “upgrading” to custom firmware. Basically, for anyone unfamiliar with the process, the idea is to essentially install a new operating system on the PSP that allows certain file types to be run, including games, utilities such as browsers and e- readers, media players, and more. It’s a pretty valuable upgrade for a dead system. First, you’d need to know if your PSP is hackable. Only certain PSP motherboards are capable of using custom firmware, as the chart below explains. If your PSP is a newer model, sorry, but you’re out of luck. Attempting to hack a PSP without the proper motherboard will almost certainly result in a “brick”, turning your valuable device into a very fancy paperweight. Trying to find out your motherboard type can be somewhat of a pain, so there is quite a bit of footwork necessary before you can get the information you need. First things first… go ahead and format your memory stick (you will need around 5. MB of free space available, might as well start clean), and fully charge your PSP’s battery to 1. Failing to fully charge could prove fatal, if your battery dies during the firmware installation. Next, check your PSP’s current firmware version. To do this, start up your PSP and head to Settings - > System Settings - > System Information. You’ll find your firmware version, the network nickname you’ve given your PSP, and it’s physical MAC address. If you’ve used your PSP any time in the last few years, you’re probably on version 6 of the PSP XMB. The latest is 6. 6. In the past, you used to need a special battery (called a Pandora battery) to drop the PSP into a boot mode, downgrade the firmware to 5. It took a good amount of time, and had the chance to “brick” your PSP if you messed up the process, turning it into a very valuable paperweight. Luckily, there’s a group of PSP homebrew developers known as Team Pro, and they’ve made custom firmware available for all of the version 6 models with easy installation with both permanent and temporary modes so you can use it on all versions (including ones that the above chart says are unhackable). First things first, you’ll need to download your custom firmware. Search Google for CFW 6. PRO- B9, and you’ll likely find it somewhere on the net. Or you can just check out the project’s page at Google Code. Once you’ve downloaded the version you need (in my case it’s the 6. Connect your PSP via USB to your computer, and copy these folders into your PSP/GAME folder. Once that’s complete, exit out from your USB connection. Inside the XMB, head over to Game - > Memory Stick and run the Update file. This will load the custom firmware onto your PSP and allow you to use any homebrew applications or play image files (. At this point, you can begin using homebrew applications or play image files (. Keep in mind that this is only a temporary installation of the custom firmware, and will reset to your official version 6. PSP.  So if you have a newer model PSP, you’ll need to run the Pro Update every time you want to use your homebrew. I’d also advise leaving this as a temporary installation if you ever choose to sell your PSP, or just simply want to leave it as official as you can (in case you have a warranty or something, I suppose…). To be sure, go ahead and make it back to your System Information and confirm the installation of your temporary custom firmware. You’ll notice the system software ID has changed, as well as the information for your MAC address (which now just denotes your PSP’s model number). Now, if you happen to have a motherboard capable of going permanent, you can go ahead and run the CIPL Flasher and follow the onscreen prompts to install permanent custom firmware. If you’re like me and have a 2. PSP, it may not be easy to tell what motherboard you’ve got and if you can actually go permanent without bricking your device. Well, there’s a solution for that too. Head to Google and search for a homebrew program called PSPIdent. The latest version is 0. I believe, and I found it here Download it and copy it into the same folder, PSP/GAME. Exit out to the XMB, run it, and you’ll get a screen that looks like this: Obviously you can tell the PSPIdent program gives you all the debug information you’ll need to know which model you actually have. In this case, you can see that my PSP is the Slim 2. TA- 0. 85 v. 2 motherboard. Reference the chart at the top of this post, and you’ll be able to tell that my PSP is indeed capable of running permanent custom firmware. Exit back out to the XMB, and run the CIPL Flasher. Once complete, you will have a permanent installation of the custom firmware on your PSP. There is no going back, as far as I can tell… you may be able to revert back to official if needed, but I dont know how to do it and dont have much of a need to at this time. Now, to actually play ISO files, you’ll need to create a new folder in your PSP’s root directory, simply named ISO (in caps!). Toss all of your ISO files in there, and you’ll be able to pull them up under the Games section in the XMB. And they’ll come up in the XMB menu as if you had a UMD disc in there. Pretty slick, right? Hope you all enjoyed this walkthrough, and can breathe some new life into your PSP like I did. Feel free to ask if you’ve got any questions!
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