Memory Recovery saves files from the flash1 directory to ms0:/flash1/

http://forums.qj.net/showthread.php?t=135335

This is a modification of Quake with Quake 3 weapons, armors and gameplay style.

Changes:

– used psp gl quake 1.1 (see PSP_Quake_1_Readme_v_1.0. txt)
– changed/fixed some maps (see maps.txt)
– some maps was retextured in q3 gothic stle by me
– fixed all missed sprites (bubbles)
– green armor textures was changed
– bots skill decreased (0-1)
– maximum bots now – 3
– changed fraglimit on some levels
– demos was removed
– some small fixes
– all levels was tested

http://forums.qj.net/showthread.php?t=135332

“Custom Firmware Extender” is a set of plugins that will add some extra option to your SONY PSP.

Changes:

– Removed usb/wifi ISO streaming for multiples reason, principaly it was not the goal of cfe at the beginning.
There is now “USB ISO Loader” by psp.padawan that will do the job well. You should soon be able to grab it from www.mydedibox.fr/~psppadawan/
– 390m33-2 and 150_340TM custom firmware now supported (cfe should now work on any firmware), note that on the 150_340 time machine firmware, the ftpd server will not work, and remotejoy under ISO/HOMEBREWS won’t work too for now. All other functions should work well.
– Time Machine compatibility : You can now reboot “on the fly” from one time machine firmware to another, just edit the cfe.config file under “ms0:/seplugins/cfe/” to choose which firmware you will reboot to by pressing a combo button. Format is the same as the original time machine configuration file. Default configuration is NOTE+LEFT => reboot to 150_340 firmware, NOTE+RIGHT => normal reboot (NAND).
– Remotejoy fixed to work on both slim and phat psp, without savegame bugs, so it should now be completely usable for gaming and recording.
– Tested on 390m33-2 and 150_340TM firmware on SLIM and PHAT psp.

http://forums.qj.net/showthread.php?t=135339

As once in a while, Art is updating his Playstation Portable application Time Baby. It’s a multifunctional tool, with many functions and it’s all about “time”.

Changes:

– Removed preset locations from the Sunrise and Sunset display mode since it is easy to set a location
in the World time clock screen, and to bring it closer to the way the moon display mode works.
The user defined location can still be fine adjusted in the same manner.
– Sideways Dpad movement in Sunrise/Sunset display mode will allow calculated previews of other dates
the same way the Moon display mode works.
– Previews are reset to current time if UP or DOWN arrows are used to move out of Sun or Moon displays.
– Added configurable plasma clock display. Plasma display settings are saved with user profile.
– Removed multi coloured world map selection. Both grey scale maps can still be selected and saved.
– Small changes to graphics in world clock mode.
– New antialiased font has smooth edges and new font for some display modes.
– Fix to stop program saving screenshots while running under irshell so duplicates aren’t created.
– Removed the 13:37 icon Easter Egg. Program has a new plasma screenshot icon.
– PSP unit is auto overclocked to 333/333Mhz when the heart rate monitor is started.
– Implemented support for a user supplied external background image.
– Plasma greetings screen implemented for Memory Stick donators.
– Pressing CROSS button no longer skips intro, but speeds it up instead.

http://forums.qj.net/showthread.php?t=135354

PSPKVM allows you to play J2ME games (Java mobile/cell phone games) on your PSP.

Changes:

Limited the heap size used by sound font to fix a crash bug.

http://www.pspkvm.com/

maxthebest updated his Protect-Me application for PSP. This application allows you to set a password on startup.

Changes:

In the Installer:
-Changed the interface totally, now you have a nice one.
-Recoded most of the eboot.
-New options:
-You can now exit via the menu
-You can now uninstall the prx, and password and history file
-You can now delete the password without deleting the prx (to keep history function)
-You can reset the history (clear the file)
-Now the installer checks wether vsh.txt exist or nopt, if it does not exist:
– it creates it
– It adds ‘ms0:/…blah blah blah” so that you don’t have to do it yourself)
-The prx checks wether the good line is writen in vsh.txt, if it does not, then it adds it.
So now the installation is easier, you just put the eboot in your psp and launch it, and then activate the prx, nothing else!
-Changed ‘********’ to ‘aaaaaaaa’ because it caused some little problems.
In the prx:
-Changed ‘********’ to ‘aaaaaaaa’ because it caused some little problems.

http://forums.qj.net/showthread.php?t=135253

A new release from Dark_Alex is out – as usual when he’s involved it’s something very interesting.

From the readme:

The Timemachine is a program to load previous firmwares and custom firmwares from memory stick using pandora. Like devhook, but working throgh pandora and custom ipl’s, it would work even if the flash and nand ipl of the machine is destroyed.

The Timemachine is useful to run software that is not supported anymore, and also as a way of booting psp’s even if the internal firmware is destroyed. It can also be useful for developers to test their homebrew in different firmwares.

Currently the timemachine can install the following firmwares:

– Original 1.50 (can only be loaded on the phat)
– 1.50 with some 3.40 hw modules. Can be loaded on both, phat and slim.
– 3.40 OE (can only be loaded on phat)
– 3.60 M33 (can only be loaded on slim)

Rest of cfw will be added in the future.

Requeriments of time machine:
– The timemachine itself doesn’t require any firmware, only a pandora battery. Timemachine nand boot in slim, requires, however, 3.90 M33-2 or greater.
– The timemachine installer requires 2.71 SE or higher.

Instructions: Copy the TIMEMACHINE folder to /PSP/GAME and run.

All firmwares can be installed on whatever PSP (slim or phat), but they can only be used in the PS indicated in the option.

Explanations of options:
– Option 1: Install iplloader. This will install the timemachine iplloader in the memory stick. The iplloader is so small, that doesn’t require any mspformat to have been done before.

This step is necessary to run anything else. The iplloader of the timemachine is a multiipl loader that can load multiple ipl’s accorrding to key configurations found in the file /TM/config.txt (this file will be created by the timemachine installer).

The default configuration is to load the ipl’s with the following keys:
– 1.50: cross
– 1.50+3.40hw: circle.
– 3.40 OE: triangle.
– 3.60 M33: square
– Pandora/DC1-4 ipl (converted to TM format): digital up
– Anything else: will boot the firmware installed on flash.

(Note: as said before, in the slim, only nand firmwares with 3.90 M33-2 or higher can boot. Neither prvious CFW nor whatever original firmware can boot from nand when booted from a Pandora battery due to a Sony protection that has to be bypassed by the own nand ipl code).

You can modify this configuration following the instructions of the file config_readme.txt that will be written on the /TM folder after installing the iplloadder.

– Option 2: Convert pandora IPL into TimeMachine format.

Because the ipl used in pandora and DC1-DC4 (they are all same) is not compatible with the timemachine ipl format and user may want to load pandora/DC1-DC4 with the TM iplloader, this option is for that.

Requeriments: the ipl of pandora/DC1-DC4 in the root of the memory stick, named “msipl.bin”. This file is written by Pandora and DC1-DC4 installers.

After convertion, the converted ipl will be in /TM/pandora.bin.

– Option 3: Install 1.50.
It will install 1.50 which can only be run on the psp phat (for a 1.50 that can be installed on the slim go to the next section).

Requriments: the eboot.pbp of 1.50 in the root as 150.PBP

– Option 4: Install 1.50 with 3.40 HW modules. (PSP PHAT or SLIM). This will install a mix of 1.50 software modules with some 3.40 hardware modules, so it can work on the psp slim. It will usually run most 1.5 homebrew.

Requriments: 1.50 and 3.40 Sony eboot.pbp in the root renamed as 150.PBP and 340.PBP, and the 360.PSAR on the root too (to know what the 360.PSAR is, read below, in the 3.60 M33 installation section).

From 1.50 it will be extracted most modules, usually the software related ones. From 3.40, it will be extracted a few modules, usually hardware modules. From 3.60, it will only be extracted the wlan bios of the slim chip.

Known problems or considerations of the 1.50+3.40hw:

– The media doesn’t work fine in the XMB (music, videos, etc). Yeah, this is known, anyways the main purpose of this firmware is to run homebrew, as for XMB usage is better to use a more modern one.

– The “videocodec bug”, aka crappy pmf play, only happening in the slim. For some hw incompatibilty that coudln’t been resolved yet, pmf videos, including the gameboot, will play crappily in the slim.

This will happen also in 1.5 games you try to run, videos will play crappily.

Because PMPAVC videos also use the videocodec API, they will play crappily too. Normal pmp (xvid) (used on pimpstreamer too) will play fine however as they are decoded by cpu.

– The exit with home with “odd colors” bug. When exiting with home from a homebrew or game, you may see random colors at the end of the framebuffer. Nothing important, it even gives it an accidental stylistic look 🙂

– The PC os may detect the PSP slim as a new device. This is normal, psp slim has a different product id (pid), but 1.5 usb driver uses only the old phat pid. Nothing important, the usb will work fine in the slim.

– Wlan. The wlan seems to be working, it has been tested using the network update download, and pimpstreamer 201 for 1.50.

However two things are recommended:
* Turn off the wlan power save.
* Use manual IP and DNS configuration (otherwise you may have DNS problems). If you don’t know the manual configuration for your router, just do an automatic connection in a higher firmware, and write somewhere the data that appear in the test page at the end, and use that info to fill the manual configuration in 1.50+3.40 hw.
* As in normal 1.50, there is no WPA support.

– Homebrew that uses some patching code over some of the module that are from 3.40, will not work and will probably crash. This is obvious, they were coded to patch 1.50 modules 🙂

– Option 5: Install 3.40 OE.

It will install original 3.40 OE which can only be booted on the phat. Requeriments: 1.50 and 3.40 Sony eboot.pbp on the root as 150.PBP and 340.PBP

– Option 6: Install 3.60 M33.

It will install original 3.60 M33, that can only be run on slim.
Requeriments: 360.PSAR on the root.

Because there is no 3.60 eboot on the net as the slim was shipped directly with 3.60, the 360.PSAR is a file that has to be created on a psp running 3.60 M33.

To dump 3.60: run the program 360DUMPER that is in this release in a psp running 3.60 M33.

The result 360.PSAR is a file that uses the decrypted psar format (what a sce psar would look without encryption), that was already used in 3.51/3.52 M33, and it will have following size and md5 (checked anyways by the tm installer):

Size: 18189502 bytes.
MD5: EAA13343C70D9B0337C75B295474C69A

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Differences between running a firmware in the TimeMachine and a firmware in the flash.

Usually the time machine will run the firmware or cfw unmodified, including its original not critical bugs.

There are some exceptions:

– In 3.40 OE a critical bug regarding the configuration file descriptor not closed is fixed by the timemachine core patching the OE core in ram 🙂
– The TA-086 brightness is fixed for everything that has a 1.50 kernel
– The 4th level of brightness (i cannot live without it) is enabled for whatever thing, either if it is done nativelly (3.40 OE, 3.60 M33) or by the timemachine code (1.50, 1.50+3.40hw).
– The signcheck is patched and the firmware is written unsignchecked, so it can be shared between different psp’s.
– 8 GB and greater memory sticks are enabled everywhere.
– 1.50 an 1.50+3.40hw can run not kxploited pbp’s too.
– Flash USB doesn’t work. This is normal, the flash usb uses the lflash block device, and in the timemachine that device is unnecesary and its implementation is a dummy one. Just use the normal memory stick usb, as the firmware is there 🙂

Other considerations:

– Usually the firmware running the timemachine should have more free kernel memory than the normal one, because the lfatfs module is replaced by the timemachine core which should be using less memory.
– IF you see somewhere (probably in the browser) an error 0x80010018, this is because of too many files opened in the memory stick (as normal memory stick driver is shared with the pseudo flash one). The timemachine core tries, however, to minimize at maximum that this error happens.

– The Time Machine works faster if you install all firmwares you are gonna use after having formatted the memory stick, and then put everything else.

– When booting with a pandora battery in the nand firmware, remember that unless you change the battery, you will need the same memory stick to recover from sleep mode!

– Be sure to distinguish between TM bugs and OE/M33 bugs. For example, in 3.60 M33, if your iso running in March33 no-umd mode hangs at exit, that was a bug of 3.60 M33, not of the timemachine!

http://www.dark-alex.org/

PSPTube lets you watch Youtube comfortable via your PSP.

http://nekomimi.cafe.coocan.jp/wiki/?%CA%AA%C3%D6

NPaint is a painting application for Playstation Portable.

Changes:

-added a feature that allows you to change the theme color for the border.(R,G,B)
-fixed music volume.
-fixed bug causing brush to move back to the top left corner after changing color.
-fixed ALL menu bugs by completely recoding the entire menu.
-removed the random bars in the main menu.
-reduced sizes of menu images by cutting out the parts needed instead of loading an image the size of the screen.
-menu screens should appear faster now that it doesn’t randomly load constantly when choosing a new option. instead all images are loaded at the beginning increasing the loading time by a few seconds.
-added an error message warning you when you try to load an image and you have no image saved.
-added support for 3.71+ for Slim and Original PSP’s.

http://forums.qj.net/showthread.php?t=135067

TRStealthX updated his security PSP software PSAFE.

Release notes:

Oh crap! I received LOTS of emails yesterday about PSAFE crashes. So I decided to patch some bugs. Also, I was looking through the code of the web client, and man, there were 2 major security flaws that allowed for ANYONE to change your IP or view your log – I took some measurements that should fix the problems until v4 is out. Also, if you would like to know more details about the final version of v4, I explained it all on the README file. Also, I got $10 from donations, and its extremely appreciated. Please keep donating! The more donations, the sooner v4 will be out.

http://forums.qj.net/showthread.php?t=135144