Starting Out

Hawk88 · 05-10-2008, 02:59 AM

First, Im new to the site, so hello all. I have a old PSP that hardly ever gets used and I am wanting to get set up. First of all it has the original firmware (1.0) on it. Can someone hold my hand for a bit and get me goin? I would appreciate any help. Thanks.

Ceiling_paint · 05-10-2008, 03:14 AM

oh. my. god.

GUYS GUYS HE HAS A 1.0, EVERYBODY RUSH HIM!!!

whoops, i hit tab-enter, so i kinda made a premature post... guys you all know how that feels right?
well hawk, first off welcome to the psp world, i hope you have fun here, secondly, well.... thats about it, i personally like the pandora way of installing a CFW but im 99% sure that you can start some kinda upgrade-chain goin to get you to 3.90 m33 it probabally just takes alot of different files etc... h/o i'll try some looking for you, see if i can't help you somehow

what are you lookin to do, play backups/emulators/just have a custom firmware psp to show off?

edit: yea but seriously, i would kinda think about buying another psp and kinda framing that one you got.. dude you have a 1.0, A ONE POINT OH thats amazing, truely! if you're not really that afraid, i'd try (if i were you) making a magic memory stick and a pandora battery and then backing up the NAND so that you can just kinda wave that file around and say HEY WORLD, LOOKIT ME, I GOT A 1.0 AND YOU DONT, HA!

sorry if all this seems a bit rant-ish, i just got home from a school concert and im kinda tired...

your best bet right now would be to NOT take my advice and wait untill someone with more common sense and knowlage comes along... but honestly, i'd look into saving a backup of the 1.0 firmware, just because what you have is like history and stuff... you know? i mean, not everyone has 1.0 anymore.. ok im going to bed, sorry i was no real help

ctighe · 05-10-2008, 03:26 AM

What you have to do is upgrade to 1.5. Go to PSP Hacks · Hacks, PSP Downloads, Cracks, Mods, Homebrew, Utilities · Hack Sony PlayStation Portable to find the 1.5 update file

After that, go to Dark-AleX - PSP Developer and download the 3.52m33 update. Follow the readme and run it. Then get the 3.52m33-4 update, run that

Then choose whichever firmware after that. I recommmend 3.90m33-3

Ceiling_paint · 05-10-2008, 03:31 AM

but you dont wana save some psp history? he has the ORIGIONAL firmware, that kinda stuff is rare... well, at least i think it would be

Tets · 05-10-2008, 05:42 AM

What's the point of that? You can do next to nothing with the original firmware even including homebrew. All the worthwhile projects have moved ahead for slim support, new games won't run on older versions, the XMB has less audio and video codecs, the only wireless encryption available is WEP, and so on. Keeping 1.00 just for "bragging rights" would be monumentally wasteful.

Klause · 05-10-2008, 08:01 AM

Yeah, would be cool just to have around.

Hawk88 · 05-12-2008, 10:12 PM

So can a 1.0 firmware do something that a brand new PSP cant? Sounds like I should ebay the original and buy a new one. But if not, the second post by ctighe sounds like the way to go, correct?

blacker09 · 05-12-2008, 10:15 PM

yeh go ahead and update

*Ceiling Paint cries*

Hawk88 · 05-19-2008, 02:42 AM

I stand corrected. Its firware version 1.5. I believe 1.0 was only in Japan. Anyway its an original American Firmware. I am thinking about wiping the nastalgia away and going ahead with the firmware update, unless someone wants to talk me out of it.

blacker09 · 05-19-2008, 10:39 PM

not really

Ceiling_paint · 05-19-2008, 11:34 PM

oh... its not 1.0? well then... 1.5 isn't really THAT rare, you can still install it somehow, downgrading etc...

i was just flippin out cause you said 1.0, and my brain said AWSOME so yea good luck with your update chain and whatnot, hope everything turns out alright

Hawk88 · 05-20-2008, 12:35 AM

Me too!! Sorry to get you all wriled up!!

Hawk88 · 05-20-2008, 12:44 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ctighe

After that, go to and download the 3.52m33 update. Follow the readme and run it. Then get the 3.52m33-4 update, run that

Then choose whichever firmware after that. I recommmend 3.90m33-3

I see no instructions on how to do run the first update in the readme. It just has what it supports and a disclaimer that if you go to another site, it wont work, lol.

Hawk88 · 05-22-2008, 05:43 PM

Anyone point me to how to get this installed?

Hawk88 · 05-24-2008, 12:40 AM

Come on fellas, help me out, want to get this rolling this holiday weekend.