As promised in the previous post, I spent this day upgrading my PSP's firmware to the newest and coolest one by Dark_Alex - namely 3.02OE-B - and playing with PSX (or PS1) emulation.
It took me some time, because first of all I needed to find all the appropriate files (no brickers, please), read HowTos and testimonials on forums to know what I'm doing, then I continued with converting my Final Fantasy VII isos to PBP format readable by Pops (the PSX emulator found in the 3.02 firmware), only to spend another hours struggling with YouTube and my camera (the result can be seen below).
There were a couple of hiccups here and there - for example I have learnt the difference between PAL and NTSC (resulting in corrupted display of my PAL FF7). Fortunately I managed to correct it with a program called Zapper (you can find it here), but it took some more time. As for YouTube and recording video from PSP - don't even get me started.
But the efforts were well worth it. The PSX emulator runs smoothly and does its job very well in case of most games. The custom firmware is great, eliminating the need to use DevHook both for UMDs requiring higher firmware than 1.50 (meaning most of them) and for ISO emulation (done on the flight, user can run ISOs straight from game menu). Homebrew programs can be run both in kxploit versions (for 1.50) and normal ones (for 1.00). All the goodies from 3.02 firmware are there (visualisations, RSS and so on).
All in all, I am very pleased with my new firmware and the new possibilities it opens. This is truly a great Christmas present for the PSP community.
I promise to post more details anytime soon (such as which HowTos are good, what tricks there are and so on), but I thought I'd share the impressions together with a movie to show you how great it is.
It took me some time, because first of all I needed to find all the appropriate files (no brickers, please), read HowTos and testimonials on forums to know what I'm doing, then I continued with converting my Final Fantasy VII isos to PBP format readable by Pops (the PSX emulator found in the 3.02 firmware), only to spend another hours struggling with YouTube and my camera (the result can be seen below).
There were a couple of hiccups here and there - for example I have learnt the difference between PAL and NTSC (resulting in corrupted display of my PAL FF7). Fortunately I managed to correct it with a program called Zapper (you can find it here), but it took some more time. As for YouTube and recording video from PSP - don't even get me started.
But the efforts were well worth it. The PSX emulator runs smoothly and does its job very well in case of most games. The custom firmware is great, eliminating the need to use DevHook both for UMDs requiring higher firmware than 1.50 (meaning most of them) and for ISO emulation (done on the flight, user can run ISOs straight from game menu). Homebrew programs can be run both in kxploit versions (for 1.50) and normal ones (for 1.00). All the goodies from 3.02 firmware are there (visualisations, RSS and so on).
All in all, I am very pleased with my new firmware and the new possibilities it opens. This is truly a great Christmas present for the PSP community.
I promise to post more details anytime soon (such as which HowTos are good, what tricks there are and so on), but I thought I'd share the impressions together with a movie to show you how great it is.
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