Anonynewf
July 10th, 2006, 19:52
So I bought a used PSP and GTA: LCS off of a friend of a friend which I thought was a 2.5 firmware. He showed me the emus and stuff he had on the mem sticks and I tried a few games and it worked fine. The reason I bought it was because I heard of the 2.5/2.6 downgrader.
Since I wasn't sure if it was originally a 2.5 or an older firmware upgraded to 2.5 I thought I would try upgrading to 2.6 because people have specified that to use the 2.5/2.6 downgrader, the PSP would have to have been upgraded at least once. I downloaded the 2.6 firmware from a reputable website and placed the firmware in the PSP/GAMES/UPDATE folder and tried to run it. It then said it could not be upgraded and that the firmware was corrupted. That didn't seem right since so many people had downloaded the file from the website I was talking about.
Well, I decided that I would just go ahead and try downgrading it anyway. I used the easy downgrader with the windows exe. I waited until the files were on the card and then initiated GTA as it prompted me to. I selected the downgrader and the screen turned off and the memory stick light started blinking. Not even a minute later a message comes up:
Game could not be started (8002032D)
I was happy that it didn't brick my PSP but I thought it would either work or brick. Then I suddenly remembered that my friend had been using an eLoader to select firmwares to play roms or higher firmware UMD's than what the actual PSP was. I think the PSP is actually a 2.0 or 2.1. I put Alpha 3 Max in the PSP and it plays with no music and only sound effects which was supposed to happen when emulating a firmware and playing this game. Well, I would try to get it back on it's original firmware but I had deleted everything on the mem card for the downgrading process as instructed.
My question is there any way I can get my PSP back to it's original firmware so that I can either use the 2.0 downgrade if that's what it currently is or upgrade it to 2.6 and then downgrade to 1.5 if it's a 2.1 firmware? If there is a way, could someone pease direct me to the proper program/tutorial on how to get it to work?
Sorry for the long explanation :P and thanks in advance :)
Since I wasn't sure if it was originally a 2.5 or an older firmware upgraded to 2.5 I thought I would try upgrading to 2.6 because people have specified that to use the 2.5/2.6 downgrader, the PSP would have to have been upgraded at least once. I downloaded the 2.6 firmware from a reputable website and placed the firmware in the PSP/GAMES/UPDATE folder and tried to run it. It then said it could not be upgraded and that the firmware was corrupted. That didn't seem right since so many people had downloaded the file from the website I was talking about.
Well, I decided that I would just go ahead and try downgrading it anyway. I used the easy downgrader with the windows exe. I waited until the files were on the card and then initiated GTA as it prompted me to. I selected the downgrader and the screen turned off and the memory stick light started blinking. Not even a minute later a message comes up:
Game could not be started (8002032D)
I was happy that it didn't brick my PSP but I thought it would either work or brick. Then I suddenly remembered that my friend had been using an eLoader to select firmwares to play roms or higher firmware UMD's than what the actual PSP was. I think the PSP is actually a 2.0 or 2.1. I put Alpha 3 Max in the PSP and it plays with no music and only sound effects which was supposed to happen when emulating a firmware and playing this game. Well, I would try to get it back on it's original firmware but I had deleted everything on the mem card for the downgrading process as instructed.
My question is there any way I can get my PSP back to it's original firmware so that I can either use the 2.0 downgrade if that's what it currently is or upgrade it to 2.6 and then downgrade to 1.5 if it's a 2.1 firmware? If there is a way, could someone pease direct me to the proper program/tutorial on how to get it to work?
Sorry for the long explanation :P and thanks in advance :)