Colin Macrae Rally 2005

Hi I just purchased colin macrae rally for my PSP version 1.5 and when i placed umd into machine has asked me to upgrade software or wont be able to play game. It has the upgrade on the Umd to upgrade to version 1.52 but I dont wanna change as I wanna install homebrew.
Is there a way of getting game to play without doing the upgrade on the UMD.
Japanese version PSP
Australian Version Colin Macrae.

No

i upgraded my psp to 2.00 and am playin this game, mainly cos gta is coming out soon, so have to upgrade anyway

Yes.

You can fool a game into thinking a 1.50 is a later firmware so that newer games will run and you still keep your ability to run homebrew.

Do NOT upgrade or you will loose the best feature of the PSP ;)

You use the WAB version changer v2 or something similar. This changes the version number value of your firmware, nothing else.

You can change to 1.52, 2.00 etc.

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Originally Posted by alexh

Yes.

You can fool a game into thinking a 1.50 is a later firmware so that newer games will run and you still keep your ability to run homebrew.

Do NOT upgrade or you will loose the best feature of the PSP ;)

You use the WAB version changer v2 or something similar. This changes the version number value of your firmware, nothing else.

You can change to 1.52, 2.00 etc.

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and i upgraded for nothin? :confused: :(

nah, homebrew games are old, slow and uses more battery life, thats y i upgraded ^^

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Originally Posted by SoQb0nc5r

and i upgraded for nothin? :confused: :(

nah, homebrew games are old, slow and uses more battery life, thats y i upgraded ^^

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Dont kid yourself. The games may be old, but they take up hardly any space. Its good to have the option to play them when you are taking a break from the PSP games. They arent slow, and they dont use more battery life.

The only thing you have right in your post is that the games are old. Thats only applies to classic games played on emulators. There are new homebrew games coming out all the time. Some are even fun, and others are a blast.

You upgraded for nothing.

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Originally Posted by alexh

Yes.

You can fool a game into thinking a 1.50 is a later firmware so that newer games will run and you still keep your ability to run homebrew.

Do NOT upgrade or you will loose the best feature of the PSP ;)

You use the WAB version changer v2 or something similar. This changes the version number value of your firmware, nothing else.

You can change to 1.52, 2.00 etc.

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Thanks Alexh , i did what you suggested and it works great.
Fools the PSP into thinking it has later version firmware and allows to play Colin Mcrae rally. Then just change it back over to 1.5 again.

I recommend running the UMD via Fastloader (I used V0.7) as the game is a whole lot smoother if you up the clock speed to 333mhz - In fact, I reckon it was designed to be played at 333.

Same thing applies to Wipeout - The difference in the frame-rate is incredible.