Custom Firmware 5.50 GEN-A Build 4 Released: CFW for the PSP-1000 & 2000

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Take a seat PSP-3000 owners, this time it ain’t all about you… Released for the PSP-1000 (Fat) and PSP-2000 (Slim) is Custom Firmware 5.50 GEN-A Build 4 from PSPGEN’s own GENyUS.

What you need:

A PSP-1000 or 2000 v1 or v2
A PSP running CFW 3.52 M33 or higher
What you get:

All features of Sony’s Official Firmware 5.50
Launch UMDs / ISOs / CSOs and demos requiring 5.50 or below
Launch homebrew
Launch PSOne (POPs) games
Access to recovery mode (change CPU speed, enable/disable plugins, registry hacks, flash access, etc…)
I just installed 5.50 GEN-A on my Slim and it works beautifully. It’s simple: unzip the archive, copy everything under PSP/GAME/UPDATE to your memory stick, and run the updater from the [GAME] menu.

Props GENyUS; Nice work.

Note: DO NOT attempt to flash or install CFW 5.50 GEN-A on a PSP-3000 or TA-088v3 hand-held. You will render your PSP a useless brick.

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I installed it on my fat PSP, no problems so far :D

Does this allow use of the VSH menu? The one that you access on the XMB by pressing select

Edit: Yup it works, is there any way to get Ultimate VSH menu working on it, it's one of my favorite plug-ins, is there any ttweaking that could get it to work, or do we have to wait for a new version of it

whats the need for the update from 500 m33 to 550gen-a ?

any big leaps that need to be mentioned, ones i cant live without? chime in peoples

Mostly compatibility with newer games. If you're only doing homebrew, then it's probably not a big deal.

The one thing that should've been done in 1.50 that they just did in this update was make the media players be able to read files in one more subfolder. Before, it could only be:
MUSIC/ARTIST/SONG.MP3
But now, it can be:
MUSIC/ARTIST/ALBUM/SONG.MP3

If you're picky like me, then it's a big deal. Why couldn't they think of that 4 years ago...

will cxmb work on 5.50 gen a4? and what about 1.5 kernel???

I believe it comes with a compatible version of CXMB and 1.5 kernel built in (only installs on Phats)