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...This has come to a conclusion as to say..can someone please clarify what is true and what is not so I can know if it is ok to update to 3.52 M33-3!? Most of the posts I read through out the whole thread were mostly arguments and ridiculous concerns on rather to update or not.... If it is not too much trouble for anyone in the forums to say, what should I do honestly. Update to 3.52 M33-3 or wait for another update?
Weird. Do all other methods work? Like using recovery to change it?
From what I can tell its perfectly safe.Quote:
Originally Posted by ZeakStarwind
Upgrade if you want or need 3.30 pops support.
Want to watch UMD movies from the memory stick.
Want the new XMB menu launched from the home key.
Thank you for your clarification. I will think about it tonight. Interesting features.Quote:
Originally Posted by MicroNut
In Wifi or just the XMB at all?Quote:
Originally Posted by CaptainMorgan4
If you can not get it to set at all:
and I know it sounds like an overly easy fix
Try Resetting System Defaults in the XMB
Or using the "F1 formatter and Reset System Defaults" in the recovery menu.
I am watching a UMD @ 333Mhz right now...
"Squeak I tell you! SQUEAK!"
PS3News is the shithole of the internet. I spent 30 minutes writing up a tutorial to help a noob and got permanently banned because I linked to a file hosted on a different PSP site. Apparently, posting links to other sites is grounds for ban on the site. Not to mention all the crap they tried to steal credit on.
PS3NEWS = BASTARDS!!!
Yes, I confirm it. It doesn't brick your PSP just because you visit that site. However, if you download the version they put on their site, it WILL brick.Quote:
Originally Posted by Anger
Cloudy
What true BASTARDS.
They knowingly host a popular file on their website that will brick a PSP.
Not because M33 made it that way.
Because THEY MADE IT THAT WAY.
Might as well open the eboot in your own hex editor type in some random chacacters
and then destroy your psp yourself.
No it will not brick.
Stop mongering fear.
I downloaded it and it works fine.
I have no agenda for ps3news or anything, but you're spreading lies.
Yup, they show their true colours.Quote:
Originally Posted by MicroNut
Worst thing about it is, any posts on their site get edited to say it worked fine... Looks like they are trying to give M33 a bad image.
Excuse me? I said if you download it from PS3NEWS then you'll brick. And that isn't a lie, it's the TRUTH. M33 have even said if you alter the EBOOT then it'll brick... And PS3NEWS have altered the eboot.Quote:
Originally Posted by scarph
Cloudy
wow that pisses me off, stupid ps3 fanboys who hate psp
they steal others work and label it as there own. they post stolen software that noone is supposed to have. they ban people for the slightest thing (i was banned permanently for posting a hexed file for someone via a PM). and almost every single person i have seen posting on there is rude as hell not to mention unhelpfull. theres a long list of reasons to hate them and not one to like them. they are lowlife scum and im glad i can say what i like about those assholes here or anywhere else.Quote:
Originally Posted by scarph
as for how they get there money - every time you visit there site you get ads right? even if you use an ad blocker your still getting the ads sent to you - they get paid for each advert they show you. they get even more if you happen to be dumb enough to click onto any of there adverts. they also rely quite heavily on donation (who in there right minds donates to thieves? - thats right - other thieves) because donation is the only way to pay for what they dont get via the adverts. i hope someone destroys that site permanently.
ahh right sorry about that, my mistake - i assumed it was like that from the license file that m33 included with the program.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cloudhunter
well i mean dcemu has ads too. but people said that they change files and stuff for their own personal gain. i mean i dont see how that would help. if you downloaded something from them and it said from ps3news.com, you already know about it, so its not much of an advertisement.Quote:
Originally Posted by Anger
as for using the version of this file they hosted. it worked fine on my psp. it was the first time id been to that site. i registered, made a few bogus posts and then downloaded it.
im happily on v3 now
Why would you register to that site when your already a member of this one and could have downloaded it from here? Anyway, reports are they hex edited the file so then it doesn't work and breaks peoples PSPs.Quote:
Originally Posted by scarph
i did because i saw the warning and didnt believe they could look at my browsers cache.
and guess what, they cant
as much as i respect the m33 teams work, this is a lot of e-bullying. its an outlandish threat that isn't true and shouldn't be. If they give proper credit to the creator, i believe any site can post any freeware they want.
its part of gpl
now as ive already said
can we please just go back to hating qj
Hey guys wath does the new pops thing do? Like do we have to use pops 3.30 or is it a plugin that we can use?? Like if i update to M33-3, will my PSX games use the 3.30 POPS or the 3.52 POPS???
THATS THE PROBLEM! PS3News always strips all the credit from the readme files, removes all links to the author's site and adds links to a fake member page they made in the author's name.Quote:
Originally Posted by scarph
It allows you to run PSX games under the 3.30 prx. This fixes a few games which don't work.Quote:
Originally Posted by darknight88
Obviously driving up their ad revenue in the process.Quote:
Originally Posted by BelmontSlayer
Yeah I can't get the 333mhz in the XMB or the WiFi, I'll try resetting the settings to default and see what happens.
ps. What's the XMB launching from the HOME button thing?
This release isn't posted on m-33.narod.ru, but I can confirm that it is however on www.pspx.ru, which their narod site links to. So it is from them, and everything should be kosher.
hokay, so i just had a nice hour long read of 22 pages......and have been given relatively new info, but would like a small confirmation as i am a little depressed and paranoid at the moment.
i downloaded the M33-3 update from PSP-Hacks and it has come with all the files that everyone is mentioning, obviously the update file, the License and both languages for the readme and the popsloader prx file [for previous pops]. PSP-Hacks claimed to have their "source" from "pspx.ru" and someone in the comments section has claimed to have bricked from the files. should i re-download from here, and will i be safe to upgrade to 3.52M33-3 on my original launch TA-079 3.52M33-2 PSP with the AppleCor Theme installed?
Actually (and literally just now), m-33 has posted the updated m33 3.52-3 file on the website, m-33.narod.ru. Download from there if you don't trust psp-news :) Update: pspx.ru requires forum registration before downloading.
i'm guessing that this m-33.narod.ru site is M33 site as DAX had his own site?
so can you confirm that the files work? i don't know if i can get my mobo swapped by the guy that fixed my screen....and i don't feel like doing that Walmart thing, my PSP is the greatest most versatile console i've owned. [lol deep]
The files here in the first post work great. Also, m-33.narod.ru is the M33 Team's official homepage and pspx.ru is the forum where they release their files.Quote:
Originally Posted by Squidman
Squidman, the file here and at psp-hacks are good. don't worry.
just make sure you delete the browser folder on your memory stick, and delete the browser cache on your pc.
it's a happy and sad day for psp homebrew/hacking. happy the new custom firmware features kick a$$, and sad that so many people have already bricked on the first day.
Too bad those ps3biochez are not the ones who will brick. It'll be noobs who will forever have contempt for the scene, simply because they didn't follow the internal conflicts of the psp scene, and we're robbed of their 150$ machine by some russians who promised them happiness. And you know what? It's not their fault, it's m33's fault, regardless of a vendetta.
Now the public will never have trust for m33. I feel the same way. I can never have that feeling of "they're good people" because they have done something so ethically wrong and underhanded to innocent users.
Booster and MPH!!!!!!! come back man!!! I trust you guys.:D
peace yall! don't let this crap be the end of psp homebrew!
wow.... this thread had so many wars and arguments... im just gonna ask one simple question and hope it gets answered, Should i upgrade to 3.52 M33 and then to 3.52M33-3 from my current firmwire right now which is 3.03OE?
There is a new menu that pops up in the xmb when the home button is pressed.Quote:
Originally Posted by CaptainMorgan4
1. It lets you set the CPU clock speeds for XMB and Game.
2. Choose your USB Device: Mem stick, Flash 0,1,2 & 3 and UMD. (didnt notice that you can dump UMD movies using this, doh!)
3. Choose UMD ISO Mode
4. Mount UMD ISO Videos.
Only reasons to upgrade:
The new M33 XMB menu
ISO UMD Movie playback
Popsloader capability 3.30~3.52
Problems that I know about:
If you have any other plug-ins that use the home button in the xmb the new M33 menu might cause a problem.
You'll have to convert or get new themes for 3.5x
When a UMD Video is mounted, sometimes when switching out a UMD game it will fail to load (wrong region code error)
And this has happened to me once.
When exiting a game the ability to put the psp into sleep mode did not work.
I use the SCEP plug-in and it failed to execute any commands.
The PSP wouldn't go into sleep mode from the power button either.
I had to cold start my PSP.
If you do go to 3.5 M33 there is really no reason to use any other version that 3.52 because of all the fixes and changes in 3.51
After doing more research, (thanks Cloudhunter and Eggman), I learned that brickers have been in loads of CFW's. I updated, and all was fine.
I'm still not entirely happy with being told which sites I may frequent, though!
MD5:
46f046a759fc0415d9ca9c4e0199a476 "BRICKER.PBP" (THIS IS PS3news VERSION)
b20e264b1e2042be87ee361fe9dd8ebf "EBOOT.PBP" (THIS in M33 FULL VERSION)
SEE PS3NEWS HEXed the M33 FULL VERSION and it changed the MD5
if the MD5 of the eboot is not b20e264b1e2042be87ee361fe9dd8ebf DONT USE it
ONLY use the eboot if the md5 is b20e264b1e2042be87ee361fe9dd8ebf
Cloudhunter, Ryupowerup, and Eggman are right. You guys have to check the hash (MD5) of the .PBP and see if it's correct. (see Ryupowerup's reply above)
The one at PS3News is ****ed up. I thought someone DDoS'd those ***gots?
I updated and it works fine. However I get little scared by reading this thread. I never visited PS3NEWS, but I guess it must be really simple to make a proggy (virus) that does this automatically and then causes a a bunch of bricks. Also, someone mentioned that some other sites may cause PSP to brick too, which are those?
I will go back to 3.52 M33 to be sure as I love my homebrew PSP very much. No dis-respect to the M33, I just don´t want a brick because I missed out on some info in the homebrew scene, which I do quite often. Personally I think it would be enough to stop the XMB from working or similiar, not a total brick.
BTW: The home-menu is very nice, and would be even nicer with "reboot"-function and some way to change clockspeed in games. Then I would not need Custom Firmware Extender no more.
Umm Yeah Ya Think So??? (I knoe now)Quote:
Originally Posted by Kramer
All i need is another psp...:(
Yep tryed this and still no go..(she's A Brick)Quote:
Originally Posted by Cloudhunter
Seems like there is a lot of confusion about that release.
Taken from PSPX.RU: License.txt is provided for ENGLISH speaking users only. The only thing Russian users should know - do not modify the installer that may result with a brick.
Meaning they are not evil or planing some plot to take control over all PSPs in the world. That is an action to fight back and make life of certain people harder.
In one word forget about bookmarks, history, cache or site membership. Download unmodified installer from trusted source. And you will be just fine.
As a side note. For all of you with TA0082 who have black screen after the update. Press the screen brightness button. Sometimes update switch off the screen.
Thanks for that info! I just read the same at PSP-Hacks :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:Quote:
Originally Posted by heishin
I am really confused about this entire updating thing. Maybe I'll just pass on a few extra features and stick with a fully working psp, rather than risk something this controversial.
So unless someone can give me some serious evidence this thing works, because i'm not going to risk it.
As a very vocal voice against the fact there's a bricker, take it from me that the dl from here or my site works.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gene
What controversial?
There will be no more "editable" CFW.
http://lan.st/showthread.php?t=1419
Why ppl hexing cfw for?
Sum1 change sumthin, they get brick. Serve them right.
Dun blame on the dev, blame it on ps3n00b. Coz of em, we get this whole "bricking/unsafe" fiasco. The fact is, M33-3 update is totally safe. If ppl dun agree their term, dun use it.
Really I hope all cfw (future) devs follow suit like M33's & make their cfw super secure.
use the ORIGINAL eboot from M33 - it'll worked perfectly just like my set...
and those ppl who are still sooooo scared even after so many ppl had explained this situation...put down your psp now and go bang your head on the wall...
i'm afraid we have reached a bit of a turning point in the state of custom firmware and it scares me. I was once a visitor to the *banned site*, i even made the occasional blog post. then i become privy to some of their more shady actions [so i stopped going] and now i have to worry about my psp getting bricked.
so because i've got an account, an account i don't even use anymore, i have to live in fear? wow, and i thought i could get away from this kind of thing on the internet. so because i didn't know what kind of site they were originally, i have to be lumped into this collective pot of evil doers and bad guys? well i'm sorry their website doesn't explain that they do truly terrible things before i started using it. i'm sorry that i didn't fine dcemu till after i found the 'other' site.
i don't condone theft. even before the leak, the flow of information hasn't appeared to be truly hampered, and now it like we are being forced into choosing sides. i don't want to choose sides. hell writing this is probably going to get me into trouble.
i feel like my one of my last real freedoms in life has been taken away from me.