3.80M33 Firmware - Give Us Your Verdict on It

I have upgraded to 3.80 M33-4.

I regret it at the moment, here is why.
If you upgraded to 3.80 M33 to use remote play on the latest PS3 Firmware, this is not needed! PM me and I will tell you how you can use remote play on PS3 with 3.71 M33, or add me on PSN my name is 'soalokin'

1. Less theme support. I can not use ANY of the non-PTF themes that I used before this.
2. The PSP Radio feature is pretty crap, nothing we didn't already have.
3. IR Shell doesn't work and won't for a while since Ahman is on a 'long' vacation.
4. The new Sony visualization is major crap.
5. I don't mind upgrading manually instead of network update, that is more for just newbs, I rather use the icon for rebooting.
6. Some plugins do not work 100% like they are suppose to.

I am using Pandora to go back to 3.71 M33 as we speak.

When will I go back to 3.80 M33?

- When IR Shell is compatible with it.
- When all the themes that could work in 3.71 M33 can be 100% compatible with 3.80 M33.

Edit: I am now at 3.71 M33-4 and I have news.

The memory card driver issue in 3.80 which is claimed to be fixed in the latest 3.80 M33-4, well it is not fixed.

Try taking a screen-shot of XMB in 3.71 M33-4 then try in 3.80 M33-4, the difference is huge.... it takes like 5 seconds in 3.80 M33 and in 3.71 M33 it takes like a second.

I just noticed that I can't run IrShell at the monment either. Unless someone knows a wordaround for this issue, I'll just wait to wait for a new release of the application.

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Originally Posted by Shrygue

I just noticed that I can't run IrShell at the monment either. Unless someone knows a wordaround for this issue, I'll just wait to wait for a new release of the application.

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It has to be updated from Ahman himself, and since this isn't open source that may take months.

For those complaining about IrShell. Personally I never used that app and I'm not sure what it does but isn't there a Kernel 1.5 version of it? If there is, have you tried installing the 1.5 Kernel addon for 3.80?

Also any app that was updated to run on Kernel 3.xx should run fine on 3.52, 3.71 or 3.80 unless it does requiere a espesific CFW like the latest popsloader for example.

I installed the 1.5 Kernel addon on 3.80 and I was up to 3.80 M33-4 and all my emulators worked fine. I set the Kernel to 3.80 in the configuration menu too. However all my emulators have been updated to run on 3.xx firmwares. But with the 1.5 Kernel addon any app that is 1.5 compatible should work.

The only reason I went back to 3.71 M33-4 is because the memory read/write problems it's still not fixed on 3.80 M33-4.

Now for people complaining about some PSX not working on the latest firmware. Just use popsloader and use the version of pops where the game worked.

Now for the people saying that they have no slowdown or lag problems, try playing Sega Megadrive Collection and let the intro run and let me know if it doesn't lag before you people say that there is no lag or slowdown problems. I also heard you can also let the Tekken movie run and you will get the same results.

only problem so far is that now pspdoom 0.7 the ad hoc multiplayer mode duznt work anymore but it ran fine on 3.71 m33 4 slim ,the single player game still runs fine though, just need the coder of pspdoom to alter his code a bit i presume .......

i was having troubles with that new mem stick driver but it works now and the new internet radio player is a very good update with homebrew as well! :thumbup:

all is well here. good cfw that now works just fine for me :)

I really regret getting to 3.80M33
Cause when I was on that one, tekken wasn't working properly, sorry, I had to go down to 3.71M33-4, with my beautiful pandora's battery. Hopefully it'll get another update with a working ms driver
plus, i got my custom gameboot from cxmb

Dont really like it only because sony made me hate it. In the another note Dark Alex keep up the great work :D

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Originally Posted by Nikolaos

I have upgraded to 3.80 M33-4.

I regret it at the moment, here is why.
If you upgraded to 3.80 M33 to use remote play on the latest PS3 Firmware, this is not needed! PM me and I will tell you how you can use remote play on PS3 with 3.71 M33, or add me on PSN my name is 'soalokin'

1. Less theme support. I can not use ANY of the non-PTF themes that I used before this.

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Well no sh*t sherlock, they need to be converted for the latest firmware - and it'll happen.

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Originally Posted by Nikolaos

2. The PSP Radio feature is pretty crap, nothing we didn't already have.

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Well if you were expecting magic from the PSP, no wonder you were disappointed. FreePlay's freeradio makes it alot better ;)

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Originally Posted by Nikolaos

3. IR Shell doesn't work and won't for a while since Ahman is on a 'long' vacation.

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Oh well - one application which doesn't work is such a big problem/[/sarcasm] It doesn't really add too much in my opinion, and I prefer the XMB. The only feature that can't be replicated any other way, is the multplayer PS1 games.


Note: We need sarcasm tags here. ;)

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Originally Posted by Nikolaos

4. The new Sony visualization is major crap.

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How often would you stare at your PSP while listening to music? Plus, the fact that if there's a feature that's been added that you don't like - it's not like you are compelled to use it.

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Originally Posted by Nikolaos

5. I don't mind upgrading manually instead of network update, that is more for just newbs, I rather use the icon for rebooting.

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It saves alot of time - the update process was so painless, and takes about a 10th of the time it usually would manually :) Yet again, you don't need to use the feature if you don't want.

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Originally Posted by Nikolaos

6. Some plugins do not work 100% like they are suppose to.

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Ones which do hooks/function replaces are bound to have trouble.

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Originally Posted by Nikolaos

Edit: I am now at 3.71 M33-4 and I have news.

The memory card driver issue in 3.80 which is claimed to be fixed in the latest 3.80 M33-4, well it is not fixed.

Try taking a screen-shot of XMB in 3.71 M33-4 then try in 3.80 M33-4, the difference is huge.... it takes like 5 seconds in 3.80 M33 and in 3.71 M33 it takes like a second.

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It was never claimed to be fixed - he just said a bug in his code which was brought out by the Sony code has been fixed, meaning things will work, if still using the crappy bugged and slow Sony driver.

Personally, I'm on it, and like it. I think it's an improvement, and if the only issue is iRShell and themes - then you have nothing to worry about.

Cloudy