Which is Your Custom Firmware of Choice ?

***wraggster*** · October 31st, 2009, 21:41

Its been a long while since Dark Alex and the M33 team have graced us with a new Custom Firmware and recently the PSPGen Team seem to be the new kingpins with their releases of Custom Firmwares, but for you the people who actually use the Custom Firmwares, Which is your favoured Custom Firmware and Why ?

For those that have used both please discuss the strengths and weaknesses, your opinions will mean a lot to many new comers and experianced PSP homebrew users.

**Viral Decadent** · October 31st, 2009, 22:18

The Gen team have won my trust, but for all time favorite it would have to be the 3.03 OE-C, it was such a revolutionary firmware as far as what it could do.

**paranoid** · October 31st, 2009, 22:25

I made the switch to GEN-B2 when they released a patch for IR Shell. I wasn't really holding out, per se, but seeing the patch had me thinking IR Shell (now) works with GEN so I'll gave it a shot. It didn't break anything for me (think I had to update a couple things like Ultimate VSH and Game Categories) so I've stuck with it. I'll update to D2 if I find it necessary to (like I decide to use the Playstation Store or something).

I had LEDA installed with M33 and used it for some old demos (not game demos, but from pouet.net) but not for anything I would use more than once. eLoader works for a couple things I do, so LEDA isn't missed. I never used the memory stick speed up hack.

So now that I guess it's possible to go back to M33 and still retain functionality, I don't see the point in bothering. M33 was amazing and greatly appreciated, but I've no nostalgia over old software.

And I'm glad for GEN, especially considering the inactivity of Dark Alex. Even if it has some bugs here and there -- that's why they need people using it to find them and fix them. Not to say we need to be beta testers for critical features, but there are different PSP models, several motherboards, and a multitude of homebrew, plugins, games not to mention firmware features, like the Playstation Store that can't all be tested by GEN alone. (I'm mainly thinking of the hi-res video that didn't work with D1.. My theory is that it was tied to getting newer games to work and the UMD. As UMD video is hi-res, XMB video is not, it broke hi-res video. Probably not easily foreseen as UMD video is rather uncommon. I digress.)

**PSPdemon** · October 31st, 2009, 22:25

1.50 Poc

Because it makes me feel all warm and cozy inside.

**gamer4250** · October 31st, 2009, 23:32

Well I used to use 5.03GEN-A, but then the UMD drive on my PSP 3000 broke and I had to send it in. The replacement came with 5.50 installed and I just have to wait until there is a new crack

**joshx1000** · October 31st, 2009, 23:56

To me I would say my favorite fw of all time was 3.52 m33 update-4 it was THE best firmware for it's time and is still one of my fav's but as of right now It's 5.00m33 because since gen was blocked on psn there's no need to update anymore and timemachine autoboot battery is annoying because u need the time machine mem stick to boot it and 1.5 on flash is wayyyyy more convient than tm also the decryptor works so there's no need to update to GEN anymore.

**mike_jmg** · October 31st, 2009, 23:56

5.50 GEN D2, only cause I like having the latest firmware, I'm still on Gen B though, I'm too lazy to update

**symbal** · November 1st, 2009, 00:33

For me it's 3.71M33 because it's the first cfw i used on a Psp and got really excited about what it could do, everything since has been improvements but really just updating out of necessity.