Harleyg's Custom Firmware .2

**Sterist** · July 19th, 2006, 00:12

plz dont make custom fw look bad.

it is impossible to brick yur psp unless u know exactly wut yur doing when u brick it. (iow: purposely trying to brick)

if it truly is a separate firmware from SCE's, then its not operating via official fw therefor cannot brick it in any way shape or form. with one exception: recovery-mode trying to overrighting, deleting, or change anything vital with in the official fw COULD brick your psp.

it will do that in one of two ways:

1. freezes when it has an error trying to initiate something in start-up

2. freezes while flashing something to itsself, and cant initiate it again to repair or remake the file. resulting in disabled features (partial-brick).

both of these errors can be fixed via recovery mode, by running a full install of a firmware (update, 2.00, downgrade afterwards).

**tophead420** · July 19th, 2006, 01:21

lol i had this like 14 hours ago and in lovine it its pretty cool haveing it set up this way with the wlan switch down to boot last booted devhook fw it make my psp fell like its an avtual 2.5 or what ever im in the mood for and i cant wait for anther new release already lol

**F9zDark** · July 19th, 2006, 01:23

Its not that custom firmware is totally a bad idea; its more or less, what can come out custom firmware being accepted within the community.

I really believe that at some point there will be people out there trying to brick other's PSPs. If anyone recalls, there was a PSP-Bricker virus, that spurred so much attention as to catalyze Symantec into adding detection for it in their antivirus products.

What's stopping someone from purposely destroying someone else's PSP when custom firmware becomes the new craze?

**NoQuarter** · July 19th, 2006, 02:03

I seriously doubt sony will include malicious code as an example I cite all of fuss around sony's rootkit on music cds. one thing though it could be advantagous for sony to include a disclaimer that requires you to allow personal information from your memstick to be uploaded when using the internet.once again though this could be considered malicious software

**IndianCheese** · July 19th, 2006, 02:58

Is X-Flash compatible?

**MasterChafed** · July 19th, 2006, 03:40

i believe it is, in fact u can install Dark Alex's version with 11c. Anyway, i too have had this for about 14 hours and i love it sooo much, also, i was trying to think of the best program to bind to the X button and i got it.........IR Shell. boo ya.

**csd-san** · July 19th, 2006, 04:36

Originally Posted by MasterChafed

i was trying to think of the best program to bind to the X button and i got it.........IR Shell. boo ya.

Could somebody not just make a custom firmware that functions like IR shell? Given the time it would take to code, of course..

**tophead420** · July 19th, 2006, 06:56

Originally Posted by despoteuodia

this i too would like to know. i think there is a necessary download, the file is small, but i dont know. i think you'll need to download dev hook.

uhh, since it runs 1.0 eboots, will i still be able to run my 1.5 eboots??? and wich is better to use?

could i use this with the 2.71 custom firm ware?

no the file available for download is all you need and all you need to do is put the psp folder on your memstick (make sure you make a copy of your mem stick so you dont lose any thing) and simpily run the program and bammm fw mod and if you already have a the a prior release all you do is put the vshmain.prx and recovery .elf on the root of your memstick and restart your psp in recovery mode (hold R trigger to get to recovery menu i think) then flash both files to your psp and enjoy

by the way yes 1.00 and 1.5 eboots work on this and
this can't be used on 2.71 (devhook fw i dont think it would either)

Originally Posted by MasterChafed

i believe it is, in fact u can install Dark Alex's version with 11c. Anyway, i too have had this for about 14 hours and i love it sooo much, also, i was trying to think of the best program to bind to the X button and i got it.........IR Shell. boo ya.

lol thats so funny bc i posted above that iv had it for 14 hours we must be cool or sumthing lol jk
but i put dgen on the on the X button but think imma change it to IRshell or somthing along those lines and o yeah i so cant wait for a new release of this becuz this like soo PWNZ lol