Generic Downgrader for 2.71

**Inuyasha_989** · October 8th, 2006, 00:21

LOL, I fail at research.

I just bit the bullet and used the Easy 2.71 => 1.5 Full Downgrader. Then went to 2.0 and down'ed back to 1.5 for a clean install.

EDIT: Devhook with 2.71 FTW

**NovaPulse** · October 8th, 2006, 00:33

ok, i followed every step of how to do the downgrader (i followed both greatly detailed step-by-step guides) but when u click the downgrader from the game menu, my psp doesn't shut down and get a blue screen with 10 different languages as said on that second guide. My psp just reboots after i run the downgrader. Why isn't it shutting down? i've tried re installing everything into their folders about 22 times. Can someone help me? thanks.

**chiefy** · October 8th, 2006, 01:45

Originally Posted by NovaPulse

ok, i followed every step of how to do the downgrader (i followed both greatly detailed step-by-step guides) but when u click the downgrader from the game menu, my psp doesn't shut down and get a blue screen with 10 different languages as said on that second guide. My psp just reboots after i run the downgrader. Why isn't it shutting down? i've tried re installing everything into their folders about 22 times. Can someone help me? thanks.

Sounds like you're clicking HENC again. Thats the only way you should get a blue screen then a restart. Remember...first is to install HENC then run it once to get the blue screen then the green one if it worked. after that you go to the game section on the xmb and click memory stick. In there should be the Eboot to do the downgrade. If its not then you didnt follow the steps correctly.

HENC runs from photo viewer

Downgrader runs from game xmb.

**NovaPulse** · October 8th, 2006, 02:04

yeah, i got the blue screen from the henc part and then i got the green screen. After the green screen it restarted and then I did that henc thing again...which i think i shouldn't have..then i clicked on the downgrader thing from Xmb and it got the blue screen and restarted without shutting down. So if i did it wrong, how do redo it correctly then?

**chiefy** · October 8th, 2006, 03:16

Originally Posted by NovaPulse

yeah, i got the blue screen from the henc part and then i got the green screen. After the green screen it restarted and then I did that henc thing again...which i think i shouldn't have..then i clicked on the downgrader thing from Xmb and it got the blue screen and restarted without shutting down. So if i did it wrong, how do redo it correctly then?

Ok so your system is flashed then...good. YOu were ok to do henc again. Everytime after a full reboot or after a fresh restart you should run the HENC tiff. THat is if you are going to run homebrew on a 2.71. If you're going to be downgrading from 2.71 to 1.5 then Flash henc to your unit (Blue screen > green screen > reboot) then run HENC again...this time you will only get a blue screen then a soft boot. From here you run the downgrader from the game>memory stick xmb.

*Running the Henc only writes to flash the first time you use it. The downgrader eboot is unstable and may take several attempts. Once it works though you'll know it. I was a complete newb and figured it out.

*make sure you rename the eboot.pbp that you want to downgrade to on your mem stick from eboot to upgrade. ex: /psp/game/update/update.pbp

By the way...My psp has been 1.5 since just yesterday afternoon and im already turning off tv's and cableboxes at friends houses making them lose thier minds. "Who done it!?" ROFL

**NovaPulse** · October 8th, 2006, 03:22

ok i see how this works now. So what you are saying is for me to just keep clicking my 1.5 downgrader icon (which is red) from the game menu until it works?

*Update: i tried it again and then got this black screen with red words in it saying if i wanted to write the psp into flash. I hit "x" and then it restarted...so it worked!!

well thanks for your help Chiefy!!!

**Dark_Knight** · October 8th, 2006, 03:26

i need help here as well
i downloaded both henc and the downgrader
did what they told me in readme
so i run henc then the blue screen pops up
and everytime, it fully restarts, i dont get non of the softboots
and the downgrade doesnt work after i restart the psp
what am i doing wrong here?

ps
i have no idea what XMB is and where HENB is

**chiefy** · October 8th, 2006, 03:37

Originally Posted by NovaPulse

ok i see how this works now. So what you are saying is for me to just keep clicking my 1.5 downgrader icon (which is red) from the game menu until it works?

*Update: i tried it again and then got this black screen with red words in it saying if i wanted to write the psp into flash. I hit "x" and then it restarted...so it worked!!

well thanks for your help Chiefy!!!

so are you saying you now have a 1.5 psp?

Friggin sweet man. I relove my psp all over again since Dark Alex made this possible.

**NovaPulse** · October 8th, 2006, 03:39

yep, i've got a 1.5 psp now!!! I got to get use to these options since there aren't no web or rss things lol. But yeah, i got a 1.5 again..yay! Dark Alex is awesome.