3.03OE-A Released by Dark_AleX! Supports PS1 Game Compression!

[xg917]

apparently since i dont need hot shots golf 2, u dont

[The_It]

ill have to give it a try then

[psp_sfdm]

are you saying you do or you don't need hot shots golf 2 to play psx games that are not from the playstation store?

No, if you know where to get the modified BASE.PBP and the KEYS.BIN that came from Hot Shots Golf 2, then your should be good to go. However, you'll need to find it yourself and this is where Google is your friend

[sonikku88]

So is this like the ultimate PSP homebrew firmware or something?

[FazPSP]

Ok guys, i dont know why no one in this thread talked about the second MAJOR change in this FW from 3.02OOE-B which is the UMD REGION FREE FIX!!! Did anyone checked to see if that works.

By the way i've been using the PSX2PSP converter V0.7 by ZALBARD which includes the BASE & KEYS files. (this was posted on DCEMU but some saints removed it within minutes.... Luckily for me i DID got a copy before that ... hehehe.....). Now the question is: Is there a GUI that supports compression+3.03-A AND doesn't require you to have BASE.PBP & KEYS.BIN??

[dejkirkby]

Just upgraded after a 14 hour shift at work, and the best thing is the upgrade DIDN'T get rid of my custom icons. Life is sweet!

[loglos]

Do you have to rename the \GAME302 folder to \GAME303?

[meanguns]

Right now I have 3.02 OE-B on my system the PS1 games all work fine on another system I have 3.03 OE-A and I can say one thing for sure somthing happening with compression or when you compress the PSX images don't forget guys and gals this is in it's infancy stage and this is the first attempt at the compression scheme. Also remember sony has been working on this for quite some time Dark Alex only had less then a month. What do you expect a little flicker and compatability issues are going to be a given. for now after extensive testing today of both systems I have removed 3.03 OE-A from my second PSP and went back to 3.02 OE-B for two simple reasons. 1) Compatability some games lock up in 3.03 and don't work correctly about 10% I have tried have severe issues FF VII being one of them the second was a game of scrabble that worked fine until I compressed it down. 2) Various lockups of the system viewing pics and running real disks or real UMD's had some issues. the ISO thing is fine but I want to buy my games for collectability purposes. This may be just my PSP but I dought it. I am now always looking before I leap 3.02 OE-B is leaps and bounds over anything we previously had access to 3.03 is still in the experamental stages and I will now wait and watch the problems unfold on the forums and I will wait until 3.03 or a future firmware release is more stable. In addition Sony may have inadvertantly goofed somthing up in this firmware that was just fine in 3.02. Thanks for all the work DAX Great Job for all your works!

[Uchiha Sasuke]

My god. I just read through 24 pages of noobiness! I'm no pro when it comes to all of this but simply reading through the readme or finding a step by step guide online and it's easy to do all of this!

The It - you DO NOT need a PS3 to play PS1 games on your PSP thanks to Dark Alex and it would probably be easier if you did find Hot Shots Golf2 and use the original way for this rather than this supposed theory/method where you can play your PS1 games without Hot Shots. Google is your friend and with a bit of researching you can "cough downloadtotallylegally cough* the Eboot and Keys.bin for Hot Shots.

I'm still learning but have managed to install every app and upgrade etc successfully by simply reading the Readmes or finding online guides.

Now....i'm off to upgrade to 3.03oe....(here's where my PSP now bricks itself :P)

Ok i'll stay with 3.02oe-b until 3.03oe seems a bit more stable etc :P keep up the awesome work Dark Alex

[Tafkada]

Doesnt work for me.

The thing is, when i run any psx-game off the memstick it always starts loading, goes to black screen and sends me back to the xmb with the message "The game could not be started (80020148)"

I dont know whats wrong. I went to 303 OE-A from fw 1.5.

Ive tried many different psxgames as well. Both downloaded and ones ive patched myself.

Guys, please help