PSP Quake 1 ver. 1.1

[hokk]

Nice. This one work with Slim?

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Yes it does! (Tested with Slim 3.71M33-4)

I love this release, and now I can shut down the game without the PSP locking itself. And a lot of new options too, nice work!

[HavocEngine]

I have version 3.71 also but i cant seem to get it to work. I get this message:
The game could not be started.
(80020148)

I used the PSP_Quake1_HW_UM.
What am I doing wrong?
Also, i have the original PSP not the slim.

[Anonymous D]

3.71 m33? or 3.71 sony, if the latter it would not work anyway.

[HavocEngine]

Thanks for the reply! Its 3.71 sony, so i take it if i d/l 3.71 m33. Then i take and update the version of the PsP it would fix my problem? Thanks for the help!

[bah]

You cannot just install a custom firmware as easily as an official one. You can update from one custom firmware to a newer one easily, but you have to 'hack' the PSP to get it to run unofficial code to start with.

To quote one of my older posts from another thread (which in itself quotes another, older post of mine):



"Homebrew (unofficial software like PSP Quake) can not normally run on a PSP as sony blocks it. A long while back some very smart people found out how to run homebrew on the official firmwares 1.0 and 1.5. Sony patched the 'security hole' that allowed it to run and released new firmwares.


More recently there are custom firmwares.
A custom firmware is a modified/hacked/unofficial version of an official sony firmware. It had been hacked to allow it to run homebrew, as well as having all the features of the newer official firmware it is based on.

To get to a custom firmware from 3.71 you will need to use pandora's battery. To use pandora to get a custom firmware you either need access to someone with a PSP that is already running firmware 1.5 or one of the custom ones, or you need to buy a datel 'tool' battery and find a source for an (illegal) program that creates the special memory stick for you.



To quote one of my old posts:

"The pandora's battery is a standard PSP battery that has been modified slightly (electronically, the serial number it reports to the PSP has to be changed or something like that).

Once a battery has been modified correctly then you can use it, in combination with a memory stick pro duo containing some special files (the 'magic memory stick'), to put any PSP into what's called 'service mode'.

Once in this mode, all the security measures are disabled and the internal flash memory where the PSP's firmware (the operating system that starts up all the hardware and gives you the menu, image viewer, video player etc) is stored can be written to.

It was designed by sony to allow them to fix bricked PSPs (the internal memory that stores the firmware is corrupt and the PSP wont turn on) when they got sent back to be repaired.

Some extremely talented individuals named Team C+D found out how to make use of this service mode to install whatever you want onto the PSP. You can install the official sony firmware 1.5 (from which homebrew can be run), or one of the newer 'custom' firmwares.

These are unofficial versions of the sony firmwares that have been 'hacked' to allow homebrew to run, among other things.

That doesn't really help you in how exactly to do what you need to do, hopefully it clears up what the battery has to do with anything though.


There are lots of guides/apps for windows that do all the file copying for you, someone should be able to point you in the right direction. I still run 1.5 so have never needed to know the exact steps.""

[HavocEngine]

Thanks for the help. I just read up on Pandoras battery and need to get me another stick of flash memory and a battery

[`The0n3]

Does anyone know how to get Hexen 2 working with the psp slim?

[BadBoy House]

so what's infrastructure mode like - i take it there are always plenty of people online with it??

[Destroyer564]

hey where do i get a gfx.wad file?

[bah]

The readme mentions mission pack 2 as working, I can confirm mission pack 1 (HIPNOTIC) works fine with the line
-game HIPNOTIC +map start
in the quake.cmdline file (HW_KM).

Destroyer564: Do you have the pak0.pak file in the pspquake\ID1 folder?

EDIT: It did crash on level 2. I saved as soon as the map loaded, moved forwards and it chugged then crashed (turned off, no error).
I loaded it back up, loaded the save and have played through to the first level of the second chapter and have had no problems whatsoever so its probably not an issue at all.

I completely forgot about the new weapons in the mission packs, I love the laser cannon except for when your shots bounce back at you.