3.80M33 Firmware - Give Us Your Verdict on It

[djbrotherson]

I like everything about this firmware but i'm still real ignorant about this popsloader thing...

Can someone tell me what files I'd need on my MS for the firmware I have for popsloader?

[luxoflux]

My games stil play like crap as ive said in other posts.

[urherenow]

djbrotherson... why don't you look around before asking questions? the popsloader thread is just 2 threads down from this one on the main page! Your answer is in the very first post (the news post)!

http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=86295

[djbrotherson]

K thanks... so I learned that you use R when you load a PSX game for the menu to come up but i've never used this :|

I have no idea what it does/ what i need it for**

I have looked around but i never find the answer to my question**

[kjetil1991]

i dident like it was just like 3.72m33 went back 3.52m33 it does the same job with themes i like

[Veskgar]

Ok, well I finally updated one of my PSP's to 3.80 M33-4 and also put on the newest popsloader. I updated my original PSP, not my Slim & Lite. It has usually been the case that a lot of problems are the fault of the user and not the firmware. So I figured I'd give it a shot. Well, to my dismay, the poor memory stick performance showed its ugly little head.

I tried Wipeout Pure and Juiced 2: Hot Import Nights, both of which should play great even if backed up to .cso but I still experienced jerkiness and menu lag, etc. This occurred even after formatting the memory stick on 3.80 M33-4 and its an authentic SanDisk 1GB stick. When switching to the M33 driver as opposed to np9660 it seemed to fix Wipeout but Juiced 2 was still a little jerky.

This also goes to show what others are saying about the vsh menu overclocking not working in PSP games. It did work in the xmb but certainly not during playing PSP games.

I guess this explains some of it:

In 3.80, Sony have heavily "optimized" the fatmsmod.prx which is the memory stick driver, reducing the size by nearly 80kb.

Whatever was messed with for 3.80 it sure sucks. I will be keeping my Slim & Lite PSP at 3.71 M33-4 due to this problem. Between memory stick issues and not being able to overclock, its not worth the upgrade as of yet.

I just hope more and more people send a little donation support to Dark_AleX to free up some resources and time for him to try and tackle these issues if he can. If this is a SONY thing, I can't help but think they did it on purpose to make life more difficult for us homebrewers.

[o1mlc]

Can only agree with all Veskgar has said above...

I too have updated to 3.80 M33-4 with Popsloader for 3.80 M33v2 and the 1.50 Addon for 3.80M33

All things work (emus, homebrew, isos), but the MS access is all to hell, e.g. GTA VCS has a lot of lag and is not really worth playing from MS - though I too saw a mild improvement when using the M33 driver.

Again, not DAX but rather $ony - and I too am a cynic and think it could be deliberate on their part...(though the logical part of my brain thinks that it's just a by-product of their "optimisation" of the driver...)

I just hope CFW 4.00 M33 (no pressure DAX) has the driver issue fixed...(unless $ony update before then...)

[Saracchini]

I liked 3.80 M33 much more than the 3.71 M33-2 and 4. My flash1 is problematic and the 3.71 M33 give to me 6 "killer-bricks" (flash1 partition corrupted) . The Mp3 corruption issue occurs with me with songs created with old encoders, and it dont corrupt the files, it identify the songs as corrupted only... if you take the MS and put again the songs are reconized again.Its annoying , but is resolved re-encoding the tracks with recent encoders like Lame 3.92 or Xing.
My XMB is faster than 3.71 and 3.52. CSOs are really choppy, but it can resolved using uncompressed disk images.
The rest and the new features works as before. Due the estability i think only 3.52 M33-4 is better than 3.80 M33.

[gusgus]

I hadn't upgraded my psp ever ( until a couple days ago, I was still on 1.5 ) But I don't know why I was waiting for so long. I love it, but I have nothing really to compare it to..

[jonezybaby]

well i upgraded a few days ago, upgraded to M33-2 then added the 1.5 kernal patch and ya know wat ive found?

F*** All cus my GF nicked my psp to watch alvin and the chipmonks on it and hasnt given it back yet lol