Comments on: Downgrading PSP’s to firmware 1.5 then upto 3.40OE

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 15:05:13 +0000

Quasim, after you have installed 3.40OE, can you boot it up in the recovery mode?

By: Quasim

Quasim — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 12:06:05 +0000

Ive downgraded my psp fine to 1.5 from 3.03 using the hen and gta unpatched (the one with 2.00 update on it and not i cant get my psp to update to 3.40 oe- a all it does is got dead and i just turn it back on again and all the same no changes has this happened to anyone else and can some one post a link for dev hook that might be a good temp until i get it sorted to oe permenant coz it just amazing what u can do with the new firmwares.

By: orozco

orozco — Fri, 11 May 2007 11:14:26 +0000

i dont know if anyone has had problmes with this, but after i updated to 3.40 OE-A i tried to change the original psp theme to another one, but if i do this, the icons under “network” all become blank. do any of you know how to fix this? or any one else having the same problem?

By: Wartrucker

Wartrucker — Sat, 05 May 2007 11:22:10 +0000

@Chester

I have 3.40OE-A now for a couple of weeks, and it’s stable. it works really great.

I downgrade for noobz who doesn’t do it by themselfs. I put now 3.40OE-A on it, and no one has problems.\

Best regards,

Wartrucker

By: Chester

Chester — Sat, 05 May 2007 01:04:01 +0000

thanks chris. now i really want to update to 3.40 OE

By: chris

chris — Sat, 05 May 2007 00:41:44 +0000

chester wikipedia is freely editable a noob must of wrote that. all you do is reset to default setting under system

By: Chester

Chester — Fri, 04 May 2007 10:01:08 +0000

I Got this from wikipedia :

“3.40 OE was released on April 20, 2007 This release includes the same changes made in 3.30 OE-A’ except it now uses the 3.40 firmware. If you try to run the web browser the PlayStation Portable will be semi bricked and recovery mode must then be used. 3.30 OE (all versions) are not affected by this bug.”

I think I’ll wait for a stable release of 3.40 OE-A

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 04 May 2007 07:35:52 +0000

Jay,

There are a number of reason why I feel that the OE firmware is superior to the 1.5 + devhook option.

The first is that the OE firmware is permenant as far as hard and soft resets of the PSP are concerned. With devhook, if you hard reset your PSP, it always goes back to firmware 1.5 and you then have to load up devhook again to emulate your selected firmware version.

Secondly, the OE firmware gives you the recovery menu, which means that you can revert back to firmware 1.5 at any point should you wish, including circumstances where the PSP has semi-bricked because you’ve run some homebrew that has accidently written to flash when it shouldn’t.

Thirdly, I find the OE firmware ‘cleaner’ to use. If you are happy to constantly fiddle to setup the devhook to work the way you want, then maybe upgrading to OE isn’t right for you. I much prefer to have a memory stick free of clutter, so no need for multiple devhook versions running different firmware versions, just homebrew games and apps sitting in a folder that take up very little space.

Its been a while since I looked into DevHook, but I always remember it being an extra layer of complexity between the PSP and the software you want to run, whereas OE firmware’s remove this ‘middleman’. If you are emulating standard 3.03+ firmwares via devhook then you have access to all the functions of that firmware, but the OE versions have opened up the ability to play PSone games via the emulator without the need for a PS3 or access to the Sony online store.

By: Jay

Jay — Thu, 03 May 2007 07:40:17 +0000

Dave,
I have a 1.50 PSP, I have been using DevHook on it for ages and have never had any issues. My question is what would be the benefit/advantage for me to move up to 3.40OE? Not to sure if you have covered this before, but thought I would ask as am worried I’m missing out on something??
Thanks
Jay

By: chris

chris — Wed, 02 May 2007 19:03:15 +0000

chester email me at crazychris890@gmail.com if you need help