As promised, GENyUS have released 5.50GEN-B, an updated version of their latest custom firmware 5.50GEN-A. It includes improvement for the VSH menu, easy pandora battery makers and it has disabled (its buggy but works) the new Sony protection in games that detected if the PSP was hacked or not and didn’t allow the user to play the game.
Here is the official changelog:
- The bug that prevented disabling the VSH Menu has been resolved.
- The select button can either start the Recovery (Recovery in VSH), the VSH Menu (default) or do nothing at all (for those who use the remote play between PSP and PS3)
- Updated network off M33
- The game Evangelion Jopeut be launched.
- Pandorisation options are available in the VSH menu and Recovery
- Option Flash1 Format: adding a check that prevents the Flash1 format if it is in the VSH.
- 3 new functions in the VSH Menu
- Shutdown device (turn off)
- Make Normal Battery (Replace the battery in standard mode)
- Make Pandora Battery (pandodrise battery)
Required to install it:
- A PSP-1000 or PSP-2000 v1 or v2 (that means all the PSP can be flashées)
- A PSP with Custom Firmware-A 5.50GEN already installed
Installing Custom Firmware 5.50GEN-B
- Download this: CFW 5.50GEN-B (1055)
- Connect your PSP to your computer via USB,
- Post your PSP in “USB mode” with the option “USB Connection”
- Open the previously downloaded Pack RTU (WinRAR must be installed)
- Press the “Extract to”
- Select the location of your PSP and press OK
- Wait until the extraction of files. Quit the “USB mode” on your PSP
- Go to the menu “Game> Memory Stick” and run PSPGEN 5.50GEN-B UPDATE
Possibilities of 5.50GEN-B:
All functions of the official 5.50 firmware
The [Information Board] has been added under [PlayStation Network]
Those of you who have a PS3 should be familiar with this feature, which displays news and updates from SCEE in the upper right corner of the screen. You can now obtain information about the games ahead of the new content available on the Playstation Store, and other news from your PSP even if you are connected to WiFi. Note that on PS3, this feature is disabled by most users as it is accused of slowing down the connection and the console.
Support for Internet security service provided by Trend Micro has been added to [Internet Browser]
- End Micro Web Security: use technology to block access to malicious sites that can steal personal information and confidential -
- Trend Micro Kid’s Safety: You can block access to websites with inappropriate content.
Icone [Internet Search] has been added to the menu bar of your browser
Was it really necessary?
In the menu option of a game [Thursday], you can now perform an Internet search using the name of the game as a keyword.
By selecting the icon of the game and then pressing triangle and selecting [Internet Search] in the options menu allows you to get search results based on the name of the game This feature also comes from the PS3 or she appeared with the update 2.70
It is now possible to see an additional level of hierarchy under [Photo] [Music] and [Video]
It is now possible to create and access sub-folders in the folders Music, video and photo. More seriously missing.
- Launch of UMDs to ISOs to CSOs and demos require firmware 5.50 or below
- Launch homebrews
- Launch of PS1 games (converted to PSP)
- Access to Recovery mode (adjusts the processor speed of the PSP, FLASH access, use plug-ins etc.).
- Getting a VSH Menu
- The Recovery menu and VSH functions have Pandorisation.
- The Recovery menu and VSH can be used to select key
- Access to PlayStation Network (network play) and the PlayStation Store is possible.
Click to download: CFW 5.50GEN-B (1055)
After i updated i can't access the VSH menu?
I think you may need to enable it using Recovery Menu.
How do you go to the recovery menu? and enable the VSH?
Turn your PSP COMPLETELY off by holding down the off switch for 10 seconds. Then turn it on again and as soon as you flick the switch, hold down the R button and it should boot into recovery menu.
bout the access of recovery menu well, i got a slim and recently got it to 5.50gen-b. i used to b able to access the recov. menu by pressing SELECT on home screen but after i changed to GEN-B, SELECT dont work
no-more
i used to have a 3.71 m33-4
Perhaps the featured was removed or something. Can you not still access it by holding down R when turing it on?
Can somemone tell me how to bypass the (80020148) error? I have cfw 5.50genb on my system. I dont know what could be wrong. I have uploaded the USA Dissidia FF perfectly and it plays, as well as my genesis and snes homebrews, but when I try to load Tales of Vs (JAP), i get the same error ( also on Madden 10 too ) Is there something else I need to do?
“PSP COMPLETELY off by holding down the off switch for 10 seconds. Then turn it on again and as soon as you flick the switch, hold down the R button and it should boot into recovery menu.”
use the down button and click on “Configuration ->”
go down to “UMD Mode (currently: Normal -UMD required >”
while its highlight press X once. this will make it not required to have a UMD in the PSP to play a game. It will look like this “UMD Mode (currently: M33 driver -NO UMD ->”
Navigate back to the top,and press the X button while on the “back”
go to “Advanced ->”
then “Advanced configuration ->”
make sure the top 2 are disabled:
“Plain modules in UMD.ISO Currently: Disabled)”
“Execute BOOT.bin in UMD/ISO (currently: Disabled)”
then go “back”
and “back” again
and scroll back down to Exit.
the psp will then start back up.
Now the PSP is all set to play ISO and CSO
Enjoy
NOTE: You need to enable “Plain modules in UMD/ISO)” if you want to enable some plugins…I wonder?
Does game sharing work on this firmware? It doesn’t work on my 5.00 M33-6.
Can you play 5.50+ games without patching, yes?
The game sharing works for me. And also yes you can play 5.50+ games without patching