You convert them yourself. Use "ICE TEA" to convert.

Oh crap yes. Thanks Gutts!
Now I'm going to play every single game ever made one by one and then try to figure out why this is so cool.


Edit: Okay, so my Earthbound game is messing up. It freezes up every couple of minutes so I can't even get past Porky's house!! Is it just my ROM or is it my emulator? I'm using Earthbound (U) as a rom, i forget where I got it, and my emulator is snex8xtyl 0.4.2 for 3.XX firmware. Is there a better emulator to use or is it just my roms? I haven't had any trouble with Super Mario All-Stars, Super Bomberman, or Lufia & The Fortress of Doom, but Kirby Super Star runs very slow and I think Chrono Trigger freezes up on menus, but I'll test it.

you dont even have to hack it, just go buy an r4 and google ds roms or some shit.  they're tiny so tons of sites host them flatout like they do any other type of rom.

Oh crap yes. Thanks Gutts!
Now I'm going to play every single game ever made one by one and then try to figure out why this is so cool.


Edit: Okay, so my Earthbound game is messing up. It freezes up every couple of minutes so I can't even get past Porky's house!! Is it just my ROM or is it my emulator? I'm using Earthbound (U) as a rom, i forget where I got it, and my emulator is snex8xtyl 0.4.2 for 3.XX firmware. Is there a better emulator to use or is it just my roms? I haven't had any trouble with Super Mario All-Stars, Super Bomberman, or Lufia & The Fortress of Doom, but Kirby Super Star runs very slow and I think Chrono Trigger freezes up on menus, but I'll test it.

I don't know for certain but I'm guessing that its the emulator. Emulation on the PSP is a imperfect thing compared to emulating on the PC. The PSP doesn't have the resources to handle it as well as a average PC. It's best for emulating PS because its a official emulator or just playing PSP titles. SNES or GBA is limited because its running that stuff on hardware that wasn't built for it.

So. Custom Firmware 5.00. Who's tried it yet? after that last fiasco with CFW4.01m33-2, I'm not completely ready to go all out.

I'm still getting around with 3.90-M33. ^^;

Ok you ****ies. I'm man enough to try it out *insert rambo icon here*

It's not bad. Not what it hyped up to be, but not bad. Don't know about any potential side effects, since I haven't tried ps1 games yet, but my gba emu still works.

None at all. I do it because I'm curious. (And it might turn out to be great)

Aren't some of the newer games incompatible with older firmware?

Does anyone know what fw version the new Star Ocean game for PSP requires? I still have 2.52 (I think), since I haven't touched my PSP for ages.

EDIT. Nvm, I got 3.90 M33-2 and Star Ocean: First Departure works fine with it.

3.71 M33-2. You don't need anything else. It plays PSX games at best quality, no glitches BY DEFAULT and every PSP game till now runs just fine on it. It also has best compatibility with ANY homebrews you would want to run, (CWCHEAT FTW!!!) and is generally best overall.

If you want internet radio, skype, messenger and other bulls*it then upgrade to the latest which is 5.00 M33 and works pretty good IMO but you lose the ability to play PSX games unless you run more patches to it.

I haven't touched my PSP in ages but I just turned it on and looked at the firmware. I'm still at 3.40 OE-A. I must be ages behind. Someone tell me what I should upgrade to - I'm just too behind on the PSP scene too catch up on my own.

I use 3.90 or 3.92 or something, and I haven't had any problems with it.  I was using 3.71 for a while and I feel like there was SOMETHING I needed to upgrade to 3.90 to play, though.  Like, that's the only reason I ever update.  So yeah, I'm not sure 3.71 plays everything, otherwise I wouldn't have upgraded to 3.90.

Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep is due out soonish isn't it?