PSP Recent Homebrew/Piracy Breakthroughs

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Aten

#381 October 29, 2007, 07:48:33 pm

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Yeah, I wasnt putting it into a folder. Anyway, it does show up, but then....nothing. Blank. The home key works, with some options, but the game doesnt play.

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headphonics

#382 October 29, 2007, 10:24:27 pm

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speaking of all this

i really do not understand the concept of ps1 eboots. sotn, for example. it's a ~500mb game when i've seen it on mininova, and other sites that you can get it from. like, that's the size of the iso. and yet, the 100% functioning copy on my psp is... 30mb. is this just mad amounts of compression, or what? it seems like every ps1 game i've gotten an eboot for is way, way smaller than its respective iso, according to what i've seen on other sites (and sometimes, in the game of pspiso specifically, what i've seen on the same site in different threads from different people). are the typical isos available for download that full of superfluous information that you can take a single file that's a fraction of the full image size and still play the entire game flawlessly?

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Aten

#383 October 29, 2007, 10:52:32 pm

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PS

I was trying to play FF9. It comes up to the "Presented by Calypso! Enjoy!" screen, then after that, blank. Also, I tried Wild 9. It plays but there is no music, and no option to set it either :\ (the music is set to +2 and volume is max, I hear the sound effects, but no music)

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#384 October 30, 2007, 02:33:35 am

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Quote from: bazookatooth on October 29, 2007, 10:24:27 pm

speaking of all this

i really do not understand the concept of ps1 eboots. sotn, for example. it's a ~500mb game when i've seen it on mininova, and other sites that you can get it from. like, that's the size of the iso. and yet, the 100% functioning copy on my psp is... 30mb. is this just mad amounts of compression, or what? it seems like every ps1 game i've gotten an eboot for is way, way smaller than its respective iso, according to what i've seen on other sites (and sometimes, in the game of pspiso specifically, what i've seen on the same site in different threads from different people). are the typical isos available for download that full of superfluous information that you can take a single file that's a fraction of the full image size and still play the entire game flawlessly?

It's just compression. When you rip a PSOne game that you legitimately own and convert it for the PSP format or whatever, you can specify the level of compression. Sometimes, you can't compress the game as much in order to get it to run. I guess this means that you've been naughty and haven't been ripping your own games!

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reko

#385 November 02, 2007, 01:11:24 pm

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Quote from: bazookatooth on October 29, 2007, 10:24:27 pm

sotn, for example. it's a ~500mb game when i've seen it on mininova, and other sites that you can get it from. like, that's the size of the iso. and yet, the 100% functioning copy on my psp is... 30mb.

Wait what? How in hell is it 30mb for you? I compressed it and got it down to like 350-400 megs iirc.

PS. Out of curiosity what do you guys use to convert PSX ISOs into PSP eboots? I use PSX2PSP Popstation or whatever, is it the best app out there?

Last Edit: November 02, 2007, 01:12:58 pm by ramirez

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headphonics

#386 November 02, 2007, 01:42:58 pm

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I don't know! I haven't had the need to convert one myself, because I've been able to find everything I've wanted to play on PSPISO, and since I have a membership to Rapidshare, that's really a lot faster than torrenting things or ripping them for the games I actually own and converting them myself. But I've been playing SotN and it's like 29mb, I think. A lot of the games there are like 50 and under. Not serious ones, like MGS, or Parasite Eve, or Final Fantasy, but other, shorter ones. But if that's not the size you can get it down to when you convert it, maybe there's something weird they do, which is what I was curious about. 30mb seems really tiny.

On another note, I bought an 8gb memory stick, and the write speeds are just as fast as the 2 gig one that was with mine when it came, more or less. I'd heard horror stories about it being really really really slow, but I think people were exaggerating.

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Aten

#387 November 02, 2007, 07:49:44 pm

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Man, f**ing 30MB? I NEED that compressor! Well, I've gotton Xenogears and Legend of Legaia to run, but they are both still in their original sizes :\

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Neophyte

#388 November 02, 2007, 08:09:41 pm

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bazookatooth: Link to these files?

I find that hard to believe, usually when they're that size it's just people ripping things out of the game like Music, sound effects, etc.
If that's all still in there, than that's fucking amazing.

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headphonics

#389 November 02, 2007, 11:09:59 pm

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I thought this was common knowledge, and just something I wasn't understanding. You even mentioned PSPISO as a website you get shit from a lot of the time, so I sort of figured you would've seen the threads where it is like ***172 PS1 eboots*** or whatever and that a lot of the single-disc games on there, that came out earlier in the PS1's lifetime are under 100mb. like, well under. I think RPGs even like Wild Arms and pretty much most games before '97 or '98 are roughly that small. It was just something I noted. Bloody Roar 2, which is a game I randomly just looked at in a topic, is 18mb. Bushido Blade is 50.

Do you think it's because they just took the sound out, though? I don't get the point! Who would want to play a game without sound, even if you can get it down to 30mb? Anyway, I think you're probably right, because my SotN version has sound effects, but music is conspicuously absent, and until now I just assumed this was a problem on my end, or a glitch or something, as I didn't even realize it was possible when compressing to completely take out music but not sound effects, or any of that at all, actually. Can you take out FMVs, too? I guess it's only so small because they just took out the music. I think I'd prefer it to be 300mb bigger and have an actual soundtrack, though.

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Neophyte

#390 November 03, 2007, 12:21:09 am

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Yeah, that's what I figured. I went to one of those threads that's called "LESS THAN 100MB PS1 GAMES" or something. He said the music and FMV's from games were taken out, which is why they were so small.
SotN is 500x better with music btw.

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Tau

#391 November 03, 2007, 03:08:34 am

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Any of you guys tried Monster Hunter Freedom 2? Thinking about downloading it but just not sure about it, I mean it looks all good and seems to be pretty long, but when watching the trailer, I didn't see any real mention of a main story, just gameplay and what not.

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Aten

#392 November 03, 2007, 09:31:54 am

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Man, anyone know why Daxter doesn't work on 3.71M33-2? It's like, it turns on, then blank, then PSP turns off. Please answer!!!

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#393 November 03, 2007, 02:58:58 pm

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Quote from: Guts on November 03, 2007, 09:31:54 am

Man, anyone know why Daxter doesn't work on 3.71M33-2? It's like, it turns on, then blank, then PSP turns off. Please answer!!!

Could be a bad ISO file. Did you try downloading it from somewhere else?

Eijin: I was gonna try that game, but after putting it on my PSP it wouldn't work. The font was all messed up due to me customizing my themes a lot....so I never got around to trying it.
It has almost no story, by the way.

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headphonics

#394 November 03, 2007, 05:14:27 pm

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I tried it and found it kind of repetitive and dull to play alone, but you might like it. I've heard that it only really shines when you play it with other people, though. Also, a lot of games don't work by default when I throw them on. Did you try fiddling with your settings?

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Dyne

#395 November 04, 2007, 02:04:56 pm

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okay, so I bet this has been discussed but I have been out of the homebrew scene for quite a while and I'm wondering what the latest custom (best, whatever) firmware out right now is? I have 3.03 oe-a right now and I really wanna upgrade. so if somebody could help me out and then maybe show me how to upgrade to it that would awesome! i really wanna play some psp isos and cant seem to figure it out. do they even work on 3.03 oe-a?

sorry if this is pretty stupid.

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Madolah

#396 November 04, 2007, 02:21:27 pm

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Ok so i'm trading my DS for a PSP, and i want to add a custom firmware to it w/o bricking it. i want to be able to have a few isos or whatever and maybe a rom or 2.

HOW do i update to a custom(hacked firmware) what one should i update to and how do i avoid bricking. i'd like to know what tools are used to compress isos into psp compatible formats and which and a site to get the games PM me the gray-area Parts, or all of it. i really wanna get in on this.

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#397 November 04, 2007, 03:23:08 pm

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Quote from: bazookatooth on October 29, 2007, 10:24:27 pm

speaking of all this

i really do not understand the concept of ps1 eboots. sotn, for example. it's a ~500mb game when i've seen it on mininova, and other sites that you can get it from. like, that's the size of the iso. and yet, the 100% functioning copy on my psp is... 30mb. is this just mad amounts of compression, or what? it seems like every ps1 game i've gotten an eboot for is way, way smaller than its respective iso, according to what i've seen on other sites (and sometimes, in the game of pspiso specifically, what i've seen on the same site in different threads from different people). are the typical isos available for download that full of superfluous information that you can take a single file that's a fraction of the full image size and still play the entire game flawlessly?

There are like or so 10 levels of compression. Some games freeze/ lock up/ fuck up the beyond certain points of compression. It's best to make the eBoot's yourself just in case you need to recompile it. I've had to do this on several occasions.... and it always fixed my problems.

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HOW do i update to a custom(hacked firmware) what one should i update to and how do i avoid bricking. i'd like to know what tools are used to compress isos into psp compatible formats and which and a site to get the games PM me the gray-area Parts, or all of it. i really wanna get in on this.

Read the topic. It's all here. I suggest you start from the latest posts and go back, since things have changed since the topic was first made.

Furthermore, you have to find out your firmware version (and possibly your hardware/mobo versions) before you start looking for how. If you hand me the specific details about your psp I'll be able to point you in the right direction.

Last Edit: November 04, 2007, 09:01:59 pm by Chainer

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#398 November 04, 2007, 03:36:20 pm

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Quote from: Guts on October 29, 2007, 10:52:32 pm

I was trying to play FF9. It comes up to the "Presented by Calypso! Enjoy!" screen, then after that, blank.

What region disc is it? The european FF9 contains copy protection which might cause a problem.

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Severus

#399 November 04, 2007, 06:32:28 pm

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Quote from: microsoft word document on November 04, 2007, 03:36:20 pm

What region disc is it? The european FF9 contains copy protection which might cause a problem.

It may have been that, when I ripped my Euro FFIX it had problems so I just downloaded an NTSC one instead, though I think there was a fix tot he copy protection.

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reko

#400 November 04, 2007, 08:34:43 pm

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I had the same problem with FFIX. PAL didn't work, NTSC did. Anyway tell me people, what program do you use to convert your original PSX ISOs to PSP Eboots?

big thanx to dragonslayer for sig!

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