What version of PSP is preferrable?

now now children, play nicely and let's keep insults to a minimum on a need-to-insult basis

 

Yes mother.

 

Theres my laugh for the day
:lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:

Anywho, the TA-081 motherboards can be hacked, they just need to be patched first. My PSP has a TA-081 MB and i was able to flash CFW onto it. There is also a way to identify if you have a TA-081 or not. I dont remember the specifics( i did this like a year and a half ago), but it involves opening the UMD door and looking for something printed on the MB. Ill try to find more specific instructions and if i do ill post them shortly.

 

I think he got the IDs mixed up. There is a new mb thats not hacked yet due to the new cpu that boost encryption on the ipl. i think its 82v3 or something. I'd have to check to be fully sure.

 

Hope that helps.

Ahh shit youre right, i totally got the ID's mixed up. At any rate, what i posted above should at least help him identify what MB he has.

 

Thanks for the info Subbie. Getting this info from a PSP programmer is priceless. And don't worry, I'm mostly interested in emulating PS1 without buying all my games all over again.

 

So which version of M33 is best? I see the M33 team still maintain 3.71, 3.80 & 3.90 as downloads.

 

Always use the lastest version of the firmware, or you'd get save problem if later, you update your PSP : for example, if you play a game made for 5.0 under 3.80 M33 fw, and later you update to 5.0 M33, your saves won't work (you'll have to use savegame deemer to make them work, a bit painful if you have played more than 10 games).

 

Ive never had my saves not work after updating my CFW.

 

Try playing Locoroco 2 on 3.80 M33, then save, then update to 5.0, and you'll see.

 

Ahhh, ive never updated past 3.80 m33. I updated from earlier versions, however, and my saves always worked afterwards. Maybe it only happens when going to 5.0?

 

Maybe, I stayed on 3.80 for a long time, and didn't have any problem either.
But I had problem with locoroco 2, and SW : unleashed (some people also had problem with Final Fantasy : Crisis Core when they updated to 4.0)

 

It looks like ill be sticking wiht 3.80 M33 for a while then:icon_bigg I dont have any games that require newer than that anyways.

 

the only one question of importance is, which model has the best D-Pad? (-> to finally be able to play all those hunderts great 2D classics without getting mad in the first 10 seconds of playing).

honestly, the first model got the very worst d-pad in whole history of all d-pads!! :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

 

I remember laughing when I tried to play Street Fighter Alpha 3 on a friend's PSP, it wasn't even borderline playable. I think it's kind of dishonest to release such games for a system that so inherently lacks a decent control method.

 

I honestly have not found any version of a PSP with a decent D-Pad. You just gotta get used to the piece of crap dpad.