Without a new custom firmware, those unwilling to upgrade to higher versions of the official PSP firmware are pretty much locked out of playing a lot of the new PSP games. Homebrew coder Yoshihiro may have a solution, however.


Thanks to Jonny P for the tip!

There are four PSP models right now. There's the 1000, the 2000, the 3000, and the soon-to-be-released Go. How far is Sony planning to continue revising the hardware for their handheld? Rumor has it that they may be planning to release at least eight different models.

Thanks to JSanity663 for the tip!

It's been a while since we last heard from GENyUS and the rest of the GEN team but now their back to release a bug fix update for Custom Firmware 5.50GEN-B. The latest update fixes some compatibility issues from the previous release.


Download: Custom Firmware 5.50GEN-B2
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With the PSP Go release date just around the corner, it seems Sony is pretty determined to prevent the hacking community from tinkering their brand new handheld by releasing various firmwares. Now PSPGen is reporting that Sony has already released a brand spanking new beta version of PSP firmware 6.0 for official developers to test their games and adapt with the brand new firmware.

Now here's an interesting video coming from GamesCom. During a test session at Sony's booth, MaGiXieN of PSPGen was able to film and test a new firmware for PSP Go. Watch the video after the link.

French PSP site PSPGen has supposedly managed to acquire a European release schedule for upcoming PS3 and PSP titles. The report also includes scans of what seem to be brochures for PSP and PS3 console bundles.

KaiserCz, one of the editors at PSPGen, went over to the Japan Expo for a look at what the event had to offer. There, he got his hands on a PSP-1000, on which he tried out a Soul Calibur demo. But that's not really the point of this story. What's notable here is that KaiserCz found that the PSP that he used was running on firmware 5.55.

As promised, PSPGen together with GENyUS has released the much awaited Custom Firmware 5.50GEN-B. This is great news to all GEN users especially when news broke days ago that Sony has successfully implemented a security update that prevented Custom Firmware 5.00 M33 users from accessing the Playstation Store. Fortunately, Custom Firmware 5.50GEN users were safe.

Download: Custom Firmware 5.50GEN-B

Heads up GEN users, the folks at PSPGen have announced that a new update for Custom Firmware 5.50GEN will be released soon. The Custom Firmware 5.50GEN-B will feature new updates mostly in the VSH Recovery Menu.

Last week, PSPGen has released unofficial version of Poison's CXMB for the Custom Firmware 5.50GEN-A. But the beta release has some minor bugs so homebrew coder Matchung decided to compile a cxmb.prx to solve the issue regarding the list of themes not showing in the proper menu settings.

Download: CXMB for 5.50Gen
Download: 5.50 CTF Tools