Ok so we can now play 5.55 and 6.00 Firmware UMD games on Custom Firmware, which is just awesome. However judging by all the comments, a lot of you are a bit lost when it comes to running UMDGEN 4 and extracting the eboot etc.
Luckily for you guys, long time forum resident Rith has posted [...]

Forum expert UltimaKillz has posted, without a doubt the best PSP tutorial on how to install custom firmware on any PSP. This tutorial is very well written. It provides all the links and info needed. Information like flashing Custom Firmware with a Pandora battery, using chickHEN R2, and  CFWEnabler. Its all there, covering PSP-1000’s to [...]

This is a quick tutorial / guide to running Custom Firmware Enabler 3.30+ on your PSP-3000. We have two choices for CFW on our PSP-2000 TA-088v3+ models and PSP-3000’s. Either 5.03 GEN-A or this custom firmware. We’re now swaying towards Xenogears and becus25’s CFWEnabler as the updates are rolling out quicker, it has less bugs [...]

Since ChickHEN is out PSP-2000 owners with a TA88v2 or less or a TA90v1 motherboard now have the option to now install Custom Firmware without the need of a Pandora battery.We have put together a Easy installer that contains everything you’ll need. Hellcats Recovery flasher, ChickHEN, PSP firmware update 5.00.
Warning make sure you only try [...]

Finally we have Homebrew on the PSP-3000 or TA88v3 thanks to Davee and Team Typhoon. Here we bring you a small ChickHEN tutorial / guide on how to best set up ChickHEN in order to get it running and fast. Plus some recommend Homebrew Games and Emulators to get you started!
Here’s a quick run down [...]