Dark_AleX has released PSP custom firmware 4.01 M33. This new custom firmware edition from DAX brings 4.01 kernel support and features from firmware 4.01, multi language recovery support and many minor bug fixes. Custom Firmware 4.01 M33 does not have a XMB recovery menu or savestate support at this stage, this will follow in future updates possibly 4.01 M33-1 or 4.01 M33-2.
4.01 M33 can be downloaded and updated on 3.80 M33 upwards using the network update feature or use the download links provided.
* Extract the archive. * Copy included UPDATE folder to X:/PSP/GAME * Place the official firmware 4.01 update EBOOT, named as 401.PBP, in the newly created UPDATE folder * Begin installation from the Game menu.
* Extract the archive. * Copy included UPDATE folder to X:/PSP/GAME
* Place the official firmware 4.01 update EBOOT, named as 401.PBP, in the newly created UPDATE folder * Begin installation from the Game menu.
(Custom Firmware 4.01 M33 - 436.8 KiB - 17,996 Hits)
(PSP Firmware 4.01 - 24.5 MiB - 19,949 Hits)
Updating now… Good work DAX
[...] PSP Custom Firmware 4.01 M33 Released [...]
ok i downloaded the coston m33 4.01 firmwar and downloade the offishul i rename the ofishul firmware 401.PBP poot it in update folder along with the eboot file the m33 gave me and i hade it plugd in with 100% baterly life but wwen i go to install it on my psp it starts up the psp sighn after that the creen gos black and then i get an error saying The game could not be started (80020148) ples help.
Do you have CFW?
can you play games here?
4.01m33-2 is out!!!
i got the same prob as primus, someone plz help
exaclty the same as primus and elSOADfan. I have official firmware 3.93 and thought i could update it to custom firmware 4.01 i have downloaded it and downloaded the official update. It is there but when i click on it it goes tyo game could not be started and numbers 80020148. can someone tell me please why it isnt working or if i can get custom firmware? my email is Jackh1234@googlemail.com thanks
so it means if we have official firmware this custom firmware will be useless.
the pandora way is still the only way to uninstall official firmware??
Yh same question as cikiwik. How can i get cfw?? on 3.93 official firmware??? i may just buy a pandora battery + memory stick
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OK lisen up to the people that had the game could not be started error. this is basicly usles to people that dont have a 3.80m33 or beter you haft to have preves ver of m33 from 3.80 and up i forone think its bullshit can you just add this funchin so we can start fresh. i do thank you dark alex for your past firmwars or it the alex firmware team im speeking to so mabey wen the 4.01m33-2 coms out includ this rilly important part for people ho cant get pandora batery if its posible. ps onts agin i haft to wat a month or 2 to get a working m33
I will stick to 3.90M33 on my white-ceramic PSP slim.
4.01M33 = too much hype and nothing new, who cares about 4.xx kernel? who cares about crappy old 1.50 kernel stuff?
I will update when they add real DIVX support, save-states, flash player 9.x and a new webbrowser for the slim because the current webbrowser is crap.
Hello, i need some help whith my PSP. I have softare Version 4.00. I download 4.00 in PSP Network Update. When I trying to update my PSP to 4.01 m33 shows this messegs ( The game could not be started (80020148)) Can I update my Psp to some (m33) update whith no Pandora Battery? Please help mee. My e-mail is fotkevinboll@hotmail.com
Are You Sure it Works I Am Afraid it doesnt work
you need to update your psp to firmware 4.01 first then to 4.01 m33 and about the pandora battery I’m sorry, I know nothing about it
HEELLPPP!!! I got the new firmware its crapp nothin new and my emulators dnt work now and i need help… and i dnt want to downgrade… and the pandora battery…. ppl can basically do it themselves it isn hard… but yea i need help with the new firmware and my emulators
PLEAS HELP ME I DOWNLOAD THE CUSTOM FIRMWARE AND HE TOLD ME THE COULD NOT BE READY WHAT I DO PLEAS HELP ME
PLEAS HELP ME I DOWNLOAD THE CUSTOM FIRMWARE THEN THE PSP HE TOLD ME THE GAME COULD BE READY WHAT I DO PLEAS HELP WATH YOU ?
cfw 4.01 m33-2 is Out
so you need custom firmware to update to this custom firmware? i have OFW 3.95 and i cant start this new update :S please answer? ive been waiting for this for 3 months :/ and i didnt know so much about psp when i updated to 3.95..
WHAT THE FUCK! ok people this custom firmware is very bad the data is corrupted and i see all people comment that its very bad the custom firmware and i put the eboot to psp and it says:data corrupted? ok then i dont know y it says data corrupted and its to complicated to much folders in the custom firmware and some body help me NOW! because i’ve been waiting 4 months for custom firmware so i can play digimon world 3 ok so heres my e-mail Rayman_2000x@hotmail.com e-mail me please note that i dont have magic memory stick nor pandora battery please HELP!!! i want to play digimon on my PSP!
Alright, I just finished updating my PSP via the 3.90 M33 Network Update. It works fine! If you can’t follow simple instructions then you deserve to brick your PSP.
Second, this is ONLY FOR THOSE USING CUSTOM FIRMWARE! You cannot put custom firmware on your psp without using a Pandora Battery, etc,.
Let me Reiterate [[[THE ONLY WAY TO PUT CUSTOM FIRMWARE ON YOUR PSP IS BY USING A PANDORA BATTERY OR ANOTHER SUCH METHOD. THIS ONLY WORKS FOR PEOPLE WITH EXISTING CUSTOM FIRMWARE INSTALLATIONS.]]]
Aaaah thats the info i wanted Leben thanks!
well im gonna buy a pandora battery and make a mgic memory stick, lots of vids on youtube doesnt seem to hard.
PEOPLE WHO WANT CFW BUT HAVE OFFICIAL FIRMWARE DO THE SAME!! make your own pandora battery (or buy one for 13 pounds on amazon) and make a magic memory stick (youtube)
ok i got the Sony firmware 4.00 and well just realized it was Sony’s when i installed it. well just got the cfw 4.01 and well it wont install ! what do i do?
Post it so that ether people with the some thing can see it
you are all fucking idiots.
YOU NEED CUSTOM FIRMWARE BEFORE YOU INSTALL THIS 4.01 M33!!! no other way around it you NEED customfirmware
and to get that, you need to use a Pandora’s battery, there is not other way
Are you people dumb?? cant you read?? it specifically says for only those people with 3.80 m33 or higher then what the f**k are you trying on the orignal sony software?
How did so many ignorant people end up on pspslimhacks? I don’t understand it, I’ve never seen anything like this here before, aside from the Help forums, and even then they weren’t being rude like this. WTF?
but thats not fair y cant u upgrade without custom firmware thats bullshit dark alex u should let firmwares upgrade to custom because this is bullshit thats stupid
are you kidding me jimmy? you should be shot, it has nothign to do with alex, it’s because the other firmwares can’t boot unsigned stuff, which is needed to update the PSP
please co crawl in a cave and shoot your self
well i updated my psp to. m- and it works fine , all the games work fine but the problem is my psptube is gone , it wont work .. anyone knows why the psptube is gone ?? thanks
well i updated my psp to 4.01m33-2 and it works fine , all the games work fine but the problem is my psptube is gone , it wont work .. anyone knows why the psptube is gone ?? thanks
never mind i did it its working ^^
am currently using m33 3.80 -5 if i upgrade to 4.01 will vagrant story for psx still work on it. because i made a mistake of going to 3.93 version and the poploader wasn’t that good.i had to revert, though it cost me little.
ATTENTION: FOR THIS UPDATE YOU MUST HAVE A CUSTOM FIRMWARE (3.80 m33) AND IF U DON’T YOU WILL NEED PANDORA BATTERY. THERE’S IS NO NEED TO UNDERSTAND WHY IT DOESN’T RUN ON OFW. JUST UNDERSTAND THAT YOU NEED PANDORA AND MAGIC MEMORY CARD.EASY AND SIMPLE
Sephiroth, I dont know if you were being specific as to which custom firmware you need, but I had the 3.95 GEN-2 on my psp and I was able to still update. So I think that you have to have ANY custom firmware
I was a newbie, and you was a newbie too… so don’t act like a fag.
look people, if you need help with anything, go to the forums. this is for commenting on the actual release or thread of a particular program, accessory, rumor etc.
Hey guys,I have a few Q’s for anyone and everyone that has the 4.01 m33 installed and use Emulators (NES/SNES/Sega/Genesis etc)
I have PSP slim,CFW 3.90 m33-3 right now,
1.I can install this 4.01 m33-1 update using (XMB-Settings-Network Update) ?
2.If I install this update will IR-Shell,and all my emulators still work?
3. Anyone have any idea when a good working N64 emulator is going to be out,I want Zelda OOT,Majora’s mask,and Conkers bad furday to work,And maybe Goldeneye 007,So anyone know when and if those games run good yet?.
Email-Humanbonz82@yahoo.com or just reply here and I will check back soon,Thanks for any help
And I can’t get into the forums because they still haven’t sent my activation email,So I can’t post/make a thread and ask,So can I please get some help(Read post above
Guys he has the 2nd update up. GOD pspslimhacks is so slow on the news!!!
Where is the second update?And whats changed?also can anyone answer my Q’s above
Guys honestly you want better info? use either http://www.consolespot.net or http://www.qj.net or http://www.psp-hacks.com
ir-shell will not work and a couple emulators won’t work till they update. like snes won’t maybe gpsp
Thanks for the reply Xilus,In that case Ill pass on this update,Till I get better clarification on if or when everything will work
ok can i (im too lazy to read every thing)(im also typing this in y im watching signs) but if i wait for 4.05 or 4.10 will it install?
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downloaded the firmware,and most of the plugins dont work!!!!! is there gonna be a fix for that
well,my pops plugin worked…havent tried my emulator yet…i guess the 4XX kernel is the problem to emulator….guess i know y darkie wanna fix the issue of kernel before giving out the savestate and all the yada yada
can somebody help me because i need to know whats a kernel for psp phat whats does it work for? does it make the custom firmware install ur psp?.reply please.easy way to reply,rayman_2000x@hotmail.com e-mail me or add me to help me.
Well the 4.01 m33-2 is good, the only problem is that it cant use cxmb other than that works perfect.
1.Does Vagrant Story work for 4.01 m33 2.the save states to be implemented is it for Psp games or Psx games
Vagrant Story freezes while loading just past the PS logo. Can’t R1 on start up to select pops version.
foe….have to re-enable it at recovery…
How many times is this better than v. 3.90 M33-3. and also can we play ISO’s more efficiently
geez,my apps does not work anymore..pspmaps.psptube.mapthis…..wtf??????????????????
partially solved by moving the folders from /game380 to/game advice:wait for clarifications before upgradeing
fuck this shit i waited ages for cfw now i cant have it wtf?? bollocks to dark alex he should let people with official firmware under4.01 update to cfw4.m33
you fucking idiot! this has NOTHING to do with alex not letting OFW upgrade to CFW
it’s because it’s IMPOSIBLE FOR OFW TO BOOT CUSTOM FILES NEEDED T O UPGRADE TO CFW
you’re all ignortany noobs
agreed with jack
Why are people so fucking dull, DAX goes all the way to create a custom firmware for free, and even offers ways to downgrade your psp and psp slim, and dude, he’s doing it for the love not money, so i believe he doesn’t deserve to be called bollocks, or what so ever. u fucking retard. go downgrade, logically speaking u should know that Machines are built not to run unsigned codes that’s why u shud downgrade.
# jimmy Says: June 30th, 2008 at 7:09 pm
N.B: Downgrade or you can go complain to sony.
i cant downgrade theres no downgrade for my version psp 3.95
Its called Pandora’s battery..
As someone said, this is the COMMENTS section not HELP. Post about the release and don’t go rambling on about not being able to install it.
Nice, the brightness-changing problem in the PSX emulator is finally gone (…if that’s old news, it’s b/c I upgraded from 3.72)
Does anybody khow if theres a new version of cxmb? cuz with the upgrade i cant use it anymore.
never mind, found it.
to clarify:great release as usual,just put your apps in /game folder and activate the plugins again,there is a cxmb for 4.0 somewhere,psptube,mapthis,mapviewer working again,thank you (again) Dark_Alex
hey DAX you are the best from spain
WARNING!!!! If you hold the “R” Trigger and power your PSP on with this new firmware…once you change the settings and hit “EXIT”…YOUR PSP WILL BRICK!!! I have flashed and recovered my PSP 4 times now testing this…it BRICKS every time if you go into the RECOVERY menu and hit “EXIT” Highly recommend not upgrading to this version until this flaw is fixed!!
thanks for the Alert,
tat’s a lie
It’s not a lie…its how it acts on my (6) PSP’s and I have nothing to gain by stating my experience with this new firmware.
I have no problems with Recovery.
so i ask, will this efficiently replace 3.90m33-3, or is it still worth holding out in terms of compatibility with previous plugins and emus??
I NEED HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I now have a 4.01 M33, but I have the same problem as in the previous V.3.90 M33-3 i used to have, Whenever I copy paste ISO’s(more than one) in the ISO Folder and then turn on my PSP, to the memory stick below the game icon, it only displays the first ISO I pasted and not the others, how come I can’t play more than one ISO saved in my PSP?????? HELP MEEEEEEEEEEEEE :O Does it have problem with the battery, or the memory stick????????Anything, I just need a Reply O_o o_O
this isn’t your answer but im asking you a question. how did you get custom firmware and is it easy to install
can this firmware version play vagrant story and ff7,am a sucker for square-enix(formerly squaresoft) and this will really blow if it doesnt work
also the savestate are they for psp games or psx games
GameMasterVideo,i did this 2 times to re-enable some plugins,everything was ok…
hi i have just bout a psp slim its a 3.80 version so can anyone help me to put a custom firmware in it my aim is takumichenchang and my email is sky2st@tmail.com can any1 help me
Steve, get a pandora and Magic memory stick, just look for a friend with a custom firmware,and research with google, or search this site, they are well informed, and the chanes of bricking is low
I had 3.90m33 went to a wifi hotspot and ran network update today it downloaded 4.01m33-2 and the OFW did the update, easy as pie and so far working good! MUCHO gracias DAX! usted es awsome!
people, please calm down and be thankful because these projects are worth it. do not call anyone anything because even you cannot do it. call them anything you want if you can do better than them instead of calling them names. just continue DAX. many people support you
still haven’t tried the upgrade but what i know is that you can update it from a cfw and it is not limited to 3.80 only. just try. you won’t learn if you will not fail. just remember that.
[...] 4.01 M33 has been [...]
Guys again I reiterate, Use http://www.consolespot.net or http://www.psp-hacks.com or http://www.qj.net They have more info than this site. Plus the only reason why most emulators won’t work is that they don’t have an open-end kernal patch, meaning some of the developers didn’t think about future updates and stayed back in the primative age. If you still want to use old emulators and/or apps try out eloader. As for ps one games, they are going to work because psp’s in general have the ability to process the data that are ripped from the cd’s.
I have 4.01 ofw is there anyway to convert it to a custom firmware without using a pandoras battery pleaaaaaase reply me faaaaaaast
Updated and doing well(Y) No problems with installing unless you have the Official FirmWare.
Anyone whose done the updates to version 4.01 and has a custom firmwall msg me please.. bridgetmcmlln@tmail.com I need to do this.. I also want the psptube on mines.. Anyone who knows how to do this and has theirs done.. Again msg me @ bridgetmcmlln@tmail.com
ay peoples, i jus downloaded this a few days ago and works great, also got psptube and a emulator for the bga on it and everything works great. only question i have is, why can’t you get flash player on hacked psp’s? i already got psptube but you have to already know the page address so it’s pretty useless
my psp keeps gettin corrupted. i dnt like dat at all.
cause maybe you keep doing things incorrectly. Have you ever thought about THAT?
i get a error plz help me i need custom versoin 4.01 right now im stuck with sony 4.01
WASTE OF TIME !!!!!!!!
BATTERY STUPID SOLOUTION ??????
THAT CAN BE FIXED WITH NEW PATCH !!?!?
Ok slow down ppl. I have 3.90 m33-3 and im not in any hurry to upgrade. I jus hate the the IRshell doesn’t work on 3.90 but thats ok. I can always downgrade. As long as u have a magic memory stick and a pandora battery u can always downgrade no matter what the firmware is. My only concern is will the IRshell ever be upgraded to work on 3.90 m33 cfw.
For all of those who have trouble installing custom firmware 4.01 M33 , I will tell you the solution. Fisrt of all, you MUST have a custom firmware aleready installed on your psp (eg. 3
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