Custom Firmware 5.50 GEN-D has just been released, the release that should have been the cursed 5.50 GEN-C release. This custom firmware now lets users play back up UMD’s that require firmware 5.55 or 6.00 without patching the eboot.
So you save yourself a few steps in playing 5.55+ games. No more extracting the games eboot, [...]

While everyone is waiting for Custom Firmware 5.50 GEN-D to release in *hopefully* 1 hour, PSPGen have posted a new video showing us a new feature they have added to 5.50 GEN-D. 480×272 res AVC video support. Yoshihiro demonstrates this in the above video. However this new video support comes at a cost. Since its [...]

Custom Firmware 5.50 GEN-D is coming tomorrow according to PSPGEN.com’s post just made about 15 minutes ago. They have commented that all the bugs present in the cursed 5.50 GEN-C release have been fixed. And it can play firmware 5.55, 6.00 and 6.10 games work without any eboot patching with Game Encrypter needed. Stay tuned [...]

Remember last weeks big news item? Freeplay’s video of the PSP Go displaying Hello World? This was achieved through an undiscovered save game data exploit. The exploit that uses an “unknown” Games save data to exploit the system and enable user mode kernels to run. Well its been confirmed legitimate and has been tested by [...]

The PSPGen crew didn’t waste any time, as they have finished decrypting PSP Firmware 6.00. Hopefully this means we will have a new CFW on the way. Which would no doubt be called Custom Firmware 6.00 GEN-A. Although reading the comment below, there is no public 6.00 GEN release planned…
Translated from PSPGen:
The first stage of [...]

EDIT: CFW 5.03 GEN-A is out !!, now that didn’t take long did it. Get it here.
PSPGen have posted a FAQ for their soon to be released Custom Firmware 5.03 GEN-A for Hen, which by the way was meant to be released about an hour ago…. I guess we will see it today? (6th of [...]

Custom Firmware developer Miriam has released an update to his Custom Firmware 3.95 GEN. Releasing 3.95 GEN-2. So whats new? Well not much, this release fixes a slew of bugs that were discovered. In both PSP Slim’s and PSP fats. Notable fixes are bugs that were present when running SNES9XTYL and PSPTube on 3.95 GEN, [...]

Looks like Team GEN has been working hard. They have released their 3.95 custom firmware project, which is fully compatible with both slim AND fat models. Here’s the changelog:
General
-Kernel updated to 3.95 (new nids, patches etc.)
Recovery
-Option added in recovery to choose between VSHMenu and in-XMB recovery.
-Option added in recovery to choose between Sony, [...]