well I did it, impulse buy on a PSP with 3.90 m33-5. so its time for the customary emulator suggestions. I am gonna pick up a 2gb card do you think that is big enough for a few games and emulators? last time I had a psp I only had a 512 card and it seemed fine.

Well, if you intend to put every CPS1, CPS2 and Neo Geo roms into the MSPD, nope. That still does not include GBA roms, SNES roms etc etc. And new games like GOW and CC:FVII are around 1.7GB. So, yeah, 2GB is not enough

I don't want to carry around full romsets. just what I like. I'll look into a 4 or 8gb card but here in the states they are way expensive and shipping from china is a nightmare. where is the best place to get the emulators now? I don't have any of my links anymore.

One thing you can do is just have PSP games on your card for the time being until you complete the game. Then just delete it.

Crisis Core, God of War and a few others push 1.2-1.5GB even when CSO'ed. You're best of with a 4GB or even an 8GB if you spot a good deal anywhere.

First: I sure hope it doesn't have 3.90 M33-5 on it.

Second: Best place to get emulators is still Google. I'd recommend Daedalus r13 (N64), gpSP kai 32 test 8 (GBA), PSP MAME4ALL v4.9r2 Hires, RIN 1.32 RM (GB/GBC), CPS1PSP/CPS2PSP/MVSPSP/NCDZPSP v2.2.5, PicoDrive 1.40b (Genesis), Snes9xTYL v0.4.2 ME (SNES), NesterJ for PSP v1.20beta2 (NES), and pspkvm 0.3.2 (J2ME).

yeah it does..... whats wrong with it?

So far there is only a 3.90 M33-3. There is no official -4, or -5 version.

Hasn't a 4.0 version come out?

Official Sony firmware is currently only at 3.95 with nothing significant but Internet Radio being added since 3.90.

So no, no 4.0 yet.

came in the mail today! its CFW 3.80 m33-5. so I was wrong on the version. should I upgrade to 3.90m33? or leave it as is. I heard the custom firmware can be upgraded with the wifi system upgrade thingy? I bit the bullet and got a 4gb ms.
so I need game suggestions, I already have Patapon, Echochrome, SFA3, FFVII:CC and GOW.

You can upgrade to 3.90 if you want. No big arguments for or against it. To use the Network Update feature just select it from the PSP Menu (XMB) and follow the prompts. Keep the AC plugged in and there's little to no risk.

Games?

Audition Portable
Castlevania: Dracula X Chronicles
Crazy Taxi: Fare Wars
DJ Max Portable 1 & 2
Final Fantasy Anniversary Edition
Guilty Gear Judgment (Jap version has XX Slash included, English only X2 #Reload)
Mega Man: Powered Up & Maverick Hunter X
Metal Gear Ac!d 2
Metal Slug Anthology (for MS6)
Puyo Pop 15th Anniversary
Sega Rally Revo
Silent Hill Origins
Sonic Rivals 1 & 2
Taiko no Tatsujin
Tekken Dark Resurrection
Ultimate Ghouls n Ghosts
Vampire Chronicles: The Chaos Tower
Wipeout Pulse

Yeah, go ahead and update to 3.90 M33. It's been perfectly fine for me.


Gaemz naow
Armored Core Formula Front Extreme Battle
Coded Arms Contagion
Dungeon Siege - Throne Of Agony
Grand Theft Auto - Liberty City Stories/Vice City Stories
LocoRoco
Lumines
Me and My Katamari
Metal Gear Solid - Portable Ops
Monster Hunter Freedom 2
Ratchet And Clank - Size Matters
Silverfall
Socom Fire Team Bravo 2
Sonic Rivals
Syphon Filter - Logan's Shadow
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2
Untold Legends - Brotherhood Of The Blade

Nothing to add. Both BK and Mooney already list out the good games

I take a pass on all fps on PSP. I never could get the hang of FPS with one analog stick (yep that includes N64 and DC.)
anyways I got this mostly for emulation so best versions of SNES, GBA GEN, ect please!

SNES9xTYL 0.4.2 ME
PicoDrive 0.40b
CPS2PSP
MVS2PSP

Ok following the readme with Gba whatever it says put the folder in psp/150 I did that, added the bios and some roms but it won't load. I'm sure I'm doing something wrong... this stuff was so easy back in the 1.5 days.

I remember there is an emulator for GBA called uoGBAsp. Can't remember the exact name but it worked well for me.

Most emulators now can be put in the GAME folder and run from there. Try that, Inky.

No PSX emulation?

maybe if it works well and isn't rocket science to set up. not much on psx I haven't played that I want to try.

finally figured it out, I had tried placing emulators in psp/game psp/game150 and psp/game380. but it turns out I had to install a kernal 1.5 patch. thats done and now snes gba and cps2 are working! I don't like having to convert all the cps2 roms and basically having 2 sets on my MS. so I'll prolly skip cps2 for now, snes and gba is rocking though. Haven't set up genesis or anything else yet.

It works perfectly and requires only a simple converter (You'll need a certain 'base.pbp'... best not ask for that here) to turn your PSX ISOs into PSP EBOOTs.

the psx thing is gah inducing. I got FFviii working fine. But Persona and persona 2 come up as corrupt data. I've tried it with no compression, full compression, and middle compression. and with and with out keys.bin in the folder.

What format are the Persona 1 & 2 ISOs you're trying to convert?

they were in .ecm, i reconverted them to .bin using unecm and used psx2psp1.4 to convert to psp.
I think it is due to the ecm compression, I'm trying to find some with out it.

check the folder name and remove all spaces and "_". happned to me once

Also try to keep the name short- less than 10 characters.

tried it with a few different iso's Ive found and still no love. does the psp conversion need an icon, background and all that other stuff to work?

That is usually copied over from the BASE.PBP if you don't specify one yourself.

oh well, maybe those games just aren't compatible.

I PM you a link, Inky. Just go there and download whatever you need