[frmariam]

Great job on the firmware! My PSP was messed up for a good time and I got it back in time of the 3.51 release.

I've been having some problems with POPS though... No EBOOT I created works (black screen and redirect to XMB after the warning screen). I'm converting my Castlevania SOTN again as I write... Going to try PopsLoader once again...

Anyway I hope you sort this out in a future update.

I also have some suggestions:

1- Always release an eboot to launch the recovery menu from the XMB (quite useful to avoid rebooting the PSP...). Having an icon in the Settings section of the XMB also seems nice (you'd just need a nice XMB style icon for it).

2- Options in the registry hacks to hide the Network Update, Firmware Update (hide updates that come inside the UMD... much like the AntiUpdate plugin), Camera, Remote Play and LocatioFree Player (maybe even the Activate WMA and Activate Flash Player since you can activate it in the recovery menu... or at least hide them after they are activated). Maybe some other stuff useless to most users...

3- An app/recovery menu function to remove stuff useless to most users (the Camera, GPS, PS3, LocationFree... maybe even Character sets and languages). Besides removing these it would be nice not to see anything in the XMB that proved they ever existed (for instance you can delete the fonts but they will still show in the Character Set). Just for the sake of free flash space for theme modders (though there is this plugin called CXMB that allows to load themes fromt the MS instead of the PSP flash).

4- Option in the registry hacks to disable the boot video (not the SCE one... the white one with the PSP that plays whenever you launch a game... that is if it's even possible).

What do you think?

P.S: Agh... From the answer I got from the MaxConsole UP forum, my problem with the POPS is that you can't clock the cpu to 333 in the UP nand... It affects everything that clocks the cpu to 333 (homebrew, isos, umds...). So here's another suggestion (pretty please on this one...):

5- Hybrid firmware for Undiluted Platinum owners:


After the Epsilon and UP team left the chip with almost no support DAX was the only one who released code made for the owners of this hardware mod (he released the 3.03-3-10 OE Mix and a UP nand flasher tool for the PC).
The UP has generated some issues to several users (including me, causing my PSP to be semi-bricked for 6 months for strange reasons... maybe idStorage) and proved not to be as safe as advertised. However the advantage that remains is the ability to connect to the PC to flash a firmware to the UP nand which can then restore the PSP onboard nand (at least using the Epsilon bios).


The Epsilon bios (and later the OE Mix from Dark Alex) allowed UP users to enjoy their PSP like if they had a single firmware. It avoided the need to swich between firmwares and press L on boot to launch the PSP.


I don't know if anyone in the team has an Undiluted Platinum mod but what I would like to ask is something in the line of those hybrid firmwares...


I'm not a coder but what I think is needed for this to work is:


UP nand:
a) code that redirects boot when turning the PSP on or coming out of the sleep mode to the PSP onboard nand
b) tweaked recovery menu that works like the one currently in all M33 firmwares but which changes apply to the PSP onboard nand firmware and has the capability to restore a firmware to either nand (can restore a firmware to the UP and PSP nand)


*In order for it to be able to run a Sony official EBOOT or a custom firmware installer maybe the 1.5 official EBOOT would be needed when generating the UP nand firmware installer
*Registry values are always written to the PSP nand (unless when running the recovery to install a firmware in the UP nand)
*Updates (for this nand firmware) could be run from the recovery console if newer firmwares (for the PSP nand) require a recovery console update


PSP nand:
a) Normal M33 firmware (I don't think any change would be required)


I don't know if any member in the team had a modded PSP with an UP in order to develop this...
This would be awsome for UP users!

Sorry if I'm asking for too much...