I was going to test out what (remaining) ps1 discs i have. I found gta before and it was scratched to buggery, almost no chance of it working, and i was right. Later on i found a “Monsters Inc: Scare Island” in my old PS1 carry case. It was barely scratched, looked like it was in mint condition. The rip got to 77%, and you guessed it, it stopped! The only confirmed half-working fucked ps1 rip of mine is f1 2001, and it’d probably be fixed when SCE releases another pops.prx. In other news, i witnessed a 2.8 Downgrade (yes 2.8). By the looks it was pretty flawless. All you have to do is get a 1.50 user to dump their ipl and firmware, then, on the psp you want to downgrade you have to run the actual downgrader via xloader (not eloader). The downgrade worked a treat, and the guy is now on 3.02 OE-B with no problems reported yet (not even the blue screen!). Birdman helped him through with no problems and apparently there have been 17/17 downgrades successful using birdmans pack. Great Work. There has been an influx of psp roms from release groups in the scene recently after the release of OE-B. Individuals now have the ability to rip their own “PSP Format” ps1 images from their own legally owned discs, this was made possible by Dark_Alex’s “popstation.exe” file. Instructions on how to use are below:
NOTE: You do need “Hot Shots Golf 2″ USA version because the exe uses the sfo stuff from hotshots.
- Rip an iso from the cd using IsoBuster (or another similar program)
- Open a command prompt and cd to the folder where popstation is. Make sure the iso is in the same folder. ie: cd “C:\documents and settings\owner\desktop\oe-b\popstation\”
- Run “popstation.exe filename.iso”. If the cd rip is in .bin/cue format, use the bin as the iso (“popstation.exe CD.bin”).
- Wait around 3 or 4 minutes for the files to generate.
NOTE1: Downgrader is available at 0okm.blogspot.com. Very very risky if you don’t have an experienced person helping you. The downgrader does no checks for nothing, so if one thing is fucked, your psp is fucked. Simple. Dont say you havent heard the risks. There is a link to a dump on the blog post for 0okms downgrader on his site, however, i cannot vouch for its credibility.
