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tehjay | April 28, 2007
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HOWTO: Upgrade your PSP to Firmware 3.40 OE-A

In the off chance that YOU brick YOUR PSP during the upgrade process, please do not complain here. I moderate all comments and yours just will not be added.

Sony has released a couple firmware versions since my last posting, but here is a tutorial for getting the OE version of 3.40 running on your PSP. I am going to structure this HOWTO a little bit as a test, if you like this structure, let me know.

*NOTE* You will need atleast 75% battery charge. You may also want to have your PSP plugged into the wall just in case. You will also need a larger memory stick, the 32mb one doesn’t cut it. 1 gig sticks are uber-cheap now.

Step 1:

Download the 3.40 OE-A Firmware, uncompress it, then copy the uncompressed files as follows:

PSP 1.50 Firmware: You will place the uncompressed files in /PSP/GAME

PSP 3.XX OE Firmware: You will place the files in /PSP/GAME150

Step 2:

Goto the game menu and run the 3.40 OE-A Update Maker. This will take a couple of minutes to create the DXAR file.

Step 3:

You will need to access the USB menu on your PSP go into the oeupdmaker directory and copy the newly generated data.dxar file to the 340oeflasher directory.

Step 4:

Once again go back to the game menu and now run the 3.40 OE-A Firmware Install. You will need to agree by pressing X. This will check the integrity of the DXAR file before attempting to flash the firmware to prevent bricking. Once this is complete, press X to turn off your PSP. Turn your PSP back on, and you are now running 3.40 OE-A!

This is the easiest way to upgrade your PSP. I upgraded mine in under 10 minutes following these exact steps.

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tehjay | February 14, 2007
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HOWTO: Upgrade your PSP to Firmware 3.10 OE-A’

Caution! – This may brick your PSP if the steps are not followed properly! Please follow all of the instructions carefully, and if it doesn’t work and you brick your PSP, I didnt twist your arm, or hold a gun to your head, so don’t come crying to me.

3.10 OE-A and OE-A’ boasts an impressive list of feature updates including:

3.10 OE-A Changes

  * Change from 3.03 firmware to 3.10.
  * 4th level of brightness (aka battery eater) can now be selected also without ac adaptor.
  * Changes in hen core:
    - Static user elf’s can now be executed in the 3.10 kernel. (this includes snes user version between other programs)
    - Tyranid’s patch (added in 3.03 OE-C) consequences was not explained very well in the changelog of 3.03 OE-C:
      o For programmers: it allows kernel modules to have user imports, making kernel programming in 3.03/3.10 less strict.
      o For users: plugins and applications that worked in 2.71 SE, but not in OE, *may* now work in 3.03OE-C and 3.10 OE-A.

Note 1: the installer will disable all plugins to avoid incompatibilities when booting. You can enable them again in the recovery menu.

Note 2: the plugin to load 3.02 pops won’t work anymore in 3.10 OE, due to some changes in pops modules structure (meaudio fused with popsman, idcanager/idmanager behaviour slightly changed). A new plugin for 3.10 could be written next week.

3.10 OE-A’ Changes:

  * Corrected a bug that caused Metal Slug 6 (from Metal Slug Anthology), and other umd/iso games containing a static elf to show error 0×80020148.

To upgrade to firmware 3.10 OE-A’ you must first be running 3.10 OE-A, so we will start by upgrading to that firmware first.

Step 1. The first thing you will have to do is download all of the files needed for the upgrade.

310oe_a.rar
310_a2update.rar

Step 2. First you will need to upgrade to 3.10 OE-A before you can go to OE-A’. Uncompress the 310oe_a.rar and copy the contents to /PSP/GAME150 on your PSP using the USB file transfer mode. *NOTE* If you are upgrading from PSP 1.50 firmware just copy the directories to /PSP/GAME.

Once these directories are copied, go to the game menu and run the 3.10 OE-A Update Maker. This step will take a little bit, so be patient. Now would be a good time to make sure your PSP is plugged into the power and not running off battery mode. You will need to have your battery at, at least 75% for the upgrade to be a success.

Step 3. After the Update Maker is complete, initiate USB file transfer mode again and go into /PSP/GAME150/oeupdmaker and copy the data.dxar file to /PSP/GAME150/310oeflasher. Once this file is copied over, exit the USB file transfer mode, go back to the GAME menu, and run the 3.10 OE-A Firmware Install.

Once the installer loads up press the X button to continue with the upgrade. It will now verify the data.dxar file and proceed with the upgrade. Once the upgrade is complete you will then press X again which will turn off your PSP. Turn the PSP back on manually.

You are now running the 3.10 OE-A firmware.

Step 4. Now proceed with uncompressing 310_a2update.rar. Go back into USB file transfer mode and copy over the 310_a2update folder to your /PSP/GAME150 folder. Exit USB file transfer mode, go into the GAME menu and run the 3.10 OE-A’ Updater. This will quickly update your firmware and exit back to the XMB. You are now running the 3.10 OE-A’ firmware.

Step 5. To clear up space on your memory stick you can now go back on your PSP and delete all of the files we copied over.

Enjoy your updated firmware!

Any questions or concerns? Please post them in the comments section.

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tehjay | January 14, 2007
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HOWTO: Upgrade PSP firmware 1.50 to 3.03 OE-B

Caution! – This may brick your PSP if the steps are not followed properly! Please follow all of the instructions carefully, and if it doesn’t work and you brick your PSP, I didnt twist your arm, or hold a gun to your head, so don’t come crying to me.

Step 1:

You will first have to upgrade to 3.02 OE-A then to OE-B before you upgrade to 3.03 OE-B. So the first thing you have to do is download 1 of the following files:

For 1.50 firmware download 3.02 Basic Installer for 1.50
For 2.71SE firmware download 3.02 Basic Installer for 2.71SE

You will not need both files, so download 1 of them. Once you have the installer downloaded to your computer, plug your PSP in and activate USB file transfer mode.

*NOTE* I backed up and formatted my memory card before installing the firmware updates, you may want to do this aswell. You will also have to have atleast 75% of the battery remaining or you will not be able to upgrade.

After activating USB file transfer mode, run the installer, choose the drive your PSP is setup as, and hit next. The installer will do everything for you. You may notice the installer stop at 37%, but let it copy all files, so sit back and relax. Once all the files are copied, exit USB file transfer mode, goto the game menu, access the memory card and you will see the Launcher for the 3.02 updater. Execute this.

You will have to agree to the agreement, do this by pressing X and the update will now start. Once the update is running DO NOT turn off your PSP, or remove the memory card! When the update is complete, it will advise you to restart your PSP manually, you can now do so.

When you restart your PSP you will get a message saying the configuration is corrupt and has to be rebuilt, dont worry, press O and re-configure your PSP.

Congratulations you have no updated too 3.02 OE-A!

Step 2:

You will now have to upgrade 3.02 OE-A to 3.02 OE-B, which is easy, just download oeb.rar which is the upgrade file. Again, reactivate USB file transfer mode on your PSP and extract the contents of oeb.rar to GAME\GAME150 on your PSP memory stick.

*NOTE* You may have to create the GAME150 folder in the GAME folder.

Once everything is copied, run the updater from the Game menu on your PSP.

Easy enough, you are now upgraded to 3.02 OE-B!

Step 3:

Now to actually upgrade to 3.03 OE-A.

First you will have to download 3.03OE-A.rar Once the files are downloaded, initiate USB File Transfer mode on your PSP and extract 3.03OE-A.rar to GAME150 in the GAME folder on your memory stick. Once all the files are copied, close down the USB File Transfer Mode, and goto the Game Menu, and run the 3.03 OE-A Updater.

Again, you will have to agree to the agreement by pressing X and the update will now start. Once the update is running DO NOT turn off your PSP, or remove the memory card! When the update is complete, it will advise you to restart your PSP manually, you can now do so.

This time I didnt receive an error stating that anything was corrupt, and everything booted up just fine.

You are now running firmware 3.03 OE-A!

Step 4:

Now you are good to update to 3.03 OE-B. Download OEB_UPDATE.RAR. Once the files are downloaded, once again initiate USB File Transfer mode, and uncompress the contents of MS_ROOT to the root folder of your PSP.

Once this is complete, exit USB File Transfer mode, and execute the 3.03 OE-B updater from the Game menu. As soon as this is complete you will be fully updated to the 3.03 OE-B Firmware. You can confirm this by going to the settings menu on your PSP and looking inside of the System Information menu.

Step 5: (Optional)

You may want to now format your memory stick again before copying any of your old files back. If you do this step, you must then initiate USB File Transfer mode once more, then go into the GAME folder, and create GAME271 and GAME150.

All of your old homebrew software can now be placed inside of the GAME150 folder and will still run. Ultimately GAME271 is for stuff that runs on the 2.71 firmware.

If you have any questions/concerns or comments. Feel free to comment below!

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