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tehjay | December 2, 2006
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HOWTO: Install DevHook 0.50

DevHook 5.0 has been released and it now supports up to firmware 2.82! I have created a simple tutorial on how to get DevHook 5.0 running on your PSP.

The first thing you will want to do is download the Ultimate Installer 1.5.1 file. This is the DevHook files and the firmware files.

Now connect your PSP to your computer using the USB port and initiate the USB file transfer mode. I recommend making a backup of your memory stick first. I went as far as backing up my memory stick then formatting it to install DevHook 0.50 on a fresh stick. Follow the on-screen instructions. You will be prompted to choose which version to install. I chose the Full Install.

Accept the license agreement, then select whichever drive your PSP is. The files will now be copied to your PSP.

The files are now copied to your PSP, you can hit the circle button on your PSP and exit out of USB file transfer mode. Now head over to the GAME menu, and select the PSAR Dumper. This will load a program that decrypts everything that is needed. Once the dumper loads, press the X button.

Once everything is complete, fully turn off your PSP. Don’t just put it into power saver mode, turn it right off.

Now hook up the USB cable, turn your PSP on, and initiate USB file transfer mode again. Now access your PSP through My Computer on your computer and run the DevHook Setup.bat. After this whole process completes you may delete DevHook Setup.bat.

Turn off USB file transfer mode and go back into the GAME menu. Now you can Launch DevHook 0.50.

Once you are inside of DevHook 0.50 go to the “FIRMWARE” menu and select the 2.82 firmware. You can now start DevHook 0.50 and watch your PSP boot into the 2.82 firmware.

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tehjay | November 6, 2006
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Howto: Live wireless audio/video streaming to PSP with PiMPStreamer

Have you ever been laying on the couch or in your bed, or sitting in your back yard and just wanted to watch a video, or listen to a song but it wasn’t already copied to your memory stick? Now you can. PiMPStreamer streams media over your wireless network, so it is accessable from your wireless network. If you have the bandwidth you can even stream over the internet. It’s simple, no need for converting, muxing, encoding, etc.

How do I start?

Simple, download the PiMPStreamer installer, and your already most of the way there. You will need about 3 megs of free space available on your PSPs memory card and around 22 megs of available space on your computers hard drive to complete the installation. You will also need to be running firmware 1.5 on your PSP. Connect your PSP to your computer using the USB cable, and initiate USB file transfer mode.

Now, run the PiMPStreamer Installer file that you just downloaded. It will install the software to your computer and to your PSP at the same time. This installer *should* detect your ip address settings for you and insert that information into the configuration files. Once this is complete, run PiMPStreamer. You should now be looking at a screen like the one below.

Once you are, start adding the directories where you store all of your media, and you are almost ready to go.

Now run PiMPStreamer on your PSP. Select your wireless network, it may take some time to connect be patient. If it takes longer than 2 minutes, its not working. Check the config files on your local hard drive and on your PSP. Once you are connected, you will see the directories that you have just added on your computer. Browse to one, select what you want to watch or listen to, and you are good to go.

Hints

If you are behind a router and the computer with all your media on it is not set as DMZ you will need to forward port 3333 towards that computer from your router. On that note, if you are running a firewall, please allow connections on that port.

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tehjay | October 15, 2006
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DevHook, probably the only utility you will use

So you have downgraded your psp to version 1.5 firmware and now you are wondering what you can do. First thing you should download is a utility called DevHook. I have found a link to the Ultimate Installer which includes some patches and extras. The current version as of the writing of this post is DevHook 0.46.

What is DevHook?

DevHook is a way of emulating different firmwares ontop of the 1.5 firmware. So you don’t have to upgrade your firmware to play a game, then re-downgrade it. DevHook also provides ways to modify and run a modified firmware. With certain mods you can take screenshots of games, load game iso’s from the USB port etc.

You can download DevHook by downloading the Ultimate Installer which will install DevHook 0.46 with the 2.71 firmware. There are also a couple mods included in this installer which include: the usb loader, Naruto Icon Set and Background, and Bleach Icon Set, Gameboot, and Background, X5 Web Portal, and the CISO Tools for compressing iso’s into cso’s.

Features

DevHook has some pretty amazing features. Aside from running the 2.71 firmware ontop of the 1.5 firmware, it allows you to:

- run homebrew apps/games on 2.71 firmware.
- change the clock speed of your PSP cpu from 133MHz to 333Mhz.
- boot into multiple firmwares (aslong as you have them installed)
- play UMD backups in .iso and .cso format

Installation

Installation is easy, once you download the Ultimate Installer hook up your PSP to the USB port of your computer and initiate the USB file transfer mode on your PSP. You will want to check “My Computer” to see what drive your PSP has been assigned to. Once you know this information, run the Ultimate Installer. Obviously the first thing you are going to install is “DevHook 0.46 with 2.71 Firmware” so choose this option and click on Next. Agree to the terms and conditions and then choose the drive letter of your PSP, and then click next.

The files will now be copied to your PSPs memory stick. You will have to exit the installer. Realistically you are done at this point, you can boot into DevHook 0.46 and play your games and your homebrew. However, you should at least install the USB Mod. This will allow you to mount isos on your computer over the USB cable.

Note: I had issues with DevHook crashing while loading alot of isos over the USB cable until I formatted my memory card and re-installed everything.

Another mod I downloaded was the Devhook Launcher/VSHEX Mod. I use this launcher all the time. It works for me, it should work for you.

Installation of this is easy, once again connect your PSP to the computer using the USB port, and initiate file transfer mode. If you are running 1.5 firmware copy the files from ms_root to your PSP memory stick. Just copy both directories from within the ms_root folder and paste right into the root folder of the PSP drive. When it asks if you want to overwrite files, says yes to all.

DevHook is a great utility for all PSP enthusiasts. It gives a whole new level of flexibility to your favorite handheld console.

Attention!
This is a brief outline of what to do, I followed the directions step by step. All of the instructions are included. Your pretty safe with this app as long as you don’t go changing any of the firmware settings in the last couple of menus.

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