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**Admin** · 26-11-2007, 10:56 PM

PSP: Homebrew

Not all PSPs are capable of running homebrew. Homebrew is very commonly misunderstood as piracy, however that is because people don't even know what homebrew is! In the following month, we will be coming up with a series of guides to homebrew!

Step 1: Create seplugins folder

This is for users with custom firmware. If you don't have seplugins folder in your memory stick, you will definitely need to create it.

Installation
If you don't have seplugins folder, download this.
Unzip into the ROOT of your memory stick.

That's all.

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**Admin** · 26-11-2007, 10:57 PM

Screen Capture Guide

This guide will show you how to take screenshots and videos of your Gameplay or even other things like XMB (main menu). This guide will only work with homebrew enabled PSPs, like custom firmwares (M33, OE) or 1.5
Before we continue, Qisahn.com will be in no way responsible for any actions or customizations that lead to any damage to your PSP. Now, let the fun begin!

This guide is split into three parts.

Installation
Taking screenshots during Gameplay and in XMB
Taking videos during Gameplay

Installation
This guide had been tested on firmware 3.52 M33-2. We do not expect users of any other versions of Custom firmware to have problems following the guide.
Step 1: Download SVCapture HERE. We will be using SVCapture for taking out screen shots.
Step 2: Unzip the downloaded file.
Step 3: Connect your memory card to the computer.
Step 4: For Windows users, run the Install.exe. For non-Windows users, please read the provided readme.txt
Step 5: Enter Recovery mode. Go under plugins -> enabled capture.prx in the [GAME], [VSH]. Back and exit recovery.
Taking screenshots during Gameplay and in XMB
Press Musical note Button (beside SELECT) to take a screenshot! Your PSP might "freeze" as the screen is being saved.

To review the shot, go PHOTO-> Memory stick in the PSP menu.
Taking video during Gameplay.
For Taking Video : Press Musical Note + R Button/Trigger
For Ending Video : Press musical note.
Your PSP will be laggy during video capture. Captured videos will appear jerky due to low framerate.
To review the video, go GAME > Memory stick > SVC Player in the PSP menu.

Good luck have fun!

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**Admin** · 26-11-2007, 10:58 PM

Play Songs in Game

Tired of listening to the same old game music while playing games? This guide will show you how to listen your favorites mp3 songs while playing your games. This guide will only work with homebrew enabled PSPs, like custom firmwares (M33, OE) or 1.5. We will be using Music prx 0.55 beta to listen to mp3s and atrac3 while playing games
Before we continue, Qisahn.com will be in no way responsible for any actions or customizations that lead to any damage to your PSP. Now, let the fun begin!

This guide is split into three parts.

Installation (With or without seplugins folder)
Configuration
Things to take note

Installation
Step 1: Ensure you have seplugins folder in memory stick.
Step 2: Download Music prx 0.55 beta HERE.
Step 3: Connect your memory card to the computer and unzip file into ROOT of memory stick.
Step 4: Open game.txt, game150.txt and vsh.txt from the seplugin folder. Add line ms0:/seplugins/music.prx to the text files.
Step 5: Place songs in PSP > MUSIC folder
Step 6: Enter Recovery mode. Go under plugins -> enable music.prx in the [GAME], [VSH], [GAME150]. Back and exit recovery.
Default Configuration
Note + Left Trigger = pause/resume playback
Note + Right Trigger = switch playback mode between random and seqeuntial
Note + D-Pad Left = previous song (only in sequential mode)
Note + D-Pad Right = next song
Note + D-Pad Up = Volume up (for the music)
Note + D-Pad Down = Volume Down (for the music)
Note + Triangle = Change CPU speed forwards
Note + Cross = Change CPU speed backwards
Note + Square = Toggle On Screen Display (default off)
Note + Circle = Reload list of mp3 files (needed if you change the files in the music folder using usb)
Note + Select = In game mute (stops the vsh/game from outputting sounds)
Note + Start = Loop the current song, if you press next/prev, the next song will be looped
Things to take note
1: The default configuration cannot be used with SVCcapture as both are sharing the NOTE button
2. You can reconfigure the controls, it isn't too hard. Do explore =]
2: You will need to mute the game sound (refer to Default Configuration)
3: Do NOT place songs in the MUSIC folder located in the root of the memory stick. Songs must go to PSP > MUSIC
4: Games may lag when songs are being played.
Good luck have fun!

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**Admin** · 26-11-2007, 11:00 PM

Single Dead Pixel Fixer

We know everyone hates dead pixels. However, there is nothing much we can do when Sony themselves announce that they do not cover dead pixel. Hopefully, after running this homebrew utility, your dead pixel problem will be resolved.
This program works by rapidly changing the colour of the stuck pixel, with the hope that the pixel can "unstuck" itself. Previously, there was this video that flashes all pixels on the LCD. From reports, this caused some working pixels to get "die" Single Dead Pixel fixer works on the same concept, but it flashes only one pixel at a time. This guide will only work with homebrew enabled PSPs, like custom firmwares (M33, OE) or 1.5

This guide is split into three parts.

Installation
Configuration
Things to take note

Installation
This guide had been tested on firmware 3.52 M33-2. We do not expect users of any other versions of Custom firmware to have problems following the guide.
Step 1: Download Single Pixel Fixer. HERE.
Step 2: Unzip the downloaded file.
Step 3: Connect your memory card to the computer.
Step 4: Copy both pixe1~1% and pixe 1 folder into GAME150

Step 5: In your PSP, go Game > Memory Stick to activate it
Configuration
- D-Pad -> move by 1 pixel
- Analog -> move by 10 pixels (faster)
- X -> start flashing
- R -> change background color (black, red, green, blue, white)
- Triangle -> to stop flashing
Things to take note
1. It takes around 6-48 hours to remove the stuck pixel and is NOT guaranteed to work.
2. The backlight can be off as the dead pixel fixer is running.
3. You might want to remove the battery while the program is running to convserve battery livespan.
We wish you luck.

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**Admin** · 26-11-2007, 11:02 PM

Change Disc for PSX

This guide will show how to "swap" PSX discs and import/export saves while playing PSX games. We will be using FF7 as our example. This guide will only work with homebrew enabled PSPs, like custom firmwares (M33, OE) or 1.5

This guide is split into four parts.

Installation
Switching Disc on Multi-disc games
Import saves
Export saves

Installation Part 1
This guide had been tested on firmware 3.52 M33-2. We do not expect users of any other versions of Custom firmware to have problems following the guide.
Step 1: Ensure you have seplugins folder in memory stick.
Step 2: Download CWCheat HERE.
Step 3: Unzip the downloaded file into the ROOT of your memory stick.
Step 4: Open game.txt, game150.txt and vsh.txt from the seplugin folder. Add line ms0:/seplugins/cwcheatpops.prx to the text files.
Step 5: Enter Recovery mode. Go under plugins -> enabled cwcheatpops.prx [POPS]. Back and exit recovery.
Installation Part 2
Step 1: Download Popstation GUI 3.00 HERE (For FW 3.03OE-C and above)
Step 2: Unzip the downloaded file onto your desktop
Switching Disc on multi-discs games
Open Popstation GUI 3.00 and click
To switch disc on multi-disc games, when youre creating your PSX Games, make sure the games ID's are all the same. Disc 1,
Disc 2, etc etc must ALL have the same ID. THEY ALL HAVE TO BE THE SAME REGION!! Either all disc are USA, all EUROPE, or ALL JAPAN. NO Half and half...Here is an example
FF7 Disc 1

FF7 Disc 2

Make sure that both the Game Save & Game ID is the SAME
Import Saves
Step 1: Hold Select for more than 3sec to load CWCheat RIGHT after the PSX LOGO ends and the game starts. Choose "Manage Memory stick"

Step 2: Choose "Manage Memory stick" at the bottom

Step 3: Click "Load Memory Card 1 from memory stick" and It should say this at the bottom
"Last Operation : OK!!!"

Step 4: Exit out of the CWCheat Menu, enter the game and load the memory card, the save should be there. After entering the save, RESAVE the GAME (NOT the FILE) to make sure it writes to your memory stick.
Export Saves
Repeat Import Saves Step1 & 2
Step 3: Click "Save Memory Card 1 from memory stick". It should say this at the bottom "Last Operation : OK!!!"

Exit CWCheat. We are done
Good luck have fun!

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**Admin** · 26-11-2007, 11:03 PM

Video Conversion Guide

This guide will show you how to convert your favourite videos & movies into Mp4 format. This program will also help to transfer the movies or videos to the correct folder into your PSP. This guide will only work with homebrew enabled PSPs, like custom firmwares (M33, OE) or 1.5

This guide is split into three parts.

Installation
Steps of converting
Things to take note

Installation
This guide had been tested on firmware 3.52 M33-4. We do not expect users of any other versions of Custom firmware to have problems following the guide.
Step 1: Download PSP Video9 2.25 (Their site is very fast, but if you are having problems, you can click our mirror)
Step 2: Install it.
Step 3: Click the "Start the first setup" and select your firmware. For those with 3.51 M33 1-7 & 3.52 M33 1-4 please select 3.40 OE-A

Step 4: Connect your PSP to your computer.
Steps for converting
Step 1: Click the "Convert" tab at the top, then click "Select File" below to select the file u want to convert into your PSP
Step 2: Set your Video Settings according to your preference

Step 4: Click the Setting tab to select your Encoding Profile & remember to save your converter setting at the bottom right.

Step 5: Click the edit "Set Title" and start converting
Step 6: After converting, Click the "Library" tab at the top and select "Move to Device"

Things to take Note

Full screen resolution at 480 x 272. Selecting a value higher than this is useless.

Good luck have fun!

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**Admin** · 26-11-2007, 11:05 PM

PSP GPS

If you’ve got the official Sony PSP GPS receiver, then this is something you absolutely must have on your PSP. MapThis is an awesome GPS sat nav homebrew application. Although it might require quite a bit of little fiddling before you can get it working - it is totally worth the effort! MapThis uses images from Google Maps so nearly every developed area on Earth is covered. It also tells you speed, direction, altitude, latitude and longitude.

In order to get the GPS running, you will need a PSP that is capable of running Homebrew. There's 2 parts to the GPS Installation, the software, MapThis. and the Maps. The maps are generated from Google Maps, so it's Free.
Before you get started, download the files here. Extract the folder into your PSP>GAME folder. You know you did it right if you see a lot of files and folders under PSP > Game > mapViewer
Once you've done that, plug in your PSP-290 and run the homebrew MapThis.

Press X to select Singapore Map on the map menu.

You will see a street map. At this point, you are free to roam around. Press UP to zoom in. Press DOWN to Zoom out. In order to use the GPS, Press [] and wait the PSP to lock onto the satellites You will need a minimum of 3 locks. Once you get a lock on 3 satelites, MapThis will point to your current location. *Getting locks may take up to 5 minutes.

You can get locks before starting program. To do that, press START and go to GPS INFO.

Once you're in the info menu, you will see lists of info. Make sure GPS STATE is ON. If it isn't, reattach your GPS unit. If it remains at off or the status is stuck at activating, your GPS unit could be defective.
Wait 1 to 5 minutes and to get at least 3 satellite locks.

The time needed to have a lock depends on your surroundings. The fastest I ever had was 5 locks in 30 seconds. I was in an open field.
You may fiddle with the settings by pressing Start. Many users have reported that lowering the CPU speed to 222 or 89 improves locks. Experiment with the settings and find out what is best for you.
Thats about all. The current version supports:
- Birds Eye mode
- Inverted colors (night) mode
- Voice Prompts / Alerts support. (* see notes below)
- Screenshots are saved in ms0:/PSP/PHOTO now
- Icons/sounds can now be located in either a particular map directory or system (system/sounds or system/icons) directory.
- POI and WAYPOINT files can now also be looked up from ms0:/PSP/COMMON
There are of course more, but where is the fun if we tell you everything?
Try it out and good luck!

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**Admin** · 26-11-2007, 11:06 PM

Emulators

If you got a homebrew enabled PSP, you might want to take a look at emulators, there are quite a number of emulators now available for download, but not all of them are fully working and at full speed but the development of some emulators are really quite stable for example; GBA, SNES, GENESIS emulators.

GBA Emulator - gPSP v0.9
This is one of the most stable emulator available for PSP, you can run ROM at full speed, lots of configuration to tweak.

Download it HERE

Instruction to use it:
1) Unzip everything to the root of your memory stick.
2) Copy the ROM you have into PSP/GAME/gpSP/ (NOT gpSP%).
3) Run the emulator from the Games > Memory Stick menu of your PSP.
4) Enjoy!.

*This is what you see when the screen is loaded(the first file is my rom)*

*Press O to start the game or else press X to go to this main menu*

*A screenshot of a Golden Sun running on my PSP*

Download Here

Daedalus R13
This is still a work-in-progress emulator, but things are starting to looks very good, Super Mario 64 can run at nearly full speed!
Instruction to use it:
1) Unzip everything to the root of your memory stick.
2) Copy the ROM you have into PSP/GAME/Daedalus/Roms
3) Run the emulator from the Games > Memory Stick menu of your PSP.
4) Enjoy!.

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**Admin** · 26-11-2007, 11:07 PM

For update

**FatChicks** · 10-01-2008, 06:27 PM

Hi, does Daedalus R13 work the same way as DaedalusR12 plus?
and which file exactly do u copy into the PSP/GAME/Daedalus/Roms folder? i opened the zip file but can't find the ROM file.

**iwen76** · 25-01-2008, 10:50 AM

Hi,

I have the PSP GPS receiver, i did exactly as advised, and downloaded all the files into my Games310 folder. But i cant see any application or MAPTHIS inside the PSP console once i attached the GPS device. Please help.

ivy

	Quote:			Originally Posted by KungFox
	PSP GPS If you’ve got the official Sony PSP GPS receiver, then this is something you absolutely must have on your PSP. MapThis is an awesome GPS sat nav homebrew application. Although it might require quite a bit of little fiddling before you can get it working - it is totally worth the effort! MapThis uses images from Google Maps so nearly every developed area on Earth is covered. It also tells you speed, direction, altitude, latitude and longitude. In order to get the GPS running, you will need a PSP that is capable of running Homebrew. There's 2 parts to the GPS Installation, the software, MapThis. and the Maps. The maps are generated from Google Maps, so it's Free. Before you get started, download the files here. Extract the folder into your PSP>GAME folder. You know you did it right if you see a lot of files and folders under PSP > Game > mapViewer Once you've done that, plug in your PSP-290 and run the homebrew MapThis. Press X to select Singapore Map on the map menu. You will see a street map. At this point, you are free to roam around. Press UP to zoom in. Press DOWN to Zoom out. In order to use the GPS, Press [] and wait the PSP to lock onto the satellites You will need a minimum of 3 locks. Once you get a lock on 3 satelites, MapThis will point to your current location. Getting locks may take up to 5 minutes. You can get locks before starting program. To do that, press START and go to GPS INFO. Once you're in the info menu, you will see lists of info. Make sure GPS STATE is ON. If it isn't, reattach your GPS unit. If it remains at off or the status is stuck at activating, your GPS unit could be defective. Wait 1 to 5 minutes and to get at least 3 satellite locks. The time needed to have a lock depends on your surroundings. The fastest I ever had was 5 locks in 30 seconds. I was in an open field. You may fiddle with the settings by pressing Start. Many users have reported that lowering the CPU speed to 222 or 89 improves locks. Experiment with the settings and find out what is best for you. Thats about all. The current version supports: - Birds Eye mode - Inverted colors (night) mode - Voice Prompts / Alerts support. ( see notes below) - Screenshots are saved in ms0:/PSP/PHOTO now - Icons/sounds can now be located in either a particular map directory or system (system/sounds or system/icons) directory. - POI and WAYPOINT files can now also be looked up from ms0:/PSP/COMMON There are of course more, but where is the fun if we tell you everything? Try it out and good luck! Source From: www.Qisahn.com

**Mad Armour** · 12-02-2008, 01:49 PM

Hi, can you tell me how to load in maps from Google Maps? I'm thinking of loading in Malaysia map.

Many thanks in advance.

	Quote:			Originally Posted by KungFox
	PSP GPS If you’ve got the official Sony PSP GPS receiver, then this is something you absolutely must have on your PSP. MapThis is an awesome GPS sat nav homebrew application. Although it might require quite a bit of little fiddling before you can get it working - it is totally worth the effort! MapThis uses images from Google Maps so nearly every developed area on Earth is covered. It also tells you speed, direction, altitude, latitude and longitude. In order to get the GPS running, you will need a PSP that is capable of running Homebrew. There's 2 parts to the GPS Installation, the software, MapThis. and the Maps. The maps are generated from Google Maps, so it's Free.

**juzu** · 27-02-2008, 09:25 AM

To generate your own map , you can try Global Map Download Tool(GMDL).
The Howto Use it can be found here.

	Quote:
	Now that you have the mapping software, you need to download the map of the area you want to navigate through. Extract the File you downloaded in step 1(f) and go to GMDL/bin/Debug and run ‘Global Map Download Tool’ you should get the following screen: f. Choose which website you want to get your map from the menu on the left e.g Google maps, Google maps satellite, VE map(MSN maps) etc. g. Move and and zoom to the map until the area you see is what you want to put on your psp, for example if I wanted to put the map of Toronto on my psp I’d zoom to until I get the coverage I need: To ensure you are getting exactly the area you want, you get the map to the approximate area you want, then click on the 'Preview 1x' button - That will show you what you will actually be getting on your PSP. h. Now scroll to the top of the window and name your map in the ‘Map Name (start with _)’ . I know its obvious but make sure to start with an ‘_’ when naming your map e.g. I want to name my map Toronto I’d type _Toronto in the field. i. If you don’t live in USA or Canada ignore this step. Now scroll down until the end of the menu on the left and check the geodata marker and USA or Canada depending on where the map your downloading is located. If you don’t live in USA or Canada ignore this step. The geodata of a map contains stuff like addresses, points of interests etc, Canada doesn’t have as much as the USA though. j. Scroll up and click on the ‘Download the map’ button. You should get a popup, wait for the tiles to load and then your screen should look like this: To reduce the size of the map file uncheck any tiles that you don’t want available on the map, for example I just uncheck the ones that contain only water. Then uncheck the Zoom levels that you don’t need, all zoom levels are checked by default. When you’re done click on the ‘Uncheck any tiles which you do not wish to download to closer zoom levels, also uncheck any zoom layers you wish to skip, then click here’ button (longest button I’ve ever seen). It should take you back to the main window and go on the preview tab. The download progress is displayed on the Title bar of the window: k. After the download is done depending on whether you checked the geodata option earlier, you either get a geodata window in which the program will automatically start downloading the geodata for the map and then another window will popup saying ‘you may now close this window’ or it will finish the the download and tell you that it finished creating the map. l. After its done downloading the map. Close the application and copy the map folder (_Toronto in my case), located in GMDL/bin/Debug to the maps folder located in the mapViewer folder on your psp game file. My map was 23 mb in size; it varies depending on what type of map you choose (hybrid, sat etc) and the area you downloaded etc

More FAQs
MapThis Wiki Page

**Mad Armour** · 27-02-2008, 10:34 PM

Thanks for the info!

Never knew there's such a useful tool as the GMDL.