Upgrading to the newest M33

Okay, my old forum name was "TheTrueAnimosity", and I used to be super into hacking (I was the owner of an 800+ member PSP hacking site, mainly an FTB2 clan, WeAreChaotix), but I put down my PSP for awhile to focus on school.

Well, I decided to pick up my PSP again, well, my brothers, mine is broken, and I belive his was 3.73 m33, or something like that (I don't know what the new firmwares are).

Is there a way to upgrade to the newest (5.0 I believe) without having to use the pandoras battery? (I lost mine).

u only need a pandora battery to downgrade. every1 thinks u need it for cfw but u dnt only if u need to down grade in this case ur upgrading so u just need the eboot

Thank-you for the quick reply!

I haven't done any of this homebrew stuff forever and I feel like such a noob. :S

I used to be obsessed with this stuff, but i've been reading over this forum and it's refreshing my mind.

I even wrote my own complete PSP hacking guide that I have posted on my old-old site, and it was REALLY good.

It was for the 3.71 m33-4 though.

Could you link me to an upgrading tutorial from 3.71 m33 (or it may be 3.9x m33) to 5.0 please?:biggrin:

What is your current firmware?

I havn't tried this, this isn't tested, but I guess you can try. Remember I havn't tested this. And if this doesn't work, then I guess you have to get a Pandora Battery and a Magic Memory Stick.

*REMEMBER, THIS HASN'T BEEN TESTED, SO IDK WHAT WILL HAPPEN*

If you have OFFICIAL SONY Firmware lower then 5.00, then you can download these two files:
500.PBP: http://rapidshare.com/files/154173870/500.PBP
5.00 M33-6 EBOOT.PBP: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=PLU7DL0N

After downloading the 500.PBP and the 5.00 M33-6 Updater, plug your PSP into the computer via USB cable and cut/copy and paste the 'PSP' folder in the root of your memory stick. Then cut/copy and paste the 500.PBP in ms0:/PSP/GAME/UPDATE. Then after that, disconnect the USB Connection and run the EBOOT.PBP from your XMB. It will not say EBOOT.PBP, I forgot what it says, but you will see an icon of a 5.00 M33-6 Update. Run the update, and just wait a couple minutes, and your done =P

Rep+ if this helped.

Ok for short When you download The 5.00m33-6 (or whatever) put the "Update Folder" in you're Game Folder and if that one doesn't have it Just make the Update folder and put the Eboot.Pbp in it

and THIS DOES WORK I KNOW I DID IT TO MY PSP

I know how to hack guys, I've downgraded and installed 3.71 m33-4 on 6+ PSP's (all my brothers and friends), both slims and fats, and even written my own hacking guide, I just haven't done anythign in a while so I'll need to have my memory refreshed.

My brothers PSP (the one I will be using) is 3.71 m33 or 3.9x (I can't remember what the x is) m33, so I'll just have to upgrade to 5 m33 (for the themes).

When I find out for sure what firmware it is, I'll reply back to this thread.

IF its 3.71 m33, can I just upgrade to 5.0 m33 from 3.71, or do I have to upgrade to 3.9, 4.0, etc. before I can upgrade to 5.0?

I upgraded from 3.71 to 5.00m33 so yes you can I'm not promising anything though

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Originally Posted by Darth Bane

I upgraded from 3.71 to 5.00m33 so yes you can I'm not promising anything though

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Okay I just checked, and it's 3.9x m33.

If I wanted to upgrade straight to 5.00 from 3.9x, how would I go about doing so?

3.9x? Ok i've heard of OFW, OE-A and M33 but 3.9x?

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Originally Posted by Blaargblaarg

Okay I just checked, and it's 3.9x m33.

If I wanted to upgrade straight to 5.00 from 3.9x, how would I go about doing so?

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Darth Bane, 3.9x = 3.90, 3.91, 3.92 anything on 3.90-9

Blaarg follow what prestige said here..

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Things you need:

500.PBP: http://rapidshare.com/files/154173870/500.PBP
5.00 M33-6 EBOOT.PBP: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=PLU7DL0N

After downloading the 500.PBP and the 5.00 M33-6 Updater, plug your PSP into the computer via USB cable and cut/copy and paste the 'PSP' folder in the root of your memory stick. Then cut/copy and paste the 500.PBP in ms0:/PSP/GAME/UPDATE. Then after that, disconnect the USB Connection and run the EBOOT.PBP from your XMB. It will not say EBOOT.PBP, I forgot what it says, but you will see an icon of a 5.00 M33-6 Update. Run the update, and just wait a couple minutes, and your done =P

Rep+ if this helped.

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Thats how you do it.

Don't I need to have m33-4 before I can upgrade to m33-6?

no not really I went strait from m33-3 to m33-6 and that is axactly what I said I know how to update my psp and downgrade it but I thought he was talking about another firmware sorry

what i do is just go to m33 recovery/config/enable the thing thtas say network update
then go to the thing right above usb mode and click it!!! tada

idk if ur still trying but if you update reguarl through the internet it should be m33 updates if not, go into recovery mode ( hold r when turning on psp ) and try to find network update. make sure network update is on m33 update.