List of almost every CFW

[jacobvengeance]

What is CFW:Custom Firmwares are modified versions of Official Firmwares released by Sony for the Sony PSP(PlayStation Portable). They have been around since July 15 2006 when DAX POC was released. I am going to list all of the CFW's made(well atleast the major ones). If you have any questions please ask. I will be posting download links, for some registration is required.


Version 1.50 POC released by DAX. limited 1.50 custom firmware (named a proof of concept)
Abilities: Execution of version 1.00 EBOOTs, access to a limited recovery mode, and ability to automatically load an application upon start.
Download 1.50 P.O.C

Version 1.53 CFW: Released by Eiffel56 on 19 February 2007. It was made for between the POC and SE/OE CFW's.
Abilities:limited recovery mode, autoboot option, custom PRX loading, launching 1.00 Homebrew eBoots, hiding corrupt data icons and starting ISO files from the XMB.
Download CFW 1.53

Version 1.62 IE Custom Firmware released by becus25 in March 2007. The latest version is 1.62 IE-D. Like custom firmware 1.53, it is based off the 1.5 kernel. Earlier versions of 1.62 IE would often cause bricks when the flash was modified, but updates were soon released fixing the problem. Currently though, 1.62 IE is only compatible with TA-079 motherboards and will brick on TA-082 and later motherboards. Features are similar to other firmwares including recovery mode, autoboot, and flash access. Becus25 has also modified the popular app by Booster, Devhook, which allows firmwares to run from the memory stick, virtually removing the chance of bricking.
Download 1.62 IE-Av2
Download 1.62 IE-C
Download 1.62 IE-D
Download 1.62 IE-D2

Version 2.71 SE Released by DAX on October 8 2006.
Abilities:the features of the 2.71 web browser, video features, RSS feeds, WMA capabilities and flash capabilities for the web browser. 2.71 SE-B was released later on that month, the major feature is the loading of ISOs and CSOs from the game menu in the XMB. A little update from that was 2.71 SE-B' (Notice this little mark) included NO-UMD ISO loading. Then another little update of that was released 2.71 SE-B" It allowed the ability to run 2.80+ games, including GTA VCS. It also fixed some bugs found in 2.71 SE-B'. The final edition of this CFW was 2.71 SE-C, which allows the loading of PRX files directly from the memory stick.
Download 2.71 SE-A
Download 2.71 SE-B
Download 2.71 SE-B'
Download 2.71 SE-B"
Download 2.71 SE-C

Version 3.02 IE released by becus25 in July 2007. 3.02 IE-A which incorporated 3.02 OE with some improvements of IE. He later released an update which resolved certain bugs in the initial release.
Download 3.02 IE-A2

Version 3.02 OE Released by DAX on December 21 2006 as 3.02 OE-A.
It contains the same features of 2.71 SE-C as well as all the 3.02 features excluding the Location Free player and new fonts. New features added to this custom firmware include WMA and Flash Player enabling through the Recovery Menu and breaking the Digital Rights Management of the PSX emulator. One update for it was made 3.02 OE-B Its main feature was the ability to run PSX games from a memory stick using a ripping utility called "popstation" released alongside the new firmware.
Download 3.02 OE-A
Download 3.02 OE-B

Version 3.03 OE Released by DAX on January 4 2007. It has the same features of 3.02 OE-B along with the ability to run compressed PSX games and support for custom manuals in PSX games. An update was made 2 days later known as 3.03 OE-A2 a new feature in this release is the ability to change the CPU/Bus speed in UMD/ISO games. 3.03 OE-B was released only 4 days after that this custom firmware required 3.03 OE-A/A' firmware to be installed first. A new feature in this release is the ability to play full screen (480 X 272) H.264/MPEG-4 AVC|MP4-AVC videos. 3.03 OE-C was released a little over 2 weeks later, Among the features are the ability to use WiFi at 333 MHz, the maximum bit-rate limit of MP4-AVC videos is raised from 768 kbit/s to 16384 kbit/s (16 Mbit/s), the ability to change the CPU/Bus speed of the XMB, and faster cold-boot as well as several other new features.
Download 3.03 OE-A
Download 3.03 OE-A2
Download 3.03 OE-B
Download 3.03 OE-C

Version 3.10 OE released by DAX on February 4 2007 as 3.10 OE-A. allowing screen brightness to be set to the 4th level without having to connect the AC adapter along with the ability to run static Executable and Linkable Format (ELF) created homebrew with the 3.10 kernel. Then a quick update was made called 3.10 OE-A2, fixing a simple bug in the execution of PSP games including Metal Slug 6 and others. The bug was caused by the incorrect patching of a static ELF in some cases.
Download 3.10 OE-A
Download 3.10 OE-A2

Version 3.30 OE released by DAX on April 15 2007 as 3.30 OE-A.It offers all past features from other custom firmwares, as well as all features (except LocationFree Player) built into the official 3.30. IT included 1.50 features, as well as ISO/CSO loading and homebrew support. A quick update to fix to security bug that overwrites certain parts of the RAM and also reintroduces the auto-boot program feature.
Download 3.30 OE-A
Download 3.30 OE-A2

Version 3.40 OE Released by DAX on April 20 2007. It had all the same features as 3.30 OE-A2 except it now uses the 3.40 firmware. It fixed a bug that caused data to be written to random addresses in the PSP's RAM. Autoboot, which had been broken since 3.03 OE, was reimplemented. Improvements in the flasher were made to check that the correct DATA.DXAR file is used for an update
Download 3.40 OE

Version 3.40* LE released by Team Wildcard on June 08 2007. The firmware contains all the features of 3.40 OE but contains features such as a new recovery menu,(later dubbed LE Recovery), and in XMB recovery access. WARNING THIS IS A VERY BUGGED CFW.
Download 3.40* LE

Version 3.40 IE released by becus25 on August 07 2007. This was basicly 3.40 OE with alot of bugs. They used a new Recovery Menu. This was the last CFW released by him. THIS ONE IS ALSO VERY BUGGY, AND HAS CAUSED BRICKS
Download 3.40 IE-A2

Version 3.51 M33 released by Team M33 on July 14, 2007. Runs 3.51 firmware, allowing users to play future games that will one day require 3.51 firmware. It had all of the features of 3.40 OE. an update called 3.51 M33-4. It added a new No-UMD ISO loading mode and added support for 1.50 plugin loading. It also included earlier bug fixes for ISO loading and WLAN. 3.51 M33-6 update was released. It added a new No-UMD ISO loading mode using the official ISO loader from Sony, bringing almost 100% No-UMD compatibility. 3.51 M33-7 was released, which included more bug fixes, mainly in the ISO-loading of various games, however also fixed brightness issues on TA-082/TA-086 motherboards when launching home-brew. A small WiFi patch was also included.
Download 3.51 M33-4
Download 3.51 M33-7

Version 3.52 M33 released by Team M33 on July 25, 2007. To save space im going to summarize all of the updates for this one and only include the final edition download. It ran off of the 3.52 Kernel and most of it was patches and fixes for earlier problems.
Download 3.52 M33-4

Version 3.60 M33 released by Team M33 on September 10, 2007. It was the first CFW that was for the PSP SLIM or 2000. At the time, it could only run home-brew made for the 3.60 kernel but Team M33 stated they would make it compatible with 2.xx kernel home-brew in the near future (Team n00bz later released eLoader 1.000 which could run most home-brew requiring the 1.50 kernel on the PSP Slim). The first major use of Pandora battery & MMS method.
Download 3.60 M33

Version 3.71 M33 released by Team M33 on September 23, 2007. Due to kernel changes in the original firmware, many plugins made for previous firmwares are incompatible. A version 2 of both the 3.71 M33 and the 1.50 add-on were released on October 2, 2007. It fixed some bugs in the previous firmware. On November 8, 2007, DAX (Team M33) released version 3 of 3.71 again featuring various bug fixes along with an updater POPSloader to include POPS from FW3.71 and FW3.72. On December 12, 2007, DAX released update 4 for Firmware 3.71 along with a new multi-disc popsloader.
Download 3.71 M33
Download 3.71 M33-2
Download 3.71 M33-3
Download 3.71 M33-4
Download 1.50 Kernel add-on-2

Version 3.72 HX released by _HellDashX_ on November 06 2007. It contains all features from 3.71 M33-2 except the 1.50 kernel extension, which was released shortly after. A newer version called 3.72HX-2 has been released with fixes for some bugs.
Download 3.72 HX

Version 3.73 HX released by _HellDashX_ on December 12, 2007. It was basicly his 3.72 CFW with enabled access to the official PSP features and changes, as well the “custom” factor enabling homebrew, etc
Download 3.73 HX
Download 1.50 Add-on

Version 3.80 M33 released by Team M33 on January 14, 2008. This update features a new network update feature that when enabled will check for M33 firmware updates. When the feature is disabled through the recovery menu, the network update feature operates as it normally does checking for Sony firmware updates.Update 5 was released on January 20, 2008 that fixed the custom CPU clock not working in games. CPU clock has never (in any SE/OE/M33) be set at all in games that restarted using sceKernelLoadExec to use a subgame or reload themselves, after said restart happened (e.g. Castlevania). Update 5 also added setting to recovery to hide PIC0.PNG and PIC1.PNG in the XMB game menuBy default off, this setting only applies to any kind of apps/games (pbp, iso) that load from MS, but not to UMD's. NOTICE I ONLY INCLUDED FIRST AND LAST EDITIONS IN TEXT
Download 3.80 M33
Download 3.80 M33-2
Download 3.80 M33-3
Download 3.80 M33-4
Download 3.80 M33-5
Download 1.50 Kernel Add-on for 3.80 M33

Version 3.90 M33 released by Team M33 on January 31, 2008. This uses the new 3.90 kernel, and M33 NO UMD was fixed (yet another bug related with exiting with home, infinite semaphore wait). There were also a few changes in the updater. The degeneration check and correction of IDS keys was implemented. Also, the code was added to the update that allowed download 390.PBP from Dark-alex.org via WiFi. Also, L+triangle has been restored as the only way to bypass the battery, and 390.PBP checks. A 1.50 kernel addon was also released the same day. On February 13, 2008, revision 2 was released. This improved the plugin mode (improvements in reading speeds, and other bugs) added the rest of regions that can be faked in recovery. The ipl in Slims was patched so it can be allowed to boot with a Pandora Battery inserted. (With Booster's Multi-ipl or the TimeMachine ipl on the memory stick) On March 30, 2008, revision 3 was released and it expanded compatibility for some games ran with the M33 Driver. This included games such as Harvest Moon and Patapon. (Which only ran under the Sony NP9660 loader)
Download 3.90 M33
Download 3.90 M33-2
Download 3.90 M33-3
Download 1.50 Kernel Add-on V1
Download 1.50 Kernel Add-on V2

CFW 3.93 was published on PSPGEN, but an unknown developer released 3.93 CFW on pspgen.com. This CFW was made with permission from Dark_AleX and others. According to the readme, this CFW now uses the 3.93 kernel, and has added several features. These are the ability to access recovery from the XMB, the ability to make a Pandora Battery (convert/revert battery) from recovery, save savedata in its normal, unencrypted state, and the ability to hide the PSP Mac Address in the XMB.However, the firmware has been tested and 3.90 flash0 themes as well as CXMB are known to work properly. Also, the 3.90 IRShell patch can be successfully done enabling users to fully unlock the potential of IRShell. an new Update (named Update 2) has been made available. Update 2 fixed a bug in the Sony's OSK where pressing SELECT while it was up would freeze the system. Also, Hellcat's Savegame Deemer was removed. However, it can still be used a an ordinary plugin.

Download 3.93 CFW
Download 3.93 CFW-2
Download 1.50 kernel Add-on

Version 3.95 GEN released by Miriam & Team GEN on June 01, 2008. included fixing the Phat's memory limitations, and enabling popsloader to work where it has not previously worked before... The newly added features to 3.95 GEN included vsh-recovery where the recovery menu can be bought up from the XMB. The new recovery menu uses the standard M33 recovery and adds more features such as Pandora Battery creation tools, the ability to hide the MAC Address in the XMB, USB to the UMD. Also, the configuration of Network Update can be changed to search for updates for either GEN firmwares, M33 firmwares, or Sony's official firmwares. Outside of the firmware, the ipl for Slims is patched so units can boot up with a Pandora Battery, as well as load TimeMachine. Popsloader and PSX emulation is fixed and works as long as a user uses the 'popsloader.prx' file included in the download. 3.95 GEN-2 included fixed some of the known bug fixes within the firmware.
Download 3.95 GEN
Download 3.95 GEN-2

Version 4.01 M33 released by Team M33 on June 28 2008. Although lacking the features mentioned for 4.00 M33, 4.01 M33 does bring the ability to translate the recovery menu to one of various languages that can be customized by yourself. In Addition, 4.01 M33 bought a bugfix with the vshMenu conflicting with operation of the Camera in the XMB. Also, with the GAME3xx (GAME380 on 3.90 M33) is changed to GAME4xx, and it is the standard folder for all 4.xx firmwares. Putting a homebrew in the GAME4xx folder will either launch it under the 3.xx or 4.xx kernel depending on the homebrew. On June 29, 2008, 4.01 M33-2 was released, and it fixed a bug with scePowerGetCpuClockFrequency not being resolved. (The same problem that was fixed with 3.80 M33-2) Also, recovery bugs and the Spanish translation for recovery were adjusted. On the same day, the 1.50 Kernel Addon for 4.01 M33 was released.
Download 4.01 M33
Download 4.01 M33-2
Download 1.50 Kernel Add-on

Version 5.00 M33 released by Team M33 on October 17, 2008. This custom firmware doesn't include the features mentioned earlier for 4.00M33 either. 5.00 M33 fixed 1 bug: "When changing speed in XMB, and the PSP turned the brightness to 0 automatically the speed was reseted to 222 again." The 1.50 Kernel Addon for 5.00 was released the day after. On October 22, 2008, 5.00 M33-2 was released. This fixed the problems with the PSN, and PSX games. A new popsloader has been released that will only work with 5.00 M33-2. Among the changes, the M33 Network Update, PSX game corruption in RAM, sctrlKernelSetInit* functions were all fixed. It is now possible for version information to be loaded from flash0 via .txt file. Finally, the plugin configuration file format has been changed. The most current version is 5.00 M33-6, which attempted to fix the slow memory stick issue since custom firmware 3.80 M33.
Download 5.00 M33
Download 5.00 M33-2
Download 5.00 M33-3
Download 5.00 M33-4
Download 5.00 M33-6
Download 1.50 Kernel Add-on

Version 5.02 GEN released by Mariam and Team GEN. Two versions of 5.02 GEN were created. The "full" version of the firmware has all the features just as any other custom firmware such as the ability to play ISOs, and play PSX games. The "lite" version was a stripped down version which only allowed for the use of home-brew, and plug-ins as well as the use of whatever features the official firmware allows for.With 5.02 GEN-A, several new features were added. This included the ability to use Bubbletune's game categories plug-in, and Slim color patch, and the ability to reboot into a 5.02 official firmware version on a Slim. Compatibility with home-brew and PSX games have also increased. Other options such as ability to hide the MAC address in the XMB, translation of recovery, the use of popsloader, and the ability to access recovery via the vshMenu are all available for use. A 1.50 Kernel Add-on for 1000 series is available.
Download 5.02 GEN-A
Download 1.50 Kernel add-on

Version 5.50 MHU released by Xenogears and Becus25. It has most of the same features of 5.00M33, but on the 5.50 Firmware. Since it is Spanish and their isn't much info i could find it is best to skip and go to 5.50GEN.
Download 5.50 MHU

Version 5.50 GEN released on June 13, 2009. This time, the firmware isn't made by Miriam, but a completely new developer: GENyUS. To install 5.50GEN, 3.52 M33 or higher is required. 5.50 GEN includes al updates of the original 5.50 firmware. As normal, 5.50 GEN plays homebrew games, ISO/CSO games and includes a recovery and vshMenu, an updated CXMB and Popsloader. The 1.50 Kernel Addon for Phats has yet to be released despite 5.50 GEN's numerous updates to the custom firmware.A day later, a Build 4 Patch was released. This patch allows users to access the PlayStation Store after the recent 5.51 forcing users to upgrade. This is a workaround allowing this again.On July 2, 2009, 5.50 GEN-B was released. It allowed Evangelion: Jo to be played. The game would not run if it detected a CFW. On September 6, 2009, 5.50 GEN-B2 was released that fixed several bugs preventing homebrew and Pandora functions to be used. On October 18, 2009, 5.50 GEN-C was released allowing users to run protected games and games requiring firmware 5.55 or higher without any patching with Yoshirio's Game Decrypter. However, due to various issues, it was quickly pulled and 5.50 GEN-D was released three days later on October 21. 5.50 GEN-D included all the features of 5.50 GEN-C, fixed its bugs including the 480x272 AVC video playback problem, and allowed users to connect to the PSN via MediaGO without the use of the USB Plugin Faker. On October 24, 5.50 GEN-D2 was released which allowed Evangelion: Jo to play again, fixed the WPA-PSK bug issue found on 5.50 GEN-D, fixed the output of 5.xx and 6.xx games, fixed the Make Pandora battery option in recovery and finally replaced their old gameboot with one that flashes red if the now in-built decrypter worked successfully. Then on December 15th 2009 5.50GEN-D3 was released giving us the capability to play the most recent games that require 6.10 OFW.
Download 5.50GEN-A V4
Download 5.50GEN-B
Download 5.50GEN-B2 quick updater
Download 5.50GEN-C
Download 5.50GEN-D
Download 5.50GEN-D2 quick updater
Download 5.50GEN-D3


HEN CFW FOR 2000-V3 and 3000

Version 5.03 GEN
With the advent of the PSP Slim models with the TA-088v3 motherboard and the PSP-3000, custom firmware at the time was impossible. However, with the ChickHEN exploit which makes homebrew available, a temporary form of custom firmware is available. Team GEN released 5.03 GEN (also known as 5.03 HEN) which allow these PSP models to run homebrew and games just as if it had it's complete 5.03 custom firmware. 5.03 GEN is temporary due to ChickHEN. Unlike its 5.50 GEN counterpart, newer games requiring 5.55 or above needed to be decrypted with version 4 of Yoshirio's game decrypter.With the release of 5.50 GEN-C, That made it up to date with 5.50GEN-D3. It is still NOT FULL CFW.
Download 5.03 GEN-A
Download 5.03 GEN-B
Download 5.03 GEN-C


Custom Firmwares that were Semi or Beta

Epsilon Bios: was released for use with the Undiluted Platinum modchip. This firmware could only be used on PSPs with the modchip. This firmware resides on the modchip while it "piggybacks" the firmware on the PSP's flash.
Download Epsilon V1
Download Epsilon V1.1

Version 5.03 TDP released by TodoPSP Team on April 4, 2009. This release has caused them to spring up in the PSP homebrew community. Version 3 includes a tdpDevKit tool which allows users to patch certain firmware specific homebrew files such as irShell to be compatible with 5.03 TDP.
Download 5.03 TDPv3

Custom Firmware enabler Xenogears and Becus25's Custom Firmware Enabler for use with Davee's ChickHEN.ChickHEN R2 released by Davee. Used to put CFW on psp 2000v3 and 3000
Download CFEv3.6
Download ChickHEN-R2






PLEASE DO MORE RESEARCH ON THESE CFW'S DUE TO SOME NOT WORKING FOR SOME OTHER PSP'S. ALSO SOME OF THE EARLY ONES ARE VERY BUGGY. ALSO I DID NOT ADD THE EBOOTS NEEDED FOR MOST OF THESE OLD CFW. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK.

I will hopefully be adding more as i do more research, but for now this is complete. Please comment.

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[Joomla12]

I call copypasta....

[silvalite5]

yeah looks like copied and pasted

[petfood56]

this looks... usefull???

[jacobvengeance]

wanna bet? I bet you i made it. I just took it from one of my post on PSPISOZ and put it on here. So i did make it smart one. how can you copy BB code anyway?

[pok21]

even if it is copy pasted its very good and well organized

[DARK_megas]

this is well done, very organized and should be sticky

[TiMiL]

Wow... That is all i can say. I've been hoping someone would do this for ages. Thankyou.

And it probably is CPYPST, considering the fact that he refers to DaX as "Team M33" in the earlier firmwares, like they did before it was revealed to be DaX in disguise.

Hello Dark-Megas. 163 Posts.

[MJaj13]

thats amazing, such info
i came to the scene on the 4.01 m33-2

sticky yet?

[DARK_megas]

Originally Posted by MJaj13

thats amazing, such info
i came to the scene on the 4.01 m33-2

sticky yet?

no... not yet, i knew about the scene back then when 2.71 SE-A was released but the first CFW i installed was 3.03 OE-A.

heihachi, why are you counting my posts?