neocorpse has redesigned his Oni CTF theme to make a GamerStyle exclusive theme.

This version has a skinned OSK, 4.05 visualizers, the busy icon from his Ghost in the Shell SAC theme as well as a fixed gameboot.

To use this CTF you’ll need a PSP running custom firmware 4.01 M33 as well as CXMB 3.2.

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Popsloader for 5.00 M33-2 and above has been released. Here are the details:

Requirements:

5.00 M33-2, it won’t work in 5.00 M33-1

New Features:

- Works on 5.00.
- Added 3.80, 3.90 and 4.01.

Upgrade from older version of popsloader:

* Copy seplugins to memstick root folder replacing files.
* Dump 4.01 (choose decrypt all option in psardumper) and copy the file impose.prx in /seplugins/popsloader/ with that name (impose.prx, without numbers)

Install from scratch:

* Copy seplugins to memstick root folder replacing files.
* Dump the desired firmware to extract the files needed (choose decrypt all option in psardumper).

These are the files needed for each firmware:

3.02-3.03: /kd/pops.prx, /kd/popsman.prx, /kd/meaudio.prx, /vsh/module/pafmini.prx
3.10-3.30: /kd/pops.prx, /kd/popsman.prx, /vsh/module/pafmini.prx
3.40-4.01: /kd/pops.prx, /kd/popsman.prx, /vsh/module/pafmini.prx, /vsh/module/libpspvmc.prx

* Copy the files to /seplugins/popsloader with firmware version as suffix (e.g. popsman.prx -> popsman380.prx)
* Additionally, no matter which pops you want to run, you have to get impose.prx from 4.01and
copy it to /seplugins/popsloader/ with the name impose.prx (no suffix).

You can download the popsloader for 5.00 M33-2 here.

Popcorn bug fixes

* Fixed bug that caused some games with certain icons not to work, and caused document.dat not to work.

* Fixed critical bug that caused continous corruption of psx games in RAM.

- Core bugfix: Fixed sctrlKernelSetInit* functions not working.

- M33 network update doesn’t work in 5.00 M33, fixed.

- Added the posibility of loading version information from the file flash0:/vsh/etc/version.txt

By default is disabled. If you enable it in recovery, you could for example dump 5.01 firmware,
copy the version.txt from it to the flash, and bypass firmware check restrictions like those that
may be in psn, etc.
This will also fake official network update (not m33 one), and running the update eboot (again, not m33 ones).

- Plugins configuration file format changed.

The new format is as follows:

* There is no more conf.bin file.
* Now each line in vsh.txt game.txt and pops.txt will have a 0 or a 1 at the end. 1 indicates
that the plugin will be loaded, 0 (or anything else) that it won’t be loaded.

Entering in recovery in 5.00 M33-2 wil automatically convert the old format configuration
to the new one (this may cause a delay first time you enter in plugins because of conversion).

- Added options under advanced configuration that allow enable/disable of plugins in a certain configuration.
By default they are enabled.

You can download the 5.00 M33-2 here

Mr Shizzy has released a 5.01 Easy Installer application for 5.00 M33. This application allows you to apply the fixes from the official 5.01 firmware to your 5.00 M33 firmware.

This is nothing more than a simple installer to apply the Sony 5.01 Firmware fixes to 5.00 m33. (There have been safety checks put in place, to prevent someone flashing this to the wrong firmware…) Some people don’t like manually flashing their PSP, so maybe they will find this helpful.

Download: 5.01for5.0M33_INSTALLER.rar

Mr. Shizzy has released a simple installer he threw together for the 5.00 m33 POPS fix DaRk_AleX released.

“Some people don’t like manually flashing there PSP, so maybe they will find this helpful.”

You can download the 5.00 M33 pops fix installer here.

Dark Alex has updated his custom firmware to 5.00M33, so we can try out those great new features.

Here’s the change log:

Changes:
- 4.01 to 5.00

- Bug fix: when changing speed in xmb, and the psp turned the brightness to 0 automatically the speed was reseted to 222 again.

Download: 5.00 M33, PSP Firmware 5.00 also needed.