Devhook man, devhook! Or haven't you heard of devhook? If you haven't, it basically redirects any calls to flash0 and flash1 to a location on the memory stick, basically allowing you to run almost any firmware version (the official sony ones, I mean) straight from the memory stick without "installing" it. Its yet another layer of protection against brickage

@Kerm: Uh... you are an admin, why can't you split it?

Isn't devHook for lower firmwares (1.0/5 ideally?) so you can play games requiring higher firmwares (or get features of higher firmwares? Besides, I'd have to downgrade so (1) thats a possible bricking and (2) no downgrader for 3.10. =/ and (3) (not a reason really) wouldn't I have to carry around every eboot for each FW? Thats a lot of space... So I can boot to that FW. I'll look for my source on this, 90% sure its on PSP-Vault.

a... oh well. I guess I'll look around for dead TI's, then. I'm in high school, so there have to be a few somewhere.

[offtopic]Seriously, get your own topic if you really want to talk about PSP stuff. This isn't even the right forum.[/offtopic]

no, not at all. You can just have the firmware's you want to "emulate". I can have my 3.03 firmware dev-hooking an official 3.03 firmware. The initial point of it was so that 1.5 users could have the newest official firmware (such as dev-hoooking 2.71 on 1.5), but now you can have your modified firmware sitting on the memory stick, and just dev-hook it (eg, the one with custom fonts and gameboots where a brick isn't possible). Then just have the dark_alex custom firmware auto-start devhook so that its as seamless as possible, and you have a totally tricked out firmware without ever writing to flash