The n00bs Guide To The PSP.

[blade1000]

The Noobs Guide To The PSP.

First of all, you'll need a Mini-B USB cable. (Can be found at your local Game-Stop) Connect your USB cable to the back of your PC.

When you put your Memory-Stick DUO/PRO DUO in the PSP you must first format before you do anything else. Turn on the PSP and scroll over to 'Settings', then scroll down to 'System Settings'. Press the 'X' button. Now, scroll down to 'Format Memory Stick(tm)', and press 'X'. Select 'Yes'. (You just successfully formatted your Memory-Stick!!!) Now put your PSP in USB Mode and lets begin...


How To Put "Stuff" On Your PSP

1. Music
Turn on your computer and put your PSP is in USB mode. (/Settings/USB Connection/) On your computer, open up the "My Computer" Folder. Open the 'Removable Disk Drive' that is your PSP. (examples: F: X: J: D: Ect.) Inside this folder open up the "PSP" folder. You should see four new folders "GAME, MUSIC, PHOTO, SAVEDATA." "MUSIC" is where we will put the music.
Take your favorite mp3 file/s from your PC and drag it to the "MUSIC" folder.
Undo the USB Connection and (On the PSP) scroll over to "Music" and press 'X'. You should see the mp3 file. Select it, crank up the volume, press 'X', and listen to your song!

2. Photo
Turn on your computer and put your PSP is in USB mode. (/Settings/USB Connection/) On your computer, open up the "My Computer" Folder. Open the 'Removable Disk Drive' that is your PSP. (examples: F: X: J: D: Ect.) Inside this folder open up the "PSP" folder. You should see four new folders "GAME, MUSIC, PHOTO, SAVEDATA." "PHOTO" is where we will put the Photos. Take your favorite jpg file/s from your PC and drag it to the "PHOTO" folder. Undo the USB Connection and (On the PSP) scroll over to "Photo" and press 'X'. You should see the jpg file. Select it, press 'X', and view your picture!

3. Video
There are Two Methods for video.


Method #1. NO Converting (Easier)

As for where to get the video file/s that is up to you. I'll only say that there is a wide selection of PSP ready video files on this site. If you become a member and donate $10 to pspcrazy.com you'll have unlimited access to hundreds of downloads.
After you download a MP4 file it will be named something like "M4V00001.MP4" DON'T CHANGE THE FILE NAME, it won't work if you do.
Move the .MP4 File to the 100MNV01 folder your removable disk should look like this: F:/MP_ROOT/100MNV01/M4V00001.MP4. Undo the USB Connection and (on the PSP) scroll over to "Video" Press 'X' and select your video file press 'X' and your watching a video on your PSP!!!


Method #2. Converting. (Harder)
First of all, your going to need a video converter (Download PSP Video 9:[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]) Once PSP Video 9 is installed on your PC we're ready to begin.

If your getting your video files from a source other that PSP Crazy, then they're probably not in MP4 format and need to be converted. Open PSP Video 9 and on the left choose 'Convert'. Now click 'Transcode New Video'. choose the video file, (.mpg .avi .wmv ect.) and then click 'Start'. On the top, you can see the progress on the file as it is converting. once the file is done converting, put your PSP in USB Mode, and on the left choose 'Copy'. highlight the .Mp4 and on the bottom, choose 'Copy Video to PSP'. Once the file has been copied to the PSP, get out of the USB Connection. On the PSP, scroll over to "Video" Press 'X' and play your Video.


4. Homebrew
Note: #1. Running Homebrew on your PSP may cause eventual damage, don't blame me if you screw up your PSP. #2. If you get in any sort of illegal trouble (like playing pirated games) don't blame me.

Homebrew currently runs on only these firmware versions:
Note: To check your current Firmware version, scroll to /Settings/System Settings/System Information/

1.0

1.5

2.0

2.1

2.5

2.6


Running Homebrew on a 1.5 PSP
Running Homebrew on a PSP V. 1.5 is very simple. For this example we'll use a Homebrew application called "Book-R" (a simple text viewer) Download Book-R HERE (Download latest version(You'll need a zip archiver like WinZip WinRar 7zip ect.) Once Book-r is downloaded and unzipped, we're ready to begin. open the Folder called 'bookr-0.6.0-bin'. Inside this folder will be two folders and a read me.txt file. Copy the two folders (bookr and bookr%) to /PSP/GAME of your memory stick. on your PSP scroll over to 'Game/Memory-Stick' and start up 'Book-R book reader'
Congratulations. You just ran Homebrew on your 1.5 PSP!!!!!!!

Running Homebrew on a 2.0 PSP
For this, you'll need the EBOOT Loader by fanjita. Download HERE (click "EBOOT Loader" on the left (you'll need a RAR archiver like WinRar) Once Downloaded and unRared, copy "a.bin,l_09.bin and tsr.bin" to the Removable Disk that is your PSP. Now, open F:/PSPGAME/ and the psp/game/ folder that you downloaded. Copy "loader09.cfg, loadmenu.tga, loadmenu09.pbp and loadmenu09sort.pbp" from psp/game, to F:/PSP/GAME.
Now, open the psp/photo folder that you downloaded, and copy "EBOOT loader 09" to F:/PSP.PHOTO. Open the "bookr-0.6.0-bin" folder and copy "bookr" to F:/PSP/GAME/.
Undo USB Connection and scroll to "Photo" select the "EBOOT Loader 09" folder and the screen should turn black for a second and then the Eboot loader menu will display. press 'X'
Congratulations. You just ran Homebrew on your 2.0 PSP!!!!!!!

Note: Past this point the only way to run homebrew, is to have the PSP UMD Game "Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories"(GTA:LCS for short)

Running Homebrew on a 2.1/2.5/ PSP
For this, you'll need "eLoader for GTA beta".
go to [Only registered and activated users can see links. ], and scroll down to: "28 Jan 2006 : eLoader for GTA beta" and find the "here" that lets you download it. Download and UnRAR it.

This package allows you to run some standard PSP homebrew on any version of Grand Theft Auto,
and PSP firmware version v2.0, v2.01 and v2.5.
It's an initial test of the loader, that doesn't support the full range of homebrew, but works
well enough for an initial release.
Please note also the new name for the EBOOT Loader - "eLoader".


To install:
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Use WinRAR to unpack the contents of this package into the root (topmost) folder on your memory stick. Note that if
you have an existing GTA savegame that uses slot 5, then this will be overwritten by the eLoader savegame.
You can see which slots you are using by the folder names - ULES00182SX, ULES00151SX or ULUS10041SX : X is the slot number.
To make sure that the eLoader is not auto-started by GTA, you can copy another GTA savegame folder off your memory
stick, and then back onto the memory stick now.
Now copy the "bookr" folder into F:/PSP/GAME/

To use:
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Start up GTA as normal. When it has loaded, select "Load Game", select the eLoader savegame and
confirm the load as normal. After a short delay, the eLoader menu should appear. Select "Book-R" using the 'X' button.
Congratulations. You just ran Homebrew on your 2.1/ 2.5/PSP!!!!!!!

Running Homebrew on a 2.6 PSP
Go to [Only registered and activated users can see links. ] and scroll to, "31 Jan 2006 : Homebrew for all firmwares!" and find the "here" that lets you download it. Download and UnRAR it.

This package allows you to run some standard PSP homebrew on any version of Grand Theft Auto,
and PSP firmware version v2.6.
It's an initial test of the loader, that doesn't support the full range of homebrew, but works
well enough for an initial release.
Please note also the new name for the EBOOT Loader - "eLoader".


To install:
===========

Use WinRAR to unpack the contents of this package into the root (topmost) folder on your memory stick. Note that if
you have an existing GTA savegame that uses slot 5, then this will be overwritten by the eLoader savegame.
You can see which slots you are using by the folder names - ULES00182SX, ULES00151SX or ULUS10041SX : X is the slot number.
To make sure that the eLoader is not auto-started by GTA, you can copy another GTA savegame folder off your memory
stick, and then back onto the memory stick now.
Now copy "bookr" into F:/PSP/GAME/


To use:
=======

Start up GTA as normal. When it has loaded, select "Load Game", select the eLoader savegame and
confirm the load as normal. After a short delay, the eLoader menu should appear. Select the homebrew to run using
the D-Pad, and the X button. You can select a CPU speed with the L + R shoulder buttons, or press START to restart
your PSP.
To return to the menu, you can usually hold the L+R shoulder buttons, then hold START for a few seconds. This doesn't
work for every application.
The HOME button doesn't work, this is a known problem.


UMDs I Recommend

Games:
GTA:LCS
Kingdom of Paradise
Socom 3
Prince of Persia


Videos:
Rambo: First Blood
Happy Gilmore
Viva La Bam: Volume 1
Bad News Bears
Tim Burton's: The Nightmare Before Christmas



I Hope This Helps some you noobs out there, and have fun with your PSP.

[utfreak]

Hey, thanks man. Pretty much covers anything a n00b to the PsP community would need to know. I enjoy how thorough everything is. Good job.

[Dobulo]

If you had some time maybe if you could put up a Internet Connecting guide it would help me . I can't seem to find one anywhere. or maybe I am just not looking hard enough but yea. if you have time. This was a good list thanks

[Italio Senso]

There are so many noobs that need this guide. I will hep spread the word.

[boneheadjoe9]

Sorry buddy, but I kinda beat ya to it. Look for Psp FAQ in the help section (or my sig), I got about everything you will ever need in there. Since I know this stuff really good from anwsering questions let me give ya some "constructive critisim" eh?
let me see...
Photo: Its more than just jpg's that you can put on there...
Video: Video 9 is not the best so here some advice for peeps who dont use it. Once you convert to mp4 put videos in the 100MNV01 and name it to M4V#####.MP4, if its an avc vid put in 100ANV01 folder and name it to MAQ#####.MP4
Homebrew: Homebrew can NOT eventually screw up your psp, unless you mess with progs like pspset that can access flash0, and get you a nice brick
Thats all for now,
But can I copy some of your homebrew running info for my FAQ? with the credit to you of course.
-boneheadjoe

[blade1000]

Originally Posted by boneheadjoe9

Sorry buddy, but I kinda beat ya to it. Look for Psp FAQ in the help section (or my sig), I got about everything you will ever need in there. Since I know this stuff really good from anwsering questions let me give ya some "constructive critisim" eh?
let me see...
Photo: Its more than just jpg's that you can put on there...
Video: Video 9 is not the best so here some advice for peeps who dont use it. Once you convert to mp4 put videos in the 100MNV01 and name it to M4V#####.MP4, if its an avc vid put in 100ANV01 folder and name it to MAQ#####.MP4
Homebrew: Homebrew can NOT eventually screw up your psp, unless you mess with progs like pspset that can access flash0, and get you a nice brick
Thats all for now,
But can I copy some of your homebrew running info for my FAQ? with the credit to you of course.
-boneheadjoe

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[sickman99]

Great all of it was useful to me i really wanted to find this in the first place. Good job on writting this!

[jjaydelr]

thanks for the tut

[enxyn]

thanks of the info...

[enxyn]

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