How to Mod Any PSP on Firmware 6.61 or Lower with ARK-5 CFW - Overclocking & More!

Hey Lily, you know what time it is? It's

time to install

Ark 5.

It's okay. It's okay. We'll make it

easy. Hey, what is going on everyone?

It's me, Mr. Mario. You can see here

we're back over at our good old friend

here, the PSP, because we are going to

be working on this yet again here for

something that just recently released

and is pretty awesome here. This here

we're covering is the release and

installation of ARK 5, which in case you

do not know is of course the successor

to the muchloved ARV custom firmware,

but this advertises itself as a next

generation custom firmware for the PSP

and VA's EPSP. Although this video will

only be limited to the PSP installation.

For anybody who might be wondering why

they should install this or upgrade to

it or whatever it is here, you could see

some of the features here. It has an

easier installation, some better plug-in

management in the XMBB, improved memory

management for consoles with extra RAM,

tons of under the hood fixes and

improvements, and oh yeah, this little

thing here, overclocking. Yeah, you can

actually overclock your PSP now. Now,

this PSP has not been modified yet

because this video is intended for

consoles which have not been modified at

all. If you are wanting to upgrade your

custom firmware system, I will have

another video showing how to upgrade

from a previous firmware to AR 5.

However, for anybody who might be

curious about the overclocking

capabilities on here, and who also might

be wondering, well, I was able to do

that on the PSP before, no, not like

this. I'll go ahead and pull out my PSP

Go, which already has AR 5 running on

it. And you can see right here, we can

go over to the custom firmware settings.

And over here, we can check out the CPU

clock speeds. And previously, we could

really only cap out at 333 MHz. But now,

depending on your system, as well as if

you won the silicon lottery or not, you

can now max it out at 443 MHz, going

beyond that 333 MHz limitation. And for

anybody who might be wondering if that

does make a difference, oh yes, it does.

I'm personally running this one here at

383. And I'll tell you this, Grand Theft

Auto on here plays smoother and nicer.

And while as you do get less battery

life on here, which is expected, it has

been a pretty awesome experience. quite

literally squeezing more life and power

and performance out of such an old

console such as this. This also does

feature all the nice things a custom

firmware would have to offer, such as

well all these settings here that you

can tweak your plugins manager so you

can manage all your plugins and

customize everything to your heart's

content right here as well as a custom

launcher. It looks a little something

like this. You can check out the

different options, settings, and things

like that on here. But if you want to

check this out, you can certainly

install AR 5 and get the custom

launcher. And if you ever want to go

back to the XMBB, well, you can just go

back to the XMBB. Of course, on top of

all the other benefits here, such as

being able to run homebrew, such as this

here, emulators, and backup games,

whether they're PS1 games, PSP games,

and more, you should hopefully have a

good time here. Once you get your PSP

unlocked and modified with the Ark 5

custom firmware. Now, if any of that has

gotten you excited here, awesome. You're

in the right place. But we are going to

need to get a few prerequisites knocked

out of the way. The first thing you're

going to need is a PSP. It can be any

model of the PSP. That means 1, 2,000,

3000, street, or the go. This works on

every single model of the PSP. I'll

repeat, this works on every single model

of the PSP. It of course needs to be up

and working and operational, such as

this one right here. And you are also

going to need a battery installed in

here. And make sure your battery is

charged up, especially if you're doing a

firmware upgrade. If you do not have a

battery in place, you will not be able

to upgrade the firmware. It would also

be recommended to make sure you have a

charger plugged in. I'm going to be

trusting this here, but if you want to

be more careful, just charge up your

battery and also plug it into the

charger while you're doing this entire

procedure. You will also need some

storage on hand as well, too. And you do

have a few different options. First of

all, if you have a standard PSP such as

this, a 1000, 2000, 3000, or Street, you

do have a couple options. One of them is

just using a Memory Stick Pro Duo such

as this. So, if you want to use one of

these, that's fine. But you can see

we're pretty limited on storage here

since this is only 2 GB. Additionally,

you can go with a more modern option

such as a micro SD adapter for the PSP.

So, this just simply allows you to take

a micro SD card such as this and adapt

it to the PSP. Pretty simple. If you

want to use a more modern option such as

this one right here, just limit

yourself. Don't go higher than 128 GB.

That's going to give you a lot of

storage, a lot of space, and access to

tons of games that you can back up on

here. But just keep in mind in general,

don't go over 128 gigabytes or else

you're going to face corruption and

stuff and it it's just not a good time.

However, if you do have something such

as a PSP Go, you can still accomplish

that, but you actually have built-in

storage right here. Now, you are able to

upgrade the storage right here either by

using a M2 card or using one of those

internal modifications, which allows you

to use a micro SD card. But if you don't

want to do any of that, the internal

storage on here is 16 GB, which is

pretty decent for a system like this.

So, as long as you have some kind of

storage option on hand, you're going to

be okay. But you also need a way to

access that storage. If you have a PSP

Go, such as this one right here, you are

going to need your proprietary USB

cable, and you're going to need to

connect it up to a device such as a

computer or something else that will

allow you to download and transfer

files. You could do what you want to,

but I'm going to be using a computer, so

for the rest of this video, I'm going to

be referencing my computer.

Additionally, if you have any other PSP

model, that means a 1, 2,000, 30000, or

Street, you could also just use a mini

USB cable such as this, just make sure

when you get this, you need to make sure

that it can transfer data, not just

power. And if you're using a micro SD

card like the one I'm using here, you

can actually completely bypass the USB

cable by using an adapter such as this.

This is just a SD and micro SD adapter

to USB, which is what I'm going to be

using on my computer. So, as long as you

have any of those options there, you

should be okay to start modifying your

PSP right here. Now, with all that

sorted out, let's go ahead and check our

current firmware version because you

might need to update the firmware on

your system. In order to do that,

navigate all the way over to settings,

go into system settings, and go into

system information. You're going to see

right here there's going to be a system

software version, and you can see mine

is version 6.0, which means this console

needs to be updated. If you're already

running 6.61, 61, you should be in a

good spot and you can actually skip this

and go to the downloads step. I'll have

a timestamp to that displayed on the

video here. However, if you are on an

outdated firmware, we're going to need

to update to 6.61. So, go ahead, exit

out of there and get your storage set up

on your computer or whichever device

you're going to be using. By the way, if

you're connecting over USB, just make

sure you navigate up here, go over to

USB connection, and then connect it over

to your device. The links for everything

will be down below in the description,

but what you're going to need is the

latest 6.6 861 official firmware

download. So, I'm going to utilize this

internet archive link here, which should

get you sorted out. There's going to be

two folders right here. One of them is

PSP and one of them is PSP Go. And I'm

going to simplify this for you. If you

have a PSP Go, you need to go into the

PSP Go folder. If you do not have a PSP

Go, navigate into the PSP folder. Either

way, go into whichever folder you need.

I'm going to use the PSP folder for

this. And scroll all the way down. And

you're going to want to look for 661.pv.

Go ahead, click on this and save it

somewhere you can easily find it.

Alternatively, if you're using a PSP Go,

you're going to go back out here, go

into the PSP Go folder, and you need the

661 go.pv file. Again, just save that

somewhere you can easily find it. Once

you have it downloaded, go ahead,

rightclick, and copy out that 661 PvP

file or the Go PvP file. Make sure your

PSP storage is hooked up here. Mine is

in driveh. And in here, you should have

some folders that have been created. If

you don't have these folders, you can

generate them pretty easily by

formatting your memory stick or your

micro SD card on your PSP. Just make

sure you back up any data that you might

care about. And if you don't want to do

that, just create the folders right

here. But you'll need to navigate into

the PSP folder, go into the game folder,

rightclick, and create a new folder,

call it update, all uppercase, all one

word, and navigate into the update

folder. Then rightclick and paste. Wait

a few moments for your file to transfer

over. And that is it. The last thing we

need to do here before we check this is

we must rename it. So if you're using

Windows, click on view, show file name

extensions. Make sure that's enabled.

Then rightclick on that file, click on

rename, and it must be renamed to

eboot.pb.

Once that's been renamed, there's only

one last thing we need to do here. I'm

going to have this also linked down

below in the description of the video.

This is a MD5 file checksum website.

What we're going to do is make sure that

our file has been downloaded and copied

over successfully without any

corruptions. In order to do that, click

right here. Once this pops up, navigate

to your PSP's drive. Go into PSP game

update and grab that eboot.pb. After a

few seconds, it should give you a hash

of random numbers and letters right

here. Now, I'm going to put these on

screen, and they're also going to be

available in the description of this

video. There's going to be two file

hashes, one for the 661 update for PSP

Go and one for the standard PSP. You

want to make sure your numbers and

letters match to that. And keep in mind,

case sensitivity does not matter. So

whether the letters are upper or

lowerase, it's fine as long as they

match. Once they do match, that means

you've been able to download and copy

this over successfully. If they do not

match, make sure you downloaded the

correct file. And if they're still not

matching, you might need to delete that

file, redownload it, recopy it, and then

verify it again. Once that's all been

verified, we can exit out of here,

rightclick, eject our USB drive, and

then go back over to the PSP. Once you

finish transferring over that update

file, navigate all the way over to the

game column, go down to your memory

stick or whichever storage you're using,

and then load up the 6.61 update file.

Just like that. After some time at a

black screen, you should come to a

screen like this in which we can go to

start. Wait a few moments for this to

load. There we go. We're going to have

to agree to the terms of service here.

And then once you're all ready to go, we

can now continue on with the update.

Now, keep in mind, in order to update

this, it is required to have a battery

and make sure it's charged. So, you're

going to have to do that. I'm stressing

this because again, if you do not have a

battery for your PSP, you cannot

continue on with the firmware update.

That's really all there is to it. So,

make sure you have your battery

installed, charged up. You could also

hook it up to a charger. And once you're

all ready to go, go ahead, hit enter.

Wait for this to update. And just put

your PSP down for a few minutes. Don't

touch it. Don't do anything. Just let it

do its thing.

Now, there we go. It only took a few

minutes, but once this is all done, you

can go ahead hit enter and wait for your

PSP to reset.

And there we go. At this point, you can

navigate all the way over to your system

settings. Within system settings, go

down to system information. And check

this out. You're now running version

6.61, which is exactly where we need to

be. So, I'm going to exit out of here.

Let's navigate back over to game memory

stick. And I'm going to go ahead and

delete this since we're not going to

need that again. Now that that's all

done, let's go ahead and get our storage

connected over to our computer because

we're going to be downloading and

transferring over all the files we'll

need to get set up here. In order to set

this all up, we're going to need Faster

Arc, which is going to be well the

faster way and the official way to

install AR 5 custom firmware on our

system. I would recommend giving the

readme a good once over because it does

show a little bit of the different

variants here, all the different tools,

features, as well as some written

instructions on how to get this all set

up. although we're going to be

installing it here on video. Once you

have an understanding of that, what you

can do is navigate up here, click on the

releases section, and over in the

releases section, there's going to be a

couple downloads that you'll need. The

first one is going to be the faster arc

PSP full zip file. You might not need

all the things in here, but it would be

better to have this on hand. The second

thing is going to be themes.zip. Just

download both of them and save them

somewhere you can easily find them. The

next thing I'm going to recommend you

download, this is not a requirement, but

it would be recommended, is going to be

the 6.61 official firmware update

because we're going to be doing

something a little cool with it. If

you've already downloaded it, you don't

need to redownload it. But if you have

not downloaded it here, there's going to

be two folders that you can find in the

Internet Archive link. To keep this

short and simple between the two

folders, if you have a PSP Go, you're

going to navigate into the PSP Go

folder. But if you have a standard PSP,

you're going to navigate into the PSP

folder. So for a standard PSP, we can

click on the PSP folder, scroll all the

way down, and download the 661 PBP file.

Alternatively, if you have a PSP Go, you

might or might not need this here. You

can go to the PSP Go folder. And here's

the thing, only download this file 661

go if you have a memory stick setup in

your PSP Go. If your PSP Go is only

using the standard onboard 16 GB of

storage, do not download this file. Only

download this if you have a memory stick

on hand and you've been able to expand

your storage. This right here is a great

website to keep on hand to check that

firmware file. So, go ahead, open up the

MD5 file checksum site and just keep it

on the side until we need it. And

lastly, if at any point in time you're

having trouble extracting out the zip

archives, you can use something such as

sevenzip. It's easy to use, free, and it

should get the job done for what we

need. Now, your download should look

like this. You should only have three of

them here. And if you have a PSP Go with

an extended storage on there, such as a

memory stick, this is going to be the

661 Go file. Just keep that in mind. The

first one we can work with is faster

arc. What you can do is rightclick this

and use something such as 7zip to

extract it out right here. It's going to

give you a PSP folder right here. And

what you can do is rightclick and copy

this. Hook up your PSP storage if you

have not already done so. and we're

going to copy this to the root of the

storage here. So, you can rightclick and

paste. If at any point it asks you to

merge any folders, you're going to want

to say yes. And to verify this, we can

go into the PSP folder, go into the game

folder, and you should have these five

folders now added in. The next thing is

also going to be the save data. Go

ahead, go into the save data, and you

should have this arc 01 2 3 4 folder. If

you have all those folders,

congratulations. The copy was

successful. The next thing we're going

to need is this themes.zip. We don't

necessarily need it, but it would be

good to have it on hand. Rightclick and

extract this out just like the previous

one. It will give you a themes folder.

Rightclick that themes folder. Copy it.

Now, back in the root of your PSP

storage, just rightclick and paste this

right here. So, you should have a themes

folder next to everything else at

minimum next to the PSP folder. And

that's what we're going to need there.

The last file we have to copy over is

this 661.pb.

All you need to do is rightclick, copy

this out, and then rightclick and paste

it. It'll go into the root next to the

PSP folder as well as the themes folder.

By the way, a big thing to keep in mind

for PSP Go users who are going to be

doing this, and again, do not do this.

You will not be able to do this here if

you only have the standard onboard 16 GB

of storage. So, if you have a memory

stick or an expansion like that, what

you'll do is the same thing. You're

going to copy and paste the 661 go file.

Now, there's one last thing we need to

do before we install this, and that's

going to be to check the integrity of

our firmware file. Bring up that MD5

file check some site I told you to load

up earlier. And then click right here.

Navigate over to your PSP storage and in

the root of the storage, find the 661

BBP and doubleclick it. It's going to

give you a file output like this. Now,

I'm going to have the hash on screen

here, but you must make sure that the

file hash is going to be matching your

firmware for your own device. Keep in

mind, it is not case sensitive. So, as

long as the numbers and letters match,

that's going to be fine. But if you're

worried about case sensitivity, they

don't need to be uppercase or lowercase.

The numbers and letters just need to

match. If they do not match, make sure

you have copied over the correct

firmware file. And if you're still

having issues, you're going to have to

delete that file, redownload it, recopy

it, and reverify it. Just make sure that

file is matching. Once everything has

been copied over though, we can

rightclick, eject our drive, and take it

over to our PSP. Back over the PSP, we

are finally ready to install the

greatness, which is custom firmware. So,

in order to do that, navigate over to

your game column, go down to your

storage, and check out your storage. The

first thing we're going to need out of

these wonderful utilities here is going

to be the Ark 5 installer. Go ahead and

fire this up.

So, there we go. We really didn't have

to enter anything or do anything with

the actual application, but you could

see it will automatically reset you back

to the XMBB. And we've technically

installed the custom firmware. But

there's also one more thing that we can

install to make it even better and set

it up on cold boot. Go to your memory

stick or your device yet again and go

over to the CIPL flasher. Then open this

up.

Once it brings you to this screen, all

you need to do is press X to install

CIPL. It's going to install it really

quickly and then it's going to reboot.

It's going to take longer to reboot than

do the actual installation, but just

wait and see.

So, there we go. That's all there was to

it. Within 1 minute, we were able to

install a custom firmware, which is

pretty great. In order to verify this,

you can navigate over to your system

settings. Within system settings, go

over to system information. And check

this out. It should show you now that

you're running 6.61 Ar 5 CIPL.

Congratulations, you are running custom

firmware just like that. Let's go ahead

exit out of here. Exit out of here yet

again. And there's going to be one more

thing that I'm going to recommend you

install right now. Now, this is going to

be installed on the actual memory stick

itself. And this here is completely

optional, but this is going to be for

added protection on here in case you do

ever need to unbrick your system,

something goes wrong. It's just

beneficial to have it on hand, and you

might as well just spend a few minutes

doing it. Now, we're going to go through

the process of installing this right

here, Despatar Del Cemeterio, which will

allow us to essentially control our PSP

on bootup and put us into another

recovery mode. So, that way we can

always reflash our custom firmware if we

need to. Now, keep in mind here, if you

have one of these standard PSPs, like a

1,000, 2,000, 30,000, or a Street,

you'll be able to continue on. But, I'm

going to stress this yet again. If you

have a PSP Go, you will not be able to

follow along with this step unless you

have an external storage in here, such

as a memory stick or one of the

proprietary M2 cards in here. If you're

only using the onboard 16 GB of storage,

you will not be able to continue with

this step. So, you need to skip past it.

In order to set this up though, all you

need to do is fire up Despatar Del

Cementario.

Now, if you get to a screen like this,

well, it's saying that you have a custom

theme set. So, we're going to have to

reset everything to the original state.

What we can do is go back

and let it reboot.

And once we're back here, navigate all

the way over to your theme settings. And

within your theme settings, we're going

to change this from whatever it was back

over to original.

Now, I personally don't like this color,

especially on camera. So, I am going to

change the color theme to something else

that is going to look a little bit

nicer. Uh, there we go. I think that'll

be fine. And for the background, we're

also going to change this to original.

Just make sure those are all set up

properly. Now, with that reset, we can

go back over to game and fire up

Despatar Del Cemeterio.

You'll know it will be done successfully

because it's going to tell you to press

either the X or the circle button to

begin the installation. So, go ahead and

do that.

There we go. The installation is

complete. So, we just need to exit out.

And that should really be about it. Now,

once it brings you back here, if you're

wondering why you had to do all that,

well, I'm actually going to show you. If

you want to see another thing that is

cool with your custom firmware, you can

press the select button right here. And

check it out. The VSHGU menu should pop

up here. It will show you all of your

build string information. It'll have

this cool looking cube on the side

there. And you do have a few options to

work with. So, for this, we're going to

shut down the device. There we go. It's

completely powered down. So once it has

been powered down, in order to boot up

into DC Arc or Despar del Cantario, what

you'll need to do is hold down the left

trigger right here while your system is

off. Hold down that left trigger and

then turn on the system like this. And

keep holding down the left trigger.

You will notice the memory stick LED

indicator is going a little bit crazy.

And you can see right here, you now have

all of this information available here.

Congratulations, you have this installed

on your memory stick. So, you have

access to reinstall 6.61 ARC. You can

even reinstall the 6.61 official

firmware. And there's more NAND

operations, hardware info, booting ARC

from a memory stick, shutdown, and

reboot options that are available here.

This again is just a really wonderful

and awesome recovery tool to have on

hand, and it only takes a couple minutes

to set up, so it's worth doing that.

Although do keep in mind here if you

ever upgrade your memory stick or you

change out memory sticks, you will have

to reinstall DC on here. So you'll just

have to go through the same process of

putting the firmware file on your SD

card and then running Despatar Deltario

to actually install it on there. Either

way, we can go ahead and reboot this

here because we want to get into the

actual system itself. By the way, if you

want to clean up any of the downloads

that you have on here, you can go over

to your memory stick and there's a few

things that we can delete. Since we've

already installed Despatar Del

Cementario, we can go ahead and delete

the installer. So, I'm going to go ahead

and do that. The next thing is going to

be this one right here, which is the 1.5

kernel add-on. Now, keep in mind, this

only works for PSP 1000 models. You

cannot install it. It's not going to

work on any other models, including this

one here, the PSP 2000. I'm going to put

it like this. If you have an absolute

dying need to run 1.5 kernel homebrew on

here, then you can install it and you

can go through the instructions on the

faster arc page. If you have no idea

what I'm talking about, just go ahead

and delete it, which we're going to do

right here. There we go. Next up, the

CIPL flasher. We can delete that since

we're not going to need that. It's

already been installed. ARK 5 has also

been installed, so we're going to delete

that. And the last thing remaining here

is the experimental overclock tester,

which this one here is neat. I'm going

to talk about it later in the video

though once we get to the overclocking

section. Now, if you're wondering what

exactly is going to set this custom

firmware apart from others. Well, what

you can do is navigate over to your

extra section here, and you should have

a few things available. First of all,

there's going to be custom firmware

settings. There's also going to be a

plugins manager, and there's also going

to be a custom launcher. Oh, but what

about the PSP Street owners? Yes, I do

have one of these here. If you have a

PSP Street, you're going to notice that

when you fire it up here, you're not

going to have an extras column

available. That's because, well, you

don't have an extras column. You're

going to need to navigate over to the

game column. And then above here, you

should have your custom firmware

settings, plug-in manager, and you

should also have the custom launcher. I

don't have them here just because I

don't have a memory stick in place. But

as long as you have a memory stick with

that save data, you should have all the

features available. They're just going

to be in a different section. And with

that, we won't need the street for the

rest of this video. So, I'm just going

to take it away. Now, checking out these

features here, we can first dive into

the custom firmware settings. And first

of all, for the system options, you do

have this available in which you can

reset the VSSH, which is this menu right

here. Restart the system, suspend it,

and even shut it down. So, if you want

to do any of those without actually

touching the switch here, you're welcome

to do that. The next thing is going to

be activate WMA and flash codeex, which

if you haven't already done so, let's go

ahead and do that. So once those have

been enabled, it's going to do a soft

reset. And we can dive right back into

the custom firmware settings. Next up is

USB readon, which if you want to set

this to well, whatever you want to,

that's fine. I'm personally going to

turn this off because I really don't

want my USB to be in USB readonly mode.

USB charging, you can enable or disable

this. Just keep in mind that is not

going to work on the PSP 10000. Now, the

clock speeds here, I'm sure people are

excited about this. We're going to come

back to this later in the video because

that deserves its own spot. For WPA2

support, you're going to notice right

here, this is probably set to enabled

and this is good to have on hand. In

short, this is some added functionality

in the firmware itself, which allows you

to connect to hopefully more WPA2

supported Wi-Fi connections. So, you

should actually have a better chance of

getting your PSP online if you wish to

do that. The auto boot launcher here is

going to allow you to well auto boot

into the custom launcher. If you want to

use extra memory here, you can set it to

auto or forced. I'm going to just keep

that as auto. For the memory stick speed

up, that one is set to enable by

default. Inferno cache. I personally

just keep that default. You can skip

Sony logos. You can also hide your pick

zero and pick one for your games and

applications. Hide your MAC address.

Hide DLC. Turn off LEDs. Disable your

UMD drive. Disable the analog stick if

you want to do that. You have a VA style

mute functionality right there. You can

also change your UMD region, which this

is good if you're wanting to play UMD

movies from other regions. You will have

to spoof the region there. And for the

VSSH region, which is this main menu,

like the overall interface we're seeing

here, you can also change the region of

this if you so wish to. You can also

change the confirm button, which I am

absolutely going to do that. This here

is a Japanese model PSP, so I wanted to

switch that over because I'm used to the

wrong configuration, I suppose. Diving

right back into our settings. I believe

we're almost done. But you can see here

the QA flags, that's by default set to

enable. And if you want to reset any of

these settings, you can do that as well.

For the QA flags, the only difference it

really has here is if you go to your

settings all the way at the bottom,

you'll have debug settings available.

Within debug settings, you can change

your NP environment as well as your SSID

prefix. I'm going to be honest with you,

I've never touched these settings, but I

do like to have that on screen, so I

just keep that enabled. The next thing

is going to be the plugins manager. And

in short, this is where you can manage

your plugins. So, if you have any

plugins, you can put them on here. You

can enable them, disable them, do what

you wish to here, and overall just have

a good time. It's going to by default

come with the Lita plugin, which I'd

recommend just leaving alone. And the

last feature here is going to be the

custom launcher, which we can go ahead

and fire up. Now, it's going to look a

little something like this here. And if

you want to hit the triangle button,

you'll have access to your games. You

can check the file system and the files

directly. You can change your network

settings, change your custom firmware

settings. This also where you can

manipulate plugins. There's more

settings available here as well. And of

course, you can exit. Now, mine is

pretty blank because I have nothing on

here, but I can show you a setup. Here's

my PSP Go right here. You could see that

games like PSP games are going to show

up here. You'll also have homebrew that

shows up here, as well as PS1 games that

show up right here. So, it will look a

little something like this. And you can

operate out of this as well, too. If you

even want to make this default, you can

actually enable the auto boot launcher

to enabled. And that way, when you turn

on the PSP, you'll be greeted to this

custom launcher as opposed to the

default XMBB. By the way, if you want to

change a theme on here, you can do that

by hitting triangle, going over to your

files. Navigate into your themes folder,

and then find any of the themes

available here that you wish to install.

You know what? I like PS1, so I'm going

to try that. Go into a theme folder,

find the theme.arch file, press the X

button, and then from here, you can

preview it or install it. I'm going to

trust it enough to install it. So, there

we go. You could see it end up changing

there. But that is what the theme looks

like. So, if you want to mess around

with this more, feel free to do so.

Otherwise, I'm going to hit the triangle

button, exit all the way out here, and

I'm going to just exit out of the custom

launcher. Now, that's all well and good,

but you might be wondering how to

actually put content on here, which I'm

going to show you. So, now that your PSP

has been modified and ready to go, go

ahead and take your PSP storage and hook

it up to your computer so we can get a

few things transferred over. Now, for my

examples here, I have three pieces of

software, and I'll show you how to

install each one of these here because

these are pretty much the three formats

that you're going to be working with.

The first one here is going to be this

OC tester, which you should already

have, but this is going to be

representative of homebrew. What you can

do is check this out. And typically, a

piece of homebrew is going to have a

folder as well as a eboot.pb inside of

it, and it might have some other files.

You can see here, this one has a kall

prx dependency. So, it's going to have

that file next to eboot. Don't touch

that there. or we can just exit out of

this. In order to copy over any

homebrew, this means applications,

emulators, and things like that, what

you can do is copy out the file itself.

Navigate over to your PSP's drive, go

into the PSP folder, the game folder,

rightclick, and paste. And that's all

there is. This one here is different.

This is going to be Final Fantasy 7,

which is a PS1 game. And PS1 games are

super awesome to play on the PSP. Now,

if you haven't messed around with these

here, I do have videos showing how you

can convert your PS1 games to the PSP

because you can't just dump in an ISO

file. It must be converted to an

eboot.pv. Now, yours might also have

additional files alongside it, but at

minimum, you need that eboot.pvp, and it

must be in a folder such as this. In

order to copy over a PS1 game once it's

been converted, all you need to do is

rightclick, copy out the folder, go to

your PSP's drive, navigate into the PSP

directory, go into the game directory,

and just like homebrew, we're going to

copy and paste it right there. Since

this one is clearly bigger, we'll just

have to wait a little bit. And here we

go. Now that's been copied, so we are in

a better spot. The last one here is

going to be ISO files. And I know I just

said for PS1 games you cannot use ISOs.

So these are going to be actual PSP game

dumps. These are the like the UMD, the

discbased PSP game dumps right here.

Again, this is not going to be for PS1

games. This is going to be for native

PSP games. If you do have a collection

you're wanting to back up, I do also

have a video showing how you can back up

your games there. However, once you have

it backed up to ISO or any other

comparable format such as CSO, you're

going to need to take your ISO file,

rightclick, and copy it out, and it's

going to go into a different directory.

Navigate over to your PSP storage, and

in the root here, you need to make a new

folder. Rightclick, create a new folder,

and call it ISO, all one word, all

uppercase. And you can see right there

we have an ISO folder. Go into the ISO

folder, rightclick, and paste in your

ISO. And give it a few moments to

transfer over. So, there we go. Once

that's all done, congratulations. We've

set this all up here. By the way, that's

also going to be really important. You

do not want to put your PSP ISOs into

the game folder. And you don't want to

put your homebrew or your PS1 games into

the ISO folder. Just do not mix them up.

Keep them separated properly. Now, what

we can do is exit out of here,

rightclick, eject our drive, and take it

back over to the PSP. Now, this is the

actual fun part right here. We get to

play around with some of the actual

content here. Now, what we can do is

within the game section here, I'm going

to load up everything through the XMBB

as opposed to the custom launcher, but

go over to where your storage is at.

Load it up and you should see your new

content there. First, let's actually try

a piece of homebrew. So, again, this

would be an application or an emulator

or something similar. You probably

already have this one on hand, which is

the experimental overclock tester. So,

let's go ahead and give this a shot.

You're going to know it's working here

because once it loads up, at least this

piece of homebrew, it's going to look a

little something like this where you're

just going to have this square going

back and forth. I noticed I had to press

triangle a few times in order to get the

test running right here. But this one's

cool. It's not necessarily needed, but

what this test does is it's going to

spend a few minutes going through and

incrementing different CPU speeds on

your PSP. From there, it's essentially

going to see where your PSP caps out at

for the actual speed itself. And once it

cannot go any higher, it just turns off

the system. When it turns off, you can

actually hook up your storage to your

computer. Look inside of this text file

right here, and it's going to give you a

number value. It's going to show you the

theoretical upper limitation of how far

you can overclock your own individual

PSP. Although, please do not take that

number as the gospel here. I'm going to

talk about that in a few moments. But

what you can do is once you're done

running your homebrew, you can press the

home button. Sometimes the actual home

exit screen come up, but sometimes these

developers do make it where you can just

press the home button and it'll exit out

and that's nice and convenient. So,

that's how you can run homebrew. The

next thing we're going to do here is try

out a PSP ISO. Now, again, this is an

actual PSP game which I dumped from my

own UMD disc right here. You have it

available on the PSP itself. So, go

ahead and fire this up. Now, you'll

notice that if you loaded any games from

the disc drive before, uh, now that

you're loading them from an ISO, they're

going to load a lot quicker, a lot

nicer. You're even going to get some

performance increases. Your drive is not

going to be making any of those horrible

noises. And overall, it will just be a

much better experience playing directly

from the memory stick or the internal

storage as opposed to from the disc

itself. So, I would always encourage

people if you have any of those PSP

discs, be sure to back them up and just

run them off the memory stick right here

since you have the ability to do that

now. So, we at least got the game to

boot up, which is great. So, I'm going

to exit out of here. And this is the

default screen I was talking about,

which you're probably familiar with. The

last thing here is going to be PS1

games. J boot up just the same as the

other ones. Go into your memory stick or

your storage, find your PS1 game if you

have one, and fire it up. Although, it's

going to boot up a little differently.

It's going to give you a warning or a

similar splash screen like this. And

it's just going to take a little bit

longer to get running.

There we go. We have the PlayStation 1

logo. We have all that set up, which is

in a good spot. And now we have the

actual intro cinematic. So, we're at a

better point here. Now, if you haven't

messed around with PS1 games on the PSP,

it's cool because there's some

additional features that we can set up

on here. I'll try and skip ahead and see

what we can do here. We at least got to

the menu here, but there's also another

menu for PSP specifically. If you press

the home button, you're going to notice

it will look a little bit different here

because we have so many more options.

So, just running through these, if you

want to quit the game, that's pretty

self-explanatory. If you want to switch

up your discs here, there are PS1 games

which come in multiple different discs.

So, if you get to a point in your game

where you have to swap discs, you can go

ahead and do that right here. You can

see I'm not able to do it here because

it's not calling for the disc swap at

this moment in time. You also have

controller settings available where you

can tweak of course your controller

settings. You also have the memory card

utility because this is back when you

actually had 15 blocks for saves and you

had limitations like that. Glad we're

past that here. But we also have other

settings available which allows you to

do a few other things such as change the

screen mode here to various other

options. I'm just going to keep mine

original. You can also adjust the black

level right here. So, you can make it

better or worse or really whatever

you're wanting to do there. There's also

a volume adjustment which works the same

way except you can more hear it instead

of see it. And from here, you can also

change the disc load speed between fast

and normal. Next up, we can also go over

to the software manual if your game has

one. And you can also reset the game,

which just soft resets the game. So,

those are all the settings you have

available for PS1 games. And with that,

I'm going to exit out. So, now that

we're back over the PSP, I've saved the

best for last, in my opinion here at

least, which is overclocking. Now, real

quick, I do need to preface this with a

disclaimer. If you choose to overclock

your system, keep in mind these are old

systems. I've personally had good

experiences with my overclocking

experience, but this doesn't mean you

won't damage your system. So, just keep

that in mind. If you don't want to

overclock at all, you don't have to

watch this part. If you are interested

in overclocking, just keep in mind that

is going to be completely on you. I'm

not responsible for any damage to your

system. Neither are the developers of

this wonderful software. So, keeping

this in mind, what you can do is

navigate over to your extras column or

the game column if you're on the PSP

street. Go over to your custom firmware

settings and we'll navigate over to the

CPU clock in game and in XMBB. For the

XMBB here, you can increase this if you

want to. And this just allows for better

performance and, you know, scanning

files and such when you're actually in

the XMBB or you can keep that auto,

whatever you want to do. before the CPU

clock in game here. This is really cool

because by default, Sony actually allows

you to go up to 333 MHz on the PSP, and

there were a few games that use that,

such as the God of War games. However,

anything above 333 is officially

overclocking territory. Now, you do need

to keep this in mind when overclocking.

You can run into instability issues. You

can run into crashing. you can run into

more than that, especially because you

kind of need to figure out where your

PSP is at in the Silicon lottery. And by

that, I mean every single PSP is going

to be unique. I'm not talking about

models. I'm not talking about regions.

I'm not talking about any of that. What

I'm saying is just because this is a PSP

Go, which is newer and theoretically

better than the PSP 2000 here, that does

not mean that this is going to clock to

higher speeds than the PSP 2000. my

PSP2000 might actually clock higher than

my PSP Go. Additionally, if I have two

PSP Goes, one of them might be able to

clock at a higher speed than the other.

It is completely individual to your

system itself. It does not matter what

the make or the model is. So, you're

going to have to do some

experimentation. In order to do that

here, what I would suggest is starting

off slow. So, again, you are able to

play up to 333 MHz by default, but what

you can do is try to boost it to 383.

Set that in place. And then once that

overclock has been set, go over to your

games and try to fire up a PSP game.

Don't use a PS1 game for this. We're

going to use actual PSP games for this

and try to fire it up. Now, you can see

here, this one is working, which is

great because I will tell you, if you

want to experiment with it and you want

to raise your clock speed, if you raise

it too far and your PSP cannot handle

that overclock, you're just going to get

to a black screen and you're going to

have to restart your PSP. Just turn it

off and turn it back on. So, keep that

in mind. If you're trying to overclock

and you keep booting up games and you're

just greeted with a black screen, your

clock speed is too high on that system

and you cannot run at that high of a

speed on your individual PSP. However,

you might also run into issues where,

let's say you're trying to increment

your speed up and you're able to play

just fine and then after a few minutes

your game glitches out or your system

freezes or something like that. That

again means that you're able to

overclock the system, but it's not

stable at that point. So, if you want a

stable overclock, you're going to have

to make sure you can find the sweet spot

for your PSP, which allows you to have a

higher CPU speed while also not crashing

and being able to play your game

successfully. I can actually show you

all a real demonstration right here.

This one is my PSP Go, and I want it to

clock it higher, but unfortunately, I

cannot get it to clock anywhere above

383 MHz without crashing. If I go too

far, I just get a black screen. And if I

try to go above 383 MHz, I might be able

to play for only a few minutes before it

crashes. So 383 is where this PSP runs

stable. Now, keep in mind that your PSP

might get a little warm. Mine's actually

getting a little bit warm underneath

right here. Additionally, your battery

is going to deplete faster when you're

running with an overclock. Those are not

issues. Those are just the expectations

of what happens when you try to

overclock. So keep that in mind. But I

can tell you even running at 383, just

running around in the apartment as Tony

here is already smoother compared to

what it once was. And let's actually do

something to push the system a little

bit. I just loaded up a hacked save I

have right here. But check this out. If

I open it up and boom, we got this here.

Lovely. This This should be fun if Well,

you know, if he can get in it. So there

we go. We are absolutely not playing the

game as it was intended right here. But

this is something that could push the

system uh a little bit to its limits and

maybe even, you know, the Grand Theft

Auto engine here on PSP. But you could

see here that I am able to play just

fine. I'm playing with that 50 Hz

overclock, so at 383. And on this system

here, it's worked out pretty well. You

know what I'll be interested in though?

Let me know what you're able to clock

your PSP at. Again, I really hoped that

I was able to clock my Go cuz this is my

primary system. I want to clock at a

higher speed, but unfortunately it looks

like 383 is pretty much where it tops

out at in terms of stability. So, there

we go. By the end of this video, not

only were you able to get your PSP

updated, upgraded to the Ark 5 custom

firmware, and maybe even overclocked,

probably some stuff you never even

thought of on here, now all you really

need to do is have fun with your PSP. I

do have other videos on the channel

showing a few things that you can do

with the PSP that are pretty cool. But

have fun with backing up your games,

plugins, converting games from PS1 over

to PSP format and so much more. It is

still an amazing system after so many

years and something that I still come

back to. Yes, despite even having a VA

and any of the new systems that are out

there as well too. There's just

something about the PSP I always come

back to it. Either way, that is about it

for this video here. Thank you very much

for watching everyone. Hopefully this

video helped out and if it did, a like

would absolutely be appreciated. And if

you didn't like it, well, a dislike is

fine as well, too. As I always say

though, this Mr. Mario signing off.

Thank you all for watching everyone. Hey

Lily, guess what? We're all done and we

now have Ark 5 on the system so you can

enjoy the latest custom firmware to your

heart's content or I guess dog's

content. Here, just uh we'll go ahead

put over to the side and uh

there you go. Oh, there we go. We got a

smile. You enjoy your Ark 5, Lily.