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reeso3000 · #1 (**permalink**) 12-29-2005, 10:24 AM

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Folks,
After alot of trial and error, I have gotten SOCOM to work on the 1.5 Firmware... The only current limitation is multiplayer won't work (ok, a big limitation) but you can still have fun playing all the single-player campagns without having to upgrade your PSP....

First of all, I leveraged alot of info from the PSPinfo forums to get me started to kudos to them... Here is the process I followed (the first few steps are identical to getting any normal (non socom, non GTA) 2.X game working on 1.5 with some changes that I found:

Extract the SOCOMiSO image with WinRAR to a directory on your PC
* Go to this directory, and remove the SYSDIR/UPDATE folder
* Go to USRDIR and remove all the languages you dont want (keep e_text.afs for English, deleted the others)
* Copy the SYSDIR/EBOOT.BIN to your PSP, in a folder called "Enc" at the Root
* Copy the 2 folders decrypt and decrypt% (from HERE) into your PSP/GAME folder
* Run the Decryptor v0.1 from the PSP (obviously, you have to be in 1.5 for that)
* This produces an EBOOT.BIN file in a new folder called "Dec"
* Rename this file into BOOT.BIN, and overwrite the original BOOT.BIN in SYSDIR with it
***** HERE is where we do things slightly differently***** Normally we'd replace the SOCOM PRX files with PRX files from a 1.5 game - unfortunately no other 1.5 game uses half the libraries that SOCOM uses so we'd normally be up shit creek without a paddle.... however:

The SOCOM BETA that was released a while ago didn't have a 2.X and above restriction (I.e. it could be played on 1.5) leading me to guess that I could substitute the SOCOM PRX files with the SOCOM beta PRX files....

Acquire an ISO of the SOCOM beta (go on, you know where to get it) and replace the SOCOM USRDIR\RUN\PRX dir with the same dir from the BETA.

Finally, generate a new ISO file from your modified SOCOM directory structure using UMDGen or VCDROMx or your ISO generator of choice and Viola! the SOCOM game should load using UMD Emulator 0.8C with Copy Load mode (with 'use BOOT.BIN' turned ON).

Once again, the WIFI doesn't work for some reason (I have a few more things left to try) and another small annoyance is you can't save your profile to memory stick - but this should at least allow folks who own SOCOM but have shyed away from upgrading to give it a whirl!

Can anyone confirm whether or not this works?? sorry if this has been asked before I couldn't find any posts related to it.
Thanks

badg0r · #2 (**permalink**) 12-29-2005, 10:47 AM

Maybe becouse the wifi multiplayer option is only at the 2.00 and higher firmware versions. But you can try it. What do you have to lose? You cant brick your psp with a .iso with some changes.

swiftdriver · #3 (**permalink**) 12-29-2005, 11:02 AM

havent heard of this before ill get the beta and try this illl post when tried..

badg0r · #4 (**permalink**) 12-29-2005, 11:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by swiftdriver

havent heard of this before ill get the beta and try this illl post when tried..

Try it and let us know how it go's

I wish you all the luck. Becouse you will need it.

reeso3000 · #5 (**permalink**) 12-29-2005, 07:59 PM

Ok managed to test the game. The game loads and you can create a profile, when starting a campaign the game shows cut scene allows you to pick equipment but when loading actual gameplay it feezes :S I dont know if this is a development or normal for the game??

badg0r · #6 (**permalink**) 12-29-2005, 08:11 PM

well it is a start :P work on it

reeso3000 · #7 (**permalink**) 12-29-2005, 08:21 PM

but before I start messing about changing different files and things can anyone confirm if this is not what the problem has been all along or has it simple been it wont work at all ??

Melter · #8 (**permalink**) 12-29-2005, 08:26 PM

i dont know why but i tried it on my 1.5 psp ( i have 2 psps

) and it froze up and when i turned my psp back on my memory stick was corrupted, so i had to reformat it and it deleted ALL my homebrew and media! Well, Im Pissed, good thing it wasnt my memory stick i use with my 2.6 PSP, then i wudve lost ALOT of media.

hkseo100 · #9 (**permalink**) 12-29-2005, 10:27 PM

it works!! IF U DO IT RIGHT!

Melter · #10 (**permalink**) 12-29-2005, 10:34 PM

It did it right i QUADRUPLE CHECKED my work, and when i started it up, i was playing the game, no problems and then it just froze while loading the level.