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Plugins:

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About Plugins

There are many Plugins available for your PSP.

Four plugins that we recommend are:

• CWCheat,
• SVCapture,
• POPS Loader, and
• MP3 PRX.

These are all included in the free “Plugin Fun Pack!” that you can pick up when you sign up for the PSP-Monkey downloads and newsletter. Just enter your email in the form in the right side bar to gain access to all our downloads and our newsletter with all the latest PSP news and updates.

After you are signed up access your “Plugin Fun Pack!” here.

Click here for Download Help.

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The CWCheat plugin allows you to use cheat codes either in PSP and POPS (Sony PSOne emulation) game mode due to two different versions of this application: cwcheat and cwcheatpops. These function just like the famous commercial products Action Replay, CodeBreaker, GameShark, Xploder, etc. that are available on other platforms. Cwcheat also features cheat searching and editing through a nice and easy-to-use in-game menu.

Read the ReadMe pdf file included in the Plugin Pack for the controls and ignore the installation instructions in that pdf as they are not for the version you have.

The SVCapture plugin allows you to take screenshots and motion pictures of PSP games, PS1 games, and the PSP main menu. Pictures are saved as PNG files; videos are saved as GIF files. This version includes a custom config file which is compatible with several other PRX files.

SVCapture Controls:

• ScreenShot: Select + LTrigger
• Record Video: Select + RTrigger
• Stop Recording Video: Select

The MP3 PRX allows you to play MP3s whenever and wherever you want to, including while you’re playing PSP games. (Just don’t forget to turn off the in-game music.) It also allows you to overclock the PSP anywhere, including inside the web browser. If you use this feature, watch your battery level!

MP3 PRX Controls:

• Increase Music Volume: Note + Up
• Decrease Music Volume: Note + Down
• Start / Stop Music: Note + LTrigger
• Previous Track Note + Left
• Next Track Note + Right
• Toggle Mode: Note + RTrigger
• Increase CPU Speed: Note + Triangle
• Decrease CPU Speed: Note + X
• Reload: Note + Circle
• Show Onscreen Display: Note + Square

The POPS Loader plugin allows you to specify which version of Sony’s PS1 engine (referred to as POPS) you’d like to use to run PS1 games. This plugin will automatically activate the first time you launch a PS1 game, and will remember your preference each subsequent time you launch it. If you’d like to change which version of POPS a game uses, hold the right shoulder button while starting the game.

If you want the plugins just copy the seplugins folder in the “Plugin Fun Pack!” to the root directory of your PSP. You should have X:\seplugins like this:

Using Plugins:

In order to use the Plugins you have to turn on using the Recovery Menu. This only comes with the custom firmware 3.40 OE-A that you installed.

The recovery menu allows you to recover, customize, and enhance your PSP in a variety of ways.

To access the Recovery Menu, hold R while powering on the PSP.

Go to the Plugins Menu and activate the plugins that you want.

All about the Recovery Menu!

In order to enter the Recovery Menu turn your PSP completely off by holding the power switch for several seconds. Turn it on while holding the right trigger until you enter the recovery menu.

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We have listed the Recovery Menu features below as they appear in the PSP.

Toggle USB

- This feature enables you to access your PSP’s memory stick over the USB connection. It is basically the same as the USB Connection option in the PSP’s main interface.

Configuration

- This enables you to configure some of the most common options in 3.40 OE-A. All settings are set to disabled by default.

Skip SCE logo

- This disables the Sony Computer Entertainment logo from playing when you turn on the PSP. This makes startup time slightly faster and prevents UMDs from autobooting.

Hide corrupt icons

- This hides the corrupted icons generated by Kxploited homebrew (homebrew that comes in two folders.) This can slightly slow down your GAME menu if you have a large amount of homebrew.

Game folder homebrew

This lets you choose whether to load programs at /PSP/GAME with the 3.10 kernel (core operating system) or the 1.50 kernel. Unless you need to play downloaded PSP demos, it is strongly recommended to use the 1.50 kernel.

Autorun program at /PSP/GAME/BOOT/EBOOT.PBP

- This will allow you to run the EBOOT located at /PSP/GAME/BOOT/EBOOT.PBP whenever your PSP starts up. This feature is used by some homebrew programs, such as password lockers. Any eboot run in this way will run on the 1.50 kernel.

Use NO-UMD

- This will enable you to run backup games from your memory stick without needing to have a UMD in the drive. I can’t recommend using this feature, because it didn’t work for me.

Fake region

- This will allow you to set the PSP kernel region to Japan, USA, Europe or Korea. Setting the region to Japan enables you to visit a video download service through the Network section of the PSP’s main interface. However, currently it is impossible for people with IP addresses outside of Japan to download videos from this service.

Free UMD Region

- Movies and music have a region encoding so that they will not play outside of the country or region they originated in. “Free UMD Region” enables UMD movies and music to run without this restriction.

Run program at PSP/GAME/RECOVERY/EBOOT.PBP

- This will recover your PSP if it has been semi-bricked. See Glossary.

Advanced

- This enables you to configure some advanced options and mount your PSP’s internal flash to your computer via USB. Messing with this stuff without knowing what you’re doing can result in a permanent brick, so be very careful here. If you want your PSP to be as safe as possible, you have no reason to ever open this menu.

Advanced Configuration

- This enables you to configure several advanced options which are completely useless to the average user.

Plain modules in UMD/ISO

- This allows certain forms of unsigned code to be run from within an ISO. There aren’t really any practical uses to this function, and it can make some UMDs and ISOs incompatible with your firmware. Developers can use this function to experiment with running homebrew from within an ISO.

Execute BOOT.BIN in UMD/ISO

- This runs BOOT.BIN inside the ISO instead of EBOOT.BIN. Useless unless you’re a developer experimenting with the Plain modules in UMD/ISO feature, you shouldn’t use this feature; average users have no need to toggle this.

Use isofs driver also in UMD-inserted mode

- Runs UMDs using the ISO driver. For non-developers, this will do nothing more than reduce compatibility.

Toggle USB (flash 0)

- This enables you to access your PSP’s internal flash 0 memory over the USB connection. Messing with these files can result in a brick; there is simply no reason for the average user to use this feature.

Toggle USB (flash 1)

- This enables you to access your PSP’s internal flash 1 memory over the USB connection. Messing with these files can result in your settings becoming corrupted.

CPU Speed

- These settings enable you to change how fast the CPU runs in games and in the PSP’s interface and web browser. Higher numbers will result in better performance at a cost of battery life. PSOne games cannot run playably below 333, so an option to customize their speed isn’t included.

Speed in XMB

- This determines how fast the processor will run when it isn’t playing games. If you browse the internet or watch movies, you might want to increase the speed.

Speed in UMD/ISO

- This determines how well games will run. The higher the value, the higher the framerate. If you experience any slowdown in a game, increasing this number should eliminate it.

Plugins

- You can use this menu to enable any PRX plugins that you’ve copied to your seplugins folder, such as the Plugin Fun Pack!

Registry hacks

- These settings allow you to change a few registry-related settings in the firmware.

Button Assign - This allows you to change whether the PSP should use circle or X as the enter button.

Activate WMA

- This allows you to activate WMA playback. Normally, 3.10 won’t let you enable this without connection to Sony’s servers using a wireless internet connection.

Activate Flash Player

- This allows you to activate the PSP’s Flash Player. Normally, 3.10 won’t let you enable this without connection to Sony’s servers using a wireless internet connection.

Exit

- This exits the Recovery Menu and attempts to launch the PSP’s firmware.

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Now that’s probably more than you needed to know.

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