Hey folks, first time here yadda yadda I love y'all too. On to the problem.

My sister recently returned with her Homebrew-accessable PSP, which means that only now would I get a chance to actually sit down and try out the God Of War demo that I got in the mail back in October.

Problem is, whenever I run it, it sends me back to the home menu with the following error message:

The game could not be started
(80020148)

Fortunately, this issue doesn't seem to affect any of the other PSP games I have, but I do wonder if anyone else has experienced this, and if so, is there a way to fix this problem?

In case you're wondering, the PSP I'm using is a fat model with 3.71 M33-3 firmware.

On a side note, I have been considering returning back to the official firmware (I think I'm about Homebrew'd out). Has a method been discovered yet to bypass the Sony lockout situation?

Okay first off, try going back to another CFW say 3.52 M33-4, 3.71 M33 is just terrible. Next check your UMD settings, perhaps something in and around there in recovery got messed up. Finally don't leave CFW the second you do you'll regret it.

The fact that God Of War didn't work in 3.52 M33-4 is the reason I upgraded the CFW in the first place. It didn't work then, and it doesn't work now. What's so terrible about 3.71 M33 anyway? On the surface, it looks exactly like 3.52.

And honestly, I haven't done anything in the past few months to warrant continuing CFWs in the first place. All the PSOne games I care about are broken and never have been fixed, and I have very little hope that they ever will be.

I'm running God Of War off an actual UMD, so I don't know what changing the UMD settings will do to help the situation. I've tried using the fake region settings, but that does nothing.

Well there's the fact that 3.71 M33 can cause irreversable bricks, secondly I have the demo myself, and I am running 3.52 M33-4, so something isn't right with your PSP, and the UMD setting affect both ISO and UMD. Finally CFW is just more beniffical than OFW unless it's a slim then OFW is the best (< which you don't have a slim so that doesn't matter), I mean okay you've stated some reasons why you'd like to leave CFW, but what is gonna be so great if you go to OFW? I mean really, once again unless it's a slim it won't be of much use.

Oh, I know this problem, you just put in any UMD disc then it'll work. That's what I did and I'm running 3.71 M33-3. o_o

Gantz:

Well, you've pretty much explained why I want to go back to OFWs: Higher bricking risks and problems like the God Of War thing cropping up simply doesn't warrant the advantages of playing half-developed homebrew games and broken PS1 titles. At this point, all I want is a problem-less PSP.

As for God Of War, you tell me it's a problem with the PSP, in which I ask...What's the problem? You've spent all this time trying to convince me to do something I no longer want to do instead of actually helping me out.


LoveHolicx:

You'll need to explain what you mean. I'm running God Of War from a UMD, and it just isn't working.

No I simply asked why you would wish to return, fristly I told you to check the UMD settings, I would more a less asume it's a hardware problem, versus a software problem, and the chances of bricking in an official update are just as likely as a CFW update or flash modding, It's just about impossible to do either, unless you don't read the readme or ask for help before doing something you don't know how to do. And homebrew games are crap, but there's a magnitude of programs and wonderful things you can do with a CFW PSP, and a key cleaner was released it should be in the PSP News section as 3.11 downgrader/updater. Also just because the links to the PSone games you like are broken here doesn't mean we're the only site with PSone ISOs, if you look around you could easily find them else where, well enjoy your move to OFW and if it makes you happy then that's all that matters.

EXAMPLES OF ME TRYING TO HELP YOU BEFORE AND DURING THE CONVINCING OF GETTING YOU TO STAY ON CFW

When I was referring to broken PSOne games, I didn't mean broken links. I meant PSOne games that freeze or have audiovisual problem because they weren't initially designed for official PSP support in the first place.

I was not aware that UMD settings still affect the UMD...especially since it says "-No UMD-" in the description. Still doesn't work, though.

I thought downgrading firmwares, albeit OFWs or CFWs, weren't possible. I assume I just go back to 3.52 M33 instead of directly to M33-4, right? Or am I completely off?

If you have problem with PSone games it's usually PAL game, or someone inproperly wrote the Game ID. No, you simply run the recovery eboot to restore to 3.52 M33, and by UMD setting I mean this, go into recovery, click Advanced, then above all the toggle flashes there should be advanced options or something like that, check to see if any of those option were enabled as those will create problems when loading an ISO or UMD. Also if -No UMD- is enabled change that in config to make it UMD required, simply because it affects the load modules of you PSP, so it won't load UMDs. And finally downgrading is possible if that weren't the case CFW and 1.5 kernal wouldn't be possible.

Recovery Eboot? I guess I need to download the 3.52 M33 firmware again, then?

Whatever the case, both advanced options were already enabled for one reason or another. I won't pretend to know what either of them do, but disabling them managed to get the game running, no problems. So I greatly appreciate the help for that.

glad to help. http://www.mediafire.com/?6ijxc9fbyzh just rename the folder with the eboot RECOVERY and place it in game, in recovery mode click run program at GAME/RECOVERY/Eboot.pbp and it'll restore you to 3.52 M33 then reinstall the M33-4 update, and you'll be set.

Cripes, another snag!

Okay, to be sure, the eboot.pbp goes in PSP/GAME/RECOVERY, right?

I start the recovery menu, run the program...

And it spits me back to the home page. System settings still read 3.71 M33-3.

...Bother.

That's where it should go, inside the recovery should obviously be the eboot.pbp, um it shouldn't spit you to the home menu because this has to be ran from recovery, but erm I have to find the program, sometime 3.71 M33 is picky about letting you run options in recovery, as soon as I find the program I will most certain link it to you atm I am looking.

Well, that's alright anyway.

Truth be told, the PSP is my sister's, who had been kind enough to let me mess with the thing up to this point. She's been visiting the past week, and has to leave soon. I won't get to see her or the PSP again until sometime after the Holidays.

So I appreciate the help again. If you want to leave information about the recovery, you can go ahead, but I probably won't be able to try it out for the next few weeks.

I'll keep this thread bookmarked in the meantime. I expect to respond with my results sooner or later.