PSP: Davee’s Infinity Project will be released this Weekend!
Developer Davee, famous for his 5.03 ChickHEN and the 6.xx Downgraders, has a new status update regarding his Infinity project.
For those of you that doesn’t know what Infinity is, it is pretty much a 6.61 permanent patch for the 6.61 ME CFW & PRO CFW… Well, kind of.
Let me explain to you what Infinity actually is.
Davee’s Project Infinity:
While we told you that Davee’s Infinity is going to enable you to auto-boot into a 6.61 CFW, similar to the current 6.20 permanent patch, we did not tell you exactly how this is achieved.
The outcome is the same, you will end up with a PSP that can boot into a 6.61 CFW by its own, like the 6.20 permanent patch auto-boots into a 6.20 CFW by itself, but strictly speaking, Infinity is not a permanent patch per se.
Let us go back into the past of Dark~AleX’ PSP 1000 OE CFWs, and take a look at something that is called a Hybrid Firmware.
Dark~AleX’ Hybrid Firmwares – SE, OE & early M33 CFWs:
Back in the days the famous Developer Dark~AleX was the best (and pretty much only) source for Custom Firmwares, and he provided us with his SE, OE & M33 Custom Firmwares.
Before the PSP 2000 was a thing, all Custom Firmwares were based on the PSP Firmware 1.50. This means that the PSP 1000 was running a Firmware 1.50, which had a secondary 2.71, 3.10 or 3.XX kernel (depending on the OE/M33 CFW that was installed).
The base firmware of the PSP was always 1.50, and the CFW pretty much just provided a secondary kernel that ran the newer Firmware (e.g. 2.71).
As of the PSP 2000’s release, and the birth of dual device Firmwares, Dark~AleX had to change his CFWs and they were based on the current firmwares.
An additional, PSP 1000-only 1.5 Kernel has been made available, which allows the playback of older 1.5 Kernel Homebrews, such as Resurssiklunssi, the RCO decryption homebrew.
The latest 1.5 Kernel Addon that Dark~AleX provided was for his 5.00 M33-6 Custom Firmware. Newer Custom Firmwares, such as our beloved 6.xx ME, LME & PRO CFWs, had to use the LEDA Plugin for 1.5 Kernel Homebrew support.
Hybrid Firmwares and additional Kernel addons haven’t been a thing since the old days, well, at least until now.
Davee’s new 6.31/6.61 Hybrid Firmware:
Dark~AleX is not the only one that can create a working Hybrid Firmware, at least as of now.
Developer Davee is exploiting a bug in the PSP Firmware 6.31, which enables it to load unoffical code while the device is booting.
This new bug is unfortunally fixed as of later firmwares, such as 6.60, but due to the possibility of a Hybrid Firmware, it is possible to exploit this 6.31 bug and still load the 6.61 firmware.
This means that Davee has made it possible to install a 6.31/6.61 Hybrid Firmware, which will essentially give you a 6.61 firmware, despite being based on the 6.31 kernel.
Long story short: Your PSP is pretty much running a 6.31 firmware kernel, that is running the 6.61 firmware. You can add a CFW to said 6.61 firmware and essentially have a 6.61 CFW.
In the end it is possible to automatically boot into the 6.61 CFW, which will look & feel the same as a permanent patch for said Custom Firmware.
Supported Custom Firmwares & Devices:
Davee’s Infinity does not really care what firmware you are currently running, because it is going to overwrite said firmware with its own 6.31/6.61 Hybrid firmware anyways.
It is still recommended to run the latest 6.xx ME, LME or PRO CFW before using Davee’s Infinity software.
In terms of devices, Infinity supports all PSP 1000s (01g), all 2000s (02g – including TA-088v3!), most PSP 3000s (03g, 04g & 09g) and all PSP GOs (05g).
The remaining devices would be the very rare PSP 3000 07g, and the PSP E1000, which does not natively support the firmware 6.31.
The former is not supported due to its rarity, and thus lack of testing, while the latter is not supported due to it having no native firmware 6.31 support.
Davee is going to provide a future update for Infinity, which will try to add PSP E1000 support, while the PSP 3000 07g should be supported as of now, but this is untested due to the devices rarity.
If you do happen to own a PSP 3000 07g, be sure to contact Wololo, Davee or me via Email, Twitter, etc. A 07g PSP 3000 is incredibly rare, and would be valueable for testing purposes.
Necessary Files and Infinity’s public Release Date:
As I said before, you pretty much just need a supported PSP device that is running one of the most recent 6.xx Custom Firmwares. We recommend 6.xx ME, LME or PRO (latest revisions!).
Otherwise you will need the 6.31 and 6.61 Firmware Updaters (either for the PSP X000s [PSPs with UMD drive] or the PSPgo), the 6.61 Custom Firmware installers for the LME or PRO CFW and of course Davee’s Infinity files.
About Infinity’s release, Davee mentioned that he is going to apply the finishing touches to Infinity and plans to release Infinity on saturday, 23:59:59 (UTC+0).
This leaves the Sunday for quick hotfixes, that Davee can easily add before the weekend is over.
Enjoy the video showcase as a little teaser, until you can get your hands on Infinity yourselves. Dont’t worry about those red screens, they will be removed in the public version.
We are going to keep you up to date about Infinity and will of course provide you with an Article of our own when Davee officially releases it.
First here hahaha. Great job Davee. Appreciate you work of reigniting the dead handheld.
I really admire work of people, that are still inventing new stuff on old devices. Nice job!
just as long as there is one for my Go i will be happy
Try reading. It’ll work on the Go too
Why did he choose 6.61 though? iirc that version had some serious problems with plugins and other things that are never going to be updated… I switched back to 6.60 after I couldn’t get stuff to work. Well whatever, my cIPL flashable PSP2000 won’t need this anyway.
Davee will add the option to fake the FW to 6.60, thus plugins, themes and everything else that refuses to work on 6.61 (due to the PSP reporting it runs a different firmware than 6.60), will work on 6.61 Infinity (PRO/LME).
6.61 should be identical to 6.60, except for some PSN connectivity changes. Those plugins/themes/etc dont work, because they check the devices firmware, and notice it doesnt run 6.60.
Nice that should make everyone finally update or should that is
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I don’t understand, no Works with Psp e1004 street?!
For now it cannot work with the PSP e1000 (Street), because it requires firmwares 6.31 & 6.61.
The E1000 does not support firmware 6.31, so it cannot use Infinity (at the moment).
Hey everyone,
Is there a benefit to running CFW on a PSP if you already have a Vita running TN-X? Is there anything different you can do on a PSP rather than through the Vita’s PSP emulator? Thanks.
I personally use my PSP for everything PSP and keep the Vita on the latest firmware to keep PSN access and Remote Play access. The screen on the vita is nice for TN-V and all the features it brings but playing online trumps that IMO especially when I can do everything much more easily on my PSP Go.
Will the source code be published?
I’d love to see it running on a OFW out of the box.
And since it appears that the base FW 6.31 doesn’t care which FW it starts afterwards, would it be possible to implement TimeMachine functionality, as in booting any firmware that your PSP model supports?
It’s probably too much to demand from Davee, but if the source code is available, someone somewhere might be able to polish it even more.
will infinity come to psvita to ?
How can I tell what model PSP I have? I have a PSP 3000 but the sticker on the bottom has faded too much (and recently I lost it entirely) so I cant find out what exact model of PSP 3000 it is.
i believe the sticker for model type is behind the battery
Run PSPident
If your PSP 3000 ever ran FW 6.20, then you will definitely not have a 07g 3000.
The 3000 07g is very very very rare, so the chance of you having one is nearly zero.
Just run PSPident 0.75 on your current CFW, and it will tell you your motherboard (only important for 2000s), device generation (0Xg) and much more.
I never had a psp and I think I’ll buy one this weekend. It seems like it already have some sort of cfw (the guy runs isos on it). Can I find a good beginners guide to the psp so I find out what has the guy done to the psp and where can I go from there? Because I read this news and understood very little of it 😛
Impressive! Hopefully a 6.60 version will exist I would run one psp with 6.60 pro b10 and rest with qwikrazor 6.61 pro c and rahim us lme 2.3. Those are my 3 favorite cdw. I wonder if this method allocates and uses up more ram than perma patch though?
Great now we are one step closer to finding a public method to unbrick psp 3000’s and up!
Can’t wait! Looks like i’m finally gonna replace my psp 2000 with a 3000!
what about abundle of …
chronoswitch 6.61
davee’s infinity 6.61hybrid
davee’s infinity 6.60hybrid
lol xD
maybe a tnv-davee’s-infinity update for any psvita tnv ?.?
Not possible, because the PS Vita runs the PSP emulator virtually. Cant make it “permanent”.
Dang… Great job yes but my PSP do not opens anymore. The light goes green and after seconds, it turns off again. There is nothing to do even if I remove the Pandora battery and try with pressing L trigger and Home button… 🙁
I have an 07 psp and was hoping someone could tell me why they are so rare and if that rarity correlates to a higher
The 3000 07g is rare, because there are only a hand full of them.
The 3000 has 4 different generations: 03g, 04g, 07g and 09g, and of these the 07g had only been sold for a few weeks.
The 03g was the original 3000 (FWs 4.20+), the 04g the first revision (with FW limit 5.70+) and the 09g is the currently sold one (yet another FW limit 6.30+).
An 07 PSP is rare because they didn’t make many of them before going to 09. Mail it to one of the aforementioned people, they may even pay you.
Wondering if it will be possible to downgrade PSP Go to cfw 5.00 to run FuSa SD (fullscreen tv out plugin)
5.00 doesnt support PSPgo (or later 3000s), so you cant downgrade it to 5.00.
flash my PSP to infinity but after prompted reboot, BSOD. Tried infinity recovery but not working. PSP 09g, help.
Hi, when you got BSOD (Blue Screen Of Death), just simply press circle button to restore corrupt settings. I also meet this BSOD after I installed Infinity. My PSP is working fine 🙂
Is the file down for a moment, i cant find the link files…