Release: Davee releases Project Infinity – 6.61 Permanent Patch for ME & PRO CFWs
Just as mentioned a few days ago, Davee has finally released his Project Infinity.
Project Infinity will grant your PSP the ability to install a Hybrid Firmware, which in return will make it possible to install a permanent 6.61 LME or 6.61 PRO Custom Firmware.
Let’s get started!
Project Infinity:
Most of the information about Project Infinity were given in our last blogpost, and of course on Davee’s own blogpost over at Lolhax.org.
Nonetheless we would like to mention that Infinity is not a Custom Firmware by itself. It will install a Hybrid Firmware on your PSP, which can of course use a CFW.
The 6.31/6.61 Hybrid Firmware will exactly behave like the normal 6.61 OFW, with the exception that it can unbrick your PSP in some cases.
You read right, the Infinity Hybrid Firmware can unbrick any PSP (in most cases), as long as it had been installed prior to the device bricking.
Now let’s get prepared, because we have to take care of a few things, before we flash the Infinity Hybrid Firmware.
Necessary things & Files:
General Preparation:
At first you have to own a PSP that is not a PSP E1000. Any other PSP, except for the E1000, is compatible with Project Infinity.
As long as your PSP does not look like the PSP above, you will be able to use the Infinity Hybrid Firmware (the incredibly rare 3000 07g should, in theory, be supported as well).
Otherwise it is recommended that your PSP is currently running any kind of modern 6.xx CFW. This would mean a ME, LME or PRO Custom Firmware for the versions 6.20, 6.35, 6.39, 6.60 or 6.61.
If you do happen to run a 6.xx on any other version, such as 6.31, 6.36, 6.37 or 6.38, we would suggest to update your CFW to a more recent version, because older Custom Firmwares could be a problem.
It is also recommended that your PSP has a rather full battery (>50%) and the charger should be plugged in, just to be sure that the PSP won’t power off.
Necessary Files:
You will have to download a few files, that are crucial to installing the Infinity Hybrid Firmware. It is also recommended to have at least 200MB of free space on your Memory Stick / Internal Storage.
Depending on your device, you will either have to download the firmwares 6.31 & 6.61 for most PSPs (PSP X000 updaters), or the firmwares 6.31 & 6.61 for the PSPgo (PSPgo updaters).
In the end you should have the 6.31 & 6.61 updaters that your PSP supports. All PSPs that have an UMD drive (1000, 2000, 3000, E1000) share one updater file, while the PSPgo has its very own updaters.
You will also need the 6.61 custom firmware files for the CFW of your choice: Either 6.61 LME-2.3 or 6.61 PRO-C2. You should not use the ME CFW or PRO’s cIPL flasher; stick to the LME CFW or PRO CFW without cIPL!
The last files you will need are all provided by Davee himself. You will need the Infinity firmware files and you might need the Chronoswitch Downgrader v7, if you decide to uninstall the Infinity Hybrid Firmware.
The reason to use the temporary variants of LME & PRO is, that the ME CFW (and PRO’s cIPL Flasher) comes pre-shipped with a cIPL and a cIPL only works on the PSP 1000 and 2000 (non-88v3). These old PSPs, the ones that support the Pandora battery, should stick to the ME CFW or a cIPL’d PRO CFW.
Infinity is superior to the 6.20 permanent patch, but Infinity is inferior to the cIPL Custom Firmwares. If possible, use a cIPL Custom Firmware, assuming your device supports it.
Infinity does of course work on the PSP 1000 & 2000 (including 88v3!) as well, but it is recommended to stick to cIPL; you only need Infinity on the newer “unhackable” PSPs.
You may install Infinity on your old “hackable” PSPs, but it won’t be the optimal choice, due to cIPL being superior.
Preparing the Files for our PSP:
We do not want to brick our PSP, so we will have to copy the recently downloaded files to the correct location on our memory stick.
The Infinity Hybrid Firmware can only be successfully installed, if you copy the necessary files to the proper memory stick locations.
Davee’s files will give you 3 folders: Infinity Builder, Infinity Flasher and Bootloader.
All three folders have to be copied to the /PSP/GAME/ folder, so that our PSP will detect 3 new Homebrews.
You will also have to copy the 631.PBP and 6.61.PBP files from the updaters into the Infinity Maker folder. The Updater ZIPs may list the PBP-Files as EBOOT.PBP files, so simply rename them from EBOOT.PBP to 631.PBP (in the case of FW 6.31) or 661.PBP (in the case of FW 6.61).
Please do not use the wrong updater files. Only use the PSPgo Updaters on a PSPgo, and only use the general Updaters on a PSP XOOO (a PSP that has an UMD drive).
In the end the Infinity Builder folder should contain a 631.PBP, a 661.PBP and a plain EBOOT.PBP file. The Infinity Flasher and Bootloader folder will have a respective EBOOT.PBP of their own, you won’t have to touch (add/delete/modify) these folders at all.
As long as you don’t intend to uninstall the Infinity Hybrid firmware, you won’t need the Chronoswitch Downgrader v7, so feel free to ignore it for now.
Tutorial: How to properly install Infinity:
Assuming you have did everything right so far, we should now be able to properly install the Infinity Hybrid Firmware.
The first thing you will have to do is start the Firmware Builder. This will create a necessary file out of the 631 & 661 Updaters, which we will need prior to installing Infinity.
Depending on your PSP and its Memory Stick, this might take 2 to 5 minutes. On a PSPgo this is noticeably faster, due to the smaller Updater files and the PSPgo’s blazing fast Internal Storage.
When the Firmware Builder is finished, we connect our PSP to our PC once again. We will have to move the newly created DATA.MFC file.
We grab the DATA.MFC file, that is currently inside of the /PSP/GAME/MAKER/ folder, and will move it into the /PSP/GAME/FLASHER/ folder. That is everything we have to do.
We can disconnect our PSP from our PC and continue to finally flash the Infinity Hybrid Firmware.
Be sure that your battery has enough juice to keep your PSP powered, otherwise you may end up with a brick.
If you want to be sure that nothing happens, plug in the PSPs charger and don’t unplug it until the installation has finished.
Simply start the Infinity Flasher and be sure to read the Disclaimer. If you agree with it, proceed to flash the firmware.
Flashing the firmware will take around 2 to 3 minutes, and you will have to restart your PSP afterwards.
Your PSP should now be running the Infinity Hybrid Firmware.
Adding a permanent Custom Firmware to Infinity:
The Infinity Firmware Flasher has installed the 6.31/6.61 Hybrid OFW to your device.
What was that, OFW? That is correct. Infinity is not a custom firmware by itself, and will behave exactly like the normal 6.61 OFW.
This means that you will have to install the LME CFW or PRO CFW and then use the CFWs respective launcher, to actually start the just installed LCFW.
You can simply do this by using the LME CFWs Installer & CFW Launcher, or PRO CFWs Installer & Fast Recovery.
After doing this, you will have a temporary LME or PRO CFW on your device. Feel free to check the System Information, to verify that you are indeed running an LCFW.
The final step would be to make the just installed LCFW permanent, right?
To do this you will have to start the Bootloader Configurator. It will greet you with a ‘Welcome to Infinity’ message and its respective animation.
You are able to press Left or Right to switch to the Bootloader configuration menu and the Infinity Update Utility, respectively. Pressing Select will do a secret third thing 😉
Use the Bootloader configuration menu and either select PRO CFW or (L)ME CFW to make said CFW a permanent one. This process is super fast and won’t take a single second to finish.
Afterwards just exit the Homebrew via the Home/PS-Button. If you now fully reboot your PSP it should automatically boot into the Custom Firmware of your choice (as long as said CFW had been installed prior to making it permanent).
The CFW will be permanent, even removing the battery or it being fully emptied won’t wipe the CFW from your device. It is now a permanent Custom Firmware, that gets started when you turn on your PSP.
You can freely change the permanent CFW from LME to PRO or from PRO to LME, as long as you have installed the new target CFW prior to doing so.
How to remove/uninstall Infinity:
Chronoswitch
In case you want to remove the Infinity Hybrid firmware, for whatever reason, be sure that you use the official way to do so.
Do not use any outdated downgraders, Nand restore tools or any kind of (possible future) Firmware Updaters. Those might end up bricking your device!
The official way to uninstall Infinity would be by using the Chronoswitch v7 Downgrader.
Just drop the Chronoswitch Downgrader into the /PSP/GAME/ folder and drop the official firmware 6.61 updater into the /PSP/GAME/ folder as well.
Next start the Chronoswitch v7 Downgrader and confirm that you want to downgrade. Assuming your Battery has enough juice, the 6.61 Firmware Updater will run through and you will end up on the normal 6.61 firmware that Sony created.
Additional Information:
Infinity is not its own Custom Firmware, it only installs a 6.31/6.61 Hybrid Firmware for you.
The 6.61 Hybrid Firmware behaves exactly like the normal 6.61 OFW, except that the Infinity Hybrid Firmware lets you unbrick your PSP in certain cases, as long as it is not a 100% full brick (flash corruption). This does work on any PSP that runs Infinity, including the new PSPs!
You are able to update the Infinity Core and the Infinity Version of your PSP via the Bootloader Configurator Homebrew. You can either drag & drop the Infinity updaters onto your Memory Stick, or simply download them via the PSP’s Wifi itself.
Infinity is not based on cIPL, and thus works on pretty much all PSP devices. The only untested device is the 7th generation PSP 3000, the 07g 3000.
Infinity should support the incredibly rare PSP 3000 07g as well, but this could not be tested, due to the devices rarity.
Infinity does not support the PSP E1000 (PSP Street), because the PSP E1000 only supports firmwares as of 6.50 and higher. Davee is trying to make Infinity compatible with the E1000, but this will happen some day in the future, not as of this weekend.
Davee was able to force the PSP 3000 09g to run the (previously) unsupported firmware 6.20 (the 3000 09g usually only supports 6.30+), so I am certain he will be able to force the E1000 to run a 6.31/6.61 Hybrid Firmware as well. If there is a way, he will figure it out.
Credits:
Who else than Davee should we thank for this incredible project?! It took a lot of months to finish this Project and despite various failed tests, Davee only bricked 34 PSPs in total!
Otherwise, listed in Davee’s own Credits, we would like to say thank you to Nzaki, without who it wouldn’t have been possible to finish the Infinity Project.
Davee also thanks Darthsternie, The Z, Marco Antony, Balázs Triszka and all other testers that took part in the Infinity Project.
This is unfortunally Davee’s last project for the Playstation Portable, excluding the Infinity updates/bugfixes. He wants to shift his focus to other devices.
We hope that you will enjoy Davee’s Infinity Project on your PSP as much as you have enjoyed the previous releases as well!
Source via Lolhax.org
In case of the website not updating the Infinity links yet, use this one:
http://infinity.lolhax.org/index.php
zip mirror: http://www.mediafire.com/?vp7a8rbz2khp55e (inc. chronoswitch 7)
short url: mfi.re/?vp7a8rbz2khp55e
Me again. Downloads on sendspace are slow and captcha. I guess a lot downloads. Alternative dl OFW
https://www.mfi.re/folder/vk7kqum2fz7jl/Psp_Official_Firmware_ofw
Btw i uploaded a modded boot config for SenseMe and DigitalComics.
sorry for being a newb, but what you mean of modded boot config for SenseMe and Digital Comics? where can i download it and how to use it?
Np ryanrudolf! SenseMe mods are pretty simple.
Boot config is still needed if you wanna switch between installed moduls Pro- or L-me. More details in talk subforum-cfw.
I´m sure you find it. I don´t wanna “spam” links. Downloads.. as usual at my mediafire floders 😉
who actually uses their psp anymore though? mines been mainly collecting dust since I bought my vita other than the few times I use it to convert ps1 saves from my pc emulator to psn classics
Me, I love my PSP Go when I’m on the…go !
Very small and light device. to carry around.
I use it, my friends use it. You are not the only one on the planet
I use it, my friends use it. You know, you are not the only one person on earth
me! even the old console PS1 Slim I still used it, because there are good games that even playing it on old console still fun,
Nice, big thanks to all involved. I ve been chomping at the bit since I heard about this a while back. Hope to see davee move on to the vita scene. Thanks again
Simple installtion 🙂
It works just like the old Dark~AleX Hybrid Custom Firmwares, with their dxar files ^^
Never used it :/
I just had to do 3-4 retries till i got ∞ then accidently uninstall perma etc.
Hope you change bootloader a little to switch fast between cfw. Busted in credits :-p
I doubt about a tn modul possiblity or a chance of getting it bind into systems app like Sony music service (soon).
Installed and working on PSP Go.
What do we do with the Infinity Flasher once we make a CFW permanent?
any advantage to have this installed over 6.20 pro-c (psn fix) with permapatch ?
i don’t like to mess with flash either, and that’s why i can’t see how a second recovery would be useful to me
6.61 > 6.20
PSN access (<6.61 cant access PSN anymore)
Infinity can unbrick a partly bricked PSP, perma patch cant do that (or at least not as reliable).
First!
Glad to know about this new release. I will update my PSP 1000 and 2000 as soon as I can with this. Great job.
A PSP 1000 & 2000 with ME CFW or PRO (+ cIPL) are far superior to an Infinity or perma patch CFW.
If you can use a full CFW, you should do it. Full CFW = has cIPL, but that only works on the “old PSPs”.
Infinity has both 6.60 spoofer for old plugin AND is capable of PSN access though.
You can just use the 6.60 spoofer on the 6.61 ME as well, because it is a plugin.
The point is that a cIPL CFW is superior to a perma patch, be it the old 6.20 perma patch or Infinity.
In what way is it superior, though?
Why can’t I import my themes now? It works fine otherwise.
Awesome. Just wondering, would this work with 6.61 PRO-C fix 3? I don’t want to upgrade to 6.61 C2 because of the PSX/PSN game bug. Currently got a 3g 3000 with 6.60 PRO-C fix3.
This 6.61 PRO-C fix3 download: http://wololo.net/talk/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=41219
That was fixed when the 6.61 compatibility was added
Use this version: http://wololo.net/talk/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=41249
It’s the very latest (and final) version of PRO-C2, with the PSN PS1 bug fixed and with better Inferno driver. It is the final version of PRO, since it uses the very latest/final version of the source, which was last modified in 14-02-2015.
Thanks for the info. Just one question, after looking around it seems some homebrew and plugins don’t work on 6.61 so is it at all possible to use Infinity with the 6.60 PRO-C2 patch instead? I don’t feel like updating to 6.61 because of those compatibility issues but I still want to try inifnity. ;-;
I did link to the newest build or PRO (by qwikrazor).
As far I know the PSN/PSX bug was fixed in the last version of PRO-C2, check it out: http://wololo.net/talk/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=41219&start=40
However, I can not confirm this though
I can’t seem to download the Infinity Configuration file, the website states, “404 Not Found”
FIRST
Can anybody share the Infinity Configurator? The link for it is broken on Davee’s page!
first. thank you davee for your last effort in PSP scene.
Great Job! 😀 Keep at it! 🙂
It seems that CXMB will no long update the conf.txt file when applying themes and I have to manually edit it in order for it to apply the theme I selected.
^This is a work around for others. Remember to reset your VSH after.
Thank you I was having this problem
how did you get cxmb to work? I got the 6.61 version from the forums but I can’t see my themes in the theme menu… using the (L)ME 6.61 permanent via infinity
@Marisa, no problem!
@Gizmo, (Tested on both LME and PRO C) Well make sure you have CXMB in /seplugins/cxmb/cxmb.prx and then edit your vsh.txt and make sure it says “ms0:/seplugins/cxmb/cxmb.prx 1” or if you have a GO, “ef0:/seplugins/cxmb/cxmb.prx 1”. Once you’ve done that I recommend checking in the vsh and or recover menu to to make sure that the plugin is enabled. After that reset your vsh and once your device is back on, select a theme. It’ll apply it partly. After that plug your device back into your computer head over to /seplugins/cxmb and open conf.txt and edit the line with the file name of the theme you chose. (The line should look something like “/PSP/THEME/name of theme here.ctf”. You can put a list of the theme file names bellow that line for reference if you wish.) I recommend having one theme on your memory card at a time or have the ones you’re not using stored in another place on your PSP so it’s easier to know what theme you are using is. After you do that, reset your VSH one more time and the theme should be working once your device is back on ^.^ You may need to change some theme settings ie color, background, ect. You can just edit the conf.txt and not apply the theme first but I don’t recommend it.
aah, moving it into seplugins did the trick!
before cxmb traditionally just lived in ms0://cxmb/cxmb.prx
odd… well it works now! thanks alot! 🙂
Np Gizmo!
I want to know this too. Every time I try to import my old theme, it gives me an internal error. Before this, I didn’t even need the cxmb plugin to import themes, and it still doesn’t work even when I use it.
first?
works good on my PSP2000 02g TA88V3! Thanks for this!
Well, here’s hoping he goes back to working on the Vita.
Any chance of this ever coming to eCFW?
Not sure what the point would be. The whole purpose of this is for it to be a permament auto-boot CFW, which we’ve not had on the PSP since 6.20.
great news, i only have one question before installing infinity, i have a psp go with lme cfw and sometimes when i apply a cxmb theme, the psp freezes upon apliying it and it doesn’t boot the cfw until i erase the cxmb while i’m on ofw, does infinity have a recovery menu option before it loads the plugins?, because if i boot directly into cfw and that cfw freezes on boot then i won’t be able to access the internal memory to disable the faulty cxmb
If i want to use more than one memory stick… i need the files on both sticks? Can install perma patch from first one and then use the second one? Or need the install procedure on both memorys?
>Davee only bricked 34 PSPs in total!
Dear god
Ive made a mistake and did it from 6.20 , My psp is bricked now , is there something i can do?
Cant be. Start your PSP without memory stick, it might be a plugin that halts the boot process.
You can install Infinity from any 6.xx CFW, this includes 6.20 as well.
I had my psp in 6.20 permanent Model 3004 . I tried removing the memstick but the only thing that it does is light up the power button in green. Now , im pluggin my memstick to my pc to see if i can do something about it , at least , search for the cause of the brick
>>Davee was able to force the PSP 3000 09g to run the (previously) unsupported firmware 6.20 (the 3000 09g usually only supports 6.30+)
LOL, it was known long before it.
Hello,
Preparing the File for our <pSp :
Davee’s files will give you 3 folders: Infinity Builder, Infinity Flasher and Bootloader.
but I have only the folder MAKER and FLASHER : http://prntscr.com/a34184
Do you have a solution please ?
builder = maker
Thank you but look the video at 3:17 : http://prntscr.com/a34bdw
Where can I find the seconde STAGE folder with the files in it please ?
you fan find it on the 2nd link, the one that says infinity configuration
It’s ok
It’s okay thank you very much <3
amazing, incredible job 😀 installation is easy and quick, too bad that 6.61 lacks lots of plugins…
Use Davees newest Plugin that allows you to use 6.61 AND 6.60 plugins on your Infinity FW.
Infinity seems work good on psp-3000 07g right now. Somebody have tested it on the 07g.
Is this a question or a statement? Infinity *should* support a 3000 07g, but we were unable to test it (because we found no one that owns such a PSP).
Sorry for my vague express. It’s a statement. A friend of mine chanced to have a 07g PSP-3000 device. He tested Infinity on his 3000 07g . Everything (games and homebrews he use) looks good so far. He shown me some screenshots (http://bbs.duowan.com/thread-44267321-1-1.html).
Could you record a video for me? One that shows the Infinity FW in action and run PSPident in said video?
Some people posted comments below my video that Infinity bricked their 3000 07g, but you tell me it works just fine :/
@Davee Thanks a lot great work 🙂
Updated my PSPGo and it works like a champ. Thanks Davee.
can’t get infinity to perma-patch my TA-79 v1
just tried it with pro-c2 and it did perma-patch but LME won’t, all it does is boot into the hybrid firmware.
after setting it to pro and getting the black screen because it wasn’t installed before i tried the same with LME and it doesn’t even give me the black screen it still just goes to the HFW
No need to use Infinity on a PSP that can use cIPL (ME CFW).
cIPL is superior to perma patch or Infinity. Infinity does & should work on the old PSPs nonetheless.
I know i don’t need it for my 1000 i was just doing a test install on it before running it on my 3000 in order to be sure i did everything right, it not going perma made me worry about doing it on my 3000.
Both have issues with flash1 & 2 after installing the HFW wallpapers wouldn’t save and trying to format them via recovery menu gave me a “failed -2” messeage. I did get it to save wallpapers after using the button combo to format flash1 but still got the failed -2 message when attempting to format in the recovery menu.
I used chronoswitch v7 to reinstall 6.61 OFW and the message stopped.
How to unbrick psp with infinity installed?
I selected pro perma patch when i install LME (stupid me..), and my psp wont boot…
Maybe this will help you https://twitter.com/The_Zett/status/698887997383667712
A friend of mine did the same and thought his PSP was bricked.
It is not bricked, it just tries to boot the wrong CFW (cant boot what isnt installed, eh?).
If you fully shutdown your PSP and then boot it, while the Home/PS-Button is held down, it should boot into the 6.61 OFW and you are able to install the missing CFW or simply change the perma Configuration to the correct CFW.
can I share the data.mfc across different PSP builds and flash directly using the flasher? or each PSP should be done with builder, flasher then configurator? just want to save a few mins of work lol
I think you can share the DATA.MFC betweens PSP’s but you can’t use the Go one on other PSP’s and vice versa.
You can freely share the DATA.MFC between 1000s, 2000s and 3000s.
Keep in mind that the PSPgo needs it very own DATA.MFC and the PSPGOs DATA.MFC only works on the PSPgo.
You lost me at cIPL
cIPL stands for custom IPL.
Think of it as a “PSP 1000 & 2000 (non-88v3) only permanent patch”. A PSP that can use the Pandora battery to install a FW (or unbrick the device) is also able to use a cIPL CFW.
cIPL doesnt work on the 2000 88v3, 3000s, Go or E1000, so we had to use something else (6.20 perma / Infinity) to get a ‘permanent’ CFW on those newer devices.
What is this (in infinity configuration) ?
” Unavailable due to unforeseen consequences “
The Infinity Configurator had an update feature, that could directly update the core of the Infinity FW & its bootloader.
You could either update via Memory Stick / Internal Storage, or use Wifi to download the update directly onto your PSP.
A few hours before Infinity should have been released, this update feature full bricked one of my PSPGOs, so Davee has disabled the feature, until he can figure out what caused this full brick.
It is disabled for your devices safety 🙂
Couldn’t you just use the file manager for psp to uzip and move the files to the correct place? And download the files with the psp, if needed. That way anyone without a pc can still use this?
Cool. Thks.
confirm working psp 3004 /TA-090 v2/03g
nice job davee keep it up
greetz from holland