Homebrew Not Showing Up

[dennis96411]

My friend had custom firmware on his PSP [he's a noob, I put it on there for him], all fine, and then one day he bought a game, and he upgraded his CFW PSP to OFW. I put custom firmware back on, and I think the UMD somehow messed up his GAME and GAME5XX folder [as described in CFW folder blocker]. I cannot see any of the homebrews he had, and tried various method of trying to get it to show up.

* Used Windows's built-in check disk
* Formatted Memory Stick
* Copying new homebrews

Still nothing. Please help!

UPDATE: OK, I'm thinking about low-level formatting the Memory Stick, but is it safe? Please help!

 

[january39]

Have you reset the flash1? Although on a CFW install it should reformat all the flash drives.

 

[dennis96411]

Have you reset the flash1? Although on a CFW install it should reformat all the flash drives.

When I reinstalled CFW on his PSP using my Pandora Battery, it should have formatted flash1 and overwritten it with the settings it had. Wow I'm guessing Sony won this round. Sony - 1 ; Homebrew Community - 1337

 

[slicer4ever]

even in ofw, homebrew should still appear under the ms, i doubt sony did anything magical to stop homebrew if you've got cfw on his psp, i'd recommend a format of the ms(backup any saves/photo's/(w/e)), and in the settings tab on the psp, format the ms.

 

[dennis96411]

even in ofw, homebrew should still appear under the ms, i doubt sony did anything magical to stop homebrew if you've got cfw on his psp, i'd recommend a format of the ms(backup any saves/photo's/(w/e)), and in the settings tab on the psp, format the ms.

New UMD games seems to have an anti-piracy feature that messes, or hides GAME, GAME5XX, ISO folder from the PSP. I don't know how. And weird, formatting with the PSP seemed to work. Formatting with my computer doesn't work at all. Weird. Does the PSP low-level format the Memory Stick?

 

[shikamaru]

Rockband deleted the GAME folder when the ISO was leaked causng havoc to many early pirates. This game could be similar.

 

[slicer4ever]

New UMD games seems to have an anti-piracy feature that messes, or hides GAME, GAME5XX, ISO folder from the PSP. I don't know how. And weird, formatting with the PSP seemed to work. Formatting with my computer doesn't work at all. Weird. Does the PSP low-level format the Memory Stick?

the psp doesn't do anything more low-level than a pc format AFAIK, however the format from the psp well create the folder structure for you, where a wipe on the pc well just leave it blank, my only assumption of why it didn't work for you when u did it on the pc was somewhere along the path of: X:/PSP/GAME u misspelled one of the words, or something

 

[wizarddoctor]

Have you tried reflashing already? Or going to 5.50 Prometheus v5 or something like that?