will not play region 2 game on 1.5

[donnamarie1982]

Hiya hope someone can help i have a sony psp 1.5 white jap and when i put my game in it says you will have to upgrade to play this game why is that?

will i have to get another region game it plays region 2 films so why not games?

hope someone can help jusy bought i new game and cannot bloody play it i cant take it back either grrrrr.

takecare Donna xxx

[P8ntballin_Pimp]

You will have to upgrade your firmeware to 2.71 or higher. I had to do it to mine to play newer games. Here is a link to download it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[donnamarie1982]

will i still be able to play home brews thanks Donna xx

[P8ntballin_Pimp]

If you dont upgrade higher than 2.80. I would just do the 2.71

[donnamarie1982]

is it easy to do?upgrading? Donna

[bah]

If you update away from 1.5 you will not have direct access to homebrew unless you update to one of the custom (unofficial) firmwares.

Almost all the updates in between 1.5 and 2.71 are able to load some homebrew through a program known as eloader. It is preferable to have full homebrew access from the XMB (psp's menu), and this is only currently available on firmwares 1.0, 1.5 and the 2 custom firmwares.

If you update to any firmware up to and including 2.71 (now 2.80, but i wouldn't recommend updating that high) you can get homebrew access back by downgrading to 1.5. If you update to 2.81 or higher this will not be possible (currently, perhaps in the future).

All psp games are region free (umd movies are not), sony make new games 'require' newer firmwares as a means of forcing people to update and loose homebrew access. My advice would be to keep your psp at firmware 1.5 and use a program called devhook to load/run a newer firmware from your memory stick. This allows all newer games to run, gives you access to whatever new features there are in the firmware itself, but when you turn the psp off and back on you load straight back to firmware 1.5. This is possible because the newer firmware isnt actually installed, but just loaded into memory and run.

You can download the latest version of devhook HERE. There should be a simple installer out soon enough if the instructions are too complicated for you.

Hope that helps.