[PSP] - List of games and the firmware required to play them thread

[VR46]

Seeing the same post cropping up in numerous threads so gonna try and list them all in one place; if people can post

Game Name - Region - Firmware Version Required

and I'll update this first post's list as often as possible. Thanks.

PSP Software with Firmware Update List

No games (yet) require you to update to firmware version 2.00

Require you to update to firmware version 1.52
Bleach: Heat The Soul 2 (Japan)
Colin Mcrae Rally 2005 Plus (Euro)
F1 Grand Prix (Euro)
Fired Up (Euro)
Rockman Dash-Hagane no Boukenshin (Japan)
Medievil (Euro)
Namco Museum-Battle Collection (USA)
Twelve-Sengoku Fuushinden (Japan)
Virtua Tennis-World Tour (Euro)

No games require you to update to firmware version 1.51

Require you to update to firmware version 1.50
Adventure Player (Japan)
Bomberman Panic Bomber (Japan)
Coded Arms (Japan & USA)
Dead To Rights (USA)
Death Jr (USA)
Everybody's Golf (Euro)
Famitsu PSP Demo Disc Volume 2 / Tenchi no Mon Demo (Japan)
Intelligent License (Japan)
Heavens Key Earth Gate / Tenchi no Mon (Japan)
Hokuto no Ken (Japan)
Midnight Club 3 (USA)
Need for Speed Underground Rivals (Japan)
Sengoku Cannon (Japan)
Space Invaders Pocket (Japan)
Star Soldier (Japan)
Taiko no Tatsujin Portable (Japan)
Tenchu-Shinobi Taizen (Japan)
TOCA Race Driver 2 (Euro)
Wipeout Pure (Euro) - there's a 1.52 update on the disc, but you don't need to run it to launch Wipeout
Yarudora Portable-Yukiwari no Hana (Japan)

(Only firmware versions 1.00 and 1.50 can run homebrew applications, UK UMD movies require firmware version 1.52)

[Gabbi]

WipEout Pure (Euro version) 1.52

[Kubrick]

1.50 - Space Invaders Pocket JP
1.50 - Sengoku Cannon JP
1.50 - Star Soldier JP
1.50 - Tenchu Shinobi Taizen JP
1.50 - Taiko no Tatsujin Portable JP

[plumchutney]

Virtua Tennis (EU) - 1.52
Everybody's Golf (EU) - 1.5
Wipeout Pure (EU) - 1.5 (There's a 1.52 update on the disc, but you don't need to run it to launch Wipeout - wonder how many people got caught out here!)
Taiko no Tatsujin (JPN) - 1.5
Midnight Club 3 DUB (US) - 1.5
Coded Arms (US) - 1.5

[Gabbi]

Wipeout Pure (EU) - 1.5 (There's a 1.52 update on the disc, but you don't need to run it to launch Wipeout - wonder how many people got caught out here!)

one here ^^;

[Square]

My UK copy of Mercury runs happily on my v1 Japanese PSP.

[MonkeyWrench]

These two have the updates on, but not sure if they're required to play:

Colin McRae Rally 2005 Plus (UK) v1.52
TOCA Race Driver 2 (UK) v1.52

[VR46]

kaisersose kindly PM'd this link which has beaten me to the punch

http://forums.maxconsole.net/showthread.php?t=7532

we will still have our own thread though.

[Bassman]

Mobile Train Simulator (Japanese) requires V1.00
Minna No Golf (Japanese) requires V1.00
Ridge Racers (Japanese) requires V1.00
Lumines (Japanese) requires V1.00
Need for Speed underground Rivals (US) requires V1.00
Shutokou Zone of Control (Japanese) is I think happy with V1.00 (no longer have V1.00 to prove it though)
Intelligent License (Japanese) reguires V1.50
Virtua Tennis (UK) requires V1.52
Wipeout Pure (US) requires V1.00

UK UMD movies also require V1.52

Edit... just checked that link... too late!!

[VR46]

complied first list, sorry took so long, thanks for the info.

[kapowza]

Burnout Legends (and the demo of it you can transfer to other psps) needs 1.52

[Madbury]

I'm a little in the dark with all this. I'm using WAB Version changer on my PSP and Virtua Tennis runs fine on my Japanese PSP with 1.50 firmware. I've fudged the firmware to look like 2.0 and this seems to suppress the update. (I'm running homebrew so it definately works)

It would be helpful to know which games simply will not run under version x.xx and below.

[Samiad]

World Snooker 2005 (Euro) - 1.50

[superstarbeejay]

I'm a little in the dark with all this. I'm using WAB Version changer on my PSP and Virtua Tennis runs fine on my Japanese PSP with 1.50 firmware. I've fudged the firmware to look like 2.0 and this seems to suppress the update. (I'm running homebrew so it definately works)

It would be helpful to know which games simply will not run under version x.xx and below.

agreed. I started one of these threads on rllmuk a week or so ago and got told about the hack and it works fine.

A list is definately still useful though

[AlonzoUK]

Winning Eleven 9: Ubiquitous Evolution is said to be 2.0. Apparently the WAB changer still works with this though so good news for us with the 1.50 firmware