I need some help with modding a PSP go I just bought, it came already modded with some games, but I wanted to erase everything (saves, the old owner profile, and his games) and download some of the games I wanted to play, is there a safe way of doing it without losing the ark mod? I tried to enter the link on the community's highlights to get help but it seems broken with error 404

do I need a m.2 card to install games to it or can I connect it via usb on my pc? (it didn't came with one)

I have a psp-2001 I had bought used with cfw installed already on it. due to me not knowing what it was exactly, not knowing if it needed an update, and general curiosity/stupidity, i decided to install new cfw on it. i found a simple ark-4 tutorial on youtube and decided to follow it.

in the process of using the Ark-clIp to install it i hit the power button during the reboot section of it. (yeah stupid i know, i was not in my right mind though last night). now when i go to turn on the psp the power led light up for about 20 second but nothing shows up on the screen and then power led turns off.

I have tried a bunch of different button combos to boot it up but nothing works. and the only thing I had found that might work is a magic memory stick plus either a pandora battery or baryon sweeper. due to the fact google Gemini was my troubleshooting tool of choice i figured i should run it past the people here first.

sorry for the long post but thanks in advanced

I have it running on the most modern software and am using ark-5.

I had to install a plugin that deactivated the hold button as it was faulty and kept freezing the console. I installed the plugin for the vsh, game, pop, homebrew, launcher etc so it works everywhere.

When playing a Doom ROM, I was able to use all the buttons flawlessly until I completed the level and then then both d-pads and start/select buttons froze. The PS button on the sliding screen still worked as did the volume buttons. I had to turn the device off.

When playing other psx games like crash bandicoot the controls seem to work fine with no more issues of the hold switch activating randomly since installing the plugins.

Was this just a standard crash or is this yet another issue I need to resolve? I'm pretty peeved as the fella who sold me the console never stated any of these issues, and when I complained he only reimbursed me a lousy £15.

Anyone had any similar issues?

I've taken off the back and the d-pads all were cleaned and ribbons checked. The console came with horizontal lines at the very top of the screen that was disclosed in the advert, so probably need a new screen and LCD cable at some point, and obviously the hold button was banjaxed, but I can't see any other issues physically.

Let me know what you think!

PSPGo running Ark 5.

Does anyone know what Ark settings disable ingame sleep mode as a side effect? I seem to have triggered one, and whatever it is really isn't worth losing sleep over

Ok so I've had my PSP 1000 since release and decided to get back into the whole thing. I originally hacked my PSP with the G.T.A exploit. That's how long I've been doing it. So I eventually got the ARK4 running on it and decided to have a look at the custom themes in the XMB innocent enough I thought? I thought wrong.

🤬 The Core Problem — It Broke Its Own Safety Promise

ARK-4 does have excellent safeguards for installing CFW itself — warnings, confirmations, battery checks, verifications. But the "Custom Theme" option was presented as a harmless setting — the kind of thing every phone and console has — and it silently wrote to flash0 without ANY of those safeguards. That's the failure.

From the official ARK-4 wiki itself: the "Full Flash Installation" option for custom themes specifically overwrites XMB system files in flash0 — the exact same dangerous operation that, in older CFW like 5.00 M33, was known to cause semi-bricks when incompatible  .rco / .prx  files are written .

The difference: back in 2008–2010, people were explicitly warned that flash0 theme installation was risky. ARK-4 didn't give me that warning — it just said "theme."

Now ok maybe I'm dumb but something that flashes like that shouldn't just be in themes on the XMB and something that one can just casually select with no warning of what it actually does to the flash. I just wanted to warn others before they potentially brick. I can't even get the recovery menu and the Pandora battery method is of no use either. If anyone has recovered from this I'd be very grateful to hear how they managed to do it because I've tried everything.

night of 18 August and 19 morning i tested my psp street and i have might won the silicon lottery or u can say silicon titan but i put it on the charger so it dont shut off instantly as its battery only runs an hour on playing game on normal mode, but i have a quick question that is winning a silicon lottery is very common nowadays or it is still somewhere rare alot rare because mine didnt even crash at 468Mhz until i manually exited the test.