When you say slow rates... how slow is it? Are there any benchmarks for it?
I wanna know if mine is fake or real... 

You guys said the transfer speed will slow
then when play game will lag too????
hhmm...bcs i got some friends using nonorginal 2GB high speed MSPD
they said no problem with it oh~~~
so want to ask u guys opinion~~
hehe

Go to Memory Stick on XMB, press triangle and choose information. See MagicGate, if supported, that means yours is original. if unknown or not supported, your mspd is clone.
in-game speed doesnt affect. only when u putting something big from PC to mspd, the transfer rate is slower than original.

Can give me one resource site whereby I can learn and get homebrew specifically about emulators and PSX? Thank you

it lags.
anything near 800mb will almost surely lag(for some reason MGS PO doesnt lag eventhough it is 800mb-1gb )

play vice city stories,prepare for lag
i had to extract all the radios out,and put in custom music then no lag
PSX emulation is enabled already.(not sure when it started,but 3.52m33 confirm can use it.

i play Ace Combat no lag..

put aside GTA series.. they need to be run with 333MHz..

btw, my gta doesnt lag on fake mspd, right Lakum? (no overclock speed)

who said that?
mine is OK on default speed
4gb stick,no less

excluding modded data backup game..

so you mean using the UMD,you need the full 333mhz speed?
when GTA was releaed,333mhz wasnt even unlocked yet!

Hmmm, been a while since i checked the psp scene.
Updating to 3.52M33 now, at 51%..

Update: Done. Pretty fast actually, compared to the old DXAR creaton etc etc.

The bug fixes in this release include the autoboot plug-in problem which some some configurations experienced as well as the issue with nethostfs crashing when the PSP fails to connect to the server. In addition to this, there are a few other fixes that were implemented:

    * Fixed screen corruption while changing CPU speed in PS1 games.
    * Retained the overclock speed after exiting game/app while nethostfs is active.
    * Fixed adhoc PC nethostfs connection problem. You no longer need to mess with the wlan switch.
    * The MP3 will now resume at the exact position when switching firmware versions (1.5 iR Shell to 3.x iR Shell, or vice versa).

Just wondering here, what is the difference between 3.51 M33 and 3.52M33?

I just bought one which is 3.51M33. Is it neccessary to upgrade to 3.52?

y not?
but for 3.52 m33 only,official firmware u can't upgrade it atm.

Custom firmware 3.52 M33 changes:

    * Now uses 3.52
    * M33 NO-UMD: fixed problem with Simple 2500 Series Portable, The IQ Cube
    * Fix a bug which made Go!Cam, GPS and sceKernelLoadExecVSH* not work in game mode.
    * PSN downloaded PSX games support wasn't working in 3.51 M33 (didn't work in latest OE's either). Now it is working again. If an original PSN game still doesn't work, we recommend to delete files KEYS.BIN if exists, and copy the game again from ps3 to psp.

here are the changes

i am using 2.40oe-a from dark-alex. Can i straight upgrade to 3.52 m33?Which version most stable?