Hi, I'm another newbie with psp here. First of all, I got my psp from a friend, who is now out of reach, so I'll just drop down evething I know about this PSP of mine.

System Software / Firmare = 303OEC R+ (she got it from China)
Model Number = PSP 1006
Homebrewed before? = I'm not sure but it does have the Recovery funtion which you hold R and switch it on, so my guess is yes?

Ok. Today, I just got myself a game, FF 7 Crisis Core english version. Lets just say that I somehow get it "not that legally" if you get what I mean, especially those torrents users. I start the game, and it gives me this :

"The game cannot be started" along with the error code of "80020148"

After hours of googling here and there, I'm feeling a bit unsafe to whether or not to upgrade my psp with the firmware stated at page 1 of this topic. And I also feel that the reason of the error above is because I need to upgrade the firmware to a more recent one.

Do be reminded that this is a China version of psp. I googled the firmware and all I got is all chinese website which I cant read.

Here's is what I wanna ask :

Is it ok for me to upgrade my current firmware to the firmware stated in Page1 or do I have to search for the China version which I absolutely have no idea of.

erm... I'm not sure whether is an OE firmware. But from what I can see is that the version shown on the PSP is : 303OEC R+

you can google this and you'll get all the chinese websites and stuffs. I'm a chinese but I cant read.... =.=

I did post this on another forum and they suggested to use pandora battery to convert this into M33 which I'm a bit worry for the battery part.

I did saw other forums where the posters said their firmware is 3.03 OEC but did not inlude the "R+"...

hmmm..... idea idea idea?