How to Mod Your PSP to PLAY BACKUPS, PS1,EMULATORS. WINDOWS & MAC BOTH. ARK 4 CFW

Опубликовано: 21 Август 2026
на канале: Kim's Retro Archive
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In this video we will go through installing ARK4 Custom firmware and it works for all models of PSP 1000, 2000, 3000, PSP STREET & PSPGO

I will upload Mac instructions also as seperate videos later

PSP 6.61 Firmware Download
https://darthsternie.net/psp-firmwares/

ARK-4 CFW GitHub page below
https://github.com/PSP-Archive/ARK-4

PSP FILER 6.6 Go
https://archive.org/details/psp-filer...

PSX2PSP for converting your PS1 games to PSP
  / psx2psp  


Useful tool downloads
IMGBURN for windows users to backup games
https://imgburn.com/

7zip for unzipping archives if you have trouble
https://www.7-zip.org

MAC Downloads
Whisky github page to download
https://github.com/Whisky-App/Whisky

Homebrew page & package installer
Visit Homebrew site to learn more about it and what it is
https://brew.sh

Link straight to Homebrew package installer
https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/rele...

Terminal commands for ps1 backup on Mac

brew install cdrdao

diskutil list

diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk*yourdisknumber*


cdrdao read-cd --read-raw --datafile "output.bin" --driver generic-mmc:0x20000 output.toc

toc2cue output.toc output.cue

Check out this blog post by Jack Robinson ! Thats where I learned this method . He elaborates bit more what commands do

https://jackrobinson.co.nz/blog/extra...

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00:00 What you need to know
01:38 Check your firmware version
02:10 Installing Firmware 6.61
05:27 Installing ARK4-Custom Firmware
10:08 Where to put your backup game files? ISO
11:33 How to backup your own UMD games?
13:38 How to add PS1 games to your PSP?
19:30 Playing PS1, Changing discs & Settings
22:21 Where to put Emulators & Homebrew?
23:04 How to use PSX2PSP on Mac computer?
25:43 How to backup your own PS1 games using Mac computer?
32:13 Thanks for watching & check out these videos!