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3.72 identical to "New" 3.73 (funny!)

ark Alex and Mathieulh have posted this info:

After much investigations from Alex and I, we concluded that the 3.73 firmware is fully identical to the 3.72 firmware, the only thing that changed were the module versions and the index.dat/version.txt that display the firmware version. ALL the kernel and vsh modules are the same, so are the rco files.

As you know this does not really make sense and we have yet to find out why sony issued a new firmware revision when nothing was changed. Perhaps there may be some flaw in the updater itself that may explain this move, I don't think we will ever know for sure.

Also this the part when some "coder" gets greeted by noobs because of being so "fast" to port "his" custom firmware to 3.73 while nothing at all changed from its previous 3.72 version. I will let you all figure out who that might be...

UPDATE: lflash_fatfmt seem to have changed a bit (over 20 different bytes) but that's all we could find, no critical change and certainly does not need ANY patches to be modified/updated in any way to run a custom firmware, perhaps the bugfix is there (we are not sure of that yet, we are curently taking a closer look at the module to be sure)

Source: PSP News

Sony Releases PSP Firmware 3.73

Sony today released a "new" version of the PSP Firmware... funny, though, Dark Alex & Co. looked into it and, umm, it's the *same* ???

The other funny thing is, while it's available on the PSP's Software Update, there's nothing on Sony's PSP System Update site... maybe it will be updated later?

3.73 PopsLoader Released

(note that downgrading or modifying your firmware can irreparably break your PSP, so you use this stuff at your own risk!)

News/release from Red Squirrel:

Hi, sorry for my bad english (i'm italian :P).
i would to present to this wonderfull community my last creation (or, better, "modification" ).

3.73 Dark_Alex PopsLoader

Download of the package from HERE

What's it?
It's a modded version of the 3.71 Dark_Alex PopsLoader that allows to load prxs of the new Sony Firmware 3.73.
3.73 pops will take the place of 3.72 pops.

N.B.: This is "only" a modified version of the original Dark_Alex's PopsLoader, so all rights and merits belong to him!

Installation
The same of original POPSLoader.
To obtain 3.73 prxs you can use RSPsar Dumper (or M33Psar Dumper).
PRXs must be decrypted, so you need to use SQUARE option in Psar Dumper.
Necessary PRXs are the same of 3.72 pops, so: popsman.prx, pops.prx, libpspvmc.prx e pafmini.prx.

Later you need to insert PRXs in /SEPLUGINS/POPSLOADER as popsman373.prx, pops373.prx, libpspvmc373.prx e pafmini373.prx.
At the end you need to overwrite original PopsLoader.prx with the one contained in the package.

Thanks
To Dark_Alex, the only POPSLoader inventor and creator

Source: PSP News

Download here.