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This Tutorial will show you How to install PTF and CTF themes on your PSP.
What are PTF and CTF Themes?
PTF themes are the basic themes you can install on your PSP. They are officially allowed by Sony and can be installed simply by copying them to the THEME folder on your PSP.
CTF Themes are customized themes which work only on modded PSPs with CFW installed. You need to install the CXMB plugin in order to use CTF themes. CTF Themes are generally much better than PTF themes.
Install PTF Themes on PSP
- Connect the PSP to your computer using the data cable and goto Settings > USB Connection.
- Open your PSP drive (Suppose X:\) in My Computer, and goto the X:\PSP\THEME folder. If it isn’t there already, create a new folder and rename it to THEME. The absolute path of the folder should be X:\PSP\THEME. Copy the .PTF theme file to X:\PSP\THEME (X:\PSP\THEME\themename.PTF).
- Disconnect your PSP from the PC and goto Settings > Theme Settings. Select your Custom Theme and apply it.
Install CTF Themes on PSP
- Installing CTF themes is a bit more complicated than installing PTF themes. You will first need to install the CXMB plugin for your CFW version on your PSP. Check out the How To Install Plugins on PSP guide for more details.
- Connect the PSP to your computer using the data cable and goto Settings > USB Connection.
- To install the CXMB plugin, first download the CXMB plugin for your CFW version. You can Google it up or try http://dl.qj.net. After downloading it, just extract it and locate the FULL and LITE folders. From the FULL folder, copy the cxmb folder to the Root of your PSP such that its absolute path is X:\cxmb
- Goto the X:\seplugins folder and edit VSH.txt to include this line at the end:
ms0:/cxmb/cxmb.prx. Now restart the PSP and boot into recovery mode and enable the CXMB plugin. For more details on how to install and enable plugins, check out the How To Install Plugins on PSP tutorial.
- Now to install CTF themes, just download CTF themes and copy the .CTF file to X:\PSP\THEME (X:\PSP\THEME\themename.CTF) just like a normal PTF theme.
- Disconnect your PSP from the PC and goto Settings > Theme Settings. Select your Custom Theme and apply it.
Happy Theming!
Note: You can Download the CXMB plugin, PTF and CTF themes from http://dl.qj.net. You can also get tons of other resources from torrents and other sites.
February 15th, 2009 at 12:50 pm
Thanx I never found this!
June 3rd, 2009 at 9:45 pm
At last a blog with the information I needed thank you.
August 12th, 2009 at 10:57 pm
Took me absolutely ages to find this. If only the PSP actually came with preconfigured help on how to do things like this.
Just wondering though – where you can get like packs of lots of different themes, without having to download them individually?
August 22nd, 2009 at 5:14 pm
Good post, adding it to my blog now, thanks
January 2nd, 2010 at 7:38 am
Like your page, good reading, thanks.
May 8th, 2010 at 3:56 pm
Thank you! This is the most comprehensive explanation yet, had to trawl through terabytes of pages to find it though, Google should list this as the top result!
May 29th, 2010 at 6:04 pm
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July 2nd, 2010 at 9:43 am
I believe it was by George Redding, do you know them?
July 16th, 2010 at 4:00 pm
Is it possible to hack a psp 3000 oficial firmware 5.55?