Looks like there's a new PSP custom firmware in town! Dropping by the QJ.NET forums is Coolj, announcing the latest release of his good friend _HellDashX_: Custom Firmware 3.72 HX-1. This is built off of Dark AleX's 3.71 M33-2 custom firmware (we'll explain this in a bit), and for now, here are some notes from _HellDashX_ himself:

* The Recovery is the old one, soon update will come with new one, my own.
* Not much changed from 3.71 to 3.72 so I just had to adapt the code to the new firmware.
* The updater is the same as Dax's (all reversed by me,too).
* No 1.5 kernel included.

Now you'd probably remember _HellDashX_ for the Anti Update for the PSP Slim plugin that he created last month (it's a prx plugin that allows you to "hide" the UMD Update icon - keen huh?). At that point in time, _HellDashX_ had reverse engineered the code from the original programmers of the Anti Update, Team tOc.

This time around, with Custom Firmware 3.72 HX-1, _HellDashX_ had reverse engineered Dark AleX's CFW code (as you might have already guessed). Coolj notes that he was not the creator of this CFW - it's _HellDashX_. Coolj just helped out with some stuff and beta tested the brew.

Please check the readme for more details. You might accidentally brick your system. Other relevant notes are found in the QJ.NET forum release thread started by Coolj. Heck, you might even want to ask questions to Coolj and give them your thanks! DAX might be retired, but at least CFWs are still alive!