Developers Astaroth and Marce82 has just released Ultra Recovery for the PSP, a homebrew that allows users to do a variety of tasks including downgrading their firmware to 1.50. Unlike some of the applications of this sort, it comes packaged with an easy to use Graphical User Interface making it easier for less tech-savvy PSP owners to use.

While the interface is intuitive we found out in our PSP forums that, because of space issues, some more experienced users prefer to use the classic mode of the program which does away with the GUI. Installing the program is pretty straightforward and shouldn't be a problem for most people. Here's a complete list of what Ultra Recovery can do as taken from the documentation of the program:

* Totally graphical Structure
* Access USB to memory stick, flash0, flash1, flash2 and flash3
* Possibility of taking 5 applications in flash1
* Possibility of taking to 5 xmb themes complete in memory stick
* Stick of flash0, flash1, flash2 and flash3 Allows to create a Backup in memory
* Option of format flash1 and creating the necessary folders of the applications flash
* Option of return to firmware 1.50
* Creative of Eboot recovery in memory stick
* Access to the classic Recovery

This won't be the last release of the program though since the developers are planning to revamp the GUI, add support for the 3.71 M33 kernel, include prx compression, and more. Before doing anything, be sure to go over the read me file included with the download to avoid any problems with its installation and usage.