Custom firmware on PSP
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Did you ever need something to make your girlfriend busy while hacking around on something else? Get a PSP.
With a tool battery, a so called pandora battery, you can get it into service mode and flash a custom firmware which allows you to do lot of funky stuff with it, including playing cso/iso and homebrews.
I heard someone said this battery became public after some dude found a real tool battery from Sony in his PSP after he got it back. Duh! First copies of it were sold extremly expensive on eBay, before the chinese figured how to make them ;)
Works for most PSP Slim & lite, like the one I got, except the 3000 modells, but I never seen any of these arund local stores here.
How it works (done on a Mac)
Things you need:
- get Pandora Battery from a retailer (or build one from another battery, but buying is most of the time the cheaper solution), it costs about 19Eur/25$
- get a Memory Stick Pro Duo (be sure its Pro, not just Do), it should cost from 10-20Eur/15-25$ depending on size.
- install XP to VMware Fusion
- get Rain's UltraLite MMS Maker for 5.00 M33-4/DCv8 (google for it like "name rapidshare.com" and you will find)
- Sony Original Firmware 5.00
How to do:
- Fire up windows and follow the steps in the Readme of Rain's Utility
- connect the PSP into VMware
- make stick
- load the tool battery: put in cable, start to usale system, pullout original battery and put in tool battery. Than wait for it to load fully.
- pull out tool battery
- insert the sticky you made with Rain's Toolkit (BEFORE inserting tool battery)
- start PSP with tool battery, like insert it
- follow instructions on screen
So now you are done. You can put ISOs in your ISO folder on the card, horray.
Hint: If nothing comes up on your screen, but your lights blink, you got one of these rare devices which show nothing, try pressing X and wait for it t reboot. Google for this error, you will find posts of people in various places with the same problem.
