I'm mad I didn't update to a CFW on my PSP sooner. Five dollars for the battery, and 10 minutes to make the stick and update. Now I'm playing any PSP and PSX games I wish to. Now I just need to go to the store and pick up a 16GB Pro Duo...
hey dont buy a 16gb mem stick because if one bit of it goes the whole thing gives reading errors.Take it from someone who has experience.
what exactly does the Pandora do? I understand the CFW and it unbricks systems but I am not clear on what the craze is over the CFW i'm just curious I don't have a PSP anymore I somehow killed it, but a friend of mine has one for sale. I've googled it and keep getting diffrent inconsistent results
The older PSP models (1000 and 2000, the Phat and Slim) had a special recovery boot mode. This was triggered by the battery serial number. Normal batteries wouldn't trigger it, but you could modify the battery by cutting a jumper inside it that powered up the section of the PSP flash that made it boot. So, the Pandora Battery makes your PSP boot into this special mode, where you can install software without having to worry about the anti-piracy crap built into the official firmware. Once in this mode, the "magic memory stick" installs modified firmware files and overwrites the official firmware. This leaves you with a custom firmware (which looks exactly like the official firmware) that will let you play PSP ISOs, and PSX ISOs, and run homebrew games and programs (like Emulators for other systems).
It stays what ever firmware you installed, until you update it manually (but you never update to Official from Custom, you always get other Custom updates).
Is that hard to do, or would it just be best to get the Pandora, reason I ask the guy who is selling his has a few batterys to go with it. its a 1000 model PSP that I do know.
you can play the psp without any battery just put it on the charger could you do stuff then without the batterys serial number
I agree. I got mine done recently too. Fantastic investment. Playing all my favourite PSX games on it, as well as some great GBA and SNES games from the past; not even mentioning PSP games itself.
...I never realised the potential the psp had, all this time I bagged it for "doing too much"... NOW ALL MY PSP DOES IS PLAY EVERY THING! (excluding badly compressed movies) ...but I'm glad I soft modded it...no card to buy online...no spare batteries...no need to pay mod places...and certainly no risk from an exloding battery!
Im actually Surprised at how many people are starting to see the Light when it comes to the PSP oh and btw dont buy any PSP model over PSP-2001(model code not Year) it does not Homebrew so well
Actually, it seems that with the new exploits, chickHEN and such, the PSP 3000 is playing homebrew and backups fairly well. And the PSP1000 and 2000 are easier than ever to modify.
Yes but ChickHEN isnt permanent and it loads up at random time (like 90% fail time) i was busy trying to load CFW on my brothers freinds PSP and he has the 2004 version it took honestly over 130 tries and it only worked once then he switched the psp off cause he didnt know there was a standby mode and i tried to get it working again no dice for 2 hours and i just gave up. i was pretty pissed cause it usually only takes me plus minus 7 minutes to CFW a PSP under PSP-2002
