PSP Hacking

[Boyiee]

For DS homebrew and emulation, roms whatnot, I need an R4DS right? Or the N5? I havent touched my DS, need to make it useful again.

[Kaisha]

I was wondering what the advantages of cracking the thing are.

- As mentioned, the ability to play ISOs (which basically allows pirates to do as they please easily)
- the ability to rip ISOs from the UMD drive (which I use, beats carrying those fragile discs about)
- Homebrew (only recent apps though, anything 'old' requires a PSP fat with the 1.50 kernal installed)
- Overclocking capabilities (well, more like actually using the PSP's full power since it's underclocked to begin with. It makes games like GTA run nice and smooth)
- improved battery life running ISOs from mem card (another reason why I rip my own discs and slap them on there)
- Misc features (skip the PSP start-up screen, recovery menu, couple little registry hacks, access 4th brightness level without AC hooked up, etc)

That should be the majority of it.

[Wintermute]

When installing CFW using the Pandora/MMS combo can you shoot straight to the latest Firmware/CFW version or do you need to start at the bottom rung and run through all the updates?

[Kaisha]

For my MMS it left me at 2.71 CFW (iirc), but from there I just used the Network Update (which for the CFW I had, it redirected where it looked for updates on Dark Alex's little server) and went straight to 5.00 M33-4, which currently is the latest version.

Been curious about slapping on the latest firmware myself, but I've not a spare PSP to test my MMS on to see if it'd even still work with a little file-swapping.

[Arelian]

Since this is a recent PSP topic, I figured I could post here about a problem I'm having.

I have an original fatty PSP, and it's been sitting in a drawer for about a year. I lost my charger, so I bought a new one and an 8 gb memory stick as I plan on hacking it.

So when I go and plug in my psp, since it's obviously dead. It charges for about 5 minutes, and then my roommate and I hear a popping noise, followed by the PSP shutting down. Then a nice burning smell came from it, at which point I put it by the window so I wouldn't set off a fire alarm. So I'm sitting here looking at it, and it won't turn on. I've taken the battery out, cleaned the battery connections and everything. The charging light won't come on when it's plugged in and the whole system is just unresponsive.

So uh... Does anyone know if my PSP just blew up or something?

[Wintermute]

Since this is a recent PSP topic, I figured I could post here about a problem I'm having.

I have an original fatty PSP, and it's been sitting in a drawer for about a year. I lost my charger, so I bought a new one and an 8 gb memory stick as I plan on hacking it.

So when I go and plug in my psp, since it's obviously dead. It charges for about 5 minutes, and then my roommate and I hear a popping noise, followed by the PSP shutting down. Then a nice burning smell came from it, at which point I put it by the window so I wouldn't set off a fire alarm. So I'm sitting here looking at it, and it won't turn on. I've taken the battery out, cleaned the battery connections and everything. The charging light won't come on when it's plugged in and the whole system is just unresponsive.

So uh... Does anyone know if my PSP just blew up or something?

Popping noises in electronics usually means blown diodes which likely means your PSP's motherboard has sploded a bit and is pretty much a brick or paperweight. Only way to be 100% sure is to open it up though.

That said you can buy enough spares to build a new PSP from scratch on eBay.

[Rescue]

Figured this seems like a good spot to ask a few questions. Is there another emulator out for genesis games besides DGEN? I can’t seem to get this one working. Whenever I fire it up it just goes to a black screen and then powers down about 10 seconds later. I have no problem with any of the other ones I installed. Also I know that PSP games need to be in ISO or CSO form to play. I’ve come across a few that are in RAR format and I’m not sure how to get them running. Any help would be great, thanks.

[Julian]

Figured this seems like a good spot to ask a few questions. Is there another emulator out for genesis games besides DGEN? I can’t seem to get this one working. Whenever I fire it up it just goes to a black screen and then powers down about 10 seconds later. I have no problem with any of the other ones I installed. Also I know that PSP games need to be in ISO or CSO form to play. I’ve come across a few that are in RAR format and I’m not sure how to get them running. Any help would be great, thanks.

Picodrive, Genesis/MegaDrive/Sega CD/Mega CD emulator, flawless.

[Zragnarok]

I’ve come across a few that are in RAR format and I’m not sure how to get them running. Any help would be great, thanks.

rar is a compressed format. Use WINRAR to uncompress them, should work better that way

[toonces]

Your problem mostlikely was, you pressed R button. YOu needed to press L button while booting.

Rbutton is for the Firmware Recovery Menu (Default)

Lbutton is for the "Despertar del Cementerio". Which is what you use with Pandora Batteries.

Down is for Time Machine.


Again this is are the usual default set up by programs. but grats you got it working ^^.

[Rescue]

Thanks for the quick replies, I’ll give those a shot.

[hagun]

I just bought a new PSP. What are all the tools I would need? So far I would need a Pandora battery. I have read that I would need an extra PSP. Is this true? I am not gonna be able to afford another Psp

[Wintermute]

I just bought a new PSP. What are all the tools I would need? So far I would need a Pandora battery. I have read that I would need an extra PSP. Is this true? I am not gonna be able to afford another Psp

Need to find what Firmware it came packaged with first which would indicate the Motehrboard it has.

If it's a new one that came with 4.01 or higher likelyhood it's the mobo that can't be hacked yet.

For slims you need a modded battery so you're looking at getting and modding an old Phat battery or buying a Tool battery to run it in service mode since the new Slim batteries can't be hard-modded.

Then you need a memory card with the files needed to install the CFW.

You only need another PSP if you're going to soft-mod a battery in which case you need a PSP with CFW on it already.

[Arnwulf]

I just hacked my PSP this past weekend. I was suprised at how easy it was, now I've got a ton of NES and SNES roms, plus have been playing some PSone games. It's crazy how big the hacking community is for the psp.

[hagun]

When I bought the Psp, I never thought that I would mod it so I upgraded it to the latest firmewire which at the time was 5.0 I believe. So I guess I am stuck until someone creates a hack? =/

[Arnwulf]

I had 5.02 when I hacked mine, had zero issues, except for the fact that I had to do the actual mod blind (i.e. no menu popped up when in service mode). Which is no biggie since you only have to hit 2 buttons.

[Jefe]

When installing CFW using the Pandora/MMS combo can you shoot straight to the latest Firmware/CFW version or do you need to start at the bottom rung and run through all the updates?

Yes, you can update straight to the latest, just replace the appropriate .PBP

When I bought the Psp, I never thought that I would mod it so I upgraded it to the latest firmewire which at the time was 5.0 I believe. So I guess I am stuck until someone creates a hack? =/

No. He asked you which OFW came w/ your PSP, that will reveal if indeed is hackable or not. In short if your PSP came w/ 4.01 > or is one of the 3000 series you're SOL for now.

[hagun]

I had 5.02 when I hacked mine, had zero issues, except for the fact that I had to do the actual mod blind (i.e. no menu popped up when in service mode). Which is no biggie since you only have to hit 2 buttons.

I hope this will be the case for me. I'll be giving that pandora battery a shot.

[Priran]

updating to a newer firmware won't make your PSP unhackable with the pandora method, it's just that the firmware it shipped with is a decent indicator of whether or not yours was manufactured before or after they started using TA-88v3 motherboards.

[hagun]

updating to a newer firmware won't make your PSP unhackable with the pandora method, it's just that the firmware it shipped with is a decent indicator of whether or not yours was manufactured before or after they started using TA-88v3 motherboards.

I got my PSP I think in November 2008. I just came home and checked to find that the current firmwire is 5.02. Now, I am not totally sure what firmwire came with it when I purchased it two months ago. Maybe you PSP savvy types can make an educated guess? But it seems atm like someone said, I am SOL for now.

Generally, how long those it take PSP enthusiast to hack/be able to mod PSP so you can get all these other third party goodies? I am really reluctant to try and mod my PSP considering it cost me a hefty amount of money.