How do I flash PSP with custom firmware?

**FruitRocks14** · 03-24-2010

Yea... I just bought one of those $100 PSP's at GameStop today, and wondered how I could flash it. I only found how you could flash 5.00 firmwares, NOT 5.01 firmware. Do you follow the same procedure with the 5.01? Can I do it without buying a pandora battery because it is the "phat" version?

**bob** · 03-24-2010

no you can not, you need a pandora battery in order to flash custom firmware

**ASSEMbler** · 03-24-2010

google.

**Vosse** · 03-24-2010

You can Flash Custom Firmware if your Psp has very older versions of Firmware such as 1.50/2.00.

Others you need to make a pandora's Battery Which i've heard isn't terribly hard to do.

I wouldn't really know because I've had my PSP Homebrew enabled since early 1.00/1.50 Days

**alecjahn** · 03-24-2010

Battery, magic memory stick, and a high five.

**Barc0de** · 03-24-2010

find your local pirate,

approach,

discuss,

pay,

get,

never talk about it again

**skavenger216** · 03-25-2010

Correct about the pandora battery not being to hard to make , all you do is take a regular psp battery and remove one of the pins, iirc.

**alecjahn** · 03-25-2010

Originally Posted by skavenger216

Correct about the pandora battery not being to hard to make , all you do is take a regular psp battery and remove one of the pins, iirc.

Yeah but if someone is asking for a mod-tutorial handout on this forum of all places, they probably would have some trouble with that.

**Vosse** · 03-26-2010

Originally Posted by alecjahn

Yeah but if someone is asking for a mod-tutorial handout on this forum of all places, they probably would have some trouble with that.

Yeah it's easy to google though so they shouldn't have a problem. It's not like back 5 years ago and only like 2/3 sites had information about running homebrew hah.

**Hellcat** · 03-26-2010

You don't even need a Pandora if the FW is still 5.03 or bellow.

And yah, pretty much every site even closely dealing with the PSP has a zillion guides on how to do it....

**Twimfy** · 03-26-2010

You need to be really careful when messing with the battery. I made a Pandora when I was in Korea with a heated kitchen knife (It was all I had and I was desperate to play Crisis core) and I nearly took my arm off.

I can't remember the details but if you bridge the pin you are trying to disconnect with another it goes bang.

Also take care when opening the battery case, there is a thin ribbon cable between the board and the battery which can easily break.

Best of luck to you, once you've skipped through a few articles you'll have no trouble at all. Everything after the Pandora bit is a piece of cake and many of the CFW's have so many failsafes and recovery options it's hard to brick a PSP these days.

**alecjahn** · 03-26-2010

Originally Posted by Hellcat

You don't even need a Pandora if the FW is still 5.03 or bellow.

O RLY?

Shows how far you get out of the loop once your system is already modded.

**Hellcat** · 03-26-2010

I can only highly advise against hardmodding a battery!
Find someone close to you with an alrealy modded/CFW'ed PSP and patch the battery by SW means, there are tons of tools for that and also setting up the required memstick setup you also need.

Originally Posted by alecjahn

O RLY?

Shows how far you get out of the loop once your system is already modded.

Hehee, yah.
On 5.03 you can use a "homebrew enabler" and (given the PSP in question is flashable - newer ones brick when trying it) you can then run a tool to install a permanent CFW.

It's all pretty straight forward and, like said, there's an uncountable ammount of guides and tuts for it.

**oli_lar** · 03-27-2010

You can get pandora battery & magic mem stick packs off Amazon marketplace - mine cost me £7 iirc.

**Vosse** · 03-28-2010

Originally Posted by alecjahn

O RLY?

Shows how far you get out of the loop once your system is already modded.

hah that's so true.

I was heavily involved in 1.50 days and when downgrading from 2.00+ First came around and remained active creating Icon Sets for Applications and PS1 games.

After around the time CFW 3.40 came out I just stopped caring haha..

Now I glance once in a while and things have changed a bit.

Not much stuff in the way of apps come out anymore , most developers just complain about how much the community sucks and act like children by making things, followed by bragging about it , then not releasing it.