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PSP HomeBrew Help for a Noobie

PostPosted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 5:19 am
by StarsFan4Life
Good morning,

I was hoping you could help me out with my PSP. I have a regular PSP that I have had for about a year now (purchased brand new). I had heard about the PSP homebrew system, but never looked into it. I just updated the firmware lastnight to Sony's latest firmware (PSP firmware 4.00/4.01 ) and then discovered what the HomeBrew can do (allow me to backup my games to files and play them directly on my PSP through my memory stick (2gb). HELP! How can I do this? Can you also "download" games and play them too? What else can you do?

Any help on how to get started and what I would need to do would be greatly appreciated!

PostPosted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 6:37 am
by Terdinglage
Unfortunately, now that you've updated to 4.0, you can't downgrade unless you have a friend with a modded PSP or version 1.5 PSP.

If that is the case, then follow this tutorial to downgrade your PSP:

http://www.pspbrew.com/forum/viewtopic. ... 08&start=0

Otherwise, you will need to buy a magic battery or pandoras battery, you can probably get them from eBay, but I'm not sure.

PostPosted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 7:06 am
by StarsFan4Life
Terdinglage wrote:Unfortunately, now that you've updated to 4.0, you can't downgrade unless you have a friend with a modded PSP or version 1.5 PSP.

If that is the case, then follow this tutorial to downgrade your PSP:

http://www.pspbrew.com/forum/viewtopic. ... 08&start=0

Otherwise, you will need to buy a magic battery or pandoras battery, you can probably get them from eBay, but I'm not sure.


Is there a way I can downgrade the PSP firmware then?

PostPosted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 7:54 am
by ace
Yes there is a way, if you would've actually read his post then you would've known that. All you need is a pandora's battery. You can make one using another modded PSP, you can hardmod one, or you can buy one. Try visiting that link then asking your questions ;)

Once you have custom firmware on your psp then you can play games and homebrew and all that good stuff that you normally couldn't do. Pretty much run custom code on your psp that wasn't made by Sony.

PostPosted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 8:24 am
by roxfox64
ace_012 wrote:Yes there is a way, if you would've actually read his post then you would've known that. All you need is a pandora's battery. You can make one using another modded PSP, you can hardmod one, or you can buy one. Try visiting that link then asking your questions ;)


Watch your grammar Ace ;)

He means you can buy a modded battery of which to downgrade/flash your firmware with.

PostPosted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 10:32 am
by StarsFan4Life
How much are these Pandora batteries generally?

PostPosted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 9:34 pm
by roxfox64
$10 - $30 :)

PostPosted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 7:36 am
by ace
Whoa what a second, where did my post go? Someone f**king deleted my post...

Anyways, I know someone around here usually posts a link to a $10.50 battery that has free shipping or something. Can't remember who though...

PostPosted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 6:28 pm
by Equ1ox
if its 10.50 then it might be a fake ive heard of some stuff about fake batteries floating around to brick psps. so be careful.

but i also havnt been around here in a while either so yea.

or you could try the Datel which is what i think hes talking about.

PostPosted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 6:32 pm
by amaric
nah the one ace is talking bout is alrite other people have bought it and it worked...but who did post it...i thought it was roxfox

PostPosted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 6:37 pm
by Equ1ox
i dunno but he might, cause i havnt been here in a while. ive been trying to buff up on my psp know how

PostPosted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 7:00 pm
by Equ1ox
NVMD it was Brentbizzle that i just read a post and he posted it.

PostPosted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 12:15 am
by roxfox64
amaric wrote:nah the one ace is talking bout is alrite other people have bought it and it worked...but who did post it...i thought it was roxfox


I used to. But, I forgot the link :P

PostPosted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 5:45 am
by Equ1ox
God i hate not being around i missed so much. :?