Pandora's battery achieves holy grail of PSP hacking

Finally we can buy eBay'd PSP bricks. Quick before they realize they worth something again.

blasphemer

Heh.. thats funny, Ive done the same with my 2 psp's..

I bought one (1.5) and then won one.. (2.0)

Kept upgrading the 2.0 one but put OE on my homebrew..

And too, my buttons are funny on the OE one..

You don't know the PSP at all do you? Nowadays we run hybrid firmware. Like 3.52 is sonys, we have 3.52M3-4 or something like that. It has both the effects of 1.5 and 3.52. Also, we have been able to run games at 333mhz for over a year I believe.

Custom firmware unlocked 333mhz a long time ago. And there are many different options to make games think you are using the newest official firmware.

Yikes.. thats pretty cool. Ive been out of the psp scene since my unit was stolen 1.5 years ago... i might (might) get the slim.

My original PSP, a 2.71, was stolen from me out of my (Locked) car back in April of last year, got a 2.00 around July or something. Then picked up a official around August. But now thats pointless with all the custom firmware, I don't need a extra PSP.

Oh and just a commment, yeah I've had 3 PSP, but I've gone through 3 DS, and now on a DS lite, so yeah... >_> Handhelds, I buy them.

Maybe, maybe not. Depends on the hardware changes they made and if the way the PSP boots is changed. They probably will have a new battery for this type of thing for the slim, or maybe not. We don't know. And wont till it comes out in Europe in 2 weeks.

It's been said that old PSP batteries fit into the PSP Slim, so I'm guessing that's a yes.

Just because its fits doesn't mean the way it boots will be the same. I believe all this does to the battery is change its serial to 0xFFFFFFFFF or something like that which causes it to boot into a special mode. So if they change it on the slim, then it wouldn't work.

There really isn't any back and forth stuff... I mean, it runs fine normally. We ourselves choose to use the PSP in ways sony didn't intend. Just like I use a M3 simply on the DS to run emulators and stuff on there. Really nothing back and forth.

PSP is region free. You can play any game anywhere. Only thing that won't work is UMD movies... but... who buys those?

I was referring to UMD Movies actually... *I* buy them. And they're a lot more useful with the new slim model since it has video out.

If by "breath new life into" you mean "kill off," then yes. Congratulations, by the way. I'm sure the hard-working developers who work on these games understand that you'd rather steal their software than pay for it, or - better yet - play Super Mario World instead.

You're not the Pirates of the Caribbean - you're not holy avengers standing up against some evil multinational corporation. You're cheap-ass bastards who'd rather have something for nothing, and are quite content to have game prices skyrocket for the rest of us.

Actually, that's somewhat of a kneejerk reaction. People like you are in the minority and probably don't even make a dent in the overall sales. Perhaps that's where this ludicrous "underdog" mentality comes from. Rebellion against any form of business "authority" figure is "cool," apparently, even when it's a business whose primary goal is to bring you entertainment.

I've yet to meet a single person who uses a downgraded PSP for homebrew games, as opposed to running emulators and playing pirated copies of games. And hey, you're more than welcome to it. There are quicker ways to void your warranty (inserting the device in a non-compatible orifice, for example), but it takes all kinds.

Oh V1L3, how silly of you.
I use my PSP currently for a glorified Mp3 player, yeah, sometimes I play games, like I've gone back to Lumines 2 and Tales of Eternia multiple times, but I in no way pirate games and what not. I mean, just because the few who do like to brag, doesn't mean that everyone does. I'm sure out of the like, 5% or less of PSP's that can do homebrew, less then 20% of the people have ever pirated a ISO. I've met another person who has access to homebrew before and he has never done that.
Only times I used ISO's was to try demos of games that were only released to few people.

A miserable pile of secrets!