@TheKing : Screenies of your homebrew?

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Added on February 12, 2010, 5:44 pmAs for the "security plugin", yes, there are some plugins out there. You can either flash it to your flash 0, or leave it in your stick. But really, if your PSP is a Pandora capable one, then a Pandora's Battery would be able to break it dead easily. Put it this way, the plugin wouldn't even load.

This post has been edited by Playboy21: Feb 12 2010, 05:44 PM

It wouldn't harm your stick. Just plug in the AC and the it won't run out of battery

@ laowai : Japanese PSPs come with O as the default select button. US ones come with X. (Just an example). Nothing complicated about this. A simple button swap in recovery mode would do the trick. Or a button remap (search for button mapping homebrew apps) would do just fine.

About the MP_ROOT folder, its for firmwares below 2.71 or 2.80 (Can't recall right). Sony then came up with the VIDEO method where you'd just have to dump the video file into it. No need for complicated file renaming (M4VXXXXX, or MAQXXXXX - If i recall right [Where X is any number]), and directory placement.

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Added on May 19, 2010, 7:44 pmOf course legit sticks are better than fake ones. Fake ones may seem solid, fast, and whatever you might want to say, but when it comes to reliability, I'd give it a zero. Random save game corrupts, sudden removal of data, and boot up issues. No problems at all with my original sticks.

This post has been edited by Playboy21: May 19 2010, 07:44 PM

Yeah man, good to see you

Well yeah.. been away for a few reasons. Lacus might know But I'm gonna start working on a homebrew project once my school mid-term examinations are over Most probably a simple one.

I wouldn't recommend one to mess with the PSP's NAND unless he/she knows what you're doing.

@presa1200 : You're right, but messing with the NAND can be risky.

An ordinary brick can be recovered by using a Pandora's Battery. This applies for ALL 1000 models, and some (Pandora capable mobo's) slims only. Some bricks cannot be recovered. Just for your information, the Pandora's Battery boots the PSP into service mode, instead of the PSP's internal Flash 0 on start up, and thus allows the end user to perform various activities like firmware installation and such on a bricked model.

When your PSP is bricked, your flash 0 would be messed up, and thus your PSP wouldn't be able to boot into the XMB as the flash 0 on-boot 'check' wouldn't pass. Using the Pandora's Battery, this can be bypassed.

^ Just fyi

Yeap, or you can just use Hellcat's Reflasher. Both will lead you to the same end result. Just two different installation methods
Recovery Flasher 5.50GEN-D3

The advantage of using Hellcat's Reflasher is that :

1) It has a LOT of safety checks before the installation begins, and thus the chances of you bricking is very low. It checks for nearly everything.
2) Can be used on any custom firmware.
3) No need for step-by-step updates like 1.50 --> 3.40 OE-A --> 3.52m33-4 --> 4.01M33 etc
4) Hellcat can be easily contacted, and so questions can be asked and he'll solve it (He's a friend of mine. Cyber friend la )

What PSP model? And what firmware do you have on it?