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#1 05/01/08 4:14am

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Need info about CFW

I just bought the starwars Special edition Psp which has 3.71 firmware or something like that, I want to get custom firmware But i hear I need a pandora's battery. How do i make a pandora's battery or buy or what.... any help is appricated.


Oh yeah and is CFW even worth it?


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#2 05/01/08 11:17am

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Re: Need info about CFW

Custom firmware is definitely worth the time (or money) you spend to get a Pandora's Battery. Do you know a friend with a PSP that already has custom firmware? If you don't, you can buy a Datel MAX Tool battery from places like WalMart, it works just like Pandora's Battery.


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#3 05/01/08 3:31pm

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Re: Need info about CFW

No dont buy it.  just go with cutting the pin. do it on a phat psps baterry and use that. then do the magic mem stick.

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#4 05/01/08 4:13pm

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master498 wrote:

No dont buy it.  just go with cutting the pin. do it on a phat psps baterry and use that. then do the magic mem stick.

There is a big chance of screwing up your battery or exploding it if you try to cut the pin.
If this guy has any soldering skills then he should do it.
I bought a Tool battery myself and it works very good.
And also, you need a memory stick PRO duo to put some files on.
To do this very easly use a program named TOTALNewbi easyInstaller. It does the memorystick part for you automatically. You can find that program on www.dl.qj.net.
And of course, welcome to our forums!

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#5 05/01/08 5:28pm

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Re: Need info about CFW

I agree with Rollinroll. The process of cutting the pin is very dangerous, your hands must not shake at all or you will get a broken battery or you will have to live without your hands for the rest of your life.

But when you do actually get a Pandora's Battery from somewhere, the rest of the custom firmware process is very easy. You just need to have a memory stick big enough to hold all the files, and it also needs to be an authentic Memory Stick PRO Duo.


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#6 05/01/08 6:04pm

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Re: Need info about CFW

Also, fake memory sticks won't work.

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#7 05/01/08 8:20pm

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Re: Need info about CFW

rollinroll wrote:

Also, fake memory sticks won't work.

I wrote:

and it also needs to be an authentic Memory Stick PRO Duo.

Lulz.

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#8 05/01/08 10:01pm

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hehe lol
master you really think its easy? cutting and soldering psp stuff in general is quite hard.  And if you never did any soldering before it would just endup in a fiasco.


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#9 05/01/08 11:36pm

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no need for soldering. u just gotta find a way to lift pin 5 up. lol its quite tiny but i have a spare battery.  anyways your not rly supposed to try to re-solder the pin tongue  im about to cut the pin. it cant explode (most likely not too) if u just remove the pin anyways. heh lol if it does ill throw it in the snow.  im not the least bit scared.

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#10 05/01/08 11:40pm

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Well, tell us if it worked llamaboy (lol i like to call you that)

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#11 06/01/08 1:56am

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:€| heh i dont like that name lol.  well so far i was trying to get the battery cover off and slipped.  i accidently cut my finger with my pocket knife neutral  just gotta get the damn cover off lol.  btw if i rember, wen i try cutting the pin (not for like a week yet)  ill take a pic.  i wanna MOD my psp, not use some orange piece of sh*t!

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#12 06/01/08 2:06am

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Well... Ok, it's alright if you want to do it the hard way.

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#13 06/01/08 2:32am

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its easy... ok its not that hard.  if i fail ill make u a website, rollinroll. with a free TLD  eventually(ok maybe not that part).   the ads on my site pay for my site lul.

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#14 06/01/08 6:21am

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Re: Need info about CFW

Thanks for the info, I will buy a max tool battery, I have a one gig pro duo stick, So its the same as a pandora battery or do i need software to make it one. and what does the battery do? does it downgrade to 1.50?


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#15 06/01/08 9:22am

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Yeah the battery is the same as Pandora's Battery. And you can't downgrade with it to 1.50, because your PSP is a Slim, and Slim has a new screen which doesn't currently support 1.5 kernel. It gets directly updated to the latest custom firmware. You could ask Duelord, I think he has hacked his Slim.


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#16 06/01/08 12:23pm

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Re: Need info about CFW

Yeah you have a tool battery and to make the memorystick files you download the program named TOTALNewbi easyInstaller then you just follow the instructuins in the program and it does everything for you. Oh, and the program requires widnows XP, Vista won't work so i had to use Vmware lol.

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#17 06/01/08 12:33pm

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But if you have Vista you can just do all the stuff manually, download the files manually and put them on the MS manually.


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#18 06/01/08 1:34pm

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Re: Need info about CFW

JaXeRiR wrote:

But if you have Vista you can just do all the stuff manually, download the files manually and put them on the MS manually.

No, you can't.
The program writes to some sector things on the memorystick or something like that.

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#19 06/01/08 3:41pm

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Re: Need info about CFW

ok  buy the orange waste of money.

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#20 06/01/08 5:43pm

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Re: Need info about CFW

rollinroll wrote:

JaXeRiR wrote:

But if you have Vista you can just do all the stuff manually, download the files manually and put them on the MS manually.

No, you can't.
The program writes to some sector things on the memorystick or something like that.

You might want to check this thread out.

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#21 06/01/08 8:05pm

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Re: Need info about CFW

But when i do this will i still be able to use my Mem stick once i have finished all of this or will i need a new one?


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#22 06/01/08 8:36pm

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Re: Need info about CFW

You can still use your memstick, but remember you could ask friends of yours first if they wanted an upgraded psp.

The procedure is  exactly the same with both types of psps.

And if you are not doing anykind of upgrading  anymore, then you can just format your memstick, then use it normally like you did before.

just remember, this is important! Never try to downgrade your psp to a firmware below 3.6O. If you do that  then you  have a brick.
pspslim 200x compatible cfirmware is this one 3.71M33/2/3/4


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#23 06/01/08 8:46pm

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Re: Need info about CFW

duelord wrote:

pspslim 200x compatible cfirmware is this one 3.71M33/2/3/4

None of my friends have a working psp, and im downloading this thingy from http://www.pspmod.com/forums/firmware/2 … vista.html

Because i have vista.....

I think this puts all the stuff i need.....

The only place i can find a tool battery is on the web, I called my local gamestop and they only have normal batterys, I would just buy one and hardmod it but there 50 bucks......


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#24 06/01/08 9:53pm

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i thought u could downgrade a slim with the 1.5 eboot file.  and if it bricks, cant u just unbrick it?

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#25 06/01/08 11:15pm

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no you cant downgrade  the psp slim to 1.50,as the psp slim doesnt support 1.5O Kernel


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