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Holy f'in *****. That made my day.

hmm

well does it make pandoras battery like ta-085v1.

LoL @ $ony...again!

Maybe the reason they made it pandora compatible is because noone wants to buy a PSP to play just the mostly crappy PSP titles. They want more options when it comes to games.

Actually...

According to review sites like metacritic/gamerankings/gamelemon/ign, PSPs library is rated higher than DSs. If you average/total up all the game score, DS has far more crappy games and far less high quality ones than PSP

jury still out

I'd wait until some more parties confirm Pandora compatability. Makes ZERO sense Sony would backtrack from 88 v3 and reopen the Pandora loophole. Not saying this isn't great news, I hope it's true!

maybe not

well it could have been problems on there side with not knowing how they load there own ipl costing them money in returns returning new ones instead of fixed ones.

An interesting thought

This could be a design based off of an older model in an attempt to test a different type of security against the homebrew community.

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HAHA oh come off it. Having a million *****ty games on the DS but 10 or so excellent games is a FAR better situation than having a handful of *****ty games and even fewer excellent games like the PSP. I own both and play the PSP more but come off it. That's one spazzy, biased way of looking at it! And actually it doesn't. Read Metacritic again and tell me how many DS games are above 90% then how many PSP ones are. Go on. OP does have a point too. If not for homebrew I would never have bought a PSP. The commercial games are mostly utter rubbish (cept N+, GTA VCS, MHF2).

if thats the case...

I want to mess up my own PSP and send it in for warranty to get one of those since according to your theory they couldn't load their own ipl.

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I think its more possible that Sony had no idea that they would "break" pandora with their other mobo. Then for whatever reason they needed to do this one and it fixed it again. I find it hard to believe that they would be "experimenting" with different mobo's. It costs too much money. At this point they gotta stick with what works. It is possible that they dont have a pandora system either for fixing bricked ones. I guess someone could try to brick theirs, send it in and see what happens. This gives more hope for the new PSP-3000 then. Has anyone tried to run pandora on one of the samples that are running around yet???

is that a fan

is that a fan

No

it's obviously a liquid cooling system. My last 3 PSPs melted because they didn't have a fan and what-not.

gave up

i think sony just finally gave up on us here recently there hasnt been no new fw maybe cause of the 3000's comming out but i think they just gave up!!!

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Disagree.

***** u

***** u psp updates full of *****

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The battery works fine with all known revisions. It's the memory stick software and m33 that are broken (the IPL exploit is closed somehow) on the newer ones.

Conspiracy theory???

since they know we all want our systems hacked and the key ingredients in hacking was time.......They seem to have found their secret weapon against Pandora Madness.. They switch motherboard to drive attention away from it......and release something hackable on purpose.....I love Sony but I know they never turned a deaf ear on people hacking their system.....good businessman plan for the future and how their market changes=Sony.... though it's costly to make a new Mobo, think of the reasoning.... to fool others, it's definitely worth the cost in Sony's view of stopping pirating on their system......and that is perfectly fair and legit, but we the consumers also have our own way of how we want our PSP to shine So putting out new hackable Mobo to bring back people's attention to "FREE HACKING" again and not worry bout the nonhackable Mobo......then people will forget bout it cause they can easily hack present psp and won't bother to spend TIME on trying to hack it........you lazy bums,//////// this is the KEY POINT///////, THEY DON'T WANT TO GIVE PEOPLE THE TIME NEEDED TO LEARN HOW TO HACK IT, therefore replacing it with something they can already hack to get your gullible minds off the nonhackable Mobo EXAMPLE: Sony: flashes a flashcard with word on it for a split second....cr0hkie Sony: hands you cookie, this is on the house, it's free You: "smilies sweetly" at Sony, turns around, swallows cookie........coooookkkkkiiieeee.......goooooddd......me like cookie Sony: you forgot to answer us what word was on the flash card? You: eyes and mouth wide open "smiles while drooling" says COOoKIE if this happens, the Mobo stays unhacked as they are quickly rushing out new Mobo to replace the unhacked one......trying to get TA-090 out of as many people's hand as possible...............who knows they might even do a recall to get back the old Mobo, but in secret they are taking it and further improving on the nonhackable Mobo and maybe already got new revisions for it. And ULTIMATELY making sure to keep it PANDORA LOCK....who knows it might come out 4 the PSP-3000 or later models..... did that ring a bell???? anyways excuse my curious mind and WALL0TEXT...stay tune for next episode of "Why your ***** will shrink"

one flaw in the WALL

change TA-090 to TA-088 then everything will make sense right under the example of Sony N you. God Dammit QJ, would it kill you to add an edit button on

is it for PSP-3000

I came to about this new mobo yesterday but its for referring for PSP-3000. after reading this i had a check on that site again but its down.... but i m posting the cache page of that and the image url http://www.tehskeen.com/gfx/200809/psp3000_motherrboard.jpg http://209.85.175.104/search?q=cache:H6xgdnr4rwMJ:www.tehskeen.com/modules.php%3Fname%3DNews%26file%3Dshowarticle%26threadid%3D8932+Thanks+to+robertfisk+for+the+photo+PSP&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=2&gl=in http://209.85.175.104/search?q=cache:LHOa0oVmaigJ:www.tehskeen.com/forums/showthread.php%3Fgoto%3Dnewpost%26threadid%3D8932+Thanks+to+robertfisk+for+the+photo+PSP&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=in Google search result:- http://www.google.co.in/search?q=Thanks+to+robertfisk+for+the+photo+PSP&btnG=Search&hl=en&rlz=1C1CHMG_enIN291&sa=2

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They had to have known it was pandorable because there is no way they dont have at least one copy of a pandora's battery + memsitck in their labs or w/e/.

maybe it was an accident

i wonder if sony didnt mean to make the t-0833 v3 pandora proof ?

ya

i thought that as well...

/sarcasm

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I thought I said that already..... But I think thats the most likely. They accidentally made it pandora proof. They thought they knew what did it and made a new version of mobo. It turns out its NOT pandora proof, but they already spent the money to change the tooling. So there was no point in trying to go back to the old one. Now, they may be trying to figure out WHY the other mobo broke pandora, so they could add it again in the new one. But, who really knows? I just want to know if pandora works on the psp 3000!!!

yeah

i like houaruto's analysis but i dont think its that complicated. maybe the unpandorable motherboard was created to be unpandorable, maybe not. maybe it was done to appease someone temporarily (devs) maybe not. maybe it was done temporarily at an increase in production costs just to strike a blow to the homebrew community. im sure they know that their customer base arent all hackers, theyre mostly CASUAL gamers. they really dont want to mess with a lot of hacking and weird installs and foreign languages. now those casual gamers will hear through the grapevine that the psp's arent not ALL hackable, and will be too lazy to worry about whether or not they are getting the "right machine". these are the types of gamers sony wants, ones who will play ball so to speak. so the answer was simply to muddy the wates a little bit, make it a bit more murky. but it cost them a little more for a while so now theyre going with this shiny new (cheaper and pondorizeable) model. yeah.

strike

i will not buy the 3000 if it is unpandorable (even with the cool new screen) that is the whole idea of getting a psp not to play their *****ty ass games but to play the actuall interesting homebrew games and for i.. i use the psp as like a tester i make c++ games and run it on the psp and i think that there are more "hackers" in the psp community rather than just casual gamers. anybody in the right mind would not buy a psp based on the games that are put out on it

disagree

i know a TON of people who got psp's but never used them until i installed cfw for them.

agreed

Sony actually needs pandora to unbrick their own bricked units, or repair ones that are sent in. Remember that Sony actually invented pandora battery's just ones that installed ofw instead of cfw.

¤.O

What the heck have you been smoking..?

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You seem to forget that Sony was the one who originally invented Pandora's Battery and the Magic MS; it just had Sony's files which installed OFW. So of course they have Pandoras and MMSs in their so-called 'labs', but they work on any mobo since the TA-088 V3 works with Sony's MMS'. But of course, all the respect goes to Team C+D for inventing how to use this thing to downgrade/install CFW.

Uh

That means that you agree with him, he just said that an unpandorable PSP is not worth the money..

i dont think so

sony can use pandora on ta-088v3 to unbrick they have the means to digitally sign the IPL's. pandora works on all PSP's. its the memory stick that doesnt. on so called "pandora proof" boards the problem is our IPL's on the magic memsticks are not digitally sign. the ta-090 in my opinion is just a slap together board of old parts before they stop production of the 2000 series boards

Smoking?

Probably cookies. :D

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dont know why people would be down rating you. you know more than all of us. from my memory you helped alot on reconstruction of IDStorage discussion respect from here anyway cory1492 my first thought was (everyone was saying pandora work) that they changed the prom battery trigger (rather than FF FF FF FF) hope you guys work it out for us mortals again

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(everyone was saying pandora doesnt work) i assumed they ment the batt and thought (as above)

its way worth it

i play PSP only slightly more than DS even though i can play pirated isos i dont (other than niche titles that will never reach our shores (australia)) i got access to heaps of cool applications and can download more. homebrew shouldnt be sole reason for buying PSP, just the cherry on top