Tutorial: How to unbrick your PSP via Pandora Battery

Posted Aug 24, 2007 at 12:07AM by QJ Staff Listed in: How-To Tags: Custom Firmware, FreePlay, memory stick, Noobz, SEC

We know you're all still dazzled with the monumental development from homebrew heroes (and now PSP unit saviors) Noobz, Team C+D, and the rest of the minds behind the Prometheus project and Pandora Battery unbricker for PSP. The whole process is simple enough, and the good developers got all bases covered, even instructions on installation.

However, as with any community, it's expected that a flock of total beginners are bound to hear about this. It's not hard to imagine how difficult it'll be for them to understand even some of the simpler things (at least for all of us) homebrew-related mentioned in the process. Of course we just can't let them try to figure things out on their own, it's a good thing there are guys like Freeplay who are willing to extend a helping hand to those who need assistance.

What we have here is a very detailed step-by-step procedure aimed at PSP newbies. Freeplay's got everthing down pat, every single action you need to create a jigstick battery, a magic memory stick, and the actual unbricking process. What's really great about this guide, is it's from someone who created the tutorial on the same time he's doing the whole process himself. It's plucked right from the heart of the PSP community.

Thanks to Spikertk for sending this in!

Step 1: Extract the .ZIP file. Download it here.
Step 2: Insert the memory stick that you want to turn into a "magic memory stick." Back up the contents of the stick to your computer.
Step 3: Use the built-in format tool (in the PSP System Settings menu) to reformat your memory stick.
Step 4: Connect your PSP in USB mode.
Step 5: Open a command prompt (Start -> Run -> cmd)
Step 6: In the command prompt, switch into the 'mspformat' folder you extracted in step 1... wherever you put it.
Step 7: Type "mspformat X" where X is the drive of your PSP. Do not include the colon. For example, my PSP is connected at O:, so I type "mspformat O".

You should see a prompt like this:

>>> C:psppandoramspformat>mspformat.exe O
>>> You are about to format the drive O.
>>> All data will be lost. Do you want to continue? [Y]

Type 'y'.

>>> y

and you should see

>>> Drive succesfully formatted, and partition moved.

Step 8: Disconnect from USB mode, then remove and re-insert your memory stick. Reconnect in USB mode.
Step 9: On your memory stick, make sure that you have folders named GAME and GAME150 in a folder named PSP. If you don't have them, make them.
Step 10: Copy the two folders from 'battery' into GAME (for 1.50) or GAME150 (for custom firmware). The folders should be named "pandora_battery" and "pandora_battery%", so they should be PSPGAMEpandora_battery and PSPGAMEpandora_battery% (or PSPGAME150pandora_battery and PSPGAME150pandora_battery%).
Step 11: Disconnect from USB mode, insert the battery you wish to use as your unbricker, and run "Pandora's Battery Creator" from the Memory Stick section of the GAME menu.
Step 12: ***OPTIONAL - SEE NOTE *** Press Triangle to back up the contents of your battery's flash into a file on you memory stick. The program will automatically exit. Run "Pandora's Battery Creator" one more time. *Note:* This step is REQUIRED if you want to make this a normal battery again; otherwise it's optional.
Step 13: Press X to turn your battery into an unbricking battery (a Service Mode battery). The program will automatically exit.
Step 14: Connect in USB mode.
Step 15: Copy the Firmware 1.50 update file onto the root of your memory stick; it should be the same place as your "PSP" folder. Rename it to "UPDATE.PBP".
Step 16: The extracted folder "installer" contains two folders. Copy both of these into the same place you copied "pandora_battery".
Step 17: Disconnect from USB mode and run "Pandora's Battery Firm. Installer" from the Memory Stick section of the GAME menu.
Step 18: Press X to unpack the 1.50 firmware files into their proper place on your memory stick. The program will automatically exit. If this step fails, go back into USB mode and rename "UPDATE.PBP" to just "UPDATE", then try again.
Step 19: Connect in USB mode. Look in the root of your memory stick (where you have the PSP folder and the UPDATE.PBP file). There should be a file named "msipl.bin".
Step 20: Copy "msipl.bin" into the folder called "msinst" that was extracted from the ZIP file.
Step 21: In the Command Prompt, switch into the "msinst" folder... wherever you put it.
Step 22: Type "msinst X msipl.bin" where X is the drive of your PSP. Do not include the colon. For example, my PSP is connected at O:, so I type "msinst O msipl.bin".

You should see a prompt like this. I guarantee that your stuff will be slightly different; it depends on how your computer is set up, what sort of memory stick you have, and so on. As long as you get the "Are You Sure? [Y]" prompt, you know that the msipl.bin file is OK.

>>> C:psppandoramsinst>msinst O msipl.bin
>>> PSP MS IPL Installer
>>> Load IPL code msipl.bin
>>> 241664 bytes(59 block) readed
>>>
>>> Target DRIVE is 7
>>> Check partation Sector
>>> boot status        0x80
>>> start head         0x05
>>> start sec/cyl    0x0004
>>> partation type     0x06
>>> last head          0x0F
>>> last sec/cyl     0xB7E0
>>> abs sector   0x00000810
>>> ttl sector   0x000767F0
>>> signature        0xAA55
>>> Check BPB Sector
>>> signature        AA55
>>> Check free reserved sector:OK
>>> Write ABS Sector 0x10 to 0x1E7
>>> Are You Sure ?[Y]

Type 'y'.

>>> y

and you should see

>>> Write MS BOOT CODE

That means that you now have a "magic" memory stick.

You're all set!

To unbrick a bricked PSP (this part's a lot easier, I promise):

1. With a working PSP or memory stick reader, copy the firmware 1.50 update file into the root of the "magic" memory stick, namd UPDATE.PBP, just like in step 15 above.
2. Insert the "magic" memory stick.
3. Insert the unbricker battery. Your wifi, memory stick, and power lights should all turn on temporarily, and a menu should appear.
4. Press X. After it checks the update file, you should get another menu.
5. Press X to write Firmware 1.50 onto the PSP.

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Comments

# Thanks — Guest 2007-08-23 19:12

Thanks, this will help alot. ;)

# Suck — Guest 2007-08-23 19:29

U all sux

# I wonder... — Guest 2007-08-23 19:42

I wonder if this works with the 2200mAH batteries.. oh well looks like I'll be buying one anyways so I can convert my old batt to pandora ;D btw be careful not to buy this expensive battery wtf???

http://www.amazon.com/gp/shops/index.html/102-8114160-5911305?ie=UTF8&sellerID=A1NIGLK1X2PBO3

# hurray! — Guest 2007-08-23 19:52

Great job!

# ahhh — Guest 2007-08-23 20:07

i got down to the last step(22) and i get an error saying it cant read the msipl.bin

help???

# re: ahhh — Guest 2007-08-23 20:17

copy msipl.bin to the same folder as msinst.exe

# Some vital information — Guest 2007-08-23 20:27

Guys, when it says switch into the folder you must change your current directory to that folder by using the "cd" command. so for example if your pandora folder is extracted in C: then you must put: cd C://pandora/

and then after that you must put in either /mspformat or /msinst.

# Gah... — Guest 2007-08-23 20:55

a great day to leave my PSP at work...

# wow — Guest 2007-08-23 21:30

is there anyway i could do this with a 3.50 psp?

# mspformat is driving me crazy!!! — Guest 2007-08-23 21:45

The seventh step is driving me crazy, when I do mspformat to the MS it returns ALWAYS an error.

Depending on how I do, it returns "open read (error)" or "write error".

I have vista, but I know people who made it in vista without any trouble. But I tried again on my XP laptop but it returns to me: "Logical drive has more than a physical drive. Cannot handle it."

My MS is pro duo and it's sandisk original, so it should work.

I need help on this step, I have slept 2 hours this night trying to solve that, but I'm near to giving up...

# wow — Guest 2007-08-23 22:02

This is simply amazing...i remember months bakc when a rumor about such a battery was floating around..no one took it seriuce...haha but I had a feeling it was a very practial way sony could have complete recovery access to psp's.

:)

# THIS IS NOT HELPING — Guest 2007-08-23 22:14

THIS IS A GREAT DAY FOR PSP'S LOVERS LIKE ME , BUT EVERYTIME I'D TRIED TO INSTALL THIS THING IS ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE , I FOLLOWED THE STEPS AND NOTHING , MY COMPUTER IS WINDOWS VISTA BASED , NOOBZ!! PLEASE UPDATE THE UNBRICKER SO A$$HOLES LIKE ME CAN DO THIS THING , THANK YOU.

# On converting back the battery... — Guest 2007-08-23 22:53

I didnt back up the battery flash, but I still managed to convert back the jig battery to normal after 2 tries with the battery creator.

# Universal Downgrader? — Guest 2007-08-23 23:15

So is this battery method a way to downgrade even latest-firmware PSPs? If we can brick it, we can downgrade it - is that that way it works?

# psp slim — Guest 2007-08-23 23:56

maby this will work on an psp slim, just brick the console use a magic battery and memorystick and you have fw 1.50 on a psp slim? can this work?

# replies — Guest 2007-08-24 00:01

It works on any PSP, even if it isn't bricked.

I don't think mspformat works on vista. You'll have to find an XP computer.

# can you brick (on purpouse) — Guest 2007-08-24 00:35

can you brick (on purpouse) official 3.52 firmware?

Well done devs. You have won the homebrew war between sony

# .. — Guest 2007-08-24 00:54

lol...why brick the console before. do people seriously have not the slightest clue how this works?

you don't have to have a bricked psp to do this.

# If you can run homebrew on it... — Guest 2007-08-24 01:00

Can you downgrade it? If so, do that, *then* you can do this.

# A couple notes — Guest 2007-08-24 01:02

1. You don't need to have a bricked PSP to use the unbricker. You can use a working one, too.

2. I was wrong about needing to back up the battery's flash. I forgot that there's an option in the battery hack program that lets you return it to normal, backup or no.

# brick? — Guest 2007-08-24 01:02

I don't think so. but managed tobricked my old 2.80 psp by removing battery while updating to get new 2.71 PSP from sony dealer...

# My Own Video of me using this — KingBK 2007-08-24 01:10

Chk out this video i made of me unbricking my bricked PSP.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=KJJhNww4qEg

# will it work? — Guest 2007-08-24 01:11

i have a psp v3.02 at the moment, if i use this method on my psp (which is not bricked) will it place it back to a version 1.5? plz will someone help

# nopes — Guest 2007-08-24 01:11

I tried on vista and on XP as you can read in my previous message, and I could not do it.

Moreover, I know people who made it in vista without problems.

# Yes — KingBK 2007-08-24 01:16

Yes it will.

# r u sure? — Guest 2007-08-24 01:27

r u sure about that? so does it work like a downgrader too? os there any other safe ways to downgrade my psp without using on eof the gta or lumines ways (because i dont have those games :S). thanks KingBK

# RE — Guest 2007-08-24 01:28

Start Command line as Administrator or disable UAC

# Whats wrong?! — Guest 2007-08-24 01:46

I receive Error can't open msipl.bin

# sure — Guest 2007-08-24 02:20

From the looks of it ,it should act as a downgrader too, as long as there is no problem getting the battery to work on such firmwares(seems it does work)

the problem then, is that you do need a homebrew enabled psp to make your own magic msd and magic battery. You might need to borrow some1 else's psp to help you

# i wonder if dark_alex was in on it? — Guest 2007-08-24 02:24

woo now i can download things knowing i hav a backup plan for my psp woo hooooo!!!!!!!!! !!

# on — Guest 2007-08-24 02:33

... why does almost everyone think that he has to brick his psp before using this application?

YOU CAN USE IT EVEN IF THE PSP ISNT BRICKED

# ya — Guest 2007-08-24 02:36

You have to give the program the exact path to the msipl.bin

for example: X:\msipl.bin

X is the letter of your PSP-Drive

# Homebrew on 3.51 — Guest 2007-08-24 02:41

I was updateing 3.51 to 3.52,and I remove the memory stick,batery and charger-BRICKED PSP.

Then I easy unbrick and downgrade to 1.5!

# Easy Unbricker/Downgrader — Guest 2007-08-24 02:51

I'll guess there will be an Easy Unbricker/Downgrader soon. Just be patient... ;)

# no — Guest 2007-08-24 02:52

You need to have CFW installed in order to create the magic stick and jig bat. So you can't downgrade a PSP on OFW unless you already have created the jig bat. and magic stick with a PSP that was on CFW.

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# Afterdawn... — Guest 2007-08-24 03:34

I just saw this whole guide on an Afterdawn thread.

# Re: Will it work? — Guest 2007-08-24 03:51

Why don't you use the PSP Upgrader Downgrader instead... if you have an unpatched version of Lumines you can upgrade to 3.50 and downgrade, very easy to do... and it places eveery file where you need it, just follow the instructions... if no un patched Lumines, use the unbricker

# will it work? — Guest 2007-08-24 03:52

Yes, it will work. I just downgrade mine.

# downgrade? — Guest 2007-08-24 03:54

does this mean you can brick a firmware 3.51 PSP and use the unbrick to downgrade it to 1.5?

does this mean that you can downgrade any firmware from now on if there's a "brick the PSP" program with a unbrick battery?

# On converting back the battery... — Guest 2007-08-24 03:55

How you manage to convert back battery to normal.

Mine wont boot to the XMB.

# Guide is great — death69 2007-08-24 04:07

Love ot see guides that explian things a little further shrugs already made mine before I seen it took me a little whiel to remebr to use dos hehe

for get command prompt exsists anymore take me back to 3.11 and DOS days

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# It's a downgrader too — Guest 2007-08-24 04:44

this is also used as a downgrader, no need for bricking a 3.52 psp. if you were to delete all of your flash 0 it would still enter service mode....

# >>>>>>>>>>>Freeplay — Guest 2007-08-24 04:52

hmm i wonder if Team c+d will take u on to write all there tutorials would be great considering this was easier to understand

# me too — Guest 2007-08-24 04:55

i always get error like this when i try to write IPL on my memory stick

i try it on a 1GB Lexar Memory stick Pro Due and a 4GB Pro Duo, and both get the same error

can someone who created the magic memory stick tell us what brand and size memory you used

C:\Pandora\mins t>minst G mipl.bin

PSP MS IPL Installer

Load IPL code msipl.bin

241664 bytes(59 block) readed

Error 0x00000000 in DeviceIoControl .

# ... — Guest 2007-08-24 05:16

i have the same prob with vista..

and just as a note the guide was stolen from

http://f6y.ath.cx/pspdev/PandoraGuide.html

and not made by freeplay...

# why brick? — Guest 2007-08-24 05:23

why brick ur psp just get a jig battery pack and a magic memstick . the program erases the flash so it shouldn't matter what FW u have.

# should i try this on my psp slim? — Guest 2007-08-24 05:25

should i try this on my psp slim?

# No Problem — KingBK 2007-08-24 05:34

anye else need help email me at bavekugan@gmail .com

# Re:downgrade — Guest 2007-08-24 05:35

you dont need to brick it as long as you have access to a 1.5 psp or a cfw psp to make the jigkick and memstick as soon as you use the memstick and jigkick it will flash you to 1.50.

p.s. pancracio is your memstick magicgate supported or not? might be your memstick is corrupt.

# Re: On converting back the battery... — Guest 2007-08-24 05:41

to convert the battery power on the psp using the power lead (leave the battery out of the psp) once psp is booted insert battery and use the battery software. the jigkick only works powering on so power on first using ac adapter.

# Sure — Guest 2007-08-24 05:47

the jigkick and memstick is more advanced than the downgraders instead of using exploits in the system, its using the systems actual service mode to flash the firmware back to the provided firmware on memstick. which also means it works as you power on the psp wether or not the psp is in a workable condition or not. in the same method that sony would unbrick a psp.

# You don't need to brick — Guest 2007-08-24 05:49

You DON'T need to brick it first!

You can use is if your psp is not bricked!

# THX — Guest 2007-08-24 05:50

THX ALOT THIS WORKD GREAT THX AGAIN

GD THING I DID NOT BREAK MY BRICKED PSP

# What! — KingBK 2007-08-24 05:51

you have a PSP slim? Already?

# Re: me too — Guest 2007-08-24 05:52

make sure your memstick is ok and correct drive name (e, f, g drive etc) is correctly selected.

# Oh yeah — KingBK 2007-08-24 05:56

i forgot to mention, if you need any help email: bavekugan@gmai.com

# brick on usb? — Guest 2007-08-24 05:57

how you suppose to connect a bricked psp to your computer using usb mode? ..how you suppose to format the memory stick on your psp if it's bricked..someone explain please

# you need to prepare — KingBK 2007-08-24 06:01

The Jigkick battery and the magic memory stick on a Homebre enabled (CFW) PSP

# there — Guest 2007-08-24 06:03

i guess if yiu would use your brain instead of just depending on someone to tell you, you would have alread figured the answer out:

IT JUST AIN'T POSSIBLE!!!!!!! !!!!

You need a PSP that can use homebrew to create that battery and the memory stick. Try to find someone who can do that for you

# WHAT. IS. THIS!? — Guest 2007-08-24 06:08

i just downgraded my psp but it no longer works with the AV charger but uses the 'extra' battery(but dosent load to the XMB), and the psp is getting really REALLY hot and drains a full battery in like 30 mins! the only thing that works right is the "magic" battery but only in downgrade mode nothing else. i have already did the downgrade TWICE and still the same thing.

# thank you, thank you, thank you — Guest 2007-08-24 06:09

Now I can fix a co-workers psp, I just hope he didn't smash it.

# stop being a douche — Guest 2007-08-24 06:14

thx king..and hi stfu...stop being a douche...i thought there might have been something i missed that allows you to go on usb on a brick...you didn't have to reply after king...go get a life and stop being a douche to ppl...i bet i use my brain alot more than you on a daily basis..i don't go around insulting people for no reason

# msinst error — Guest 2007-08-24 06:28

whenever i do the msinst.exe and msipl.bin thing, i get the error

check free reserved sector:to small reserved sector.

I'm using a 256 pro duo. Anyone solve this problem yet?

# solved problem — Guest 2007-08-24 07:38

if anyone else got the

"check free reserved sector:too small reserved sectors"

error, what it means is that there isn't enough memory on your memory stick. What i did is format it, and then do the msinst step again. But i don't know if you're supposed to do this because i havn't gotten the psp to show the downgrade/unbrick screen yet.

# ahahah — Guest 2007-08-24 09:18

ya i did that, but i watched the video and the guy got the same error. he just put msinst after the drive and before msipl.bin

so somethin like this

>>msinst\msinst.exe i msinst\msipl.bin

thx though

# not exactly — Guest 2007-08-24 09:31

but you need the already prepared battery and memory stick. so u need some one to do all of this for you and you just put the battery and memory stick in. so i gues no? unless u have get help from a hombrew enable psp

# msipl.bin — Guest 2007-08-24 11:15

hey i have everything right but i keep getting stuck

cant open msipl.bin wut am i doin wrong

# msipl.bin stuck — Guest 2007-08-24 11:24

hey would anyone be willing to share there mem stick files would apriciate it

how bout if some one can rar the files

# updating registry... cannot write system.dreg — Guest 2007-08-24 12:05

+++++++++++++++ +++++++++++++++ ++++++

This is the message I get

updating registry... cannot write system.dreg

HELP....

+++++++++++++++ +++++++++++++++ +++++++

# Ziped memmory stick pro duo unbricker for people with bricked psp — arnookie 2007-08-24 12:10

Ziped memmory stick pro duo unbricker for people with bricked psp.

Would that not be a good idea?

If someone has already made a memmory card with all the pandoras files for unbricking. Then why not just make a zip file that can be dumped to a memmory stick, wich can be used by any psp owner that has no way of making the files themselves ie already bricked or just wanting to downgrade. This way all you would need is the pandoras unbricker battery to unbrick with.

Can someone try this please.

It would be very cool if that would work.

Everyone would just need the unbrick battery and they could download the zip and just use a memmory card reader to transfer files from the zip to memmory card.

Everyone else with a CF or 1.5 psp could then just use the pandora battery software to make a battery and have no need for the rest of the tutorial.

Just a thought!

# Try XP instead of Vista — Guest 2007-08-24 12:30

At first I was trying to use the mspformat on Vista and I got the same error as you so I decided to use my dads pc which had xp and everything worked out great and now my psp is unbricked. :)

# .. — Guest 2007-08-24 12:33

man i cant get hold of a xp todai.. il need to go to my freinds house..

wish they make a GUI for this like they did for the ps1 game to psp eboot converter.. that would be nice

# You need Help — Guest 2007-08-24 12:38

if you can't figure out how to use these programs then you might want to get someone to do it for you... Or buy it on ebay!!! Is your psp making you computer savvy, or driving you crazy?

# zipped memory card — Guest 2007-08-24 12:56

good idea. I even tried this kind of by transferring all the data from the 'magic' memory stick to another. But when you do the msinst.exe thing, it writes some kind of special files or somthing that cannot be copied, let alone seen. I also figured out that 256's can't be "magic memory cards" because it kept telling me i had "too small reserved sectors". Someone should just make a REALLY detailed walkthrough or somthing

# Zipped memmory card — arnookie 2007-08-24 13:18

If a Zipped memmory card can not be used like this, dose that mean we have to dedicate a battery and memmery card for this unbricker to work.

What size memmory card can you use?

would a 32 meg card work? I have a 2 gig card and don`t want to give it up for unbricking. Someone needs to figure out if it would be possible to zip the memmory cards content so we can do as i stated below.

Ziped memmory stick pro duo unbricker for people with bricked psp.

Would that not be a good idea?

If someone has already made a memmory card with all the pandoras files for unbricking. Then why not just make a zip file that can be dumped to a memmory stick, wich can be used by any psp owner that has no way of making the files themselves ie already bricked or just wanting to downgrade. This way all you would need is the pandoras unbricker battery to unbrick with.

Can someone try this please.

It would be very cool if that would work.

Everyone would just need the unbrick battery and they could download the zip and just use a memmory card reader to transfer files from the zip to memmory card.

Everyone else with a CF or 1.5 psp could then just use the pandora battery software to make a battery and have no need for the rest of the tutorial.

Just a thought!

# » mspformat is driving me crazy too — Guest 2007-08-24 13:21

I have the same problem as pancracio

# ahhhhhhhhhhh — Guest 2007-08-24 13:50

i got the same problem and it's *****ING PISSING ME OFF did u get it to work yet

# im been tryin for about 3 hrs — Guest 2007-08-24 14:23

i keep getting this messege

PSP ms ipl installer

load ipl code msipl.bin

can't opn msipl.bin

what am i doin wrong

# serious — Guest 2007-08-24 14:26

serious

# WoW!! — Guest 2007-08-24 14:29

This totally rocks!!

# cannot write system.dreg — Guest 2007-08-24 14:34

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Mine *almost* worked… It said “cannot write system.dreg,” then powered down while it was writing the 1.50 firmware. Now when I turn it on, I get the blue “press O” screen. When I press O, the system resets, and goes right back to the blue “press O” screen. Is anyone else having the same problem? Was it unable to write the system.dreg file for anyone else?

That my PSP shows ANYTHING after being bricked for over a month goes to show the genius of this development. Thank you, thank you, thank you, every member of the Prometheus Project.

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# MEM card — Guest 2007-08-24 14:45

how did u get the ipl installed on your card

# what it's not working — Guest 2007-08-24 14:56

when i turn my psp on to begin with the screen lights up but no xmb now after the battery and mem stick it does the same thing but i dont get any error messages when i downgrade it any solutions

# hahah — Guest 2007-08-24 15:01

i got it omg the msipl.bin and msinst.exe has to be in the c: directory no folders

# ... — Guest 2007-08-24 15:24

i noe wht im doing.. im not new to flash at all... itz the dos thtz giving me tha problem.. becus vista's DOS is being an a.s.s so i keep gettin open read (error)... a gui might solve this prob for vista users that can't get hold of a XP comp..

# u guys are going down in the history books for this one... — Guest 2007-08-24 17:04

i just wish u waited another month before releasing this...Now sony might find a solution for the psp slim...

btw, someone settle this once and for all.

IS IT POSSIBLE TO CONVERT A MAGIC BAATTERY INTO A NORMAL ONE??

# Guide Easer — Guest 2007-08-24 18:45

I found the GUIDE in the Forums was easer to understand then this one.

http://forums.qj.net/f-guides-hacks-homebrew-and-emulators-43/t-guide-unbrick-or-downgrade-any-psp-using-the-pandora-battery-118799.html

FresnoGamer

# . — Guest 2007-08-24 19:34

I read that, and I wasn't excited.

Can you go commit hari kari now?

# FRUSTRATING — Guest 2007-08-24 21:35

THIS IS ALL BOLOGNEE !!!! I SWEAR TO MY MOTHER I'VE TRIED EVERY *****ING THING TO FOLLOW THE STEPS AND ALSO DID EVERYTHING AS TOLD ON THE TUTORIAL , THIS IS ALL SO FREGGGGGING COMPLICATED DUE I STILL GET THAT MESSAGE OF ERROR CAN'T READ\WRITE , I HATE THIS PIECE OF CRAP VISTA COMPUTER , PLEASE NOOBZ , I YOU GUYS EVER READ READ THIS ARTICLE I KNOW THAT THE MSIPL.BIN IS ENCRYPTED AND I ALSO KNOW ABOUT THAT UPDATE FOR TUESDAY WHEN YOU GUYS UNENCRYPT THE MSIPL.BIN SO WE ALL CAN UNBRICK OUR PSP'S , ANYWAYS GOOD JOB GUYS , I WILL DONATE SOME GOOD CASH IF YOU "" UNENCRYPT"" THAT FILE , I COULD UNENCRYPTED BUT I DON'T KNOW THE CODE USED TO ACCESS THE FLASH ON THE MOBO WITHOUT DESTROYING THE VERY OWN IPL ON THE MOBO ITSELF SO GIVE SOME US SOME FEEDBACK ... EVILKARLOS82.... PC PROGRAMMER..

# think about it — Guest 2007-08-24 21:44

sumthing u didnt talk about and keeps me hanging, all the add ons eg 1.50 has web browser, rememeber psp slim is has a setting that it only on 3.60, so no tv output? hell am stayin wid ma psp instead of spendin money, i wanted psp slim for tv output

btw

for you ppl who dont kno, psp slim has a special setting for tv output, it isnt just plug it on the tv and play so noobz, plz leak the dumb***ed 3.60 firmware and m33 or wildcard plz make it availible so more games and more

# and i forgot — Guest 2007-08-24 22:16

first

if u downgrade it no tv output

cuz 3.60 has a setting that has tv output,

and thats why psp fat doesnt go up to 3.60

and secondly, compare 1.00 and 1.50, difference web browser

same thing with 3.60, tv output, so if it was leaked, then there would be a mod for tv output, so team wildcard or m33 do sumthing bout firmware 3.60

and m33, please dont do the mistake u made

# pls help — Guest 2007-08-24 22:18

hi , could somebody pls tell me what the [ ] signs mean for the pandora battery , i have made the made the pandora battery but now would like top return it to normal mode , but dont no what the symbols mean [ ] in relation to the psp's buttons , new to all this and cant see it posted on forums ,thanks in advance.

# yes — Guest 2007-08-25 00:17

it is a DOWNGRADER/UNBRIKER, so it can downrgade or unbrick every psp with every firmware, you only need an "Hombrew enabled psp" to create the battery and the magic memory stick, than use it on any psp to downgrade it or unbrick.

# mobo — Guest 2007-08-25 01:43

im assuming this will work on all the mobo's of the psp including the newest mobo without applying the patch for 1.5 firmware or anything like that.

# Zipped memmory card — arnookie 2007-08-25 03:49

# If your having trouble with the — Guest 2007-08-25 06:16

msinst.exe and the msipl.bin

this is what i did

on the command prompt i typed

pandora\msinst\ msinst.exe (drive letter)

(drive letter):\msipl.bin and i got it to work.

# [] — Guest 2007-08-25 10:31

[] often refers to the square button

# ... — Guest 2007-08-25 15:09

"would a 32 meg card work?"

I have the same question, can someone answer please

# I’ve don’t it!!! — Guest 2007-08-26 03:08

I’ve unbricked my bricked PSP!!!

All I did is where it says “Copy the Firmware 1.50 update file onto the root of your memory stick”

I just copied 2.71 update instead, and it worked

After I unbricking I just used “Downgrader2.71FULL.exe” to downgrade it to 1.50 then upgrade to 3.52 M33-4.

Hope this help everyone who is suffering, just like I did.

# Yep — Guest 2007-08-27 00:42

Yeah dude, worked fine on mine :)

# please help me remember — Guest 2007-08-28 03:10

how to use dos again to do this. I have completely blocked it all out and forgotten.

# how do u? — Guest 2007-08-28 03:13

can u do it w/o using msinst program

# help me — Guest 2007-08-30 17:23

what those this mean ?

PSP MS IPL Installer

usage: msinst driveletter ipl_block_file

# Downgrade Vista — Guest 2007-09-01 16:53

you know you can downgrade Vista. my step dad did it for me when i upgraded to Windows Vista Ultimate. then i was unhappy so he used a disc call Wipe Drive or something like that. and used a other disc to reformat the drive like it was before then i upgraded to Xp again and now im back to home and freshly new! so all files were gone :(

# re EVILKARLOS82 — Guest 2007-09-02 22:35

I found that it didnt work vista too so I done it on XP

# pandora battery — caitlin 2007-09-04 20:54

your guide to setting up for pandora battery is excellent.thankyou very much.

# brick it hard — Guest 2007-09-10 08:23

i think you all take it to much in the bottom!!

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