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Pandora’s Battery - Universal PSP Unbricker
Alias420 | August 22, 2007
Right after we posted about Fanjita’s upcoming PSP unbricker for those that bricked their PSP with a bad copy of the M33 custom firmware, Fanjita and his crew upped the ante releasing a program that UNBRICKS ALL SONY PSPs. Wow a strong kudos goes out for this one. No longer will we need to ship bricked PSP’s off to Sony to have them fixed for a cost.
We told you that we’d be releasing an unbricker for the M33 bricks. But then we got to thinking, maybe that just wouldn’t be exciting enough.
Would you like a super special surprise bonus? How about an unbricker for ALL PSPs? Yep, you read that right. We call it “Pandora’s Battery”.
There’s a larger story behind this unbricker, though, and it deserves to be told. It’s the culmination of years of behind-the-scenes research and development by some of the top names in PSP hacking, under the name of the Prometheus project. This group of people, from various development teams, was dedicated to developing and releasing PSP hacks and exploits, with the aim of improving the status of PSP homebrew, and making sure that it was kept alive.
As always you can grab this file from our psp downloads area or by clicking here. For all the details from Fanjita check this out
Best News Ever
Windows CMD
format X: /fs:fat32
Any card work if >= 64
No DUO PRO NEEDED only a >=64 and this trick
I’m good :D
Sounds GREAT!!
epic..simply epic
Holy Sh*t!!!!!! Finally i can unbrick my psp!!!!
Holy shit indeed !!!!
DO YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT THAT MEANS ???? It fucking means you can fucking downgrade the new fucking Slim PSP even BEFORE it’s released to the general fucking public because the batteries are fucking compatible !!!! ….FUCK !
LOL Sony got ass-raped BIG TIME ! Prison style, even !
OMG THE NOOBZ ARE GONNA GET A BIG FAT DONATION BECAUSE THESE FUCKERS DEEEESERVE IT !!!
great jos yuz guys
wuv ya
Tell me if you unbricked your psp!
This works! I unbricked a psp.
I even updated to the official 3.52 and used the unbricker to downgrade it to 1.50!
This is the best thing ever released, excellent work.
I read that you did a unbrick from version 3.52 officel sony firmware is true, it wasn’t a custom firmware already?
Where did get your unbrick software from, because I read all lot off it but where I can download it?
Thanks, Piet
I unbricked from fw 3.40oe.
After I unbricked I updated to the official 3.52 fw,
then I used the pandoras battery to dg to 1.50.
works fine as both dg and unbricker.
hey i doing allt his this and the part were it wants me to open the msinst it don’t open it fucken sux i don’t know how to make it run i’ve tried it on all compatibility levels and even the new vista and it still don’t open and it sux anyone know how to do this shit
I have my psp with official sony’s 3.51, can i do this thing of pandoras battery to get to 1.50? anyone that did this please tell me how. thanks!!!!
can we use pandora to downgrade uncustomized psp, like mine. i got a original 3.02 ver psp
yes
Sorry for double post, but could this be a universal downgrader?, sure looks like it, couldnt you brick your psp on purpose and then so this?
is this possible
I believe so… and you probably wouldn’t need to brick your PSP first… just need a friend homebrew to set up the battery
This is absolutely TITS! Great job by all the team members.
Has anyone tried to downgrade using this???
A friend of mine, needs it bad
lol….this is absolutely TITS??? wtf…
titties, yay
They shouold have called the the universal unbricker\downgrader !!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have never bricked , but now more people can write to flash without being in danger! and therefore even more homebrew ! Well done !
I’d kinda guess you could use it like that, but i’m not sure as i’ve not had any problems w/ any of that, but i was just thinking that myself….so if someone had a 3.51 could upgrade to 3.52 and in the middle of it purposefully brick it….in theory i think it sounds alright, but i’d rather hear it for sure from the Prometheus project……
i bricked by psp 3.52 m33 purposly while upgrading and i used the pandora’s battery to unbrick it!
it worked!!!
need help on unbricking
Hi there
My son’s psp has been chipped this weekend and they gave us games on a disk that needs to be loaded onto his PSP. I haven’t the fogiest idee how to do it. Can u help?
SUPER!!
and in addition i believe sony technicians will have an emergency meeting tonight XD
:D
:P
no shit…
Yo Losers…stop this nonsense n buy psp games…our boss got his dick up our assess for making such crappy security on psp..lolz…just kidding…go psp homebrew!!!
Hey #$%@er, i’m the real Sony tech. Stop posing
as me and go update your psp to our new 9.99
firmware. It is unhackable now that dark alex is out of our way.
I’d love to be a fly on the wall in that meeting!
Bad idea. Reason? One SFX - “THWAP”
They would want to take out their frustrations, PSP or otherwise, on someone or something, right?
Yesssssssssssssssssssss
i had just Brick my psp last night due customizing
yessssssssssssss i love u fanjita n team C&D
i love homebrewww
could it b possible that this would work the the psp sim since the batteries are compatible ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh sony i love even dough ur suckerz thanx for creating playstation itself aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa yessssssssssssssssssssssss
FAWKING AMAZING. KUDOS TO YOU ALL!!! :D :D :D
suprised nobody has yet mentioned here in the comments that DAX was part of this project, long live Dark_AleX and F all u haters who got pissed when u thought he ‘abandoned’ everyone.
way to guys, another
I agree I dont think anyone really looked at the end where they gave credits to who ever worked on this. Go DAX
To all readers, even undercover Sony eyes to stop homebrew: If the computer market, the handheld market, all markets combined with information services never restricted free information to be passed, there would never be this opposing force.
Look at how Linux and the Free Software Foundation came into existence. If there ISNT going to be a comprimise between two groups, there will always, as studied in government class, be a split, a rebellion, because the other party was never willing to open out to new and unique ideas.
Open Sourceware isnt bad. Homebrew isnt bad. We will continue to unbrick and service our own PSPs because you’re not willing to support our partty and they will always exist no matter what you do. The only thing that can be done is what is right - for a comprimise.
WIll you do that Sony? Or will we just buy third party hardware and use homebrew apps that allow us to use it with our TV, or remotely with our PC, or even making the music plugin to where i can listen to music while playing your UMD games.
Its your choice. We will just continue to tred in the footsteps of opensourceware… for the PSP.
God bless you all.
*bows* very well put! good example with linux as well
Beautiful.
u brought a tear to my eye
Amen to that !
BUY PSP GAMESSSS!!! not..
God Bless U!
lol
dhsd
well said! $ony come and bow down, beg for our mercy mwahaha
that was sexy
Wow i Couldnt have put this any better (wipes face due to tears of joy)
oooh, that gave me a hard on
i think that has to be the dark one himself
I dont think its really going happen like I bricked a psp before about two years ago and the psp coudent even turn on like the screen and stuff. HOW can u write the flash if u cant even access it.
The only way I can think of is a program hacking into ur psp from the Computer.
sony does a process similar to un brick the bricked PSP’s we send them, so yes it is possible
this is fucking amazing i’ll have to tell my friends to get a spare battery with their PSP and come over and i’ll do the rest, holy shit, no more fear of the brick
The special battery it creates can access the bricked PSP…You never noticed the 3rd connector on the battery/PSP? That’s why you will need an extra battery…
Another historical day for the psp. I dont think these guys ever get enough thanks, i would like to thank you guys for everything that you do and very much appreciate everything (and no im not being thankfull cause i have a bricked psp either, lawlz)
This is why people shouldnt bash hackers. They do so much good for the communities.
Even though my psp’s are fine, Thanks for the awesome Help you guys have been for all of us.
OMFG! HE”S BACK! DARK ALEX HAS RETURNED! Holy shit! This is huge. Never have to worry about bricks ever again! Thank you to all of you who have contributed to this project. Come on, who behind me in line to donate?
lol he came back wit a big impact haha hella tight this is the best no need to worry about bricking ur psp
I’m with you!
as soon as i get paid.
huh .. maybe Dark Alex was developing for pandora battery before he quit ?
And thus, the prices of bricked PSPs skyrocket on Ebay.
that’s what i noticed already.. befire i sold them being sold for £5 and now i see them for £40!
any storeis
Any one know if you can still use the battery as a psp battery or is it just for unbicking after this?
nope u can’t use the battery again i don’t think but u could probably find a cheap one …. i would rather pay $20 for a new battery than pay for s0ny’s unbricking service …. and it would be worth while keeping the battery for other bricks u might run into in the future
Yes you can. All you have to do is select “Restore battery to normal”
you just have to open the battery again and where you removed the circuit use a pencil and trace a line between the contacts wala normal mode
so the battery you use to create the JigKick Battery will it work anymore to charge your psp or will you have to get a new battery.
need a new battery
That’s what I’m asking. Hope it does.
PEOPLE…YOU WILL NEED AN EXTRA BATTERY…
anybody know how to run a bin file
” Execute “msipl” application on the PC with the msipl.bin to write
the IPL to memory stick.”
trying to downgrade a psp
thats a joke? or u serious?man dont Fuck with my negrita or Ill kill U!!
hahah my NEGRITA! your spanish right! lol
Maybe he’s just gay.
From the urban dictionary,
1. negrita
10 up, 77 down
(noun)A dumb mexican biatch that pretends to be black. These people are usually found in prison enjoying droping their soap.
Hey look at Harry and Eddie Guerrero they are negritas.
Negritas eat caca.
caca pipi
could anyone tell me how to write the IPL? using what programme? thanks
BIG News! Fantastic job guys!
-Will
HOLY SHIT, This is by far the best PSP news ever.
if tis was release after PSP Slim released….. TIS WOULD PWNING!!!!!
seriously how do you write the IPL
usage: msinst driveletter ipl_block_file
its a dos command.
Could’ve done with this a few weeks ago would’ve saved me 40 quid & hassle :P
Amazing work, one of the best hacks this year!
How do you execute mspformat.exe? I’ve tried to run it on Vista and XP, and nothing happens.
You have to open the folder above it and hold shift and right click on the folder then click open command here once opened type mspformat.exe and then the drive letter
ok. i typed mspformat.exe i:, where i: is my memory stick, then i get the message “Usage: mspformat.exe driveletter.” I don’t think it formatted my mspd. I’m using Vista btw. I tried running it as an administator, and setting the compatibility to XP service pk2.
so i moved the mspformat.exe to the root of my c: drive and tried it again. At the C:\> prompt, I typed mspformat k (where k is my MSPD). This time i get an open error message. I tried using both my Sony 1GB MSPD and my Sandisk 2GB MSPD. Any ideas?
Nevermind, I got it to work with XP. Not sure if the problem was with the OS or card reader, but everything works now!
@mspformat
Could you post some instructions on how you did it? I can’t get it to work.
I got it to work using XP. I was using Vista earlier, maybe that’s why it didn’t work. Anyways, I used the same steps as my earlier comment above. Move the mspformat.exe to the root of c:..etc. Don’t add a colon at the end of the drive letter. So type out “mspformat x” instead of “mspformat x:”, without the quotes and where x is your drive letter. Another thing that I did differently was using a different card reader. That may or may not have been one of the problems for the open error message. This was all done on a Sony 1GB MSPD. Hope this helps!
could anyone really can tell me how to generate the IPL pls?
Yo I figured out how to generate the IPL you need to open the program called msinst in a command window and it will tell you how to use it. Now I have a question when I format my card it brings up open error (read) any ideas
@ laptop freak
i got the same prob.. i gues this shyt isnt campatible wid vista.. ill jus wait for GUI to get released..
Holy Fucking Shit!!
I honestly think its the biggest breakthrough in PSP homebrew history. Too bad assholes ruined it for us and leaked it. We would of had a chance of using it on the slim. Great job though.