[Video Tutorial] The ultimate guide to hacking & upgrading your hacked PSP

[kamenrider]

Introduction

This is your one stop video vault for finding video tutorials on
A. How to Hack your PSP
or
B. How to update your already hacked PSP
in order to play the newer games that require firmware 5.55+.

Main

OK, lets begin. If you've already got a hacked PSP (permanent or temporary custom firmare) then click here to upgrade your firmware.

If you've continued to this part then your PSP isnt already hacked. This part of the tutorial is all based around the flow diagram below. Follow it through to identify the route to hacking your psp. When you arrive at the solution you will be given a reference number Px where X is a number. This tells you what procedure you need to follow within this tutorial to arrive at the solution! P5 for example, means you need to follow procedure 5.



P1 - Install CFW using MMS and Pandora

1. Make your MMS
2. Obtain your Pandora battery by either
A. Soft modding your battery
B. Hard modding your battery
C. Buying one
3. Once you have both, install CFW (Work in Progress)
4. Update to 5.50 GEN D
5. Patch to 5.50 GEN D2

P2 - Install 5.03 GEN B

1. Install 5.03 GEN B

P3 - Install CFW without pandora

1. Invoke chickHEN R2 and Update to 5.50 GEN D
2. Patch to GEN D2

P4 - Install CFW using Hellcat Recovery Flasher
Work in Progress

P5 - Use PSPident to identify if motherboard is hackable

1. Identify your motherboard

END
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CHANGELOG
UPDATED 08/10/2009 - I just tested XGEN UPDATER with my phat running 5.03 chickHEN R2 and it works!
UPDATED 10/10/2009 - Added video to show you how decrypt and patch game using Yoshihiro decrypter V4 to run on 2000 running custom firmware enabler 3.60 (aka 5.03 MHU)
UPDATED 10/10/2009 - Added video on how to perform a manual update to GEN B2 if you're on a version of CFW that cannot run XGEN Update V2
UPDATED 18/10/2009 - Added video on how to update to 5.00 M33-6 from M33. This was added as a new post to this thread rather than updating this post
UPDATED 20/10/2009 - Added video on how to update to 5.00 M33-6 from 3.x OE-A. This was added as a new post to this thread rather than updating this post
UPDATED 22/10/2009 - With the release of GEN D, I've rejigged the whole lot. The 1st post is basically now the contents menu with the relevant video tutorial links posted into the same thread
UPDATED 25/10/2009 - Added tutorial to patch to GEN D2
UPDATED 07/11/2009 - Added tutorial to upgrade from 5.03 MHU/5.03 GEN A to 5.03 GEN B
UPDATED 08/11/2009 - Added tutorial to to install 5.03 GEN B
UPDATED 09/11/2009 - Added tutorial to to install 5.03 OFW
UPDATED 10/11/2009 - Confirmed you can use xgen updater v4 to go from 5.50 MHU to GEN D
UPDATED 11/11/2009 - Added tutorial to identify motherboard using pspident
UPDATED 17/11/2009 - Another revamp