Released just in time for the holiday season; Dark_AleX’s Despertar del Cementerio v8. It’s like a virtual repair/electronic shop for your PlayStation Portable… Hack your [new] PSP or unbrick the old one you’ve been neglecting; or, if you’re really generous, prepare a fully hacked PSP and give it to a loved one.

You will require a Pandora/Service Mode/JiKick Battery before Despertar del Cementerio‘ing that bad boy. We have several tutorials available for creating one right here (use “Search this Forum”). As well, please ensure you read the included DC8 documentation.

Happy Holidays!

DC8 changes:

• Install Dark_AleX’s custom firmware 5.00 M33-4
• Install Sony’s official 5.00 firmware

Download:
Despertar del Cementerio v8
Sony PSP 5.00 Firmware (rename to 500.PBP)

- source: dark-alex

Its come that time to dig out your Pandora battery and magic memory stick ‘cuz they in need of an upgrade, son. Breathe life back into your bricked PSP with Dark_AleX’s universal unbricker — Despertar del Cementerio.

Note: DCv6 DOES NOT boot on the latest TA-088v3 motherboards.

Despertar del Cementerio v6 changes:

• Now installs 4.01 M33-2
• Change of core. Now it uses 4.01 M33 core. This fixes some TA-88 crashing because of 1.5/3.40 kernel. Note that there are still other kind of newest TA-88 which cannot boot DC at all.
• GUI of both installer and DC itself changed to an XMB looking one.
• Added the option “Test M33″ which boots 4.01 M33-2 from the memory stick.

Download:
Despertar del Cementerio v6
Sony PSP 4.01 EBOOT

Questions/concerns?
Please see Demonchild’s Despertar del Cementerio How-to

- source: dark-alex.org

Roll out the red carpet; Dark_AleX back in the spotlight with two PSP updates… We got custom firmware 3.90 M33-3 and Despertar del Cementerio version 5 — the universal unbricker.

If you’re already running 3.90 M33, feel free to update via M33’s network update function.

CFW 3.90 M33-3 Update:

• March33 noumd driver compatibiilty has increased to support games like Coded Arms, Patapon, Harvest Moon Innocent Life and probably others affected by same errors.

Despertar del Cementerio v5 changes:

• Now installs 3.90 M33-3 instead of 3.80 M33-5
• Integration with timemachine in case it is installed.

Download:
Custom Firmware 3.90 M33
Custom Firmware 3.90 M33-3 Update
Despertar del Cementerio v5

- source: dark-alex.org

Dark_AleX has released Despertar Cementerio v3, or you may know it as the universal PSP unbricker for both fat and slim models.

v3 changes:

• Coded a display driver that supports the psp slim screen in the mixed 1.50/3.40 kernel.
• The M33 installation will install 3.71 M33-2, not 3.71 M33

Installation and everything else you should know can be found in readme.txt. Fetch the necessary Sony firmware updates here.

Download: Despertar Cementerio v3

- source: dark-alex.org

Update: Version 2 –

It has been reported some cases of bricks in the previous version when pressing circle in the bsod. This seems apparently to be a bug in the sony firmware code.

To fix it, this version will copy the registry of the psp that created the memory stick.

Dark_AleX whips out his magic stick for everyone to see, err, use… uh… wait a minute… that doesn’t sound right…

But on the real, now anyone can convert their ordinary memory stick into a “magic stick” for use with Pandora’s battery. Unbrick your PSP Slim and/or Fat, install custom firmware 3.71 M33, and you’re lookin’ good.

Download: Universal Unbricker for PSP Slim & Fat version 2

- source: dark-alex.org

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