Pandora’s battery
Advantages:
• You can never brick your psp beyond “fixable”
• You always have a downgrader no matter what
Disadvantages:
• You put your psp in danger while attempting it however if you know how to fallow directions then you in no way will brick your psp attempting this
Things needed:
• A battery
• a FAT psp {this will NOT work with a slim}
• a memory stick PRO duo {it must be pro this will not work with a regular memory stick duo (including the 32 mb that came with the psp)
• download this file
Code:
http://rapidshare.com/files/60347815/pandora.zip
PSP requirements:
• firmware 1.50 or any custom firmware {in this tut my psp is running a 3.40 OE-A}but it works with all customs
• if your psp is not at 1.50 or a custom version you must downgrade try viewing this tut for help
Code:
http://www.psp-hacks.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=17935
• unfortantly if your psp is higher then a 3.03 you will not be able to downgrade
prepping files
• files are in a .zip format this means you need winzip to open it you can get winzip here
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• extract the files strait in to “C:\” NO DIRECTORYIES just plain C
preparing your psp
1. If you are on a custom firmware your must activate 1.50kernal (this step is ONLY for custom firmware users)
a. turn on your psp
b. once it’s on slide the power button up and hold it until the screen goes black
c. hold in the right trigger and turn on the psp
d. you are now in recovery mode
e. go to configuration
f. then make sure “game folder homebrew” is set to 1.50 kernal
g. go to back and double tap “X”
h. then go to exit then double tap “X”
i. you should be sent back to your XMB (main dashboard)
2. Now you must reformat your memory stick
a. Go all the way left to “settings”
b. Then down to “system settings”
c. Then to “format memory stick”
d. It will ask you if you are sure (twice) say yes (twice)
e. Once it says “format completed” hit “O” (that’s circle)
3. Connect your psp to you computer
a. Go to settings USB connection
Making the stick 1. Identifying your drive a. When you connect to your computer it should pop up asking you to take action select open in files and folders (this step may not always apply) b. Once open you need to identify your drive these pictures are not cropped to avoid ripping if your site is not in the tabs you are not allowed to repost this tut without my consent 
2. Opening command prompt
a. (on your computer) go to start
b. Then click run
c. Then type “CMD” (minus the quotes) in to run and click ok
3. Commands
a. MAKE SURE YOU EXTRACTED YOUR FILES DIRECTLY IN TO “C:\” OR ELSE THESE STEPS WILL BE DIFFERENT
b. First type
c. Second type
d. Third type now make sure you replace “X” with your memory stick drive in the pic my drive is “O”
e. You should get this
Code:
Drive successfully formatted, and partition moved.
f. Exit out of command prompt and disconnect from usb connection
4. Createing the stick
a. Remove stick and put it back in
b. Reconnect to usb mode
c. Inside your drive make a folder called PSP (yours may not look like the one in the picture)
d. Then inside psp make a folder called Game (game 150 if you are using a custom firmware (I am so I will make a game150))
e. Go to C:\ battery and copy the two file in to “X:\psp\game” for 1.50 or
“X:\psp\game150” for custom
f. Exit usb mode
5. Testing
a. Go go games
b. then down to “memory stick” all the way at the bottom
c. there should be a pandora’s updater there
d. if their isn’t go back to usb mode and change game150 to just game or vise versa
running the program
1. making back eeprom back up
a. when you first run pandora’s updater hit triangle
b. the program will shut down
c. you have made a eeprom backup so if you every want to reconvert your battery its there
2.running pandora’s updater
a. run pandora’s updater and just hit “X” (aka cross) this time
Install steps
1. placing 1.50 update
a. download 1.50 update from here
Download latest PSP utilities, tools, cracks and hacks.
b. place it in the root of your psp this means you should be able to see your PSP folder you made earlier (X:\)
c. now rename the file form “EBOOT.PBP” to “UPDATE.PBP”
2.placing the install files
a. go to C:\installer
b. move the two PBfirm_update folders in to X:\psp\games or X:\psp\games150 depending on what one worked the first time
3.running the installer
a. go to games
b. then click on "Pandora's Battery Firm. Installer"
c. then hit “X”(cross)
d. if this fails go back to usb mode and check to see if you renamed the ebood.php to UPDATE.PBP if you did and it still fails rename it to just UPDATE
msipl
1. placing file
a. go to usb mode
b. you will see a file called msipl.bin
c. go to C:\msinst
d. copy the msipl.bin in to the folder
2. FINAL STEP command prompt
a. Once again go to start>run
b. Type CMD and then click open
c. Type
d. Then
e. then finally, this one replace x with your drive letter
finnally you should get this
Code:
C:msinst>msinst X 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]
f. finnaly type your last letter till your done “Y”
g. you will get this
h. you have created a pandora’s battery
congrats
pandora's battery
