The Pandora Battery and the Magic Memory stick were needed a long time ago to go from official firmware to custom firmware, they can come in quite handy if you manage to brick a PSP too.
Just update your PSP to 5.00 M33-1 and then 6.60 ME, steps in-between aren't neccessary. First, no, don't update to official firmware, that would mean you couldn't update to custom firmware anymore (or atleast not easily). Sorry for the lengthy post, but I really appreciate your help so far, thank you! - it_geek.
I hope that you can provide me with the shortest upgrade path possible so as to reduce the risk of permanently bricking my PSP beyond any recovery means except replacement - which would mean I have wasted quite a lot of money to me having invested in this PSP unit. If this happens during the upgrade process then I am really screwed. This PSP unit I have seems to shut down on me unexpectedly even if the A/C Adapter isn't touched. I am cautious about having way too many upgrade stages in a path. Importing them isn't going to make my life easier, as my country does not allow the import of certain kinds of batteries unless an individual import permit is produced. Are these really necessary? If this is the case, I do have a battery which seems to be dead (it no longer charges), but can it still be converted to a Pandora Battery? I do not wish to invest in another battery as Batteries here are sold for a really high cost, at approx $40 SGD. I also looked on other forums, and some also say that you may need something called a Pandora Battery and a Magic Memory Stick in order to upgrade to CFW.
Or, should I directly progress to 5.00 M33-4 from 3.71 M33-2? and then to 6.60ME?Īlso, before installing the respective CFWs, do I also need to install the original firmware first? When you say upgrading in stages, what is the upgrade path I should take?
Oh, and also the custom firmware is still 3.71 M33-2.Ĭonsidering that this card has been formatted, do I need to insert special files into the memory stick in order for it work, like some BOOT.BIN or some EBOOT.PBP? and Execute BOOT.BIN., all which fail.Īgain if you require me to provide the config dump of the M33 Recovery Console, please do so.
NEW Problem: Game shows up in the games list and plays its "Opening BGM", but when it is started, Error 80020148 displays and the following message attached is: "The game could not be started".Ĭhecked other forums for answers and changed the UMD Driver from M33 -> Sony NP9660 -> OEisofs and also under Advanced -> Advanced Configuration I also disabled everything including Plain Modules. (Long story, PM me if you REALLY want to know the grandmother story.) I had FORMATTED the memory stick using the PSP to "reboot" a fresh directory structure onto the card. Found out that it was a corrupted directory structure which I had unintentionally caused. If you require me to dump the M33 Recovery Console Configuration please do so. I hope I haven't violated any forum rules so far! - it_geek. I took the isos out of the memory stick and put them in the computer, rebooted the PSP without the isos inside and then I transfer back the isos from the computer into the PSP, but I still get the same issue. I don't know the country of origin, but it's probably a Japanese one because it has Playstation Spot. My PSP is a PSP-1000, second hand running on Custom Firmware v3.71 M33-2.
Almost 3 years later, I find my PSP behind lots of junk and I decide to boot it up again - only to realise the charger is dead! I get a new charger, boot up the PSP and I find that all the games which I had formerly got the vendor to install are all gone! When I connect the PSP to the computer, the ISOs and CSOs display just fine, but in the PSP it claims that there are no games! Since the UMD Drive is damaged and does not read any discs, everything has to run from the MS Pro Duo stick, in which I have used Custom Firmware. I have an issue with a second hand PSP-1000 which I own. This is my first time on the forum and I have read the forum rules as stated in the stickies, but please pardon me if I commit any mistakes!