All PSP's can now be downgraded and unbricked.

[Hoagie_one]

In case you are a PSP owner and want to check out custom firmwares, homebrew.  It can all be done safely now as all PSP's are repairable for a very low cost of nothing.

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 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.

For some time this project was highly successful - many releases from Noobz, C+D and others were direct results of this work.  The zenith of this success was the development of this unbricker - which required some amazing technical leaps, including:

   1. Reverse engineering of the service (unbrick) mode
   2. Development of a technique to change an ordinary battery into a service mode trigger battery (and back)
   3. Development of custom IPL code along with a technique to sign that code as authentic.

Even more impressive is that all of the above was achieved without any access to the official hardware or software.  With careful nurturing, this unbricker and custom IPL was to become the foundation of a whole new homebrew environment.

Unfortunately something happened to shatter the idyll.  Somehow, the unbricker was leaked into the wider world before it was ready to be released.  Whether this was deliberate, by one of the team members, or accidental via a security breach is still unclear.  The fact is that this unbricker appeared on the black market, being sold for huge prices.  As far as we know, it is probably very close to the same software that appears in at least some of the 'magic unbricker'/'jigkick' videos.

So, although the time was not right to release this (it would have been wise to wait at least until the PSP Slim release), our hand has been forced.  In order to prevent small fortunes being made by leeches, we are giving this unbricker away for free.  So - let it be known - if you have paid for an unbricker, then you have been ripped off.  I suggest that you take up your grievances with the seller - it should never have been sold.   And if you're unhappy about this being released before PSP Slim - then blame whoever it was that leaked or stole it.

It's unclear whether or not this is the end for the Prometheus project -  hopefully not, but that is undecided so far.  In case it is the end, it is worth a quick roll of honour. In alphabetical order:

Adrahil, Booster, Cswindle, Dark_AleX, Ditlew, Fanjita, Joek2100, Jim, Mathieulh, Nem, Psp250, Skylark, TyRaNiD.

And here are their respective C+D (Create and Destroy) nicknames.

Mathieulh = WiseFellow
Tyranid = bockscar
Fanjita = FullerMonty
Joek = CosmicOverSoul
Dark_Alex = Malyot
Chris = Caretaker
Adrahil = VoidPointer
nem = h1ckeyph0rce

Anyway - make sure to read the readme.txt in this release for how to use it, but in brief it works like this:

   1. You run a program on a homebrew-enabled PSP that will convert a standard PSP battery into a jigkick battery.  Note that you can't then use that battery normally - so you should use a spare one.
   2. You run a program to generate the unbricker memory stick image, built from the v1.5 update EBOOT (note that this, and the custom IPL, means the release is completely free of Sony copyright materials).
   3. You run some programs on a PC to install the image to your memory stick.

Now, you have a battery/memory stick pair that works just like the famous jigkick combination (but better) - just insert them into any PSP (even a brick) and the PSP will be reinstalled with the v1.5 firmware.  As far as we know, this will continue to work for all future firmwares.

[Hoagie_one]

With that said, anyone have a bricked PSP they want to sell?

lol

[ahofle]

You got the sequencing wrong in your two posts. 

[SavannahLion]

---steaming pile of meadow muffin---. I should've picked up those bricked PSP's on CL last week.

[whatzcrackn]

With that said, anyone have a bricked PSP they want to sell?

lol

lol...the first thing I started thinking when I read this post! 

So do you offer the unbricking service?  I am all thumbs when it comes to things like this.

[Hoagie_one]

I don't currently have a working PSP, but I'm gonna alleviate that soon enough.

[boykster]

good timing...my psp just got soaked by an unfortunately spilled glass of water, and its still up in the air whether or not it will recover 

Time to find a bricked one off of ebay or somewhere....

[shmokes]

I just imagine that you are literally tripping over electronic devices in your home boykster.  What the eff do you do with all your old stuff?  I bet you've had every single generation of iPod, you get a new cell phone about once per year.  You don't even have to bother with condoms due to your abnormal exposure to electromagnetic radiation . . .

[boykster]

Believe it or not, small gadgets are less my thing than AV / automation stuff is.  The only portable gaming device I currently have is the PSP, I've owned a grand total of 3 cellphones in my life (razr v3 in my pocket right now - had it for 2-3 years), but I did recently snag a Nokia 770 internet tablet off of woot recently to play with.

Now as far as computers go, I'm flush there.  2 laptops, serveral "server" machines, and a couple of workstations...oh and 2 HTPC's.  I think I'm down to 7 machines that run 24x7 (from 10) so I consider that "downsizing".

My wife has an older iPod mini, and I have a first gen shuffle that I never use.  In fact I rarely know where it is 

As for old stuff, I tend to toss it in the closet and then once or twice a year have a big push to sell stuff on ebay.  I'm near due for one soon too....

[shmokes]

I'm actually pretty bad myself, frankly, and would be much worse if I wasn't spending so much time and money on school.  My wife makes fun of me all the time . . . but she loves it.  It's one of those things where I'm always working on projects, but I rarely actually use them.  As soon as I finish some project my wife starts actually enjoying it while I start on my next hair-brained scheme.

[boykster]

I used to work with a guy whose wife pretty much condoned any of his hairbrained projects / hobbies with one condition:  that he SOLD all the toys from his previous hair brained schemes before he started the next one....

 

My wife at first was resistant to the AV / home theater stuff, but she's accepted that its here to stay.  She reaps the rewards though, and frankly I think she watches our video system more than I do.