TRY PSP HACKING FOR DUMMIES!

HI! Welcome to Hacking for Dummies! If you're interested in not having bricked psp stew tonight, please read on! Yum!

(if you consider yourself a seasoned psp modder, then skip on to the post index, so you don't get lost :3)

What PSP do you have? (you better damn be reading this if you don't want your baby bricked)


IF YOURS IS A 1000 "Phat" ------ It doesn't matter what firmware you have. It's hackable. What's more, you can mod batteries into pandoras with it after you hack your psp.

Is it a 2000 "Slim"?------Then it probably is hackable,but careful! One certain motherboard version of the 2k's are in the "unhackable" category, like the 3k's. Refer to this link for more info>>> http://www.pspmod.com/forums/psp-beg...-hackable.html (How to tell if your Slim/2001 is hackable)

**and remember, if you find out that your 2k is in fact a TA-88v3, treat it as an unhackable, a 3k. If this is the case, read the category below.

Is it a 3000 "Brite"? Or did you find out yours is a 2k TA-88v3?-------Your PSP is "unhackable", yet there is still possibility for it be hacked. It absolutely needs to be 5.03 OFW or lower, if it's higher than this, then i'm afraid it falls to the category below.

Firsties Section - This covers info on how CFW began and finding out your mobo. The latter is of extreme importance. Unless you don't like your PSP that much *hinthint*


1. History of CFW

2. How to know your PSP's Mobo

Hackables Section - This covers stuff you can do on hackable PSP's, remember that any of these stuff can brick if tried on an unhackable.


3. How to Hack a Hackable PSP


4. How To Hack a PSP without a Pandora/MMS


5. How to Downgrade Firmware, and how to use Hellcat's Recovery Flasher


6. How to make your own MMS and Pandora Battery

7. How to Unbrick Your PSP



Unhackables Section - This covers hacking methods for the unhackables. Don't worry, you'll be alright if you follow instructions to the T.



8. How To "Hack" a PSP 3000/2000 TA-88v3


9. How to "Hack" a PSP 3000/Go with firmware higher 6.20 or lower

Miscellaneous Extras Section - This covers a lot of things, read up and see.



10. How to Decrypt/Patch Games requiring ofw 5.55 - 6.10


11. How to Install Popsloader and Running PSX Games


12. How to Make (Hardmod) a Pandora Battery


13. How to Convert Your PSX Games for PSP Play


14. How to Change your PSP's Faceplate


15. List of Popular Homebrew and Emulators













Key Terms:



OFW: original firmware



CFW: custom firmware



Homebrew: applications, games, etc. that can be run on your psp, but are not made by major companies, but by one or a few people.


Mobo: motherboard, the "mother ship" part of computers and consoles. The mobo version in psp's determines if you can hack it or not, and under which circumstances if you can.



MMS: magic memory stick. It's a memory stick used as a tool to hack psp's. Without the pandora, it is useless.



Pandora Battery: a battery modded to turn on your psp immediately; just by putting it in, running the psp in service mode. Without the MMS, it is useless.



XMB: Main menu of the PSP



Downloading a game iso: instant ban ticket



I will appreciate any help for this thread, if you have a guide you want shown here, don't hesitate to request it