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ya im young and dont no to much bout firmware all i know is i need it and i have no clue how some one walk me thru? i have a usb cable, a laptop (acer) and a psp (phat) HELP ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah, you DO need a lot of help. For starters, you should know that you already do have a firmware on your PSP but it is the official Sony firmware. What firmware is it? To find this, goto settings, system information, and it should be there!

We're going to need to have to ask you a lot of questions in order to get you started with getting a "custom firmware" on your PSP. That's what you're going to need to play homebrew games and emulators so that you can play Super Mario and stuff on your PSP.

-DarkPacMan77-

Yup.

For starters a Phat psp is good to have!
so your in luck we just need to know those questions.

ask away sir i need all the help i can get

As DarkPacMan77 said, what firmware do you currently have?

software version 6.10 idk bout firmware version..

That's your firmware!

You got it, it takes time to learn these things

Anyway, you're going to have to make a Pandora Battery (You need a PSP Phat Battery and a Memory card more than 256 mb) if you have those we can help you farther.

Honestly I've been out of the loop a bit and I don't know if you can use your current battery then pandora it, then go back to normal.

i gots both those and not converting it back is cool i guess

Do you know of someone with an already Customized firmware PSP?

if i did i wouldnt be buggin u guys

LOL, well, there's three routes. See, in order to make "Pandora's Battery", you need to use a PSP that already has a custom firmware to create the battery. However, there are variants that you can purchase online such as the Datel Tool which is essentially a Pandora's Battery but marketed through the company Datel. You can also make one yourself if you have skills with a soldering iron and a technology background, but I'll assume you don't right now (no offense). This involves pulling the battery apart and physically modifying it in order to become a "Pandora's Battery".

The term we are referring to, "Pandora's Battery", or PD, is a type of hack for the PSP's battery that changes the serial number of the battery to a different sequence which allows the loading of a custom (IPL) Initial Program Load. Basically, what this means in lamen terms, is that it "makes the PSP a blank slate" in the sense that it allows you to "downgrade" to an incomplete version of PSP Firmware 1.50. From there, you can easily update to custom firmware.

The choice is yours. Like mentioned above, you would need a memory card that is 256mb or larger and preferably a "SanDisk" branded one (many users find that they are faster than Sony's).

1. Find someone with a hacked PSP and ask them for assistance.
2. Buy a pre-made Pandora's Battery online or a Datel Tool (make sure to get the original and not the slim model).
3. Modify the battery yourself.

You can make a PD turn back to normal if you software mod it with another PSP that has custom firmware, that's the easiest way. However, if you opt to modify the battery yourself, there are methods of installing a "switch" on the side of the battery to change between modes as well. We have two guides in our Tutorials Section that you can read in order to obtain more information about what you may need. I've gone ahead and added those two guides as hyperlinks below

Tutorial for the creation of Pandora's Battery: Written by: DarkPacMan77
Tutorial for manually modifying a battery into Pandora's Battery Written by: brentbizzle.

Please feel free to ask any and all questions no matter how stupid or insignificant they may seem to you. If you cause the PSP to brick, you'll be forced into buying a pre-made PD or Tool in order to restore your PSP to normal, but at LEAST you should know that if you mess it up - you'll still be able to fix it yourself and we can help you

-DarkPacMan77-

to format the memory card and upload customfirmware?

BKF Edit- Not helpful. He said his firmware was 6.1 where your "tutorial" serves 5.0.

Edited to lessen confusion.

woops... just missed the 6.1 post

No, unfortunately, it just isn't that easy. The memory card has to hold the files for the custom firmware and then those files are uploaded onto the PSP and take place of your existing 6.10 firmware. It's kind of like updating like you normally would only you need to first trick the battery into downgrading to 1.50 before you can do the update. The methods I listed are pretty much your only options.

-DarkPacMan77-

woah woah woah woah!!! since when does the M33 work on 6.1????