Hello,
I'm hoping someone can help me. I'm a newbie at this and do not have a clue. I am trying to convert my PSP to custom firmware so I can play games off of my memory card. I am currently running 3.72 original firmware on my PSP slim. I recently bought a pandora battery and am trying to figure out how to use it. I downloaded 3.51 M33 firmware uploaded it to the root of my 1gb magic duo memory card. When I put the pandora battery in the green power light automatically turns on and I get a blank screen. Nothing happens. If anybody could help me I would greatly appreciate it.
Thank you,
Dan
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Pandora's Battery by the Team C+D
-------------------------------------
What is it?
-----------
A universal PSP unbricker / downgrader by the Prometheus project, also known as Team C+D (Create & Destroy).
It´s a set consisting of a Jigkick Battery and a Magic Memory Stick which will allow you to:
* Unbrick and downgrade any PSP-100* (TA-079 - TA-086) (Old "fat" PSPs).
* Downgrade any PSP-100* (TA-079 - TA-086) from any SONY official firmware (i.e. 3.71) or CFW back to 1.50
Requirements
--------------
In order to obtain one you will need the following:
* A Fat PSP with a Custom Firmware such as OE, M33 or WC, or a fat PSP with the 1.5 original kernel. You can borrow your friend's, girlfriend's etc if yours is not homebrew capable yet.
* A spare PSP Battery. Not all makes will work (Read the Compatibility Section bellow). Using a spare is best, as it will not be possible to boot the PSP in its normal state with the modified battery, although there is a "trick" if you only have one battery (Explained further down).
* A spare Memory Stick Pro Duo of less than 4GB. 64MB should be enough for all the required applications.
* Pandora's Battery software by the Team C+D
* Official SONY v1.50 Firmware Update EBOOT:
o Download it from QJ-Net [ZIP Format]
o Download it from PSP-Hacks.Com [ZIP Format]
IMPORTANT: This guide will assume that you are running a Windows XP Operative System in your PC. It´s well know Windows Vista may give a "open error (read)" error message when using mspformat.exe, if that happens to you, install and use Windows XP instead or try a Live Linux Distro (Knoppix, kUbuntu, ...) and try following the Unix instructions . For Unix and Mac users there are some alternative instructions for the command line available (Just make sure you really know what you´re doing).[/li][/list]
Compatibility
--------------
A) Memory Stick:
* They MUST be PRO Duo. As long as it's PRO Duo it should work. Memory Stick Duo will NOT work.
* They MUST be able to hold all the required files (At least 64MB, though it's recommended more). Also, they should be no bigger than 4GB.
Battery:
* Compatible:
- Sony PSP-100, 1800mAh, 3.6v - Normally bundled with PSPs.
- Sony PSP-280, 2200mAh, 3.6v.
- Datel Go Max GM100, Reusable Battery Pack. USes 3xAAA batteries. The serial resets itself to zeroes once the bateries are removed.
- Datel X2, 3600maH
- Datel MAX Power, 1800maH, 3.6v (Two models, Black [Model No LB1000] and Silver)
* Not compatible
- Sony PSP Slim Battery, 1200mAH, 3.6v, PSP-S110
- MEGA Lithium, 2600 mAh, 3.6v
- Sony (Fake) PSP-280, 2200mAh, 3.6v
- Unknown brand TYP-107, 3600mAh, 3.6v (Gold Letters)
- Unknown brand PSP-360, 3600mAh, 3.6v (Silver Letters)
Visit the following link for a Visual Guide.
MS-DOS Prompt Window
-------------------------
You may need some DOS knowledge, since some of the tools required for the process come under the way of DOS executable. For a quick introduction on basic DOS commands, check this TUTORIAL.
Uncompressing the software
------------------------------
Download Pandora´s Battery Software from the above link. Unzip the "pandora.zip" file with the help of your favourite compatible uncompressor (i.e. WinRAR, WinZIP) into your local hard drive. For the guide we are going to create first a folder called PANDORA, in the root of our Hard Drive C:\ and then we are going to uncompress the contents in it. Once done, you should have the following folder structure:
C:\PANDORA\battery\pandora_battery
C:\PANDORA\battery\pandora_battery%
C:\PANDORA\installer\pbfirm_install
C:\PANDORA\installer\pbfirm_install%
C:\PANDORA\msinst
C:\PANDORA\mspformat
If your Hard Drive is D:\, make sure you do the approrpiate changes (swapping C:\ for D:\ from this point).
Creating the Magic Memory Stick and the Jigkick Battery
----------------------------------------------------------
1.- Insert the Memory Stick in the PSP.
2.- Format the Memory Stick via the Menu of your PSP within Settings.
3.- Connect the PSP to your PC through the USB Cable and enable the USB Mode in the PSP Settings.
4.- Open an MS-DOS Prompt window. To do that, click on the "Start" menu (at the lower left of your Windows screen) and select "Run...". Then type "cmd" (no quotation marks) into the box and click "OK"
5.- Type "cd C:\PANDORA\mspformat" (no quotation marks) and press Enter.
6.- Type "mspformat <pspdrive>" (no quotation marks, and swap <pspdrive> for the letter assigned to your PSP drive, i.e. mspformat F) and press Enter.
7.- It will asks you to press Y to continue. Do it.
- After a few seconds you should see the following message "Drive succesfully formatted, and partition moved", indicating everything´s gone OK. Go to the next step.
- If you see the message "Pseudo format is not necessary" instead, it´s still OK. Go to the next step.
- If you see the following error message "open error (read)" you are likely to be using Windows Vista. Mspformat.exe will NOT work in Vista, so you should find a Windows XP or MacOS or Unix (Linux) computer instead.
8.- Once finished, disable the USB Mode safely and remove the Memory Stick.
9.- Insert the Memory Stick again, and enable the USB connection of the PSP.
10.- Manually create the /PSP/GAME folders on the root if the Memory Stick (Also, if you are in CFW, create PSP/GAME150 as well).
11.- Copy the folders pandora_battery, pandora_battery%, pbfirm_install and pbfirm_install% and its contents (Remember we uncompressed everything into C:\PANDORA already?) to the folder PSP/GAME in your Memory Stick (If you are on CWF you should copy them into PSP/GAME150 instead).
12.- Download the 1.50 Official SONY Update File from any of the download links above. Unzip the 1.50 update to a temporary folder. Rename the unzipped 1.50 EBOOT.PBP file to UPDATE.PBP. Then copy it into the root of your Memory Stick.
13.- Disable the USB Mode safely.
14.- Go to the GAME Menu of your PSP, select the Memory Stick and press X, then select "Pandora's Battery Firm. Installer" and press X. This application will create the firmware files on the root of the Memory Stick, as well as another one called msipl.bin.
15.- Enable the USB connection of the PSP.
16.- Browse to your Memory Stick Contents and copy the file msipl.bin from the root of your Memory Stick into the folder C:\PANDORA\msinst\ of your Hard Drive
17.- Go to the MS-DOS Prompt window we opened in the beginning or open a new one if you got rid of it.
18.- Type "cd C:\PANDORA\msinst" (no quotation marks) and press Enter.
19.- Type "msinst <pspdrive> msipl.bin" (no quotation marks, and again swap <pspdrive> for the letter assigned to your PSP drive, i.e. msinst F msipl.bin) and press Enter
20.- It will asks you to press Y to continue. Do it.
21.- Once finished, disable the USB Mode safely.
22.- Go to the GAME Menu of your PSP, select the Memory Stick and press X, then select "Pandora's Battery Creator" and press X. This program will let you convert the regular battery into the Jigkick Battery. Once loaded the program will show some information on screen:
* Current Serial: It tells you the current serial of your Battery EEPROM.
* Options:
o X Button: Convert the regular battery into Jigkick Battery (aka Pandora´s Battery)
o Square Button: Revert the Jickick Battery into a regular one.
o O button: Converts the battery into a regular battery that auto-power on the PSP when inserted.
o Triangle button: Back up the serial of your battery EEPROM (eeprom.bin), to recover it at a later stage to its original condition.
o L+R Buttons: Flash the serial backed up previously from the eeprom.bin in the root of the Memory Stick.
o HOME button: Exits
- Since every Serial is specific for every battery, before you proceed to convert your battery to Pandora´s we recommend you to back up your serial first by pressing the Triangle button. It will be backed up into the file eeprom.bin in the root of your Memory Stick and the program will exit to the XMB. Keep that eeprom.bin file in a secure place in case you would like to convert your Pandora´s battery back to a normal one in the future. Finally you can run Battery Creator again, but this time you can press X and your battery will (hopefully) be converted to a Jigkick Battery.
23.- Congratulation, you are now in posession of a "Magic Memory Stick" and a "JigKick Battery".
Usage
------
* Just grab any bricked PSP-100* or a working PSP-100* running any firmware.
* Remove the regular battery and memory stick if applicable.
* Insert the Magic Memory Stick into the PSP
* Remove power cord and insert the JigKick Battery into the PSP.
* The PSP will boot up automatically showing a Menu on screen.
* Follow the on screen information and options:
o X Button: To downgrade using the ms0:/UPDATE.PBP file.
o O button: To backup NAND to ms0:/nand-dump.bin
o Square button: To restore NAND from mso:/nand-dump.bin. Another two options here:
+ L+R+Start+Select to restore NAND with IDStorage Keys: Use this option ONLY if the nand-dump-bin file coms from your own PSP. Otherwise you will mess your IDStorage and the UMD Drive, Wifi, etc will stop working.
+ X to restore NAND without the IDStorage Keys: This is the safe option if you are installing a nand-dump.bin file coming from a different PSP. Also valid if you just do not want to rewrite your own IDStorage keys.
- The restore NAND option won´t work straightaway and will give you a "Cannot Open File" error. Read the toubleshooting section for a simple workaround.
IMPORTANT NOTES
-------------------
- It is strongly RECOMMENDED to make a flash dump of the PSP before any downgrading operation.
- There might be a BSOD at the end of the downgrade. This is normal, and happens on the standard downgraders.
- All hardware revisions known at this day are supported.
- This release contains no Sony-copyrighted material. All required Sony data is generated from the v1.50 update files.
http://forums.noobz.eu/downgrader-support/...torial-guide/0/
Pandora's Battery by the Team C+D
-------------------------------------
What is it?
-----------
A universal PSP unbricker / downgrader by the Prometheus project, also known as Team C+D (Create & Destroy).
It´s a set consisting of a Jigkick Battery and a Magic Memory Stick which will allow you to:
* Unbrick and downgrade any PSP-100* (TA-079 - TA-086) (Old "fat" PSPs).
* Downgrade any PSP-100* (TA-079 - TA-086) from any SONY official firmware (i.e. 3.71) or CFW back to 1.50
Requirements
--------------
In order to obtain one you will need the following:
* A Fat PSP with a Custom Firmware such as OE, M33 or WC, or a fat PSP with the 1.5 original kernel. You can borrow your friend's, girlfriend's etc if yours is not homebrew capable yet.
* A spare PSP Battery. Not all makes will work (Read the Compatibility Section bellow). Using a spare is best, as it will not be possible to boot the PSP in its normal state with the modified battery, although there is a "trick" if you only have one battery (Explained further down).
* A spare Memory Stick Pro Duo of less than 4GB. 64MB should be enough for all the required applications.
* Pandora's Battery software by the Team C+D
* Official SONY v1.50 Firmware Update EBOOT:
o Download it from QJ-Net [ZIP Format]
o Download it from PSP-Hacks.Com [ZIP Format]
IMPORTANT: This guide will assume that you are running a Windows XP Operative System in your PC. It´s well know Windows Vista may give a "open error (read)" error message when using mspformat.exe, if that happens to you, install and use Windows XP instead or try a Live Linux Distro (Knoppix, kUbuntu, ...) and try following the Unix instructions . For Unix and Mac users there are some alternative instructions for the command line available (Just make sure you really know what you´re doing).[/li][/list]
Compatibility
--------------
A) Memory Stick:
* They MUST be PRO Duo. As long as it's PRO Duo it should work. Memory Stick Duo will NOT work.
* They MUST be able to hold all the required files (At least 64MB, though it's recommended more). Also, they should be no bigger than 4GB.
Battery:* Compatible:
- Sony PSP-100, 1800mAh, 3.6v - Normally bundled with PSPs.
- Sony PSP-280, 2200mAh, 3.6v.
- Datel Go Max GM100, Reusable Battery Pack. USes 3xAAA batteries. The serial resets itself to zeroes once the bateries are removed.
- Datel X2, 3600maH
- Datel MAX Power, 1800maH, 3.6v (Two models, Black [Model No LB1000] and Silver)
* Not compatible
- Sony PSP Slim Battery, 1200mAH, 3.6v, PSP-S110
- MEGA Lithium, 2600 mAh, 3.6v
- Sony (Fake) PSP-280, 2200mAh, 3.6v
- Unknown brand TYP-107, 3600mAh, 3.6v (Gold Letters)
- Unknown brand PSP-360, 3600mAh, 3.6v (Silver Letters)
Visit the following link for a Visual Guide.
MS-DOS Prompt Window
-------------------------
You may need some DOS knowledge, since some of the tools required for the process come under the way of DOS executable. For a quick introduction on basic DOS commands, check this TUTORIAL.
Uncompressing the software
------------------------------
Download Pandora´s Battery Software from the above link. Unzip the "pandora.zip" file with the help of your favourite compatible uncompressor (i.e. WinRAR, WinZIP) into your local hard drive. For the guide we are going to create first a folder called PANDORA, in the root of our Hard Drive C:\ and then we are going to uncompress the contents in it. Once done, you should have the following folder structure:
C:\PANDORA\battery\pandora_battery
C:\PANDORA\battery\pandora_battery%
C:\PANDORA\installer\pbfirm_install
C:\PANDORA\installer\pbfirm_install%
C:\PANDORA\msinst
C:\PANDORA\mspformat
If your Hard Drive is D:\, make sure you do the approrpiate changes (swapping C:\ for D:\ from this point).
Creating the Magic Memory Stick and the Jigkick Battery
----------------------------------------------------------
1.- Insert the Memory Stick in the PSP.
2.- Format the Memory Stick via the Menu of your PSP within Settings.
3.- Connect the PSP to your PC through the USB Cable and enable the USB Mode in the PSP Settings.
4.- Open an MS-DOS Prompt window. To do that, click on the "Start" menu (at the lower left of your Windows screen) and select "Run...". Then type "cmd" (no quotation marks) into the box and click "OK"
5.- Type "cd C:\PANDORA\mspformat" (no quotation marks) and press Enter.
6.- Type "mspformat <pspdrive>" (no quotation marks, and swap <pspdrive> for the letter assigned to your PSP drive, i.e. mspformat F) and press Enter.
7.- It will asks you to press Y to continue. Do it.
- After a few seconds you should see the following message "Drive succesfully formatted, and partition moved", indicating everything´s gone OK. Go to the next step.
- If you see the message "Pseudo format is not necessary" instead, it´s still OK. Go to the next step.
- If you see the following error message "open error (read)" you are likely to be using Windows Vista. Mspformat.exe will NOT work in Vista, so you should find a Windows XP or MacOS or Unix (Linux) computer instead.
8.- Once finished, disable the USB Mode safely and remove the Memory Stick.
9.- Insert the Memory Stick again, and enable the USB connection of the PSP.
10.- Manually create the /PSP/GAME folders on the root if the Memory Stick (Also, if you are in CFW, create PSP/GAME150 as well).
11.- Copy the folders pandora_battery, pandora_battery%, pbfirm_install and pbfirm_install% and its contents (Remember we uncompressed everything into C:\PANDORA already?) to the folder PSP/GAME in your Memory Stick (If you are on CWF you should copy them into PSP/GAME150 instead).
12.- Download the 1.50 Official SONY Update File from any of the download links above. Unzip the 1.50 update to a temporary folder. Rename the unzipped 1.50 EBOOT.PBP file to UPDATE.PBP. Then copy it into the root of your Memory Stick.
13.- Disable the USB Mode safely.
14.- Go to the GAME Menu of your PSP, select the Memory Stick and press X, then select "Pandora's Battery Firm. Installer" and press X. This application will create the firmware files on the root of the Memory Stick, as well as another one called msipl.bin.
15.- Enable the USB connection of the PSP.
16.- Browse to your Memory Stick Contents and copy the file msipl.bin from the root of your Memory Stick into the folder C:\PANDORA\msinst\ of your Hard Drive
17.- Go to the MS-DOS Prompt window we opened in the beginning or open a new one if you got rid of it.
18.- Type "cd C:\PANDORA\msinst" (no quotation marks) and press Enter.
19.- Type "msinst <pspdrive> msipl.bin" (no quotation marks, and again swap <pspdrive> for the letter assigned to your PSP drive, i.e. msinst F msipl.bin) and press Enter
20.- It will asks you to press Y to continue. Do it.
21.- Once finished, disable the USB Mode safely.
22.- Go to the GAME Menu of your PSP, select the Memory Stick and press X, then select "Pandora's Battery Creator" and press X. This program will let you convert the regular battery into the Jigkick Battery. Once loaded the program will show some information on screen:
* Current Serial: It tells you the current serial of your Battery EEPROM.
* Options:
o X Button: Convert the regular battery into Jigkick Battery (aka Pandora´s Battery)
o Square Button: Revert the Jickick Battery into a regular one.
o O button: Converts the battery into a regular battery that auto-power on the PSP when inserted.
o Triangle button: Back up the serial of your battery EEPROM (eeprom.bin), to recover it at a later stage to its original condition.
o L+R Buttons: Flash the serial backed up previously from the eeprom.bin in the root of the Memory Stick.
o HOME button: Exits
- Since every Serial is specific for every battery, before you proceed to convert your battery to Pandora´s we recommend you to back up your serial first by pressing the Triangle button. It will be backed up into the file eeprom.bin in the root of your Memory Stick and the program will exit to the XMB. Keep that eeprom.bin file in a secure place in case you would like to convert your Pandora´s battery back to a normal one in the future. Finally you can run Battery Creator again, but this time you can press X and your battery will (hopefully) be converted to a Jigkick Battery.
23.- Congratulation, you are now in posession of a "Magic Memory Stick" and a "JigKick Battery".
Usage
------
* Just grab any bricked PSP-100* or a working PSP-100* running any firmware.
* Remove the regular battery and memory stick if applicable.
* Insert the Magic Memory Stick into the PSP
* Remove power cord and insert the JigKick Battery into the PSP.
* The PSP will boot up automatically showing a Menu on screen.
* Follow the on screen information and options:
o X Button: To downgrade using the ms0:/UPDATE.PBP file.
o O button: To backup NAND to ms0:/nand-dump.bin
o Square button: To restore NAND from mso:/nand-dump.bin. Another two options here:
+ L+R+Start+Select to restore NAND with IDStorage Keys: Use this option ONLY if the nand-dump-bin file coms from your own PSP. Otherwise you will mess your IDStorage and the UMD Drive, Wifi, etc will stop working.
+ X to restore NAND without the IDStorage Keys: This is the safe option if you are installing a nand-dump.bin file coming from a different PSP. Also valid if you just do not want to rewrite your own IDStorage keys.
- The restore NAND option won´t work straightaway and will give you a "Cannot Open File" error. Read the toubleshooting section for a simple workaround.
IMPORTANT NOTES
-------------------
- It is strongly RECOMMENDED to make a flash dump of the PSP before any downgrading operation.
- There might be a BSOD at the end of the downgrade. This is normal, and happens on the standard downgraders.
- All hardware revisions known at this day are supported.
- This release contains no Sony-copyrighted material. All required Sony data is generated from the v1.50 update files.
QUOTE(dan1chris2 @ Apr 15 2008, 05:55 PM) 
Hello,
I'm hoping someone can help me. I'm a newbie at this and do not have a clue. I am trying to convert my PSP to custom firmware so I can play games off of my memory card. I am currently running 3.72 original firmware on my PSP slim. I recently bought a pandora battery and am trying to figure out how to use it. I downloaded 3.51 M33 firmware uploaded it to the root of my 1gb magic duo memory card. When I put the pandora battery in the green power light automatically turns on and I get a blank screen. Nothing happens. If anybody could help me I would greatly appreciate it.
Thank you,
Dan
I'm hoping someone can help me. I'm a newbie at this and do not have a clue. I am trying to convert my PSP to custom firmware so I can play games off of my memory card. I am currently running 3.72 original firmware on my PSP slim. I recently bought a pandora battery and am trying to figure out how to use it. I downloaded 3.51 M33 firmware uploaded it to the root of my 1gb magic duo memory card. When I put the pandora battery in the green power light automatically turns on and I get a blank screen. Nothing happens. If anybody could help me I would greatly appreciate it.
Thank you,
Dan
Have a look here: http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/591203
Since you have a Pandora's Battery already you can ignore the part about cutting pins, but you need to set up the memory stick with your PC to use your Pandora's Battery. It should all be in the link.
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