PSP Phats?

[Milkcan]

Apologies, but I'm an absolute newbie at this, so please bear with me. I'm getting a PSP phat today and I'm wondering if I have to have a Pandora battery in order to install custom firmware. I'll be getting one pre-owned, so there's a good chance it will have some older form of firmware on it, but I just want to make certain what I'll need to have in order to install everything. Thanks for any advice you guys can give.

[JGBlueSlim]

Wait to see what firmware it on it, than go from there. Depending what firmware it is you may have a few options, if not pandora may be your only way.

[tomaversa]

if your lucky it will already be at 1.50, since you can mod it from there without a pandora battery...it will most likely not be, but id wait to see if it is...if its not then ud have to go with a pandora battery and a mms.

[Piqueno8d]

I have a PSP Fat and it has/had a 3.10 E** firmware.
I downloaded the 4.10M33 firmware files as mentioned in a YOUTUBE video, followed avery instructions and after running it there was a message on my PSP saying :
UNPACKING .... DONE
Please wait

It stops there and does nothing. What must I do to solve this problem ?
Thank you.

[tomaversa]

please dont hijack peoples threads....i see you already posted this in a thread, so just keep it at that.

[kelon]

pandora battery + magic memory stick will be needed to get cfw.
unless it has v3.50 or less, then u can use lumnies

[didikay]

umm im in the same situation
i just got a old psp phat and its on firmware 2.1
i have no idea wot to do from now on
thx for any help