Pandora Battery Guide for Noobs

[dukepoth]

Originally Posted by Dahab

Dukepoth, you're saying that you need a homebrew PSP, so i've been hearing it can downgrade 3.52 official fw, how so?

Once the battery is made from a psp that runs homebrew it can then be used on any psp at any firmware, whether official or CFW doesnt matter.

[the begginer]

i heard something about if your nand is messed up you cannot unbrick is it true?

[Slyfox1]

Originally Posted by begginer

has anyone tried this on TA-082-TA-086 motherboards?

Yes. It detects the model and tells you it needs to be patched, press X and the patch is complete

[FF_Freak]

Originally Posted by aokuruwa

i think i know the answer. with the card and jigkick battery the psp will boot up using the files inside the memory card instead of the one in the psp. allowing you to downgrade any fw.

Whoaaaa, does that mean we can already downgrade the PSP slim? Can't wait to test it xDD (hahaha, just kidding) =p

[butmard]

Doubtful Sony knows now and is prolly working on a new way to fix there psp's

[MuTeD]

My favorite tutorial ever. Thank you.

[FF_Freak]

Hahahaha, what's the bet the the PSP slim's release is going to be delayed now?

[Country]

I just made my first pandoras battery, and I successfully downgraded a 3.11 psp with it. Great tut, by the way, only thing I would add is the problem that I ran into while making it, I had to refer back to the readme that comes with it to figure out what was going on. I had to remove my mem stick to disengage the usb connection. Otherwise My icons for pandoras installer and the battery in the game folder wouldn't show up, just a thought tho, I got through it and it works great!


Just a thought too, I had a problem with the word pad makin my "mspformat X" did it in notepad and it went right on through

[Gingernut]

Originally Posted by butmard

Doubtful Sony knows now and is prolly working on a new way to fix there psp's

It's probably a little late for sony to work on a fix for the first batch of PSP Slims. In Europe they are due out Sept 10 probably already shipped but I would not be suprised if something is done in the very near future.

Not to discredit all the very hard work that has and is been/being done but I can't help thinking that this is to encourage people to go out and buy a PSP now. Sony have alot of stock to get rid of, this is just a thought.

[sacko_ax]

I have tried using this guide, but i seem to have the same problem, i have an original pro duo, all i get is the green light will constantly stay on, the part that presume is going wrong is the msinst file, when i run it, the dos screen appears but it just flashes up there isnt even enough time for a print screen, has anyone got any idea in the msinst file i have
msinst.exe
msipl.bin
msinst.bat

[dukepoth]

Ok make sure you have the psp connected to the pc when you are trying to run the msinst.bat and I think the memcard has to be a 256mb or higher produo

[sacko_ax]

Yup its definitely connected, and the mem card is 4gb

[dukepoth]

You want me to msn you to help?

[sacko_ax]

Please appreciated

[BliND123]

Not sure if this is the best place for this question, but it is related to the whole Pandora thing....I wanted to know if once the MSPD is setup, could I add CFW installers on it and it still work to unbrick/downgrade? The smallest MSPD I have is 512MB so I want to use as much of that space as I can to unbrick and upgrade. Sort of like an all-in-one thing so I don't have to be switching MSPDs to do the rest of the stuff to get the PSP fully running normally again. But I don't know if that would screw up the MSPD and have to redo the setup so it can unbrick again, or will it still work? I want to put like official and a few custom firmware installers on it.