Pandora Battery Guide for Noobs

dukepoth · 08-23-2007, 08:12 PM

Ive been seeing that alot of peole have been trying to get Pandoras battery to work but they are having trouble, so this is a little guide to help.

First I would like to thank the Noobz team and Team C+D for making this possible. All credit goes to them.

Requirements:
1. A hombrew enabled PSP (if your psp cant run homebrew it will not work)
2. The files you can get it from "HERE"
3. A memory stick Produo ( a 32mb non produo will not work)
4. A an extra battery not necessry but it is good to have one.

First you have to format your memstick with any tool. I use windows to format mines. So go to your psp drive letter and right click it and choose format. Then click start to start format. I dont know if its necessary but the readme states it so I do it.

Now it is time to run mspformat. The best way to run this is to make a .bat file. Open up a note or worpad and type in "mspformat X" ( replace X with the your psp drive letter.Then save the file as format.bat and place it where the mspformat.exe is. Now hook up your psp to your PC and double click the .bat that you just made. A dos window will pop up and ask you if you want to proceed. Type "Y" to and hit enter. It will take some time depending on the size of your memstick.

It should look like this.

After you are all done formatting, it is time to start putting files in the memstick. Extract the download that you downloaded if you have not done it already. Then go to your psp and make a folder called PSP. then inside of the PSP folder make a folder called GAME. After you are done go back to the download folder and open up the folder called "install" and take the 2 folder you see there and put it in the GAME folder you created. Then go to the folder called "battery" and take the 2 folders in there and put it in the GAME folder as well.

So your memstick should look like this.

X:\PSP\GAME\pbfirm_install pbfirm_install% and pandora_battery pandora_battery%

Now you must get the 1.5 EBOOT from "HERE". Unzip it and rename the EBOOT.PBP to UPDATE.PBP. THEN stick it in the root of your memstick. Then remove your memstick and put it back in.

After you got that done go to your xmb menu and run the Pandora installer. It should make all the files that it required including the msipl you will use to make the memstick bootable.

Ok after the installer has finish making all of the required files, it is time to run msinst.exe. Go back in to your psp and take the file msipl.bin that the installer created in your memstick and place it in the same folder as msinst.exe.. Open up notepad/word pad and type in msinst X msipl.bin(repace X with your psp driveletter). Then save it as msinst.bat and put it in the same folder as msinst.exe. Once done connect your psp to your PC and double click the .bat file you have made and a dos window will pop up and ask you to proceed. Type "Y" and hit enter.

It should look like this.

Now that you have all the files and are ready to make your battery. Go into your psp xmb and run Padora battery creator. When the screen finish loading it will give you some option like to create battery or return to normal and backup eeprom. I suggest you backup your eeprom just incase. After you have backup you eeprom, then run the creator program again and just press X on your psp and you are done!

NOTE: When starting up the battery make sure you dont have the AC charger plugged in.

If all goes well.
CONGRATS NOW YOU HAVE AN UNBRICKER BATTERY.

dejaynizmo · 08-23-2007, 08:13 PM

Nice guide

canadianbacon · 08-23-2007, 08:15 PM

Good post so people don't keep making new threads about it.

xayofoolx · 08-23-2007, 08:48 PM

Very nice guide bro

TexasBoy2084 · 08-23-2007, 09:08 PM

do you have to make a folder call MP_ROOT and put the 1.5 eboot into it?

dukepoth · 08-23-2007, 09:20 PM

No the root of your memstick is where the psp folder is, so put your EBOOT alongside the psp folder.

TexasBoy2084 · 08-23-2007, 09:24 PM

ok thank you

edit: i got a message 8002014c game could not be started.

dukepoth · 08-23-2007, 09:41 PM

Do you have a psp that can run homebrew cause if you dont it will not work.

TexasBoy2084 · 08-23-2007, 09:43 PM

well hell nope i don't

Bamhsc · 08-23-2007, 09:51 PM

Great guide man,

Just clearing something up though: "Then go to your psp and make a folder called PSP. then inside of the PSP folder make a folder called GAME. After you are done go back to the download folder and open up the folder called "install" and take the 2 folder you see there and put it in the GAME folder you created. Then go to the folder called "battery" and take the 2 folders in there and put it in the GAME folder as well."

If you are at a custom firmware, do you put it in GAME150? I know you wouldn't need to do this if you're at a custom firmware, but if someone just wanted to try it.

Chriscyco30 · 08-23-2007, 09:52 PM

nice post! alot of ppl like me will need this.

I vote for sticky.

the begginer · 08-23-2007, 10:49 PM

yeah no questions about it sticky hey dukepoth can i go back to 1.5 from custom firmware using the jig kik battery when i put in and the memory card the only that happens is the psp turns on but memory card does not do anything?

dukepoth · 08-23-2007, 10:52 PM

Yes it will work on any psp at any firmware. Doesnt matter CFW or not.

Well what type of memcard are you usingcause it will not work with a 32mb non-produo. If you do have the right memcard then you might have not done the ipl writing correctly.

the begginer · 08-23-2007, 10:55 PM

well its a 32 mb pro duo here is what it looks like:

dukepoth · 08-23-2007, 11:00 PM

As I dont have 32mb produo I cant tell you for sure if that card works or not but I am sure that the 32mb non-produo will not work and the files in the picture is correct but did you do the msinst.exe correctly. If so then it doesnt support that memcard.