GUIDE TO::Making Pandora's Battery (*new method*) - Page 12

Midian · 11-27-2007, 03:48 AM

make sure your using the right drive
make sure you have a fresh msipl.bin
make sure your memory stick is over 256mb 1gb recommended

rooster4 · 11-28-2007, 01:14 AM

I don't understand what you mean miridian. please specify the drive etc.

Midian · 11-28-2007, 02:11 AM

the drive is going to be different for alot of people.
by drive, i mean the drive letter your psp gets when it plugged in (for example, when i plug in my psp and open my computer, my psp is labeled as "Removable Disk J" so i use the drive letter J)

so it looks like this:
C:\Documents and Settings\Midian> cd C:\msinst
C:\msinst> msinst J msipl.bin
and so on and so forth.

just type that in and replace J with your drive letter. make sure you use a capital letter. (no=j yes=J)

rooster4 · 11-28-2007, 02:15 AM

I have that for sure but i have another question. at the bottom of the DOS jumble it says check reserved sectors: to small reserved sectors. i googled around and found that some programs write their information directly to these sectors and this may be screwing everything up, and it just so happens that i was extracting from Winrar directly to my removale disk, i am going to extract to my comp. first and then to my disk and will report back.

rooster4 · 11-28-2007, 02:30 AM

I just tried what i previously posted and came up with the same result. this is exactly what it says:
C:\msinst>msinst i msipl.bin
PSP MS Installer
Load IPL code msipl.bin
241664 bytes(59 block) readed

Target DRIVE is 5
Check partation Sector
boot status 0x80
start head 0x0B
start sec/cyl 0x0012
partation type 0x06
last heade 0x3F
last sec/cyl 00xB50
abs sector 0x00000171
ttl sector 0x001DAE8F
signature 0xAA55
Check BPB Sector
signature AA55
Check free reserved sector:to small reserved sectors

C:\msinst>

rooster4 · 11-28-2007, 03:59 AM

i came i saw and i conquered. i figured it out on my own, thanks

sexybeast099 · 11-29-2007, 03:30 AM

Coolio rooster4. I had the same problem as you for a while but eventually got it working. I don't know how either and I'm kinda curious as to how you did. Explain for everyone's benefit please.

dmian_123 · 11-29-2007, 03:39 AM

this guide was really helpfull i created pandora battery on my first try and it worked so thx a bunch

Midian · 11-29-2007, 04:02 AM

yes you all are welcome, i know im a god lol
its ok to worship me between the hours of 1:00am-11:00pm and send me fan mail lol i accept money too ^_^

well, if anyone has any questions, feel free to post it here or pm me

alcaponeben · 11-30-2007, 01:20 AM

I'm on part 3, moving the partitions. I've placed the msinst and msipl files into the Local Disk (C

drive. In the command prompt, whenever I type cd C:\msinst or cd C:\msipl, I get the message "The system cannot find the path specified." I don't understand. Can you please explain to me why I am getting this message?

Midian · 11-30-2007, 03:36 AM

thats because you dont have them in the necessary spot alcaponeben.

make a folder in your C drive called "msinst" (no quotes " ")
then put the msipl.bin and msinst.exe in that folder

then open the command prompt and type in "cd C:\msinst\msinst ? msipl.bin"
again, no quotes and replace ? with a capital letter of your psp drive (example: cd C:\msinst\msinst J msipl.bin)

dudewitthehair69 · 11-30-2007, 05:01 AM

When i do this instead of partions moved it says "write MS BOOT CODE"
what does this mean?

bmtphoenix · 11-30-2007, 04:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dudewitthehair69

When i do this instead of partions moved it says "write MS BOOT CODE"
what does this mean?

It means you're doing it right!

bmtphoenix · 11-30-2007, 04:19 PM

I ran into the "doesn't ask yes or no" problem. I sort of combined the instructions here with the instructions on N00bz! to come up with this method. I'm not sure what part worked, but one of them did.

First I ran mspformat. It can be found in this package: "http://www.noobz.eu/joomla/news/pandoras-battery.html"

You put it in your C:, or root folder, get a cmd prompt, and type "cd mspformat" then "mspformat x" with x = your memory card's drive.

It'll ask if you're sure you want to format, say yes. Take the card out of the card reader and re-insert it. It should be blank. Format it again using Windows (right click the drive, format). NOW put all the files back on the card, open your cmd prompt back up and run msinst.

The second time it worked right...it asked the y/n question, did its thing, and everything else worked just like it should from there in the tutorial.

I honestly don't know if it was mspformat that did it or simply re-formatting the card and putting all the files back on it. I had already formatted it once before starting so I don't see how simply re-formatting could've solved the problem but I honestly don't know. Stranger things have happened.

toastmeister · 11-30-2007, 04:53 PM

hello, 1st post here.
well, what i wanted to say is, when i popped the bat. cover i didnt see any chip,only the battery itself, but it was a small chip where the "connector" is.
so i wonder if i am the luckiest guy alive that has a pandora proof bat...
well, better to say that im from sweden

and im writing this from my psp -_-