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August 24th, 2007, 12:46 GMT · By Alexandru Stanescu

How to Unbrick a PSP. Bad Mods Can Be Fixed!

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Yes, I know that modding your PSP is illegal, but is fixing it after a failed modding attempt illegal too? After all, it's just a second shot given to those noobs that bricked their PSP consoles... The bottom line is that now there's hope for every bricked PSP in the world as a group of hard-working homebrewers came up with a way to unbrick your favorite portable
console.

This initiative took the name of Prometheus project and involved lots of years of hard work and guess what? It's totally free! All of you owners of a bricked PSP listen up! You'll have to run "Pandora's Battery" on a normal PSP console, turning its battery into a "jigkick" on. Keep in mind that you won't be able to use it normally after this, but you can run a program in order to create an image that will help you in the unbricking process.

The image emulates an unbricker memory stick and should be installed on your memory with the aid of a PC. All you have to do afterwards is install the "jigkick" battery and the memory stick on the bricked PSP and it will come back to life, with the 1.50 firmware. See how tough it is to correct a gamer's mistake? That's what you get for modding a console nowadays... Thank God that this unbricking solution is free, as it would have been a pain to start paying for something that's not 100 percent sure to work.

It seems that the homebrewers have struck gold again with this program, but the bad part about this breakthrough is that people will start modding their consoles, since now there's no risk of bricking the PSP beyond repair.

* Note: We remind you that Softpedia.com does not support illegal activities like hacking or modding PSP consoles or any other gaming devices.
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Comment #1 by: andre on 05 Dec 2007, 09:04 UTC reply to this comment

hmm. considering that you can make a multi-battery (switchable between Pandora and normal mode) by just lifting pin 5 on the 93C56, methinks that "dead" PSP batteries will be very popular on the
2nd hand market.

btw once you've opened the broken pack you can do the "discharge to 2.9V then recharge" trick to repair it.


Comment #2 by: psp owner on 23 Apr 2009, 03:50 UTC reply to this comment

I would like to know how to unbrick it plz its bricked, be good to know how to unbrick it thanks!

Comment #2.1 by: coolguy on 03 Jul 2009, 03:15 GMT

psp owner, wat u need to do is go on youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoCD7WuZZ0o&feature=fvsr. it has 5 ways to unbrick your psp. BUT it wont work if you cant get into recovery mode on your psp...which i cant. so i am gunna go get this guy to unbrick it for me at eb games n them i am gunna buy a new battery, which is wat i would suggest if you cant get to recovery mode :)


Comment #3 by: jm on 10 May 2010, 14:14 UTC reply to this comment

Hi, I’ve installed this on my PSP 2000 TA-088v3 and it does not turn on now… nofin on screen.. just the green light.. WOuld someone pleaseeeeeeeeeeee pleaseeeeeeeee help me…


Comment #4 by: kiel on 18 Nov 2010, 13:18 UTC reply to this comment

please help. i', trying to hack my psp 2003 but suddenly when it restarts only the green lugh apper.


Comment #5 by: darkflux on 29 Aug 2011, 05:37 UTC reply to this comment

it is NOT illegal to mod your PSP, unless you are doing it to "pirate" games.

a court case recently VALIDATED the legality of Jailbreaking, as it is up to the END USER to decide the software they put on their hardware...

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