rennervision
October 22nd, 2008, 17:11
Hello everyone.
I hacked my PSP Slim about a year ago, and I thought I should buy another one as a gift before they all have the TA-088v3 motherboards. To make a long story short, I was successful in hacking this new one, but I ran into some unforeseen problems (including bricking it during the process!).
So at this point it's for my own curiousity as to why I'm asking this. I would love to know what I was doing wrong.
I ordered the limited edition Daxter bundle (the one with the silver PSP Slim), thinking it was older and would be my best bet to get a motherboard compatible with my Pandora battery. When I first booted it up, I was happy to see it had OFW 3.72. I say this because that is exactly what the firmware was on the other one I successfully hacked a year ago. So even though there's about 800 different CFW installers floating around on the internet for various models of PSPs, I knew I could do exactly what I did before with no worries. Simple right?
Well, my problems began immediately. I was using the Pandora Universal Downgrader Easy Installer to create a MMS and install 3.71-M33. But everytime I clicked on step 4 it would immediately indicate it was finished, and there would be no files on the MMS. (I'm still using XP like I did the last time I did this by the way.)
So I thought maybe there was something wrong with the memory stick. I took out the 1gb stick (which came with the bundle) and tried a 256mb stick I used when I hacked my last one. Same problem - no files on the MMS even though the installer indicated it's complete.
So now I have no idea what's wrong. I download a different installer (Total Newbie Installer) and it seems to be working like a charm. It installs a bunch of files on the 256mb stick and it looks like I'm ready to go.
I insert the Pandora battery, the green light comes on, but the screen is black. I'm not sure what went wrong after that, but I can only assume I pressed a wrong button - because after I removed Pandora, the PSP would no longer boot. Dang, I bricked it.
It was then I realized I still had my original 3.71-M33 install files saved on my hard drive for my last PSP. (These were the very files I created with the Pandora Universal Downgrader Easy Installer last year.) I transferred those to my 256mb stick, reinserted Pandora and - thank goodness - I now have a menu with an option to install custom firmware. Aside from the fact that I have no way now to backup my nand, all is good.
But I just don't get it. How come I can use the same installer on the same memory stick with another PSP Slim using the same official firmware and create a MMS? But on the new silver slim it doesn't work? If I hadn't already had a hacked PSP with MMS files saved, I have no idea how I could have fixed this!
I hacked my PSP Slim about a year ago, and I thought I should buy another one as a gift before they all have the TA-088v3 motherboards. To make a long story short, I was successful in hacking this new one, but I ran into some unforeseen problems (including bricking it during the process!).
So at this point it's for my own curiousity as to why I'm asking this. I would love to know what I was doing wrong.
I ordered the limited edition Daxter bundle (the one with the silver PSP Slim), thinking it was older and would be my best bet to get a motherboard compatible with my Pandora battery. When I first booted it up, I was happy to see it had OFW 3.72. I say this because that is exactly what the firmware was on the other one I successfully hacked a year ago. So even though there's about 800 different CFW installers floating around on the internet for various models of PSPs, I knew I could do exactly what I did before with no worries. Simple right?
Well, my problems began immediately. I was using the Pandora Universal Downgrader Easy Installer to create a MMS and install 3.71-M33. But everytime I clicked on step 4 it would immediately indicate it was finished, and there would be no files on the MMS. (I'm still using XP like I did the last time I did this by the way.)
So I thought maybe there was something wrong with the memory stick. I took out the 1gb stick (which came with the bundle) and tried a 256mb stick I used when I hacked my last one. Same problem - no files on the MMS even though the installer indicated it's complete.
So now I have no idea what's wrong. I download a different installer (Total Newbie Installer) and it seems to be working like a charm. It installs a bunch of files on the 256mb stick and it looks like I'm ready to go.
I insert the Pandora battery, the green light comes on, but the screen is black. I'm not sure what went wrong after that, but I can only assume I pressed a wrong button - because after I removed Pandora, the PSP would no longer boot. Dang, I bricked it.
It was then I realized I still had my original 3.71-M33 install files saved on my hard drive for my last PSP. (These were the very files I created with the Pandora Universal Downgrader Easy Installer last year.) I transferred those to my 256mb stick, reinserted Pandora and - thank goodness - I now have a menu with an option to install custom firmware. Aside from the fact that I have no way now to backup my nand, all is good.
But I just don't get it. How come I can use the same installer on the same memory stick with another PSP Slim using the same official firmware and create a MMS? But on the new silver slim it doesn't work? If I hadn't already had a hacked PSP with MMS files saved, I have no idea how I could have fixed this!