[GUIDE]{ANY PSP} Pandora | Universal PSP Unbricker/3.71 M33 installer

[Bobtentpeg]

This was made through the best partnership of homebrew makers, hackers, adn demiGods ever in the history of a hacking scene. I would like to recognize those people for their fantastic releases, adn this is by far one of the best, if not THE best

But as with all of these, nothing is garunteed, adn YOU MUST HAVE ACCESS TO A NONBRICKED PSP


Making The Pandoras Battery and Memory Stick
If you already have one, skip this step and preceed to the next part
Secondly
Obtain the following
1. A bricked PSP
2. A nonbricked PSP that can run homebrew; 256+mb MS PRO DUO. non PRO will not work
3. A battery
4. Download this : http://dl.qj.net/dl.php?fid=14414


unrar it with winrar
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move the "Pandorasbox Setup.exe" into C:/
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Start it
press Install.
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Now find the folder that you extracted originally and double click the "Shortcut to Pandora's Box.exe"
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Click Pandora's Battery REquirements; make sure you meet them
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press OK
Click on Pandora's Box Easier-Installer For Pandora's Battery
You should get a Command Window
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press 1 then enter

***Note***
If you ant to save the files on yur Memory Stick, do so now.
***NOTE***
Now enter your PSPs drive letter. Just the letter no : or :/. Im my case its G
Now insert the memory stick you wish to use as the Pandora's MAgic MS
Press 1 then Enter
Press Y then Enter
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***CAUTION***
This WILL erase your memory stick, and all files will be lost. dont say i didnt warn you
***CAUTION***
AFter you press Y you should see the following SCreen
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press 1 then Enter if you do, if not, retry
Exit USB
Remove then replace your MS
RE-enter USB mode
Press 1 then Enter
Wiat
You should get the following screen
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if so, press 1 then Enter, if not, restart at beginning
Now put the battery you wish to use as your Pandora's Magic Battery in your PSP.
press 1 then enter
Exit USB
Go to Game on your memory stick and launch "Pandora's Battery Creator"
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After program has loaded press triangle
Press 1 then Enter
It should say dumping, then done and exit.
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REstart "Pandora's Battery Creator"
Press X
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Should say done and exit
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Press 1 then Enter
now start "Pandoras Battery Firm. Installer
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press X
It will display the following screen then exit
RE-enter USB mode
Press 1 the Enter
You should se the following screen
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Press 1 then Enter 2 times
Press Y then Enter
Should See Following Screen
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Press 1 the Enter***
Your done with this step, move on to the next***


Modifying The Memory Stick files to work as an Unbricker
Download the 3.71 , 3.40, and 1.50 eboots 3.71 Here (http://www.sendspace.com/file/vki46d) 3.40 here(Rename to 340.PBP) (http://dl.qj.net/dl.php?fid=13547) and 150 Here(rename to 150.PBP (http://dl.qj.net/dl.php?fid=163)
Place it on the root of your MS.
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Download this (http://www.sendspace.com/file/7m5mvv)
Extract it and place the despertar_cementerio in PSP/GAME
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Run the program
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(if you get the Needs firmwre 271 or higher message, go into recovery mode and turn GAME FOLDER KERNEL to 3.XX)
Press X
Wait
Now you have the Battery and Memory Stick needed to unbrick a PSP.[/size][/color]

Unbricking The PSP
Put the Battery and MS in the PSP you wish to unbrick
(On slim you won't see menu, remember that)

- Press X to install 3.71M33. On slim (blind installation), you will see orange led flashing, that means that 371.PBP is being written. When finished, orange and green leds will be flashing, done artificially by the program to know that it's working. On fat, once finished, you will have to press X to shutdown. Restart manually,

get BSOD, press O and you will be on 3.71m33.

- Press O to install original 3.71 (rest of the process as the X option)

- Press [] to dump nand to nand-dump.bin. When done, psp will auto shutdown.

- Press L+R+HOME+start to restore nand from nand-dump.bin

[cal360]

Nice tutorial, but could you make the font smaller, a lot smaller it's too hard to read.

[The EX]

Jesus christ, you trying to kill our eyes? Make the images, and text smaller.

[Bobtentpeg]

sorry about the the font size thing, i just migrated this guide over from psphacking101.com where i originally write it.

and The Ex
the images are fine when the test is the correct size

[thehaxor]

Does This Work With 3.72 Psp Lite
and im srry if you think im dumb becuase it says any psp
but i dont want a brick

[BliZzx]

Hi, um die Pandora Battery zu erstellen, brauch ich da vorher nen Homebrewföhige psp???

[Bobtentpeg]

Does This Work With 3.72 Psp Lite
and im srry if you think im dumb becuase it says any psp
but i dont want a brick
Yes, but you have to have a homebrew enabled PSP to make it AKA a PSP with 1.5 or a custom firmware

Hi, um die Pandora Battery zu erstellen, brauch ich da vorher nen Homebrewföhige psp???
???? :confused:
english please, as this is an english forum :)

[Shadowblind]

Fun interesting fact: After the leds were flashing for a while, I took the battery out of my Slim. And it bricked. And I got it today. Wasn't this supposed to FIX bricks?

[Kadreal]

Hey I was using this guide to try and get homebrew capable firmware on my 3.71 slim. I have an official 1.50 fatty to try and make the battery on. However it seems that just placing eboots into the games folder wouldn't show them on the memory card list (it says no games) So I used KXploit Tool .3 and that seemed to get them to show up, and everything seemed to work fine until I had to run Desperatar del Cementerio. Since it had no %base folder I'm not sure I can use KXploit on it. When I tried to run it on the eboot in the main folder, KXploit gives no error, but the psp says it can't start the game when I try to run it... I'm so close what do I need to do? :confused:


Nevermind I found a different method that worked for me since the steps I did complete already gave me the pandora battery. Now have a happy slim with 3.71 m33-4 running. very nice.

[PhantomLord73]

Nevermind I found a different method that worked for me since the steps I did complete already gave me the pandora battery. Now have a happy slim with 3.71 m33-4 running. very nice.

Heya, can you post the details on your special method on patching the Slim?

[gamefreak199101]

i got the despertar.... and ran it, it went all ok but when i activated the battery to use with a fat psp , i put in the battery and mem stick and the menu comes up with the 4 options in ur tut. so i press x to install 3.71 m33 and it loaded a whole bunch of stuff that says ok. and when its done, it say press x to shutdown restart manually and when i do the psp screen loads but no icons and it freezes up. can someone help me please

[Bobtentpeg]

You need to taker out the memory stick.

If it still freezes, just reboot into pandora and install it again

[hiondrugs]

i was being kinda of lazy so i decided to buy a pandoras bat. instead of making one....... so im just gona borrow a friends ms to make as a magic stick.
but thats where i need help. i dont know what to put in the magic stick.
and btw my psp's fw is 3.80 if theres a problem to it... i dont really know what im doing as far as from the firmware stuffs..
plz help

[gamefreak199101]

You need to taker out the memory stick.

If it still freezes, just reboot into pandora and install it again

ok i'll give it a try and btw thanks

[Bobtentpeg]

i was being kinda of lazy so i decided to buy a pandoras bat. instead of making one....... so im just gona borrow a friends ms to make as a magic stick.
but thats where i need help. i dont know what to put in the magic stick.
and btw my psp's fw is 3.80 if theres a problem to it... i dont really know what im doing as far as from the firmware stuffs..
plz help
if its a slim your outa luck as fr what I;m going to tell you to do next. If its a phatty, then PM me for a little extra helper :eek:;):rolleyes: :thumbup:

[hiondrugs]

im pretty sure its a fat one. since i got it 2 years ago. so yea :)

[Bobtentpeg]

Then send me a message hion :)

[pandaemon]

hey dude

great guide! thanks for giving me some hope now that my psp was bricked[i tried to downgrade but then the guy who amde the downgrader made the dumb mistake of not specifying how much free mem stick space you needed and i got bricked] but i have a few questions since some of the things in your guide arent clear.

-when you say place the firmware .pbps in the root of the mem stick do you mean DIRECTLY in the MP_ROOT folder, or inside one of the subfolders included?

-secondly, at the end of the guide you say "get BSOD" what is BSOD? is it an option i have to choose once i switch the psp on?

thanks for responding in advance.

[Bobtentpeg]

1. No, they go on the root of your MS. The root of any directory is the first folder available. For your PSP the root is X:/ where X is any letter, usually D, E, F, or G.
2. BSoD=Blue Screen of Death. Its the blue screen you get when you have a partially bricked PSP that says press O to continue or whatever. A BSoD is never a good thing, but can often be fixed quite easily

[PimPeDoutGeese]

Awesome guide!

I have a couple of issues though...

First everything goes accordingly with the tutorial, then when it's time to install the battery creator from the PSP it says:

The game could not be started (80020148)
O Back

Is that the BSoD that you spoke of??

It does that for a few emulators I try to play for some reason...

Anyways do I have to reinstall my custom firmware to fix this... or I guess I'm asking how to fix this problem... I have 3.71 m33-4 or if theres a thread on it can I get a link.. already searched :(

EDIT: Also atm I have 2 batteries... i have the sodered pandora battery, and my normal psp battery... now will I need ANOTHER battery for pandora battery?

Thanks guys keep up the great work.

[Bobtentpeg]

No this is a BSoD
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and it sounds like you need to install the 1.5 kernel addon

you can grab it from www.dark-alex.org

Also, if you have a battery why are yo remaking it? O rare you just making am ore updated version of the MS

[PimPeDoutGeese]

I forgot to mention also that I had a slimline... It started out at 2.6 then I updated it (SLAP!!!!!!!!) to 3.71.

When I run the addon it says it's only for standard psp's... I'm guessing fatties.

I entered recovery mode to check the game folder homebrew kernel and changed it to 1.5... still same message. As of the moment it's still 1.5

Game could not be started blah blah blah numbers...

Any other ideas buddy? Also thanks for the help... the more I learn from you the more I can post and help others out!

[Bobtentpeg]

Ahh, shoulda mentioned the slim part ;)

The pandora installers should launch, if not head of to qj.net and search for the 3.XX installers

[PimPeDoutGeese]

I was following the guide... I messed up somewhere and I know now that my psp battery is slim... didn't think it was though, didn't exactly fit in my PSP but it just stopped workin all of a sudden... oh well back to walmart.

I need to read up more on hellcats installer... I really like it but couldn't get it to work properly... couldn't get PSP to boot from card either.... However it did run/install. But I'm not COMPLETELY stupid, I did read the readme, and I followed the steps... still won't run certain brews and it should....

I MUST BE MISSING A STEP LOL ARGG... Thanks for the help guys.

Is there a way for me to reinstall CFW?? I wonder if that's even the issue here...

EDIT: Well I dunno if it's the battery or not but it powers on... but after some of the .txt changes that were made it boots to notihng. Black Screen... just led... kinda like a pand...... man I look stupid lol but still cant boot certain brews... somethings up cant run anything that needs 1.5 and I don't know how to remedy that... atleast I think thats my problem... thanks for the ear

[pandaemon]

okay dude thanks for clearing that up but theres something lse about the guide that confuses me.
after the "5 files copied" step you need to exit usb and run pandoras battery creator rite. well after your done with that and the firmware installer as well you say usb needs to be reconnected and it'll display then message saying msipl.bin has been copied. how many times do i need to press 1 and enter to bring me from the "5 files copied"n screen to the "msipl.bin has been copied" screen? because that bit seemed very confusing to me and youve said press 1 and enter after each step EVEN WHEN THE PSP IS OUT OF USB MODE. lol that was a mistake right?

[Bobtentpeg]

okay dude thanks for clearing that up but theres something lse about the guide that confuses me.
after the "5 files copied" step you need to exit usb and run pandoras battery creator rite. well after your done with that and the firmware installer as well you say usb needs to be reconnected and it'll display then message saying msipl.bin has been copied. how many times do i need to press 1 and enter to bring me from the "5 files copied"n screen to the "msipl.bin has been copied" screen? because that bit seemed very confusing to me and youve said press 1 and enter after each step EVEN WHEN THE PSP IS OUT OF USB MODE. lol that was a mistake right?
Yes you can press 1 then enter if the PSP isnt connected, but beware, you may wind up screwing up a step and having to start over.

[pandaemon]

Yes you can press 1 then enter if the PSP isnt connected, but beware, you may wind up screwing up a step and having to start over.

okay, so once i get "5 files copied" i can immedeatly turn off usb, run the two pandora programs from the psp, then reconnect and press 1 and enter only after reconnecting?

andn another small query if ya dont mind.
whats that stuff about nand dumping and restoring?
in the other guide ive read it says that nand dumping is recommended[just like having a flash backup is recommended when downgrading a psp] what exactly is it any way? and thanks a lot dude!

ps
hey ive laso heard that you cant play umds on an m33 enabled psp. does that mean that i'll have to use isos and the daxz iso loader?

[Bobtentpeg]

1. Yes, wiat for them to be copied, run the rpograms, reconnet, press 1 then ener
2. a NAND dump is recommended. the NAND is the chip in your PSP taht holds the lash files. The NAND dump is a full backup with partition tables and all.

3. Don't know where yo heard that. You can play UMDs and ISOs on M33 straight from the XMB

[pandaemon]

thanks a lot man. although i dont see the pointn of dumping the nand if my psp's a full brick and its flash is screwed up any way lol...

[t3kdr4g0n]

So, I believe I followed the guide to the letter and the battery worked fine for updating my PSP phat from 3.03 OE to 3.71 M33, but whenever I try to run it in my friend's bricked PSP Slim (The Star Wars Darth Vader one) I get the blank screen you mention, and when I hit X the orange LED flashes very briefly and then does nothing.

Needless to say it's still bricked.

Edit1: I tried a newer version of the cemetary thingie and notice that the update gets stuck at formatting flash1

[Bobtentpeg]

Go to System Setting>>REset Defualts on his PSP, then try again

[scottjbanks1978]

how do i find recovery mode

[Bobtentpeg]

...turn off your PSP and hold R while booting.

but this only works on a custom firmware

[supralov3r]

please tell me this work with 3.80 psp slim! I need to know fast! (I promised my friend i do this for him!):(

[Bobtentpeg]

IT will work on it, but you cant make it on it

[pandaemon]

dude, i finally got the chance to borrow a friewnd's hacked psp and use this unboircker to unbrick mine, but before i go ahead i have one VERY important question.
since theres no flash writing involved and i'll only be using MY OWN memory stick and battery for this thing, theoretically there should be NO possible chance of damage to my friend's psp from using this guide right?
i mean, it only writes and modifies the mem stick and battery and not the flash mem or anything, so this thing is COMPLETELY safe right? even the despertar del cementerio part? because the last thing i want is having to pay for my FRIEND'S bricked psp....

also, do the PBP files go DIRECTLY into the mem stick [eg. directly into g drive] or do they go into G:\PSP? because im still a bit confused about that....

[Bobtentpeg]

No, theres no chance of doing anything at all to their PSP

and it goes on ms0:/ or the rot of the drive
G:/

[pandaemon]

aight, thanks a lot man :D now all i need to do is meet the guy and get his psp :)

btw, what's the worst thing that could happen if something went wrong?

[Bobtentpeg]

You royally f' up the MS and it becomes defunct (funny word :p )

[pandaemon]

i see... well i have two mem sticks so that shouldn't be a problem :)

BAD NEWS....

my friend chicked out.... this really sucks. im just going to send it to one of those guys giving free unbricking services.

[pandaemon]

one last question-

say, i attempt to install a custom xmb theme on 3.71 m33 or even 3.80 m33, would it woprk the same way as on 3.51 m33?
also if i brick my psp after trying something on 3.71 m33, can i just put the mem stick and battery combo back in and expect it to lbe able to unbrick the psp again?

[Bobtentpeg]

Yes and Yes

[b4tist4_911]

Thanks Boss for the tutorial made easy... he. he. he.

[Umar96]

Can anybody help me? i bricked my PSP (cannot access the recovery mode either) i have pandora's battery but not the Magic MS please I need some help

[Umar96]

i made the pandora battery just in case something happens using the new CFW 3.93 but after making the battery my psp won't start(just the green light turns on and nothing) HELP Me!

and if i need to put something on my MS,I can use my Memory card reader.

[STEELHORSE]

can someone help me i followed the instructions correctly and unbricked my psp but it comes on then shows the sony logo then shuts off what did i do wrong?