[GUIDE]{ANY PSP 1000/2000} Pandora | Universal PSP Unbricker

This as made possible by the greatest coders the PSP scene has ever made, I and all of use owe a great deal to them.
Enjoy


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 3.40 here(Rename to 340.PBP) and 150 Here(rename to 150.PBP
Place it on the root of your MS.
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Download this
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

Nice tutorial this will come in handy for many people (n00bs).

thanks

my life is writing guides and owning noobs at www.psphacking101.com/forum

hi guys... does this pandora works on any version of psp???

Yup, this is Phat, slim any firmware (just needs a homebrew compatible PSP to make unles you use this method http://forums.benheck.com/viewtopic....er=asc&start=0 )

wats the nand thing

Its a full dump of your NAND in lamens terms he NAND is basically your flash0,1,2,3,4,5,6

when i used te guide and got the battery and mem stik i got tat enu press x and it install 3.71, but when i start it up it comes up with same menu to install it again?

Nevrmid solved! How do i rever my mem stick?

just reformat your MS to remove the bootcode

I've used this on two psp
(1) bricked 371-m33-3....recoverd back to 1.50 no problems
(2) bricked 2.81 no custom firmware has ever bin install on this psp was a faild attempt ......recoverd back to 1.50 no problems

happy days thanks for this software to bring life back to my psp's ...............nice 1

psp (1) 2.81-3.50-1.50-3.52-371-m33-3-bricked-1.50

psp (2) 2.81-bricked-1.50-3.71-m33-3

Could someone give me a mirror link please. And quick also, my friend is about to leave.

a mirror for what file

Hi
Terrific guide,everything seemed to go as the guide said.
Now can i use this on a friends slim psp to
downgrade it to 1.50 firmware,or will it upgrade it to 3.71m33?

The PSP Slim is hardwired to not go below 3.60, you can only upgrade it to 371 M33

Firstly, I want to thank you guys for this great forum.

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Originally Posted by Bobtentpeg

- 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,

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I couldn't get this part
I have Slim-PSP

After installing finishes, orange and green leds will flash.

Then what should I do ?
Power off ?
Press any button ?

BTW 371.PBP mentioned above is M33 right ?
or this is for OFW recovery only ?

thank you & have fun
Mehmet Can

the 371.PBP is used for both.
For you, once your lights have stopped flashing yiru PSP should turn off automatically, if it doesnt, give it 10 mins then turn it off and restart it

Thank you.
now I got it.

I hope I will be able to homebrew enable my PSP-Slim.
I almost got every required information.
But this time, I'm lack of equipment.
Pandora Battery, Pandora MS or CFW PSP owner friend.

only these questions left in my mind.
http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=81434

thx for this great descriptive post.
I have learned much.

take care & have fun.

I replied to your post

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Originally Posted by Bobtentpeg

I replied to your post

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thank you.
I appriciated.

2 Questions:

1. Can I follow this guide and install cementary v3 instead of v1 with no side effects?
2.Does dumping or restoring nand dangerous to do? I want to have a backup but not if dumping it could brick my psp.

1. This guide uses v3. Sorr if there was cunfusion, I named it incorrectly when i uploaded it.
2. Dumping it isnt dangerous at all, only resotre it if you know what your doing and know you have an uncorupted NAND backup

Thanks for the quick response. Your guide was the easiest and quickest around. Just went through with no problems.

your welcome

when i try to load the battery creator it says the game could not be started (80020148)

....read the requirements

in step two B- prepair memory stick, my command prompt says

Local drive has more than a physical drive. Cannot handle it.

THEN IN STEP THREE A-Copy files to the psp

it says

file not found
(0)files copied

I JUST DONT KNOW WHAT TO DO. HELP PLEASE.. IM A NEW PSP USER..

TNX

Did you ener the correct drive letter for your PSP

Yes I Did.. I Repeated The Steps Many Times But Its Still The Same..

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Originally Posted by devunleashed

Yes I Did.. I Repeated The Steps Many Times But Its Still The Same..

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what OS are you on
are you the admin
do you have fake MS

Hi,
on pandoras battery recovery menu i get press x to downgrade, then x to flash psp after this it formats then goes back to press x to downgrade.What have i done wrong ?

most likely missing the eboot or using a fake MS

fake as in not sony cos ms is a sandisk ?or do you mean something entirely different & i'm showing my ignorance ?

fake as in, not the brand it claims ti be. IE a knockoff

Im at the point where you should run Despertar del Cementerio and it says "The game could not be started. (80020001)"

What to do?

I am trying to create the items on a 1.50 PSPfat. How do I access the recovery mode and how do I change the kernel of the GAME-folder?

On 1.5 there is no recovery.

and are we sure we;re on 1.5?
if so, how did you get there

The fat 1.5 PSP is my friends but I don't know if he bougth it like this or installed the 2.50 firmware there. All I know is that it has 1.50 and I am trying to make the pandora with it. I was told it would work in this tut. If only someone could tell me how exactly it does work because it says that error 80020001.

What am I supposed to do?

This may be a silly question but do I need to modify the memory stick to install the cfw to a PSPslim? And if I have to, are there any other ways to do this? Am I supposed to change the fatPSP's fw to a custom firmware? (I am usin the fat to make the stuff so I could install a ctf to my own PSPslim)

I have done everything so far right imho.

Please help me :)

Interesting, well it should work just fine on 1.5.

Perhaps you should run keycleaner on his PSP, this might help.

Or you could always update his PSP to a customfirmware, as they beat the crap out of 1.5 anyways

Well i have tried another sandisk ms with the same result, i guess i will have to purchase an official sony ms from a high street trader or something like that so i know its real.... will this sort my prob ?

Actually come to think of it my sandisk ms was purchased in store with psp