First thing, tell us your model number. You can usually find it on the barcode bit behind the battery.

The rule goes, the older the psp, the easier it is to mod.

not allways true, i have psp with original firmware and it was so hard to crack. Still now i can only emulate snes neo geo etc. There are alot of sites with some nice walkthroughs if havent allready have a look at http://www.psp-hacks.com/

Swamp you suck, the v1.0 was a piece of piss to hack the firmware.

Minty, It looks like it may be possible with the 3003 now.

Thread here about it:
http://forums.pspslimhacks.com/psp-3000 ... eeded.html

A guides methods of doing it:
http://forums.pspslimhacks.com/psp-3000 ... eeded.html
http://pspslimhacks.com/guide-to-chickh ... 00-ta88v3/

Might be impossible if the latest firmware is on it (if you updated). I haven't hacked one of these for at least a year so Im out of the loop now. That thread seems to have a lot of the info anyways. Good luck.

lol screw u neg, basically i tried it along time ago with the old gta patch, but apparently i bricked it. I dont know how this is true because i still play eumulators on it now ie snes. But if your so damn smart ill jiffy it up with a little present and u can do it for me HUH? swampy needs crisis core!!!

watch out tho, if you flash it with the wrong version then it will totally nurf your psp and turn it into a v expensive brick

just don't try build a wall with it

Bad luck minty...could always look for a second hand one with old firmware on I spose.

Swamp, I last did one for a mate about a year ago. It had a more recent firmware on it and I accidentally bricked it lol. Then I discovered that you can unbrick it using the pandora battery hack. AFter that it was easy to downgrade it then upgrade to mod firmware.This guy/group called Dark alex makes the best ones. The other weird thing was the UMD drive had stopped working on his PSP, when I put the mod firmware on it started working again lol

So yeah its not too hard, unless its got a recent firmware or its a PSP slim like mintys.

But yeah Ill have a crack at it for you...

Its all alittle beyond me, i did try and do it and got so far on so many walkthroughs. Basically i dont think my umd drive works either any more it wont read any of the old umds, but im not sure if its bricked like i said as everything else still works, ie the browser n stuff cos i play snes games fine with sound n stuff. I never actually updated the firmware either and i got it when they was released so it still should be like 1.50 or something if i remeber rightly. We have a chat about it on vent next time your on anyway, ill be about tonight

Well, I had PSP with a custom firmware once, but I sold it a couple of months ago.

I usually did the "cracking" with a pandora battery which worked like a charm (at least two times!) but you need an already cracked PSP to create one.

As far as I can explain it worked liked this..you put a custom firmware on a ...which was it? sd card? and then theres a little program on your cracked psp which overwrites the battery to create some kind of boot loader. Put that in the original psp and start, the rest was just a piece of cake following the instructions.
Take the battery out then, hook the custom psp on the electric socket, start the program, put the battery back in, tell it to change the battery to normal again and there you go, all done.

But its just a very simple explanation where everything could go severly wrong :3

Custom firmwares are updated regulary and installation is easy :3

I think if you hit it with a stick it usually works.