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Hostile_
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10. June 2009 @ 15:07 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Hey guys. Im new to this whole psp moding era. I bought a psp3000 a couple of months ago and found out that it could not be moded. 2 days ago i ordered a psp slim 2000 from amazon which arived today. It has a 4.01 firmware. I've heared that if that's the case then its not modable. Is this true? if not can anyone explain or link me to where i can mod it?

PS: I've already tryed to create a magic memory stick using easy installer but it doesn't seem to work.

I've also posted a reply in http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/6/736663#4706716
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10. June 2009 @ 15:26 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Are you useing a pandora's battery with the Magic Memory Stick? because you will need one to install the Custom firmware from the Magic Memory Stick. If not there like $5 with free shipping on dealextreme.com
Hostile_
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10. June 2009 @ 15:40 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by Iconaw1:
Are you useing a pandora's battery with the Magic Memory Stick? because you will need one to install the Custom firmware from the Magic Memory Stick. If not there like $5 with free shipping on dealextreme.com
Well I'm using this guide:
http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/708959

I tryed to make a magic memory stick but it didn't work. I remember i read somewhere in this site that if your psp has firmware 4.0+ out of the box it can not be moded.
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10. June 2009 @ 15:57 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
As far as i am aware your slim psp 2000 can be hacked but what u need to look out for when making your MMS is compatability ! I spent hours trying in vane to make the stick work only to discover it was the original $ony 1GIG card it did not like.
swaped it and hay presto it worked p.s traul thru the utube tuts and ul get there.(good luck)
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10. June 2009 @ 16:00 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by brandy66:
As far as i am aware your slim psp 2000 can be hacked but what u need to look out for when making your MMS is compatability ! I spent hours trying in vane to make the stick work only to discover it was the original $ony 1GIG card it did not like.
swaped it and hay presto it worked p.s traul thru the utube tuts and ul get there.(good luck)
Thanks. Yeah, first I tryed it on a normal 1 gig memory stick, then I tryed it on a 4 gig stick. neither worked
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10. June 2009 @ 16:19 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
PSP Slim 2000? which vers? maybe u need chickhen and CFWE, i got a 2000 slim TA88-V3, worst psp to be hacked along with ta90 and i modded with those softwares.
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10. June 2009 @ 16:22 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by lancerx:
PSP Slim 2000? which vers? maybe u need chickhen and CFWE, i got a 2000 slim TA88-V3, worst psp to be hacked along with ta90 and i modded with those softwares.
I don't know how to make my mainboard model. there was a link here for a program to determine that but it nolonger works:
http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/709168
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10. June 2009 @ 16:53 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
you might have the TA-088v3 motherboard which blocks modding

Hostile_
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10. June 2009 @ 16:55 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I found a youtube video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AArIRZubU7g
in which the guy used a psp with 4.01 firmware and hacked it By using battery-tool. Is this confirmed?
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10. June 2009 @ 17:08 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
i used to think psp 2000 ofw 3.95 was the highest psp you could mod kittiymat proved me wrong as is the motherboard thats the prob a good indication is psp 2000 above 3.95 but that don't mean its not if you use A pandora and mms and it has a TA-088v3 you won't be able to boot it, you woun't dammage it, chickHEN homebrew enabler R2 and pspident will confirm this for you, install the first then the second and run it and you will find out if r if not you have the dredded motherboard (mobo) for short.

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10. June 2009 @ 17:27 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by Mickoz74:
i used to think psp 2000 ofw 3.95 was the highest psp you could mod kittiymat proved me wrong as is the motherboard thats the prob a good indication is psp 2000 above 3.95 but that don't mean its not if you use A pandora and mms and it has a TA-088v3 you won't be able to boot it, you woun't dammage it, chickHEN homebrew enabler R2 and pspident will confirm this for you, install the first then the second and run it and you will find out if r if not you have the dredded motherboard (mobo) for short.
I tryed instaling chickHEN homebrew enbaler r2 but it didn't work. I copied the slim.tiff image file in M:/PSP/PHOTO , then copied the h.bin to M:/ (root) and rebooted the psp but nothing happend.
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10. June 2009 @ 17:34 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
scroll down to the bottom egg under pictures lol that sounds mad hat the only way it loaded for me

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10. June 2009 @ 17:35 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by Mickoz74:
scroll down to the bottom egg under pictures lol that sounds mad hat the only way it loaded for me
I did but then my psp hanged and it shut it self down. i tryed it like 3 times.
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10. June 2009 @ 17:43 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
me to loads of times i got fed up kept googling it and trying it, i can't find the link youytube it and google it there a black page psp hack i think it called swhowed me how to do it, when it done don't hold the power switch up to turn off it deletes it just push up and let go quick

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10. June 2009 @ 17:44 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by Mickoz74:
me to loads of times i got fed up kept googling it and trying it, i can't find the link youytube it and google it there a black page psp hack i think it called swhowed me how to do it, when it done don't hold the power switch up to turn off it deletes it just push up and let go quick
Thanks.
Hostile_
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10. June 2009 @ 22:36 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I live in toronto and heared from some people that they might be some people in china town that would do it. I searched everywhere and all I found was that there was about 5 sushi restaurents per block. I ordered the battery-tool from code junkies but by the feed back people are givving, I don't think it's gonna come anytime soon. Still I can't make a magic memory stick. I tryed several guides and none of them worked. So if you guys know the solution to those problems, I'd be glad to hear them.
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11. June 2009 @ 01:32 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Look, if your PSP is 4.01 or above out of the box, it has a TA-088v3 motherboard, so you can't mod it. You should have bought a Phat. So, now your options are this: 1) Use ChickHEN to get 5.03 GEN-A or 2) Use ChickHEN and cfwe 3.10 to get 5.03 M33 (which is not real m33).

Here is how you go about doing that:

Option 1) Install ChickHEN here

Put h.bin in MS root, and the ChickHEN folder in either ms0:/PICTURE or ms0:/PSP/PHOTO.
Backup your Memory Stick onto your computer.
Go to your PSP, Format the Memory Stick and Restore Default Settings.
Navigate to your pictures folder, click on the ChickHEN folder, and wait. In 1-4 tries, your screen will flash green and ChickHEN will have loaded. Plug your PS back in and if you want 5.03 GEN-A download here and for cfwe 3.10 here. Follow directions in readme for each one respectively. Then once they are on your PSP, you can use ISO, Homebrew, everything just like cfw, but do not shut your psp all the way down. only put it into sleep mode. If your psp shuts all the way down, then you will have to do the ChickHEN again and install GEN-A or cfwe 3.1 again. Hope this helps!
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11. June 2009 @ 02:43 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by Goshin:
Look, if your PSP is 4.01 or above out of the box, it has a TA-088v3 motherboard, so you can't mod it. You should have bought a Phat. So, now your options are this: 1) Use ChickHEN to get 5.03 GEN-A or 2) Use ChickHEN and cfwe 3.10 to get 5.03 M33 (which is not real m33).

Here is how you go about doing that:

Option 1) Install ChickHEN here

Put h.bin in MS root, and the ChickHEN folder in either ms0:/PICTURE or ms0:/PSP/PHOTO.
Backup your Memory Stick onto your computer.
Go to your PSP, Format the Memory Stick and Restore Default Settings.
Navigate to your pictures folder, click on the ChickHEN folder, and wait. In 1-4 tries, your screen will flash green and ChickHEN will have loaded. Plug your PS back in and if you want 5.03 GEN-A download here and for cfwe 3.10 here. Follow directions in readme for each one respectively. Then once they are on your PSP, you can use ISO, Homebrew, everything just like cfw, but do not shut your psp all the way down. only put it into sleep mode. If your psp shuts all the way down, then you will have to do the ChickHEN again and install GEN-A or cfwe 3.1 again. Hope this helps!
I'll try your method see if it works
Hostile_
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11. June 2009 @ 03:14 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
It didn't work. I tryed multiple times.
Goshin
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11. June 2009 @ 10:52 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Sorry, after you posted a looked back over my post and realized I had put some steps in the wrong order. (I wrote at 12:30 at night)

Here is the new way:
Option 1) Install ChickHEN here


Backup your Memory Stick onto your computer.
Go to your PSP, Format the Memory Stick and Restore Default Settings.
NOW, plug your psp back into the computer, put h.bin in MS root, and the ChickHEN folder in either ms0:/PICTURE or ms0:/PSP/PHOTO.
Navigate to your pictures folder, click on the ChickHEN folder, and wait. In 1-4 tries, your screen will flash green and ChickHEN will have loaded. Plug your PS back in and if you want 5.03 GEN-A download here and for cfwe 3.10 here. Follow directions in readme for each one respectively. Then once they are on your PSP, you can use ISO, Homebrew, everything just like cfw, but do not shut your psp all the way down. only put it into sleep mode. If your psp shuts all the way down, then you will have to do the ChickHEN again and install GEN-A or cfwe 3.1 again. Hope this helps!
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11. June 2009 @ 14:29 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by Goshin:
Sorry, after you posted a looked back over my post and realized I had put some steps in the wrong order. (I wrote at 12:30 at night)

Here is the new way:
Option 1) Install ChickHEN here


Backup your Memory Stick onto your computer.
Go to your PSP, Format the Memory Stick and Restore Default Settings.
NOW, plug your psp back into the computer, put h.bin in MS root, and the ChickHEN folder in either ms0:/PICTURE or ms0:/PSP/PHOTO.
Navigate to your pictures folder, click on the ChickHEN folder, and wait. In 1-4 tries, your screen will flash green and ChickHEN will have loaded. Plug your PS back in and if you want 5.03 GEN-A download here and for cfwe 3.10 here. Follow directions in readme for each one respectively. Then once they are on your PSP, you can use ISO, Homebrew, everything just like cfw, but do not shut your psp all the way down. only put it into sleep mode. If your psp shuts all the way down, then you will have to do the ChickHEN again and install GEN-A or cfwe 3.1 again. Hope this helps!
I clicked on the chicken folder and waited for like 1 minute each time. I tryed multiple times but my screen doesn't flash green.
Hostile_
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11. June 2009 @ 15:05 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
It finaly worked. I just had to install 5.03 official firmware first then load the chicken.
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11. June 2009 @ 15:06 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
don't make the mistake of thinking above 3.95 on a slim will stop you modding its the TA088v3 motherboard that stops you not the firmware

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11. June 2009 @ 15:09 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
install pspident http://www.psp-hacks.com/2009/05/08/pspident-04-released/ now and run to check the motherboard (only put psp into standby not off holding the power button up for a few seconds to switch off psp will wipe the chickHEN off psp

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Goshin
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11. June 2009 @ 15:43 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
omg i cant believe I didnt tell to put 5.03 on. Wow, im not on a very hot run here...
 
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