Note: This tutorial is NOT for PSP 2000 with TA-088v3 motherboard.
This tutorial/guide will help you to:
- Make a Pandora Battery (without using another downgraded PSP), and convert it back to normal, or use a Pandora as Normal battery using PSP Grader.
- Downgrade PSP Slim from ANY Official Firmware (I tested it @ OFW 5.51 & it worked fine :D )
- Install Custom Firmware 5.00 M33-4, then upgrade to 5.00 M33-6 (upgrade is optional)
Stuff you’ll Need
- PSP Slim/PSP 2000 (but not TA-088)
- A battery (should NOT be the new ones, they are Pandora proof)
- Extra battery, if you don’t plan to convert the pandora battery to a normal one
- MemoryStick of at least 64MB, not more than 4GB
- Mini USB Cable or Card Reader to put files on the MemoryStick
- Knife/Blade, Safety Pin/Needle
- AC Charger/Wall Charger
- Conputer with an internet connection (internet connection required for Downloading)
Files to be Downloaded
- PSP Grader
- OFW 5.00
- CFW 5.00 M33 – 6 (Optional)
To make things easier, and to avoid confusions, we will do it all step-by-step…
- Make a Magic MemoryStick
- Make a Pandora Battery
- Final Transformation ( from OFW to CFW :P )
- Upgrading to CFW 5.00 M33 – 6 (Optional)
Note: If you don’t follow the steps correctly, you’ll end up with a BRICKED PSP.
Make a Magic MemoryStick
- Extract PSP Grader and Run it.
- Connect the PSP to the PC via a Mini USB Cable or put the MemoryStick in the Card Reader and connect it to the PC. PSPGrader will automatically detect it. Target it if it doesn’t.
- Check the option “Format Memory Stick”
Check "Format Memory Stick"
- Then after that, click on “Create Pandora Stick”, (the last button on the right).
- It will now do all the required processes and will finally copy the files, this will take some 5 minutes.
- Magic Memory Stick is now ready!
Make a Pandora Battery
- Take your knife/blade and open up the battery. Be cautious while doing that, make sure that your tool dosen’t harm the internals of the battery as well as your hands.
- After it is opened up, look for a connector labelled “IC04” or “C04” (depends on your battery).
- Take your Safety Pin/Needle and slightly lift up the leg at the bottom of the right side of that chip, to avoid cutting the opposite side of the leg, check whether you are holding the chip correctly (there will be code written on the chip, use it to check the correct? position).
PSP Slim Battery IC04 Connector
- For a PSP Slim S110 Battery, instead of lifting up the leg or cutting it, you can cut the PCB line that connects to that leg.
PSP Slim S110 Battery | Cut the PCB Line
- That’s it, put back the battery cover and glue it or use a tape or just leave it like that (your wish :P ).
If you have done it all right, the Pandora Battery is ready! Remove the MemoryStick from the PSP and insert the battery, if the PSP starts by itself, then you can be sure that it’s Pandora!
Final Transformation (from OFW to CFW :P )
- Plug in the AC Charger (but don’t insert the battery), & start your PSP, while the PSP is on, put in the pandora battery.
- Check the battery’s charge level (->Settings->System Settings->Battery Information), if it is below 78%, turn off the PSP and let it charge.
- If you have to check the charge level, don’t try to directly turn on the PSP as it is having the Pandora Battery. Repeat steps 1 & 2 if you have to be sure about the charge level.
- Now, keep away the AC Charger, we’re ready to roll!
- Insert the Magic MemoryStick and keep the Left Trigger pressed and then insert the Pandora Battery. As soon as you insert the Pandora battery, the PSP should start by itself.
- A menu will load up shortly, with many Options. One option of these will be “Install Custom Firmware”, go to it and press “X“.
- Now you don’t need to do anything, except waiting for the Installer to do the flashing.
- After it is done, you’ll need to press “X” to restart your device. Now go to System Information (“Settings->System Settings->System Information”), you will see System Software 5.00 M33-4 !
CFW 5.00 M33-4
- Congrats!! Your PSP is downgraded!!!
Now remove the Pandora battery and insert the normal one, or just convert the Pandora back to normal by pressing the leg down so that it goes to its normal/previous position or solder the PCB line (whichever step you had taken, just revert it) :D
Or you could use the PSP Grader to use a Pandora as a Normal Battery, in PSP Grader, select the second option “Inject IPL Only“.
You are currently having CFW 5.00 M33-4! :)
Upgrading to 5.00 M33-6
- To Update it to CFW 5.00 M33-6, you need this file: CFW 5.00 M33 – 6.
- Format the Magic MemoryStick (->System->System Settings->Format Memory Stick).
- Extract the downloaded file & copy the folder “Update” present in it, to “PSP\Game\” on the MemoryStick.
- Now run the Update on the PSP, it will be there in “Game“.
- Follow the instructions, after the update, you’ll be having 5.00 M33-6 :D !
There’s nothing wrong in dropping down a comment below! Comment Please!
And yes, the two pictures of the battery above don’t belong to me, I don’t know who has given out those pics, if you know it then please do inform me so that I can give them credits :P
Be sure to contact me if you face any problems!
Nice tutorial :)
@Ankit
Thanx Dude!
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wat if i have a psp slim bat s110 and i removed the leg instead of cuting the line,wil it stil work?
@cmeth
yeah sure…it would work.
But just make sure that the battery you have is not “Made in Japan”, because the new japanese batteries are pandora-proof :D
does made in china count
Chinese batteries are safe to be pandorized :)
hey, at the official 5.00 eboot loaded, in the PSP Grader i put the OFW 5.00 file that you asked to dl?
yes..u haw to put the OFW in the loader…
I already got a psp with CFW now i want to put stuff into my psp how am i supposed to do tht?
Connect it to the PC with the USB cable…and add the programs to the /Game/ Folder and the ISO/CSO in the ISO folder in root :)
can it downgrade a 6.20Cfw
dont know..let us know if u try it :)
can the padora battery and MMS will owrk on psp 2006
ya it will work :)
what about a psp slim ofw 6.20 bought at the end of 2009?
most probably it won’t work… :)
Nice really works thanks all psp grader didn’t work this one does btw i have windows 7
it won’t work on Win 7…you have to use Win XP or Vista… :)
Cool! yes i hope it will help! MY PSP is corrupted :(
hope it does! :)
Downgraded from 6.20 on my phat psp. Great Tutorial!
:)
I easily get addicted to PSP games and i am always updated with the newest PSP games in town.:-~
My PSP is PSP slim 2003(color Piano Black), can it be downgraded from OFW 6.20? I accidentally upgraded it. When I bought it it had CFW 5.00 M33-4.
yes it should work :)
Thanks!! Now I have no worry from the PSP to be bricked because of the downgrading.
cover your mac address next time :) A++ for tut
Thanks :) I did cover my MAC address, but I carelessly uploaded the uncovered image rahter than the edited one :P But it doesn\’t matter as one guy replaced my motherboard with another one, he replaced with TA-088 v3. I cant hack it as I skipped ChickHEN requirements :/
So it doesn\’t really matter now… :)
will this work for ofw 6.02??
Not sure. Which PSP do you own (model number? and motherboard?)?
What if the Psp already has the 500. M33-6?? Thanks
then you don’t need to follow the above steps..lol
Then it\’s already a downgraded one. The M33 indicates it\’s a custom firmware of Dark Alex\’s. :)
Is it possible to hack a PSP go, PSP-N1001, please e-mail me if you have a chance
i accidently upgraded my psp from 5.0 to 5.55 nw games cant b played so what shud i do?my psp model s110,2002
Get a Pandora battery (or make one), and then follow the procedures after “making magic memory stick” given above, the same would work. :)
I can’t download the OFW or the CFW with the links above
I did everything smoothly, even able to Upgrade 5.00 M33-6. But after few turn ons and offs, the screen went blank when I turned it on again, with the power light still on. what happened? did my psp brick? what can I do?
Yes, unfortunately, you have a bricked PSP with you. Try this tutorial to unbrick it:(Tutorial to Unbrick)
Let me know if it works.
urgent!i need a big help!i haved upgrade by online with my psp2000 become nw version 6.38!i can play all the hack games…:’(!!need u help it….how to downgrape by the simple ways……pls give me hands….
Try the same process given above all over again.
What happens if I don’t replace my Pandora battery with a normal battery? Also I don’t have a soldering iron will pencil lead work?
If you don’t replace, it will keep booting into service mode, every time you start your PSP. You’ll have to start with charger and then insert Pandora to start it normally. :)
Pencil lead, yeah you might try it. It should work.