This is a tutorial I wrote a while back about how to hack a PSP 1000 without a Pandora battery, assuming the PSP has Official Firmware 5.03 or below. This method uses ChickHen Revision 2, and HellCat's Recovery Flasher to write CFW PERMANENTLY, to your PSP. It doesnt use ChickHen to ENABLE CFW it actually permanently installs. This method works, its how i did mine, and my buddies' but its not for any PSP with OFW higher than 5.03 and WILL NOT WORK ON PSP 3000 NO MATTER THE FIRMWARE!!
Here is a list of downloads, and instructions, for hacking your any psp 1000 with OFW 5.03 or BELOW without the use of a pandora battery or a magic memory stick. First a list of things you need:
**NOTE: THIS METHOD IS ONLY 100% GUARANTEED TO WORK ON A PSP 1000. IF YOU DO THIS TO A PSP2000 or 3000 AND YOU BRICK YOUR SHIT, DONT CRY TO ME, 1000s ONLY***
***IF YOU ARENT SURE IF YOUR PSP IS HACKABLE, AFTER YOU INSTALL CHICKHENR2 (SCROLL DOWN FOR INSTRUCTIONS) USE THE INCLUDED FILE PSPIDENT TO CHECK YOUR MOTHERBOARD TYPE. YOU HAVE TO INSTALL CHICKHENR2 FIRST***
***ALL 1000s are HACKABLE. IF YOU GOT A 1000 JUST KEEP GOING, YOU CAN HACK IT BUDDY!***
IF YOU WANT A PSP 1000 WITH OFW UNDER 5.03, GO TO YOUR LOCAL GAMESTOP, BRING YOUR PSP CHARGER WITH YOU. ASK TO SEE THE USED 1000S (THEY COST ABOUT $100) AND PLUG IN SOMEWHERE AND CHECK THE FIRMWARE VERSION UNTIL YOU FIND ONE. IT IS POSSIBLE, I FOUND ONE WITH OFW 2.81 AND MY BUDDY FOUND ONE WITH OFW 3.91.
1 Memory Stick (1GB+)
Sony update 5.03
ChickHenR2 for PSP Phat CFW Enabler
Hellcat's Recovery m33-4
m33-6 update
OK, the first thing you have to do is update to Official FirmWare version 5.03, then install ChickHen Revision 2 (CFW Enabler) and then use Hellcat's Recovery Flasher to PERMANANTLY flash CFW to your PSPs internal flash memory. To do this, you have to download the following file:
http://megaupload.com/?d=W5DX5LYL^^^THAT CONTAINS EVERYTHING YOU NEED^^^
I also uploaded it as a .ZIP file for anyone WITHOUT winRar, that file is right here:
http://sendspace.com/file/oe3wk7^^^ALSO CONTAINS EVERYTHING YOU NEED^^^
That file has everything you need included on it. It has ChickHenR2, the OFW 5.03 official update, and Hellcat's Recovery Flasher (it also has a folder called PSPIDENT inside, but you don't need that, because that checks to see if your PSP is hackable, but all 1000s are hackable, you dont need to check. IF YOU HAVE A 2000 THIS MAY WORK, USE PSPIDENT TO MAKE SURE YOUR 2000 IS HACKABLE, IF IT IS, CONTINUE, IF NOT STOP NOW OR YOU WILL BRICK U'R SHIT).
What you want to do, is copy the UPDATE and RECOVERY folders, inside that .RAR to your GAME folder on your memory stick.
Next copy the eggsploit.tiff file that is inside Photo/PHAT into your PHOTO folder on your memory stick, and put h.bin on the root of your memory stick (not in ANY folder, on the root, where all the folders are/start)
NOW, first and foremost, you have to run the 5.03 official update. Make sure you battery is nice and charged up, and run the update... ill wait... hurry up.
OK now you should have 5.03 OFW, if you do you can move forward to installing chickhenr2.
Now, getting ChickHen to work, is a little tricky at times. What it does, when the PSP reads the image thumbnail, it should exploit the PSP and enable CFW, doing this is a little tough though. What you want to do is go into your XMB, and go to photos. Hold DOWN on your D-PAD for like 3 seconds (i know you cant go any further than Memory Stick, just do it, lol). Next, while still holding DOWN, press X. Let go off all buttons, if you did it right, your PSP will spaz out a little, if it didnt work, select the eggsploit picture, it will freeze your PSP, and you can try again. Chickhen works when your PSP tries to read the THUMBNAIL of the eggsploit picture, not the picture itself, so you dont actuallly have to view the pic, just the thumbnail. if the thumbnail loads and your PSP doesnt spaz out, reboot, try again.
THIS IS PROBABLY GOING TO TAKE A WHILE AND IRRITATE YOU, JUST BE PATIENT IT WILL WORK EVENTUALLY! LOL.
ONLY SELECT THE IMAGE AND FREEZE YOUR PSP IF IT DOESNT SPAZ OUT. Once it spazzes out, you have succeeded and your PSP will reboot. When it does, go to Settings>System Settings>System Information in your XMB and it should say System Software: 5.03 ChickHenR2. If it does, you can move forward.
Next step, is to use Hellcat's Recovery flasher to flash CFW to your PSP, WITHOUT a pandora battery. Once you have checked to see if the ChickHenR2 is installed, you can go to the Game section of your XMB, go to memory stick, and you should see HellCat's Recovery, run it.
Agree to the first screen that comes up. A menu will appear, we want the second option Install CFW m33-4. When the next menu comes up, select the first one, to start CFW installation. MAKE SURE YOUR BATTERY IS VERY WELL CHARGED BEFORE YOU INSTALL CFW!!
Now, it will flash CFW to your PSP, it will take a few minutes. It will take a minute to validate, and then it will begin to install the CFW. It takes a couple minutes but this is the last step.When it is finished, it will say to hit any button to continue, do it, and your PSP will reboot.
AFTER IT REBOOTS IT WILL TAKE ABOUT A MINUTE, MAYBE LONGER TO START UP, DONT WORRY YOU DIDNT BRICK YOUR PSP, BE PATIENT!!!!
Go to Settings, System Settings, System Information and under system software it should say 5.00 m33-4 if it does, congratulations YOUR 4 SUP3jZ I337 FUC/<!7V H4X072!!!!
Next you have to update from m33-4 to m33-6. M33-6 runs from the memory stick MUCH faster, so just update, its worth it, esp. for ISOs. To do this, download the file that is attached to this link:
http://sylentstryke.webs.com/VIP/500m33_6.zipYou just put the contents of that zip file into the GAME folder on your memory stick, and you run the update, make sure you have plenty of battery power. When complete you will have m33-6 in my opinion the best CFW on the planet (THANKS DARK ALEX!!)
Hope this tut was helpful, and happy hacking
Tue Aug 10, 2010 9:24 pm by Dirtyjunk
