Tools needed:
1x 0 or 00 Philips Screwdriver
1x small tweezers
1x small flat-head screwdriver
STEP 1: The first thing you will have to do is remove the Warranty Sticker from the Battery compartment, and depending on the placement of the serial number/device information sticker. You will notice that instead of 6 screws on the back of the original PSP, the new Slim & Lite PSP only has 4 screws (indicated by the 4 red dots), but there are also 3 screws along the trim that must be removed as well, one at the bottom, and 2 at the top. Now the Face-plate may be removed.
STEP 2: Now you can see the internals of the PSP, unlike the original PSP, the home bar’s ribbon cable isn’t attached to the power board, instead it is attached underneath the LCD screen. The Home Bar’s clips must be released from both ends of it, not unlike the original, then let the home bar to hang as shown.
STEP 3: To remove the LCD you gently pry the clips on the edges, much like you would for the original PSP.
STEP 4: Now, open the ribbon clamps for the LCD screen and Home bar, by flipping up the tabs on the clamps.
STEP 5: Next, remove the metal shielding, then remove the screws that are holding the trigger buttons in place, and remove them.
STEP 6: Open the Clamp of the D-Pad? ribbon cable, and slip your tweezers underneath it to unseat the cable. You will also have to remove the sticky backed trigger button pad from its shelf on the back-plate, and open the Memory Stick door completely, before you can remove the D-Pad? assembly.
STEP 7: Remove the screw holding the power board and open the ribbon cable clamp, then remove the power board.
STEP 8: Now remove the screw that is holding the charge plug and disconnect the charge plug terminal. The charge plug is held in by both the screw and plastic clips so gently pry them open until you can easily remove the charge plug. You can also remove the right side speaker by gently prying it out of its clips.
STEP 9: Now, open the ribbon cable clamp for the face buttons (Square triangle, etc.) and remover the sticky backed trigger button pad from it’s self on the back-plate, and remove the face button FPC (Flexible Printed Circuit).
STEP 10: To remove the Mother Board, also known as the MoBo? you must remove the ribbon cable clamps for the UMD laser and drive assembly, and the terminal for the WiFi? antenna. Then the MoBo? can be lifted out, remember that the USB port sticks through the trim so you will have to lift from the bottom of the MoBo?, and pull down to unseat the MoBo?.
Once again remove the metal shielding.
STEP 11: Now, remove the screw holding the analogue nub in place and remove it.
STEP 12: Underneath you will see the daughter board for the AV port, remove the screw holding it in and take out the board, remembering to lift from the top and slide the port out.
STEP 13: Now the really fun part, first pry the spring from the UMD door hinge, next to remove the UMD door, the best way I have found is to slide a small flat-head screw-driver into the opening from the front on the right side, and gently prying the hinge out, now there may be a better way to do this but I wasn’t willing to try too many ways in the fear of scratching my PSP which was disassembled in less than hour from receiving it. Once the first hinge is removed you can easily remove the second hinge, but the door isn’t off yet. You have to remove the H frame hinge from the UMD door, to do this slide the H frame to the bottom of it’s tracks on the door, and lateral to the door, slightly squeeze above the pins and they will be free.
Now remove the 4 screws from the UMD laser drive and remove it,
STEP 14: To get the H frame off you will have to either remove the small sticky-backed rubber blocks from the sides of it’s hinges with your tweezers, or slide a small flat-head screwdriver in between to allow enough space to remove the hinges.
STEP 15: Now all that’s left is to remove the sticky-backed WiFi? antenna from the back-plate and you are done, you now have a completely disassembled PSP Slim & Lite.
GOOD WORK YOU NOW HAVE DISASSEMBLED THE PSP SLIM GOOD LUCK PUTTING IT TOGETHER
SOURCE: codemayhem.net
The breakdown done by acidmods
AND A LITTLE EDITING BY ME GOSH JUST EDITING TOOK FOREVER.
Hope this helps you to choose between the two PSP's Original PSP
Size
280 grams
170mm long
74mm width
23mm deep
480x272 pixel screen
Specs
333MHz
32MB RAM
166 MHz graphics chip
Features
Photo Viewer
Music Player
Video Player
Watch UMD Films
Play UMD games
Web browser
WiFi Enabled
4 Screen Brighness Levels
Demos Playable
Ir Port
Mini USB Port
Supports Homebrew
PS3 Networking
Colours and Themes
Black, White, Pink, Blue, Gold, Silver, Metal Gear Solid: PO Camouflage
PSP Slim and Light
Size
189 grams
19.5mm deep
480x272 pixel screen
Specs
333MHz
64MB RAM
166 MHz graphics chip
Features
Photo Viewer
Music Player
Video Player
Watch UMD Films
Play UMD games
Web browser
WiFi Enabled
5 Screen Brighness Levels
Demos Playable
Mini USB Port
Video Output
Charge via USB
Faster Loading Times
Increased Battery Life
PS3 Networking
Supports Homebrew
Colours and Themes
Black, Ice Silver, Star Wars Vanilla White, Final Fantasy 7 Crisis Core Limitd Edition, Rose Pink, Lavender Purple, Felicia Blue
With the success of DCEmu Reviews a site that has its content showing up on our PSP, DS, Wii, PS3 and Xbox360 and the main DCEmu Portal site. I Wanted to create a new Guide/Tutorials site where new guides and tutorials will show up on any of our network sites.
Just like our news where any coders can upload their releases and post releases and WIP News this will be extended to our Guides and Tutorials Site.
We will be accepting Guides and Tutorials for any Console Scene We Cover and the beauty of it is because the creators will be you the DCEmu Members which means that if you please you can update as you want. What this will mean that if all goes well then this new site could be a great help base for the whole Homebrew scene.
So if you have any guides and tutorials for PS3, Wii, Xbox360, PSP, Nintendo DS, GP2X, GBA, Gamecube, PS2, Xbox, Gizmondo, Iphone, iPod, Tapwave Zodiac, GP32, Dreamcast, Sega Saturn and others, then we want them
Hello, this is my first guide on this forum and hopefully not the last.
Google search before asking the question on this
forum.
Be patient, I've seen people who wait all of half an hour then reply "WTF why havn't you answered?"
Make sure you know what you are talking about, in other words do not try and make your post fancy by using computer terms that you do not understand.
Please state the problem in the thread, do not just make a thread and say "My DS is not working." we will have no idea what the problem is, so for all we know you could of crushed it while humping it.
Do not ask for a GBA emulator for slot-1 DS devices.
Please follow this advice while posting and we can help you much quicker.
Here's a quick guide to storing any files you might have.
before getting into it, keep note that you won't be able to use them on your PS3 if the XMB doesn't already support it.
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Gray = Word-for-word option in XMB used in the process of storing, or botton on the controller.
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1. Obtain a usb cord and a storage device, or a storage device that connects directly to the system(s).
2. Rename your file to end with the suffix .MP4 (via PC or other available method). If the file you're storing is a video, then this step is unnecessary
3. Connect your storage to the PS3, go to Video in the XMB, press Triangle when the storage device's icon is highlighted, then select Display All.
4. Locate your file(s) and press Triangle for your options, then select Copy. If you have multiple files, select Copy Multiple from the top in the options menu and proceed to copy like you would for any other media.
5. Notice: They will display as corrupt or unsupported videos at the bottom of the list.
6. Identifying your stored files: Highlight one of the corrupt or unsupported video files at the bottom of the list, press Triangle for your options, and select Information. The filename will be at the top of the information list, along with it's original extension, if you left it on there. Unfortunately, this is the only method to navigate your files using the XMB only.
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a few compression tips:
--Before compressing, make sure you set the compression level to the highest possible.
--RAR is a very powerful generic compression format.
--7z is a "picky-eater" but more often than not, has a (5~20%) better compression than RAR
--Experiment with various formats on like-files to save the most space.
Same warning apply. WE are not responsible for anything bad Yada yada yada.
Dark_Alex is amazing and deserves a lot of thanks.
Requirements: a fat psp slim with 3.52 M33-3 or 3.52 M33-4NOTE: If you have a custom theme you will need to remove it. Previous versions of M33 won't work, due to a bug that affects them and OE; or a psp slim with 3.60 M33.
1. Unrar the 371_m33.rar
2. Drop the UPDATE folder dounf in the archive into PSP/GAME/
3. Drop the 371.PBP into PSP/GAME/UPDATE
4. Run the installer
5. Press X and watch sony install a custom firmware for you.
NOTE: You will get the sony installer, do not be scared, DAX modified it a bit, it does indeed install 3.71 M33
1.5 Kernel Addon
download and unrar This
place the UPDATE folder into PSP/GAME
download This
unzip it and rename ti 150.PBP place on root of MS
Run it
This was made through the best partnership of homebrew makers, hackers, adn demiGods ever in the history of a hacking scene. I would like to recognize those people for their fantastic releases, adn this is by far one of the best, if not THE best
But as with all of these, nothing is garunteed, adn YOU MUST HAVE ACCESS TO A NONBRICKED PSP
First things first
The Credits
- All work done by the Prometheus team aka Team C+D:
Adrahil (VoidPointer)
Booster
Cswindle (Caretaker)
Dark_AleX (Malyot)
Ditlew
Fanjita (FullerMonty)
Joek2100 (CosmicOverSoul)
Jim
Mathieulh (WiseFellow)
Nem (h1ckeyph0rce)
Psp250
Skylark
TyRaNiD (bockscar
Secondly
Obtain the following
1. A bricked PSP
2. A nonbricked PSP that can run homebrew 256+mb MS PRODUO. non PRO will not work
3. A battery that you cannot use untill restored
4. Download this : http://dl.qj.net/dl.php?fid=14414
unrar it with winrar
move the "Pandorasbox Setup.exe" into C:/
Start it
press Install.
Now find the folder that you extracted originally and double click the "Shortcut to Pandora's Box.exe"
Click Pandora's Battery REquirements; make sure you meet them
press OK
Click on Pandora's Box Easier-Installer For Pandora's Battery
You should get a Command Window
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
***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
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
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"
After program has loaded press triangle
Press 1 then Enter
It should say dumping, then done and exit.
REstart "Pandora's Battery Creator"
Press X
Should say done and exit
Press 1 then Enter
now start "Pandoras Battery Firm. Installer
press X
It will display the following screen then exit
RE-enter USB mode
Press 1 the Enter
You should se the following screen
Press 1 then Enter 2 times
Press Y then Enter
Should See Following Screen
Press 1 the Enter
Your done you have a working Pandora's BAttery and MS now
REmove from charger and take battery out
Replace Battery in the PSP you wish to downgrade
You SHould see this screen
***OPTIONAL***
Press o
Wiat, and you now have a Nand backup
***OPTIONAL***
Press X and now you are downgrading and/or unbricking
Now for those who didnt pay attention
restart the batter creator after downgrading and press L+R to restore it to a normal battery and reformat the card to return it to normal. if you want
This was made possible by the best hackers out there, along with team m33. This Site and myself hole no resposibility to what happens to your PSP, neither do the makers of this program]
First things first
The Credits
- Most work done for the battery by the Prometheus team aka Team C+D:
Adrahil (VoidPointer)
Booster
Cswindle (Caretaker)
Dark_AleX (Malyot)
Ditlew
Fanjita (FullerMonty)
Joek2100 (CosmicOverSoul)
Jim
Mathieulh (WiseFellow)
Nem (h1ckeyph0rce)
Psp250
Skylark
TyRaNiD (bockscar
-Modification for 360 M33
Team March ThirtyThird
Secondly
Obtain the following
1. A PSP SLim
2. A nonbricked PSP fat that can run homebrew with a 256+mb MS PRODUO. non PRO will not work
3. A battery for a fat PSP
4. Download this : http://dl.qj.net/dl.php?fid=14414
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unrar it with winrar
move the "Pandorasbox Setup.exe" into C:/
Start it
press Install.
Now find the folder that you extracted originally and double click the "Shortcut to Pandora's Box.exe"
Click Pandora's Battery REquirements; make sure you meet them
press OK
Click on Pandora's Box Easier-Installer For Pandora's Battery
You should get a Command Window
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
***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
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
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"
After program has loaded press triangle
Press 1 then Enter
It should say dumping, then done and exit.
REstart "Pandora's Battery Creator"
Press X
Should say done and exit
Press 1 then Enter
now start "Pandoras Battery Firm. Installer
press X
It will display the following screen then exit
RE-enter USB mode
Press 1 the Enter
You should se the following screen
Press 1 then Enter 2 times
Press Y then Enter
Should See Following Screen
Press 1 the Enter
Your done you have a working Pandora's BAttery and MS now
1. Remove the Pandoras Battery, adn replace with either a normal PSP FAT battery ot the AC adapter
2. Restart your PSP and enter USB mode
3. Navigate to PSP/GAME or GAME150
4. Place the "pandora_slim" and "pandora_slim%" folders in PSPga,e(GAME150)
5. Place teh 340 and 350 update eboots names 340.PBP and 350.PBP respecrtivly in PSP/GAME(GAME150)/pandora_slim
6. Run it
Installing 3.60 M33 on a PSP SLIM
1. Remove teh MS you made in the ealier part and place it into the PSP SLIM
2. Put in teh Pandoras Battery
3. You will get a black screen, thats is alrgith, the PSP SLIMs LCD drivers are not suported. You have 3 options though.
- Press X to install M33. The process will last just few seconds, since the installer only needs to install the M33 custom prx's and IPL. After the process is finished, the installer will shutdown the psp automatically.
- Press L+R+triangle to uninstall M33 and go back to original 3.60. Note: this can't unbrick a psp slim, it will just remove M33 ipl. There is currently no unbricker for the psp slim, but we plan on doing one in the future. After uninstallation, psp will be shutdown automatically.
- Press square to dump the PSP Slim nand. Watch out: you need 66 MB of free space in the memory stick for this, otherwise your memory stick may end corrupted.
You now have 3.60 M33 hopefully
Restoring your Battery
Go to Game on your memory stick and launch "Pandora's Battery Creator"
Press L+R
Now remove MS, and reboot PSP.
Put the MS back in and format it anyway you choose
[b][color=red]OK, SO this was released by a very talented group of Russian hackers, we thank them for their hard work.
Remember we do not take any responsibility for any ill effects your PSP may suffer
changelog:
really nothing expect it 3.51 instead of 340.
1. Download and unarchive the 14098_m33rel.zip and the 1.5 eboot.
2. Rename the 1.5 eboot to 150.PBP and the 3.51 Eboot to 351.PBP or take the 3.52 Eboot and rename it 352.PBP
3. Connect your PSP to your computer and activate USB MODE
4. Find it in My Computer or on your desktop.
5. Navigate to X:/PSP/ (where X:/ is your drive so E:/ or D;/)
6. Now Choose The Set Of Instructions you Need, From 1.5 ot from an OE or SE custom Firmware
Updating to 3.51/3.52 M33 from 1.50
1. Navigate to X:/PSP/GAME/ and place the kxploitpatcher and kxploitpatcher% from teh 1.5 only folder(in the m33rel folder) in here.
2. Also Place the M33CREATOR inside PSP/GAME, then move the 150.PBP and 351.PBP/3.52.PBP into PSP/GAME/M33CREATOR
3. Exit USB mode, and start the kxploitpatcher.
4. After that program has exited start the M33CREATOR.
5. Afterwards you should get a new icon under GAME called "3.51 M33UPDATE" or 3.52 M33UPDATE
6. Making sure you have over 75% batery and the AC adapter pluged in, start the update.
7. Press X to Agree and your on your way.
8. Leave your PSP alone untill pormpted, enjoy 351/352 M33
Updating to 3.51/3.52 M33 from any OE or SE custom Firmware
1. Navigate to X:/PSP/GAME150/ and place the M33CREATOR inside PSP/GAME150, then move the 150.PBP and 351.PBP/352.PBP into PSP/GAME/M33CREATOR
3. Exit USB mode, and start the M33CREATOR.
5. Afterwards you should get a new icon under GAME called "3.51 M33UPDATE"/3.52 M33UPDATE
6. Making sure you have over 75% batery and the AC adapter pluged in, start the update.
7. Press X to Agree and your on your way.
8. Leave your PSP alone untill pormpted, enjoy 351/352 M33
Step 1: You will need to download the following software: Alcohol 52% (Freeware) or Alcohol 120% (Trial, requires purchase) *Note: For this tutorial, I'll be using Alcohol 52% as it is free.*
Step 2: Install the Alcohol software onto your PC.
Step 3: Open the alcohol application from either your desktop or start menu on the windows task bar.
Step 4: Once the software is open, you will see the main window that displays the drives (physical & virtual) that are attached to your PC. You should also see the "Image Making Wizard" tab on the left side of that same window. If not, you can access it from the file menu. Click File then scroll down to Image Making Wizard and click again.
Step 5: Now that the wizard is open the rest of this process will be a breeze. Insert your PSX game into your PC's CD-Rom/DVD-Rom drive. On the "Datatype" option at the bottom of the wizard, change it to "Playstation". Make sure the box is checked for "Read Sub-Channel Data from current disc". Change the drive's read speed to "Maximum". (Use a slower speed if you have a slow computer) Now, click the Next tab on the wizard to continue.
Step 6: On the "Image Location" box, select where you would like to save this soon to be created ISO. (Use the Windows Desktop for easy file retrieval) Next, title the "Image Name" option in the box to the name of the PSone game you are ripping. (I'll be ripping Parasite Eve, so... the file name is Parasite_Eve or ParasiteEve) Next, change the "Image Format" box to CloneCD Image File(*.ccd). Last, click the Start Tab. The ripping process will take a few minutes to complete. Upon a successful PSX dump, Alcohol will notify you with a sound.
Step 7: Alcohol should have created three (3) files. Your_Game.ccd , Your_Game.img , and Your_Game.sub. Place all three files into a folder that is titled the name of your game. (So, my files look like this - Parasite_Eve.ccd , Parasite_Eve.img , and Parasite_Eve.sub. I created a new folder on the Windows Desktop titled "Parasite Eve" and placed all three files in it.)
Thats all there is to it. You now have a 1:1 ripped PSX ISO of the actual game. *Note: The ISO is not playable on the Sony PSP until it has been converted into an "eboot" file. I will cover that topic in the next tutorial "How to Create a PSX eboot". Also note that these "eboot" files are only playable on a Sony PSP using a custom firmware, such as Dark_AleX OE, Team M33, Team Wildcard, etc.
Already created a PSX ISO from your game disc? Where do you go from here to get the game running on the Sony PSP, you ask? Well my friends, you found the right tutorial right here. Follow the step by step process below and you'll be playing that old PSone game you loved so dearly long ago on your PSP handheld. *Note: Theses PSX eboot files will only work on a PSP thats running a custom firmware.*
Step 1: Download the software below if you don't have it already.
Step 2: Extract the software to your PC and run the IceTea application.
Step 3: You will see the main window open that displays all the basic tasks needed to create the eboot from the PSX ISO. *Supported File Types: (*.img) , (*.iso) , (*.bin)* In the "PSX Image" box, select the PSX image you made using Alcohol 52% or Alcohol 120% (See supported file types) Once you have selected the PSX image you want to convert, the "Game ID" & "Game Title" boxes should fill in with info automatically. If they do, skip to Step 5. If the boxes don't fill in automatically, continue to Step 4.
Step 4: Enter the Unique Game ID into the boxes. It's a four letter prefix & 5 digits. This number can be found on the actual PSone game disc. (Example: SLUS55124 or SCUS55124) Next, enter the name of the eboot as it will be shown in the XMB in the "Game Title" box. (Example: Parasite Eve (Disc 1) [NTSC-U] or C&C Red Alert (Allies Disc) [NTSC-U])
Step 5: In the "Compression" box, move the slider to best compression. This makes the eboot file size a lot smaller. It doesn't affect the gameplay or performance of the PSX eboot whatsoever.
Step 6: In the "Output Directory" box, set where you would like to save your soon to be created eboot file. (Desktop usually is a good idea) Finally, hit the "Let's Go" tab and sit back for a couple minutes while your eboot file is being created. After the file is created, it'll be saved to the directory or folder you chose.
Step 7: Create a new folder titled the name of the game you just converted into an eboot. (Example: Parasite Eve or C&C Red Alert) Place the eboot into that folder. The game is now ready to be transfered to the PSP.
Step 8: Place the folder with the eboot you created in it inside the following directory on the PSP: MS0:/PSP/GAME (Example: MS0:/PSP/GAME/Parasite Eve/EBOOT.PBP) Disconnect the PSP from your PC, scroll over to the Game option in the XMB and you should see your PSX game. Thats all there is to it. The P.O.P.S. (Playstation One Portable Station - Sony's offical PSX emulator built-in their newer firmwares and almost ALL custom firmwares 3.03 OE-C & above) is fully adjustable, adjust the settings of the playstation emulator by pressing the home button on the PSP. Here you can change the screen size, control scheme, disc speed, volume, and brightness options.
Tip: If the eboot isn't playing properly, you may need to update your firmware to a newer version to receive the latest P.O.P.S emulator. (Example: Dark_AleX 3.30 OE-A to Dark_AleX 3.40 OE-A or Team M33 3.51-7 to Team M33 3.52-4) With each new firmware, Sony updates their emulation software for more support. Tip: Once you load the PSX eboot on your PSP for the 1st time, it will automatically generate a "Save Game" file in the Save Data Utillity inside the "Game" tab of the XMB. This file saves your custom P.O.P.S. settings as well as acts as original PSone memory card(s).
