Pandora’s Battery: Un-Brick your PSP

The PSP has by far been the most hacked and modded portable console ever. The PSP has seen quite the share of hacks over its very short lifetime, but this latest hack from the kids at N00bz could very well be the biggest ever, promising to do nothing short of unbricking all bricked PSPs. They key to it all is to turn an ordinary PSP battery into a so-called “service mode trigger battery.

To make one of your own, you’ll of course need a spare battery, as well as a working homebrew-enabled PSP to get it up and running. Once you have that, and after running some software on the PSP and on a PC, you should have a battery and memory card combo ready to bring any bricked PSP back up and running with the v1.5 firmware.

There’s a detailed write up on the n00bz site here.

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