Er, yeah, before you go clouding my vision with countless replies of "AMG DIS IZ ILLEGALLZ!!!!!!!!!!!1one" it's not illegal. It would only be illegal if I was to download ripped ISO games and put them on my PSP, in which I wasn't set out to achieve. I would like to at least give sony a tad bit of dignity despite the fact that they really don't deserve it. So don't tase me, bro. If this is the wrong section though, Mods, feel free to move it. Anyway. In the near future, I was thinking of picking up a PSP(Preowned or new, doesn't matter), and from what I've heard, the PSP's homebrew department looks pretty good so far. So I was wondering what I would require to run homebrew on a PSP, I do know that there are certain models with different motherboards(Or something like that) that are unhackable and can't run custom firmware, so I would like to know which model series is best to pick up. There are a few 1000 series preowned PSPs lying in a local cash converters which I was thinking of getting, though I just wanted the heads up first. Thanks. Oh yeah, and I can't be fucked to do the entire colored text anymore, in case you were wondering,
1) magic memory stick (can be self made with regular mem stick, google it.) 2) pandora battery (can be bought or self made, only make it your self if your good with wires and have a spare battery, google it.) 3) phat psp or slim if your going for the homebrew scene i recommend the phat psp model. my friends slim CONSTANTELY crash's for him when he uses emulators (psx/popstation). But on my phat it works flawlessly.
What's the point in getting a pandora battery if you're not going to download games for it. Oh wait emulators? I guess you could play those =\ I'll be over here enjoying games from Japan and some you can't even find anymore. On a serious note, just find a friend with a pandora battery, they should know what to do with it. Or buy one off eBay and look up guides on what to do with it.
There's a great video on how to make a pandora battery and magic memory stick on your own, if you don't want to buy one. It helped me out, so maybe it can help you. Part 1 Part 2 Works best on the fat/phat psp though, as Carey mentioned... and this is of course after you've installed the custom firmware.
Maybe you missed the part where some psp homebrew applications allow you to watch videos from youtube, install custom themes, remotely access your computer, play more media files, read e-books, ect. Yeah, and along with the emulators. Don't automatically assume that the hacking scene is all about warez, because that comes across as pretty ignorant. The homebrew scene is growing at a stupidly fast rate, to be honest. Anyway, about the pandora battery, is this required for all models? I'm sure I read a guide somewhere where it wasn't required for phat PSPs, I'm not sure.
