Thread: PSP 3000 has been somewhat usefully hacked...

For those of you with a PSP 3000 gathering dust in the closet (raises hand), here is some interesting information for you.

The Short:
- Play PS1 games
- Play SOME PSP commercial games
- Play MOST homebrew

The trick here is that the firmware cannot be overwritten in the PSP 3000 yet. This prevents CFW from being installed. HOWEVER - for those of you alive in the Amiga days, you make remember a little tool called KICKBACK. Essentially, that's what's going on here.

Using a TIFF exploit, it is possible to execute a patch that allows the system to reboot in a pseudo CFW mode that allows the execution of homebrew.

This piece of the equation is called CHICKHEN R2. Consists of 5 graphic files that execute the expoit and a small executable that sits on the root of the memory stick.

Once executed, the system reboots with the exploit in place. You can now play MAME, etc. This part does NOT allow commercial stuff to play.

The next part is the 5.03 GEN for HEN firmware installer. This installs essentially a copy of the CFW on the drive - and allows you to execute it FOR THAT BOOT SESSION ONLY.

So, you power up the PSP 3000, run the TIFF exploit, then execute the CFW tool. The system reboots and you are now in CFW 5.03 - which is enough to run all the PSP1 (popstation) stuff as well as a LOT of the commercial stuff out there.

However, you ARE stealing like 26MB of system memory to patch in the CFW and that is enough to make the AAA stuff stop working, I imagine.

This does open up TONS of doors (my wife will actually use her PSP now that she can play her old PS1 stuff on it).

You have to do this process anytime the PSP totally reboots - which, if you're careful and keep it charged - won't be all that often.

It's not a FULL solution - but it's a workable one.

I didn't think that hacking destroys the device

I have got my psp-3000 hacked. Now i store my games on memory card and play directly without using UMD...!!