[ # ] How to Hack your PSP to 5.00 M33-3 (The Easy Way)
/* Posted October 27th, 2008 at 11:30am *//* Filed under PSP, Sony, Video Games */
How to Hack your PSP to 5.00 M33-3 (The Easy Way)
So if you just bought a PSP and want to get into custom firmware, this is the right place to be. If you already have custom firmware on your PSP and just want to upgrade to 5.00,
skip below to the 5.00 section. If you want to bring your PSP to 4.01 M33
skip below to the 4.01 section. This works on all PSP’s that came from the factory with anything less than 4.00 Official Firmware (OFW).
Requirements for Hacking a Factory PSP:
1. PSP Pandora Battery
2. Memory Stick Pro Duo (64mb to 8gb TESTED so far - any will do).
3. psp-grader-v005-lite-setup
4. Official PSP 3.90 Firmware.
Steps:
1. Install PSP Grader on your computer.
2. Run PSP Grader and select the location of the 3.90 firmware and drive for your memory stick
3. Hit run and let the program create a “Magic Memory Stick” for you.
4. Your Memory stick is now ready, insert the Pandora’s Battery whilst holding the L should button on the PSP. Once the IPL has loaded on the PSP simply press the X button. Wait. After around 1 - 3 minutes the Flash shall be done, press X to shutdown the psp, it is now safe to remove the pandora battery. Its is very important to just wait and not switch off the PSP or remove the Memory Stick or Pandora’s Battery, it could result in a brick if you do not wait.
5. Once that is done, you can format the memory stick with your psp to use to load games. Games are normally loaded in the “ISO” folder. you need to hit select on the PSP to get the ISO mode correct. Use the “Sony NP9660″ one.
This was the easiest way I could find to get the PSP to 3.90 m33-3, from there you are going to just run one more updates to reach 5.0 m33-3
Steps to finish the hack to Version 5.00….
If you already have custom firmware you can skip the steps above and jump directly here.
How to Update your PSP to the latest 5.00 M33-3: This Update brings 3.90 m33 and 4.01 M33 PSP’s to 5.00 M33-3
What to do:
1. Download the Official PSP 5.00 Firmware here
2. Download the 5.00 M33-3 installer
3. Unextract the files you just downloaded
4. Rename the EBOOT.PBP file from the PSP_500_FW_UPDATE.RAR to 500.PBP
5. Move the 500.PBP file into the UPDATE foler from the 5.00M33.rar
6. Copy files over to the PSP memory stick in the Games directory.
7. Run the Update Program on your PSP, NOTE: Battery has to be atleast @78%
Update PSP 5.00 m33
Update 5.00 m33 PSP
Update PSP 5.00 m33 complete
That’s it. You are all patched up to the latest version of the time of this posting!
There is also an add-on pack to this firmware that gives the PSP additional features like
Screenshots, video capture, etc.
That can be found here:
How to take Screen Shots of PSP Games and More
Also if you are looking for a jump start to getting emulators to run on your PSP, you should check out:
Capcom CPS2 Emulator for the PSP Slim and also
Capcom CPS1 Emulator for the PSP Slim. Those two articles should atleast get you on your feet.
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26 Responses to “How to Hack your PSP to 5.00 M33-3 (The Easy Way)”
yo queria saber si el psp nuevo …. ya salio el desbloqueio de ese 4.01 de la placa nova responder ;…
Comment from jason [October 30, 2008, 9:24 am] 
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hey im tryin 2 find this psp grader v5 all ova the place im not 2pc savy but if u can help me or lead me 2 wear i can find this it would help thanx
can some body tell me how to hack a psp thats 4.05 and can give me the web stite
this is the website http://www.info.com search it and you can get how to hack the psp version 4.05 do itt budyyy!!!!!!
yuo are a pig
could you hack a madden 09 psp with ofw 5.00?
please reply asap!
The mod does not work on TA-88 motherboard PSP right?
will any pandora battery work or just the datel tool 1?
great guide for common people with sony software. 5 stars for you. now if we could find an update that would totally eliminate progressive scan on UMD games…
i really need your help with thi problwm i’ve been having. ever since i installed this update when i try to turn on my psp the green light is on but the screen is black although when i take the battery out and put in the charger it works prefectly
i have chacked my battery a million times and im pretty sure there is nothing wrong with it
help?
on my 1 i doneloaded it and it says the game could not be started and it has these number in brackets 80020148
SOME1 PLZ AND PLZ HHHHHHEEEELLLPPP????
Can you do this to a psp with 5.02 offical firmware and if not were do i go to do this
Can you do this to a psp with 5.02 offical firmware
you can put this on a PSP with 5.02 firmware if it didnt come from the factory like that
If you upgraded the PSP by yourself, this will work for you no problem
you so pro
if you kn ow 5.02 version that best ^Q<
I successfully upgraded my PSP from 3.90 m33 to 5.00 only (downloaded at sony official site)and soon realized I missed the patch m33. Now I want to upgrade again 5.00 to 5 m33-3 but the system wont allow me and gave me ‘The game cannot be started.The data is corrupted’. Can anyone please help.
djamest : just start with the pandora battery and run the whole process again. it should run without a problem, remember to hit select and change the mode when trying to run games
Thanks timmy i just bought a pandora battery online. I’m going to try it when i get it.
What do u mean “Update 5.00 m33 PSP” and “Run the Update Program on your PSP”.Do u mean paste it at the game directory and run?
my madden psp upgrade is 5.00 m33 does a gba emulator works with this upgrade so far i being seeing videos but they all have a lower upgrade that this. i need some one to tell me it will work thanx
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