Are you a new user of custom firmware? Baffled by the many different folders available on your memory stick? Fret not, I've put together a short and simple guide to explain to you the folders and their uses.
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- Hackable PSP (all 01g and 02g except TA-88v3). Pre-installed HEN/CFW to launch installer. Pandora Battery and Memory Stick. Installation: - Copy VResurrectionManager folder to ms0:/PSP/GAME - Copy OFW EBOOT.PBP to Memory Stick root with name XXX.PBP (660.PBP for 6.60 or 500.PBP for 5.00). Start the unbricker from game menu.
- A 'bricked' psp means the psp does not have the correct files to boot up properly a bricked psp wont do anything when you turn it on to 'unbrick' is to put the correct files on the PSP without it.
WILL BE LOST, so remember to make a backup before formatting. You can still continue reading this guide without formatting your memory stick, just take note of the folders you want and create them manually on your memory stick.
Connect your PSP to your computer now, or insert your memory stick into your card reader. If you've formatted your memory stick via the PSP, the default folders should have been created, and it should look something like this:
ISO:
Your PSP games go into this folder. Acceptable formats are ISO and CSO.
Simply put the whole file inside this folder, and the game will be available
from the GAME menu on the PSP.
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MP_ROOT:
Your MP4 videos have to be placed into this folder. Only then will you be
able to play them from the VIDEO menu on the PSP. It's subdivided into two
folders inside, but more on this later.
MUSIC:
All music files should be put here if you want to play them via the MUSIC
menu on the PSP. You can organise your music files in folders as well, but
only one level of folders is allowed. The PSP can only play MP3, MP4,
ATRAC3, ATRAC3plus, WAV and WMA formats only, so check before you place
music onto your PSP.
Acceptable
sub-folders: 1 level only
2 levels of
sub-folders is not allowed
PICTURE:
You can place picture files here for viewing in the PHOTO menu on the PSP.
The PSP can only read JPEG, TIFF, PNG, GIF and BMP formats, so make sure you
have converted your pictures to these formats before you attempt to view
them. This folder supports up to one level of sub-folders, just like the
MUSIC folder.
PSP:
This folder contains homebrew, saved games and browser data. It'll be covered in more detail below.
seplugins:
Plugins for custom firmware go inside this folder. I've already covered installing plugins in a previous post, so refer there to learn more.
VIDEO:
This folder is supposed to be able to play videos, but if you've converted your videos to MP4 format using software like PSP Video 9 or 3GPConverter, they won't work in this folder. I advise you leave this folder alone and just use the folders in MP_ROOT.
MEMSTICK.IND & MSTK_PRO.IND:
These files are created when you format your memory stick with the PSP. You can either leave them there, or delete them. As far as I know, they don't affect the operation of the memory stick with the PSP.
Now let's get back to the MP_ROOT
folder:
Inside the MP_ROOT folder, you'll see two other folders, 100MNV01 and 101ANV01. Regular MP4 videos go into the 100MNV01 folder, while AVC-encoded videos go into 101ANV01. If you're not sure which format your MP4 is encoded in, just try putting them into 100MNV01. More often than not it should work, else just simply move them over to the 101ANV01 folder. Videos have to be named like this: M4Vxxxxx.MP4 for regular MP4 videos and MAQxxxxx.MP4 for AVC-encoded videos, where xxxxx is any 5-digit number.
You can sub-divide your videos into different folders as well. Simply create new folders in this format: xxxMNV01 for regular MP4 videos and xxxANV01 for AVC-encoded videos, with
xxx as any 3-digit number.
Lastly, the PSP folder. This contains the most sub-folders as compared to the others:
GAME,
GAME150 and GAME3xx:
These folders are reserved for homebrew and PSX games. Homebrew in GAME will be executed using the kernel set in the recovery menu, while homebrew in GAME150 and GAME3xx will be executed using 1.50 kernel and 3.xx kernel respectively.
COMMON:
You can use this folder to store portal pages for your PSP. Portal pages are just HTML pages that have been put together for viewing on the PSP.
PHOTO:
This folder can store picture files as well. You can choose to put your pictures in either this folder or the PICTURE folder. Like the MUSIC and PICTURE folder, the PHOTO folder also accepts one level of sub-folders.
SAVEDATA:
As the name implies, this folder stores all your saved data for PSP and PSX games. Each save data is stored in its own folder, with the game ID as the folder name.
SYSTEM:
In here, you will find a file ISOCACHE.BIN and another folder, BROWSER. ISOCACHE.BIN stores the names of the ISOs available on your memory stick, allowing them to be displayed faster in the GAME menu. In the BROWSER folder, you will find files that store your browser history, as well as bookmarks.
These are the basic folders, but there are actually more folders that can be accessed on the PSP. I won't be covering them here, instead I'll just give a brief overview.
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PSP/SYSTEM/RSSCH:
You can find RSS channels that you have subscribed to here. The folder will be created automatically once you subscribe to your first RSS Channel.
PSP/MUSIC:
This folder works the same as the MUSIC folder in the root of your memory stick, but it's been removed from the default folders.
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DCIM/101MSDCF:This will create a 'Digital Camera Images' under the PHOTO menu on your PSP. You can copy images from your digital camera straight to this folder and be able to view it on the PSP. The images have to follow this strict naming format: DSCxxxxx.JPG, where xxxxx can be any 5-digit number.
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Now that you know how to use the different folders, try playing around with them and maximize the full potential of the PSP!August 25th, 2007, 18:41
PSP Unbricking/Downgrading Guide for all current hardware revisions.
This guide will help you unbrick your PSP or downgrade your PSP from any version back down to 1.50
Requirements-
A computer running Windows (XP is probably best) There is a guide that explains how to do this on linux here (http://psp.jim.sh/fanjita/linux.txt)
A homebrew enabled PSP in 100% working order.
A bricked PSP or a PSP you wish to downgrade.
A Memory stick Pro Duo that is 256Mb or Larger (Upto 2GB). Memory Stick Pros do not work
A USB Cable.
A little bit of knowledge with the command prompt. Not nessecary but it will help.
Most importantly a PSP battery (Spare battery if you can)
What is going to happen?
Firstly you will format your memory stick using your PSP, so backup up your data first.
Then you will run a program that modifiys that format of the memory stick to help prevent errors.
You will then modofiy the serial number stored inside a PSP battery so that it reads 0xFFFFFFFF.
The PSP is programmed to launch the initial-program-load (IPL) from the memory stick if the battery reads 0xFFFFFFFF.
Any other value and it will try to boot from Flash0, obviouslly failing if Flash0 is corrupt.
This will launch a small program that can write to Flash0 restoring a PSPs firmware.
Things you should know-
After you have finished downgrading/unbricking, you can change the serial number of the battery so it will boot the PSP normally.
You can also format the memory stick again and use it normally.
All software provided in the links contain no copyright material.
Some people have been selling unbricking services on auction websites for £30, £40...
Dont use them, they are profiting from a group of hackers work who want this software to be free for everyone.
The Slim PSP isn't out yet, so its unknown if this unbricker/downgrader will work on a Slim PSP.
But it does work on all hardware revisions of the current PSP. TA-082 etc...all work :)
This part of the guide requires a homebrew enabled PSP, such as 1.50, any of the Dark_ALex's CFW, any version of M33's CFW....
1. Download 'Pandora's Battery' from here (http://www.noobz.eu/joomla/news/pandoras-battery.html). This is the creators' website so you may want to donate a few pennies via paypal ;)
2. Extract 'Pandora's Battery' to C: (OR what ever drive letter your OS is installed on) so you end up with a folder in the root of your hard drive.
Your drive should look like this-
C:pandorareadme.txt
C:pandorabatterypandora_batteryEBOOT.PBP
C:pandorabatterypandora_battery%EBOOT.PBP
C:pandorainstallerpbfirm_installEBOOT.PBP
C:pandorainstallerpbfirm_install%EBOOT.PBP
C:pandoramsinstmsinst.exe
C:pandoramspformatmspformat.exe
4. Backup everything that you wish to keep on your memory stick to your PC. Then from within the PSP format the memory stick.
5. Know up up a command prompt. Start -> Run -> Type 'CMD' and press enter.
6. Type 'C:' without the quotes and press enter.
7. Type 'CD Pandoramspformat' without the quotes and press enter.
8. Now connect your PSP to your computer and still in the command prompt type 'mspformat [PSPSDRIVELETTER]' and press enter
Example-
mspformat X
9. Make sure the drive letter youve typed in is your PSP. Accept the warning and type 'y' without the quotes and press enter.
10. This will format your memory stick and make it logical.
11. PULL OUT THE MEMORY STICK FROM THE PSP, THEN CLOSE THE USB CONNECTION. <-- IMPORTANT
12. Put the memory stick back in again and connect the PSP to a PC.
13. Manually create a 'PSP' and inside of that a 'GAME' folder on your memory stick. ('GAME150' if your using a CFW)
14. Copy the contents of the 'battery' folder and the 'installer' folder from the inside the folder you downloaded and extracted earlier.
15. Download the official 1.50 firmware update from here (http://www.psp-hacks.com/file/4), extract it and rename it from EBOOT.PBP to UPDATE.PBP
16. Copy it to the root of your memory stick
Your drive should look like this-
X:PSPGAMEpandora_batteryEBOOT.PBP
X:PSPGAMEpandora_battery%EBOOT.PBP
X:PSPGAMEpbfirm_installEBOOT.PBP
X:PSPGAMEpbfirm_install%EBOOT.PBP
X:UPDATE.PBP
17. PULL OUT THE MEMORY STICK FROM THE PSP, THEN CLOSE THE USB CONNECTION. <-- IMPORTANT
18. Remove the battery, insert the memory stick again then the battery and turn it on.
19. Run the 'Pandora's Battery Firmware Installer' program to dump a file to your memory stick. Press [X] when prompted.
20. Connect your psp to a computer.
21. Open up a command prompt again (See above for help) and type 'C:' without the quotes and press enter
22. Type 'cd pandoramsinst' without the quotes and press enter.
23. Now type 'msinst [PSPSDRIVELETTER] msipl.bin' without the quotes and press enter.
Example-
msinst X msipl.bin
24. When promopted type 'y' without the quotes and press enter. This take a few seconds and will modify a file on your memory stick.
25. NOW PULL OUT THE MEMORY STICK FROM THE PSP, THEN CLOSE THE USB CONNECTION. <-- IMPORTANT
26. Run the 'Pandora's Battery Creator' program on the PSP and I recommend you back a backup of your battery's eeprom by pressing triangle
27. This will dump a small 1k file to your memory stick called eeprom.bin, it will then auto exit the program.
28. Run the 'Pandora's Battery Creator' program on the PSP again and press [X] to convert your battery into a service Mode Battery AKA Pandora Battery
29. After you have unbricked/downgraded your PSP, launch this program again and press square to write and non servce mode serial to your PSP or press L+R to restore the serial from the eeprom.bin if you made a back up earlier.
30. You have know created a 'Magic Memory Stick' and a 'Jigkick battery' AKA Pandoras Battery
This part of the guide requires a bricked PSP or the PSP you wish to downgrade.
1. Remove the UMD from the PSP if there is one and remove the charger from the PSP.
2. Insert the 'Magic Memory Stick', then insert your 'Jigkick Battery' into your PSP.
3. The three lights on your PSP will light up and then your PSP will auto start and some text will appear on the screen.
4. If you wish, press [O] to make a backup of your NAND flash to your memory stick.
5. To restore your PSP with firmware version 1,50 press [X]
Congratulations, you have now unbricked/downgraded your PSP!!!
Remember if you used these programs then donate a few pennies to the creators (Team C+D) :D
^^ If you notice any mistakes in this guide then PM me and I'll try to get them fixed. ^^^
This guide will help you unbrick your PSP or downgrade your PSP from any version back down to 1.50
Requirements-
A computer running Windows (XP is probably best) There is a guide that explains how to do this on linux here (http://psp.jim.sh/fanjita/linux.txt)
A homebrew enabled PSP in 100% working order.
A bricked PSP or a PSP you wish to downgrade.
A Memory stick Pro Duo that is 256Mb or Larger (Upto 2GB). Memory Stick Pros do not work
A USB Cable.
A little bit of knowledge with the command prompt. Not nessecary but it will help.
Most importantly a PSP battery (Spare battery if you can)
What is going to happen?
Firstly you will format your memory stick using your PSP, so backup up your data first.
Then you will run a program that modifiys that format of the memory stick to help prevent errors.
You will then modofiy the serial number stored inside a PSP battery so that it reads 0xFFFFFFFF.
The PSP is programmed to launch the initial-program-load (IPL) from the memory stick if the battery reads 0xFFFFFFFF.
Any other value and it will try to boot from Flash0, obviouslly failing if Flash0 is corrupt.
This will launch a small program that can write to Flash0 restoring a PSPs firmware.
Things you should know-
After you have finished downgrading/unbricking, you can change the serial number of the battery so it will boot the PSP normally.
You can also format the memory stick again and use it normally.
All software provided in the links contain no copyright material.
Some people have been selling unbricking services on auction websites for £30, £40...
Dont use them, they are profiting from a group of hackers work who want this software to be free for everyone.
The Slim PSP isn't out yet, so its unknown if this unbricker/downgrader will work on a Slim PSP.
But it does work on all hardware revisions of the current PSP. TA-082 etc...all work :)
This part of the guide requires a homebrew enabled PSP, such as 1.50, any of the Dark_ALex's CFW, any version of M33's CFW....
1. Download 'Pandora's Battery' from here (http://www.noobz.eu/joomla/news/pandoras-battery.html). This is the creators' website so you may want to donate a few pennies via paypal ;)
2. Extract 'Pandora's Battery' to C: (OR what ever drive letter your OS is installed on) so you end up with a folder in the root of your hard drive.
Your drive should look like this-
C:pandorareadme.txt
C:pandorabatterypandora_batteryEBOOT.PBP
C:pandorabatterypandora_battery%EBOOT.PBP
C:pandorainstallerpbfirm_installEBOOT.PBP
C:pandorainstallerpbfirm_install%EBOOT.PBP
C:pandoramsinstmsinst.exe
C:pandoramspformatmspformat.exe
4. Backup everything that you wish to keep on your memory stick to your PC. Then from within the PSP format the memory stick.
5. Know up up a command prompt. Start -> Run -> Type 'CMD' and press enter.
6. Type 'C:' without the quotes and press enter.
7. Type 'CD Pandoramspformat' without the quotes and press enter.
8. Now connect your PSP to your computer and still in the command prompt type 'mspformat [PSPSDRIVELETTER]' and press enter
Example-
mspformat X
9. Make sure the drive letter youve typed in is your PSP. Accept the warning and type 'y' without the quotes and press enter.
10. This will format your memory stick and make it logical.
11. PULL OUT THE MEMORY STICK FROM THE PSP, THEN CLOSE THE USB CONNECTION. <-- IMPORTANT
12. Put the memory stick back in again and connect the PSP to a PC.
13. Manually create a 'PSP' and inside of that a 'GAME' folder on your memory stick. ('GAME150' if your using a CFW)
14. Copy the contents of the 'battery' folder and the 'installer' folder from the inside the folder you downloaded and extracted earlier.
15. Download the official 1.50 firmware update from here (http://www.psp-hacks.com/file/4), extract it and rename it from EBOOT.PBP to UPDATE.PBP
16. Copy it to the root of your memory stick
Your drive should look like this-
X:PSPGAMEpandora_batteryEBOOT.PBP
X:PSPGAMEpandora_battery%EBOOT.PBP
X:PSPGAMEpbfirm_installEBOOT.PBP
X:PSPGAMEpbfirm_install%EBOOT.PBP
X:UPDATE.PBP
17. PULL OUT THE MEMORY STICK FROM THE PSP, THEN CLOSE THE USB CONNECTION. <-- IMPORTANT
18. Remove the battery, insert the memory stick again then the battery and turn it on.
19. Run the 'Pandora's Battery Firmware Installer' program to dump a file to your memory stick. Press [X] when prompted.
20. Connect your psp to a computer.
21. Open up a command prompt again (See above for help) and type 'C:' without the quotes and press enter
22. Type 'cd pandoramsinst' without the quotes and press enter.
23. Now type 'msinst [PSPSDRIVELETTER] msipl.bin' without the quotes and press enter.
Example-
msinst X msipl.bin
24. When promopted type 'y' without the quotes and press enter. This take a few seconds and will modify a file on your memory stick.
25. NOW PULL OUT THE MEMORY STICK FROM THE PSP, THEN CLOSE THE USB CONNECTION. <-- IMPORTANT
26. Run the 'Pandora's Battery Creator' program on the PSP and I recommend you back a backup of your battery's eeprom by pressing triangle
27. This will dump a small 1k file to your memory stick called eeprom.bin, it will then auto exit the program.
28. Run the 'Pandora's Battery Creator' program on the PSP again and press [X] to convert your battery into a service Mode Battery AKA Pandora Battery
29. After you have unbricked/downgraded your PSP, launch this program again and press square to write and non servce mode serial to your PSP or press L+R to restore the serial from the eeprom.bin if you made a back up earlier.
30. You have know created a 'Magic Memory Stick' and a 'Jigkick battery' AKA Pandoras Battery
This part of the guide requires a bricked PSP or the PSP you wish to downgrade.
1. Remove the UMD from the PSP if there is one and remove the charger from the PSP.
2. Insert the 'Magic Memory Stick', then insert your 'Jigkick Battery' into your PSP.
3. The three lights on your PSP will light up and then your PSP will auto start and some text will appear on the screen.
4. If you wish, press [O] to make a backup of your NAND flash to your memory stick.
5. To restore your PSP with firmware version 1,50 press [X]
Congratulations, you have now unbricked/downgraded your PSP!!!
Remember if you used these programs then donate a few pennies to the creators (Team C+D) :D
^^ If you notice any mistakes in this guide then PM me and I'll try to get them fixed. ^^^