Sony patches PSP motherboard to prevent Pandora’s Battery creation

In a ongoing war between Homebrew community and Sony, the latter has made a new move. It seems that electronics giant has patched new version of PSP motherboard dubbed TA-82 v2 not to allow the creation of the Homebrew community biggest hits so far - Pandora’s Battery.

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Sony puts an end to Pandoras Battery?

When Pandoras Battery was released it seemed as doom day for Sony, an ultimate downgrading/unbricking machine for every PSP and PSP Slim coming from Homebrew community. But it seems Sony has played another move in silence, to stop Homebrew community. As British DCEMU reports, Sony released new, updated batteries to the market, which prevent conversion to Pandoras Battery.

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PSP Firmware v3.70 downgrader already out

Just a couple days after Sony released firmware v3.70 for both PSP and PSP Slim, firmware v3.71 came out. Nevertheless, it has been confirmed that firmware v3.70 (and probably v3.71, no real differences between the two) have been downgraded. Homebrew community struck again, and another official Sony firmware has been hacked.

To downgrade firmware v3.70, homebrew community member hakk3r used Pandora’s Battery, a product of homebrew community which has hit the net a month ago. Really weird thing about this is that downgrader for v3.70 apparently appeared before the official firmware. Has Sony given up on trying to stop homebrew community from dowgrading every new version of firmware?

Oh, yes. If you don’t believe the story, head to YouTube and search for “3.70 downgrade” …

What is the Pandora’s Battery? Downgrade and unbricking machine for every PSP out there?

The rumors that have been flying around for past few weeks, have been confirmed. PSP homebrew community has struck the biggest hit to Sony so far, they have released a product (cant find more suitable name for it), which can downgrade any PSP, or even unbrick it! So called Pandora’s Battery, is a - battery, like the name says it, which if inserted in PSP will downgrade/reset PSPs firmware back to Sonys official firmware v1.50.

What is interesting that a Pandora’s Battery is not really a product as we called it. No, the homebrew community did not start a manufacturing plant for batteries. It’s a ordinary PSP battery which can be converted (yes we know that this sounds strange), to a downgrading/unbricking device. To convert the ordinary PSP battery, you will have to use homebrew developed applications which are already widely available on the Internet.

PSP homebrew community modders credited with the development of Pandora’s Battery are probably the most popular names in the community: Fanjita, Adrahil, Booster, Cswindle, Dark_AleX, Ditlew, Fanjita, Joek2100, Jim, Mathieulh, Nem, Psp250, Skylark, TyRaNiD, and Team C+D.

Noobz
You run a program on a homebrew-enabled PSP that will convert a standard PSP battery into a jigkick battery. Note that you can’t then use that battery normally - so you should use a spare one. You run a program to generate the unbricker memory stick image, built from the v1.5 update EBOOT (note that this, and the custom IPL, means the release is completely free of Sony copyright materials). You run some programs on a PC to install the image to your memory stick.

Dark_AleX out of the game?

If you heard of the PSP homebrew community and PSP modding than it’s most probable that you have heard of PSP modder Dark_AleX. As it seems, according to kotaku.com, Dark_AleX decided to quit the homebrew scene. Dark Alex’s work included custom firmwares for the PSP. These combined the advances in Sony’s own official firmwares with extra features that would otherwise be prohibited such as the ability to run homebrew software applications on the format. Dark_AleX was a member of team C+D who created the “Pandora’s Battery” unbricker for the PSP.

Dark_AleX
The reasons are various.
One of them is the time it consumes, which i’m losing from other things.
The other is related to my security. I didn’t like Sony menaces to PS3 hackers.
I think it is better to leave now rather than end paying the consequences.