Confused about the hackability of your PSP?

Saturday, January 10th, 2009
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Forum user, Draik has just updated his guide to PSP’s and the ability to hack them.

In the midst of excitement of the Gripshift exploit, many of you may be wondering if it even applies to your PSP. Maybe it can be hacked already.

Click ‘more’ for a peek and a link to the guide.

Here’s a bit of the guide:

All 1000 Series PSPs are hackable to date.
To some, there are other methods than just using a Pandora & an MMS.

On the other hand, 2000 Series are a little complicated. There are old units, new units, & Really new units. The old ones, containing a motherboard before the TA-088v3, and are all hackable. While the new ones that have the TA-088v3 Motherboards are unhackable. Finally, the Really new ones have a TA-090v1 Motherboard, which is hackable. There are 6 different ways to tell whether that 2000 series PSP is hackable or not, but we’ll get to that later on.

Finally, the 3000 series PSPs. All of those have the TA-090v2 Motherboard, all of which are unhackable as well.
Though, there is hope for the PSP 3000 series. According to the site, an error that might lead to a complete hack has been found. This error has been used to install “Hello World” on the PSP so far. Let’s hope someone utilizes it completely to install Custom Firmware.   …

Full guide: Forums.

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  • Znupi

    So, what? He claims that PSP-2000s with TA88v3 won’t ever be hacked? I’m pretty certain that’s not true. They use the same security methods as the PSP-3000.

    • http://rithsv.net simon

      I don’t see anywhere in the guide where he mentions the PSP’s won’t ever be hacked.

      The guide is looking at PSP’s right now, there is a date at the top of the post to which the information is relevant to.

  • panik

    So I have a psp darth vader with 5.02 firm ware any specualtions on the motherboard and its hackablility

    • gurbz

      I doubt vaders have Ta 88 v3s. When did you get it? I got mines on november 2007. Had no problems ever since i modded it.

    • Gikero

      Same here, I’ve got a hacked Vader PSP Slim. No problems.

      • thekid149

        OKay but can you make a pandora with that psp tho if u can plz msg me witha tutorial

  • pspin4o

    IM SURE THAT PSP SLIM AND FAT CAN BE HACKED BUT IF YOU HAVE A SLIM THAT SAYS 3XXX (X = ANY OTHER NUMBER) NEAR THE BAR CODE DONT ATTEMPT TO HACK IT NOW WAIT UNTIL THEY HAVE A ACCURATE WAY OF HACKING YOUR PSPS MODEL

  • http://pspslimhacks.com/ PSP-Fan

    Good post, I have linked to that thread in the PSP Tutorials section. http://pspslimhacks.com/psp-tutorials/

  • http://www.youtube.com David lamontagne

    Can u acutally hack the psp 3000?

  • Draik

    There is a way to hack it now, but not hack it & install Custom Firmware. Simply hack it & play Pong or Hello World.

    Again, you cannot install Custom Firmware on it yet.

  • ba bi lu

    I hope more explanation on the package photos, more than motherboard type.
    The package photo can be useful for recognize when buying.
    PSP Piano is 3000 ?

  • ba bi lu

    I hope more explanation on the selling package photos, more than motherboard type.
    The package photo can be useful for recognize when buying.
    PSP Piano is 3000 ?

  • michael

    how will i know my psp motherboard??

    i have here psp-2001… idk what’s its motherboard…

    • Draik

      If your PSP has Custom Firmware installed, try using “Xplora 1.8″ to check the firmware.
      If it’s not hacked, use the guide to figure out whether it’s hackable or not, then hack it if it is.

  • Thanos

    Is there any hope for 2000 owners who currently have unhackable psp´s?

    Or should i just throw away this piece of crap? :( (((((((((((

  • http://pspslimhacks.com luiz

    so the blue psp cant be hacked?

    • Vinicius

      Check your motherboard, I have a blue PSP Madden Edition, hacked!

  • iskull

    same here but madden umd is not working anymore after i upgrade to 5.00 M33-6

  • http://pspslimhacks.com luiz

    yeah i accidently updated to 5.03

  • lucio

    can the god of war psp be hacked?

    • Sean

      yup.. apparently that one is a sure bet for hacking and cfw

  • hONEY

    FUCK YOU ALL YOU CONFUSED ME
    SOMEONE SAY ITS POSSIBLE TO HACK PSP3000
    AND SOMEONE SAYS NOT

  • t dog

    ok everytime i try to download stuff like this it never works it always tells me that windows can not open the programs is there a way to fix that or am i just being retarded

  • bong

    guys be cool, remember in every problem there is always a solution for that….those who got v3 mother boards..hoah there is still hope….CHANGE the mother boards to hackable ones..i mean got to your local psp repair shops ask for junkie boards for slim and install firmware right away. for psp 3000, i saw one working but using the slims lcd…its not a good hack yet at least they are trying. for now, never buy 3000 yet unless the blog says its HACKABLE folks…good day

  • blak998

    hey man i have a vader but it fell within 5 months and I got a replacement aproximatley November 2008 so does it have an TA-88v.3 or aTA-90v.1