
Hellcats Recovery Flasher
Homebrew developer Hellcat has released an homebrew utility that can easily restore semi-bricked PSP units without the use of Pandora. Called Recovery Flasher it can be run from within the recovery menu on any PSP running CFW. Its also possible to install custom firmware 3.71 M33 using Recovery Flasher.
What is this? And why?
* Flashes a fresh 3.71-M33 - for recovering semi-bricks or to
up-/downgrade CFW
* does not use Pandora, runns from the recovery menu or the XMB
* does not use (as in launch) the original Sony Updater (only extracts
all required files from the original .PBP)
* runs fine on CFWs lower than 3.52-M33-3 - handy for upgrading older
FWs w/o the “need to go 3.52, then 3.52-3, then higher” odyssey
* runs fine from TimeMachine (3.40-OE on Fat and 3.60-M33 on Slim)
* can backup the FW flash and restore selected parts (XMB theme,
settings, PSN activation)
Via: eXophase
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August 7th, 2008 at 1:18 pm
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August 8th, 2008 at 3:23 pm
this is godly, ive heard only good stuff about it but still not sure if i want to get it, anyone else tried it yet?
August 9th, 2008 at 12:08 pm
I tried it…it works i had a psp fat that was semi brick’d and i pop my slim battery in (has to be more then 50%) then it did its thing! LOL but you must read the “readme” first like always xD hope it goes well for you tho! peace!
August 10th, 2008 at 12:49 pm
hello! my friend accidentally upgraded her 3.71 m33-3 cfw to 4.05 ofw. will this program be able to return her psp back to cfw 3.71? thank you very much for your help!
August 10th, 2008 at 1:18 pm
No your find neeeds pandora this is only for cfw
August 10th, 2008 at 1:27 pm
okay thank you very much
August 10th, 2008 at 10:25 pm
You need to access the recovery menu and “run program at psp/game/recovery/eboot.pbp” once everything is placed in the proper folders…btw you will need to download 3.71 OFW before you proceed also
August 11th, 2008 at 3:01 am
@Tegboi: but im already at 4.05 ofw.
August 12th, 2008 at 10:16 am
Oh then ya this is for only people with CFW like wat dimy93 said
August 14th, 2008 at 5:01 pm
HOW CAN I DOWNGRADE A PSP SLIM WITH 4.05 TO THE ORIGINAL 3.80 WITHOUT USING PANDORA’S BATERRY?
PLEAAASEE! HELP ME!
August 14th, 2008 at 5:20 pm
I WILL BE IN BIG TROUBLE IF I DONT DOWNGRADE MY PSP
September 19th, 2008 at 12:02 pm
Downgrading usually needs a pandora battery but theres a way out.
Nike-p released a version similar to the 4.05 m33 cfw called 4.05 tdp (google search it) The installation is within the rar file.
This procesure works if you want to downgrade from 4.05 to cfw and play .cso files.
October 24th, 2008 at 7:58 pm
For some reason when i attempt to use the recovery flasher it doesn’t work all i get is the green power light and a black screen(same way it always shows on my semi bricked psp) and the flasher doesn’t load
using a 2001 psp slim cfw 4.01m33
November 30th, 2008 at 10:12 am
me too, when i try to use the recovery falsher it also doesn’t work for me. mine is fat psp 5.00M33. i also encounter a semi-bricked. help help help.