Datel out of all people have “cracked” the PSP-3000 and booted it with a new TOOL battery.
Lite Blue TOOL
Compatible with the PSP-2000 and 3000, it goes for $19.99 in the UK and $29.99 in North America late this month.
BUT! There’s a catch. This battery doesn’t actually install CFW on your PSP.
From Alek:
1. To have a LED indicator ON, doesn’t means that you can install cfw or hack anything. Remember 088v3 mobos? Right.
2. It’s spreading like a timebomb that it can be hacked and so on. Well, what any user can see is an interesting campaign to promote an article that is not yet released. It would be interesting to see.. how about an old “hello world” like on Noobz time, instead of a “buy today” call?
3. Just to remember all this things up, LED indicator ON and nothing on screen means directly what Dark_AleX explained here about the preIPL.
So, don’t be tricked by another scam by Datel to steal your money kids!.
This rather cool video has surfaced on youtube. A PSP-3000 being disassembled and re-assembled in time lapse fashion. Well worth a look. Still no break through on this model being hackable. Its still unhackable, just like the TA88 v3 motherboard.
Sony has responded to the issue concerning scanlines on the new PSP’s (see below).
SCEA:
Get used to it guys
On some occasions, scan lines may appear on scenes where brightness changes drastically, due to the hardware features of the new LCD device on PSP-3000. Installed with this new LCD device, PSP-3000 offers more natural and vibrant colors on its screen, but the scan lines have come out to be more visible as a result of improving response time to alleviate the afterimages on PSP-3000. Since this is due to hardware specification, there are no plans for a system software update concerning this issue.
One of the prominent features of the PSP-3000 is the updated screen giving more colours and less ghosting. Here’s one problem new PSP owners didn’t count on, scan-lines. This actually makes things look worse than the PSP-2000.
Screen comparison
According to a thread at the PlayStation Forums, it is a widespread problem. Sony is currently looking into the problem and hoping it will only take a firmware update to fix.
PSP-3000 ships with a TA-090, but its Pandora proof.
The good news with the bad. Good news is the PSP-3000 ships with a TA-090 motherboard, the bad news its using a newer CPU and is its not booting up when used with a Pandora battery. Thus its Pandora proof and service mode can’t be accessed to flash custom firmware. Which suggests that more hardware changes have been made to prevent users from accessing service mode.
The question is have Sony finally created an unhackable PSP? Or can someone break the code so to speak and the way forward for custom firmware on the new PSP-3000?
Dark-Alex has had a look at a pre-release PSP-3000 in Spain and has confirmed what most of us thought, that the PSP-3000 system is Pandora proof at this stage. Universal unbricker / Despertar del Cementerio v7 doesn’t work. Dax comments that this is no doubt due to the fact that the PSP-3000 series must be using the same CPU as the TA-088v3. (Currently unhackable)
- DC7 does NOT work. (Probably already assumed by most of you)
- 3000 version probably has the same CPU as 88v3, or with the same hashes checks made on this second.
No word on when a work around for the new PSP-3000 might be released, only that we just have to be pacient and hope Dark-Alex can work some more magic like he has done so in the past.
Eurogamer had a hands on with the new PSP-3000. They have stated that the PSP-3000 will come with PSP Firmware 4.20 pre-loaded. This firmware will have a USB auto connect option that will automatically start charging the PSP in the XMB when a USB cable is inserted. Also a Colour Space setting has added in the system settings. This allows users to take advantage of the new enhanced LCD screen to display more vivid and brighter colours.
Finally the PSP power adaptor has been revised and is now much smaller. Apparently it will now be able to fit into your pocket!
The PSP-3000 is due for release worldwide next week.
Famitsu.com have discovered some minor changes in the new PSP-3000 models firmware. Although nothing to major its interesting to note.
Top: 2000; Bottom: 3000
The PSP-3000 has a setting for “Color Space” under the system settings section of the XMB. This can be switched between Wide and Normal. Wide exploits the full color depth of the revised hardware, while Normal returns you back to PSP-2000 level color.
According to SCE America marketing manager John Koller the battery life of a PSP-3000 will be decreased by 20-30 minutes. Why? Well that prettier LCD screen is at the cost of battery life. Whats the beat that 20-30 minutes is on the Dimmest setting? I wonder if it would be 20-30 minutes on full bright Vs a PSP-2000 set on full bright.
