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Lounger's M33 installation guide by for PSP Slim

Posted Sep 10, 2007 at 11:08PM by Glen D. Listed in: Firmware, How-To, PSP Slim & Lite Tags: XMB, Sony, Memory Stick Pro Duo
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QJ Forums member LouNGeR dropped by our forums earlier and was nice enough to post his "Install M33 on Slim Complete Guide." As the name suggests, this is a detailed instruction manual on getting your new-fangled Sony PlayStation Portable Slim primed with today's hottest homebrew.

LouNGeR reminds everyone that he will take no responsibility to damages to your PSP, battery, PC or memory stick. He also says that this guide was tested and working with the equipment listed in the guide. Everyone can copy this guide as long as it is properly credited. Follow the tutorial at your own risk.

What you need:
  • A "fat" PSP running 1.50 or custom firmware, together with a non-el-cheapo battery
  • Memory Stick PRO duo, NOT a Memory Stick Duo, 64 MB should be fine, but must be 4 GB or less
  • AC Adapter
This guide has been tested using the following materials:

  • White Fat PSP TA-086 with original 1800mA battery and firmware v3.52 M33 Update 4 (english)
  • Black Slim PSP with original 1200mA battery and firmware v3.60 (english)
  • Sony 2GB Memory Stick PRO Duo
  • Original AC Adapter
Pre-installation steps:

Step 1. Download Pandora's Battery below.

Step 2. Download Official 1.50 Update below.

Step 3. Download Official 3.40 and 3.50 Updates below.

Step 4. Make sure the battery has enough power (fully charged )

Note: When writing files to the memory stick, you can either do this by USB, or Card Reader, it doesn't matter apart from the speed. LouNGeR recommends to NOT press any buttons on the PSP until he has stated to do so.
If at any point your PSP won't turn on again because you already created the Magic Memory Stick or the Battery, take them out and use the AC Adapter to start the PSP, then put them both back in.

Installation Part 1

Step 1. Connect stick through USB or Card Reader to PC.

Step 2. Format the memory stick, you can do this in many ways.
Easiest would probably be with the Windows utility: My Computer > Right click the stick > Format > Enable "Quick..." > Start
Or use a command prompt: (replace X: with your drive and MyLabel with any label you want)
Example - format X: /FS:FAT /V:MyLabel /Q /X

Step 3. Create a folder on the stick with the name "PSP", in the PSP folder make one called "GAME150"

Step 4. Copy these folders from the Pandora package to the GAME150 folder: "pandora_battery", "pandora_battery%", "pbfirm_install" and "pbfirm_install%"

Step 5. Copy these folders from the M33 package to the GAME150 folder: "pandora_slim" and "pandora_slim%"

Step 6. Extract "EBOOT.PBP" from the 1.50 update package and rename it to "UPDATE.PBP", then copy it to the ROOT of the memory stick.

Step 7. Extract "EBOOT.PBP" from the 3.40 and 3.50 update packages and rename them "340.PBP" and "350.PBP", then copy them to the "pandora_slim" folder.

Step 8. Connect stick through USB or Card Reader to PC.

Note: LouNGeR recommends making a complete backup of the memory stick at this point. [backup 1] Keep the "KN" folder in a safe place if you want to use the Magic Memory Stick on the "fat" PSP in the future.

Step 9. Copy "msipl.bin" from the stick to the "msinst" folder of the Pandora package.

Step 10. Open a Dos prompt (cmd.exe) and enter these commands, replace "C:Pandora's Batterymsinst" with the folder where your "msinst.exe" and "msipl.bin" are. Also replace X with the drive of your stick.

Example:
CD "C:Pandora's Batterymsinst"
msinst.exe X msipl.bin

It will ask "Are You Sure ?[Y]", type 'y' and press enter. You now have created the original Magic Memory Stick.

Step 11. Put the stick in the "fat" PSP (or disable USB connection) and run "Pandora Ext. for Slim 3.60 M33 Installer"

Step 12. Once loaded, press X to create the new files on the stick and wait for it to exit to XMB. You now have created the Magic Memory Stick for the "slim" PSP.

Step 13. Run "Pandora's Battery Creator"

Step 14. First press "triangle" to backup the battery's EEPROM to the stick, you can use this to restore it to a normal battery later on. It's also possible to restore without the EEPROM backup, though it is unclear what the difference is.

Step 15. Press X to convert your battery to Pandora's Battery.

Note: LouNGeR recommends you make a new backup, or at least backup the "eeprom.bin" that you (might have) created earlier. [backup 2].

Installation Part II

Step 1. Make sure the "slim" PSP is off. Put the SLIMinized Magic Memory Stick and Pandora's Battery in it. LouNGeR was having a hard time slamming the "fat" battery into the "slim" PSP, but he says you just have to push it hard until you hear a click.
It should turn on by itself, though you won't see anything on the screen.

Step 2. You have several options here, if you just want to flash the new firmware, press X. This shouldn't take more than a couple seconds, and then it will turn off automaticly.

Step 3. Remove the Magic Memory Stick and insert the normal "slim" battery. Your "slim" PSP is now ready for use with homebrew!

Restoring the battery to its normal state (optional)

Step 1. Make sure you haven't deleted anything on the Magic Memory Stick in between the steps, if you did delete anything, at least put back "pandora_battery", "pandora_battery%" and "eeprom.bin".

Step 2. Turn on the "fat" PSP without the Magic Memory Stick and Pandora's Battery inserted, but with the AC Adapter.

Step 3. Insert the Magic Memory Stick and Pandora's Battery after it was powered on.

Step 4. Run "Pandora's Battery Creator"

Press L-Trigger + R-Trigger to restore the battery to a normal one with the use of "eeprom.bin". You could get an error at this point: "Error writing at address 0x14". Ignore this error, it happens most of the times, if not always.

Everything should be back to normal now.

If you want to make the Magic Memory Stick to work again for the "fat" PSP, just put back the "KN" folder that you backed up earlier.

Enjoy!

Download: Pandora's Battery
Download: M33 PSP Slim Custom Firmware 3.60
Download: PSP Firmware 1.50 US
Download: PSP Firmware 3.40 US
Download: PSP Firmware 3.50 US
Download: PSP Firmware 3.50 Japan
Visit: QJ.NET PSP Development Forums

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17 Comments


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   by The dude with the internetz (Unregistered) - 2007-09-10
 » work work work!
Wow...thats a hell alot of work^^

Still, it´s worth it :P


   Re: ArNoLDo (Unregistered) - 2007-09-11
 » WOW!
That's great isn't it, how homebrew developers are making us the psp community proud to own a psp. Good Job M33 and all the other homebrew developers!!

   Re: addie4u2nv - 2007-09-11
 » donate
i have 4 psp,s that are modded thanks to these guys i have donated over 100.00 to m33 in the past few weeks by paypal. if you like these free mods maybe you should donate to
   by Vitaliy (Unregistered) - 2007-09-11
 » Cool
Pretty good

   by wtf dude (Unregistered) - 2007-09-11
 » this guy a scum d*ck
he just copy the instruction from maxconsole forum. modified a bit n paste it here.
damn !

he called it his tutorial. that's suck a$$ man


   Re: bc (Unregistered) - 2007-09-11
 » who cares
hey, at least we have a guide here.
   by timo1983 - 2007-09-11
 » great guide
lounger

thanx for this guide it helped me BIG TIME
i've seen your work before and i love it

keep up the good work

just too bad there are always those guys that have to spoil it for everybody (like the guy above me)

AGAIN : thanx alot , keep up the good work,hope to see more guides

   by roylazarovich - 2007-09-11
 » firmware concerns
Hi Guys, just a quick question

If I import a PSP Slim from Hong Kong, will the US firmwares (1.50, 3.40, 3.50) be OK or will I need to track a different version of the firmware?


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   Re: jdl11 (Unregistered) - 2007-09-11
 » hing kong update
you will need the hong kong versions of the updates
   by paul choy - 2007-09-11
 » step ten
I don't understand what step ten is all about, whats a dos prompt?


   Re: roylazarovich - 2007-09-11
 » dos prompt
Looks like you haven't been around during the good old DOS days.

Go to Start -> Run -> and type "cmd" (without quotation marks) and press enter, a window with black background will open, this is where you'd need to type the commands given in the tutorial, hope this helps
   by newton316 - 2007-09-11
 » wtf
why can't i download the firmwares?or anything for that?damn... T_T


   Re: newton316 - 2007-09-12
 » wtf
does anyone know why the hell i can't dload a damn thing here?its kinda sucks... T_T
   by mrblack - 2007-09-11
 » WTF!
OK, from step 8 - 9 there is a BIG step completely missing. In order to generate the msipl.bin file SOMETHING more needs to be done such as running the Pandora installer?!? F'in idiot. Instead connect the stick, create a backup blah blah blah. And what is this "KN" folder they're talking about, nowhere in the previous steps does he make any remark about the building of a KN folder. This instruction set is wack!

Step 8. Connect stick through USB or Card Reader to PC.

Note: LouNGeR recommends making a complete backup of the memory stick at this point. [backup 1] Keep the "KN" folder in a safe place if you want to use the Magic Memory Stick on the "fat" PSP in the future.

Step 9. Copy "msipl.bin" from the stick to the "msinst" folder of the Pandora package

   by daBomB - 2007-09-11
 » was worried about pandora not being restorable.
now i know.

   by PSPMAN90 - 2007-09-11
 » I BRICK PSP slim!But I made The CFW RUN!
IF U CHANGE THE THEME IN THE flash 0 the PSP woul brick even if u have done a Back up ! U put back the back up! and it doesnt start! DONT DO IT!Just change version! And thats IT! DONT CHANGE ANYTHING FROM flash 0!

   by gijoeintel - 2007-09-14
 » knowledge
does anybody know exactly what this hack does to the slim? I tried it and I don't know exactly how but the slim's battery stopped working. It was fully charged before I started flashing with the fat pandora's batt. But afterwards the slim wouldn't recognize the slims batt. Any idea's? Any other busted batteries?



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