I second this notion. I understand not wanting to wait 4ish weeks before you upgrade, but IMO with a $6 price tag, EVERYONE with a PSP and custom firmware should own a pandora battery and a spare magic memory stick formatted with Rain's (I bought a 1GB card for like $8 shipped on eBay). Upgrading is especially sketchy since a light breeze could make it brick. It would suck to try the ChickHEN hack and have it fail and be without a working PSP for a month.gtmtnbiker wrote:This is fine. Just upgrade to 5.03 and then use the ChickHEN hack to run the Rain's installer.Ivo wrote:I'd rather avoid getting the Pandora to update the firmware on this Slim - it will take a while to get here (DX is cheap but it does take a while).
I would still order the Pandora battery. It's nice to have insurance.
While we're on the subject, has ANYONE actually come across a TA-088v3 PSP 2000? I heard somewhere that it was only sold in Asian markets. Can anyone confirm that they have seen one (i.e. tried to install custom firmware with a known working memory stick and pandora battery and it failed) and that it was a US market PSP? It would be nice to know in the case that I wanted to buy another off of eBay since checking for that motherboard means putting a special program on the memory stick, something most eBay sellers wouldn't know how or wouldn't want to bother to do.
