What is the Best PSP Model for Emulation/Homebrew

[avrame]

Oh yeah, and to answer the previous questions, yes, the PSP-3000 series cannot be hacked using a pandora battery, beginning with the PSP-2000v3, the motherboards were modified to block consumer access to the debuggers kernel, rendering the pandora battery useless to these newer model motherboards.

[Rurouni_Fencer]

I wasn't going to go down the ChickHEN route because of the whole keeping the PSP on bit - and also, I wanted a permanently modded system. From what I've read about HEN mods, you need to keep doing the process over and over again each time, thus the temptation to just leave the unit on perpetually. Seems like more a hassle than just going the Pan-Bat route.

But don't get me wrong, I'm totally open to learning alternative ways to go about playing homebrew on my systems, in case there's a better or more efficient way out there!

That being said, what's your take on HEN, avrame?

[avrame]

I just tried out the newest HEN, and I must say that I'm really impressed. For one, I always keep my PSP charged, and the HEN's temporary mod is working great for me. To clear it up, putting the PSP to sleep keeps the HEN state available, taking out the battery or doing a hard power cycle will cause the PSP to lose the HEN state.

The HEN allows you to do as much with the console while keeping the firmware in the 'official' state. To load the HEN, all you do is load a specified game demo, click continue, load the modified save game, and BAM, you are returned to the main PSP menu in the HEN state, takes all of 1 minute to do.

No hear me out here, I love my PSPgo for portablity, but still enjoy collecting the limited edition boxsets (ie Lunar: SSH, Y's Seven, Y's: OiF, Kingdom Hearts: BBS), but after purchasing the games, I'm in a bind that I have to repurchase them on the PSN to play on my Go, but with the HEN that is not the state.

The HEN now has a ISO loader available, which to me means I can legal download and play the games that I already have a retail package for So I can FINALLY play Kingdom Hearts: BBS on my PSPgo, despite the game being unavailable on the PSN.

[Rurouni_Fencer]

I think I'll give it a shot, just for kicks.. It probably won't be the best method for me, as never keep my PSP plugged in, so I'll constantly have to re-do the HEN install, but it sounds like trying it once just to try it shouldn't harm anything.

But this definitely sounds like a great way to go for your PSPGo. Thanks for the help!

[avrame]

No problem, but just to clarify, you do realize that the HEN stays installed/active as long as the battery has some charge, or you don't take out the battery, right? If the system is powered down entirely, or dies due to low battery, you'll have to restart the HEN

[scott33]

I've only owned a phat PSP and it is easy to mod. However, i've had a lot of problems with the analog stick drifting. I've replaced mine twice and it still has problems from time to time. I've heard that the slim 2000 PSP's have a better designed analog stick, so that might be a better choice.

[SGGG2]

All of them? lol

Geohot just found the PSP master keys in the PS3

http://psx-scene.com/forums/f6/psp-now- ... ers-74290/

[MrAfterFx]

Or you can mod it for emulation with Chickhen. It works well and is easy to install. If you want to install it just search youtube for what model of yours that you are going to mod for homebrew and they will show you how.

Edit: oops I didn't see the recent posts .

[avrame]

I would still recommend going with the TN-HEN for the time being, you can use the TN-HEN with the newest firmware, meaning you won't be locked out of the newest games, and it does everything that the chickHEN does and more. More over, with the TN-HEN, you can easily downgrade to 5.03 if you'd like.

But wow, getting the kirk keys, I wonder how and if Sony can respond to that. Soon enough, PSP might be the next Dreamcast in terms of homebrew and ease of running backups :S

[noiseredux]

I would still recommend going with the TN-HEN for the time being, you can use the TN-HEN with the newest firmware, meaning you won't be locked out of the newest games, and it does everything that the chickHEN does and more. More over, with the TN-HEN, you can easily downgrade to 5.03 if you'd like.

does this method work for playing PS1 iso's?