Question about PSP flashing

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Tyzy Ghost
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Question about PSP flashing

Post by Tyzy Ghost »

Automatically translated from French.

Good evening! (or good morning, depends on your time zone) I had a question.

So, I'm planning to buy myself a PSP (regular or Vita, we'll see) for Christmas... I'm obviously planning to have it flashed, but there's a question I had... do you hack the console itself, or is it like the Wii and the DS, where the whole hack works through an SD card? let me explain:

Let's say I want to remove the "Hack" option from the console, do I just need to take out the SD card for that, or is the hack baked into the console? If so, is it dangerous, and under what conditions can it get bricked? How can I take as little risk as possible?

This is obviously the first time I'm buying a Sony portable console, being used to Nintendo, I don't really know how to go about it and I'm afraid of messing things up... I'd like to be informed as much as possible about the hacks for this console while taking as little risk as possible! (if the hack fails, I'm dead x_x)

Thanks in advance!
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Re: Question about PSP flashing

Post by Oops »

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it's more like a hack, like on the wii, that affects the firmware, so yes there's always a risk but if you follow the hack tutorial properly I don't see why there would be a brick.
The pspVista isn't available yet so no hack either, that's easy to imagine.
To restore your psp without a hack you just need to flash it with an official firmware.
as for the method... that will depend on your psp, the model and the firmware. Come back once you have it

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Re: Question about PSP flashing

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If you put a LCFW (non-permanent) on your psp, you're on official firmware and without a hack every time the psp is turned off.

If you put a CFW (permanent), you can uninstall it or put an official firmware.

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