You mean this?
You can softmod the battery now, no need to open it up. Most modern CFW will let you mod it from the Recovery Menu. I'd just just grab a cheap used one, it doesn't even need to hold a charge, you can run it while it's plugged in.
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I'm going from memory here, so it might be slightly off. The battery stores a string that tells the PSP how to boot. The CFW allows you to modify the string on the battery. The string only needs to be 0x00000000 for it to boot the PSP into service mode (I think that's what the name was), if I remember correctly. So it used to be you'd break a pin so the string wouldn't be sent, the PSP would read it as that blank string and boot from the Memory Stick instead. Now, with earlier models of PSP, we can just modify that string itself.I honestly don't get how that all works..its like i'm reading Chinese
Can you explain me in short how does it work, or some good link please?
I'm *pretty* sure that this option only works after modding the battery, but I might be wrong - back when I got my TOOL it wasn't an option.
No, it's before. I've done it before with a fresh battery when my old phat hardmod jigkick battery died. In fact, you can't softmod it if you hardmod it, unless you undo the hardmod first.
Interesting. I distinctly remember Sony trying to counteract this by making the chip read-only in the later slim revisions of the battery which required cutting a trace on the PCB if you wanted to use jigkick, hence "Pandora 2.0" batteries. I might be wrong though, it's been years since I hacked a PSP.
There were some batteries that couldn't be simply softmodded, but they weren't that common (outside of crappy aftermarket batteries). Chances are if you're using a Slim that has a TA-085v1 motherboard and you still have the original battery, it's fine. If nothing else, you can just grab a Phat battery. Phat batteries will work fine for both Slim and Phat.
Actually im afraid, but i would like to have PSP backup (if i understood correctly..its like Wii NAND backup...?) i feel like noob xD
Well, not really as it won't be tied to your PSP, it will work in any older Slim and Phat, it's more like a service kit. Now, once you setup the jigkick and memory stick, your PSP can't normally boot up with the battery anymore unless the memory stick is in. So I'd setup the memory stick first or grab an extra Phat battery and stick and set them up as a backup you can just put off to the side until you need them.
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