My PSP200 is hacked but I haven't updated or turned it on since 2013

Well, we'll need to know the firmware & whatever cfw you're running. Try checking Settings > System Settings (or something like that) > System Information and seeing what the Firmware line says.

 

you can't charge psp's from usb if is turned off or sleeping. you need a charger.

 

If you have the ability to do easy soldering, you can put a bigger battery in place of the UMD drive.

I did this with a smaller 2000mah battery about 6cm long so I wouldn't have to cut the PSP case. It just squeezed in and battery life is pretty good, maybe a little longer than the original battery. No idea if the "2000mah" battery I got was really 2000mah but it is easy enough to replace the battery again once you've done this mod.

 

Not to hijack the thread, but I just turned on my white psp go for the first time since probably 2015 or so. It’s on 6.20 pro b10. Is that outdated now? I have two gos and just wanted to check on them since I haven’t turned them on in years.

 

Did these cheap battieries actually work? Which ones?

All the replacement PSP batteries I've tried are complete shite: they lie about the capactity, often claiming crazy numbers like 2400 or 3600 mah. I bought 3 different generic PSP batteries. 2 last about an hour on a full charge, one had smoke come out the first time I tried to use it. Not worth the cost of shipping to return. I tore apart one of them to make the high capacity battery (bought from Adafruit) UMD mod.

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Why is 6.20 so great?

What went wrong with later versions? I'm still using fast recovery (afraid permanent CFW will brick) and 6.60 and things seem fine. What am I missing? I only use emulators, never had any UMD disks.

 

Yes, very. The latest is 6.61 Pro C2, but that has some issues with PSX games that 6.61 Pro C doesn't (C1 doesn't seem to have any other issues).

In what way? I see no benefits over 6.61 unless you're on a Go and too lazy for Fast Recovery.

It won't, depending on the PSP model you want either cIPL (1000 or early 2000) or Infinity (late 2000, any 3000, or any Go). Alternatively, if you have a PSP Street (Europe only, no wireless, very cheap), those have no permanent patch and you will have to stick with Fast Recovery.

Why is this a benefit? It just means you have fewer features that were added in the later firmwares.

If those firmwares have anti-hacking patches, then they're really bad at it...

So are Infinity and cIPL, which don't appear to have any problems on 6.61. In fact, I use 6.61 Infinity just fine on my 3000 with no issues.

 

Infinity works on all other PSPs. Mine isn't compatible with the cIPL flasher, but it works just fine with Infinity. I've only run Fast Recovery once because Infinity hasn't had any issues for me.

 

If you really want to use 6.20 (no benefits over Infinity/6.61 & you lose features from running an old firmware, as well as not being able to use the more common 6.6x plugins), it's very easy to find on google.

Try reinstalling the stock firmware with something like Chronoswitch Downgrader.