Hi,actually for psp 3000 the hack is not that hard,and u can turn your psp to sleep mode by pulling the switch once,and dun worry,it will not harm your psp at all.And even if it shut down due to low batt,the thing will still be in sleep mode(Because i had tried to empty my psp batt,but it seem quite hard to let it be totally flat)So dun worry about always u will need to rehack the firmware.So y get a used psp if u can get a new one?And for the hacking with the chickHEN expliot,its quite easy(normally i get the expliot hack the psp in 1 or 2 try)But there is one Bad point about it,that is it's custom firmware version update will be slower then the slim and phat psp.(but picture wise,the 3000 is really better)