Gaming PSP 1000 hacking questions

[Donald Serrot]

I just got my lovely PSP 1001 today, and it's at V5.03. I've been looking around trying to figure out what all I need to do to add CFW and it's all a little confusing to me. I've been looking through multiple guides and even some YouTube videos and so far all I know is I need to use ChickHEN just to get started. I have that, tiff image on the card and the h.bin at the root of the card.(4GB)

I also have the 500m33 6 update on the card too.

I know it's supposed to take a few tries to get ChickHEN to do it's thing, but it seems like it's not getting anywhere. Every time I try the system freezes and shuts off instead of restarts. And when I check it still shows the version as 5.03 (I remember in the one video it showed ChickHEN or something like that after)

Any help is greatly appreciated. I really want to get started into PSP hacking the right way.

 

[prowler]

Format your memory card in the XMB, not on the computer because it wont have the folders.
Chickhen does take a while to get running.

Do you have the image in PSP/PHOTOS/CHICKHEN ?

 

[Donald Serrot]

I formatted the card on the PSP already and the image is in PSP/PHOTO/ChickHEN
The readme said "PHOTO" and the folder in had (for slim but I switched tiffs) was "ChickHEN". Would the caps make a big difference at all? Maybe I'm over thinking that. I had tried many times with just the tiff itself no ChickHen folder but I remembered seeing it in a video so I tried that too.

{EDIT}
Yeah, PHOTOS doesn't work. it is PHOTO. Just tried switching the folder to see.

 

[prowler]

are you using the slim ones? Use the phat ones.
Doesnt matter about caps.

And it does that a while getting onto chickhen! It's not just your psp

 

[Donald Serrot]

I took the folder from the slim file and replaced the tiff image with the phat one to see if that would help so kinda hybrid folder I guess.

So I just have to keep trying then until it works? I have everything set up right after all? I took a copy of the tiff out of the CHICKHEN folder and have it back in just the PHOTO folder again.

And just as I type this it finally works! Now to get onto the CFW!

Thanks!