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how did they come up with pandora

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metalhed89

Member
how did the people who made pandora think of making a battery and ms duo because i just thought how did they think of that i just thought id ask
 
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Sullivan

New Member
Well as far as I know, it all started when a guy received a PSP back from a Sony repair that had a memory card in it, with some soft-repair files...
 
Cryox

Cryox

Bro.
and there had also been a rumored Magic Sony Repair Battery or w/e. Not sure if that was before or after the fact.
 
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futuregator15

Lovin OS X
Yea, I remember people posting videos online about this "magic memory stick." But I'm pretty sure they were fakes
 
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A_Nub

Developer
It came about a long long time ago, when it was noticed in the fw modules that there were ways of manipulating the battery memory/data, which was then noticed that it actually was a boot mode controller. Then they let pandora lie low for as long as possible, and slowly developed it to be more than a POC. They took their time and properly reconstructed the IPL and wrote a small lib to create custom IPL which allows for custom FW etc. The reason it was kept quite was they didnt want to release it too soon, especially with all the software exploits and they didnt want sony to have a hardware revision to prevent this. Soo they waited, then somehow it got leaked out and retards posted videos and sony caught on, then they released it, however it was luck that the slim/lite had already been manufactured and sony couldnt do a revision.
 
Seth

Seth

MD Party Room
From the Sony's JigKick....
 
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Archaemic

New Member
What A_Nub said. I was told that they were waiting for the second revision of the PSP to come out before releasing it, but eventually released it anyway. Fortunately, it was a short enough time span before the PSP-2000 came out that Sony couldn't make a new mobo revision to change the trigger, unlike with the 3000.
 
january39

january39

eXo Staff
All i know is that it changed everything, and brought many, many psp's back to life.
 
silver_surfer

silver_surfer

New Member
@ metalhed89:


Pandora's Battery
Written by Fanjita

We told you that we'd be releasing an unbricker for the M33 bricks. But then we got to thinking, maybe that just wouldn't be exciting enough.

Would you like a super special surprise bonus? How about an unbricker for ALL PSPs? Yep, you read that right. We call it "Pandora's Battery".

There's a larger story behind this unbricker, though, and it deserves to be told. It's the culmination of years of behind-the-scenes research and development by some of the top names in PSP hacking, under the name of the Prometheus project. This group of people, from various development teams, was dedicated to developing and releasing PSP hacks and exploits, with the aim of improving the status of PSP homebrew, and making sure that it was kept alive.

For some time this project was highly successful - many releases from Noobz, C+D and others were direct results of this work. The zenith of this success was the development of this unbricker - which required some amazing technical leaps, including:

1. Reverse engineering of the service (unbrick) mode
2. Development of a technique to change an ordinary battery into a service mode trigger battery (and back)
3. Development of custom IPL code along with a technique to sign that code as authentic.

Even more impressive is that all of the above was achieved without any access to the official hardware or software. With careful nurturing, this unbricker and custom IPL was to become the foundation of a whole new homebrew environment.

Unfortunately something happened to shatter the idyll. Somehow, the unbricker was leaked into the wider world before it was ready to be released. Whether this was deliberate, by one of the team members, or accidental via a security breach is still unclear. The fact is that this unbricker appeared on the black market, being sold for huge prices. As far as we know, it is probably very close to the same software that appears in at least some of the 'magic unbricker'/'jigkick' videos.

So, although the time was not right to release this (it would have been wise to wait at least until the PSP Slim release), our hand has been forced. In order to prevent small fortunes being made by leeches, we are giving this unbricker away for free. So - let it be known - if you have paid for an unbricker, then you have been ripped off. I suggest that you take up your grievances with the seller - it should never have been sold. And if you're unhappy about this being released before PSP Slim - then blame whoever it was that leaked or stole it.

It's unclear whether or not this is the end for the Prometheus project - hopefully not, but that is undecided so far. In case it is the end, it is worth a quick roll of honour. In alphabetical order:

Adrahil, Booster, Cswindle, Dark_AleX, Ditlew, Fanjita, Joek2100, Jim, Mathieulh, Nem, Psp250, Skylark, TyRaNiD.

And here are their respective C+D (Create and Destroy) nicknames.

Mathieulh = WiseFellow
Tyranid = bockscar
Fanjita = FullerMonty
Joek = CosmicOverSoul
Dark_Alex = Malyot
Chris = Caretaker
Adrahil = VoidPointer
nem = h1ckeyph0rce

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