How To Downgrade A PSP - PSP Firmware Downgrade
If you've ever tried to play games on a PSP through the memory stick, chances are you also want to do it on your own PSP as well. But, unfortunately, not everybody can do this with their devices. The firmware that can play games through the Memory Stick is limited to the 1.5 version that was popular before Sony upgraded later-release units from the factory, with most having version 2.0 or later firmware standard.
But PSP owners that also have a propensity for hacking have already found a way through this problem: to get their devices to play games like a 1.5 machine, they invented ways to get 1.5 firmware data onto their 2.x devices. There are many that have gone before you, so what this means is that many can also provide support should you choose to do it yourself on your own unit.
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What you need
The two final items that you need to have is the Pandora's battery program which you can get online for free, hacking software designed to use your spare battery and MS to downgrade firmware, and someone else who has 1.5 PSP software so he or she can copy files from the other PSP onto yours.
How to start downgrading
What happens during the downgrade?
You can also use your battery and memory stick to downgrade other PSPs as well. Dead PSP units can be revived as well if they didn't survive previous attempts to get them downgraded as well. You will also need to do some connectivity tasks from your PC to the PSP. The installer program will copy the image onto the memory stick, then onto the PSP itself. This pretty much sums up the important points of the process, and the end result will be that you will now have a PSP using 1.5 firmware.
Doing the Upgrade yourself
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