PSP 3000 finally, inevitably hacked by Datel's Lite Blue Tool

Hacking the PSP has long been a popular pastime, but the 3000 model has proven a tough nut to crack. Don't pop open the champagne just yet, though, Sony -- Datel has revealed a special battery peripheral called the Lite Blue Tool that boots the handheld console into service mode, where downgrades to earlier, cracked firmwares are possible. Of course, most older PSPs could be downgraded without any additional hardware and you only needed a battery like Pandora if you failed the idiot test and bricked your system, but be patient, pirates totally legit homebrew types -- Rome wasn't burnt in a day. Lite Blue is priced at an affordable $29.99, not bad for an interim solution if homebrew and "backups" are your thing.

[Corey @ Nov 18th 2008 11:12PM]

Take THAT Sony!

[)ROFL( @ Nov 18th 2008 11:35PM]

SONY....echos of Yahoo!?

[Aguiluz @ Nov 19th 2008 12:01AM]

I slapped myself in the face with surprise.

No, I'm not joking....

[Kurian @ Nov 19th 2008 5:28AM]

Its not been hacked. Its completely useless without a pre-IPL exploit to actually make use of service mode. Which is theoretically impossible to do on current PSPs.

[Matt @ Nov 18th 2008 11:12PM]

awesome!

[allislost @ Nov 18th 2008 11:13PM]

Can this aren't done?

[Rollins @ Nov 18th 2008 11:19PM]

No can't was do.

[bill cant fart @ Nov 18th 2008 11:19PM]

Could that sentence be anymore awesome?!

[mushman @ Nov 18th 2008 11:20PM]

Yes Yoda

[DumpsterDiver @ Nov 21st 2008 10:38AM]

That sentence was Epic. Forrur.

[Ayrkain @ Nov 18th 2008 11:15PM]

There still needs to be a Pre-IPL hack. Shouldn't take long, but who actually thought the PSP3k would stay unhacked for this long?

[dark star @ Nov 18th 2008 11:21PM]

im kinda surprised the playstation 3 is still impervious. its been like 2 years already!

[NONO @ Nov 19th 2008 12:33AM]

@ dark star

It's not "impervious"

It's just that no one cares.

[youngstunna @ Nov 19th 2008 12:56AM]

i wouldnt say nobody cares. i would buy a ps3 if it could play game rips.

not to say i wouldnt buy games...

[xytec @ Nov 19th 2008 11:47PM]

would u really want to fill up your hard drive with a 40gb game? i mean itd be easy but people dont do it because blu rays "can" be pretty big. im not sure if they are that big yet.

[Evangelion @ Nov 18th 2008 11:16PM]

This, is awesome. =]

[charlesgreene4 @ Nov 18th 2008 11:19PM]

I love you datel. Not sure why people hate you?(other forums)

[Jitters333 @ Nov 19th 2008 12:39AM]

Becuase they take things made by the scene and sell them as "there own" ie. http://pspslimhacks.com/datel-profiting-off-the-work-of-psp-coders/

Effin Bastards >=[

[mmendoza27 @ Nov 18th 2008 11:20PM]

Will this work on PSP1000's? Mine is bricked.... :-(

[aznofazns @ Nov 19th 2008 12:06AM]

LUL NOOB!

jk man, i feel your pain.

[anantha92 @ Nov 19th 2008 3:25AM]

Uh, you can already use the pandora unbricker/downgrader.

[Joshua Walters @ Nov 18th 2008 11:23PM]

Now, give it about 48hrs for someone to buy and reverse engineer this.

Cant be that hard. I mean, its Sony after all.

[austin @ Nov 18th 2008 11:39PM]

reverse engineer it into what?
a regular battery?

[The Dude @ Nov 18th 2008 11:48PM]

Sony will reverse engineer this 3rd party battery into an exploding battery that goes off on first boot. But not without blasting, "AND BOOM GOES THE DYNAMITE!!!" through your PSP's speakers first.

So, in other words, they'll just keep making the batteries they already have.

[you @ Nov 19th 2008 12:29AM]

@ the dude.


funniest comment i've ever read on here.

[spaceb @ Nov 18th 2008 11:59PM]

You meant built not burnt right?

[farfisa @ Nov 19th 2008 12:05AM]

Okay kids, now you can play more than Daxter!

[Ben @ Nov 19th 2008 12:07AM]

im just surprised that datel did it before anyone in the homebrew community did

props to datel


even though they sold the pandora battery a while after it was submitted...

[scott @ Nov 19th 2008 12:21AM]

today is a good day to fly my pirate flag =D

arrrgghh

[tbd @ Nov 19th 2008 12:22AM]

Thats nice and all but when is PS3 is gonna be hack? Has there been any console that never been hack other than PS3?

[Levi @ Nov 19th 2008 12:25AM]

This headline coupled with the articles from a few weeks ago blaming the scan lines feature on the dimmer blue LEDs made me instantly think the Light Blue
Tool made the blues lighter and fixed the scan lines.

Oh well.

[NONO @ Nov 19th 2008 12:39AM]

Once again as I said before...

It hasn't been, because no one cares.

And I'm not *completly* bashing it, just that there are not enough hackers going at it.

[lolkatz @ Nov 19th 2008 12:45AM]

I'm not trusting anything until dark-alex has his way in and around this thing...

C'mon man, we believe in you!

just a matter of time...

[Mike Bertolino @ Nov 19th 2008 12:48AM]

what are the benefits of hacking a psp?

[sinjinn @ Nov 20th 2008 9:55PM]

it has a lot of benefits , all involving homebrew.

ebook readers , mp3 players , pdf viewers , homebrew games and so much other stuff i dont even know about.

but i guess the most popular use is emulators , snes, megadrive c64 etc etc and... being able to run pirated games. i think thsts wat mst people are intrestd in really , even the ones that keep saying "backup" and " i should be able to try the game out first to see if i like it" and " sony is evil and so its ok to pirate games" etc.

[Sony @ Nov 19th 2008 1:19AM]

so when is Sony gunna release a feature to counter this feature???

[Comment53 @ Nov 19th 2008 8:02AM]

Great, now they just need a battery that gets rid of the scan line feature.

[Benson @ Nov 19th 2008 12:12AM]

Well, I took apart the battery on mine and wired the contacts to a wall outlet (that way I don't have to worry about the battery exploding), and it fixed my display! Now I used a $300 Monster cable to make my battery eliminator; coat hangers should work, too, but if you just use some cheap wire, it may not eliminate the scanlines, so don't come whining to me if you were too n00b-lame to invest in proper materials for your hacks.

[Conda @ Nov 19th 2008 12:45AM]

the scanline "feature" cannot be fixed, because it is caused by the changing the direction of the pixels screwing up everybody's subpixel antialiasing methods

[Salsa Shark @ Nov 20th 2008 1:04AM]

@Conda

That whooshing sound is Comment53's post sailing far over your head.

[GoCarnivore @ Nov 19th 2008 8:44AM]

This is good news for me, as I want to upgrade to a PSP-3000. As I've said before, I'm 100% against piracy, and there are actually legit uses for homebrew. Now... I just need a keyboard.

[Alex France @ Nov 19th 2008 9:56AM]

Rome wasn't burnt in a day??? I think you mean, Rome wasn't built in a day.

[Zero_Void @ Nov 19th 2008 12:17PM]

There is no evidence that the 3000 is hacked, see here:

http://exophase.com/psp/rumor-datel-touts-psp-3000-hack-9047.htm

So they got the green LED on while inserting a modified battery, big deal. There is still the issue of actually getting custom firmware to run on the thing. And from what I've seen so far, this won't make that any easier. If you ask me, Datel is up to its usual antics again, but this time decided to release a half assed product in hope that when a real hack comes, this battery will be so widely publicized that newbies will pay the $30 and pick it up. So far their strategy is working, unfortunately. Most uninformed sites have posted that the PSP-3000 is hacked wide open now, despite there being no hard evidence.

[Bonz @ Nov 29th 2008 9:08PM]

agreed this "MAY" boot the psp3000 and late model 2000 into service mode but that then your magic mem stick you made for your Pandora's battery won't work this is one small step for coders though cause now all they have to do is buy one and grab the code off the chip so they can make a tool to modify an existing battery so you and me can do it at home for free and now that this is done coders all over can continue on the MUCH more important task of downgrading this psp.... WHAT I FEAR IS... when we look closer at the coding of the psp3000 we will find that it has no 2.71 kernel just like the slim has no 1.5 kernel this would mean we would have to find a firmware after 2.71 that allowed home brew if not we won't have anything useful to build a custom firmware off of

Bonz

[nxp3 @ Nov 19th 2008 1:17PM]

I thought to run homebrew you have to have the 1.5 kernel. Even if you managed to install custom firmware, it doesn't mean you can run homebrew. You can't go back to 1.5xx once your firmware is passed a certain point. That's why there's no emulators for later psp...because they can't run the 1.5 kernel. You can't still play illegal games, just no homebrew and emulators. Now there is a way to run psx games on the later firmware.

[DOOOOP @ Nov 20th 2008 12:21AM]

There are 1.50 Kernel extensions you can apply to older firmware to run that stuff, look it up...

[Bonz @ Nov 29th 2008 9:27PM]

@nxp3 you are an iddiot.... if what you wer saying was true my slime and everyone oth there with the 1st and 2nd gen slims wouldent be running homebrew.... but we are the slim has no 1.5 kernal but 2.71 was also a homebrew enabled firmwhere and the slim can run that and buy the way i asume by latermodle psp's you mean the slims and your saying there are no emulators for them..... goto youtube hell i'll just give you the link proving that not only can a slim run an emulator but it can comunicate with a phat psp within the emulator

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sr8EHSkIIpU

Peace Bonz

[mindshed @ Nov 19th 2008 5:29PM]

Someone tell me why Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) is necessary? Are they just pulling terms out of their asses?

[Buy Pandora Battery @ Nov 26th 2008 8:03PM]

This is good news indeed!

[killquick @ Nov 27th 2008 4:25PM]

can this battery be used to downgrade PSP 2000 systems with the firmware 3.90 and higher?