PSP 3000 finally, inevitably hacked by Datel's Lite Blue Tool
By Samuel Axon 
posted Nov 18th 2008 11:08PM
posted Nov 18th 2008 11:08PM
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, 
Take THAT Sony!
SONY....echos of Yahoo!?
I slapped myself in the face with surprise.
No, I'm not joking....
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.
awesome!
Can this aren't done?
No can't was do.
Could that sentence be anymore awesome?!
Yes Yoda
That sentence was Epic. Forrur.
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?
im kinda surprised the playstation 3 is still impervious. its been like 2 years already!
@ dark star
It's not "impervious"
It's just that no one cares.
i wouldnt say nobody cares. i would buy a ps3 if it could play game rips.
not to say i wouldnt buy games...
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.
This, is awesome. =]
I love you datel. Not sure why people hate you?(other forums)
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 >=[
Will this work on PSP1000's? Mine is bricked.... :-(
LUL NOOB!
jk man, i feel your pain.
Uh, you can already use the pandora unbricker/downgrader.
Now, give it about 48hrs for someone to buy and reverse engineer this.
Cant be that hard. I mean, its Sony after all.
reverse engineer it into what?
a regular battery?
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.
@ the dude.
funniest comment i've ever read on here.
what are the benefits of hacking a psp?
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.
You meant built not burnt right?
Great, now they just need a battery that gets rid of the scan line feature.
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.
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
@Conda
That whooshing sound is Comment53's post sailing far over your head.
Okay kids, now you can play more than Daxter!
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...
today is a good day to fly my pirate flag =D
arrrgghh
Thats nice and all but when is PS3 is gonna be hack? Has there been any console that never been hack other than PS3?
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.
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.
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...
so when is Sony gunna release a feature to counter this feature???
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.
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.
There are 1.50 Kernel extensions you can apply to older firmware to run that stuff, look it up...
@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
Rome wasn't burnt in a day??? I think you mean, Rome wasn't built in a day.
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.
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
Someone tell me why Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) is necessary? Are they just pulling terms out of their asses?
This is good news indeed!
can this battery be used to downgrade PSP 2000 systems with the firmware 3.90 and higher?
NOV 28 WHAT HAPPENS ON DATEL LITE BATTERY IS ON WORK ON PSP 3000 AND TA-088V3??????????
wow bad english but yes this will boot the slim and brite psp's (2000 and 3000) all mother boards into service mode but that is still useless at this point cause CFW will not work yet so this is my advice to everyone DON'T BUY THIS YET! wait for Dark Alex to release a CFW that works on the psp 3000 and when he does he may also offer a way to upgrade you Pandora's battery to one that can also boot the slim
Any advance on this?
I hate Datel because all the hype and noise when we don't see a hacked psp3000 yet. After all who can confirm that the "green light" it's actually service mode?
one thing i dont get...the reason that people can hack psps is the only reason that i started usuing mine again so i fit causes people to use them again why does sony get so pissed about it
wait, this is possible?