How to Downgrade PSP – Free PSP Downgrading Guide

Introduction to Downgrading

Firstly, we’d like to clarify something for you, if you’re here because you heard someone say that if you ‘downgrade’ your PSP, you can unlock it to run homebrew games on it. Well you’re partly correct, downgrading will aloow you to do that. However, the techniques to playing homebrew have changed drastically over the years, and ‘downgrading’ is no longer the case any more.

Here’s what used to happen, you’d buy a PSP with version 2.8 firmware (for arguments sake), and you had to ‘downgrade’ your PSP to version 1.5, then you had to go find a dark alex custom firmware and install 3.40 OE-A firmware on your 1.5 PSP; in order to play homebrew games on it.

Well firstly you no longer need to downgrade 2.8 PSP to 1.5, you can now skip that step and go from 2.8 PSP to a 3.40 OE-A software PSP. Thanks to a wonderful device called a Pandora Battery.

Precaution to Downgrading

Firstly, downgrading your PSP to pirate software is illegal and shunned upon, and sites do get shut down for pirating software out to people, so be warned! Secondly, there are several methods of downgrading your PSP, none of which are authorised by Sony, and if you were to damage your PSP whilst performing a downgrade neither the webmaster nor Sony will be there for your support, as you are performing all actions on your own accord.

Downgrading using a Magic Memory Stick

We’ll be uploading our own all-inclusive downgrading guides very soon. Convential methods of downgrading involved an HEN exploit which allowed users to find a hole in the system, to install custom software through. Nowadays there is no need for this, and what you simply need is the access to the right files and a way to create a pandora battery or buy one from somewhere. All of this will be detailed.

Downgrading is a good way to play homebrew games on your PSP, and to play your backed up games that you legally own, on your PSP. We cannot emphanise this point any more! Sony originally restricted a lot of functionality on the PSP – which was explored by the homebrew community and thus Sony followed suit afterwards, such as the PSP 333Mhz clock speed, custom themes, radio player etc which was originally invented by the open source community.

There are numerous guides avilable on the internet, you need to make sure you follow the instructions religiously, as Sony do not support downgrading, you have no saftey net if things go wrong, we will list our own tried and tested methods using a magic memory stick and pandora battery. If you were to incorrectly downgrade you could mess up your PSP and make it a brick. The good news is that on a last resort you can buy kits from the internet that enable you to restore your PSP fully.

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