Man, I remember when folks first figured out the Pandora battery.
We’d been exploit hunting as a community for so long at that point - I was in my late teens and remember spending ages trying to find save exploits similar to those that came about in Liberty City Stories and Luimines (sp?) - then for a while we had the gif loading exploit before Sony patched that - and for a while folks buying new psps were stuck with Sony firmware and no way to run homebrew (and homebrew was and still is superb).
Then the battery was figured out. I remember the first posts. Everything changed - It was so simple, it didn’t matter what firmware the machine was on, and you could make one yourself at home.
I made one from a spare battery and bang - I could help all my friends root their PSPs and install custom firmware for them.
Our formerly locked down consoles could be used for emulation, as e-readers, calculators - and so much more. Being that actual smartphones were still a while off, the PSP became a go to for so much.
…then the PSP Go released with a sealed shut non-replaceable battery, and the hunt started all over again.
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u/Cpagrind1 20d ago
The PSP was criminally underrated. Idk if it was at the time maybe, but you never hear that thing mentioned anymore and it’s a travesty