Guide for checking PSP 2000

This page will guide you on checking if your PSP 2000 has a hackable motherboard or not. Because if you have a Ta88v3, your PSP2000 is NOT hackable. BUt if your psp2000 has another type of motherboard, you’re saved.

Below are steps on finding out if your PSP is Ta88v3 or not.

These are the steps to identify a PSP TA88V3.

• It is a ta88v3 if your psp firmware came out of the box with 4.01, or 4.05. If you forgot or have no idea what’s your PSP’s original firmware, just check the steps below:
• Please check the barcode on the PSP slim box if the letter under the voltage info is letter G or above. If it is, then you have a PSP TA-088v3. Please see the image below:

• If you’re still in doubt about PSP TA88V3, the next step will be 100% accurate but it requires a Pandora battery:

Step 1: You need to format your memory with the application called “mspformat” and you can download it here.

– Connect your PSP via USB
– Format it using the command “mspformat E”, being “E” the letter of your PSP on your PC.
– Program will ask you to confirm it, press Y.
– Plug out your PSP. IMPORTANT: DO NOT format again the MS within the PSP until this test has finished.
– Connect again the PSP via USB, and manually create PSP and PSP/GAME folders.

Next step must be done on a PSP homebrew capable (with CFW). If you don’t have it, ask someone else to do this step and give you the resultant files.

– Copy the GETIPL folder to PSP/GAME. Download the 3.90 and 4.05 updates, and put them onto the MS root with the following names: “390.PBP”, “405.PBP”.
– Run the GETIPL app from your PSP homebrew capable, and it will create a couple of files on the MS root, called “ipl390.bin”, “ipl405.bin”.
– Connect the PSP via USB, and use the “msinst” program that its included on the pack to install the 3.90 IPL on the MS.
– You must do it this way: “msinst E E:\ipl390.bin”, being “E” your PSP letter on your PC. Program will ask you to confirm it, press Y.

Insert the MS with the 3.90IPL installed onto the PSP that you want to confirm if it’s a TA-088v3 or not, and turn it on with a Pandora Battery plugged in. You’ll have two possible results:

– PSP turns off inmediatly after starting – Your PSP is NOT a 88v3.
– PSP keeps turned on with a green light forever – Your PSP is a 88v3, or you have done something wrong. Next step will confirm it.

– Connect again the PSP via USB, and use again the msinst, but this time with the 405IPL. Remember, “msinst E E:\ipl405.bin”, being E your PSP letter on your PC.

Try to load it again with a Pandora battery. You have two possible results:

– PSP turns off immediately. If PSP turns off immediately with this IPL and on the other test it had that green light forever, it will be 100% sure a 88v3.

– PSP keeps with a green light forever. This CANT be on any PSP, being 88v3 or not. If this is the case, you have done something wrong.

(source: pandorasales.com)

If your PSP has a Ta88v3 (whick is unhackable motherboards), you can always install a Homebrew Enablers, or Light Custom Firmwares which can turn your unhackable PSPs to play downloaded games like from a hackable one.