WTB: Bricked PSP

[guitarmas]

I want to buy a bricked PSP so I can get the faceplate off of it. I bought mine used and the screen is all scratched up. I see faceplates on E-bay but they go for $45 or so. You can unbrick your PSP for $100 with the new Modchip but if you don't want to spend that, you can sell it to me.

[A_Username]

You can buy a replacement faceplate from www.lik-sang.com for like $20 last time I checked, with free shipping too. Search for it on the side bar on their site.

[guitarmas]

Thanks for the link. I saw a few of the PSP plates that I liked, but none of which had the "PSP" logo on the bottom.

Cool choice and I'll buy one if I don't find a bricked one(or a fairly inexpensive one with firmware v. 1.5)

[A_Username]

I'll bet this is what you're looking for!

 

http://www.newagepsx.com/index.php?act=vie...7dc37e23b57d273

Edited July 5, 2006 by A_Username

[guitarmas]

I'll bet this is what you're looking for!

 

http://www.newagepsx.com/index.php?act=vie...7dc37e23b57d273

 

I'll forward it, thanks!

[Room 34]

Isn't there ANY way to "unbrick" a PSP?

 

Man.. am I the only one who thinks Sony is the Microsoft of the video game world (the fact that Microsoft IS in the video game world notwithstanding)?

[guitarmas]

Isn't there ANY way to "unbrick" a PSP?

 

Man.. am I the only one who thinks Sony is the Microsoft of the video game world (the fact that Microsoft IS in the video game world notwithstanding)?

 

Yep a PSP modchip is available. It can reformat your PSP to whatever firmware you want as many times as you want. It can also play any UMD games and movies. All this in at a nice little price of $99.

[Room 34]

Seems to me if Sony's going to release a product that can be rendered worthless by rogue code that they weren't careful enough to block, then they ought to be responsible for giving users a way to undo the damage.

 

Unless the ONLY way you can brick it is by loading software that voids the warranty. (Guess I don't know enough about how it all works; I just read about "bricked" PSPs and I feel the same way as I do when I read about the latest Windows virus threat. Glad I own "the competition"!)

[guitarmas]

Seems to me if Sony's going to release a product that can be rendered worthless by rogue code that they weren't careful enough to block, then they ought to be responsible for giving users a way to undo the damage.

 

Unless the ONLY way you can brick it is by loading software that voids the warranty. (Guess I don't know enough about how it all works; I just read about "bricked" PSPs and I feel the same way as I do when I read about the latest Windows virus threat. Glad I own "the competition"!)

 

Yeah man. Bricked PSP happen only by running unauthorized software.

[Room 34]

OK, well then, you get what you deserve!

[CPUWIZ]

Seems to me if Sony's going to release a product that can be rendered worthless by rogue code that they weren't careful enough to block, then they ought to be responsible for giving users a way to undo the damage.

 

Unless the ONLY way you can brick it is by loading software that voids the warranty. (Guess I don't know enough about how it all works; I just read about "bricked" PSPs and I feel the same way as I do when I read about the latest Windows virus threat. Glad I own "the competition"!)

 

Yeah man. Bricked PSP happen only by running unauthorized software.

 

Actually, that is completely incorrect. You can brick a PSP by running a firmware upgrade and in the middle of the process, you unplug the power supply and yank the battery, but you'd have to be a moron to do that willingly.

 

The same is true for any PC (or any flash-upgradeable device for that matter), yank the power while upgrading the BIOS and you have a nice little paperweight mobo, especially if the BIOS is not socketed.

[Room 34]

You can brick a PSP by running a firmware upgrade and in the middle of the process, you unplug the power supply and yank the battery, but you'd have to be a moron to do that willingly.

 

Radio Announcer: Tickets not to be taken internally.

Homer Simpson: See, thanks to me, now there's a warning!

 

What's my point? Well, I guess Sony should ban the sale of PSPs to morons.

 

(No wait... that's not it...)

 

The fact that there's ANY way that you could "brick" it without doing anything illegal/etc. says to me that Sony ought to provide a way to fix it. (Although I would imagine/hope, under the circumstances you described, it probably WOULD be covered under warranty.)

Edited July 6, 2006 by Room 34

[CPUWIZ]

The fact that there's ANY way that you could "brick" it without doing anything illegal/etc. says to me that Sony ought to provide a way to fix it. (Although I would imagine/hope, under the circumstances you described, it probably WOULD be covered under warranty.)

 

There is no real safeguard for this sort of operation. You could double the size of the flash and keep two copies, then at bootup, check the checksum and if it fails, restore the secondary version, but that isn't fool-proof either. Some PC BIOS'es do this, most devices don't.

 

I've seen quite a few 'bricked' development kits (all companies) in my time, although in the dev-community it's generally referred to:

 

"Shit man, I just turned my devkit into a boat anchor!"

 

or

 

"Well, for now, I have a very expensive paper weight on my desk."

 

But you can always send them back to the manufacturer, very much like other consumer devices, to get them fixed.

[guitarmas]

The fact that there's ANY way that you could "brick" it without doing anything illegal/etc. says to me that Sony ought to provide a way to fix it. (Although I would imagine/hope, under the circumstances you described, it probably WOULD be covered under warranty.)

 

There is no real safeguard for this sort of operation. You could double the size of the flash and keep two copies, then at bootup, check the checksum and if it fails, restore the secondary version, but that isn't fool-proof either. Some PC BIOS'es do this, most devices don't.

 

I've seen quite a few 'bricked' development kits (all companies) in my time, although in the dev-community it's generally referred to:

 

"Shit man, I just turned my devkit into a boat anchor!"

 

or

 

"Well, for now, I have a very expensive paper weight on my desk."

 

But you can always send them back to the manufacturer, very much like other consumer devices, to get them fixed.

 

There was a PSP to TV software or mod of somesort, I really don't know what it was, but it would brick a PSP nicely.

[CPUWIZ]

The fact that there's ANY way that you could "brick" it without doing anything illegal/etc. says to me that Sony ought to provide a way to fix it. (Although I would imagine/hope, under the circumstances you described, it probably WOULD be covered under warranty.)

 

There is no real safeguard for this sort of operation. You could double the size of the flash and keep two copies, then at bootup, check the checksum and if it fails, restore the secondary version, but that isn't fool-proof either. Some PC BIOS'es do this, most devices don't.

 

I've seen quite a few 'bricked' development kits (all companies) in my time, although in the dev-community it's generally referred to:

 

"Shit man, I just turned my devkit into a boat anchor!"

 

or

 

"Well, for now, I have a very expensive paper weight on my desk."

 

But you can always send them back to the manufacturer, very much like other consumer devices, to get them fixed.

 

There was a PSP to TV software or mod of somesort, I really don't know what it was, but it would brick a PSP nicely.

 

That's an expensive way of killing your PSP, would be much easier to simply turn it on and poor a can of soda into the UMD slot. Again, you can "brick", pretty much all electronic devices, without problems.

[Shawn]

 

That's an expensive way of killing your PSP, would be much easier to simply turn it on and poor a can of soda into the UMD slot. Again, you can "brick", pretty much all electronic devices, without problems.

 

 

But the real question is how do I "brick" this thing?