I stumbled onto a PSP-1000 (Phat) and PSP-3000 (Brite) to tinker with. When the owner had last looked at these, Official Firmware was up to 6.60 and his PSP-3000 could not use the permanent-CFW route he wanted at the time. The PSP-1000 had died and a PSP-3000 was purchased. He was saddened to find that it was already running 6.60 and could not be downgraded. The PSP-1000 had been running Custom Firmware (CFW) 5.50 GEN-D (Full). We’re now about five or seven years down the track and they can be messed with in all sorts of ways. On 6.61, PRO-C2 is the custom firmware, while Infinity supplies the permanent patch that can start compatible PRO or ME custom firmware after a reboot.

I ended up purchasing a few new batteries and binning most of them because the cells inside were labelled 3.6V 600mAh, despite the packs claiming 3600mAh. Did the sellers really think I wouldn’t notice: 1. The lack of weight and 2. The lack of play time? To be fair though, I still got just short of 4 hours on a charge in the slimmer PSP-3000. Interestingly the PSP-1000 battery seems to be still going strong and clocks in a few more hours than those replacement packs. Impressive for the age! The PSP-1000 should have an 1800mAh battery standard and the PSP-3000 should have a 1200mAh.

Oh, before I forget it was fun losing the VSH overlay on the PSP-1000 and having to work out how to piece everything back together to get it to show again. I really love that “Shutdown” function. There’s a few little hardware repairs I need to do on the PSP-1000 to do with the DC-in jack and the power switch, but I’ll cover that in a future video.

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