More on the Datel PSP TOOL Battery
As thought previosuly, the Datel TOOL battery for the PSP is a rip-off of the Pandora battery created by a number of PSP underground developers. Here is a comment from the Noobz team:
You’ve probably already seen the news that Datel are selling a clone of the Pandora battery. You may even have been excited by their marketing information:
“Special TOOL version of our PSP battery works in exactly the same way as a standard SONY PSP battery but has the ability to put your PSP into service mode for custom firmware use.”
You might have thought that this means that you no longer need a homebrew PSP to be able to get started with Pandora. Unfortunately, you’d be wrong. And Datel don’t seem to be in any hurry to put you right.
This product is useful, in that it allows you to skip the step of needing a homebrew PSP to modify an existing battery. It even comes in a nice fire engine red colour, so you don’t get it confused with your other batteries. And it’s not a bad price. But you still need a homebrew PSP to create the files to place on the memory stick. Without the special memory stick, Pandora is useless. And no-one is able to legally give you the files required to prepare that stick without a homebrew PSP.
When you buy the TOOL battery, you get just the battery. No instructions, no indication that you even need a memory stick, let alone how to prepare it. Datel seem to be happy to let the buyer make the mistake of thinking this is all they need, and they don’t even help you figure things out once you realise your mistake. I think that’s pretty crappy, and relying on the community to do their customer support for them is rotten.
So, if you are looking to buy one of these PSP TOOL Batteries, bear in mind you will still need to get hold of a homebrew enabled PSP to create the memory stick information.
Lol, just use an easy installer, like the ‘Pandora’s Box’ Gui by mrdude. Search, you Noobz!
another thing too, you dont need a homebrew psp to make the stick information. you dont even need a psp. i used a sony digital camera and the pandoras box gui which you run on a pc. just follow all the instructions including turning it off and on again, but ignore the instructions for making the battery. this is the method i used for unbricking my psp as i dont have 2.
i wouldnt agree its a rip off as its a cheaper alternative to buying a second psp battery to turn in to a pandoras battery, and a convenient way to have one already made. the rip offs are the assholes on ebay either offering the service to make them or selling them for rediculously high prices.
the datel tool battery is ideal if:
a – you dont have 2 psps
b – bricked your psp before making a battery
im getting a slim can i use this to install custom firmware
Ghost – yes, the Datel tool can be used on the PSP Slim. You can also create your own PAndora Battery, but it has to be the older style fat battery (Still works on the Slim PSP though).
thanks dave but how do i herd that it need to make a magic memmory stick how do i do this and what size does it have to
and the person i know that has a psp with firmware 1.5 cant lend me his psp cause his screen is cracked (fell on the floor when his yelled in his ear)
hi i have the tool battery. so i do all the steps on the pandoras box gui but dont run the batery creater then please help me i dont have another psp or a custom firmware one thanks
so i have a psp 3.60 slim if i buy that then run 3.71 m33-2 it will work on my psp yes no