looks promising.

This should end up being godly for Slims. I'll stick with my Phat, though.

Awesome!

Nice job for the first step.

Keep going! I'm personally waiting for 3.52M33. :D

Any news if this will work for 3.9 m33-2 and if not when that version of Time Machine will be out? I dont have a pandora battery to change my firmware back to anything else. Also I have a slim.

It already works on 3.90 M33... the list above displays the firmwares that TimeMachine can load. You'll need a Pandora, there's no way around that. TimeMachine doesn't modify your flash - it loads the firmwares from memory stick.

The reason I was wondering is because some of my PSX games dont work like Parasite Eve 2 and Metal Gear Solid 1. How do I get those to run properly?

No need to use Time Machine for that. You can simply use popsloader, which allows load your PSOne games using any of the different firmware POPS versions from 3.00 to 3.72.

http://forums.exophase.com/showthread.php?t=5531

Although I think Metal Gear Solid 1 works fine with the 3.90 pops that is built into 3.90 M33. Sure the file isn't corrupted? You could test it in a PC PSOne emulator to check...

As for Parasite Eve 2, you'll need to use the 3.10 pops using popsloader. Plus, the GameID needs to be changed. Look here for more info:

http://forums.exophase.com/showthread.php?t=2040

Cool!

Man thanks a bundle! :D

is there any guide on this.

im confused on the pandora thing.i need a pandora on psp to run time machine???

a pandora on a slim???

it says that it runs from pandora bat, but it goes on MS

yeah, you still need a pandora, to let the system know you have to read the files from the stick.

the pandora has to be always or is it just one time???

and what do you mean by "always" or "one time"

tha pandora bat has to be on psp al the time or just for updating tha time machine???

like flashing the psp with pandora bat.

its a 1 time

Well Time Machine doesn't touch your flash, only your IDStorage.

When you want to boot up the firmware on your memory stick, you need the Pandora. Same thing if you want to turn on the firmware on the memory stick from sleep mode. So I'd say always.

thanks for the info and quick response

np

Hi, i have tried to install the time machine on my psp official firmare ver 3.90. but when i go to game folder andmemory stick, i click on the time machine app, it reboots and then says "the game could not be started (80020148)

I have tried so many different methods, but im so stuck. to be hones im a bit of a novice when it comes to this, but i really want to do it for my lad.

can anybody help.

thanks

You'll need a custom firmware PSP in order to make the Time Machine.

If you were using the Install Guide, it says clearly that you need a homebrew compatible PSP to make it.

On my slim with 3.90M33-2, if I install the Time Machine and choose the 1.5 + 3.40 option, does this remove the 3.90, or does it then become 3.90M33-2, PLUS 1.5 + 3.40?

Will this change any CXMB I may have for 3.90M33-2?

Also, it says that a pandora battery is needed (which I have), but my question is when does it come in? Is it only when installing the TimeMachine FW like we've done with any other CFW installed using the pandora and MMS? I'm asking because all I did was put the TimeMachine files on the magic memory stick.

Thanks.

How can I access to Recovery Menu for a custom firmware loaded with Time Mcchine medoth ?

Thanks

You're a bit mislead of the use of TimeMachine. :D

The Firmwares of Time Machine runs off completely from the memory stick. Nothing is touched in the NAND except the IDstorage keys. So even if you choose any frimware of the time machine, your console still remains 3.90M33. The Pandora is used too boot up the memeory stick, just like the Universal Unbricker. A good thing is though, that it has sleep mode! :)

Good point, haven't tried myself. Try holding the R button as well when you're holding the combo keys to turn on the firmware you want on your PSP.

Hi,

Good, you must press R+[] or R+O then insert pandora battery and wait .... wait ..... ...... .... then appear Recovery Menu

Thanks

well, hold R like the usual.

when the IPL loader finds that your not holding either of the squre, 0, X, Triangle, it then loads the flash, that's when everything works like a normal cfw PSP. :D

What's the point of this, other than eventually loading the 150 kernel for slims? I mean, why would this be needed for Phat users? I'm just having a hard time seeing any real benefits of using this.Please educate me...

Installing the 1.5 kernel on a Phat takes up more space on the NAND, so now you can simply use the TimeMachine instead of installing the 1.5 kernel add-on. Also the TimeMachine loads independent of the firmware installed, so it will work on any future M33 release.

Hi

is it possible use Pandora battery and Magic Memory Stick converted to Time Machine, to install a custom firmware on a new PSP with Sony original firmware ?

thanks

Magic Memory Stick and TimeMachine is a bit different.

Magic MS (Universal Unbricker) is used to flash custom firmware when bypassing the internal memory, hardware protections.

TimeMachine however, is firmwares that loads off completely from the Memory Stick, only using the IDstorage keys in the NAND.

The good thing is you can have both in one memory stick, the TimeMachine Guide guides you to install Magic memory stick first, THEN you install TM.

In other words, you still need the Magic memory stick to flash firmwares, not TimeMachine.

I made that uneducated comment before reading up on the benefits of this amazing proggy..I now see the light.Will this app mean that having to make a 150 addon for M33 firmwares be a thing of the "past" for Alexander? Hope so..

I do,however,have questions. I've never bothered with Pandora,nor with buying another battery.I've read that I can make a pandora battery that is bootable between Pandora and a normal battery. Is this possible?

And in regards to the magic memory stick,does it have to be one that I only use for Pandora and nothing else? I ask because all my mem sticks are now 4Gb and up,and I don't want to waste a stick that size..N00b=m3...

Help? Apps? Installers? Guides?

If you installed TimeMachine with DCv4 (Pandora), when you boot up with a pandora battery, and don't press any buttons, if goes into the firmware inside your PSP. and it has sleep mode :D

I made the conversion and now have a magic mem stick and a Pandora battery with Time Machine installed and running quite well. I have always been under the impression that I wouldn't be able to use the Magic Mem stick nor the Pandora battery for running my apps and Iso's and such but I can..Huh?

The initial convrsion was done with Hellcat's wonderful Pan3xx proggy then with Time Machine.The time Machine is truly amazing,I absolutely love it and can't wait for more firmware additions..

One last thing,I know..I ask alot of questions eh? But will this mean that a firmware update,4xx?,won't require any addons for 150? So no more removing of Korean font and Location Free Player? Thanks for all the feedback my friends..(Friends..right?)

Great! worked perfect on my 4gb ms. but i also have an 8gb ms. when i create the mms using hellcats utility, it formats it to 4gb. is there a way to utilize the full capacity of the 8gb stick when formatting?

I don't think so. In the first version of Pandora, the readme states that "mspformat" can only deal with memory stick up to 4GB, so anything larger than 4GB formats into 4GB. Unless, Team C+D or some developer can update the format program.

So theorically 4gb should work perfectly?

Yes they do..I now have the Time Machine on all my memory sticks..lovin' it.

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hey guys,

Great trips I am having back and to the future with this machine. But only when take out the MS I get a black screen. Can anyone pls explain. I had 390m33-2. now I have 150and340....

@RJC4LIFE: It will work on any future firmware release. TimeMachine actually starts -before- the actual firmware does.

@inam913: The 1.50 and 3.40 firmware is loaded from the memory stick. So naturally if you take out the memory stick while the firmware is running it will freeze.

how can i make despertar cementerio(universal unbricker) boot up? Cause when I put my pandora batt. it automatically loads my 3.90 m33-2 firmware.

Did you install TimeMachine then? You need hold the UP key on the D-pad while booting your PSP to access the despertar cementerio menu.

Holding the UP key on the d-pad doesn't work and yes i got time machine installed

EDIT: I've got it, I've skipped Convert Pandora/DC1-DC4 ipl into TM format that's why holding UP button doesn't work lol. thanks. time machine is awesome i don't need to go back into the process of converting my battery back to normal. Now i can convert my batt into normal w/o bringing the charger w/ me, so pandora on the go

so i only have 1 psp, how can i make a pandoras battery to dg my 3.11 psp without having to open up my battery and possibly melt my face off? :w00t:

You can use the 3.11 downgrader, but it requires a copy of the original Lumines UMD game.

http://forums.exophase.com/showthread.php?t=3453

You could also buy a Pandora battery or ask someone you know to make you one.

im on a 3.9M33-2 PSP fatty and i HATE THIS FIRM so ive been trying to downgrade back to 3.4OE-A, but nothing ive done works, i performed timemachine perfectly and it ran smoothly and said it was all done, but after i exited timemachine nothing changed. also i cant use pandora because it wont let me run the program "create pandora" or the other one for the mem card, it says "error 80 sumthin. as if i didnt hav the right firm to run the game(pandora creator) i would love to be helped on this

Before I downgraded my slim I put in the Phat's Pandora battery and magic mem stick with Pandora on it and the TM installed and was able to load the 150-340 with the Time Machine..I didn't see this mentioned before that it was even possible to load the TM in Original Firmwares,I was on 372 by the way..I tried to load an app and the gameboot.pmf was odd looking color wise and it gave me an error.But the point of my rant is this: Is this what Alexander is trying? To be able to load CFW in Original firmwares? And tell me if this is a retarted question..

Well TM is pretty much like DC, it's bypassing the firmware and only using the IDStorage Keys. I think DAX is just letting you have multifirmware:D.

Though in the read me it has been said that the there's something wrong with the colors in the 150-340 mix.

I still fail to see the usefulness of the app. Could someone please enlighten me as to what it does?

I'm running my Crisis Core Slim (previously 3.60) on 3.90 M33-3. Technically I should be able to run my backups from the game folder without any issues or the need for this time machine, no?

What exactly is the Slim missing in terms of compatibility? And I've never understood why Phats require a 1.50 kernel add-on if their motherboard supports all the 1.50 FW advantages when running a CFW.

It allows you to run only 1.5 kernel homebrew on your PSP slim- a feat that cannot normally be done, due to the slim's complete hardware incompatibility with the 1.5 kernel.

Yes and no. Most newer homebrew and even some of the older homebrew is compatible with the slim, but alas, some of the new and quite a bit of the pre-slim homebrew is incompatible with it, due to it's lack of support for the 1.5 kernel.

The reason a phat requires the 1.5 kernel patch is because the CFW is made to be able to be installed on both, the phat and the slim. The 1.5 kernel patch is incompatible with the slim, therefore must be added on to the phats running CFW, this patch could be seen as an alternative to having different CFWs for phats and slims.

The link to the 1.5 add on for 4.01 is http://forums.exophase.com/showthread.php?t=7674 there.

Something diffrent..

i need help im trying to make my brothers psp like mine but he has a phat and i have i slim. everytime i try to load that timemachene on the psp i get an error code i have no idea what to do please help