Undiluted Platinum PSP Modchip Flashing Application

We have received word from the Undiluted Platinum Team that they have released their PSP modchip flashing program. This tool will allow you to reflash the Undiluted Platinum onboard NAND. Once reflashed you can reboot your PSP and it will automatically boot your new firmware. Hold down the L Trigger, click your heels together twice and you will be whisked back to Kansas and your original PSP firmware. The application installation is very simple and from the GUI you can tell that reflashing your chip will be a snap.

The ability to have the features of more then one firmware was recently discovered by some PSP gamers with 1.5’s with DevHook. However with the Undiluted Platinum and PSP modchip flashing application everyone can enjoy all the features Sony provides with their PSP handheld as well homebrew and switch between the two with ease. A very clean application that provides PSP gamers a simple way to enjoy both worlds.

They have delayed the release of their new diagrams until tomorrow in order to complete and release the flashing application.

Click Full Article for Flashing Instructions and Troubleshooting

Download: [ Undiluted Platinum PSP Modchip Flashing Application ]

We have received word from the Undiluted Platinum Team that they have released their PSP modchip flashing application. This tool will allow you to reflash the Undiluted Platinum onboard NAND. Once reflashed you can reboot your PSP and it will automatically boot your new firmware. Hold down the L Trigger, click your heels together twice and you will be whisked back to Kansas and your original PSP firmware. The application installation is very simple and from the GUI you can tell that reflashing your chip will be a snap.

The ability to have the features of more then one firmware was recently discovered by some PSP gamers with 1.5’s with DevHook. However with the Undiluted Platinum and PSP modchip flashing application everyone can enjoy all the features Sony provides with their PSP handheld as well homebrew and switch between the two with ease. A very clean application that provides PSP gamers a simple way to enjoy both worlds.

They have delayed the release of their new diagrams until tomorrow in order to complete and release the flashing application.

Download: [ Undiluted Platinum PSP Modchip Flashing Application ]

Installing the USB Drivers

A setup program is provided which will install both the Undiluted Platinum Flasher and associated USB drivers. Please run the setup program and ensure the USB drivers have been installed BEFORE connecting the U.P. to your PC for the first time. The procedure for installing the USB drivers is as follows (for Windows XP, other Windows versions may differ):

   1. Install the Undiluted Platinum Flasher and USB drivers using the setup program. This will copy the USB drivers onto your system but they will not yet be properly associated with the U.P. USB device.
   2. Turn on your PSP while holding LEFT on the D-PAD to place it in programming mode.
   3. Using the provided USB cable, connect the U.P. to your PSP. IMPORTANT: do not connect the USB cable to the U.P. until AFTER the PSP is turned on.
   4. The “Found New Hardware” wizard should appear. If you are asked if you would like to connect to windows update to search for software, select “No, not this time”.
   5. The wizard will give you the option of either installing software automatically or from a list or specific location. Select “Install the software automatically”.
   6. Windows will install drivers for a “FTDI FT8U2XX Device” which is the USB chipset used by the U.P. Once the driver installation is complete you will be able to use the Undiluted Platinum Flasher.

Flashing the Undiluted Platinum

The Undiluted Platinum Flasher is used to write a NAND flash image to the U.P. Such flash images could be 1.0/1.50 firmware or even custom made firmware. The procedure for writing a NAND flash image to the U.P. is as follows:

   1. Connect the U.P. USB connector board to the FPC cable located in the PSP battery compartment. Make sure this is connected the right way around, with the side of the FPC containing the exposed metal contacts facing upwards.
   2. Load the Undiluted Platinum Flasher application.
   3. Place the PSP in programming mode by holding LEFT on the D-PAD as you power it on.
   4. Using the provided USB cable, connect the U.P. to your PSP. IMPORTANT: do not connect the USB cable to the U.P. until AFTER the PSP is turned on.
   5. Click “Connect”.
   6. Click “Write Flash” and then select the desired NAND flash image.
   7. Wait for writing to complete. This will take some time so please be patient.
   8. Turn off the PSP (standby, not suspend).

The flasher application can also be used to read from either PSP onboard flash or U.P. flash, and help diagnose installation problems. Whilst interfacing with the U.P. hardware, the flash application conducts tests which will verify the integrity of the installation. Should the tests fail, the following error will be reported by the PC side software: “Diagnostic tests failed, please check your installation”. We advise you to use the application to make a backup of your PSP onboard flash as soon as possible and keep this backup in a secure place, just in case anything ever happens to your PSP flash (like if a nasty “bricking” virus appears, etc).

Troubleshooting

What operating systems are supported?

Windows 2000 and upwards. Windows 95, 98, ME and NT4 are not currently supported. Linux is not supported.

I received the following error: “Failed to connect to U.P!”

This error occurs when the flasher application could not establish a communication link with the U.P. Possible causes include the following:

   1. The USB drivers are not correctly installed, please use the setup application to install them
   2. The USB cable was plugged into the U.P. USB connector board before the PSP was powered on. Disconnect the USB cable, power the PSP off then back on while holding LEFT on the D_PAD to enable programming mode and then finally re-connect the USB cable.

I received the following error: “Diagnostic tests failed, please check your installation”

This error occurs when the integrity checks performed by the flasher application fail. Such a failure usually results from an error in the installation such as missing or incorrect connections from the FPC cable to the PSP motherboard. Please verify your installation.

I received the following error: “A communication error has occurred!”

This error occurs when there is a communication error during a read or write operation. Possible causes include the following:

   1. The PSP has been turned off
   2. The connection with the PSP has been broken (ie: USB cable has been disconnected)
   3. The USB connector board is not properly attached to the FPC cable. Please ensure that it is attached securely.

I received the following error: “Unable to write idstore area!”

This error occurs when the flasher application is unable to write the “ID Storage” area of flash. The NAND flash used by the PSP and Undiluted Platinum may contain bad blocks and when one of these bad blocks is encountered the data must be “re-mapped” to take into account the inability to store data in this area. The data stored on flash is divided into three segments – IPL (2%), ID Storage (0.7%) and FAT filesystem (97%). In the current implementation the flasher application is able to re-map data when bad blocks are found in the IPL or FAT area but not the ID Storage area. Support for re-mapping data when bad block(s) are found in the ID Storage area is planned for a future release.