Password-protect your PSP with Boot Protector
Need to keep your parents away from your PSP? Want your pesky sibling to stop hogging your Sony handheld? Hoping that your roommate won’t find out about those photos that you took while he was asleep which you stored in your PSP? Then lock it down with a password, and unless your parents or your sibling happens to be a LUA coder, your secrets should be safe enough.
There’s now a small and useful LUA application made by azy_xbox123 called the Boot Protector. With this, anyone who wishes to use your PSP will be asked to provide a five-digit password upon start-up. This should possibly deter any nosy person who may want to start snooping on what you’ve been up to with your PSP.
In the meantime, azy_xbox123 includes the following notes about his creation:
D-PAD = Navigate/Change Password Number
SELECT = Screenshot
To install:
1.50 w/ Harleyg‘s Custom Firmware: ms0:/PSP/SYSTEM/DEVBOOT.PBP
ms0:/PSP/SYSTEM/Applications/
ms0:/PSP/SYSTEM/System/
5x ms0:/PSP/SYSTEM/*****.prx
This is activated by leaving you WLAN switch down, this hasn’t been tested!
2.71SE: ms0:/PSP/GAME/BOOT/EBOOT.PBP
ms0:/PSP/GAME/BOOT/Applications/
ms0:/PSP/GAME/BOOT/System/
5x ms0:/PSP/GAME/*****.prx
This is activated via the configuration menu, although I have gotten this to work on 2.71SE, it crashes when exiting to XMB once the correct password is input!
Although this gets the job done, it doesn’t disable the use of the HOME button. I am waiting on a custom build to be built.
So, as we said, unless your parents, little brother, or roommate are all developers themselves, this app should do a pretty good job of keeping them out of your hair. Otherwise, we advice you to start hiding the USB cables in your house, but be warned that this doesn’t prevent other members of the household from hiding the PSP unit itself.
Download: [Boot Protector]
Discuss: [Forum Release Thread]
Need to keep your parents away from your PSP? Want your pesky sibling to stop hogging your Sony handheld? Hoping that your roommate won’t find out about those photos that you took while he was asleep which you stored in your PSP? Then lock it down with a password, and unless your parents or your sibling happens to be a LUA coder, your secrets should be safe enough.
There’s now a small and useful LUA application made by azy_xbox123 called the Boot Protector. With this, anyone who wishes to use your PSP will be asked to provide a five-digit password upon start-up. This should possibly deter any nosy person who may want to start snooping on what you’ve been up to with your PSP.
In the meantime, azy_xbox123 includes the following notes about his creation:
D-PAD = Navigate/Change Password Number
SELECT = Screenshot
To install:
1.50 w/ Harleyg‘s Custom Firmware: ms0:/PSP/SYSTEM/DEVBOOT.PBP
ms0:/PSP/SYSTEM/Applications/
ms0:/PSP/SYSTEM/System/
5x ms0:/PSP/SYSTEM/*****.prx
This is activated by leaving you WLAN switch down, this hasn’t been tested!
2.71SE: ms0:/PSP/GAME/BOOT/EBOOT.PBP
ms0:/PSP/GAME/BOOT/Applications/
ms0:/PSP/GAME/BOOT/System/
5x ms0:/PSP/GAME/*****.prx
This is activated via the configuration menu, although I have gotten this to work on 2.71SE, it crashes when exiting to XMB once the correct password is input!
Although this gets the job done, it doesn’t disable the use of the HOME button. I am waiting on a custom build to be built.
So, as we said, unless your parents, little brother, or roommate are all developers themselves, this app should do a pretty good job of keeping them out of your hair. Otherwise, we advice you to start hiding the USB cables in your house, but be warned that this doesn’t prevent other members of the household from hiding the PSP unit itself.
Download: [Boot Protector]
Discuss: [Forum Release Thread]
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