Mon Jun 30 15:36:09 2008 by Eric Hokanson
Modified Tue Jul 1 13:48:37 2008

Following Sony's official 4.01 PSP firmware release this week, Dark-AleX has just published his custom 4.01 release. The DAX firmware allows the execution of custom homebrew apps, significantly expanding your PSP's software library.

A year ago or so,  when the homebrew scene was starting up, I attempted to load custom firmware and bricked my PSP.  It sat on my shelf collecting dust while I looked at ways to bring it back to life.  I was about to spend a hundred dollars to get it repaired and then discovered the Pandora's Battery recovery method.  This allows the recovery and loading of any firmware to the PSP for next to nothing.  I did a quick writeup and review of the tools I used which you can check out here.