PSP: Pandora Battery coming soon to a PSP GO near you! (Baryon Sweeper)

Tremendous progress has been made on advanced Pandora batteries (Baryon Sweeper) for the PSP with basically support for all models nowadays. PSP Go was one of the last models to not be supported, but that will change soon, thanks to work by Leo Oliveira.

What is Baryon Sweeper for the PSP

Baryon Sweeper is a series of tools and hardware schematics designed to unbrick later PSP models (which require more than the original pandora battery). Mimicking Sony’s official recovery tools, Baryon Sweeper allows to enter service mode and unbrick PSP 3000 models as well as pandora-incompatible versions of PSP 2000s.

Most PSPs can now be unbricked with the Baryon Sweeper tool, with PSP GO being the last model to not be supported, due to its different hardware and Syscon communication protocol.

Hardware Hacker Leo Oliveira has published details on how  to interact with the PSP GO syscon, and, pending some tests, this means creating Pandora batteries for the PSP GO should now be a possibility.

Developer Khubik, one of the hackers working on Baryon Sweeper, has stated that in theory, everything’s now here (including PSP GO encryption keys) in the publicly available tools, to create a Pandora Battery for the PSP Go.

Pandora batteries relying on Baryon Sweeper require significantly more work than the original Pandora Batteries (which were only compatible with PSP 1000 and some models of PSP 2000), but are what you need if your model isn’t compatible with the original Pandora. Thankfully, all schematics and processes are described on Khubik’s github.

Pandora Battery for PSP Go

Using PySweeper and Leo Oliveira’s instructions, you should in theory be able to create a Pandora Battery for your PSP GO. Of course you might not want to be the guinea pig for this unless you know exactly what you’re doing. Ultimately, I expect the process to be confirmed and refined, to a point where all PSP models can now probably be unbricked/downgraded.