So what is chickHen?

Update your PSP to OFW 5.03

Skip this step if you already have official firmware 5.03 installed.

• Connect your PSP to the computer in USB Mode
• Copy the 503.pbp to folder PSP/GAME/UPDATE
• Disconnect the PSP from USB
• Run the Update via XMB
• When the update finishes proceed to installing chickHen R2.

Installing chickHEN R2

• On the Settings menu of your PSP’s XMB, do the following
  • Restore to Default Settings’ of PSP
  • Turn off UMD Auto-Start and UMD Cache
  • Character set to us
  • Revert theme for classic
• Connect your PSP to the computer in USB Mode
• Unzip ChickHEN R2.zip on your computer
• Copy h.bin to your memory stick root, this is where the VIDEO, PICTURE and PSP folders are.
• Copy the chickHEN folder (use the contents PHAT folder for PSP-1000s, SLIM folder for PSP-2000s and PSP-3000s) inside the PHOTO folder of your PSP (X:/PSP/PHOTO is the root of the memory stick, manually create this if you don’t see one)
• Disconnect the PSP from USB.
• Turn OFF (not standby) your PSP and turn it on again.
• Go to XMB >> Photo >> Memory Stick and wait (YES YOU NEED TO WAIT) an Options menu appear (Right Bottom)
• Hit X to open ChickHEN folder
• If you’re successful ChickHEN-R2 load up, you’ll see flashing colors, and your PSP will reboot automatically into ChickHEN.  Check your Firmware version and you should see :

Running Custom Firmware on ChickHen

After successfully loading chickHen, you can now proceed to run custom firmware on your PSP.

Installing Custom Firmware Enabler

• Connect your PSP to the computer in USB Mode when you have loaded ChickHEN R2.
• Extract the zip file on your computer
• Copy the PSP folder to your memory card
• Disconnect the PSP from USB.
• On your PSP, Go to GAME > Memory Stick > CFWEnabler
• The CFWEnabler screen will boot up, Select install and your PSP will reboot.
• Congratulations, you now have 5.00 M33-6 (yes, it loads 5.00 M33-6) on your PSP.

Some Homebrew Games for your PSP:

CLick Me!

Just put games in Game folder in PSP root directory folder. e.g. ms:\PSP\GAME\castlevania\eboot.pbp

Take Note:

Turning-off your machine will  return back to normal,repeat process of installing chickhen r2 by removing the egghunt.bin file on your memory root.

Tested by me..

Credit to all psphackers who made this possible.