Do you need a Pandora Battery to downgrade a PSP?

So do i need a magic stick too if i'm gonna downgrade my psp version 3.80 to 1.50

i was wondering when i do actually downgrade my psp to play other games . i seen the way to do it through downgrader and lumines, but i also seen the pandora battery and magic stick. so which should i do

I have a whole lot of questions for pandora's battery. First of all, why is it (on ebay) that some people claim that this battery will downgrade your psp, while others claim that it can downgrade and unbrick psp? 1) Correct me if I'm wrong, All pandora...

(so i basically want to downgrade it from version 6.00 ) i've heard you need to use a pandora battery to downgrade the psp, well i just want to know if i can use the original battery that came with the psp to make it to a Pandora battery, and is it recommended...

I need to make a Pandora battery for my PSP 5.51 so I can downgrade it to 5.03 (To get Chick-Hen which will allow me to get Manga Reader and other useful apps) If you know how to downgrade a psp 5.51 to 5.03 (Or 5.00 so I can upgrade it back to 5.03...

I want to add emulators to my psp but every time I try, it says data cannot be supported, data is corrupted. I figured out that i needed to downgrade but to do that i need a program called timemachine. But for me to use that program i need to have a...

OK, first off i want you to know that i KNOW there are no ways to downgrade a 3.51PSP, except for a pandora battery. the things is i've a bunch of ways to create a pandora battery. the way were you open the PSP battery and scratch the lead i dont wan...