>>715428353
I kinda regret selling this one

>>715428353
Huh I didn't even know they released something after Go.
>no wifi
lame

>>715428795
yeah it was a cheap 99EUR version that launched in 2011 with the Vita. If you hacked it you did get a lot of bang for your buck tho. PSP PSN was pretty much dead anyway by then so the only real downside was no co-op with friends

>>715428353
>no screen buton
>no note button
>no physical controls for PS, vol+/-, start and select
>no wi-fi
>mono speaker
Yeah, I wonder why nobody wanted it. I'm sure removing all of that really did reduce costs when they made an entirely new case for it.

>>715428296 (OP)
Are there still people around fixing them if something goes wrong?
Mine's just sitting there, I'm kinda afraid to boot it up.

>She's swelling up!...ON THE PSP

the analog was so shit

>>715429852
>>She's swelling up!...ON THE PSP

>>715429997
Will Switch 1 and 2 have same issue too?

>>715428353
looks neat. would've bought one if it was cheap, but all of them are owned by people who daily drove them, beat the shit out of them, and value them the same as any other PSP.

Why are PSPtrannies like this

>>715430274
>PSPtrannies
What's wrong with PSP exactly? I get if you shit on Switch, but PSP ? Really?

>>715429030
>I'm sure removing all of that really did reduce costs when they made an entirely new case for it
Anon, it did reduce the costs. These fuckers were very cheap. Also volume, start and select are actual physical buttons, which are covered by a single plastic bar.

>>715430436
Everything is somethingtranny on 4chan these days. I dont think that tranny poster even had something coherent in mind while shitting out his post, but to adress your question: haven't you seen any of the consolewarring DS vs PSP threads at the time?

>>715430721
>haven't you seen any of the consolewarring DS vs PSP threads at the time?
No. I assume discussion was similar to current ones? Steam Deck vs Switch kinda discussions

>>715428296 (OP)
impressed that mine still works after all these years

>>715430901
The PSP was viewed as something with a huge appeal to normalfags with sports, racing games and ability to watch mp4 videos and was looked down upon by the hardcore crowd. Also a lot of games for it were ports from PS1 or PS2.
Ironically, to this day PSP has the best racing game library for a portable console.

>>715428296 (OP)
i upgraded to a vita slim and seeing how my sister's custom firmware keeps fucking up i dont look back

I'm suprised Sony havent tried PS2 mini or PS3 Mini but with PSP look

>>715430168
literally all lithium batteries will

>>715431469

>>715430436
Fuck, I love handheld hardware. I would buy every handhel model if it wasn't such a waste of money.
Vita 2000 is sexy as hell too

>>715432643
I mean Sony itself doing it. I wonder how they would handle something like that

>>715429997
One of the early ways to hack the psp was to fuck with the batterie. I have completely butchered mine because I had no tool to open it. What a good time.

>>715430436
If only sony didn't fucked up vita...

>>715428353
The select button on this piece of shit broke, and I accidentally ripped out the battery terminal trying to fix it. Good riddance, the other models and PPSSPP are infinitely better anyways.

PSP PSP PSP PSP
ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS MY PSP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0G0LlXv-nyI&t=15s

ENTER

I wish theyd make a PSP 2 that just improves on the original with no gimmicks.

Same form, great screen, good buttons, physical media, great UI.

>>715441037
And it wouldn't sell because the entire handheld market has already been conquered by the Switch, PC handhelds and mobile phones.

>>715441152
Theres no handheld market anon, so your doomerism doesnt matter, as usual.

I got the original for my 15th birthday that came with Spider-Man 2 on UMD. I just remember being so thrown back that the PSP version of Tony Hawk Underground 2 managed to have more content than the console versions. The framerate was understandably ass but that amount of content on a fucking handheld was a huge deal to me in 2005

>>715441597
>15 in 2005
What was being a teenager in the 2000s like grandpa

>>715442107
kek you wouldn't get it

>>715442107
We watched goatse on a Nokia instead of an iphone

>>715443250
Right but you could help me get it

>>715443327
Woke people were a thing, but they were a very small fringe group and nobody took them seriously and were made fun of like anyone would be for getting emotional over dumb shit. Games were for nerds and anime was for ultra nerds. The internet reacted to what happened on TV whereas today it's the opposite. It was a lot easier to lie to peers irl about how cool your life was outside of school or your "girlfriend from another state"

>>715439743
>PSP 1000
Weights like a brick
>PSP 3000
Weights like paper

>not one post about games
Fucking faggots
I finished Dead Head Fred recently and it was insane for a PSP game, I swear it had more content than most PS2 games, took me a month to beat it.

Is the PSP Go worth it for the smallest form factor and bluetooth?

>>715446136
playstation-fags don't play videogames, that's why they are playstation-fags in the first place

>>715441037
They did. It was the Vita and it suffered from a chronic case of no-games. There isn't room for a Vita successor.

>>715446136
I forgot all about that game. I've still never played it.

i got the og psp on launch, came with spiderman 2 on umd and that hockey game, think it was a gretzky game.

so many good memories of playing great games. lumines, wwe smackdown vs raw, syphon filter ONLINE, socom ONLINE, pursuit force, the gta psp games, there was this one game that was like advance wars that was good but forget the name. browsing porn on the psp web browser. getting a stand with speakers for it so i can watch umd movies. fuck, the psp was kino.

>>715446942
>there was this one game that was like advance wars that was good but forget the name
Field Commander

>>715447105
yes, that's the one!

>>715446235
Depends I guess. Sure it's a lot damn smaller, but that comes at the cost of form-factor, some games that use both the D-pad and analogue stick will be much trickier - so no more using them at the same time like in monster hunter. If you have bigger hands they might cramp up too from extended use. Things about the size of a wallet so imagine holding that in both hands for a long time.
If you're planning on playing games for extended periods, it might not be the greatest option, but if you're the sort that plans to whip the thing out for a couple of minutes throughout the day for a quick outrun race or something you could get some use out of it. I use mine for shorter arcade-style games and keep the 'bigger' games on my standard PSP.
That's assuming you can get it at a decent price though. It's a novelty PSP (which in of itself is also a novelty thanks to youtubers), so I expect the price has skyrocketed

>>715440845
nice

>>715438231
I lost interest in handhelds after the PSP, but what was so bad about the Vita?

>>715449103
No games, touchscreens are cancer, no games, bullshit memory cards, no games, the list goes on

>>715430274
Are we trannies now?

>>715445716
I loved my brick. That thing felt indestructible, and after dropping it down a flight of stairs as a dumb teen I'm inclined to believe it is.

>>715449237
>bullshit memory cards
Oh yeah, I forgot about that. Sony really went full jew on those.

>>715428296 (OP)
I own this version. I can't play UMDs anymore because it makes a horrible screeching noise every second trying to read the game. I also had to go into the console and wipe off the screen because dirt easily gets in it.
There is something really magical about seeing the XMB on a handheld but holy shit this is some of the cheapest made technology you will ever get in your lifetime. With those issues I listed and the battery problem everyone seems to have, it has probably aged the worst of any console out there.

>>715428296 (OP)
Thinking about upgrading to a 3000.

the no games handheld. paved the way for future sony consoles for generations.

would you kill for a new psp?

I loved handheld game consoles like the gameboy, ds, and psp. It's a shame handheld gaming is dead beyond cheap chink emulator machine garbage.

>tfw lost mine 17 years ago
>don't feel like buying second hand one full of cum stains and dead skin gunk

>>715428639
pretty sure it's the cheapest and most common model

>>715428296 (OP)
i was very tempted to buy one at book off, maybe next time.

>>715428296 (OP)
surprisingly soulful. One of the last soulful systems, imo.

>>715429997
geg

>>715453183
There's a bomb in your house, anon. Godspeed.

Is there mods to make better batteries? Like 10000mAh or something, and make them not blow up as well that'd be nice.

>>715451553
>The PSP versions of Persona 1 and 2

>>715453481
Yeah but you have to take out the umd drive

>>715451712
The PSP has a decent library, though a lot of it has better console analogues (like the Tekken and Soul Calibur games).

>>715428296 (OP)
any good PSP games?

>>715454392
The pirate game

>>715451553
>not the prinny games
i hate you
>7 games i should play
well..i'm not downloading more things to emulate yet

>>715454392
all the decent psp games have superior console ports. avoid psp altogether.

>>715455262
All ports are terrible. If the game was designed to be played on the psp then thats where youre supposed to play it. Simple as

Why did it have so many damn racing games? And this is apparently good.

>>715430168
Every single device on the planet that uses lithium batteries has the chance to swell up and violently explode. We as a society are LONG overdue for a new, safer standard of battery.

>>715455472
all ports are superior because they aren't limited by the psp's lack of buttons. you can control the camera with right analog stick in the port, a feature not available on psp because the psp doesn't have a right analog stick. also loading, graphics, sound, etc is better.

>>715446136
The combat filtered me hard after I beat Judy. Granted that was years ago so I might give it another shot.

>>715455479
1. 2000's were the golden age of racing games
2. PSP ports were often 1:1 with PS2 version featurewise with only slight graphical downgrade

>>715439743
which one to get?

I'm going to beat it

>>715455262
the ps3 version of peacewalker is serviceable but not "superior"
clawgrip is the best way to play it for pseudo-dual-stick gameplay and it's harder (but not impossible) on the ps3.

>>715456795
The 1000 with IPS screen. Rest of them aside from the Go have flawed screens.

>>715455848
ew, alternate control schemes for peacewalker are awful. And the camera was made to be used with a digital pad. It's like people who play 2d platformers with an analog stick because they don't know any better...

>>715428296 (OP)
The PSP MHP3rd edition is the goat. Bigger battery, concave nub, nice grips, it's just the best.

Been playing some recently fantranslated games recently, anons, how about you?

I loved this system but it’s amazing how they designed the disc tray to detach after like exactly five years, regardless of play time. Que bueno

>>715428296 (OP)
i still have mine. What should I play? Any good metroidvanias?

>>715456795
1000 has 32 MB of RAM
2000 and 3000 have 64 MB of RAM
But the extra RAM is used mostly for UMD disc cache, for speeding up game loading

>>715457536
pretty sure there were some good castlevanias on the system

>>715446136
based

>>715428296 (OP)
take me back...

>>715457869
i see

I remember the anime nerd playing Disgaea at school in 2007. And I got a PSP a little later.

Syphon Filter Dark Mirror was my introduction to multiplayer games. Never had online with any of my consoles, and I didn't have a gaming PC til much later.

I miss 4v4 taser battles

>>715457869
for CFW is it better to get 3000?

>>715428296 (OP)
name some games worth emulating

Why not just emulate?

>>715464656
because the device is comfy and fun

>>715464656
On a PC? Unless you're broke, there's no reason not to aim for the type of controls the original game used. You can play Gameboy games on a PC, but it doesn't feel right using an Xbox controller.

>>715464181
THE IDOLM@STER SP trilogy
Initial D Street Stage
Jeanne d'Arc
Kenka Bancho series
Kurohyou Ryu ga Gotoku duology
Metal Gear Ac¡d duology
Monster Hunter FU + Portable 3rd
Project DIVA series
Pursuit Force
Steambot Chronicles Battle Tournament
Wangan Midnight
Zettai Zetsumei Toshi 3

There are others, but they likely already have official PC ports.

>>715465104
Oh, forgot Gachitora. It's right up there with Kenka Bancho and Kurohyou RGG.

>>715428296 (OP)
The Go is my favorite of the bunch.

>>715464656
Because I'm not a tranny

>>715465427
seems a little cramped to me. Is it thicker than it looks from pictures? I saw one irl a decade and a half ago but I didn't get a chance to hold it.

Getting a PSP is cool. But then you remember that they all had horrible screens.
Ironically the Street variant is said to have the best screen of them all, but it was the latest to be released.

>>715436912
>crack open the battery shell and short out a trace by scribbling on it with pencil
>PSP hacked

How did they fuck it up this hard

>>715428296 (OP)
I want to revive my old PSP.
What Memory stick PD to micro SD card adapter is good?
I remember I stopped using mine because my adapter fucked up my sd card and didn't save my shit sometimes.
Also are there any new CFWs? My CFW must be old as fuck. I remember somethign being 6.60. Dunno if that matters.

>>715440845
Would give my left nut for this model in mint condition.
MHFU is one of the best games ever created.

>>715451553
How are the Ace Combat games?

>>715439743
I will always be a sucker for the 1000 model. Loved the bumps on the backside and that weird texture above the screen that served no purpose other than looking cool.

>>715457318
Hnnnng pure porn.

I'm still mad that these retards at Capcom never brought P3rd to the west.

>>715451605
>LOTR tactics
holy shit i never saw this before is it actually good? i assume it's the same devs as the third age GOAT game?

>>715468205
Are there any PSP screen mods?

>>715468474
pls reply

>>715468474
>What Memory stick PD to micro SD card adapter is good?
I got a Funturbo one from Amazon last year. Generally you should stick with the single card ones. The dual card adapters are much more fragile.
>Also are there any new CFWs? My CFW must be old as fuck. I remember somethign being 6.60. Dunno if that matters.
ARK-4's the CFW I personally use. Latest official firmware is 6.61.
Also if you haven't used it in a while, I'd recommend getting a new battery. Heard good things about Ostent batteries.

>>715458492
I was the cool kid that imported the first project diva game from play-asia back then. Also really liked the nanoha fighting game.

>>715466056
It's not very thick. I wouldn't say it is cramped, but the thinness of it can cause some slight discomfort.

>>715464656
Might as well use it if you already own one.

>>715469130
Fun

translation fucking when? can I just pay some trannies to hack the games and parse the text files through LLM?

>>715476762
Anbernic just released the RG Flip, and they have a built-in AI translator that translates on-screen text. It's almost our time, fellow languagelets.

>>715465104
Do you still play MHFU? I wish anons were more interested in playing through it together.

>>715477201
No, but it actually pisses me off. I know the series is really obscure, but it’s like three third-person brawler games that still haven’t been touched by any translation groups

>>715465104
>THE IDOLM@STER SP trilogy
my nigga

Portable 3rd, good?

>>715432643
i'm getting tired of retarded ecelebs buying PS2s with the disc drive removed off aliexpress to make videos saying "wtf lol who would buy this??"

>>715481914
yeah it's good, looks very nice for PSP too

Obligatory viewing
https://www.youtube.com/@TotalKommando/videos

>>715441037
I wish chinks made some chinkhelds that exactly fit into PSP cases, kinda like how 8btido makes SNES pad conversion kits.

>>715456795
3000 has the most responsive screen with the best colors but has a prominent combing effect where it looks like the picture is interlaced, this really annoys some people
1000 and 2000 don't have this at the cost of having generally worse screens with poorer color reproduction and response time
there's mods to put a good screen in the 1000 but then you're limited to its lesser specs and lower power efficiency
i suggest the 3000. if eventually screen mods come out the 2000 will also be good but until then, 3000 has the best stock screen.

>>715430168
Happened to my Switch 1 like a year ago. I've seen a bunch of photos of other people's expanding too and they're at like critical levels, I don't understand how people let it get that bad without replacing it. It's not even hard to do it yourself.

>>715449491
>it has probably aged the worst of any console out there
game gear and xbox are worse because of their allahu ackbar capacitors. gamecube disc drives frequently also die from bad capacitors. 3DS is also having the same battery issue as PSP from people forgetting it and not using it for years.

>>715469130
really good. So far, Ace Combat X has the most variety of missions on the entire series.

>>715453565
in case you never played 2 on PSP because of 1, it was much more conservative. it had the original cutscenes, a toggle for the original music, and the remixed music was much better than 1's to begin with.
it's too bad no one's made mods to revert the censorship but they're solid besides that.

>>715464656
because a PC is not portable, and a smartphone is a horrible device for emulation in general.

>>715472887
>project diva
Ah, I remember modding it- Extend had DLC modules, and someone made a program to mix and match heads and bodies and replace textures. The entire modding scene was on some shady french website, and I barely even knew english back then. I got banned from that forum for making a module with Neru wearing nothing but three bandaids lol, some lucky frenchie might still have it on his PSP because my HDD from that time died and my PSP got lost somewhere.

I fucking hate Sony decided to use only one stick, many games suffered from that design choice.
Another thing is that, while is not Sony's fault, many good games and concepts were stuck in that era, while we got better hardware with the Vita but all games ended up being shit. I would have killed to have a 1:1 console games to psp/vita during the peak era of gaming.

>>715483386
It also taught me to work with textures with pre-baked shadows. Turns out, bucket tool in a game with no lighting whatsoever does a really shitty job, and with the time to compile module, transfer it to PSP and restart the game to see it in flesh you gotta get some intuition for it. Am yet to put it in practice though.

>>715468353
>it only goes into service mode if it detects the right value in the battery's EEPROM
>nice, sounds secure enough
>and the EEPROM defaults to that value when you erase it
>

>>715468353
The fun part is that technically only the first guy needed to scribe to create the patient zero Pandora battery. After that, a PSP with custom firmware installed can make its own Pandoras, so you can take someone else's battery to hack yours, keep it powered on 5v, swap the battery and bam, you got your own.

Is there a recommended games list like the Vita/3DS have?

>>715484725
here >>715451553 and https://vsrecommendedgames.miraheze.org/wiki/PlayStation_Portable

>>715483157
2 IS still fucking sucks compared to the PS1 version, mainly because everything combat-wise takes 20x longer to do.

>>715484895
Thanks frend.

>>715449491
>I also had to go into the console and wipe off the screen because dirt easily gets in it.
And the screen got scratched so easily too.

>>715488080
There is a glass lens mod, not sure it's worth it but people say it's the most cost effective mod you can do

>>715428296 (OP)
i have one but i broke it trying to mod it to play pokemon ruby version

>>715483386
based

>>715488732
How?

>>715428296 (OP)
post you're console's

>>715491442
Clean your fucking keyboard.

>>715491442
Why is the Vita bigger but has smaller face buttons? That's a downgrade

>>715470528
1000 and street have IPS screen replacements

Been enjoying dragon quest builders on my vita lately. Would love to have a PSP since those games look like fucking garbage on the vita

The PSP games library is like a museum that features the pinnacle of low-poly art.

>>715498236
Nevermind I noticed there's a sharp bilinear setting and it looks pretty okay. There's not enough screen resolution here for psp to look better than a native res screen, but it's not fucking garbage

>>715457318
The only issues with that model is that the matte finish is actually a coating that can flake/chip off, and the gold trim is also a coat rather than dyed plastic. Aside from that it's a real beauty
>>715468795
Yeah it's damn hard finding one that's in 'perfect' condition. I'm happy just having one in 'near mint' with a slight chip on the battery door latch

>>715428296 (OP)
>Used to bring my PSP Go with me everywhere I went up until 2015
>At the end of 2014 the screen started showing black vertical streaks that got worse as I opened and closed it
>I bought a new screen cable and tried to replace it myself
>I somehow fucked up and somehow damaged the connector on the console MB
>I still have it tucked away in a box in my basement

That little nigga was the best tech purchase I made up until I bought an 'eck, it could do "anything" at the time which was one of the reasons why I waited with getting a smartphone up until 2014. It was a sad day when I buried it in longtime storage and I miss the form factor even though the joystick was tricky to use on it and I kind of wish that Valve makes a Deck Mini with a similar form factor and at a size small enough to actually fit in a (large) pocket.

>>715499164
Shut the fuck up retarded zoomer

Tried doing the phone battery mod on my original psp, but for some reason it doesn’t hold charge and keeps draining it

it was such an aesthetically pleasing console. I wonder if we will ever get a handheld like that again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__QdAxqBi5Y
TAKE ME THE FUCK BACK RIGHT NOW

>>715449103
No monster hunter.

Some dumbfuck execs bought into their own hype and allowed nintendo to grab the IP instead.

And then everything went downhill from there for sony handheld market.

>>715449103
>Expensive as shit
>Rear touchpad that barely was used effectively, just drove the price up
>Proprietary memory card (that was also expensive as fuck) in an age of micro SD cards
>No first party games
>3G model was exclusive to AT&T
>No support from Sony, who instantly abandoned the thing
>Way more locked down compared to the PSP in an attempt to curb piracy
>No fucking games

>>715460773
dark mirror multiplayer was fantastic. i think socom 1 on the psp was mine

>>715429852
I had Bevis and Butthead on the PSP and watched that late at night when my family stayed with my grandparents as my childhood home was having new flooring put in.
Great times.

Im so grateful I got some of my handhelds before 2020 and before the normie/reseller retro gaming boom. Got my flawless PSP for $20

>>715500302
Every time I hear that song I seriously don't see the point of continuing on in life when that era was so insanely peak and will never be matched ever again.