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I really like it, I kinda wish modern handhelds had half the features and cool stuff the PSP has
I really like the game selection, there are so many gems and stuff to play
The main menu or whatever it’s called makes me cream, those clicks and woops hit the spot so much
It’s so easy to mod too and it’s still in that era where portables were actually portable, I can just put it in my pants, really nice, still the gba sp beats it’s portability, I love it so much
Idk man I just want to see you guys talk about the PSP

I grew up really wanting one of these, nowadays I just emulate the games on my phone but it's not the same.

>>718678061 (OP)
Isn’t the vita just a more powerful psp?

>>718678472
Try to get one quick, sometimes you can get lucky

>>718678472
Holding a PSP in your hands and turning it on for the first time back in 2005 felt like opening a window into the future. It was sci-fi as fuck. That slick design, the stylish UI, the 3D graphics on a handheld, the media center features, soon it got an internet browser. Stuff you take for granted nowadays on even the shittiest cheapest phone, but back then it was incredible.

thinking back, i probably played more snes and psx games than psp games on mine

>>718678835
This. My phone in 2005 was a piece of shit, and the mere idea of loading music onto it was nuts.

>>718678061 (OP)
Owning a PSP during the mid 2000s was magical, it felt like living in the future, I watched so many anime and movies in bed, read so much manga, fappan using the web browser (that was new too, phone web browsers were garbage). Emulated the shit out of the SNES and GBA, the games themselves were crazy it was insane coming from GBA and being able to play the full phat PS2 tier games, played the shit out of Dissidia. I took it on trips and used it as an MP3 player.

My gf in high school had a PSP she used as a media player, I installed cfw for her and helped here pirate content, I believe it contributed to why we got together and stayed together for so long, we shared and talked about movies, TV shows and games, she saw me as this tech genius hackerman even though I was a normie.

>>718679136
>I took it on trips and used it as an MP3 player.
Nigga I have so many memories of playing PSP games and watching movies on it during plane flights. And this was a few years before the iPod Touch came out iirc

>>718678061 (OP)
PSP was fucking incredible. What a piece of hardware. It’s one of those things you had to simply just be there for to fully understand how impressive it was for the time

>>718678835
I used to take my brothers psp into the bathroom and look at porn. I had to hold it on an awkward angle to leech my neighbors wifi though because we didn’t have a wireless connection at that time

>>718680391
lmao
Kids today wouldn't understand

Is there a PSP emulator that also emulates the XMB and lets you use PSP homebrews? Like Vita Adrenaline

>>718680465
Shouldn't homebrews work if you put them in the appropriate memstick folder in ppsspp? I've never tried it I'm just guessing

>>718680457
they really don’t and on one hand I’m happy for them but on the other I wish they’d appreciate how good they have it a little more

>>718680607
Most homebrews that don't need file access (like emulators) work. I just want the full PSP interface emulated

I'm too stupid to figure out how to connect mine to the wifi

PSP is cool in concept but UMDs were a horrible format and one analog nub was sorta lame, same with the 3DS. Aside from the well-worn, comedically stupid issues that dragged it down, Vita was all around just better hardware for playing PSP games on.

>>718681391
to this day i'm not sure if there are good pocketable analog sticks
3ds circlepads were the most pocketable, but otherwise sucked (ironically the 3ds didn't need that, being foldable)
one day i'll look at chinkhelds

>>718681391
I love the whirring the PSP makes when playing games. I love how you can sometimes still hear/see the disk rotating after ejecting.

>>718678061 (OP)
I LOVE POCKET NUT

Spent 800 hours playing MHFU and several hundred hours playing Dark Resurrection
I didn't play other games as much as those two. Not even Portable 3rd.
I fapped to Project Diva lots but that's it

>>718683452
PSP. It's like a nut that you can play outside.

>>718684328
Lmao

>>718681391
It's not just that PSP was good for the time, but that it was absolutely unique. Everything it did was a little janky, but only because it did so much first that it was years ahead. Even when the iphone came out, the PSP's screen was bigger than the whole iphone.
Flash memory was too expensive in 2004 to put the games and movies on. It was common for people to have small memory sticks, like 32mb, just for game saves. UMDs were a smart solution at the time. That was half of why no other device could compete with it. There was no DVD player small enough and no multipurpose or game device with as much storage. Later digital-only PSPs were made when flash memory was cheaper. Things changed so much like when PS Store came out on PSP, they were selling download movies, music, even comics as well as games and I upgraded my memory stick to 4gb, then to 16 and 64. My same PSP has now 200x the memory it had when I got it.

>>718678061 (OP)
Back then I thought this was already too big for a handheld when I held it, but then mobile and handheld size just kept increasing annoyingly.

>>718685627
pisses me off beyond belief when people call the steam deck or switch 2 portable. I miss when handhelds could fit in your pocket and didn’t require a separate carrying case or bag

>>718686056
Fuck yeah, like what’s the fucking fucking point of that big ass shit that doesn’t even fit in cargo pants
One could say the tech is better but thing is I don’t want to carry around a ps2 slim sized “portable” around, fuckers want a big screen but if you can’t carry that shit anywhere without like a backpack and shit then just play on the tv, oh hut you want to watch tv and play games don’t you you overstimulated asshole

>>718686448
>oh hut you want to watch tv and play games don’t you you overstimulated asshole
bingo. gen Z can’t do anything without a second screen playing something in the background

>>718681391
I remember there were some PSP games that had literal 4+ minute load times. Absurd for a portable system.

>>718678061 (OP)
my battery poped. Luckily it didn't damage anything

>>718687415
Mine pillowed and had to be thrown out, and it was only 5 years old (at most) when it happened. PSP 3000.

>>718687415
>>718687619
This is why I take the battery out whenever I go for long stints without playing it. Don't even need to unscrew anything, just a little button on the side.

Reminder to GO CHECK YOUR BATTERY

Tinkering it and learning about CFW and the homebrew scene was such a door opener for many kids starting into tech fields.
I even read books on this thing; awful experience but still great comparing it to entry level devices of the time.
IR Blaster on the PHAT model? fucking amazing hack before the flipper

>>718687318
>he didn't hack his system and rip the UMDs for instant load times

>>718681391
Wrong. That crisp sound when you slap a UMD was god tier

>>718681391
>UMDs were a horrible format
awww anon did you force it open and break it to get the disc inside?

>>718688735
Killzone Liberation was such a great game. I still haven't found out how to play the DLC missions on PPSSPP, if it's possible at all

>>718688735
>one cfw later
>battery lasts three times longer
fuck umd

>>718688735
i wish there were virgin UMDs and burners out there. Just to burn and have a physical library of games in it.
Like, imagine burning EBOOTS of VNs in them and displaying them?
god

>>718689871
Hard to believe such a thing doesn't exist desu

>>718681391
>1.8GB of data in 2005 is stupid
UMD was a great format, not Sony's fault that technology eventually caught up and we started seeing 32GB memory sticks for cheap. It's a really impressive technical feat actually to miniaturize a fully fledged optical drive like that.

>>718681391
I think the Vita memory card thing is overblown and a simple and appealing explanation for why the Vita failed that avoids thinking too hard about it. In reality you could get 8GB for relatively cheap and Sony started bundling their consoles with 8GB or 16GB pretty early. Furthermore it's more of a technicality, expensive accessories is not enough to kill a console like that.

Why did we stop trying to achieve actual portatbility.
Look at this bullshit, that fucking thing barely leaves its dock, you need a purse to carry it around.

UMDs were a great idea when the PSP released but eventually became obsolete. It's not a difficult concept to grasp. I want a modern handheld to use that space for a bigger battery instead of wasting it on a disk or cartridge reader. I don't care about physical vs digital and displaying the games I own, I just want to play them.

>>718681391
3.5GB was the hard limit for Vita cartridges yet somehow Kojimbles managed to fit both MGS2&3 in one.

>>718690526
>Why did we stop trying to achieve actual portatbility.
Phones became Go Into Games machines

>>718690773
It’s been 20 years and the only mobile game that was worth a shit was infinity blade and you haven’t been able to download that in over a decade

>>718690465
Vita failed because it had no games, poor marketing and handhelds took a hit in popularity during that period. The Fat model was also notoriously fault prone. 3DS suffered from the same problems but Nintendo stuck with it and it eventually recovered. It didn't help that Sony was pivoting into high budget cinematic games that a handheld could never support. I think that if Sony released a new handheld that doesn't play PS4 and PS5 games (at lower res) but instead has its own library then even if the library is amazing and close to what PSP and 3DS had then it's going to flop because the audience Sony cultivated isn't interested in these types of games. Sony would need to again create the mindshare that they're home to these types of games and seeing how poorly Astro Bot sold relative to all the acclaim it got and wining the GOTY, I don't think that's happening soon.

>>718690526
Vita was the perfect form factor, large OLED screen, dual analog, if they added R2,L2 triggers it would be perfect. And godamn that d-pad is chef's kiss[spoiler/]

Any good games for the PSP? This is what I already have
>Persona 3
>MHFU and MH3rd
>Einhänder
>Donpachi
>Oddworld
>Crash Bandicoot
>Gradius Collection
>Dissidia 012

>>718691209
I will never understand why did Sony make the Dualsense D-Pad so shit instead of just giving it the Vita D-Pad. If a cheap chinkheld can copy the Vita D-Pad why can't Snoy? You 100% can just make it bigger for a regular controller, some chink controllers did exactly that and they work perfectly fine.

>>718691446
>Joan of Arc
>P1 and P2 remasters
>Daxter
>Sims 2 (I'm dead serious it's amazing try it)
>Crisis Core
>Loco Roco
>Echochrome
>Lumines
>Killzone Liberation (it's pretty good and hard as balls)
>Guitaroo Man Lives (highly recommended)
>Project Diva
>Summon Night 5
>Fate Extra
>Silent Hill: Origins (better on PSP)
>Shadow of Destiny

>>718691446
>>Einhänder
>>Donpachi
Mein nig
Einhander, eh? You'd probably like G-Darius, has a similar "enemy capture" mechanic. My personal favorite Darius game, even over Burst and Gaiden.

>>718691446
Everyone and their grandma know the popular PSP games already so I'll focus on the less popular titles:
>Fate/Extra and CCC
>7th Dragon 2020 and 2020-II
>Kurohyou 1 and 2 (Yakuza spin-off)
>Final Fantasy Type-0
>Phantasy Star Portable 2 Infinity
>Grand Knights History
>Valkyrie Profile Lenneth
>Wild Arms XF
I would also recommend Armored Core games but their PS2 versions are strictly better so I wouldn't play the PSP version unless you don't have access to a PS2 or a PS2 emulator.

>>718678472
Get one and enjoy it now

>>718690526
Because
a) people want huge screens
b) people want home console/PC level graphics, that requires powerful hardware, that requires a big device

>>718694526
well that’s retarded because anybody born prior to the year 2000 understood that handheld games could have been just as fun if not more fun than their console counterparts but were graphically weaker (and were priced as such)

>>718689437
not an emulator but I think the version on the PS store comes with the DLC
>>718689871
>>718690352
they don't? i could've sworn i saw blank UMDs being sold on Amazon

childhood is idolizing Adam but adulthood is realizing he was always an annoying attention whore and realizing Ders and Karl were actually the funniest ones

>>718688595
Just buy a digital copy at that point. Digital was way better with PSP.

>>718691446
The Mega Man 1 and X remakes

>>718696207
>buy
>when the PSP is super easy to hack
kek
I'm a collector, personally, but consider the following:
>preservation is an important thing; you want a rip found online to be kept on a physical drive of some kind beyond just your PSP
>pretty sure the PSP store is down

>>718697170
do you collective the unique PSPs like the what star wars one and red god of war one

>>718697170
>psp store is down
Surprisingly it's still up.

>>718698318
nah, imma do my own thing

>>718698318
This thing costs too much, did they get fleeced by the miniled manufacturer and are trying to recoup something?

>>718678740
I had both. Yes. And they both rocked.

>be me 200X
>have two nintendie friends who hate the psp because muh nintendo handhelds and constantly shittalk it
>i get a psp
>they see it
>instantly go and get their own asap
lol fucking pwned

>>718678061 (OP)
This thread made me nostalgic.
Had the white Star Wars Darth Vader PSP that came with the Battlefront port.
I wish I could go back.

>>718698785
>>718699028
Something similar happened with me and my cousin at our great-grandparents house. at the time I had a DS and he th white Star Wars PSP. After seeing him play Battlefront II I was blown away. That year, my parents got me and siblings all PSPs for Christmas.

>>718698001
Nah, I just have a regular PSP 2000. (upgraded from a 1000 because the D-pad started to suck dick after a few years and I play shmups/ puzzle games/ fightans) I'm more a collector of games. Though I do have the NES edition of the GBA SP.

Been nearly 20 years and my original PSP battery is still not bloated or on fire.

>>718698071
That's kind of amazing. I would use it but I have a hacked PSP w/ a Pandora battery, which I used to hack a few friends' PSPs, too.

I want to fuck the PSP

>>718699763
You're lucky. I've had several bloat on me.

>>718678061 (OP)
Its kinda sad that the psp was pretty much the peak of handheld qol with all of its features.

>>718699685
How come the 2000 and not the 3000?
>>718700138
the VITA.
>>718699839
I miss seeing not-PSPs in 2000s anime.

>>718691617
They don't think that the clicky buttons belong on console controllers.

>>718678061 (OP)
It's a souped up PS1 in your pocket

Luv PSP
Luv listening shit in it like an mp3 player
Luv watchan anime, movies and porn in low quality
Simple as

>>718699996
Maybe it's because mine has been completely flat for several years? Can't remember when was the last time I charged it but I'm pretty sure we're talking the previous decade

>>718701572
remember those "convert porn video to psp format" websites
the psp was kinda anal about video formats and resolutions

I need to find a psp and a vita. I need it now.

>>718700426
I might be remembering wrong, but the 3000 was either harder to, or-- at the time-- impossible to hack.

>>718701572
>Rengoku 2 and BRS The Game
My nigga.

>>718702340
Idk about the vita but psps are still cheap, basically just one hundred dollars used

PSP and Vita are cool but chinkhelds in similar pricing bracket have largely mogged them due to more utility and stronger hardware built into them (more buttons, better displays, easier video out solutions, more emulator options, etc).

>>718678061 (OP)
My main problem with this thing is that the battery drains even when its turned off. Can't even leave it switched off for a few days without needing to charge it.

>>718703956
Sounds like it's time to get a new battery. Even in sleep mode, it should be able to last at least a week.

>>718678061 (OP)
A truly timeless handheld. I'm so glad I didn't decide to sell back in 2011

>>718691207
Vita was hyped as a PS3 in your pocket but the library was predominantly weeb games - exactly the same as late-stage PSP. The backlash was predicable.

>>718704206
I did. That still means if I wait three of four days, its at half capacity, which isn't enough to play on since the PSP already has a short battery life.

>>718704472
It's crazy how that one CoD on VITA is still active to this very day

Is Busou Shinki fun?

>>718704546
That's shitty. I'm sorry, man.

>>718705220
Maybe I've just been spoiled by the DS lite and its 24 hour battery life and forever charge. Even so, I probably wouldn't mind charging it every day if it had USB charging, but mine is the 1000 model, so it can only charge via barrel jack.

I've heard that there's a USB to barrel jack adapter, though I don't know whether or not using one would be bad for the console. Anyone here have any experience with them?

What are you guys playing?

>>718706368
Elite Squadron and Wipeout Pure

>>718705821
>spoiled by the DS lite and its 24 hour battery life and forever charge
I have the opposite problem. My DS Lite will only live for a few minutes unless I have it plugged in. Tried getting a new battery, didn't make a difference. It's super weird.

>>718690526
>>718694526
I don't mind that big handhelds exist but it would be nice if smaller counterparts were available. They could have easily made a Vita sized or clamshell 3DS sized Switch Lite but they chose a design that was only slightly smaller with no chance of being pocketable. A Lite the size of the Retroid 3+ would have been perfect.

>>718691446
Tactics ogre, ff tactics, metal gear peace walker (best game of the series despite controller layout being a pain).

>>718706661
>Wipeout Pure
Based. Seeing those graphics on a PSP when I played the demo that came with Medievil Resurrection was unreal
I always liked Pulse more tho, eliminator races were kickass

>>718708071
>ff tactics
needs a fan patch just to be playable, and even then it drops frames like a motherfucker to keep synced to audio

>>718708023
>VA-11 Hall-A on the Vita
Whoever took this photo of their handhelds is based.

>>718708245
Thats weird, i had zero issues with tactics.

>>718708581
You're either trolling or you have something wrong with you. The effects ran so slowly the sound effects would be desynced multiple seconds depending on what skill you were using. It was such a lazy fuck port, and the recent remake for FFT basically confirms that the retarded fucking faggots didn't have the source code so they hacked together a shitty emulated romhack for it instead.