Pimpin the PSP in 2023 

replacable batteries will be making a comeback with new EU laws.

You can thank Apple for encouraging this battery bullshit to become standard

I recognized the extended back panel immediately. Kind of crazy how simple it is, looking at newer tech.

@@EmilyKimMartin But then our phones have to be a tiny bit more fatter, and we won't have water resistance(not water proof)! How ever will we survive with such ahem, benefits?!

​@@mrbisshie None of that is true in the least. Engineers can add $80 to $30 USD worth of physical HW level changes to new phones to keep them water proof while still allowing replaceable batteries all while keeping HW pretty small (adding as little as absolutely no additional thickness to modern phones). People that believed we needed internal batteries that are next to impossible to upgrade or replace without special tools have forgotten or never knew this was a possibility for literally decades in the form of tougher HW from Laptops to wristwatches waterproofing while still allowing tiny form-factors was always achievable. It IS *EASIER* and *CHEAPER* to make HW with non-replaceable batteries smaller, but it was never impossible to make the HW we see today as thin as it is now and keep it watertight.

i agree

I agree, always loved XMB (Cross Media Bar) UI on BRAVIA TVs, PS3 and PSP. It was the inspiration for default RetroArch GUI for years, until they changed it.

@@offspringfan89 I'm just glad they give you the option to change it back

It feels so fast and smooth even today. I`m always pleased when turning on my PSP how snappy it is.

Can’t argue on that flawless logic there. Sony went great all the way to the PS3, alongside with the PSP.

Can you explain more about this

I always wanted to get that plugin to work but couldn't figure it out.

@@faizkhansinglelite1005 PSP has an IrDA (Infrared Data Association ) port. That was *the* way that smart devices communicated with each other. Any bidirectional communication port can potentially be used for hacking (hence the reference to the Flipper Zero, a hacking device that is used today). I don't know any graph calc. emulator for the PSP though.

@@dragoon1090 only the psp 1000 had IR

@@faizkhansinglelite1005a graphing calculator is used for complex algebra and they are expensive so the psp bcus of its power could emulate one

Sega Nomad says "hi".

@@LordMetalSonic1987 Your Sega Nomad probably relies on those cables now because of LCD screen degradation.

@@LordMetalSonic1987 We're talking about good handhelds here. JK

People forget this. It was a portable web browser AND you had multiplayer over wireless.

First experience with mobile handheld p*rn

real@@Aomicplane

​@@AomicplaneShhhhhh we don't talk about that 🤐

Can’t watch RU-vid without a home brew program? Can’t remember, it’s been so long.

Idk chief. Half of the releases were just barely working quake mods. That's not really "peak". The NDS scene was far better in comparison

@@targz__ Far from it. I literally used my PSP as an advanced calculator in high school, since it has a TI-92 emulator. Not to mention how superior the emulation support were on PSP.

I loved the hardware-mod where you could replace the UMD-drive with MircoSD readers, two even if memory serves :)

​@@TheTekknician I remember the totally jank memory card slot inside the UMD readers place. UMD is part of PSP's charm.

YES! i remember this time fondly, i got my first psp sometime in 05 or 06 and followed every single bit of news. i have the 1000,2000,3000,Go and each one was great in one way or another (well, the 1k definitely is outclassed by all the others, but the build quality is still impressive!). all the hacking and homebrew led me into getting into the early android cfw scene on xda. that was an exciting time in tech! I used the PSP even after I had a Switch and Vita lol. I took it on vacation in 2018 loaded with a bunch of ps1/psp games and play the ps1's incredible civ2 release everytime we would fly between islands or lay on the beach.

That's pin worthy

remember 'cameron sino'

Think I have to read up again, I've forgotten half of what you need to do 🤷‍♂️ I'm going to be on m33-6 firmware if that's right? I remember holding the power button up and pressing the shoulder buttons? Can't remember what for though 😂

Came here to say the same about the cheap batteries

I just tried PSPident, and it doesn't have a battery checker, sadly.

If your in the UK you can buy a 1500mah one charge power bank for £1 and then put the lithium cell into a psp battery shell. Fits perfectly and you get good battery life.

I found my original OLED model in a drawer, it's an amazing little handheld once you jailbreak it. I did pick up a PSP last time I was in Tokyo; but that was more for completeness sake.

The best thing about the vita is PS1 games are full dual analog whilst on the PSP they are not even single analog. I find it funny though the PS1 emulator is run inside the PSP emulator.

This.

You can also get a game card to SD adapter for real cheap. You do lose your game card but you could just as easily load up your game cards to the adapter.

Agreed I absolutely loved my PspGo but it quickly got over shadowed once the vita was hacked especially with everything The flow and rinne have done with the console having GTA 1 through San Andreas on a handheld console is mind blowing to me or better yet having every final fantasy from 1-10.

It can play PS2 games?

@TheRealRidley12 no, but it had graphics similar to the ps2, and a lot of PS2 games were released for it.

​@@TheRealRidley12only ps5 games

its a shame most publishers couldnt make decent games for it alot of the big titles went into this weird phase where just because its portable it means they gotta make the game quirky and weird and gimmacky instead of just making a port of the game or a spin off instead we got weird games like final fantasy dysidia metal gear acid and portable ops

@@bagzhansadvakassov1093 The PSP can play PS5 games? That's incredible! 😆

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The PS1 emulation on PSP is really good and have a high level of compatibility.

Oh no. You can go beyond. I successfully ran Project 64.

Lets not forget the entire GBA Catalogue

They stop at n64

I use my PSP constantly to play quick retro games. N64 and above, I use my Note 10 plus with my Kishi controller. Sometime I'll use my Xbox controller with Samsung Dex.

same here brah .. my oled modded vita beast 💪

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-nCzY-QhBxaE.htmlsi=XSKcbm3InrlRlqaM

is having both the psp and vita are good choice ?

It's not a bad choice.

@@MetalJody1990 i like the way you think

yeah my US launch psp1k battery is still operational (though terrible capacity) whereas the 2k & 3k ones are long dead. i'm happy there is still a vibrant market for them so it's easy to get a replacement.

Me too, I used Lik Sang import to the UK early 2005

My launch battery is still going surprisingly strong almost 20 years later.

Lithium batteries can last forever if they’re charged and used at a regular interval without too much heat. When they sit unused they start to swell and decay.

Someone should make a video on the saga of how the Sony bullies forced Lik Sang to close shop. It's the main reason why I hacked all my Sony systems up to PS4 and pirate all games with no remorse.

then on vita there is that amazing plugin actually patching in dual analog controls for most of the games! :O makes me wonder if the dual analog controls were in these games to begin with, hidden anticipating revised psp with 2 sticks but dunno, just random guess

@@give_me_my_nick_backOh thats cool !

@@give_me_my_nick_back They weren't there in those games. For games that also had an identical PS2 port, possibly. But others, not really. So modders pretty much made those controls themselves at least to my knowledge.

@@FreedomFighterAsuka its typically all cheat codes to manipulate camera or set button combinations to the stick

But you still keep your PSP?

It does it default too.

Another thing to consider, is the RAM situation better get a PSP 2000 or later because they come with more RAM (32MB vs 64MB).

@@ahmedp8009 the ram actually doesn't help much with Daedalus. We only use it for storing the ROM on the slim models. One of the previous Daedalus devs here.

@@zz2442 Which would reduce random stuttering, wouldn't it? Unless stuttering is not a performance metrics, doesn't that mean what I said still stands? Beside the more RAM (which will help in other tasks and "future proof" the PSP), you also get upgraded display and other stuff, I'm not sure why go with inferior model? With that said, PSP was nice at the time, however nowadays there are plenty of alternatives that are multiple leagues beyond it, I can see someone getting it for nostalgia reasons, but that's about.

⁠@@ahmedp8009No, the rom files are so small that they can be read on the fly no problem. The form factor is great and its quality is better than the tons of garbage pushed out what seems daily. Though I do agree there are better options.

*favorite

@@Fralorgrafon The GX gameplay is more dinamic than the OG series.

What are You talking about? Maybe You hate the vita because everything that You mentioned is better on the PS VITA, PS1 AND 16 BIT GAMES AND ALSO PSP GAMES

@@Rigoberto.Calero I like the PSP more because it's cheaper, lighter in weight and smaler, it has bigger Dpad and Facebuttons and it's easier to put CFW on it. It's just my preferred handheld.

That seriously shocked me too. I don't trust myself enough to do the screen replacement though! I hope I can find someone who will sell one affordably. This looks awesome. I can't afford a steam deck right now, but I honestly think I'd use my PSP more than a steamdeck if it looked this good!

Never knew, do you have any links to these mods?

@@TalonNismoThe screenshot plugin is called prxshot and you can find it easily to this day 😃 It’s sooo useful!

hook a brother up man!

do you know where to find the PSP digimon fan translation?

actually, the battery and battery compartment were a source of problems for me for my original PSP. i think i had to make a foam shim to keep the battery in place, and I need to do some work on the UMD drive still.

ah yes, Pandora, thats how I modded mine, I remember it being called Jig Kick battery

too true i use a burnt out battery (as in doesnt hold a charge anymore) as a pandora, i just need to have a charge cord present and everything works fine for a hack

Is it, though? I'd say the switch is more of one. The PSP and Vita were portable units, low power processors aimed at battery life and games targeted at them. The Steam Deck is just a re-packaged laptop and as such, it just plays normal games you'd play on a laptop.

​@@MrSlowestD16psp and vita gave you a lot more control over your games, media and apps, a lot less of the nintendo big brother paranoia which disables basic features like themes or battery replacement, and bloats your switch with drm steam deck basically is the true successor to the sony handhelds even if it is just a repackaged pc as it's a lot more customizable and power focused

@@MrSlowestD16 The Switch isn't pushing the boundaries of what handheld hardware can currently achieve, nor is it capable of playing Sony exclusives like the Deck is.

​@@chemergencyyes but you can't really put the steam deck in your pocket :)

@@chemergency What boundaries is the steam deck pushing? It's a generic APU-based laptop re-packaged without a hinge with a built-in controller. Neither one of them are pushing boundaries. But secondly, you have double standards here. The steam deck is comparable to a regular Ryzen laptop, which would mean in its era the PSP would have been comparable to Pentium D or a Pentium 4 of the time - and it simply wasn't - it wasn't even close to that. It was considerably less powerful than a laptop in the name of power savings, portability, and size. Handhelds have traditionally been very low power devices making the most out of a tiny amount of resources, and that's what the PSP was - it only had like a 300Mhz processor - very low resources. And the TX1 in the Switch was very comparable in terms of power/watt and max consumption. A Steam Deck doesn't target the same thing, it's not a highly constrained system, it uses mainstream laptop components. There's a reason the Steam Deck can get down to 1h of battery life. You could never do that with a PSP.

Neither of those ever broke for me but my first PSP had stick drift, slightly to the left, after heavy use. It was still playable, but after some annoyance I just ended up spending more time in the emulators.

throw the damn plastic wrappings away 😂

@@gutwallst6645 naw, I won't. I love japanese game stores; they also have hardware with the plastic wrappings still in the boxes even with 40 year old hardware. Just as God intended

I take it you are unaware that Sony had already made a "PSone" console before the PSP came out, it released near the end of 2000 so that ship had long since sailed.

That’s why I said “PS One” & mentioned the Xbox One referencing what that console was market for in comparison to the PSP. So to answer that, yes but sorry the comment was to broad for you.

who was he?

Teenager who went missing and there hasn't been any sight of him since. He caught a train with his psp and hasn't been seen since. I truly hope his family has closure someday.

I’m getting RDR2 vibes from this comment. GAAAAV. GAVIN?

You ever turn the school TVs on and off with the PSP' iR blaster like I did? 😅

@@GoTeamScotch NO! that's hilarious though lol xD

There are anecdote reports that CSO files can cause slow frame rates in games.

@@KoopaMedia64I didn't know that, yeah I would prefer speed if that's the case

I dunno about that. I think the PS Vita would probably fit that description much better. The PSP was much more like a somewhat more powerful PS1.

PSP was somewhere between PS1 and PS2. Likewise, Vita was somewhere between PS2 and PS3

@@franciscocampos8857 PS Vita matches the Gamecube or OG Xbox performance, very distant to PS3.

@@isaquenewton9525 I know how superior home systems were in contrast to handhelds. What I meant is that, visually, the graphics a Vita produces are better than those of a PS2 but clearly not as good as the ones of a PS 3, thus considering it somewhere in between in that regard

​@@isaquenewton9525These two consoles were WAY more powerful than the PS2 though

I saw a guy do that on RU-vid and it died after a week

Now pick it up after using the switch or steam deck 😂 my vita feels tiny in comparison. No longer have my PSP, but thinking about picking one up for nostalgia, even tho my vita can do everything the PSP can do.

@@launchermonkey201 I'll see you and raise you the Gameboy Advance SP with an Everdrive.

PSP feels like a Gameboy Micro after being used to Switch.

It's crazy how cheap it is now for an SD card Memory duo adapter.

can’t you enable usb charging in the settings ? maybe it’s just for later models but i could swear i used to charge my psp with the mini usb port

@@ext274 no it did not support it. The mod made it pug and play, no settings involved. The PSP would think that you plugged in the DC barrel.

Get one, nothing to lose.

better now than in 10 years when they're prohibitively expensive

@@TalonNismo apart from £50+ to do exactly what my phone can do better?

You can never beat original hardware

2020 wasn't that long ago. if you owned one of these in 2006-2010 and were a teen back then, it is quite nostalgic indeed

@@LiquidSnakeSSJ4 I had a PSP for years before I hacked it. I used to play some UMDs on it

The early image exploit was the scariest for me, exploiting some .tiff image file to kickstart the hack. But some updates in the middle and near the end of PSP life were simply put the file on your memory card, let it update. I don't know whether to tell people it was the easiest thing to do or the scariest, I guess it depends on what year. I only know I hated the temporary exploits you had redo every reboot with a fiery passion and was thankful once stable releases became standard.

who's gonna do that lol pointless

"I usually used old not bloated samsung batteries that I had laying around." ... link to howto?

um, you shouldnt be soldering batteries. heat generated from the soldering iron can destabilize and damage the battery, causing it to bulge, hiss, leak, catch fire, and even explode.

I have 128gb sdcard. It takes like 10+ sec for PSP to read

​@@TheLowDeeit depends on how many files and folders you have

Bruh, my PSP 2000 has double the ram? Didn't know that. 🤔

Yeah except when they came out they were more expensive than Nintendo's offerings, and the memory formats they used where also more expensive, and in the case of the Vita even hard to find them on store shelves for a long time. Then about a year after the PS Vita came out Nintendo launched the 2DS at 130 bucks, so if a parent had 2 kids to buy for, they could get 2 Nintendo 2DS units for for 10 bucks more that also included a 4GB SD card, and later on even an included game, where the PS Vita did not. So while Sony had great handhelds, they really botched it in the price, support and marketing department on the Vita.

DS had some pretty sick homebrew too. It was my first portable media device before I got a PSP.