That old tech part is so true... I am probably the only person I know right now who is replaying halo 2 on an original xbox and CRT whilst waiting for a PSP 1000 to arrive by mail. Fantastic watch, I enjoyed it :)
This was a great video man. Ive just recently started enjoying rebuilding my collection and playing through my childhood memories on the PSP over the last month while i was down on life and its been a wonderful way to reconnect with the past, see how far we have come and appreciate whats been, whats happening and whats to come. Love the PSP 1001 and its stellar to me how good it feels to play old classics like lumines, crisis core, and metal gear on this guy.
My oldest console is my gamecube, when i was young we had lost the house and had to sell everything we could not carry, we were very poor for the next few years, but my mom had saved up 50$ and bought a gamecube from the local pawn shop, we played it until it broke and left it where it was. we moved away and were gone for nearly 10 years but when we came back into town and i got my first job I went to where we had left it at and by some miricle it was still there, using some money i had i fixed it up into working condition and it now sits with the rest of my systems, looking back on it it makes me sad that i had abandoned something that use to mean a lot to me when i had so little
I loved my PSPs back in the day. I had a 1000 that I gave to my sister when I got the 2000. Well a few years back my PSP 2000 broke (my fat ass stepped on it) and about a month ago I asked her if she still had my old 1000. She sent it to me and the poor thing was in rough shape. Cracked plastic, broken battery door, lots of scratches, and the battery was so swollen that she tossed it... but it was still working, with the exception of the Wi-Fi. I decided to refurbish it and load some CFW to relive the good old days. I ordered a blue shell from eBay and completely cleaned and rebuilt it. I ordered an aftermarket battery and soldered in a new lithium cell to refurb the battery as well. The cheapo new case was a pain, but once I ironed out the issues it worked well. I loaded a CFW onto it and imaged all of my games to my brand new 32 GB SD card to Memory Stick adapter. It works like a dream. The problem I always had with the 3000 was that it couldn't be hard modded. If your battery ever went dead or you took it out you had to do the whole Freemason's handshake thing to get it back to a modded state, and that was just too many steps for me. I like the simplicity of hard modding it and not worrying ever again.
I'm a 48yo gamer from the early days of Atari model C-380 (my first gaming console and I still have it BTW.) I recently went through some old stuff in my garage and came across my old PSP model 1001 complete with at least a dozen UMD games. All it needed was a new battery and a new charger both cheap and readily available on amazon. What you said about it being a "time machine" that really hit the nail on the head for me as I immediately went back to what I had been doing at that time in my life. Finding and playing those games was a real throw back moment for me. I also found my N-64 with about 20 games as well. Another throw back moment but that console needs more TLC before it's playable.
I agree with the old tech I may have not have grown up playing the Gameboy or PSP systems but when I got to finally play them they got me through some hard times my Gameboy got me through the loss of three of my beloved pets one in particular I had for almost ten years had passed from a seizure and it tore me up inside but playing retro Pokemon on the Gameboy advance helped me get through the heartache
I love my psp, I hacked it and put my whole library on a micro Sd card with an adapter. Of course I also used it for emulation until my vita was hacked.
Dude.... That struck a chord I have various bits of old tech and games which are like little keys to parts of my story. Some of the keys I've lost along the way, never to get back again (my original Gameboy, Amiga 600 and Samsung galaxy S2). Some of them I thought I'd lost but then they came back again (my copies of the Monkey Island series and Grim Fandango were recovered from my childhood home). They aren't going anywhere. There is certain game music which can transport me back instantly to a period in my life and I know exactly what I was feeling and who I was at that time. We need those things in our life sometimes to remind us who we were, who we are and how far we've come. I think it does more to give us strength for what lies ahead than we realise.
Haha the mention of Dark_Alex man those were the days haha i remember wanting to hack my PSP in order to play my PS1 games on the go and then that was a process.. following the guides online then having to convert my games discs into ISOs and then into an EBOOT file but when i finally booted up Final Fantasy 7 and Digimon world 1 it was an amazing experience haha which now days with every android phone being able to play them sounds silly but back in 2006 it was a different time haha
My Nintendo 64 that I got from my parents on Christmas of 1996! Don’t know if I’ll ever be able to part with it. I lived in a apartment complex and use to bring it over to my friends house and we would all play 4 player golden eye and Mario kart. Definitely some great times, I remember one time I was coming home after gaming all day for dinner and I slipped down the stairs in my apartment building. I opted to protect my N64 rather then use my hands to break my fall and I held on to it. I ended up landing on my back but my N64 was kept safe hahaha, good times.
You should add (Comparisions of 1001 and 3001) somewhere in the title, because out of all the video's I've looked up this is the best comparison of their screens that I've seen period. Subbed
Man, I remember getting the psp 1000 when that thing came out...Had nothing but the Spiderman 2 movie (back then, with the bundle, it came in a shitty sleeve and not a full box) and Ape Escape. Got it for a celebration of getting my blackbelt in TaeKwonDo. All these years later, looking to get that thing again because i just found my old stash of UMD games and movies (Apparently I had Ghost Busters and Fifth Element on it.) Damn, did nintendo look like chumps back then. Who wanted that little folding block that could barely manage a lit screen when i could have a PSP, that could play those other games too.
Kind of how I feel when I use my iPod classic. (It is heavily modded) I just bought a PSP for the first time this week. It’s pretty interesting I’m going to be having a lot of fun playing with it.
i bought a 3001 back when they were new, I got less than 4 hours on it and the buttons stopped working, i got mad and tossed it back in the box and put it on a shelf in my closet, all these years later i got a job with winters off. I dug out my psp and started studying up on it and its parts and I have now ordered the flex ribbon under the right buttons and once I put that in and if it works while plugged in I will order a new battery which I found blown apart when i dug it out and hopefully I will finally get to see what the hype was all about.
I got my first 1000 in 2009 In a pawn shop for 90 bucks. The guy pulled it right out of its retail box. I found the hacking community on a forum some days later and studied everything I could. Took the battery from my sister's broken PSP and did my first hard mod of the battery.(cutting it open, taking the motherboard and making an incision on a particular soldering point to cause the battery to boot from the memory stick and not the firmware, which is how you make a Pandora Battery) downloaded some software to prepare my Magic Memory Stick. Put the Memory Stick in, slapped the Pandora Battery in and that first boot up screen Install 5.33 ME.... 😳😎 Used it for a good half decade Now that PSPs original motherboard is trashed(Still have it) replaced the board only to find the new boards UMD switch is broken off so UMD discs can't press on it😐😣 Original front faceplate is trashed, replaced with my siblings scratched up one. I got another one in great condition for super cheap. Never had a 2000, 3000, Go, or Street, but I DO have the Vita 1000 with Adrenaline on it that I enjoy. Should I still get a 2000, 3000?
The God of War games, Gran Turismo, Burnout games, FFVII CC, Little Big Planet, Monter Hunter games, Shin Magami games, there are so many incredible games for PSP
I got bored of my Nintendo switch so I ordered a PSP 2000 and a Nintendo 3ds for a sibling on eBay. Waiting for it now! I grew up with the Nintendo DS/DSi so I never really got to experience the psp! Can’t wait!
I just got my psp 1000 a few days ago and ordered initial d street stage and Star Wars battle front 2…. Let’s say I’m looking for someone to buy my switch
I just my old psp 1000 phat. And surprisingly it still works. I just installed the homebrew upgrade CFW 6.61. Loaded it with retro emulators and having a great experience with it. But I would love to get it hooked up to my bigger led tv. Do you know any mods that would enable the 1000 models to project on a different screen via av or components cables?
@@GeekTherapyRadio would you know if my micro sd card from my psp 1000 would work on a 2000 or 3000? Meaning that the homebrew and all the emulators would work on a new psp 2000 or 3000?
I love my 1000 but the speaker placement was the dumbest flaw ever. That said with headphones it's a non issue ....The body design is by far the best handheld for its time and honestly I still love to play games on the 1000. The 3000 is to noisy , the plastic is cheesy and the disc drives suck...BUT yes the screen is better .
