I remember prying open whatever the specific PSP battery you had to use to make a Pandora’s battery. Used my Dad’s magnifying lense and a needle to sever the connection, and got custom firmware running. Such a cool feeling
You came late to the modding scene then. I bought mine secondhand so I had a PSP with firmware 1.52 that could be modded. Since the newer 2.0 firmware was still unhackable. (soon after you could mod version 2.0 with a gta savegame hack)
So many good memories. I really loved the PSP modding scene.
That’s some cool looking background. Is it animated?
I always wanted a PSP but never got one. I really wish Sony would come out with another.
Best modern Sony can do is a streaming shitbox that you can accomplish the same thing with using a phone or tablet you already own, and it’ll have same janky aesthetic as well.
I loved mine,homebrew was awesome on it. I really should have gotten a microSD adaptor, those expensive cards were no fun. I played so much with the GBA emulator, actually swapped my GBA saves between the PSP and the Wii.
I remember badly wanting one after seeing someone playing Gran Turismo on the subway. I eventually bought a 3G Vita with the expectation that I would be playing PSO2 “soon”. Well, as some of you may know, PSO2 was a surprise hit in Japan, and they never got around to translating it to English until fairly recently, and after the era of the Vita.
One of the best handhelds of all time. For me it’s gotta be Steam Deck, GBC, PSP, DS, GBA in that order.
Atari Lynx? Sega Gamegear? The OG color portables.
That you could play for all of 30 minutes(exaggeration but the battery life on these things sucked hard.)
Holy shit core memory unlocked. I don’t think I ever got past like stage 3 of sonic because that thing DEVOURED batteries, and it was like a full set of 6 AA’s, too. Felt like it was cheaper to go to the arcade. Worst console I ever owned!
I was the Nintendo dude in my friends group and my best friend was the Sega dude. So while we had fun back and forths we both got to experience both consoles pretty well. I remember being so happy when my friend got the wall adapter for his game gear lol
Sega Nomad was my favorite, bit I’m not sure you could really classify it as a handheld since it ate through batteries like nobody’s business
He said best handhelds not “mistakes that only exist to complete with the grey brick”
Damn that’s harsh. I grew up in a world where there was no such thing as handhelds. There were Tiger Electronics black and white LCD “games” but nothing like an actual handheld game system.
First time I saw a Lynx my mind was blown. I saved up every penny as a little kid to get one, used.
Gamegear came later, and again it blew mind. I do remember how it ate batteries.
please crosspost to !psp@lemmy.world I just need to get battery and bigger sd card for mine.
The only worthy successor for me has been the steam deck (maybe if I ever jailbroke my switch, but even then). Just wish we had the deck version with a PSP form factor, that would possibly be the best handheld system for emulation and PC gaming you could ask for.
I have a 3000. I replaced my cracked screen awhile back and now it can only turn on when plugged in. It sucks because before that the screen was broken, but I could stream it to my TV.
PSP 2000 hanging around somewhere. Thing was awesome. UMDs where a wild choice tho.
Thankfully softmodding them to launch games of the memory stick was super easy
The PSP was a real beast and the perfect competitor to the DS. I have one that I bought around 2012 (still works, too! though the card reader seems a bit finnicky), rooted it and was happy for many, many hours afterward. Getting a microSD->MemoryStickDuo adapter was was just 😘 👌
OP, if you haven’t yet, play Kenka Bancho Badass Rumble. A beat’em up with big replayability, where you play a delinquent student in the last school trip of the year. Your job is to beat the “main guy” of every other school to prove you’re the best!
That’s impressive! How is the battery? Replaced it over time, if that’s possible? How long can you play on it, before it needs to recharge again?
How is the phrase ‘memory stick’ trademarked??
They trademarked Memory Card for the PS1 if i’m not mistaken, so not surprised they were granted one for Memory Stick too
I loved my psp. It’s kicking in a box somewhere in the house. I have fond memories of ad-hoc’ing Untold Legends with my friends in my buddies garage. Good times! Also as a young teen, having an internet browser at my fingertips for porn was a game changer 🤣
It reminds me of good old times but the device itself is not “modern” anymore. Feels like cheap funstation from aliexpress. It would be great to have a new version of it.
Yea and they could call it PSLife, for breathing new life into the handheld. Surely there would be plenty of games for it and Sony could support it for years to come!
Not sure if you say it with irony or not, let me know tho
