The screen and controls on these things were amazing; they still hold up even today. If only there was a way to put a modern processor in it so you could play emulated and streamed games like a modern device…
Introducing the PSPi. It’s that thing I just described™
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.
As a kid I cracked the main circuit board in mine after dropping it once. Repair was impossible. Those five hours of playtime I got in were nice tho.
Same as a kid I somehow broke the spring for the power button. I swear I had to get it repaired 3 times for other random quirks.
please crosspost to !psp@lemmy.world I just need to get battery and bigger sd card for mine.
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
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.
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?
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 🤣
I love this handheld, but my 3000 stopped charging a couple years back. I’m pretty sure it’s a bad connector in the body itself, since I used to be able to get it to charge if I set the adapter just right.
But this thing is so small and has so many moving parts that I’m a little more wary about taking it apart and swapping out a component than I would be a full-sized console (or even a Game Boy or something). I might just take it to get repaired instead…
Nice wallpaper
Came to say the same.
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.
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
This is so nice, and then is me with my cringe PSP 3000 which I got new in the box in 2016 and it failed some years after lol.
The battery was messed up (something not uncommon) and then it stopped recognizing batteries at all, something about the bios kinda thingy that is soldered in the motherboard, I read that if you cleaned it up it would help, I opened my unit and I couldn’t de attach correctly the cable that powers the unit, I ripped the piece where it plugs all with my hand, to have it half working I glued that piece to the motherboard, which seemed to work (unit wired) for some time, so yeah, this whole mess was a big fail from my part 🤡
I think the best route for me would be to swap the motherboard entirely, or call it a day and get a Retrod Pocket 3 Plus lol.
You could try the PSPi thing on this post
This is so cool, but I don’t think it would handle PSP games better than… Well the actual PSP 😅
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!
I’ve got my original homebrewed with a bunch of emulators and it still holds up as a solid handheld. I need to bust that out again… been a little while.
Same here but last year the battery decided to puff up and blow the back off. I could probably still turn it on but I’m not going to risk it lol.
Oh no! Man that reminds me I need to replace the original battery on my original Xbox before it explodes… Got coin-ops and a lot of old saves on it I don’t want to lose.
Did you replace it yet?
