broken PSP d-pad

[newageretrohippie]

so, i got a psp off ebay. 50 dollars with a charging cable and 64 GB sd card + adapter... yeah it was the cheapest psp i've ever bought... and it was a little bit too good to be true.

it's clearly had a rough life, and the D-pad -left rocker is broken off from the other three. It's... kind of annoying when playing. I was thinking that maybe i could replace it... but i wonder where would be a good place to source a replacement? (just the plastic, really...) or maybe i should try super glue, first?

 

[norunove]

Since is just the plastic part, there is replacement parts both to the MOBO part of the buttons and plastic ones on Aliexpress or you could just pick up a junk PSP for cheap and keep it for replacement parts (If so, try looking for a bricked PSP, everything would be working perfectly exept the system itself so screen, buttons, audio, shell everything can serve as a backup)

 

[newageretrohippie]

Since is just the plastic part, there is replacement parts both to the MOBO part of the buttons and plastic ones on Aliexpress or you could just pick up a junk PSP for cheap and keep it for replacement parts (If so, try looking for a bricked PSP, everything would be working perfectly exept the system itself so screen, buttons, audio, shell everything can serve as a backup)

yeah, i guess that's what i should do... maybe i should try to find a replacement first.

so, bricked psps are really a thing? they are so easy to hack, you gotta wonder how anybody could get it wrong...

i usually buy handheld systems that come with a case, because you know... they've been in a case... but dang... 50 dollars + buy it now... derp. ahah

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i gotta wonder what even happened to this one. psps are usually so tough.. I had one that slipped under the floormat of my car and lived there for a year before i found it... and NOT A SINGLE SCRATCH ON IT!!!

this ebay PSP has a sweet hairline fracture on the other side of the case that's all swirly... looks like a thumbprint or something. Like maybe somebody dropped it off a 3rd story balcony or something.