Does the PSP still get love?

[MajesticSiN]

I got a PSP 1000 early on and I played it so damn much. I eventually got the God of War PSP 2000 and used that with the cables to play it on my tv. I love the PSP and Still use mine today. If you can find any games you like in the PSPs amazing library then I recommend you pick it up. Assuming you can find one at a decent price.

 

[dem6n dem6n]

My brother wants me to jailbreak his PSP. I'm not into the PSP homebrew scene. How difficult is it to get a CFW installed? Never owned a PSP. I'm assuming it's relatively straightforward.

 

[MemeAlert]

Sure it’s still getting the love it deserved, heck there’s a ton of YouTube videos saying why you should own one.

En Youtubers say alot of things.

 

[MajesticSiN]

My brother wants me to jailbreak his PSP. I'm not into the PSP homebrew scene. How difficult is it to get a CFW installed? Never owned a PSP. I'm assuming it's relatively straightforward.

It's super easy
Use This

 

[Kamako]

Never owned one, but always thought it had a cool library.
MGS: Peace Walker, FFVII: Crisis Core and KH: BBS are all killer apps

 

[MemeAlert]

Never owned one, but always thought it had a cool library.
MGS: Peace Walker, FFVII: Crisis Core and KH: BBS are all killer apps

Its weird calling games apps...

 

[Kamako]

Its weird calling games apps...

Why? They're a type of application
(btw I prefer to call games "games" too)

 

[MemeAlert]

Why? They're a type of application
(btw I prefer to call games "games" too)

Hey look I just got the new application, Rock'em Sock'em Ducklings!

 

[Kamako]

Hey look I just got the new application, Rock'em Sock'em Ducklings!

*Throws floppy disk down onto table*

 

[RanmyakuIchi's icon RanmyakuIchi RanmyakuIchi]

I can't speak for other's, but I still have a lot of love for the PSP. I never got a chance to play it much when it was current due to mine having died pretty early on, so I've been exploring the library through emulation a ton the past few years.

 

[dr grim]

had one, sad it's broken.. it was really a great portable console.

 

[Deleted member 257420]

Judging by the amount of aesthetic pics I still see of people with their PSP’s I’d say yeah lmao

 

[KenaiPhoenix]

I dont know too much about the homebrew scene, but the tools to work are there: if Im not mistaken there is Raylib "port" compatible with PSP.

Back in the day, when someone told me "This is just a portable PS1 with PS2 graphics!" I just couldnt believe it, I just have a GBASP, so the idea of full 3D graphics were just out of my mind. One day a friend showed me his PSP with MH Freedom United 2. I never had the chance to get it because of money, but I did get a PSVita later just because I knew how great the PSP was. What could go wrong am I right? (I loved the Vita tho).

Im planning on getting one someday soon. With UMD and everything.

 

[fake-chan]

I have the original PSP-1000. Unfortunately, its analog stick is broken.

 

[destinyduelist]

Still play mine regularly, modded it to hell and back. I have large SD card on it and it doesn't really slow down performance as much as people say it does. In fact for me it doesn't slow down games at all, the only kind of bad part is I have to wait maybe a few seconds, I'm talking like 5 maybe 6 seconds for the games library thing to load since it's a lot of stuff I've put on there. I absolutely adore this handheld, its my favourite console of all time.

 

[Masterofthefalcon]

I still use my psp a bit. I played a lot of Megaman Powered Up, Sonic RIvals, and Final Fantasy Tactics: War of the Lions on it. Didn't get very many games for it beyond those, so I mainly stuck to the PS1 Classics from my PS3 and PSN demos. I played through FF7 and RE2 for the first time on it and ended up playing the demo for the first Dissdia more than I ended up playing the full game.

 

[ThatOneLum ThatOneLum]

I still regularly boot up my psp for stuff like KH or FF4, Tho I've mostly moved to vita for emulation purposes.

Even the GO was an interesting form factor, but it was crap owning one at launch after having older PSPs. My mom didn't know I wasn't gonna be able to use literally any of my games on the thing

Luckily now Its easy to hack even a PSP GO.

 

[nobitakun]

Wow, I feel sorry to know many people has hardware issues, mostly related with sticks. In moments like these I feel fortunate for having tons of OCD regarding keeping the stuff clean, safe and new. I barely played portable consoles, always used emulators because I also wanted to use big screen. And desktop consoles I never use them new, I get one new and then I get one second hand, clean it completely but I never use the original gamepad, I always buy some 3rd cheap controller to keep the original one as new as possible, clean, and stored somewhere hidden away from any kind of dust or sunlight. I even buy various second hand units if they are cheap enough and decide the one in worst state to use, the other is kept the same way.

So my OCD recommendation would be, get a PSP, a PSVita, clean them, keep them and treat them with extreme care and love, or don't use them at all lol.

 

[Mopeybloke]

At some point I passed the chance to buy a PSP 3000 with a bunch of emulators and games installed for cheap. I still regret it occasionally. Honestly I don't enjoy playing PSP games that much. I haven't done so in years, but not having a handheld device, the textures really don't hold up on screens even as big as my laptop.

 

[sun0wl]

Still use the PSPGo with CFW on the regular so...Yes.

It seems pretty popular with the kids these days who are trying to be more offline/use more specialized devices (i.e. not smartphones):

 

[Yousef Yousef]

I actually still like it more than the NDS.
I’ve come to appreciate the NDS a bit more than I used and there are games on it I like more than the majority of psp games, but on a grander scale the psp is more fun to me.

 

[ThunderBoy]

PlayStation Portable

My favorite handheld ever

 

[BigTony]

I haven't used it much since i got into adroid handhelds but i used to play mine all the time. Its like a nut you can play with outside whats not to love?

 

[TamagotchiTamaHero24's icon TamagotchiTamaHero24 TamagotchiTamaHero24]

I just introduced a friend of mine to it :3

 

[Nelson2001 Nelson2001]

Honestly I never owned a PSP back then, Although I knew him the PSP through emulation in 2021 you know the PPSSPP and it seemed to me a portable console ahead of its time because it had a widescreen format (480x272 - 30:17), It used a unique physical format called UMD (Universal Media Disc) which had much more storage than the Nintendo DS which could store up to 450, 900, 1.34, 1.78GB a Unlike the Nintendo DS that arrived between 32, 64, 128, 256MB (Except for the GO Version which does not have a physical format of UMD due to design issues), it had a multimedia system (Photos, Music, Videos, etc.), Incredible Games that to this day still stand the test of time like the God of War (Chains of Olympus and Ghost of Sparta), The possibility of playing movies in physical format (And even several games that contain Cutscenes Cinematics still look good even today but not all games, of course), supported games in digital format (PSP Minis), The Ability to Connect to the Internet, Considerable ergonomic as well as the button scheme that is well positioned, although the big drawback is the lack of a Right Analog Pad and the L2 and R2 triggers, but it could not be due to the issue of the console's design, but hey. 20 years later and the Sony's Portable is still aging like wine.