I’ve manly got this PSP to make emulating the PSP on my phone more legal (owning the emulated console, and ripping my own games), but since I have it I might as well try my hand at hacking it, and see what all it can do.
Why mobile gaming, well when I’m home I generally don’t care to game (other things I’d rather do), but when I’m out it is nice to be able to play a quality games while I wait for stuff and people. And when I am home it is nice to have the option to kick back wherever I am and game.
Anyway on to the PSP.
This is a PSP-1001 (1st gen) and it’s on old software (3.90). The latest version is 6.61 which I won’t be updating to since it could fix the flaw that allows you to push custom software onto it. I believe the method I’ll be using we’ll update it to 6.60 though.
It didn’t come with a charger, so it was a gamble buy, but after rigging this up it looks like it works.
I want to keep track of what I’m spending on this thing, so…
Date
Item
Cost
7-17-19
PSP
$25
7-18-19
Memory stick adapter
$5.95
7-18-19
Charge cord
$7.99
7-20-19
Kingdom Harts - Birth by Sleep
$14.99
Total: $53.93
Still less then a modern AAA title, and I’ve been having far more fun playing Kingdom Harts than any of my somewhat recent AAA games.
Games of interest
Games are in order from most interested to least interested.
Games I’m looking to buy:
Midnight Club 3 Dub Edition (plays exactly like the original on PS2)
Kingdom Hearts - Birth by Sleep
Fat Princess - Fistful of Cake
LocoRoco
Final Fantasy - Crisis Core
Games I want to try (will buy if, if I like):
Burnout (both games)
Test Drive Unlimited
Midnight Club L.A. Remix
DISGAEA - Afternoon of Darkness
Daxter
Ratchet & Clank - Size Matters
Need For Speed - Underground Rivals
Monster Hunter - Freedom Unite
SEGA Rally - Revo
Driver 76
Assassin’s Creed - Bloodlines
God of War - Ghost of Sparta
Killzone - Liberation
Metal Gear Solid - Peace Walker
Final Fantasy (series)
Castlevania - The Dracula X Chronicles
Ape Escape - On the Loose
Phantasy Star (series)
Dragoneer’s Aria
Mana Khemia - Student Alliance
Megaman (series)
Phantom Brave - Tohe Hermuda Triangle
Spectral Souls - Resurrection of the Ethereal Empire
Not interested:
Need For speed - Most Wanted 5-1-0 (hot garbage compared to the original)
Please feel free to share suggestions/opinions on any PSP games, or games I can emulate on the PSP. I’m looking for more.
I’d also like to hear about your PSP if you have/had one. We can take a trip down nostalgia lane.
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I’m heading to a few thrift shops right now to look for some PSP games. I just ordered Kingdom Hearts so it’s going to be a while before it gets in, and I want to have everything to mess with various things with PSP.
I’m planning on trying to hack it this evening.
Oh yeah these came in yesterday.
Charge cord, and memory stick to micro SD card adapter.
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Fucking amazing game…
TeckMonster:
Burnout
Yes please… All day long…
TeckMonster:
Daxter
Garbage…
If I have to recommend 2 games - I do recommend Patapon 2 and Patapon 3… both are part of my top10 favorite games ever… So fun…
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i owned one till the battery balloned was one of my fave things for media playing on the go but back then i was trying to get runescape to work on a psp in its browser and it happened but was unplayable.
i used to frequent https://psp.brewology.com/downloads/?dcid=195
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Zibob
July 21, 2019, 8:09pm
5
I believe they are all totally broken now, you can pick up any PSP, model IR generation and get custom firmware or permentantly Installed homebrew enabling.
Does Midnight Club 3 DUB Edition Remix exist on the PSP? It also had Tokyo as a city.
Good call on the 5-1-0, just not even worth it.
If you rhythm action games, Beats was a fun taken on it, you could use your own music in it, simple mechanic and fun to pick up and jam out your own tunes.
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I do not have PSP and games. But I saw something like that here and there …
Info:
Summary
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psycho_666:
Fucking amazing game…
It was the only game I had when I had my PSP so I played the crap out of it. Totally agree, it’s a fantastic one.
One of my favorite games on the PS2, I hope the PSP versions will live up to it.
I saw Daxter at the thrift shop, but I passed because of your input.
That’s surprising. I had no idea you could do that. I was playing that back when I had the PSP, but never thought to try it on it.
I think your right, but I updated the last PSP I had and it prevent me form hacking it at the time so I don’t want to chance it.
Yeah, and it’s just as great as the PS2 version! This is my favorite game of all time, and it’s the reason I started looking into all this again.
Zibob:
If you rhythm action games, Beats was a fun taken on it, you could use your own music in it, simple mechanic and fun to pick up and jam out your own tunes.
Not generally into them, but I’ll watch a video on it before I rule it out.
Wow, is the like every game?
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it was the first ‘runescape mobile’ was unplayable but what was playable was runescape classic (gone now)
I do not think so. I do not know if all, rather not …
Burnout_Dominator.iso 659.09 MB
If you need it …
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Zibob
July 22, 2019, 12:13am
10
Oh you absolutely NEED OutRun Coast 2 Coast. Its outrun. That is all.
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These are the games I got. The pawn shop charged me $24 for all of them.
The games loaded the preview.
But when I clicked on them I got this.
Except for this one, which booted up, and plays great, but this game sucks. Lol
It’s funny those first 2 games were made after the last time this PSP got an update. This thing was totally just left on a shelf and forgotten about.
Also it doesn’t appear to support 256gb memory cards. Lol @TheDiddilyHorror
Not sure if I’m going to be hacking it tonight. Had some buddies drop by unexpectedly.
I’ll look into those.
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Zibob
July 22, 2019, 1:36am
12
I think the original limit for the spec was 32GB, and I think some 64GB might work. But it has been a long time look into it.
Edit: I am not sure if the PSP got support for HD and XC cards are what ever version of it that was for Memory Stick Pro DUO.
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Man, i had/have a PSP E1000 (street). That thing has served me well for many years with a SNES Emulator on it. Played a ton of Tekken Dark Retribution with my wife back then.
Sorry to be of not much help in terms of PSP Games. Wasn’t to into those. I used it 99% to play Gameboy and SNES Games on the go on a more comfortable system.
I still want to pick up a Vita some day for that purpose though.
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Apparently they work with 2x 64GB microSDs (there are adapters that take 2x microSDs) if formatted correctly.
That’s a lot of storage considering the highest Memory Stick Pro Duo were 32GB.
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dobzz
July 22, 2019, 6:06pm
15
I remember playing Patapon on one of my friends psp. It was fun game.
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RIIIIIIIDGE RACER
God of War - Chains of Olympus and whatever the other one was called.
Lumines
Secret Agent Clank
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Ok I got the PSP hacked, and holly crap is it easy. Download a file put it on the memory sick and run it in the PSP, and done. Lol
I followed this video to hack the PSP.
I followed this video to rip the ISO files from my own UMD disks.
Hacking my PSP
I downloaded this .zip file (link from the YT video) on to my PC and extracted it.
No need for my PC now, so I unplugged the USB cord, and plugged in the charger in preparation to updated my PSP from 3.90 to 6.60. The “PSP HACK PACK” conveniently came with the 6.60 update file.
After the update finished I ran the “pro PSP firmware update” program.
Clicked X here.
And there we are (click select to open this menu).
I can now run games from an ISO file.
And rip my UMD disks to ISO files, and a bunch more things that I don’t know about yet.
Ripping UMD disks
This is very simple as well. Click select and scroll down to “USB DEVICE” and change it from “Memory Stick” to “UMD Disk”.
Plop in a UMD disk and plug the PSP into a PC, and copy the ISO file you the PC (took mine about 15 minutes for 1.5gb ISO). I recommend renaming the ISO to the game’s name when it finishes.
After you have the ISO on your PC, disconnect your PSP, and change “USB DEVICE” back to “Memory Stick”.
Now you can play your games without risking the integrity of your delicate flowers disks.
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TheDiddilyHorror:
RIIIIIIIDGE RACER
God of War - Chains of Olympus and whatever the other one was called.
Lumines
Secret Agent Clank
I’ve been a bit busy, but I’ll have a look at all your guys suggestions soon. Thanks for the input!
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Most of the time I played advance wars 2 and pokemon with the gameboy emulator, but the following PSP games I also played frequently:
gta vice city stories
gta liberty city stories
gran turismo
sid meyer’s pirates
tekken
And more
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wow im’ amazed you got one that cheap! you the PSP is only console where the GTA Stories series is supposedly best on PSP, it also has multiplayer. it’s also capped at 30 fps or something like that.
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