Your PSP Can Play This (And much More)

Some kind viewers have sent me the iPSP portal files! Much appreciated from you guys.

The PSP Go had an official dock (they're stupidly expensive now) where you can dock it and it'll output to the tv, like the component cables on the 2000 and 3000, but the Go had bluetooth so you could bluetooth your ps3 controller and play on your couch. It was quite literally the Switch before the Switch.

Still can't believe how badly sony screwed the PS Vita up, after the PSP being what it was.

The thing with the optical disk, or UMD disk as they are called, is that Sony did not want to distribute games on flash cards, or memory cards, as these were quite expensive back then and an optical disc was way cheaper. This was really remarkable from Sony to manage to shrink down a CD drive to that size and making the media more durable in the housing it came with.

the PSP here in Brazil was an incredible success, everyone had a psp with the most varied homebrews you can imagine, it was a beautiful time

The PSP was wildly popular in the Philippines at the time, to the point that most cellphone repair shops offer jailbreaking and sideloading services for less than a UMD's worth, and that pickpockets would actually prefer nabbing a PSP over a DS. The PlayStation brand power combined with its media capabilities made it even more impressive if not for the Nintendo portable juggernaut especially with Pokemon.

My favorite part of PSP modding were the trainers that were developed. Especially for the GTA series. It was so much fun modding the game WHILE IT WAS RUNNING! Stealing a car and then putting 34" rims on it to do your mission was the best.

i explored every inch of my psp inside and out. every mod, emulator, and themes. i also took apart my psp countless times to do LED mods by wiring LEDS to the speakers and imbedding the LEDS into the L and R bumpers since they were transparent. i removed the UMD drive and cut a hole on the UMD door to add an additional Speaker that fit perfectly within the silver circle on the disk door. i was about 13-14 years old doing all this. god those were the good times.

I remember playing COD Zombies on my psp. The homebrew community had a HUGE amount of content. Lots of maps, guns, I even remember one with a boss fight. Such good memories

The PSP was one of the quintessential consoles of my childhood. I played the shit out of my PSP. I especially loved crisis core final fantasy, flat out head-on, and dissidia final fantasy. I too was sad when the PS Vita became hot garbage. But now that they remade crisis core final fantasy for the switch. I think I know what I'm going to be buying next. You know, when I have the money.

If the psp had a second analog stick for camera control it probably would be the greatest handheld of all time (relative to it's time). I have never been able to find a concrete reason why there wasn't one and it hindered so much of its potential omitting it.

Hell yea, been modding my portables since 2008l and never stopped. PSP, PSVita, NDS, 3DS, Switch. It's a cool field to get into, however this year has given us some amazing emulation handhelds that have decent power in them. I got a Retroid Pocket 3+ and I can play psp games at 2 to 3x resolution on it. It's like a remaster of psp games! Thanks for the trip down nostalgia lain.

Great video! I have fond memories of being a kid and just messing with homebrews and lua scripting, changing the boot video and completely customizing the theme and menus, creating my own eboot files of ps1 games or ripping my own ISOs. Piracy/hacking (and the homebrew scene to an extent) gets a bad rep, but I'm currently finishing my masters in computer science and I just wanted to say that the PSP and all the crazy stuff you could do with it, ignited my passion for learning stuff about computers, and are a big reason why I chose this path.

I got my psp in 2012, and I still use it when I go to places I don't have my consoles and pc. It's just a blast to play it everytime! Not to mention the emulation capabilities of this beast.

Love that you're showing the PSP some love. I upgraded to a Vita and the homebrew scene for that is insane. The best part is Adrenaline for Vita will let you have a hacked version of the PSP inside the Vita. All of the homebrew works perfectly on it.

This brought back so many memories of my freshman year in high school. A friend in my biology class had a friend who knew how not soft mod the psp. Keep in mind this was 2007 when the soft mod still required pandoras battery so I was so excited to finally be able to mod mine. I played so many “backups” and emulators on that console. Also, haven’t thought about those web portal things in ages! I had an iPhone one the windows xp one. Amazing times.

i didn't know i have a PSP damn

Underrated youtube channel, keep it up dude, you'll keep growing if you keep pushing quality content out

I got one recently and I love how simple it is to mod it, one file and BAM, now it can homebrew

In 2005 this device blew my mind into pieces. I didn't get my own until a few years later, 17 years later and I still LOVE my psps