Time for you to get it back out, maybe get a new adapter card for that micro SD, and then enjoy some games again!

(And yes, dead easy. Just copying two files over, not even ‘all the stuff’!)

Go get it out!

I think PSPs are super viable, even today. I use mine more than two of the retro handhelds I have which run 16GB of RAM. Looking forward to how you find it regardless though, after such a long time of not using it

I’ll recommend RetroDECK for emulation on the Steam Deck!

https://retrodeck.net/

You’re welcome!!!

Have fun!

Technically it is, but there’s a huge scene of influencers who have set up shop on there and run their own businesses. There’s a bunch who run ads, but you pay a crazy bit of money on top of what you’d pay on Aliexpress, just because they hope to rope in people who don’t know any better!

And like I said, if Etsy is more your scene, there’s a bunch there last time I looked!

You can even run GTA 3 (rebuilt in the Liberty City Stories engine) on your PSP-1000 if you’d be so inclined after jailbreaking!

I interviewed the folk behind it (Barcode Studia) a little while ago, and they made sure that not only was the game emulateable but playable on every PSP model, including the PSP-1000 :)

https://gardinerbryant.com/rewriting-liberty-city-an-interview-with-barcode-studia-on-rebuilding-gta-iii-for-psp/

Yes, there’s a bunch on Aliexpress (I’d probably recommend there over anywhere else, since their prices are the most reasonable and you get the same thing everyone does)

Etsy also has a bunch, as does Instagram. But again…you’ll be paying slightly more there

Yes, absolutely no difference! It works just the same :)

Thank you so much!

…mostly for turning a blind eye to what is obviously just a giant and elaborate excuse for me to write about the PSP again!!!

I got lucky buying this white one for roughly $33 USD :)

Don’t lament your silver though! They’re so beautiful, and all those marks it has just shows the history of it in your possession!

:)

A few weeks ago I wrote about taking a chance on a cheap “junk” PSP-2000 from Japan, replacing its faulty charging port, and ending up with one of the nicest handhelds I own.

Quite a few people here on Lemmy reached out afterwards asking about jailbreaking, or just sharing that they planned to buy UMDs for it. I guess this article is my answer (or maybe just yet another thinly veiled excuse to write about my favorite old handheld…the PSP) to that.

Rather than another super technical wiki, I wanted to write a bit of step-by-step with just pictures of all of it. I cover installing ARK-4 custom firmware, setting up a microSD card, loading games, movies and music, a handful of homebrew recommendations. I really, really love Sony’s PSP. I think as far as industrial design language goes, you just can’t beat it.

So if you’ve recently picked up a PSP, are thinking about picking one up, or have one sitting in a drawer gathering dust, I hope this helps you give it a second life!

And if you don’t want to read through, then ask me here and I’m more than happy to recommend things to you.

Maybe this is just a ‘thing’ I don’t understand (super likely), why are you censoring ‘gamers’? Or any word on Lemmy? Being a mod here, I can tell you with 100% certainty that if you follow our rules, you don’t have to censor any word you’re using like you have to on TikTok.

So my latest article is something that’s been on my mind for a while: the people still making physical games feel genuinely special, the lack of physical games going forward (looking at you, Sony), and what everyone lost with the old-old ‘big-box’ PC gaming era.

I just try to take a look look back at the era of PC gaming, manuals, maps and all the little extras that made opening a new game part of the experience. How “physical” has changed in recent years, and a handful of developers, publishers and community creators who are still putting real care into physical releases today (including RowanFN, whose work creating custom manuals and inserts I had the chance to cover last year)

If you’re interested in game preservation, collecting, or simply miss the days when a physical game was more than just a case and a download code (shitty shitty GTA VI discovery), I hope you’ll enjoy the read. It might be a bit of a…watch-me-go-off-on-tangents article, but it is still important in a way. I think.

Hey, that’s me!!!

:)

The warning from the german team was not ignored, as far as I understood it, but just arrived too late while the newsletter team was already sending the mails.

Nope, it was blocked. They asked, were told this is wrong and knew why.

The reason you had it delivered in Germany is because your email preferences are set to English. They only skipped Germany by blocking the German language. They knew it was wrong, avoided the German language and set it to everyone else. Rather than hitting backspace once or twice.

A jab at Sony’s recent announcement with completely ditching physical games!

No. At least not to my satisfaction.

We replaced our site’s (not-very-used) Discord server with Matrix, and even if a few thousand don’t know/didn’t follow, we’re happier to be on a nicer space than Discord :)

The lack of nice ad-blocking has me favor things like Iceraven, but for pure privacy it can’t be beaten

Just chiming in to recommend ZOOM-Platform games!

I just love what they provide. Their library is eclectic and the team truly cares about DRM-free gaming. Every game they have or will ever have is free of any DRM.

https://www.zoom-platform.com/

“You’re…so fucking dumb”

Moderator here. Drop that kind of message please. Consider this a warning. You can make your point without resorting to this nonsense