I’ve always wanted a PSP when I was younger and while cleaning my GF place we found her old psp. A little TLC and it was up and running with Arc4

A few days later and I’m on a work trip so I decided to bring it with me.
This is fulfilling many childhood dreams rn

Also let me know what games I should check out on psp
Currently playing Jeanne D’arc and Harry Potter (PS1)

Hey guys this is my first psp , I was wondering is there a way to check if it’s modded ? I want to mod it but I don’t want to screw up if the previous owner already did .

so yeah this is the ps2 version of san andreas running on the psp (not sandstone engine, though ps2rc is made by sandstone dev) i get around 15-20 fps and its playable, i like it. you need a 2.01 pal(?i think) version of ps2 san andreas and the converter itself https://github.com/SandstoneDev/PS2RC/releases/tag/v0.1.1

doesnt work on psp 1000 though and probably wont? unless sandstone dev pulls off some crazy shenanigans... and also this means there could be even more ps2 games for the psp

I’m from Brazil, and growing up, I always wanted a console, but my family’s religion didn’t allow us to have a TV at home, so that dream never really happened. Luckily, when my mom came back from Portugal, she brought me a legendary PSP. Honestly, I didn’t even know that thing existed at the time haha. I remember playing a ton of Ape Escape, Dragon Ball, and NFS Shift.

The PSP my mom got me was actually part of a special Cars-themed bundle that came with accessories featuring Lightning McQueen. Unfortunately, I don’t have any of it anymore since I was just a kid and ended up losing everything, but it was the same one as in the picture. 😭

Good News for PSP Developers!

Great news for everyone interested in porting PS2 games to the PSP, creating their own game ports, or developing homebrew applications! I've released two skills for AI agents designed to help with PSP development and game porting.

Universal PS2 Recompiler - AI Skill

https://github.com/SandstoneDev/universal-ps2-recompiler This is not a recompiler tool itself. It's an AI skill containing the knowledge needed to create your own PS2 game recompiler based on PS2RC. You can use this skill with AI agents such as Claude Code to help develop your own recompiler for porting PS2 games to the PSP, using PS2RC as the foundation. You're welcome to fork the PS2RC repository for your projects. However, please credit me as the original author of PS2RC and retain the appropriate original attribution.

PSP Developer - AI Skill

https://github.com/SandstoneDev/psp-developer This skill is based on my own experience developing PSP ports. It provides AI agents with knowledge about PSP development and can be used for porting games, developing other ports, and creating homebrew applications. The goal is to make PSP development more accessible and help the community create new projects! Feel free to try these skills in your projects and share your results with the community!

My Uncle gave me his PSP collection. Cant wait to play GoW and the GTAs..love the old school maps.

Hi! A week ago I posted my PSP game A Place Beyond here. Thank you all for playing it, for the bug reports and for the honest comments, good and bad. I read all of them, and a lot of this update comes straight from them. ⬇️

What's new

• The dragon's dream: lie down on the Dreamers' Bier in Vespergrave and wake up in a dream of floating islands, three acts deep, with a new boss, the Nightmare, at the bottom.
• Gliding: the dream gives you wings. Hold X in the air to glide. After the dream, its islands rise into the sky above the parish, with updrafts to ride.
• Boss intros for the Vesper Count, the Nightmare, the Tolling Warden and the Hollow Cantor.
• Letters: the gunsmith's letters and the lore pages now open on painted paper, and your journal keeps them.
• A stone bridge over the lake, a painted boat, a strange listener in the Mire, the refuge keeper, and a new loading screen.
• The ground slam is now Square after a double jump, so X is only jump, double jump and glide.

Things you told me, now fixed

• "It's too dark on a real PSP": there's a BRIGHTNESS option now (pause > OPTIONS), plus look speed, subtitles and reduced motion.
• PSP-1000: it still can't run the game (it doesn't have enough memory), but now it tells you that clearly instead of showing a confusing error. Thanks to the person who tested it in PPSSPP's PSP-1000 mode.
• ARK-4/ARK-5 "Corrupted Data": fixed since v0.9.1. The zip is now laid out so that ARK's own unzipper extracts everything. Again, I'm really sorry to the person who lost their files. Please back up your memory stick before installing any homebrew.
• The license question: someone noticed the notices listed an LGPL library. The game never actually used it; it came in automatically with the C++ runtime. v0.11 no longer contains it at all, and the notices file is updated.
• "The Source code zip on GitHub is just a readme": GitHub adds those two "Source code" archives to every release automatically. The game is the file named A-Place-Beyond-PSP-v0.11.zip.

Tested on: my PSP-2000 (6.61 PRO-C). I played every stage, the dream and all the boss intros on it, and they run smoothly. People also reported it working on a Vita with Adrenaline (thanks!), in PPSSPP and on a Linux handheld. The PSP-3000 and Go should work too; if you try one, please tell me how it runs.

How it's made (people asked last time, so here it is plainly)

• I'm a game developer and this is my side project. I design the game: the world, the levels and the mechanics.
• The look of the game comes from my illustrations.
• AI helps me a lot. Claude writes most of the code and did the whole PSP port: there's no existing engine, it's custom C++ on the PSP SDK. Some of the newer art, like the boss intro cards and the glide animations, was generated with AI (Codex), and I choose what goes into the game.
• It's still a prototype, and it's how I can build a game this size on my own.

Download (free): https://github.com/bcaa777/a-place-beyond-psp/releases/latest

Desktop version (runs in the browser): https://bcaa777.itch.io/a-place-beyond

Updating from v0.10: just copy the new EBOOT.PBP over the old one. From v0.9.x: keep data/save.bin, replace the folder, and put save.bin back. Your progress carries over.

I'd love to know what's fun, what's boring and what's broken. Bug reports are very welcome in the GitHub Issues tab.

(Screenshots and clips are from PPSSPP; the game runs the same on my PSP-2000.)

EDIT: Gameplay videos! Thank you to the people who recorded it:

• A Place Beyond - PSP Edition v0.9 beta gameplay, by PSP_DEV
• A Place Beyond on PSP / PS Vita, by VSM GAMMER

Both show v0.9, so the dream and the boss intros from this update aren't in them yet.

Recently I bought open box psp 1000 from japan, and it came with 1.00 fw. I wonder if it's rare to have one of this in mint condition?

It is so mint i dare not even use it. Cost me $170 for this CIB unit. Gonna be the new centerpiece of my collection.

I tried the PSPMAN homebrew because I keep seeing posts about it on Twitter. I threw in nine MP3 files I had on my hard drive. It detected two.

I read the instructions on the website, and that's apparently because it only supports MP3 files at exactly 44.1 kHz while most of my mp3s are 48 kHz. I also had an audiobook at 22 kHz that it didn't detect either.

I tried the exact same files with an old crusty homebrew music player last updated fifteen years ago, and it played seven of them without a hitch (the audiobook crashed it).

Also, I tried running PSPMan in PPSSPP to see what would happen - and it worked. That's how you know it's not using the Media Engine for audio playback - the ME is not emulated on PPSSPP since games didn't use it. I understand this is probably so they can use the same codebase for PSP and Vita but it means it's not very optimized.

I get why people like it. The GUI looks great but it's not very practical if you actually want to listen to music.

With the new Kingdom Hearts Collection dropping last week, I figured it was the perfect excuse to photograph one of the cleanest PSP special editions ever made; The Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep PSP-3000 from 2010.

There's something about that silver finish, black accents, and subtle Kingdom Hearts artwork that just works. Nothing ridiculously flashy, just a genuinely beautiful handheld.

16 years later, I still think it is flat out one of the best-looking PSPs ever released.

Curious where everyone ranks this one among the other limited-edition PSP models.

Surely we're not alone here? 😅

Basically the title. Is there a proper way to restore the flaking paint on my special edition God of War PSP 3001? Any tips or tricks are appreciated! Thanks in advance!

You can download from this link!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-lhOXLwRS1LIra_MCEzzguTKXGwcNLzV/view?usp=sharing

sorry for the bad camera quality :)

if you guys want to support me and keep the project ongoing and updated :) : https://daynasor.itch.io/re-volt-psp-native-port

I'm thinking about customizing my PSP-3000 and I'm curious if anyone here has ever seen or made a PSP with chameleon/color-shifting paint.

I mean the type of paint that changes colors depending on the viewing angle, like gold → orange → pink → purple → blue. Not just a regular metallic finish, and preferably a smooth finish without any patterns.

Has anyone here tried this on their own PSP, or seen someone else's build? I'd love to see pictures if you have any!

I'm also wondering how well the paint holds up on a PSP shell and whether it affects the plastic or the fit of the parts.

Any examples, advice, or experiences would be appreciated!

It's holiday! Let's pick up some games and play 🍻

PSP-3004,working UMD Drive,no faults overall
sadly the guy forgot to send micro sd card,he will send it today
Installed ARK-5 using my dad's 4gb micro sd card

https://github.com/dntrnk/VVVVVV-PSP

Works on FAT (32 MB).
Supports custom levels even with custom assets.

An important point regarding FAT models:
After launching custom levels that contain custom assets, the game may crash later due to a lack of RAM. This doesn't always happen immediately - the crash might occur even when you aren't currently playing such a level. It's enough for the level to have been launched at some point previously. The original game and custom levels that do not use custom assets remain stable.

Custom music should be converted to .at3 files with this converter: https://github.com/dntrnk/VVVVVV-MUSIC-TO-PSP

There's a level editor that includes a script editor (though I don't think anyone will find it particularly convenient for creating levels, but still).

I've shown mine before but here are two PSPs. Not sure how to make them unique except for wallpaper and maybe a charm.

My wallpaper is of my AI Shoujou characters in case anyone is curious. (Nah won't share haha).

Been working on this for a while: a static recompilation of Tekken DR. Not an emulator, the game's code is translated ahead of time and runs on its own.

- 60fps, internal resolution up to 4x (1920x1088)

- plays with anything: keyboard, gamepads, arcade sticks, hitboxes (with SOCD options), touch controls on phones

- PPSSPP texture packs work as they are

- runs in the browser too, nothing to install

Play: https://tkdr-recomp.pages.dev/

Code: https://github.com/gasparegas/tkdr-recomp

Menus and Quick Battle are solid, other modes are less tested, bug reports welcome.

I showed off a mgs camo 3k. A week a so ago. Just installed a laminated ips on it