My PSP is broken :(

[psychotic_mechanic]

It's less than a year old and probably has less than 40 hours of play time on it, now I'm getting "unable to play disc" errors. Is this a common error with an easy fix? The drive sounds wrong, very clicketty.

I've sent Sony an email, hopefully they'll help me out.

I guess I could always downgrade it and play my games off of memory sticks.

Maybe I'll be getting a DS sooner rather than later.

[ganonbanned]

you should give it to me .

i dont know because i dont have one, but you should get a DS. i have a ds but want both

[Maniac_Man]

mine did that as well. i just sold it on ebay and got a ds lite.

[kidw/32+systems]

I haven't ever heard of that from my friends who have one or either of mine. But is is a Sony so to me it woud be there is dust on the eye or the drive is dead. I would try to blow the eye out first.

If I fix my spare Red DS maybe we could trade.

[vb_master]

What firmware is it? I'm just interested.

[Nicholai]

I got this with a broken UMD, make sure there are no cracks on the UMD case.

[sammy]

There's the prove that carts are much more stable then discs... I'd go with a DS cause it's better and cheaper

[psychotic_mechanic]

It's a version 2.0 which could be downgraded if needed to play stuff off the memory stick, which sucks because I do have 8 or so games on disk for it. I've probably sunk about $10 per hour of game time into this thing, so I'm not very happy with it.

Sony hasn't written me back yet, but I did try cleaning everything and pulling the battery, neither of which helped.

I've always thought the PSP felt fragile, so I've always kept it in the soft case and been very careful with it, and it still broke.

[XPCportables]

I've been fairly rough on mine, and it has had no problems yet. I have not heard of this being a common problem, maybe you were so unfortunate to get a bad one.

[vb_master]

It's a version 2.0 which could be downgraded if needed to play stuff off the memory stick, which sucks because I do have 8 or so games on disk for it. I've probably sunk about $10 per hour of game time into this thing, so I'm not very happy with it.

Sony hasn't written me back yet, but I did try cleaning everything and pulling the battery, neither of which helped.

I've always thought the PSP felt fragile, so I've always kept it in the soft case and been very careful with it, and it still broke.

I had a version 2.0 when I decided that flash is cooler than homebrew and I upgraded to 2.70. Waiting for a 2.70 exploit, QJ.net has found some interesting stuff.

[Big-O]

It's less than a year old and probably has less than 40 hours of play time on it, now I'm getting "unable to play disc" errors. Is this a common error with an easy fix? The drive sounds wrong, very clicketty.

I've sent Sony an email, hopefully they'll help me out.

I guess I could always downgrade it and play my games off of memory sticks.

Maybe I'll be getting a DS sooner rather than later.

Did you buy it from a well known place such as Blockbuster,Circuit City or Best Buy? I have friends that have had disk read errors, and they all bought thier psps' from those retailers.

[psychotic_mechanic]

I bought it from the Navy Exchange her on base, so I may try to take it and the box back to them, but they have pretty strict returns guidelines compared to wally-world and others.

A sony rep (or auto reply) wrote back to me with a 1-800 number to call. I'll call them during daylight hours in the states.