Questions before buying a psp

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Questions before buying a psp

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Ok, so my friend has never updated his psp, and he bought it 1 week after launch! :) I've never owned a psp, but i KNOW this is good for hacking. He said he would sell it to me for ~$100 with a mem stick

Problem: I have no idea where to start after buying.

Objective: Snes, Nes, N64, Gba, and Psone emus

Help?

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Post by Twisted Warthog »

I'm pretty sure Emulator Zone has emulators for the PSP.
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Yeah, but how would I run them, Just paste on memcard and go?

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Post by underclocked »

If you update to a CF then you would put them in the game 150 folder. Its really not that hard once you read a readme or just mess with it for a few minutes.
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Re: Questions before buying a psp

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ShockSlayer wrote:Ok, so my friend has never updated his psp, and he bought it 1 week after launch! :) I've never owned a psp, but i KNOW this is good for hacking. He said he would sell it to me for ~$100 with a mem stick

Problem: I have no idea where to start after buying.

Objective: Snes, Nes, N64, Gba, and Psone emus

Help?

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Post by vskid »

*In deep, mind-controlling voice* GET IT NOWWWWWWW!!!!!!!

Really, I thought the PSP was a piece of poo when it came out, but you get one, throw a custom FW on it and load the memory stick with emulators, ROMs, music, videos, whatever, and you won't regret it.

How big is the Memory Stick? It might be just the 32MB that came with it, you must have at least a 1GB, I've found myself running out of space on my 2GB (mostly because of music, solution: convert the mp3's down to 128kbps).
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Post by benol »

Actually, vskid, PSP's come with a 1gb MemoryStick if you get the entertainment pack, which comes with ATV off road fury and some crappy movie.
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Post by Twisted Warthog »

Wasn't the crappy movie Spider-Man 2? Or at least it use to be.

The best Spider-Man out of the three so far.
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Post by vskid »

benol wrote:Actually, vskid, PSP's come with a 1gb MemoryStick if you get the entertainment pack, which comes with ATV off road fury and some crappy movie.
Actually, he said that his friend got it like a week after launch, and I'm pretty sure they all came with 32MB sticks when they first came out. And either way, it doesn't mean he got the entertainment pack, he could have easily gotten the value pack no matter when he got it.
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Twisted Warthog wrote:Wasn't the crappy movie Spider-Man 2? Or at least it use to be.

The best Spider-Man out of the three so far.
No, it's Lords Of Dogtown
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Post by Valium »

100$ Is a great deal.


If you end up putting custom firmware on it, do not go with the newest 3.52 M33, its been having a lot of problems. Stick with the 3.40 OE-A
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Question: Is there any way to get a micro sd to memstick adapter? Or SD?

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Post by Jakq »

What you want to do is upgrade the psp to custom firmware. That way you get all the awesomeness of old psps and the decentness of new ones.
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One of these?
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Post by TheOnlyOneHeFears »

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One of these?
No, that's a Micro Memory Stick to Memory Stick, he was asking about a Micro SD adaptor.

Plan of action for you SS

-Get yourself a decent sized Memory Stick (at least 2 GB, Amazon has them pretty cheap)

-Install 3.40 OE-A as your firmware (there's an easy install package here)

-Get yourself some emulators from PSP-Hacks (benol recommended the best ones, just make sure you get the latest releases)

-Each emulator should have two folders, one called 'name' (e.g. Daedalus), and one called 'name%' (e.g. Daedalus%). Open up the 'name' folder, and read the readme to find out where to paste your roms (usually either in a folder called 'Roms', or simply in the 'name' folder itself.

-Copy both 'name' and 'name%', and paste them in the folder called GAME150 (X:\PSP\GAME150). They will show up under the Memory Stick section of Game on the XMB

-For PS1 Games, convert the PS1 ISO file using Popstation (also on PSP-Hacks). Put the resulting EBOOT file in a folder named after the PS1 Game (e.g. Vagrant Story), and paste this folder into the GAME folder on your PSP (X:\PSP\GAME). Again, they will show up under the Memory Stick section of Game on the XMB.

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