Only 2000s kids will remember me!

>>375963046
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hjf0D6bRTQ8

Fuck those discs

>>375963046
I thought these were so neat when they came out.

>That kid who got his first UMD and ripped off the plastic

It's like they were designed to make you buy games digitally off the PSN store instead

>>375964679
>Got my first PSP game
>Opened up the box
>Game fell out
>Landed onto hardwood floor edge on
>Plastic flies apart, disc goes rolling off
>Realize that I have made a terrible mistake

>universal media disk
>Can only be used in one handheld

>>375963046
fun fact: i bought the s[iderman 2 movie on umd like 6 months before i got my parents to get me a psp. i still have it, with a few other movies, like elf and the punisher since my gamestop wouldnt accept movies when i traded it all in. i wish i hadnt. my psp was my first porn device and vice city stories might be my favorite gta. simpler times.

>>375964951
I think the idea was they were going to release portable media players that used them, like those UMD movies would had been playable on dedicated video devices.

>>375963046
more like only 00's kids won't support me

why is it that a 90's kid like me supported the PSP and a 00's kid just cried?

How did the fuck up with PSP GO so badly? The PSP was fucking amazing.

>>375964762
>Digital games load faster
>Digital games make your battery last about an hour longer
>Digital games are more convenient than carrying around huge UMDs
>Everyone pirated them anyway since hardly any digital games were on the store, and others were overpriced at $30 or $40 with almost no sales ever

>>375965310

Nigga what the PSP was fucking large

>>375965356
PSP go has a better d-pad and screen, everything else is shit I agree

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Here's your analog nub.

I remember something about the first batches of PSPs being able to shoot UMDs for quite a distance.

>>375965395
>huge UMDs

ManlyTears please leave

>>375963046
>dig out my PSP
>load up Burnout Legends that was in it
>slow and loud as fuck
>go CFW my PSP and download the game
>probably took less time than the UMD loading

>>375966179
Altoid's sour tins were nice and could fit in like 3 UMDs in them if I remember right, but carrying around a PSP and something for UMDs takes much more space than just worrying about a PSP.

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>>375963046

>>375963046
>they actually called these fucking things universal
I wish sony lost the format wars more often

Why couldn't they just go with cartridges like Nintendo?
Still a god tier handheld though.

>>375964951
Flash memory really took off.

I played through Midnight Club 3 and enjoyed every minute, even the ones spent loading.

>>375966850
Those were expensive and didn't have high storage capacity.

Launching a disk like 5 feet at someone made for the best feature of the PSP

>>375966752
Blu-Ray was a pretty hollow victory

>>375964762
You're forgetting how expensive flash memory was at the time. Telling people they had to buy a 1 GB memory stick (or SD card) that could hold a few games at once, or 1 large game, and they had to erase it and download a new copy of the game everytime they wanted to play another one, would have been ridiculous. Look at how much flak they got when they tried this with the Vita's memory cards.

Sony saw how sticking with cartridges instead of discs hurt the N64 against the Playstation, and didn't want to limit their games to the size of what the DS could have. It may have turned out to be a bad decision to go with discs on a mobile gaming device, but it wasn't without merit.

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>>375963046
Sorry OP, nobody remember that.
But everyone remember this!

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>tfw will never get a handheld GTA game like LCS, VCS, and Chinatown Wars again
Shit blew my mind the first time I tried it out

>>375966850
Back in 2004 when they came out, carts topped off around 64MB while UMDs were 1.4 GBs.

>>375963046
UMAD? XD

>>375963046
Talking of which, didn't the PSP have that comic viewing application by default? Was it ever used for something?

>>375967141
>ended up buying some Micro SD from Hong Kong
Don't even fucking remember why I did that shit, but I did. Maybe it was the most efficient at the time? Been too long.

I remember being amused I was playing fan-translated patches of a Japanese game on a hacked Japanese console loaded from a Chinese memory stick.

My own problem with UMDs was transporting them

>>375967016
>got a PSP on release
>tfw a 1GB card cost me £100+
>I went and put 32GB into it the other week for £10

>>375965950
How does that even happen?

>>375967324
It was patched in later, it wasn't on my PSP at first. You were able to "buy" comic issues from the PSN store, I think it was mostly Marvel titles. It's not a generic eBook / eComic reader, so you couldn't view your own files on your memory card with it. It got shut down years ago, and I think you aren't even able to redownload old stuff you bought.

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>tfw downgrading your psp and making your first pandora battery and magic memory stick
i cracked more than 30 psps
one day my brother brought 5 psps to crack from school

good times

>>375963046
What the fuck was Sony thinking?

>>375965950
>tfw thought it was a speaker when I first bought it

>>375968821
>tfw I broke my first battery I tried doing it with
Shit sucked thankfully my brother gave me his psp before because he didn't use it anymore

>>375963046
jokes on you, im from before 2000 and my umd is still loading

>>375963046
>go into store
>they're still selling second hand UMD movies

>>375963046
UMD's great and all, but I think everyone's forgetting the super underutilized game sharing or the fact that it doesn't work with modern wifi encryptions.

>>375970089
Oh, I don't forget. I have a separate wireless router just for my PSP to connect to.

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>>375969996
>tfw got pic related at a Troma booth at comic con

>>375964679
>mfw I tried to do that with the demo disc but stopped before I wrecked it and felt stupid

>>375963046
>tfw you can still quote entire scenes from Spiderman 2 because it was the only umd you ever had

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>>375963046
>tfw unearthed my PSP and the battery is so bloated that it's unusable

goddammit

at least there's emulation, but it's not the same

>>375969996
The Goodwill near me has a ton of them.

>>375971615
>went to go look up how much new batteries cost
>$50+
Might still be worth it, by battery just can't hold a charge any more.

>>375965245
Yeah probably but it was a stupid idea

>>375971247
>hey nice PSP
>"yeah do you want me to pop in spider man for you until supper is ready"
>sure sounds fun (thinking: it'll be neat to swing around the city on a portable system)
>"alright man here you go"
>it's the movie
>I'm sitting in a family member's living room with a 40+ inch TV and surround system watching a movie on this portable "game" system, or so i thought it was anyways
>don't want to turn it off or whatever in the fear I'd be seen as rude after he hunted down the UMD and popped it in for me
>feel like a colossal fucking idiot
>harbor an irrational distaste for the PSP for it's entire lifespan thanks to that one event

why is it the memories like that are the ones i really seem to hold onto, fuck

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PSP was the last handheld I owned, and I bricked it trying to hack the frameware. Well, technically I bricked my friends and had to give him mine which was hacked. Good times though, playing GBA games on psp was always a lot of fun.

I think the game you had to use was lumines 2? Shit game but it cost so much because it was the best way to hack it.

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>>375972971
Movies on the PSP was pretty stupid, but surprisingly it isn't the stupidest thing ever done on a handheld.

>>375963046
So many of my UMD's plastic tops caved in and made the game unplayable.

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>>375973246
>YFW you can watch 3 spongebob episodes on your psp
>Three!

>>375973206
I made a Pandora's battery to hack mine and my friends PSP, way less failure rate and better compatibility.
It was so worth it. Playing Monster Hunter, Phantasy Star, or FF:Dissidia with them was the greatest times I had in college.

>>375963046
WWWWWWWWWWHIIIIIIRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

>>375967253
Average game size was much smaller though, especially in 2004-2006. Even the larger games that fill the disc really aren't that large, they're padded with dummy data. They can be trimmed and compressed and still uncompressed much faster than loading from a disc. Within a couple years DS had 256MB carts and eventually 512MB carts (megabytes too, not megabits).

PSP games could have gotten by with carts just fine and had better load times and longer battery life. Videos would have needed tighter compression and and compression in general would need to be used but it would have been fine

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>>375973246
correct, but comparing a relatively obscure peripheral with a selling point is somewhat dishonest

i mean, especially when absolute utter fucking trash shit like this exists and makes the PSP look like a multimedia powerhouse

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>>375963169
>Loading screen for loading screen

>>375973412
>mfw bricked mine
>scratch head how to unbrick it
>found some code where you press and hold a combination of buttons
>worked
I don't know what happened and it was the best thing ever. Also turned me into an overprotective mom.

>>375973412
Yeah college is probably the key word, I was in like 8th grade and just getting into that type of thing. Successfully Jailbroke around 80 iPhones in high school though.

>>375964679
That's exactly what I did. I ripped the plastic ring off and tried to put the disc itself into the PSP but couldn't get it to work.

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>>375973246
>tfw I actually have a couple of episodes of Samurai Champloo on UMD
Best movies they made for the PSP were the Digital Graphic Novels of Metal Gear 1 and 2.

>>375973749

>glorious sharp b/w goodness

>>375973902
>Overprotective mom
Like, of children or are you saying you were overprotective of your PSP? I'm sure when I have kids they'll be trying to hack shit without me even knowing.
Atleast I hope they share some of my interests :(

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>>375974065
>sharp

you wot

>>375963169
Powerstone collection loading screens were so fucking bad.

>>375964679
that was me

>>375963046

The only people that invested in these were very fucking stupid. I mean that literally. I never met an intelligent person that thought UMD was a good idea or was going to take off.

>>375974160

It said so on the box

>>375974393
oops, my bad

>>375972110
>$50

If it's that much for a battery just buy a new PSP 3000

>>375973749
There's also a color variant... Which has colours.

>>375971615
ditto

sony's greatest fucking mistake with their handhelds was using proprietary hardware

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>mfw I found out how copy my friends games onto my memory card

>>375963046
>every PSP i ever saw was modded

No one will remember you..

>>375970441
Good taste.
Didn't even know that was a thing though. UMD Troma?

>>375974135
PSP, of course. And if I did get children,
I would force them into this stuff.

>>375974562
You can't just use both spellings of the word, pick one.

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>>375965356
At least the go had a decent purpose in mind. The 3000 was an absolute shitshow for unsuspecting parents
>13 years old
>finally get PSP for christmas
>store didn't have many psp games so i only got loco roco, fifa 12 and wipeout
>still fun but not my thing
>i'll just get stuff off the store
>also get a psn gift card since my big bro knew i was getting a psp
>can't figure out to connect to internet
>find out the 3000 doesn't have wireless
>never play my psp for over a year
>eventually get a 5gb memcard
>jailbreak psp and just download games

>>375964679
Almost me

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>tfw i cracked my psp
>brother sees my playing LCS
>crack his PSP for him and copy over LCS for him
>he tells everyone at school
>tfw i ended up cracking like 15+ PSPs for people
I could've made a nice buck if i decided to charge for it.

>>375964679
>work at vidya store
>kid buys PSP game, immediately opens the case and tears the umd open, throwing the lone disc into the system
>that slow moment where his dad and I just looked at him and then each other
>give them a free replacement umd case

Replacement umd cases were shitty looking but very helpful. Half the time the trade-ins would have cracked cases or have the entire clear plastic piece pushed in, preventing it from playing. They were so cheaply made.

I think the funniest thing I've seen with the PSP was a guy trying to return one of the MGS spin-offs.

>"I just can't get it to go past the menu."
>brings it back in
>shows me it won't proceed, asks if he can just swap it for another used copy
>ask if I can see his system
>hit circle and it goes past the menu
>guy just sighs heavily and says 'goddamnit I'm stupid'

>>375975784
This reminds me of the story where some guy couldn't speak the language of the place he was in and his toilet wouldn't flush. So he got a maid, told her in the language the only way he could just saying "Watch" and hits flush and his shit goes down.
Dude got the maid just to watch him flush his shit.

>>375968995
Same here

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>>375965356
At the very fucking least, it killed off UMD so good for it I guess.

>>375964679
>little brother gets a psp for Christmas one year
>asks me to help him get the disc out so he can play
>start trying to find a way to open the plastic casing
>almost break it before we finally try putting it in the system while still in the plastic and it worked

The sad thing is that I was18 at the time.

>>375967003

Yea considering the digital/streaming era we are in

>>375976745
I still have SOCOM, LBP, and R&C Size Matters (games that came free with PSPgo purchase) on my account. Should I download them on my Vita?

>13 years old
>Dad says that he knows a guy that can hack my PSP for free games.
>8 to 10 games installed, were mostly all shit. >Last game was Patapon, spent hours on that game and developed a liking to rhythm games.
> A year later find out how and where to get free games.
>Went on a downloading spree and played the best the PSP has to offer.

Man those were great times. I still have my PSP and it still works. I still hold on to play games that get translated.

>>375977227
If they're still on your account, go for it.

>>375963046
i swear these were made specifically to break as soon as possible while making it look like it was user error. i domt have a single remaining psp game that works and i take good care of my things

>>375976849
>The sad thing is that I was18 at the time.

Doesn't matter considering how many fucking formats there are and how they try to protect their mediums with physical drm.

Back then I only used handhelds so I just popped it in like a cartridge

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>>375963046
>traded in my 2000 to get a Go
>get home and open box
>where do I put my games?
>mfw I had like 20 games on UMD

>>375977227
I liked size matters for sure, even if I don't remember anything about it.
I failed 2 fucking "select the signs" captchas for this so appreciate it.

>>375963046
no i was in high school when the psp was popular.
Gauntlet legends was great.

>>375977661
Captchas are getting stupid. I have to do 3-5 of them to post and they are always select the vehicle. Would help if the picture wasn't rush hour fucking traffic.

>>375974198
Is it still terrible in a digital form factor? Been contemplating getting it for Vita.

>>375976076

Oh damn. I haven't thought about that one in a while. Good stuff.

>>375977303

They were very goddamn cheap. Even with gentle use the case will start to split the UMD casing apart on the side. The only other thing I've seen like this would be 360 discs. I don't know what it was with those but it wasn't uncommon to see them with cracks forming in the center from constant removal from their case as well. You'd see cracks sometimes on other platforms at the time (PS3, Wii) but not at the rate of the 360.

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>>375965356
Go is literally the best iteration of the psp. Only muh physical fags hated it.

>>375977903
i had it on vita, i don't remember the loading times being bad at all, so you should be fine

>>375977958
They're pretty fucking rad. Having dualshock 3 support is a nice touch too.

I just remember some of the drastic loading differences between UMD and digital.

Like GTA:VCS. 30 some seconds off UMD. 4 god damn seconds off mem stick.

>>375977916
I'll still never understand how my MW2 disc for PS3 got a massive crack from the center circle of the disk to a small part of the silver. I'm now extremely cautious taking out and putting games back in their case.

>Hey anon, do you have a PSP?
>"yeah"
>hey everyone, anon has a pretty small penis

Fucking joke got old so fast

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>that sound and feeling of popping a UMD in to an original PSP and opening/closing it

>>375977303
My entire UMD collection still works. How exactly are yours breaking?

>>375963046
Never used one but I've seen them and using optical discs in a handheld is a very bad idea. Enjoy your Sanic '06 loading times.

>>375978229
Never heard that one, my middle school must've been especially retarded.
>>375978337
Not him but my guess use alone would wear them out, the "plastic" was closer to rock candy than a cartridge

>>375975093
I'm only half British.

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>>375978229
REEEE FUCK THIS JOKE

>>375978337
PSP optical drives fail fast. All of my psp don't read umds anymore. Digital is better in everyway now. UMDs are just obsolete plastic.

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>>375963046
>tfw you that one kid in 9th grad with a DS
>Get made fun of for having a baby console
>Sell it, and get a PSP
>Still get made fun of, because I'm only playing the classic PS One games on the console and not a M rated or Sport game

High School was hell.

>>375978096
what does that mean? does the psp go vibrate or something?

>>375980818
You could play PSP Go games using a Dualshock 3 paired via Bluetooth, although it needed a PS3 handy to initiate that.

>>375979494

Who gives a fuck what they say anon, those hypocrites play those shitty mobile games

>>375978229
lmao

>>375963046
I'm pretty sure even most 2000 kids will not have a clue about what this is supposed to be.

ANALOG NUB DRIFTING

>>375965356
It was a version of the PSP that couldn't play any physical PSP games or use any prior PSP memory cards or those memory card adaptors that let you use sd cards.

Still, it's a good console in of itself, though if you're not content with the internal harddrive you have to pay through the nose.

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>>375978245
PSP hardware was so cozy. I didn't even mind the shitty analog nub. It needed two though.

The PSP community was cozy overall though. All those videos of custom led light setups guys would use to pimp their console. The cfw community, at least on YouTube, was pretty chill and helpful. TolstoyKafkaEvesky video reviews.

It's a shame the library of games didn't age all that well. Going back to it today, only the RPGs hold merit. The western games are mostly shitty compromised versions of games you can probably emulate on your PC these days. But I'll always appreciate how cool the thing was in it's time.

>>375982297
Yeah, despite having vastly inferior hardware I feel like there are way more good DS games that have aged well.

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>>375963046
umd is the worst format of all
so glad all my PSP games are on microSD now
wish the PSP wasn't so poorly made -- I'll be on my sixth if I get another (first was a beat-up ass hand-me-down from a friend, second fell and died, returned my third because it came with a faulty d-pad, the fourth developed hideous screen issues, and my current one randomly doesn't want to turn on for no apparent reason despite a charged battery)
and all of them except the one I returned developed issues with the analog stick

haven't had to deal with getting multiple of any other handheld anything ever, it's not like I don't generally take care of my shit

>>375965356
storage was kind of small, game availability sucked, m2 cards are retarded

>>375975180
the 3000 is supposed to have wireless
the E1000 (pic related bullshit) doesn't

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>mfw I saw my first vagina on my PSP

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>>375982841
>mfw i discovered denise milani

>>375963046
>he didn't install a cfw
>>375982782
>wish the PSP wasn't so poorly made
I've been using mine since 2009 and I never had any problem.

>>375963046
Yes and you were shit
Remember how you could just twist the PSP and shoot them at your friends?
You are part of the reason Piracy became rampant on the PSP

>>375983009
12 year old me had a good source of fapping.

>>375982841
I saw so much shit in the PSP web browser. So much shit.
It was always a bitch and a half getting things to load too, because mobile-optimized websites barely existed and the thing had no RAM.

My PSP was the only friend I had in highschool

;__;

>>375983227
>>375983237
i once waited like 30 minutes for a youtube page to load using my neighbors wifi cause i wanted to save some lewd video. didnt work. if it did, my 32 mb card was almost full anyway. little me was dumb and desperate

>>375983237
I remember finding a pretty good website for 3 minute long MP4s so I just downloaded those.

>>375983359
I had friends, but they were asleep and I was playing with my PSP.

>>375964679
That was me

>>375983485
vuclip.com?

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>there are people ITT that unironically had PSP as their childhood handheld

>>375983806
Well I had a DS too.

PSP owners were typically rich kids

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...you guys are just joking right? You didn't actually think you needed to break the UMD to play the game....right?

>>375983806
It was my teenage handheld. Still nostalgic over it.

>>375983870
I don't know if it's just your area but I grew up in a pretty poor part of the US and PSPs were everywhere in the ghetto. They loved the sports games.

Got a PSP on release. Had Ridge Racer and Lumines.

I may be dreaming, but I remember it didnt take too long to be able to install CFW. I know I got it on release here in AU on September and pirated Burnout Legends and had an NES emulator by the new year.

I love my PSP go

Fantastic little console for God of war, trails of the sky, jeane Darc, tic-tacs,

>>375983806
PSP is turning 13 this year anon.
People that got them when they were 6 are adults now.

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>There have been multiple people throughout the years trying to take Nintendo's place as the king of handhelds
>They've all lost
>Sony comes along and tries to do it as well
>They are by far the most successful, sold over 80 million PSPs, the farthest anyone has gotten
>They still lost to the DS with a huge 70 million gap
Was Nintendo just destined to keep that crown? To this day Nintendo still hasn't lost a generation of handhelds

>>375982782
>M2 cards
I gave my 1000 to my older brother because he was moving from here in CA to NY, and he had enjoyed playing it before. So I got a Go and repurchased some games before cracking it.

Then the Vita gets announced and it's a new, different, still tiny, but expensive memory type.

>>375984389

Vita hardware and software outsells those of 3ds in the east

>>375984169
Launch PSPs were so simple to CFW it was laughable. Throw an exe on your memory stick and launch it, boom, you're done. There was no security then.
After about 50 different firmware versions, some semblance of security was getting implemented. And of course the newer generation PSP you had the harder it was compared to the previous version.

It was cool seeing PSP homebrew take off. It's what turned a small niche community into... well a bigger niche.

>>375984059
there's a reason disc cartridge formats never caught on (like MiniDisc and DVD-RAM), and this is it
>>375984389
DS was a fucking anomaly.
still don't know how Sony managed to fuck up the Vita so badly
it's not like no one wanted the thing, it was just miserably promoted and then support from Sony just fucking died
also, jewing people on memory was a mistake

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>tfw first time loading a custom theme and running a gba emulator on your psp

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>>375984538
Come on anon, I love the Vita, but lets be real here

>>375984567

>and this is it

Well I guess I really need to stop having faith in humanity. You're all fucking dumb sacks of a meat. I can't believe this. Its a crappy format but to think so many destroyed UMDs.

>>375984567

What killed the vita was memory and implications that it was an extension of the ps3/ps4

>second screen from console

Name 1 (one) fucking game that does this

>>375984389
DS was cheaper and games were easy to develop for it. I'm still glad PSP got the support it did though, lots of games for the western and japanese audience alike.

>>375984708
Go shoot up a school about it or sonething you cringelord cry baby.

>>375982782
>wish the PSP wasn't so poorly made

Had mine since launch, dropped it a thousand times and it still works. But then again it is the 1000, which is just build really solid. Only the UMD drive can fuck up, but I got CFW on it anyway. No more fucking UMDs.

>>375984878

Great reply.

Try not to stab yourself in the back of the throat with your fork when eating you mouthbreathing sack of shit.

>tfw remember playing my PSP on my aunt's staircase while the grown ups were finishing christmas dinner

Bliss

>not storing your weed in the UMD drive

Wew

>>375984957
you know, I should probably just get another 1000
all my later PSPs beyond the first were 2000s
the 1000 d-pad is so fucking bad though, I literally taped a nickel to mine to make it suck less (and it actually helped, if only a little)

the 1000 was in miserable condition when I got it, but that's the thing -- it survived long enough to be in miserable, but working condition

>>375985078

DUDE

>>375985078
>tfw people actually did this
shit was hilarious to actually see

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>TFW still have my 3000 series PSP

I never got into the whole homebrew scene. can I do anything with it?

What is the best video game console, for someone who only plays to video games rated E For Everyone?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMguSriiu3U

>Got a PSP 2000 used for $50, not accounting for the microSD cards and the adapter

If only SNES emulator didn't run like shit on PSP.

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just found mine, never realized how fucking tiny psp's are

>>375968821
I have never seen that specific battery. The hell is that even?

>>375985979
Yes. Just google it. All you have to do is run a file on it and you're done.

>>375986439
Google and a translation says:
"According to some sources of information a Sony technician after repairing a PSP forgot to remove the battery and a memory stick that contained all the data needed to unlock the PSP and sent the PSP to its owner with surprise. From what is thought the battery accesses the flash through a connection pins (I think it's called that) and the battery needs the screen so that it can interact with the flash since the PSP is briked."

So it's like Pandora Battery+ I guess

>>375974274
Was there any other choice? If you wanted to play on the PSP you needed to buy these you stupid fucking cunt.

>>375986869
Download maybe? But I'm not sure how big of a thing was the PS store when the psp started.

>>375986869
Not to mention it was the best media format available for handhelds during the time of its release. It you cared about storage, anyway.

>that one kid who had a battery and a sd card and would go around chipping peoples psps for money

He was the same kid who had a backpack full of snacks and would sell shit during break time, guy was pretty cool

>>375987475
It didn't exist. And download speeds on mobile devices at that time were abysmal.

A download-only device in 2005 wouldn't have been viable, and by the time it was viable it was too little too late. Still love my Go though.

>>375963046
>umd sensor gets broken
>takes 15 minute to read something from the disc
>learn about cfw
>tfw wasted 300$ on games that won't even work now instead of getting a 16gb microsd with magic pro due adapter

>>375967141
i got a pro duo that had a couple of GB storage and thought it was the coolest thing ever. I even walked around with it at school and had a few movies in really shit quality on it.

>>375975526
wtf I love Helga now

>>375975784
>hit circle and it goes past the menu
There's the problem. In Burgerland, X is supposed to be the confirm button on PS consoles, but they kept it as Circle on most of the Metal Gear games prior to MGS4.

>>375963046
I remember when I bought my first PSP game I tried to pry the disc apart and separated the inner disc from the clear covering and destroyed the UMD. Went back into Walmart and got a new copy saying it came broken.

Good times.


>>375965356
PSN Store was a damn wasteland when this thing released. Like 1 in every 12 games was released digitally and they never went on sale and as a result it was cheaper to buy UMDs because retailers would lower the prices.

>>375967464
Those nubs were pretty weak to begin with. Anything that relied heavily on using them in a circular motion a lot like the God of War games is enough to atleast wear them out. The way they were placed in the PSP was also another issue because it was just one big hole that lead right into the PSP's circuits or whatever with nothing protecting it which made it super easy for dust, hair, or grime to build up down there fucking up your nub's alignment and sensitivity(controls in game moving on its own).

Who members that demo disk?

Nearly got me suspended from junior high school for playing it too loud

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1D7BFC939947BB9C

>>375969881
I was born in 1994 and I think I'm an 00s kid

It's not about when you were born, it's about the decade you remember most of your 6-10 years occurring in

https://youtu.be/_PG9Ns7F_yY
Am I a faggot for liking those mods? they look dope as fuck

>>375968995
Same.

>>375981673
To be an 00s kid, you have to be born in the mid 90s. If you were born in the mid 90s then you probably grew up with the PSP and UMD discs

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>>375984601
>first time running a Genesis emulator
I used to think I needed to be at home to play my Sega games.
No longer!

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>>375965136
>bought Spiderman 2, Elf and The Punisher on UMD for the PSP

that fact is not fun at all...

>>375992356
sorry! figured people might get a kick out of how horrible my priorities were.
you posted a stewie gif and i had the freakin sweet collection of family guy as well.
i want to burn it now.

>>375977916
I've lost so many games because of that shit.
Namely CoD WaW and Aliens Vs Predator (2012) or whenever that game came out.
Regardless, it pissed me off.

>>375964679
That reminds me of when I got my GBA SP. I thought it still used AA batteries and tried to unscrew the bottom for hours before turning it on.

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ALL DAY ERRYDAY

Still use the psp daily

>>375990273
>Ghosts n Stuff
>Mexican
I expected as much

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http://www.strawpoll.me/12877970/

Question for 20 year olds of /v/: do you associate your childhood more closely with stuff of 2000-2006 like Cartoon Cartoons, Yu gi oh, PS2, Avatar TLA, Gorillaz, Discman, Malcolm in the middle, Cyberchase, Tamagotchi, Osmosis Jones, original Ben 10, and Kim Possible?

Or 2006-2009 stuff like CN Real, Hannah Montana, PS3, Wii, Bakugan, The Dark knight, Justin Bieber, WallE, Twilight, Chowder, Marvelous misadventures of Flapjack, Adventure Time, and Silly bandz?

>>375993197
2000-2006 no question. 2006-2009 were shitty Middle School times for me.

>>375992917
This is why they made manuals

>>375993197
No, all those TV shows are shit. I used to watch The Flintstones, Scooby-Doo, Speed Racer, Samurai Jack, Card Captor Sakura, Rurouni Kenshin, Get Smart.

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>>375993039
>check on Infinity's english translation progress
>been stuck in "almost done" status for years now

>>375993197
21 here. anything before spiderman 3 is my childhood. failing to understand the dissapointment of that movie is what made me the angsty tween i was then. i never had cable, so half the cartoons you listed were not available for me unless i went to my dads which was rare. fucking loved cyber chase though. watched that shit well into my teen years. i sgtill have a ton of yugioh cards ad the battle disk lying around. might sell them if i hit hard times.

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>>375965136
>that kid who leant you his psp cause he was cool but you found a bunch of porn in the browser history

>>375993558
I'm your age and I loved Spiderman 3. But maybe if I rewatched it now I'd see it's see.

>>375993803
*I'd see it's shit

>>375993803
eh. to each their own. i dont even hate the emo peter or the dance scenes, i thought they worked. the whole thing just feels rushed and the amnesia plotline was a let down from how hyped i was for harry at the end of spidey 2. not to mention the spidey 3 games were shit so i couldnt even fall back on that. spidey 2 and the times surrounding it were magical. spidey 3 never stood a chance. also, r.i.p. spidey 4. bruce campbell as mysterio would have been great.

>>375993553
If you played enough of psp2 you can play infinity just fine

>>375993197
Motherfuckin' Cyberchase!

Yeah, 21. Definitely the first one. Dicking around with Ratchet & Clank, Sly Cooper, and Jak & Daxter.

Transformers. Fuckin' Yu-gi-oh on all the time on Kids WB. Watching whatever was on Toonami at the time and being hype even if I didn't watch any of the previous episodes. Staying up late to watch Adult Swim and their runs of King of the Hill and S-Cry-Ed. That one weird show with Lil' Slugger.

That random Digimon Series that was on Toon Disney or Disney XD. I still don't know to this day if that one show was "Get Ed" or "Jet Ed." Marveling at how shows I thought were fairly new were already on Boomerang.

>>375966732
Rwplayin that shit now. Finallt found my psp charger yesterday.

>>375977958
As a physical fag I loved it. I kept my games sealed and pirated anything I wanted

>tfw no work due and can play vidya all day because tafe is easy as fuck
Feels good being a brainlet

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>>375988931
>Not having a limewire copy of Final fantasy VII advent children on your psp in its tank case with built in speakers so everyone could watch it before sophomore year
>type this before searching psp metal case speakers
>ADVENT FUCKING CHILDREN DEMO

>>375978529
lol

>>375983560
underrated holy fuck

The PSP died because of proprietary bullshit and the Switch will have the same fate.

>>375995549
Do you associate your childhood more with the "Cartoon Cartoons" from 1999-2006, or the live-action CN stuff from 2006-2009?

>tfw jerking it to porn on the PSP internet browser
>tfw only three tabs and 64mbs of RAM to work with
>tfw opening some websites only to find that some pages just won't load
>tfw clearing out the memory every night

Medal of Honor: Heroes was also pretty tight.

>nearly a decade ago
>99 cent store selling a ton of UMD movies
>pick up hellboy, oldboy, spiderman 2, and tons more for a fistful of dollars
>marathon movies at night when the house is sleeping

Good times

psp3000 masterrace reporting in

>>375983806
High school is still part of childhood.

>>375999894
"Cartoon Cartoon" Never gave CN Real a true shot and from the sounds of things that was for the best. I'm going to go take a trip down nostalgia lane. Avoiding Code Lyoko now that I know a sequel series was introduced that was live action-ish.

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>>375983806
PSP/DS shouldve technically been my first handhelds(I was 9 when it was released) but my family was poor so I had a Gameboy Color then Gameboy Advance when I was 9 or 10

I was still really grateful (Eventually got a PSP in middle school) but man it sucked seeing your friends have a DS/PSP and you were still using a GBA/GBC

Also the PSP is 13 years old faggot

>>375963046
So why the fuck did they have the analog on the left side?