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A lot of people like the PSP go from what I've heard and I've never heard anyone who claimed to own one to talk bad about it

Go for it.

Or you could just get a Vita and effectively have a PSP with twin sticks and a nicer screen

I think the 1000 models are the easiest to put a CFW on.

>>15899920

is it easy to hack? and do i need a specific version?

>>15899937

its very easy to hack, and you would need any firmware version 3.68 and earlier, ideally 3.65 and earlier if you care about a convenience hack that allows it to be permanently hacked without you having to run a homebrew application every time you start it up

hacking will work fine with either a 1000 model or a 2000 if that's what you're referring to

>>15899926

>that battery exploit

still makes me laugh to this day that it exists

>>15899896

2004 is best.

1000 is nice and heavy.

3000 used to have more difficult CFW

>>15899966

What battery exploit?

I've put CFW on a 1000 and either 2000 or 3000, don't remember. Neither was difficult.

I'd recommend avoiding the 1000 though, I know that the Dragonball Z fighting game doesn't work properly on it as you can't do multiplayer. There might be other games I do not know about. I think the people saying PSPGO are fucking with you.

Hi goyim, jew here. I have an old PSP 1000 that's probably not up to date. How much could I extort out of a gullible goy for it?

>>15899896

3DS

Why not get a Vita? Expanded library, fully moddable, completely backwards compatible with PSP games, sd card adapter so you don't have to worry about soyny's jewish horse shit, emulators for everything. Plenty of cheap ones to be found.

>>15900285

Any guides on hacking them?

>>15900323

good ones that aren't outdated I mean

I use a 3000, but can't really say how they compare with other models, as it's the only one I've had. Works good though.

>>15899926

>>15899971

When I put CFW on my 3000 it wasn't a big hassle at all, barring the need to refresh it every boot up.

>>15900323

Here's a link from the Vita thread. I assume it's up to date.

https://vita.hacks.guide/

>>15900522

I'd think if you ran it off the normal Sony connection and/or turned off non-manual updates, you'd be fine. Then again though, I was doing an update to a game I'd gotten recently, only for Sony to attempt to push through a firmware patch with it, despite never having done so before, so who knows. Best I can say is be wary.

>>15900122

Pandora battery. You scratch off a connection on the battery's circuit and it enables some kind of debugging mode.

Jesus Christ you guys are really fucking stupid when it comes to hacking PSPs. It's amazing you retarded niggers don't need floaties to eat soup.

>>15900622

How'd you get to that conclusion with just 18 posts of which 5 at most even mention cfw?

The GO has the better screen out of all the models and has bluetooth (you can pair headphones and a dualshock 3 to it), but it uses proprietary storage (M2 cards, 16GB max, no adapters yet), the thumbstick is tiny and the dpad while good (much better than the 2000/3000 dpad), is poorly placed, so you won't be able to "claw" with it, if this doesn't bother you buy a GO, otherwise the 2000 is a better choice, don't buy a 3000, the dpad on those feels mushy and the screen has scanlines, the 2000 has none of these issues and the early models are fully hackable without the risk of bricking your console.

Don't fall for the 1000 is best meme, it has a shitty dpad and half the RAM, which really fucks you over on the most demanding games and emulation, and you can't run the plugin that lets you listen to your own music in the background or cwcheat due to lack of memory (cwcheat runs but tends to crash).

>>15900285

Get both? PSP does emulation better due to it's form factor and screen. Vita is good for portable PS4 around your house.

Get a 3000. Screen looks good and it has the best specs. Super easy to hack.

>>15899896

A TA-085v1 is definitively the best revision of the PSP as it is a 2000-series with the ability to softmod. It is the only revision of the PSP to allow this.

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https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/PSP/Motherboards

>>15900330

I'm salty you didn't link mine instead. It points to that one for the initial setup, but also covers the majority of everything else you'd want, notably pirating.

1000 has 32MB of ram which makes some tasks slower, can have perma soft mod, no video out.

2000 has 64MB of ram which makes tasks faster, slimmer, lighter, has video out, can be perma soft-modded.

3000 has an improved screen which is a noted improvement over the first two models, can't be perma soft-modded, restoring soft mod just takes 5 seconds so it's not even really an inconvenience, has video out.

GO has video out through a different cable, proprietary USB cable, and different memory format (M2) of which I can't find in any sizes bigger than 16GB and also support PS3 controllers through blue tooth, allowing proper 240p component output of PS1 games with a PS1 friendly controller, surprisingly comfortable and nicely compact, 3000 screen.

They're all fine really but the lack of an adapter for microsd to M2 makes the GO less desirable. Getting a 2x Micro SD to Memory Stick Duo adapter and loading it with 128GB of storage can really be a delight. Be careful about removing those sticks frequently as they're very fragile.

Bought my PSP new for cheap after the end of their life for piracy. I actually wound up buying (or receiving for free legit in the case of Gurumin) every English game I spent significant time on except Dungeons and Dragons Tactics (no digital version and tiny tiny print run). Granted I don't think I spent more than 20 bucks on any of them and most were even cheaper.

For the models, basically what

>>15901864

says. Two amends I'd add

>proprietary USB cable

Do note that you really shouldn't be using the USB cable. The speed bottleneck is horrible. Take out your microsd and put it in a USB 3 adapter and you'll transfer shit to it in a tiny, tiny fraction of the time.

> different memory format (M2) of which I can't find in any sizes bigger than 16GB

This is unlikely to be relevant though, since any sane person will buy a micro-SD adapter for either. M2 adapters are harder to find, but checking Amazon shows they absolutely exist and are in the same price range.

One warning with Kenka Banchou: It has a tendency to crash because the PSP, at release, was underclocked and Sony let devs use the full clock in a official update. CFW, by default, runs all games with the full clockspeed and while it helps for a lot of early games this also causes Kenka Banchou to crash. I don't remember how to disable this though.

The psp go has by far the best screen.

>>15902063

>Do note that you really shouldn't be using the USB cable. The speed bottleneck is horrible. Take out your microsd and put it in a USB 3 adapter and you'll transfer shit to it in a tiny, tiny fraction of the time.

Most people with a GO don't use M2 cards at all since they're rare and expensive, USB transfer is an absolute necessity, even the biggest game which is FF type 0 takes 10 minutes to fully transfer, that's nothing.

>This is unlikely to be relevant though, since any sane person will buy a micro-SD adapter for either. M2 adapters are harder to find, but checking Amazon shows they absolutely exist and are in the same price range.

Micro SD to M2 adapters don't exist yet, those "adapters" you saw on amazon are most likely the ones that require you to unscrew your PSP and wreck the M2 slot to fit a micro SD slot near the battery, they do work, but you need to permanently modify your PSP GO and they are almost never on stock since these things aren't mass produced, the guy who made them is from japan and he sells them rarely due to how much of a hassle they are, and due to the GO's lack of popularity the chinks didn't immediately rip it off to sell unlike the vita adapter which got chink bootlegs 5 hours after release.

>>15902063

>One warning with Kenka Banchou: It has a tendency to crash because the PSP, at release, was underclocked and Sony let devs use the full clock in a official update. CFW, by default, runs all games with the full clockspeed and while it helps for a lot of early games this also causes Kenka Banchou to crash. I don't remember how to disable this though.

Just keep your psp at default speeds, the few games that need "overclocking" to run (Ghost of Sparta, Busou Shinki MK2, Type 0, KHBBS) do so by themselves, overclocking does nothing for the PSP, you may be thinking of the Vita where overclocking some games can give you massive framerate boosts and the ability to run games at their original resolution.

>>15900522

Gotta hand it to Nintendo: they are so incompetent that they never even try to fix exploits. The Wii U was never patched.

>>15900522

First I'm hearing of this. Care to elaborate? Or is it just retards being retards.

>>15902822

They fixed the Switch's RCM exploit, and the Wii's boot1 exploit pretty quickly. I'm just surprised they didn't try fixing the 3DS bootrom since it had multiple flaws.

>>15902822

The 3DS ended up being fully patched eventually, apart from people exploiting the service backdoor which still required a DS flash cart. Nintendo never cared enough to fully patch the WiiU because nobody bought it so why bother? I guess you can say the same for the Vita but it says more about Sonys mismanagement that they even still have a crew updating it at this point than anything

>>15902811

>Emulating on a phone

>Using virtual controls

wew

>>15902926

The fact that freeshop existed for years will never not be hilarious

Purchased a 2000 like 2 days ago and I'm very happy with it so far, I hear 1000 has bad ghosting and 3000 has nicer colors but also scanlines. The Go seems like it'd be too tiny to be comfortable and my hands aren't even that big. The 2000 feels much smaller than it did back when I was in elementary, but it's still usable, I recommend keeping a umd inside the tray at all times to give it that extra few grams of weight. Also, wow, the graphics in some of these games held up much better than I expected.

I had a 1000 which was fine until it fucking died. I might get a vita, costs about the same as some late psp model anyway

>>15903007

I cannot for whatever fucking reason, get BotW to run smoothly on my PC. Do you need an SSD for it to run well? My computer isn't completely up to date but it's not outdated either, it runs all modern triple A garbage on High/Ultra with ease.

>>15899926

>1000 models are the easiest

They're all easy as shit and I don't think the methods vary anymore per version.

That said, the 1000 models are heavier because they use metal parts instead of lightweight plastic. It's also sturdier because of it. Dropped mine down the stairs once and it didn't have a scratch.

>>15903048

>ghosting

Right, forgot about that. I personally never noticed it, but the later versions do have sharper colors.

>>15903007

Better yet you have a top of the line gaming PC and have no desire to play any WiiU game that was ever released.

psvita og is best psp

>>15903007

*could

RIP

2000 for tv out

now the pstv is actually the best version, because you shouldn't play games outside you fucking loser

>>15915361

I don't, but I play my Vita in bed.

>>15899896

PSP Go is not comfy at all. You will hate it if you have to play for an extended period of time