Looking to buy a PSP, need some advice/help

[The Heartbreak Kid]

K i need a little help... the psp i purchased did not come with a usb... so i just picked up one i had lying around the house and every time i plug it into my laptop and put the psp in usb mode, it shows up as Memory Stick and my computer tells me i need to format it before i can use the folder. What do I do?

[Izanagi]

If you already modded your PSP, then go ahead and format it. It`s very simple to re-create a magic memory stick after your PSP is modded.

[The Heartbreak Kid]

Havent modded it yet

[Founder of SonicX]

If the memory stick is empty then go ahead and format it, cause basically your not losing anything.

And if you need the Mod files for your magic stick send me a PM I have them prepped and ready

[The Heartbreak Kid]

Fixed all issues, Emulators are running perfectly   

[show552]

i have psp 2004 and its awesome i play iso game thnx to pandora battery en sandisk its helped me out firt i updated my psp to 5.50 ofw and it sucked so i bought pandora and sandisk now i play game for free you can put emulator to on it so you wont get bored

[Founder of SonicX]

Fixed all issues, Emulators are running perfectly   

Awesome

[Random Regular]

Fixed all issues, Emulators are running perfectly   

If you want a SNES emulator be sure to download : Snes9xTYLsmcm (or something like that)
It runs faster than the normal Snes9xTYL emulator (And some bugs were fixed IIRC)

[xPreatorianx]

Well the way to go with any current/last gen PSP is a custom theme. Like the M33's or whatever. I would never stick a stock "Official" Sony firmware on the PSP. It holds back 75% of its potential. I just wish they would hurry up and use custom firmware on the PS3. It has the same layout and im guessing firmware system as the PSP. SO it can't be that hard. But I bet people won't do it until either A) Blue ray disks come down in price or B) You can use a 1 TB Harddrive on the PS3.


EDIT : But since I have had my PSP (1 year after launch) I have never used pandora to mod it. Ive used other methods. But its been almost a year since my PSP screen shattered and I have not replaced it so I have no idea if the latest and greatest custom firmwares require pandora to install them or not. If so ill just stick to my custom firmware from 2 years ago.

EDIT2: That is when I can get money I can throw at my PSP to get a new LCD screen. My PSP is the old "FAT" one of the first generation ones at that. So it may be hard to find a good LCD screen but I will start looking when I get cash to do it.

[Founder of SonicX]

Well the way to go with any current/last gen PSP is a custom theme. Like the M33's or whatever. I would never stick a stock "Official" Sony firmware on the PSP. It holds back 75% of its potential. I just wish they would hurry up and use custom firmware on the PS3. It has the same layout and im guessing firmware system as the PSP. SO it can't be that hard. But I bet people won't do it until either A) Blue ray disks come down in price or B) You can use a 1 TB Harddrive on the PS3.


EDIT : But since I have had my PSP (1 year after launch) I have never used pandora to mod it. Ive used other methods. But its been almost a year since my PSP screen shattered and I have not replaced it so I have no idea if the latest and greatest custom firmwares require pandora to install them or not. If so ill just stick to my custom firmware from 2 years ago.

EDIT2: That is when I can get money I can throw at my PSP to get a new LCD screen. My PSP is the old "FAT" one of the first generation ones at that. So it may be hard to find a good LCD screen but I will start looking when I get cash to do it.

The PSP's XMB layout is way different then the PS3's the PS3's is actually a OS (that us installed internally to the board. I figured this out when I took mine apart to install a few chips) the updates that you get are patches.

And another note the PS3 would never work with Mods at least not in this time.

[Izanagi]

Well the way to go with any current/last gen PSP is a custom theme. Like the M33's or whatever. I would never stick a stock "Official" Sony firmware on the PSP. It holds back 75% of its potential. I just wish they would hurry up and use custom firmware on the PS3. It has the same layout and im guessing firmware system as the PSP. SO it can't be that hard. But I bet people won't do it until either A) Blue ray disks come down in price or B) You can use a 1 TB Harddrive on the PS3.


EDIT : But since I have had my PSP (1 year after launch) I have never used pandora to mod it. Ive used other methods. But its been almost a year since my PSP screen shattered and I have not replaced it so I have no idea if the latest and greatest custom firmwares require pandora to install them or not. If so ill just stick to my custom firmware from 2 years ago.

EDIT2: That is when I can get money I can throw at my PSP to get a new LCD screen. My PSP is the old "FAT" one of the first generation ones at that. So it may be hard to find a good LCD screen but I will start looking when I get cash to do it.

Actually, the PS3`s Firmware has been indeed hacked, but it`s not worth it. These firmwares are 100mb +, and games will soon take up to 20Gb++ and downloading that amount, even on today`s would take a whole lot, Blu Ray recordables are worth $40 on their own (IE Single disk) You would pay more , so  it`s not worth it.

[Playing Enemy]

I have a PSP 2000 that I hacked with two 4gb memory sticks with about 200 iso's for them (not necessarily on them). I have all the available emulators too. I also heard that you weren't able to mod any memory stick bigger than 4gb because the formatting is differant on them. I may be wrong, but that's what I read in a lot of tutorials. If you want to just buy mine, I'm trying to get rid of it. Just a thought.

[xPreatorianx]

Heh did not know the PS3 was hacked. But like I said above today's standards it still is not worth hacking a ps3 because like I mentioned and couple above me Blue ray disks are bloody expensive. Plus games no adays on the PS3 are huge. But 360 games are still able to stay on one DL disk (trust me I know from daily experience).

But On-Topic Shullbocka in about a month or 2 if you have not sold it hit me up through PM with a price and we will work something out. Actually give me about 1-2 weeks. But hit me up on a price today so I can think about it.

[Founder of SonicX]

I have a PSP 2000 that I hacked with two 4gb memory sticks with about 200 iso's for them (not necessarily on them). I have all the available emulators too. I also heard that you weren't able to mod any memory stick bigger than 4gb because the formatting is differant on them. I may be wrong, but that's what I read in a lot of tutorials. If you want to just buy mine, I'm trying to get rid of it. Just a thought.

True but if your real tech savvy you can change the settings around its the same as installing a TB HDD in a system.

[Random Regular]

I also heard that you weren't able to mod any memory stick bigger than 4gb because the formatting is differant on them. I may be wrong,but that's what I read in a lot of tutorials.

That's not 100% true.
I have like three 8GB Memory Sticks which are all modded, But the only Memory Stick bigger than 4GB that can be modded is the MARK-2 type, But they are more expensive than a normal 8GB Memory Stick.

[Swiziga]

hey does anyone know if there is a popsloader for 5.oom33
i updated from 4.01 to 5.00 and my psx games stopped working. i kept searching for a 5.00 popsloader but couldn't find one, only one for 5.00-2. i used it and my psx games start but they freeze and the menu for popsloader doesn't come up anymore when i hold R

[Izanagi]

hey does anyone know if there is a popsloader for 5.oom33
i updated from 4.01 to 5.00 and my psx games stopped working. i kept searching for a 5.00 popsloader but couldn't find one, only one for 5.00-2. i used it and my psx games start but they freeze and the menu for popsloader doesn't come up anymore when i hold R

Update to 5.00m33-6 and search on Google "popsloader pack for 500m33-6

[Swiziga]

is 5.00m33-6 stable? i have a friend that updated to 5.00-3 and it had problems and there was no cxmb for it

[Izanagi]

is 5.00m33-6 stable? i have a friend that updated to 5.00-3 and it had problems and there was no cxmb for it

I have 5.00m33-6 and use CTF themes and frequently use PSX games on it more than I play PSP games.
Only problem I`ve had, and that might be the psp itself, but It`s happened to 2 of mine so be careful: The UMD drive kinda "logs off" as in won`t read UMDs, althou I don`t use UMDs 

[Kev The Galaxybender]

I know i'm late to the party, but a PSP2000 will work, grab a * gig stick and hit up www.pspiso.com and you're all good to go. You can find pre made pandora batteries for like $12 on amazon or ebay and you can make the magic memory stick with software found on pspiso.com

also, when buying a memory stick, watch it, some sellers will sell you a stick, and when you get it, it will not be magic gate supported and it will not hold the full capacity of what the stick reads.

[Whoblehwah]

Attention all psp owners/potential buyers: Check out Tokobot. I finally got it today and man.... that game is awesome! It's really addictive. It has a few problems but overall its great. The main complaints from reviews were that you can't control the camera and that the character moves too slow. Personally I kinda agree about the camera thing, but its not as people as I thought it would be. You "reset" the camera with the L button and that works just fine for me. Also, while the character walks slow, its not like he's UNBEARABLY slow or anything like that. If you like platforming/puzzle solving games you should check this out.

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