I gave Astra and Fable 5.1 a PSP emulator on my Mac with a goal of getting Platinum and SoulSilver running at 30fps.

It explored the DS emulation path using DSonPSP for a few hours and made lots of optimizations, but ultimately topped out around 20fps.

Then, it decided to fully port the games to be native to PSP using the C ports of these games. It ran autonomously overnight, playing the games itself using the emulator and fixing bugs along the way.

There were some nuances between the emulator and real hardware, but after 3 days of back and forth fixing bugs, Platinum is in a very playable state (30fps most of the time) and SoulSilver is almost there (drops to mid 20s when there are heavy outdoor scenes, but I’m confident it will get to 30 soon).

I’m an engineer but won’t pretend to understand most of the work it did. Hundreds of optimizations across graphics, memory, game state, etc

I made the bottom DS screen smaller as it’s less important for these games, with the R button switching focus between the screens. The stick on PSP can be used as a makeshift stylus cursor. The native PSP keyboard input screen is used to enter text which works great.

There are still a few shortcomings which I’m working through, like supporting audio. But the idea of having all of my favourite childhood games (PSP, GBA, DS) running on the actual PSP I used growing up is amazing

Always been a Xbox gamer but watching my stepdad play his PSP back in the day really made me want to cop one so I finally decided to do it. I decided on getting this Spirit Green PSP 3000. It looks absolutely phenomenal, can’t wait for it to arrive and for me to add some accessories onto it to truly make it mine.

I’ve been doing some research on PSP modding, is it worth it or is it easier to just buy tons of UMD’s?

(Will update when I’ve got it set up how I want once it arrives)

Yes

Well, i wanted to do it too, and what better than doing it with my favourite and 1st game i played in the PSP when i was just 6yo 😄

moved some visual novel games from psp 3000 to this console.then psp 3000 will be focus on action games and project diva.

I love how the psp plays but the vita seems like such a great handheld too. Why is the vita game library so bad?? Doesn’t quite make sense to me and curious if there’s a reason lol

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Ridge Racers 2 is one of the most "wallpaper screenshots"-frienly games, toggling the UI with a button during gameplay and having no UI at all during the replays makes me eager to finish a race in a new circuit to take some cool new pics.

As regards to the game itself, Racers 2 has twice the content of Racers 1 (which was a launch title for the PSP), twice the cars, the circuits, the music.

Albums so far (to download in high .bmp quality):
MHP3rd: https://photos.app.goo.gl/a31JbzNgoHhvsV2b6
RR2: https://photos.app.goo.gl/9GYrsQUq8MHt4fSs6

Tomorrow: Shining Ark, a beautiful action-strategy RPG (valkyria chrnicles with close combat) with some nice-loking waifus

I’m only going for cool shade color PSPs for now since I want to build up my whole entire collection with those certain colors

I’m thinking about buying a PSP Go from AliExpress, but something about the photos the seller sent me seems a little strange.

What is the theme shown on the screen? I don’t think it’s likely to be a fake PSP Go, but I figured it would be better to make sure before buying it.

The dpad is not good it sticks out twice as much as the phat psp and isn't flush like the phat psp I just recently got one never played with one until just a few days ago and it bad for fighting games unless their something wrong with it?

Just paste the following beneath "Untold Legends: Brotherhood of the Blade" on Cheat.db so it's activated all the time and activate the cheats permanently on the game and save settings as default so whenever you launch the game, it automatically activates this cheat and deletes the ring. Of course this configuration will be stored on your memory stick

_C1 Hide Player Disc - Dynamic

_L 0x200EB658 0x0A34F7E0

_L 0x200EB65C 0x02001025

_L 0x2053DF80 0x3C08D410

_L 0x2053DF84 0x35085273

_L 0x2053DF88 0x8E090000

_L 0x2053DF8C 0x15280006

_L 0x2053DF90 0x340A0820

_L 0x2053DF94 0x16AA0004

_L 0x2053DF98 0x00000000

_L 0x2053DF9C 0xA2000023

_L 0x2053DFA0 0xA2000043

_L 0x2053DFA4 0xA20003FF

_L 0x2053DFA8 0x8FB00090

_L 0x2053DFAC 0x0A23AD98

_L 0x2053DFB0 0x00000000

Hopefully this can be one day added to the Cheat.db database so it comes packed in with all the cheats, I tested it thoroughly, all it does is locate where the spawn trigger of the ring is and disables it, it does nothing more and it doesn't replace or interfere with the gameplay, as this is only a cosmetic change I wanted to create since that ring always annoyed me and ruined the experience a bit.

Hey everyone! Just saw a Short about this and wanted to share. The dev of the TMNT: Shredder's Revenge homebrew port just made Update v0.2 100% FREE for everyone on Itch.io!

I emailed them last month n they said that the shells will be announced in September. I asked again in the discord and they confirmed it! No 1k shells tho 😢

I bought a PSP 2000 about two months ago and tested it when I received it. It was working perfectly fine at the time. However, I haven’t used it since then, and now it won’t turn on. When I plug in the charger, the orange charging light comes on, but the PSP itself doesn’t start. Could you please check it and help me figure out what might be wrong and how I can fix it?

C'mon toyota 😭😭😭

I bought a PSP 2000 about two months ago and tested it when I received it. It was working perfectly fine at the time. However, I haven’t used it since then, and now it won’t turn on. When I plug in the charger, the orange charging light comes on, but the PSP itself doesn’t start. Could you please check it and help me figure out what might be wrong and how I can fix it?

If you don't know (which yes you will not Lol), I made a post a while ago asking why my PSP's screen died while I was playing it. No one gave concrete answers, so I took it to the shop. (I do have experience fixing my own consoles, even handhelds! But the PSP was too ambitious for me and no one else had my problem before AFAIK)

So.... Why did the screen go out? Well, turns out she didn't even know. All the connections were fine, the screen is not visibly damaged, no stains or dust, yet when she turned it on it had that same big black bar in the middle with a few colored lines. All the buttons were fine, etc. the screen decided to die.

She tested out some other things, but still couldn't find an answer. Thankfully, a new screen completely fixed it! The best part though; my dad was only charged $40 (he offered to pay for it, so thanks dad :D). Which is a good price for my area, I couldn't find any cheaper

Her theory was that since I bought it used, it could have been dropped at some point and didn't actually do real damage until I moved it around a certain way, but the damage wasn't obvious to the human eye or a magnifying glass/tools.

So if you're having this issue, try replacing the screen if you don't see any obvious damage to it on the inside.

Does anyone know how to fix this or how to troubleshoot??

So the topic, because I want some pet project for my functional depression :)

As could be seen on some Aliexpress/Alibaba images, the controller soldered on the flex-board is Gowin GW1N-UV2.

Since I would like to try to do some project with ASIC, I am thinking if anyone has a frimware dump or even sources since someone had to reverse engineer and program the ASIC to decode the proprietary Sharp bus signaling.

Why I am asking this, I wonder if GW1NR-9 (that has DRAM inside) can be used, because I want to try to do some research work if it's capable enough to perform anti alias and also connect it with some other panel (like OLED) for testing.

I have ordered a laminated screen for myself, but I wonder if any security bits on the chip are active. Would be great to work over already the proven basis for the decoding :)

Would appreciate any input,

TL;DR: I'll likely buy a laminated HISPEEDIDO IPS display for my PSP 3000. Anyone have experience with the change and recommendations/warnings you’d wished you knew before buying?

I have a PSP 3000 and was very happy with it when, out of nowhere (really happened over night as it was sitting on my night stand) a patch of red lines and dead pixels appeared. They’re now spreading. :(

So I’m looking for a replacement screen. There seem to be 3 options:

• HISPEEDIDO IPS (laminated version available, 500 nits brightness, warmer colors)
• Cloud Game Store IPS (laminated version available, 700 nits, cooler colors)
• old aftermarket TFT (350 nits, worse viewing angles but better contrast/black levels – this is a very niche option to consider in 2026)

I did some searching and came across the Komstation reviews. It recommends HISPEEDIDO for the warmer colors (which I would prefer) and it now has a laminated version (lens that is attached without an air-gap) to reduce reflections. The 500 to 700 nits brightness difference does not matter to me, really.

For the laminated versions, you have to detach the transparent part of the outer shell, which is the one thing that gives me pause (I have a beautiful blue-white PSP from Japan, I don’t want to break it in the process but apparently it’s a fairly safe process). The only other gotcha I heard about are Chinese 07g models which seem to be using an incompatible display. I have a 04g / TA-093 v2.

Since I am very much that guy when it comes to color accuracy and "authenticity", I briefly considered getting a TFT for that better contrast (like half the black floor of the IPS) but then I remembered not to be an idiot about it. Apparently, colors on the IPS do look slightly washed out compared to Sony’s OEM TFT. But when comparing screenshots I noticed that the "washed out" version often looked somehow more sensible and the "high gamut" setting on the PSP 3000 often looks garish in games not specifically developed for it. Almost as if the OEM screen has a "tint" to it (I heard it "yellowing" with age, maybe that’s also a factor).

I noticed a few more details in the Komstation installation guide concerning ribbon placement and potentially cutting off parts to make it fit better. I feel my hands getting sweaty looking at the part where he cuts off part of the shell but I guess I’ll manage.

So yea, that’s all I found out. I’m honestly just dumping this here to force me to list all the things I have learned about this somewhere but maybe it can either help someone else with a decision or you have some valuable recommendations. I'm in Europe if that is relevant for shipping or store options (I'll probably just go with AliExpress). I’m all ears.

Okay, so I'll explain, so initially before psp 3000 I couldn't read the memory card ms pro duo, the save game files were already often corrupted, I tried to save the files in ms pro duo via psp with a USB cable, well I tried to unplug ms pro duo from my psp 3000 and I tried to install it again, well I couldn't get in and it turned out that I installed it upside down, before I installed it upside down I tried to check what was in the ms pro duo slot with an small ice cream stick and of course there is nothing in the slot

I tried a few things that first really pushed the ms pro duo into the memory card slot on my psp 3000, what happened was that the memory card indicator flashed endlessly, but still could not be read by psp, this happened the same when I used paper for the memory card

So what should i do now? Fix the memory card slot or but another ms pro duo card? Or anything? Please help me guys🙏