The PSP Dilemma

Today I have learned the truth of PSP... and of course would help to explain some to make things a little easier for others whom is suffering like me at the moment =)


Today... went to Sungai Wang, why?? Well fell for the temptation and wanted to go get myself a PSP today~~ =]

Prices were rather tempting though, some of rm600 plus, and some was even on the side of rm550 and stuff, but till we reached a shop where the guy became honest with us and told us that it won't be worth the money to get a PSP now because of the problems it's giving...

Kinda made me go blur like "har??"

And he started telling the story that the latest PSP now, Sony has made it un-crackable, so thus impossible to play pirated or even downloaded games, and I though "well that sucks!!" but eventually they have managed to crack the latest PSP, but they could only hack it till so far of being half way...

what's half way??

Well... in a way of putting it simple, when you play games, you turn on the set, when you don't wanna play games you turn off the set~ but with a half modified PSP, when you turn it on, you can't turn it off... because if you turn the PSP off, or if it even runs out of battery... just as long as the set is turned off... do that the whole PSP would reset to original, thus deleting all the pirated or downloaded games on your PSP memory card... -_-"

THEN you have to re-install the software onto the PSP AGAIN, then do a little things here and there, then you can play again, but yeah you can't turn it off... so the trick is to keep your PSP on forever, and to keep the charger charging... that kinda sucks, especially at the thought that that might fry the PSP motherboard or destroy the battery...

In a simple way...

when it's turned off = everything gone

what made it worse is when you accidentally press the network update button, that would literally lock up the whole PSP thus making it unplayable... so he said in the end you can just use it as a ball to throw around or rather a doorstopper since it'll then be practically useless...

That really sucks -_-"

Of course it sounds good with a PSP now selling at 500-600, but that's because they don't include the software, with the software it'll add on another RM150 to it... but it's just there so if you accidentally turn it off then the software is there to help you re-modify it again... but it's practically useless when you lose everything especially your saved games and stuff =.=

The safest option?? Well it would be to get the 1st or 2nd generation PSP because those are fully modified, no problems at all, no software needed, just need to update the firmware once awhile... what's best?? Well you can finally turn it off without a single worry~~ yay!!

BUT of course they have stopped production for the 1st and 2nd generation PSP's... shoot...

BUT in another way... just to help you all know which is the 1st, 2nd and 3rd generation PSP~ cause I myself didn't know about it at first~~
here they are, they go into three types, 1000,2000 and 3000, which of course if you know maths... 1000 is first version, 2000 is second and 3000 is third, so the newest one in the market now is the PSP 3000~

but can't really tell the differences huh?? Don't worry =)
The first one, the PSP 1000 is the fat one, which is the one on the bottom, and the top, slim one, is the 2000 and 3000 model, so its very easy to tell the difference on which one is the 1000~

But the 2000 and 3000 model, well that's the tricky one~
The difference of them both?? Well a bit improve in graphics, the 3000 has a built in mic so you can Skype with your friends~~
and of course the top left, the 2000 model has the PS symbol, yet the 3000 has the SONY word right there~~

Another way to find out...
would be by looking at the bottom of your PSP at the serial code~
Check the LAST FOUR DIGITS there, if you can see this one is a PSP 2000 by the number of it, a 1000 would be the 1st one, 2000 second and 3000 third~

wasn't so bad was it?? =]

in a way of summarizing everything together:

PSP 1000 - most stable one, no problems at all, safe and the best at playing downloaded games~

PSP 2000 - slimmer, looks nicer in a way, like the PSP 1000 is also stable at download games

PSP 3000 - better screen, built in mic, super unstable if your playing download games, screw up once and the whole set can throw d...

Kinda sad though... but proves how geng people are getting to prevent piracy ~~ but then again they sell stuff so expensive, hard for people like us leh~~ but I think somehow in the future they'll surely be able to crack the psp 3000, but until then... erm... I don't know, there's a shop that has two more PSP 2000 new models, Metalic Blue and Pink color... urrrr!!!

Still checking around, a 2000 model is definitely more expensive now!! But just checking around and see la, hopefully can find one with a nice price though =)
But yeah... if their having so much problems with the PSP 3000... can't imagine how much harder would it be to crack a PSP GO~ =)

Oh yeah, Sony Center is selling the PSP GO for RM1088, but Sungai Wang sells it for RM880 -_-"

Then again, no point buying it now since you can't play any games with it unless you download...