Sony PSP- Is It Worth Playing Today ? - History, Review & Retrospective - Top Hat Gaming Man
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A man in a Top Hat with a Moustache reviews rare video games in his massive collection. Appreciate the finer things in life. The Top Hat Gaming Man is currently traveling around the globe, playing the best games for the handheld around the world. The Best games are like fine wines and only get better with age. Today Top Hat Gaming Man looks at the Sony Playstation Portable aka the PSP and looks at if it is still worth playing today - Hry
Don't feel bad for owning the pink PSP. I have the Hanna Montana version. Got it for 5 bucks. So, I can live with it!
excellent.
Rebel Scum lol I have the hanna Montana psp version also it's the only one I could find that was brand new.
had to solder the drive in?
I would have bought it for 5. I've been thinking of getting a psp. They are pretty cheap.
Rebel Scum Hannah Montana version? That’s gotta be somewhat rare lol I wouldn’t mind having that hahaha
I absolutely love the PSP. It makes me feel good seeing all of the comments praising the device still. It's also super easy to modify. I have mine loaded up with a bunch of GBA games and that's mostly what I've been playing now. Even though it is an older handheld, the system and the games on it have held up extremely well over the years.
I literally just bought a PSP today to relive some of the glory days of having this and I just realized you uploaded this now LOL. Fantastic video. I playing a TON of medal of honor heroes back when it had online functionality. To anyone getting a PSP today; hacking it is a MUST. It improves it in just about every way.
Anyone who says the PSP isn't worth playing today deserves a bloody good thrashing! Yyyeaaaaaa!
Agreed
I just went to another city for a month, a full month away from home, and from basically every handheld available I choose the psp to bring with me, there really is no better choice
kevin bhall it actually very good and i rathere buy a real psp than a shity imulator. Shit i already did!
I agree
Donald McClain hope u bought the 2000 or 3000 version cause the 1000 coloures kind of muted
PSP is probably one of my favorite portable consoles of all time, but honestly I think the Vita is a little better because not only does it have a decent library of it's own, the backwards compatibility for PSP games fixes almost all of the PSP's problems by reducing load times drastically and allowing you to use the right stick however you want.
Here are some of my personal favorite PSP games:
Castlevania: Dracula X Chronicles
Prinny: Can I Really Be the Hero?! (shoutouts to the slightly worse sequel)
Disgaea 2: Dark Hero Days (also the first game which I really suck at)
Half Minute Hero
Pursuit Force
Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker
Final Fantasy IV: Complete Collection
Crazy Taxi: Fare Wars
Split/Second Velocity
Burnout Legends
Valkyria Chronicles 2
Daxter
Buzz!: Master Quiz
Z.H.P
Rockband Unplugged
Fuck yeah Disgaea 2!
I personally spent the most time with Phantasy Star P2. Everyone hates it, but I was so into that game that I learned hex editing for it... I blew around 500 hours on that when I was grade 4.
Oh my god, the PS Vita is an under-rated handheld... Its very sad that most people don't know it exists. I do have a vita and I see people giving me funny looks and saying "That's a weird phone!" or "What is that?" while they playing farmville on there shitty little mobile phone. I have Ridge Racer PSP, God eater and Gran Turismo on there and play it some time to time.
Jawan Meizu The ps vita was garbage a huge disappointment after the awesome psp.
Jawan Meizu persona 4 golden is worth getting a vita for its persona 4 on a handheld :D
What about the Sega mega drive collection and Kingdom hearts birth by sleep?
The PSP is one of the most versatile handhelds ever created, and it still holds up even today.
I mean a PSP with Custom Firm Ware has it all:
- emulation of light N64 games and below
- native support for PS1 eboots and PSP game ISOs
- UMD support for physical PSP games
- music and video players
- themes
- up to 128 gb of storage
- homebrew
- 100% portable with no compromises
- can use dualshock3 controllers
The Vita is superior in terms of hardware, but due to the cfw of the PSP, it is still much more versatile. PSPs can be obtained around the 40-70$ range, and no phone around that price has the same gaming capabilities
I'n waiting until the Vita has a permanent hack so that it can surpass this amazing system.
Indeed
Vita should be more superior now with henkaku
@@rjb_4757 he said on a PSP Go.
For the PSP there was a third party wireless controller option, but It's sadly no longer available.
* 2023 * vita has surpassed it 🙂🫡
You REALLY deserve more attention because of the videos quality.The editing, research,music,comedy were all awesome!
I fucking love this console. My favorite handheld of all time. Playing RE 1-3 as well as great PSP gems like Patapon, the God of War games, Killzone Liberation and more made it simply gold to own.
Sucks we did not get a Maverick Hunter X2 on PSP
Don DL - I was contempt with Mega Man X: Maverick on the PSP without feeling like I needed MMX2: Maverick and MMX3: Maverick, although a release of those would have been cool.
However, I was and still am disappointed that Capcom did not continue with the Mega Man: Powered Up series. Mega Man 3 from the original series is one of my all time favorite games,, so a remake in the Powered Up series was perfect for me. I loved the art style and was anticipating seeing one of my favorite games remade in those graphics.
Been binging your content, mate, and I gotta say, its top shelf. Astounding research and production value. Thank you for your service.
Twisted Metal: Head On and GTA: LCS were favorites.
This is pretty good, but why mention piracy when the PSP has so many retro collections? Sega, SNK, Taito, Gradius... it has so many classic collections to play!
Cool, so where can I buy the 'Nintendo Classic Game Collection'?
You can actually some of the Sunsoft NES games if you have a Japanese PSN account since they were released in PSOne collections.
Okay, I genuinely didn't know that. But the reason I bring it up is because some people like to choose what games they want to play themselves, not having to rely on selections they might largely not care about.
I get what you're saying, but I always like to offer alternatives before relying on piracy, some of these collections have interviews, concept art and such.
You can't talk about the PSP and not talk about piracy. I can't believe he talked about the system not lasting and didn't mention piracy, which played a huge part in its death.
The PSP is a great system. I got it for the Dissidia, and my favourite game on it was Fate/EXTRA a spinoff of the popular Fate/Stay Night series and a interesting dungeon crawling RPG.
MTPK Umu!
NOW I really need a PSP!
Literally spent my morning watching your videos, great channel dude, you've gained a subscriber!
Keep up the good work
I've been a Nintendo fan my entire life but the PSP was something else. I didn't have a smart phone so using the PSP to watch movies, listen to music, read digital comics, browse the internet, look at photos, etc--was simply mind-blowing.
The PSP was the reason I learned to pirate movies...not that I would do such a thing nowadays. 😇
I love my PSP and all the games that I have for it. However, a whole new world of possibilities opened up when I learned about how to put custom firmware on it. Now, as much as I love going back and playing Mega Man Powered Up and Metal Gear Portable Ops, I use mainly as an emulation machine!
I found a pink psp in a random draw today with a few games... I kind of want more now. Really liked it back in the day, great vid :)
love the vids bro keep them coming!!
Great video, very thorough, informative , and entertaining
Love your videos.
PSP is probably one of the best handheld emulation console of all time. It's so sad that you can hacked it to play a retail games since it's early life. Now PS vita seems to facing the same fate as PSP but much worse.
I just came back to Thailand. Strangely the price of the pre-owned PSP doesn't really drop much more than a years ago contrasting the price drop of pre-owned PS vita which about the same price as PSP at the moment.
Still got my psp , original version, still works and was hacked within days of buying it, love me some free games ha ha
Play emulators bro
Sony wants to know your location 😊
Aaahhh...That's the Best Intro on CZcams yet.
I remember my PSP, I loved it. It's such a shame that the screen stared to die until one day it was just unusable. I did the battery hack so I could put custom firmware on it and run all kinds of third-party stuff. I also remember copying UMDs on to my computer's hard drive, then transferring them on to the memory card so I could play games without needing a disc in the drive so it would load quicker. Although I didn't run much in the way of emulators, I did have something that would convert PSX games to PSP so I could play those on it.
My hacked PSP was and still is my favorite console of all time.
And lots of love for the Michelle Chang theme from T2! And T2 is playable on PSP, I luved it at the time. And also lots of love for the FFVIICC and C:SOTN footage.
BTW, the hacking thing eliminates the load times problem -- just launch the games from the Memory Stick.
Where have you been all my life? You just won another subscriber.
Lovely video. Feels like the umd could do with it's own separate video though.
"LGBT model" LOL! I love the PSP, and it's probably my favorite handheld ever. I love the softmod capabilities, and use them frequently, but the system itself is great, sitting somewhere comfortably in between the PS1 and PS2 in terms of power, and being able to provide a home console-level experience on the go. One great thing about soft modding the PSP is that, for collectors like myself, we can use the ISO_TOOL application to rip the UMD games to the memory card. These days, you can buy converter hardware that is basically an empty shell Memory Stick Pro Duo, with 2 slots for microSD cards, and can store 128GB or 256GB on the combined cards, and rip loads of PSP games to the memory stick. This cuts down on the load times, saves the UMD drive so it will last a lot longer, and means you can carry a large portion of your PSP library with you. The nice thing is, soft mods are easy these days, and you no longer need the Pandora Battery that used to be required.
wait how long does the UMD drive last ugh
The PSP to me personally was like a second (or portable) Sega Dreamcast
MrDmoney156 no sonic adventure =(
Thespartann yeah true, then again no 3D GTA on Dreamcast either unless you wanna count Urban Chaos as one
It was a portable ps2 to me. How was it like a Dreamcast? Just the quality of games you mean? I guess it had powerstone.
Yeah the uniqueness of the games on the system is one but the media part like an internet browser, music, video player (though with Dreamcast you need homebrew software to use that feature) Photo viewer (same thing) but also the four face buttons, one analog, and only left and right shoulder buttons (triggers) reminds me ALOT of the Sega Dreamcast for that reason alone and the online functionality too at that.
The PSP is pretty much a PlayStation 1.5
Hey Richard, Awesome video!!
Yep, its a very nice system, and pretty well built too. Mine survived a couple meter-high drops onto asphalt without a scratch.
Its easily one of my favorite handhelds, specifically because of how easy soft-modding is and how much potential unlocks. Just being able to natively play most PS1 games and play backups of your UMD games makes it worthwhile. I almost wanted it more for playing PS classics than the system's own games. A PSP and PS Store downloads are probably the cheapest way of playing classic Square RPGs like Legend of Mana or Threads of Fate.
Emulating the system on PC is also pretty easy for the same reason, its easy to backup and play the games straight from your PSN account, or the UMD.
I never had one but wanted to play Symphony of the night on my PC so downloaded an emulator and a few other games....boy did I miss out. It's brilliant. Was playing all those games you mentioned in the vid
Its a good system to turn into a nice little portable emulator box. Its preferable to running emulators on a phone.
That what I say to my friends when they ask me how to play old games on their cell phones. "buy a PSP" is always my answer.
Lord Alfajor Correct.
One of my fav systems not sure why but it's so comfortable n fun to jump into. GTA Chinatown was one of the best games I played on it.
my favorite psp game are daxter, mod nation racer,starwars battlefront 2
Just bought a PSP last week. It's still easily worth it.
It is also very repair friendly... Got a batch of used/scrapped/broken ones & can repair them to my hearth's delight, most of them are easy to open (especially PSP-1004) & after repairs, most of them work like new :)
Gta vcs, lcs, and ctw were so good to play on the go. The 2 god of war games were also great. Silent hill origins and the shattered memories port was also some of the good ones. As for racing games, burnout dominator and legends was more than fun and it sucked me in for many hours too. What a great handheld console. Good ol days
Let’s not forget the psp was also a portable media player as there was tv shows and movies also released on the umd
very underrated hand held its up there with the SNES and megadrive you can play it on your TV and it has some must have games that castlevania is one of the best
I only owned 2 physical copies of this game: MHX & Castlevania - Dracula X Chronicles. Other games are via Memory Stick. Another remake that I also play called Megaman Powered Up, is an awesome game.
I love PSP games like the Burnout series, Killzone (very difficult game!) and Out Run. However the chance to play "A link to the past" from SNES or "Zelda Minish Cap" from GBA was amazing. I try to promote the system every time I can when someone ask me "what can I play on my cellphone?"
Great list, and good on you for including Maverick Hunter X. The majority of Mega Man fans I know don't even know it exists, and it's a shame!
On another note, you ever play the Prinny series? Hardcore side-scrolling platformers, so mentioning Mega Man made me think of them.
The Bit Vault - I wanted MMX2: Maverick, MMX3: Maverick, and MM: Powered Up 2 through Mega Man: Powered Up 6, but that has not happened...Yet.
I'd happily own a pink PSP! I've been looking for a pink launch-model 3DS, too.
I love the PSP.. I bought a couple games for it today actually
Also, if you connect a PSP (2000 or higher) to a 24" Sony PlayStation 3D LED Display it will scale the picture to full screen without any borders like you see on standard HD displays. It's a nice hidden feature.
Great console, but fuck those umd disc!
y?
talorguitarowner5 found the pspgo player
UMDs are better than cartridges, if not just by being easier to keep track of.
Although I haven't done it, I would like to soon, you can now hack both the PSP and I am sure the Vita and PS TV completely to play every single PSP game digitally even if they never had a digital release. I would rather use a Vita though coz more power, nicer controls, and actually allows more configuration coz of the front and back touch interfacing. Also just a nicer screen and I am sure faster processing. PSP compatibility is full on that too.
+Ketorulz Vita hacking requires it to not be updated above a certain patch. Unfortunately... mine's already updated.
As someone who still spends time with his PSP...
Yes. Especially if you're a JRPG fan.
I use my psp all the time, it's a perfect traveling companion. Sometimes I also take a portable led projector with me when I want to get real crazy.
dude, wild arms music? sweet. i like
A PSP Go with hacks is possibly the second best purchase you'll make, the best purchase however is a GPD Win emulating PSP with PPSSPP, that's awesome.
The wild arms town music was a nice surprise didn't you played that series.
I too brought a psp for crisis core and managed to liberate a crisis core ff7 anniversary model when it was originally released..a great game that really needs to be re-released and given the remaster treatment
Yes. My channel is devoted to it.
Tekken 5:Dark Resurrection, SF Alpha 3 Max, Me and My Katamari, Darius Burst, Lumines, Asterix XXL, and all the Konami shmup collections were my favorites! The pink model is a brave choice and I commend you for it. I'll just stick with my red God of War edition!
I'd like to add Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker to the list of must play games. It basically is a mainline MGS game since the story of MGS5 relies heavily on it.
I know you mentioned it a little, but PS1 games being available on it was a huge selling point for me back in the day. It was incredibly awesome to know that I could play MGS and the ps1 final fantasy games on a portable.
It is very worth playing and bringing around to this day! I love it!!!! :D
Always loved the PSP's great multimedia capabilities. If only Sony would not have been so dumb of using the UMDs.... Instead they should have used HiMDs. They were better protected and much more sturdy. And you could have also used the PSP to play your minidscs. The DAC of the PSP was also VERY good and the soundquality was amazing. Especially when you played PCM Wave files from the Memorystick. I also wished the videoquality of the external PSP camera would have been better and would have been able to record at higher resolutions instead of the native resolution of the PSP screen. The Game-sharing feature was also great. You could could play some games in multiplayer mode with a friend who did not have the game. The PSP would simply transmit the needed gamefiles to your friends PSP (the engine and the game level) so you and your friend could play a multiplayer session together. Not all games supported it but some did. Like Sega Rally.
Plus the library of rhythm games on the PSP is awesome! I mean dj max, project diva, pop'n music, patapon, k-on... this console is a goldmine!
Now i want one too :D
i am playing snes, ps3 and gba all the time, so psp-esque Devices were not that interesting to me, until now ;)
I loved my PSP as well as my DS and as I have stated before that was the best handheld generation so many great games it really was a repeat of the SNES vs Genesis and guess what it was the consumer won!
Finally someone that agrees with me and shares my view on the PSP! Doesn't stop me from playing the 3DS a lot, but gotta love me some PSP. Street Fighter Alpha natively on that system is just Street Fighter fan service. The best!
I wish I still had my PSP. It was definitely ahead of its time!
Dude your dreams came true crisis core is out now on every console including the switch let’s goo
For me one of the best games on the PSP was it's release of Gran Turismo, in fact I have the GT Special Edition PSP 3000, which looks identical to the standard black one except with a GT logo underneath the face buttons. While not the best release of Gran Turismo, for a handheld it was excellent. It has a very wide selection of cars and most or if not all of the classic tracks from Gran Turismo 3 & 4. It's one of the only games I like which uses the analog nub, it feels just right in GT for whatever reason unlike a lot of other games which don't feel that great with the analog nub.
You mentioned every game I'd like to play if I own a PSP console. Also Patapon and the GTA and Metal Gear games. Now I realise I have to upgrade my Nintedo DS. Yeaaahhh...
I also brought a pink one, it was the cheapest. Was funny to play Silent hill Origins on it! XD
Fun fact: It's screen is higher res than the 3DS.
As a person who owned both at one point, I've gotta say that Harvest Moon was one of the major reasons I enjoyed the DS for as long as I did. I really enjoyed the PSP also, possibly even more overall, but I think the library of games was also a major reason why the DS beat out the PSP.
Great video!
I bought a PSP after I got hooked on my VITA. Amazing console!
This top hat man will show us all that if your wearing a top hat your a god
Star Wars Battlefront 2 has to be my favorite.
The persona remakes were the reason i got a psp. :) also i went from a piano black psp and reshelled it pink. :D
MAy I say that, once @round ze 5:20 turn, I love the inclusion of one of the more upbeat tunes form Wild Arms ( though it might be the remake, wild arms:alter code F PS2). ^~^
I just bought it, and trust me it is fantastic.
Good thing I have PSP Bronze and Gold when playing action and RPG mostly. I prefer without trophy system much better.
Even this year, I played Nintendo DSi, PSP, 3DS and PSVITA in my collection.
By the way, congratulations of being a true manly holding PSP color pink. xD
It's nice to see that mine isn't the only screen that is scratched to hell.
my personal ffav as well ..good days
psp diehard! nice video btw
That's my 2nd favorite handheld! (behind GBA)
Is there a chance you could do the 'Oddworld Vs Microsoft Scandal: The
Full Story (OddPortal)' one of these days? I definitely know some sort
of schism between the two tribes happened (also with publishers GT
Interactive, and Just Add Water)
I just came here after an hour of playing GTA Chinatown Wars on my old psp...yes, in october 2018 😊
Peace walker was the reason I loved this hand held
Final Fantasy 7 Music in the Backround
i loved this because it had crash of the titans and I loved some other games on it too like rachet and clank.
also its great for emulation, especially the psp go
One game that's a PS2 and PSP exclusive (unless you get a PCSX2 emulator) is Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories. The audio may not be as good quality as it could be, but it is an interesting prequel to a prequel to a prequel to a prequel. The PSP is less than $20!
Gotta say I love the system for all the crazy ass JRPG's and other great exclusives. My only issue is the hardware longevity. My current one refuses to charge anymore and the frame has loosened up to the point that hitting some buttons also activates buttons like the pause or the home button. I wish there was a way to mount the drive so I could run it on my computer with the disks I have, rather then simply emulating them. I dont want to run bootlegs, I own the games, I just want a way to play them without dealing with my PSP falling apart!
I won mine for sales working for sky lol wanted the only white one and got it other three were black. Very nice machine and had and have plans of getting games but, other machines got in way. Plus knew it was easily hacked to hell and back so, just have it. Still pretty mint. Got midway classics or something with it bought gta liberty stories and then it just sat for what 13 years or so lol...I want the metal slug collection on it probably lots of good games like you say. Just not a massive handheld fan I do like them, but I rarely actually use them.
Love the tekken 2 Michelle music
Is that music from the first Wild Arms soundtrack I hear?
IIRC PSP was absolutely huge in post USSR.
psp loading time was long only if you used umd without extracting game data on console itself, most of the game that I've played (and I play a lot of games) allow you to install game data on psp which would shorten loading time in 10 times, while some of the games offer you to do that while you are creating save data on the very first launch of the game. That's why I don't think that this "problem" should be on the list.
My favorites GTA vice city story's, GTA library city story's, star wars force unleashed and star wars battlefront 2. I know all of these can be played elsewhere but I really like the portability.
I remember I modded the soft quite a bit, so I could some fancy shit. I remember downlocking the CPU so I could game longer. 7-8hours of GTA LCS/VCS, music for over 12 hours. And I never shut it off, just, You know, put it in sleep mode so it was always ready to go.
great system in its prime also a great emulation machine.
I like the PSP, but that analog stick is way too stiff.
I also think with a lot of console(s) doing not selling well had to a lot with people not buying the consoles because of the marketing and lack of knowledge of the console(s). I never knew about the Saturn, Game Gear, Lynx, Dreamcast, Neogeo pocket, and a lot of other consoles in the 90s and I was born in '92. I mostly gamed on Nintendo consoles because my parents bought me a N64, a game boy, Gameboy Color, Gameboy advance, GameBoy Advance SP GameCube, Will, & WiiU, DS, DS Lite, DS Lite XL., 3ds XL, New 3ds XL. I did get a Xbox, a Xbox 360, which I switched to a PS3 because of the red ring of death, PSP, PS Vita, PS4, PS TV, love that for the fact that you can use PS4 controllers. I don't have an Xbox One because I don't really care about it.
I have a 2000 and I agree the anolog is stiff gives me cramps. I just got a 3000 and it feels way better I'm not sure if there is just more ware on it or that's how it came out.
Play GOW on it, you'll nearly break the thing.
There are some games that you get on the PSP you don't get on a DS (you could get a digital on the Vita, but I have a physical copy of it.... and it's Jeanne D'Arc)
You, the manliest gamer ever.
Well loading was always going be long on the PSP considering the type of games it delivered, however extra long load times was only ever a the first two PSPs, it got better from there.
Psp cramped my hands with action games and had a really bad media format. But it was such a great system for rpgs, videos, and music.