Hackerman Willy Mods PSP

ScribblingWilly the Badass Hackerman has turned his PSP into a portable Arcade with every game out there, across every Retro platform from the Atari to the PS One. How did he do this? I hear you ask. Well, let me explain…

You’ve probably heard of Modding. PC Gamers have hacked (Or Modded) GTA 5 to let you play as Iron-Man, be invincible, or do any number of crazy things. And you know a PSP is a Playstation Portable hand-held gaming console. It only makes sense to combine the two and hack the PSP with custom Firmware, Emulators and ROMs to play any game for free, in true badass hacker style.

Its not exactly legal, so if your a Sony Rep, a Cop or any Eyeballin’ Muthafucka reading this, mind your business! This is not for you…. move on. Nothing to see here!

Just like an Android Box, Modding the PSP is perfectly legal. Its what you do with it then that lands you in deep shit. Playing the games that arent out anymore is kind of OK, since nobody but some collector on Ebay is making money off selling the physical copies. But like, PS One games and PSP games are a bit shady, since its basically pirating. Its dodgy enough writing about this stuff!

But Ill soldier on, for sheer entertainment…

The first thing I noticed was the incredible complexity of the whole process. Because its dodgy as fuck, there’s barely any reliable info out there about it. I’ve been reading Forum posts for the past 2 hours, slowly growing more and more confused. Some conflicting info, Firmware versions, Custom Firmware options, Emulator files and ROMs later, my mind was left fucked.

My PSP was bought in CEX, second hand. It had a memory card slot sticking out , I had to cellotape a different thing on it shut, they wouldnt take it back, and finally to add insult to injury, as I settled down and got into the bloody mayhem of GTA Vice City Stories, semi transparent vertical lines began appearing and distorting the screen! They were only getting worse so I figured why not try to mod the piece of shit before I dump it, if I turn it into an unusable brick, who cares! The moral of the story is, don’t buy hardware in CEX, its defective, shoddy and will break shortly after purchase.

I soon discovered that the last update I did on the device fucked my chances of Modding it bigtime. Its on Firmware version 6.61 and to Mod it, I have to run a downgrader program to install the 6.60 Firmware I had in the first place. Why, Willy, Why!!

After I did that I had to choose between two different kinds of Custom Firmware, and thats when I started questioning if this was actually worth the time. So I navigated away from that shit, and looked up what Emulators you can get for when its done. There’s a PS One Emulator, I think you can somehow get PSP games for free too. A Nintendo 64 Emulator, Game Boy , Colour and Advance ones. Looking good as far as console choices go! At least for the Novelty of it like….

But I was becoming overwhelmed with confusion by this point, and thats when I realised that I could probably infect my computer with AIDS by downloading all these Emulators, Firmware and ROMs from dodgy assed sites, so I gave up. Thankfully I didn’t turn my PSP into a brick yet.

Then I began to wonder, is it really worth all this hassle just for a few retro games? I finally decided that I honestly wouldn’t be fucked with all this technical shit, its terribly complicated. And to be honest, who wants to play an Atari 2600? Or an Intellevision? And what the fuck is a Vectrex when its at home?

Nerds out there, don’t hate! I’m just incredibly lazy and wouldn’t be arsed with all this work, when the end product just isnt worth it for me. I saw some Badass PSPs on YouTube with Thousands of Retro Games Modded onto them, and I honestly wanted one. But not with this amount of work!

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