I recently moved all my PSP library to a Retroid Pocket 4 Pro, because of battery life and upscaling, but my PSP is still working, the thing is that being able to charge everything with USB-C is really comfortable for me, and I'm really scared of modding a USB-C port on my PSP. The performance on the RP4 is really good.

What is the solution to the umds? I don't trust them to keep working. Can everything be run off the SD card nowadays?

.........I feel sad. I never had a PSP. To me, the PSP feels like "That new Sony handheld". Then I hear it was released like 25 years ago, and that can't be true.

So I go look in the mirror, and expect to see my own young babyface. You know people are always saying I look way younger than I am. Constantly getting carded to buy alcohol.....they always think I'm 15!

But as I look in the mirror, I no longer see the youthful face that would get carded. Instead the old man in the mirror looks more like my father.....if my father had any balls to grow his hair out like a rockstar. But still....it has gone grey. The hairline a slight bit receeded.

This can't be MY face! Who is this stranger? And then I remember. Years spent wasting my time in a relationship that didn't love me. Years spent in a house filled with rats which I didn't have the authority to exterminate. Years dealing with cancer from living in a rat infested hellhole. Somewhere in all that covid was a thing until it wasn't.

And now, this face looks back at me, still thinking of the PSP as new, and I only have one question....

"What the hell is a Vita???"

I do miss the PSP. It was my "cellphone" as I had a talk only limited plan with my family. I would use it like the old Ipod, downloading music and videos to show my friends. I even downloaded fake Win7 to play on the browser. We would use Skype and talk over the internet since it was free.

I do miss spending all summer with my best friend Joe and my younger brother playing MPO(+) and Peace Walker, which we all sank 200+ hours into. We would then team up as a hunting party in MHFU, killing monsters over and over.

The demo and free game scene was great! I played tons of demos, discovering many solid titles: Holy Invasion of Privacy, Badman! What Did I Do to Deserve This? Pixlejunk Monsters, Patapon, LocoRoco. I didn't even get to dive into the homebrew scene either.

To wrap up a school night, I would sure the internet with it (and then eventually connect it to the PS3 to game or surf the web since it was faster than the PSP browser) watching South Park.

Man, I miss handheld gaming (mobile gaming doesn't count) and the Switch/2 doesn't get that itch that the PSP and DS fixed.

I loved my PSP. I really can't believe the resolution was 480 × 272. It seemed a lot more high res than that.

I didnt need another gaming system but I'm having major fomo because ive always wanted a PSP and they will be gone in a few Years like everything..

I've been playing Puzzle Quest on my original PSP every so often and it's really such a nice change of pace. No enshittification, subscriptions, forced updates, distractions...

I know it's just a game system, but it feels like it's helping repair my attention span and reminding me why I enjoyed technology a decade or two ago.

This is just an article I wrote some time ago, but seeing so much interest in Sony's PSP lately, I thought it might fit in here well enough :)

The PSP isn’t just nostalgia. It’s still a genuinely great handheld.

That's something we tend to forget: good technology stays good when it's old. Our need to have to next thing was manufactured.