Help: Sony PSP

Help: Sony PSP

Trying to get hold of a standalone Sony PSP for my brother for xmas, however, I can't find anywhere stocking it for around £179.99? which seems to be r.r.p.

All I can find is these gigapacks, which are bundled with a load of shit games, and are nearly a £100 dearer. Anyone out there have any suggestions where to look, either high street or online?

thanks in advance.

My mate got a few on ebay at around the £180 mark (each) delivered yesterday if thats of any use.

These shops are using these packs as an excuse to make more money!!
bastard brought em straight round mine for bios flash :evil:

You can get em off ebay already flashed to 1.5 for £180 anyway tho !!!

Cheers. Yeah the packs seem to start around £260ish and upto like £500+ total rip off as all the games look poor.

EBay is a last resort, cos it is flooded with imports I think? And I'm not entirely sure what the warranty situation is buying of ebay.

i need one capable of playing GTA which is firmware 2.0+ isn't it?

Im not sure about gta m8 but everyone i know thats got / getting one is either buying an import with 1.5 on or flashing it to 1.5 when they get them to play imports / home brew / copys etc !!!

yeah, the 1.5s on ebay are cheapish... AND play the homebrew stuff... makes much more sense....

Just read this

"How to Keep v1.50 firmware while playing GTA LCS!

1.First download SXT Version Changer 2.02

2.Then install it on your PSP using the included readme.

3.Then open the program in your psp, and select the v2.1 firmware.

4.Follow what it says and then load your gta game or any other higher firmware requiring game, and itll work fine without asking for the firmware upagrade "

These ones are japanese, not euro models.

I wouldnt buy one anyways, expensive paperweight lol

are you kidding??!?!??!?!

get a decent memory card and you're laughing!!!! movies, games, MP3s - the lot - wide screen video for a start... u seen the tiny weeny screen in the video ipods - now THERES pointless!

Only time i play games etc is in the house or at work.
Have a laptop and desktop for games movies and music at work.

If i want to watch a movie i'll watch it on a nice large screen, if i want to listen to music i'll use an mp3 player, if i want to play games i'll use a pc or games console.

The fact that a lot of games are over 1gb onto your memory card annoys me as well. Thats a few 2gb memory cards ur gonna need if your say going away and wont have access to usb ur games across when you want to chop and change.

I'm just not a handheld fan


EDIT * Although I am enjoying playing about with homebrew stuff like emu's on em at the moment.

p.s. Yes Video Ipods are a waste of money. Users of them must be burnt alive.

cheers for the info mate.

guess if i don't get a retail one sorted today, i'll have to take a risk on ebay.

If you get one and you want help flashing it for *ahem testing copies of your originals* drop me a pm, can restore it back to original settings also so its safe.

No probs but mind i cant confirm that this works 100% , just wot i read on the net !!!

It does work m8, i've got gta on my pc hdd, its been tested.

If you can postpone Christmas for your brother, this may be of interest to you, it works out around the same price.

thank you for you kind offer mate but i've just managed to get a standalone gigapack from play.com for £205, which means i don't have to pay for the wanky games that get bundled.

result.

on a slightly different note... has anyone had a load of bother getting the wifi / network acess on these to work, i can connect to my network (after disabling DHCP and having to assign static IP's for everything :evil: ) but it claims that it has no internet connection. my mere prescence here, surely proves this to be inaccurate

anyone?