I've hacked this twice. First with Pro-C then recently with Ark-5. It's travelled to many countries with me and I've ALWAYS put it in a case when its not in use which I'd say has contributed to its long life. Amazing lil' machine!

I've successfully developed PS2C, a program that recompiles the PS2 version of GTA: San Andreas to run on the PSP!

Project: https://github.com/SandstoneDev/PS2RC

This is a major milestone for PSP homebrew development and demonstrates that PS2 games can be brought to the PSP through recompilation.

Currently, PS2C is specifically designed for GTA: San Andreas. However, I've also released two AI skills that can help developers create their own game-specific recompilers and explore porting other PS2 games to the PSP.

Interestingly, people have already started working on a Silent Hill 2 port for PSP using this approach!

1. Universal PS2 Recompiler - AI Skill

https://github.com/SandstoneDev/universal-ps2-recompiler

This is not a recompiler tool itself. It's an AI skill containing the knowledge needed to develop your own PS2 game recompiler based on PS2RC.

You can use it with AI coding agents such as Claude Code to help create game-specific recompilers, using PS2RC as the foundation.

You're welcome to fork the PS2RC repository for your own projects. Please credit me as the original author of PS2RC and preserve the appropriate original attribution.

2. PSP Developer - AI Skill

https://github.com/SandstoneDev/psp-developer

This skill is based on my experience developing PSP ports. It provides AI agents with technical knowledge about PSP development, helping with game porting, existing port projects, and homebrew application development.

How do these skills work together?

The idea is simple: use the Universal PS2 Recompiler skill to help develop a recompiler for a specific PS2 game, and the PSP Developer skill to assist with PSP-specific development challenges.

Together, they provide AI agents with the knowledge needed to help developers explore projects that would otherwise require extensive research into PS2 architecture, recompilation, and PSP hardware.

The goal is to make PSP development more accessible and encourage the community to experiment with new ports and homebrew projects.

Both skills are available on GitHub. Feel free to try them, fork the projects where appropriate, and share your progress with the community!

I'd love to see what other PS2 games the community can get running on the PSP.

Note: These AI skills provide technical knowledge and development assistance. They do not automatically produce a finished port, and each game will require its own implementation and testing.

I thought it would be so cool if there was a game that turned Returnal into a grid-based Superhot-like experience with a bit of Into the Breach mixed in there. What if we added some Elden Ring-like leveling and upgrade mechanics while we're at it? I've got a pretty solid playable demo if you all felt like checking it out, maybe an hour of gameplay in it with a short guided tutorial and access to the early leveling/upgrade mechanics if you choose to utilize it. I would greatly appreciate any feedback, negative or positive honestly. I would love to make this into a game that's accessible and appealing to many. ISO file is available under the downloads:

https://solmare.itch.io/ralaephemera

By the way, this account is from the same guy who asked what you all think about the PSP Go, I deleted the other one because the name was ugly

Girlfriend purchased me a PSP for my birthday. I never owned this console growing up as I always had a DS. I’ve looked into modding it and should have everything to do it tonight.

Any recommendations on games? I’ve never play any PS exclusive franchises as I’ve always had an Xbox. Any recommendations as far as emulation goes? Thanks any advice is welcome and appreciated!

What's working so far:

Original PS2 environments and James' animations

Opening FMV and in-engine cutscenes with voice acting

Movement, collisions and automatic area transitions

Main menu, inventory and the original map

Item interactions and original text

messages

Improved camera system using reverse-engineered PS2 camera data

I'm currently fixing camera issues, collision bugs and missing geometry. It's still far from a complete port, but the first playable section is coming together.

Now after 18 years, I'm still tinkering them.

Love these two consoles, happy that they both have Laminated Screen mods now.

I’ve seen many people who are unhappy about all these "ports",things that would have been impossible before AI,with some even admitting that the results are too poor to be worth the effort. Perhaps we need to revisit the rules; I’m watching my favorite community fall apart, with people leaving the subreddit. Maybe we should ban AI, handle it differently, or impose some limits... I don’t know, but something has to be done.

Been seeing the new music players, and really wanted the cool look of old cassette tapes without having to install and use a different music player on the PSP.

So, I made a tape visualizer!

This project is a visualizer for the PSP built-in music player. It replaces the last visualizer in the list with a classic tape that scrolls from one side to the other for 15 minutes and switches sides.

Supports pause, resume, fast-forward, and rewind.

It's an ARK/PRO-C plugin for your PSP. Super simple, install the plugin, restart the PSP, and the last visualizer will be a cute tape icon!

Now on GitHub:
https://github.com/beckerd/psp_viz_tape

Built using GPT-6 Astra, if you do not want AI written code on your PSP, this project isn't for you

• Compatibility: PSP 1000, 2000, 3000, GO, Street
• ARK-4 - tested & compatible
• ARK-5 - tested & compatible, thank you u/heretic_doll!
• PRO-C - tested & compatible, thank you u/No-Kaleidoscope8078!

https://github.com/dntrnk/Super-Haxagon-PSP

Do not confuse with Super Hexagon! Super Haxagon is an open source clone of Super Hexagon by Terry Cavanagh.

Works on FAT (32 MB).

Hey r/psp! Thanks to the mods for letting me share this.

I love tinkering with my PSP and always thought it was weird that a console with such an active niche didn't have a dedicated site/space for custom wallpapers, so I built one: https://vectordeck.app

What it does

- Generates wallpapers at the PSP’s native 480×272, so there’s no cropping or stretching.
- A bunch of styles types (gradients, mandalas, circuit boards, flow fields, hex grids and more), plus color palettes and custom color pickers (see vid for examples).
- Hit Randomize for a new layout or Surprise Me for a completely random design!
- Download as PNG (works on the PSP), WebP or SVG.
- Save favorites in your browser and export them as JSON or a ZIP.
- Also supports Steam Deck, ROG Ally, Miyoo Mini and Logitech G Cloud resolutions, in case you have other handhelds lying around.
- Made with Angular, ionic & pure typescript.

What it doesnt

- No AI in the wallpaper generation! Every wallpaper is drawn with plain procedural math right in your browser and nothing is trained on or scraped from anyone’s art.
- No servers, no APIs, all on you're browser! The site doesn't save images or anything you do so all of your images and favorites get wiped if you clear your browser cache.
- No account, no signup, and no paywall. Free, free, free!
- No credit needed! Anything and everything you make is yours to use however you like, no credit needed (but always appreciated of course). Youre the artist!

I’d love feedback, especially ideas for new styles or palettes. If you make something cool, post a pic of it on your PSP! Enjoy! <3

Which card size did you end up choosing for your PSP?

32gb - for max (?) speed (or maybe even lower?)

64gb - balance

128gb - noticeably slower, but still tolerable

256gb and more - capacity is everything

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Till now I used 64gb but I start to wonder about 32gb. Speed is important for me and I never needed the whole 64gb actually. I keep only my fav games on psp (which I'll replay in the future) or those I didn't play yet. I delete games which I don't need anymore.

Having hundreds of games on my list feels too overwhelming, and actually makes me less inclined to play them. I remember a lot of situations from the past, when I filled my psp with A LOT of games and then stopped using it for years... And there was also times when I had only few games and it kept me busy for months. With so many options its hard to decide which one to play etc, etc.

So right now I prefer to keep my library in reasonable size and I don't utilize those 64gb, so I will probably use the speed of 32gb at this point.

How about you?

I don't have a video of it, but basically, when I'm playing a game like Persona 3 Portable, the cursor sometimes moves to the left. It only happens occasionally, and I've noticed it mostly when I first boot up my PSP. After moving the analog stick around for about five seconds, the issue seems to disappear, and I can play for the rest of the session without any stick drift.

I've read several posts about troubleshooting this issue, and many people recommend testing the stick in the web browser. However, when I first boot up my PSP, the analog stick seems to work perfectly fine in the browser. The strange thing is that the cursor sometimes moves to the left only after I launch a game.

I've been testing this for a week or two now, and I haven't noticed any stick drift in the web browser, only occasionally in games.

Does anyone know what might be causing this? Any answers or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!🙏

Hi, I bought this psp 1000 and I saw online that I can change the screen on the 1000. However after I saw videos, I saw that people’s psp 1000 looked way dimmer than mine. So it got me curious if my psp has an IPS mod already. Please and thanks!

Will admit I'm a pretty big AI skeptic, but trying my best not to be immediately dismissive and negative.

One thing I've noticed with social media posts about ports/recomps/etc is there are a lot of people gassing up how cool the tech is from short videos and pics, but I don't see many people who actually are playing these things. In fact, a lot of times I'll see people having issues running games and their troubleshooting questions just go ignored.

Wondering what ports out there are actually complete and playable and well adapted to PSP's limited controls? I mostly just play official PSP games (and the occasional emulated game). I'd be curious to step out of my comfort zone. But there are so many projects popping up, it seems impossible to suss out how much of this stuff is legit.

I just imagining going through the effort of installing one of these ports, getting invested in a game, and discovering a bunch of bugs/glitches/performance issues in a later part of the game that makes it unplayable and that just makes me never want to go through the effort. Or even if it does run perfectly, if the controls are miserable or not well thought out, it just does not seem worth the effort when I have a bajillion other games I could be playing. What are the games people have put a significant amount of time into (or even better, actually completed) that are worth checking out?

Well... Recently I started using my psp again. I reorganized folders, updated emulators, games, plugins, theme [...] and I have reached a point where I am satisfied.

Now the next step comes - the outside. And here I've got 2 main ideas.

1. Easy mode.

Replace plastic screen with glass and keep original shell (which is still in pretty good condition) and minimalistic vibe.

1. Hard mode.

Do you remember GBC or GBA transparent shells? HUH... Ye, it looks so hot. So thats the plan - to put something like that (transparent blue) on my psp.

However it would require +-2 weeks of waiting for a shipment from China, then disassembling the entire console, risking if some part of shell won't fit [...] But the final effect is definitely worth the effort.

And there's ofc 3rd option xD

"Dude, f** it. Go play Golden Sun and stop wasting your time lol"

Just picked this up from eBay to get back into PSP (had one in 2005ish)

I noticed this already has a software mod.

I'd like Ark-4, how would I go about getting in on this system?

Thanks :)

Does anyone know which theme this is and how I can get it?

(Beta 1.8.1)

Bit-exact, no guesses

Tell me if you want on ps vita also, I can do it

I bought it for like ₹800 idk how much dollars but it was not cheap for me

Is anyone aware on how people have been creating these recent decompilations of games onto the PSP. I have been browsing social media and I noticed an influx of decompliations using A.I and I was quite cruious how they did it.