The PSP was such a diverse little device in terms of all kinds of media outside of games. I remember in middle school I knew a girl who had a PSP, she wasn't a gamer at all but she used it for movies and music.
2nd this. I was at my in-laws house last year and found my wife's launch model PSP. She only owned one game but filled her memory with videos and pictures. It was truly one of a kind!
Back in 2004, I remember being 15 and sitting in study hall listening to music, surfing the internet and playing star wars battlefront 2 on my PSP! It was ahead of it's time! I loved it!
I was a lot older than most of your viewers back then. But I remember buying this to my only nephew for 2006 Christmas! He is married and has 2 kids of his own. Last year he sent me a picture through the mail on my birthday. It was a photo of him opening his psp! The grin on his face was priceless! I had never seen that photo until he sent it to me. He wrote to me saying I was his favorite uncle! Best birthday present for me! Thank you for the vid! You must've felt like my nephew when you got yours I bet!
@@BenjL for me it was the music player, i didn't have wifi at the time only a pc with internet and i remember downloading tons of music from limewire to my psp
@@camdenharkins5294 yeah. I really wish Sony would bring back portable PlayStation systems. I loved my PSP and Vita to death, still love my Switch to this day.
That was one of my favorite videos on the channel! Such a cool throwback. The PSP was so ahead of its time. I actually was just reunited with my old PSP 3000, ended up bringing it back to life, and have been having a lot of fun with it this last couple weeks. Its UMD drive barely works and makes an awful screeching noise so I installed cfw and bought a big 64GB micro SD card and adapter for it. I can't begin to explain how great of a decision that was. Games run way faster when you load them directly off the memory stick. You can use fan made drivers that make games still run even faster. It loads silently (finally!), and it even saves battery. Nowadays you can store a ridiculous amount of data digitally. Some of the games hold up really well, such as Lumines, which IMO is timeless and should be played by anyone into the puzzle genre. It's really easy to get your game backups going which made me happy. I also took some time to learn how to use Handbrake to convert a couple of digital movies to optimize them for the PSP (worse than smart phone quality but tons of fun to figure out). That was a lot of trial and error but when I got it I was over the moon. So I ended up watching my really nicely compressed copy of Fellowship of the Ring on my PSP for that true mid-2000s experience. I managed to get most of the quality of blu-ray down to a 480x272 resolution by chopping it into a bunch of separate files and avoiding compressing it too much. I also threw on some music that I admit I haven't listened to as much as I thought I would lol. (However, listening to my PSP with audiophile grade headphones, I discovered that if you're on the "Heavy" EQ, the PSP has a pretty formidable DAC onboard. Not unsurprising from a Sony product!). I probably should try and get my comics back on there, or at least see if they boot up in an emulator. I remember grabbing every free one there was, including what was in this video. I'm rambling. Great vid, great system, looking forward to more!
Man. Still kicking myself to this day for trading my launch psp and ps2. Was the only way for me to upgrade to ps3 in middle school. Just rebought a PSP 3000 out of nostalgia. Booting it up was just as magical as I remember.
@@eddi3401 man, that sucks. I got mine from a collector, mint condition. Well, my main one, the other one was from a pawn shop. Still works great, just has some artifacts on the screen.
This was my first Sony console ever. I was a Nintendo mostly growing up. I bought it on day one and was blown away. I had mostly sports games on it. Gretzky hockey, some random NBA game, NFS game but when Pursuit Force dropped that was my favorite and still is. Definitely ahead of it's time. I even remember having Petey Pablo and Omarion video on it for some reason. Maybe it was a record deal promo. thanks for the memories Ryan. Another great video
Still remember to this day when I got mine around 2006 when the slim came out. Watching Spiderman 2 UMD, playing Burnout Legends, discovering so many music bands with that same game (Billy Talent, Morningwood, Goldfinger). What a wonderful device this was. even better when I finally cracked it with a CFW, and also discovering classics from the SNES, Megadrive/Genesis and many more. A relic of its time, when you could download mp3s and play them while playing a game (not all consoles did it but damn this I miss so much now)
Honestly if I could go back in time and change anything, I’d have my parents save money and not bother getting me a PS3 or Vita, just get me a 3000 PSP in 2008 with a decent sized memory stick, and I would’ve been satisfied. Such a fun little console.
Always love to see more PSP content. Just got an unopened 1001 Value Pack with a copy of Spider-Man 2 on UMD for 150 bucks, now I'm starting to build a collection of PSPs and UMDs. Cowboy Bebop movie is on its way!
OMG the part with saved images brought so many memories. I used to save the funnier pics I found on the internet while I was at work, put them on my PSP and show them off to my friends when we were going out for a beer in 2007. I was also very fond of being able to play music off my PSP. Remember the time when bt speakers were NOT a thing..? I think I still have some Annihilator albums on my sd card... What a great handheld. I still keep mine, which I got in 2006 in a Vice CIty Stories bundle!
Got one my first one around 2014 (very late to the party)! I have 1 PSP 3000 and 2 PSP GO models (got one of them recently). I have roughly 40 UMDs (lots of music, movies, TV shows, and games on memory stick). I've been collecting for some years now. PSP is awesome!!!
Great look back at an amazing device! Still have my PSP-1000 as well. Used the heck out of it back in the day, played so many games, and stored photos and music. Even imported the Japanese PSP camera before it was available here in the US! The PSP was so advanced, really felt ahead of its time in the pre-smartphone age. I still find its games perfectly playable even today, without feeling too dated.
I've recently moved country for work and I decided to dig out my old PSP and replay all the classics again and some umds that I never got around to finishing. I'm totally in love with this little gem of a handheld all over again. The majority of games still hold up surprisingly well and it's been a trip finding my old music, pictures and video files! Way ahead of its time! Long live PSP 🖤
Man, this takes me back... is what I would say, but I was actually playing some Wild ARMs XF on my PSP yesterday xD I love this handheld, it has an amazing library and I felt like a wizard when I first got mine in '07. I mean, I could save images, surf the internet, listen to music and even download PSone titles for dirt cheap?! It seems so tame in the era of smartphones, but it's hard to overstate how mind-blowing it was at the time
Never tried Y's even though I watch some Game Sack on UA-cam and him talking so much love about this series is giving me the itch to play one. And Sega Rally my god this one was amazing!
@@atomickid I'm someone who gets bored quickly with most RPG's, but Y's 7 somehow managed to suck me right in. it's lots of fun and so far easy for me to understand.
Ryan! Remember the show Sony did back in the day called “The Tester”? I went back on my PS3 and found an episode I saved years ago. Might be a cool video idea down the road, love the channel!
Still to this day the only reality show I ever watched or ever will watch. Too bad the later seasons overdid it with being more like a standard reality show though.
Thank you mystic, I’m fairly new to your channel tbh I found your channel about a year ago and tbh you made me want to be a trophy hunter for the ps5. Thank you it has not been frustrating 🤥
I love that you had random Internet photos on your psp! I did exactly the same and it's so funny looking back at such random photos I'd save of cars, edited photos and gaming stuff.
I LOVED my PSP-1004 (Europe) model. I got one of the first revisions (bought it on or close to launch) and mine had a bright green Power LED that really blinded you, my friends later model was much more dim on the power LED. Sony actually shipped out Video UMD Spiderman if you had one of the first models of PSP, I even asked them when it came as it took a while. But it came, and still have it. I was on 1.52 (standard on OG EU PSP). I was so nervous, as many of you know you had to go to 2.0 and had to use the TIFF Exploit to go back to 1.50 where you could run the homebrew stuff (Sony launched the 2.01 fix and the game began...). I was so damn nervous during that process, I did not want to lose my PSP, but it worked out well. Oh man! The first days with DevHook (Device Hook) where you could emulate up to 2.71. Later DarK_Al3x took over and the "Team M33" with CFW (Custom Firmware). I did everything, custom game icons, modules (e.g. MP3 player during Test Drive Unlimited) etc. It was really really cool. Later the Pandora battery, where I saved a bricked PSP from my uncle. Even got the PSP-2000 series and the Go! later on, but never really hda a 3000. The Street PSP (N1000) was a bit cheaply made. But all in all, that was a really fun time with big community that you could watch out for news on a page every day, some rea professional well made games like GRAVITY and others. Dual Tetris, MUA(?) loader (some sort of script language games) and many many other stuff. My god, what a shame and I was so sad about PS Vita, it never really was as cool as PSP with the stupid bubble icon menu. Went downhill pretty quick, but will always remember this time.
I just found my old 3000, so I bought a new memory card and battery, installed cfw, and have been having too much fun with it. The possibilities are nearly endless! I've got a nice cell phone but there's so much that the PSP does better by having nice tactile buttons and natively running games!
The best thing about the (hacked) PS Vita is that it’s the best version of the psp… it’s worth it just for that… Then you get all the extra Vita games, battery life, emulators etc… I loved my PSP a lot… I sold it for a vita… and now I love my vita even more…
totally agree . vita over took psp as my fav handheld of all time cause Basically it literally has psp built inside. Plus Alll the benefits u get with vita such as oled screen second thumbs tick etc
@@eddi3401 I think I got my 8GB like in 2009-10 I was just a kid didn't know the price. Also my family had a Sony Digital Camera. That's why they bought memories.
Great little digital time capsule you've got there, Ryan. Thanks for sharing your ancient memes and your unfortunate, borderline offensive opinions on FF Tactics with us!
Yeah my launch psp was the master PSP, by the end of the life span I had 7 psp models yet the psp fat was amazingly built, and to this day is the one I turn on time after time.
This is so nostalgic. I got a PSP 3000 when I was in 6th grade. And I put a few movies and songs on mine... Right up until it was jailbroken to play .iso files...
I was born in 2002 and I was REALLY late to getting a PSP: 2011 to be exact. I basically only used the thing to play Sonic at the time, but nowadays, I use it for basically everything. Emulators, native PSP games, music, movies, etc. It's such an awesome handheld.
I was just thinking about my psps I had back in the day.. 2007 I dropped it in my cereal bowl and it was gone forever.. I loved it because it had an internet browser.. ugh.. man.. great great times.. where did it all go..
I had a psp 3000 with a 4 GB Sony memory stick. This form factor was the best! Remember putting Smackdown V Raw 2011 and ben 10: protector of earth UMD and playing it all the time
Seeing episodes of PS Nation and Podcast beyond definitely takes me back. I had episodes of shows and I would download the E3 press conferences to my psp and watch them on lunch. My original launch psp was stolen during a move unfortunately. I got a psp 2000 and then i traded it and all my physical games for a psp go. I’ve since bought several psps and all my physical games again.
That's cool you still have the catalog for PS3 launch. $599.99 and it's still worth every penny. That beast played it all and it didn't Red Ring in you. I got mine on a Black Friday deal for $499.99 but it came with five Bluray movies (to compete with HDDVD that was giving away five movies as well. I wish I'd have kept my HDDVD player, I was an idiot to sell it and all my movies.....) and an extra SIXAXIS controller that I ended up taking to a Walmart and traded it for a game instead, dont remember which one. But, what a machine. All you need today is a first gen PS3 and a PS5 and you can pretty much play it all. I have a PSP 1000 for display, PSP 3000 to play all my disc games and UMD Movies, and my PSP Go for all my digital games. Ah, the Kevin Butler $299 TV Spots. The Gran Turismo 5 one where he steals the car off the truck. Uncharted 2 one, cool stuff
Man I do this with my PS3. Like I can't believe what I have on there. It's been so long. I like to see the dates I downloaded the games and the save dates.
God I remember I once wanted a PSP. I remember some of my friends & classmates used to own one & I felt so jealous. Unfortenatly my parents were against it, since they still have the mentality where they think game consoles are only aimed at children, not teens or adults. Which is pretty stupid. Now, I'm not sure if it's worth buying a PSP in 2023 since I own a Nintendo Switch. But if anyone has a reason why I should get a PSP in 2023 and why, then I might reconsider it.
Seeing that play beyond playstation magazine brought back some memories. I just bought the play beyond network disk for playstation 3 since it's pretty rare to have
I got a launch model PSP back in 2020, and I have to say that it's by far my favorite model of the handheld. The system is more satisfying and comfortable to hold with it's slightly thicker and robust build, and the UMD door mechanism is just way less flimsy to use. Also, even though the screen has some noticeable ghosting, It's definitely not a dealbreaker, and It doesn't suffer from the weird interlacing that the 3000 has. The only major drawback for me is the fact that the D-pad diagonals on this model are trash.
I had a psp for years back in the late 2000s. I miss that thing. Played the psp god of wars and Tekken dark resurrection to death. Used it a lot to watch films as well
I used to have this exact PSP. I remember walking into the kitchen and seeing my dad watching a movie on the kitchen island. I would still have this psp if not for my niece throwing it onto the tile floor and breaking it. My uncle was going to fix it for me but lost it at my grandmas house 😭
Man, I wanted a PSP so bad as a kid, but just when my grandparents were gonna buy me one, the gamestop worker had said that the vita was going to come out soon, so it would be better to hold off. I was around 8 or 9 at the time. I got my vita, but I didn't get a psp until 2019. An uncle was getting rid of his psp along with all his games, so he gave it to me all for free. I'm a little weird, I actually like the movies on the psp more than anything, it's fun to take on road trips, but there's definitely a lot of great titles and I'm happy I eventually got my chance to play them haha.
Is it really just the nostalgia talking or is this truly the best era for Sony?! They captured a diverse audience because they were brave enough to allow full customizability by developers and users. Things just aren't the same these days...
(8:49) That reminds me of when I used to save random pictures from Neopets, a game I played at the time (mid to late 2000s). (10:46) That reminds me of when I had saved random podcasts on my iPhone I had back in 2010, back before I'd actually, through the same circles on Twitter that bring books I like to my attention, discover a lot of podcasts, mostly around books and/or tech. Wow. I've never been much of a gamer (partially because of my upbringing), but if I could afford and had a PSP, I'd probably have copied a whole bunch of random Neopets pictures I saved on my laptop back then, probably have a Windows Vista theme, all or some of the music files I had, and/or then also video recordings from leaving my laptop on all day connected to a USB tuner to record various MediaCorp Kids Central programmes that I would've missed in primary school, as well as trying to save up for various games and films. I imagined I'd probably have like 5 or 6 physical copies of games and no digital downloads. Most of what I mentioned could also apply if I had one of those data bank devices that could record composite video.
My original PSP that I bought from launch. The UMD reader got stuck and won't play games anymore. Happened a few years ago. So I bought a second one. The list of PSP games I have. Lumines 2, Wipeout Pure, God of War Chains of Olympus, Daxter, Ratchet and Clank Size Matters, Need for Speed underground rivals, The Sims 2, Resistance Retribution, Tekken Dark Resurrection, MotorStorm Arctic Edge, Monsters Deluxe, Final Fantasy Crisis Core, Prinny, 30 Half-Minute Hero, Patapon 2, MegaMan Power UP, Kingdom Hearts birth by sleep. A free NHL Gretzky game and a Spider-man 2 movie that both came on launch.
11:17 - I now have to go watch those funny-awesome PSP commercials again. Also, Daxter is still one of my favorite PSP titles too. I also liked The Lost Frontier and got 100% on it. Dark Daxter was pretty cool and so was plane customization and the new eco powers. Captain Phoenix was a tough one! Oh, and I still love the XMB layout and the features it has to this day. Very comfortable interface! This was quite the nostalgia trip. Thanks for sharing, Mystic!
12:54 I remember I used to get bored after playing some games on the PSP and would just browse the store and download some trailers to watch and one time I downloaded a Gameplay trailer for Infamous 2 and thought holy shit I need a PS3... Man, good fucking times.
@@A25Phoenix When did I say I do. What a threatening tone I am slightly jealous that Mystic Ryan has an infinite number of games, when I only have a small collection
I didn't grow up with a psp when I was a kid, but I did grow up with the psvita. And that was how I ended up getting into psp games since you could download them onto the vita. So one day I decided to buy a psp to see how it would feel to play the games I played on my vita, on an actual psp. I didn't keep it for long sadly since I didn't really have nostalgia for it
Still have my pearl white psp 3001 from 2009. Havent booted it up in years now especially since I've jailbroken my vita. But I do want to really shout out the pearl white color on the psp, that color has to he my favorite on any console ever. Edit: while I did have a cell phone by the time I got my psp, it was a flip phone so it was extremely limited in what I could do with it. And my psp was amazing not only for gaming on the go, but also having music downloaded and movies/videos as well to watch during lunch break at school or on the bus. It was just a fantastic little device and it still sucks vita didnt live up to the potential.
@@MrBoop4345 I was a kid at the time, i wanted to play a game that I’ve just gotten so when I popped in the UMD, the psp tried to update, im guessing it came with the game? But I panicked since I haven’t seen that before and I took the umd out while updating and I guess by doing that, it bricked it, man I remember how mad and sad I felt when it wouldn’t turn back on
For those curious this was filmed before the recent PS3 remote play video. So these were genuine reactions to seeing a lot of my old stuff on here. (:
Love you mystic ❤ keep up the great content
Hi mystic can you tell me how you can make trophies visible on recordings please
Looked like that mouse was have fun with that computer mouse lol 😉
Does anyone know where one could get a new PSP (I.e. off the assembly line if there are that is)?
@@dtk8266 record using cc?
The PSP was such a diverse little device in terms of all kinds of media outside of games. I remember in middle school I knew a girl who had a PSP, she wasn't a gamer at all but she used it for movies and music.
Yeah, it was iPod on steroids
I saw my first porn video on a psp lmao
And that girl grew up to be Obama.
@@wrenboy2726 haha I'm sure lol 😆
2nd this. I was at my in-laws house last year and found my wife's launch model PSP. She only owned one game but filled her memory with videos and pictures. It was truly one of a kind!
Back in 2004, I remember being 15 and sitting in study hall listening to music, surfing the internet and playing star wars battlefront 2 on my PSP! It was ahead of it's time! I loved it!
I was doing the same with my Vita when I was 11. Sony had sumn special with their handhelds. Can't wait to get a new one and revisit soon
You mean 2005? Because the PSP came out in 2005 unless you lived in Japan in December 2004.
even "surfing the internet" is an ouddated term.God I loved 2000s
@@Dante199006 I'm assuming he imported it
@@fratgurkok398700’s were the best man. i never knew I’d miss that decade so much
This handheld was the first graphically impressive, and fully interactive multi media gaming device.
i used to love my psp, i remember my first game being midnight club 3 and downloading music to it
Legit the best PlayStation centric channel on UA-cam. Thanks for the great content Ryan.
I was a lot older than most of your viewers back then. But I remember buying this to my only nephew for 2006 Christmas! He is married and has 2 kids of his own. Last year he sent me a picture through the mail on my birthday. It was a photo of him opening his psp! The grin on his face was priceless! I had never seen that photo until he sent it to me. He wrote to me saying I was his favorite uncle! Best birthday present for me! Thank you for the vid! You must've felt like my nephew when you got yours I bet!
Why a great story! Also a reminder of how fast time flies by.
Anyone who had a PSP in middle/high school in the early 2000s will know the web browser was a blessing 🙏🤣😏
Big facts 😭🤣🤣
Elementary school my guy lol 😂
the music player as well
@@BenjL for me it was the music player, i didn't have wifi at the time only a pc with internet and i remember downloading tons of music from limewire to my psp
Even at the time I thought the web browser was trash being honest.
Inserting multimedia though it was a blessing.
PSP is probably my favorite console ever. I just remember being in awe of it.
This was super nostalgic,PSP was so ahead of it’s time.
wayyy ahead ! imagine a modern one it would be 10X better then the switch.
@@camdenharkins5294 yeah. I really wish Sony would bring back portable PlayStation systems. I loved my PSP and Vita to death, still love my Switch to this day.
I had a PSP 3000. Monster Hunter Freedom 2 was my childhood classic back in the day, and one of the best PSP games
That was one of my favorite videos on the channel! Such a cool throwback. The PSP was so ahead of its time. I actually was just reunited with my old PSP 3000, ended up bringing it back to life, and have been having a lot of fun with it this last couple weeks. Its UMD drive barely works and makes an awful screeching noise so I installed cfw and bought a big 64GB micro SD card and adapter for it. I can't begin to explain how great of a decision that was. Games run way faster when you load them directly off the memory stick. You can use fan made drivers that make games still run even faster. It loads silently (finally!), and it even saves battery. Nowadays you can store a ridiculous amount of data digitally. Some of the games hold up really well, such as Lumines, which IMO is timeless and should be played by anyone into the puzzle genre. It's really easy to get your game backups going which made me happy. I also took some time to learn how to use Handbrake to convert a couple of digital movies to optimize them for the PSP (worse than smart phone quality but tons of fun to figure out). That was a lot of trial and error but when I got it I was over the moon. So I ended up watching my really nicely compressed copy of Fellowship of the Ring on my PSP for that true mid-2000s experience. I managed to get most of the quality of blu-ray down to a 480x272 resolution by chopping it into a bunch of separate files and avoiding compressing it too much. I also threw on some music that I admit I haven't listened to as much as I thought I would lol. (However, listening to my PSP with audiophile grade headphones, I discovered that if you're on the "Heavy" EQ, the PSP has a pretty formidable DAC onboard. Not unsurprising from a Sony product!). I probably should try and get my comics back on there, or at least see if they boot up in an emulator. I remember grabbing every free one there was, including what was in this video. I'm rambling. Great vid, great system, looking forward to more!
I'm not even halfway through and this video is such a memory trip man
psp will always be in my heart, so many many good times
This was a PS2 in the palm of your hand … It was next level back in 2005, and still not bad today! 😏👍✨
I agree the PSP had a massive library.
Man. Still kicking myself to this day for trading my launch psp and ps2. Was the only way for me to upgrade to ps3 in middle school.
Just rebought a PSP 3000 out of nostalgia. Booting it up was just as magical as I remember.
The nostalgia is strong with this one. I have two myself, and still use them a few times a year.
i still have mine but its bricked lol
@@eddi3401 man, that sucks. I got mine from a collector, mint condition. Well, my main one, the other one was from a pawn shop. Still works great, just has some artifacts on the screen.
The PSP was an insane value back when it launched. It was my MP3 and video player for a long time.
This was my first Sony console ever. I was a Nintendo mostly growing up. I bought it on day one and was blown away. I had mostly sports games on it. Gretzky hockey, some random NBA game, NFS game but when Pursuit Force dropped that was my favorite and still is. Definitely ahead of it's time. I even remember having Petey Pablo and Omarion video on it for some reason. Maybe it was a record deal promo. thanks for the memories Ryan. Another great video
The psp will always have a special place in my heart
Still remember to this day when I got mine around 2006 when the slim came out. Watching Spiderman 2 UMD, playing Burnout Legends, discovering so many music bands with that same game (Billy Talent, Morningwood, Goldfinger).
What a wonderful device this was. even better when I finally cracked it with a CFW, and also discovering classics from the SNES, Megadrive/Genesis and many more.
A relic of its time, when you could download mp3s and play them while playing a game (not all consoles did it but damn this I miss so much now)
Honestly if I could go back in time and change anything, I’d have my parents save money and not bother getting me a PS3 or Vita, just get me a 3000 PSP in 2008 with a decent sized memory stick, and I would’ve been satisfied. Such a fun little console.
Always love to see more PSP content. Just got an unopened 1001 Value Pack with a copy of Spider-Man 2 on UMD for 150 bucks, now I'm starting to build a collection of PSPs and UMDs. Cowboy Bebop movie is on its way!
OMG the part with saved images brought so many memories. I used to save the funnier pics I found on the internet while I was at work, put them on my PSP and show them off to my friends when we were going out for a beer in 2007. I was also very fond of being able to play music off my PSP. Remember the time when bt speakers were NOT a thing..? I think I still have some Annihilator albums on my sd card... What a great handheld. I still keep mine, which I got in 2006 in a Vice CIty Stories bundle!
Alison Hell!
@@buddhawasright Road to Ruin!
@@ELEKTROSKANSEN 🤟
This is such a 2000s throwback video more than a PSP video
I remember being in middle school and playing MGS Portable Ops multiplayer with my other friends in class. The PSP and Vita were such great devices.
Got one my first one around 2014 (very late to the party)! I have 1 PSP 3000 and 2 PSP GO models (got one of them recently). I have roughly 40 UMDs (lots of music, movies, TV shows, and games on memory stick). I've been collecting for some years now. PSP is awesome!!!
Great look back at an amazing device! Still have my PSP-1000 as well. Used the heck out of it back in the day, played so many games, and stored photos and music. Even imported the Japanese PSP camera before it was available here in the US! The PSP was so advanced, really felt ahead of its time in the pre-smartphone age. I still find its games perfectly playable even today, without feeling too dated.
The PSP was just so ahead of it's time!
This handheld is so iconic i LOVE the PlayStation Portable!
I've recently moved country for work and I decided to dig out my old PSP and replay all the classics again and some umds that I never got around to finishing. I'm totally in love with this little gem of a handheld all over again. The majority of games still hold up surprisingly well and it's been a trip finding my old music, pictures and video files! Way ahead of its time! Long live PSP 🖤
which country have u gone for work?
Was brilliant. Films, games, emulators. Best console I’ve ever owned (and I’ve had all of them… all)
Man, this takes me back... is what I would say, but I was actually playing some Wild ARMs XF on my PSP yesterday xD
I love this handheld, it has an amazing library and I felt like a wizard when I first got mine in '07. I mean, I could save images, surf the internet, listen to music and even download PSone titles for dirt cheap?! It seems so tame in the era of smartphones, but it's hard to overstate how mind-blowing it was at the time
man, this was a huge throwback to the 2000s. good stuff.
Never owned a PSP but loved to play at my friend's house.
The adrenaline app on my Vita takes me back to those days.
I've been playing my PSP 3001 more than my switch lately . I'm playing through YS VII and Sega Rally Revo !
Never tried Y's even though I watch some Game Sack on UA-cam and him talking so much love about this series is giving me the itch to play one.
And Sega Rally my god this one was amazing!
@@atomickid I'm someone who gets bored quickly with most RPG's, but Y's 7 somehow managed to suck me right in. it's lots of fun and so far easy for me to understand.
Wow this is such a historical piece! Nice video, bro.
Ryan! Remember the show Sony did back in the day called “The Tester”? I went back on my PS3 and found an episode I saved years ago. Might be a cool video idea down the road, love the channel!
Still to this day the only reality show I ever watched or ever will watch. Too bad the later seasons overdid it with being more like a standard reality show though.
Psp is legendary…lowkey a perfect example where u just had to be there🤞
That’s funny that you have 96 Quite Bitter Beings on there. I found that song a couple of months ago through UA-cam Music, and I love it!
this brings back memories from a simpler time
I've had my PSP since 2010. Still perfectly working and I mainly keep it around for my Final Fantasy fix
Still has the best version of 4 imo
Thank you mystic, I’m fairly new to your channel tbh I found your channel about a year ago and tbh you made me want to be a trophy hunter for the ps5. Thank you it has not been frustrating 🤥
I had the psp probably since was like over 5 years old so nostalgic
I love that you had random Internet photos on your psp! I did exactly the same and it's so funny looking back at such random photos I'd save of cars, edited photos and gaming stuff.
The PSP was huge back then. Remember the ps3 wasn't revealed yet at the time and this thing basically has a ps3 system handheld. Great stuff.
It was more like a portable PlayStation 2
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PS2 didn't have wifi and internet browser.
@@M.sami12 PS2 did have ethernet, you could play online with other people.
I LOVED my PSP-1004 (Europe) model. I got one of the first revisions (bought it on or close to launch) and mine had a bright green Power LED that really blinded you, my friends later model was much more dim on the power LED. Sony actually shipped out Video UMD Spiderman if you had one of the first models of PSP, I even asked them when it came as it took a while. But it came, and still have it. I was on 1.52 (standard on OG EU PSP). I was so nervous, as many of you know you had to go to 2.0 and had to use the TIFF Exploit to go back to 1.50 where you could run the homebrew stuff (Sony launched the 2.01 fix and the game began...). I was so damn nervous during that process, I did not want to lose my PSP, but it worked out well. Oh man! The first days with DevHook (Device Hook) where you could emulate up to 2.71. Later DarK_Al3x took over and the "Team M33" with CFW (Custom Firmware). I did everything, custom game icons, modules (e.g. MP3 player during Test Drive Unlimited) etc. It was really really cool. Later the Pandora battery, where I saved a bricked PSP from my uncle. Even got the PSP-2000 series and the Go! later on, but never really hda a 3000. The Street PSP (N1000) was a bit cheaply made. But all in all, that was a really fun time with big community that you could watch out for news on a page every day, some rea professional well made games like GRAVITY and others. Dual Tetris, MUA(?) loader (some sort of script language games) and many many other stuff. My god, what a shame and I was so sad about PS Vita, it never really was as cool as PSP with the stupid bubble icon menu. Went downhill pretty quick, but will always remember this time.
I just found my old 3000, so I bought a new memory card and battery, installed cfw, and have been having too much fun with it. The possibilities are nearly endless! I've got a nice cell phone but there's so much that the PSP does better by having nice tactile buttons and natively running games!
The best thing about the (hacked) PS Vita is that it’s the best version of the psp… it’s worth it just for that…
Then you get all the extra Vita games, battery life, emulators etc…
I loved my PSP a lot… I sold it for a vita… and now I love my vita even more…
totally agree . vita over took psp as my fav handheld of all time cause Basically it literally has psp built inside. Plus Alll the benefits u get with vita such as oled screen second thumbs tick etc
I wish I never sold this gem. It was during those days when I had to sell things to get new things
I had one 8GB, two 2 GB and one 1 GB memory cards. Mostly to download stuff because I used my PSP to watch anime shows and cartoons on it on the go.
man you must of had money back then for you to own a 8GB memory card lol
@@eddi3401 I think I got my 8GB like in 2009-10 I was just a kid didn't know the price.
Also my family had a Sony Digital Camera.
That's why they bought memories.
Hey mystic
I was missing
Your old style videos ☹️
Your documentaries were lit af ☹️
This video of psp is love ❤️ need more like this
Man I love this kind of videos for a handhelds makes me wanna grab my psp and just play something
2005… it’s really been that long?
Ya
Ryan has a Dream Theater song in his first PSP. Man, that's dope!
The PSP is my favorite handheld!! So many memories, and I still play my PSPs even today! Especially the multimedia functions!
Great little digital time capsule you've got there, Ryan. Thanks for sharing your ancient memes and your unfortunate, borderline offensive opinions on FF Tactics with us!
Yeah my launch psp was the master PSP, by the end of the life span I had 7 psp models yet the psp fat was amazingly built, and to this day is the one I turn on time after time.
This is so nostalgic. I got a PSP 3000 when I was in 6th grade. And I put a few movies and songs on mine... Right up until it was jailbroken to play .iso files...
Why do people jailbreak the consoles they already own? Keep it original and buy a second one for cheap to jailbreak
13:20 risky click
I was born in 2002 and I was REALLY late to getting a PSP: 2011 to be exact. I basically only used the thing to play Sonic at the time, but nowadays, I use it for basically everything. Emulators, native PSP games, music, movies, etc. It's such an awesome handheld.
“I was mobile with Salad Fingers so I was getting stuff done back then.”
Relatable.
stay wide awake is one of the most technical songs ever. so dope!
I was just thinking about my psps I had back in the day.. 2007 I dropped it in my cereal bowl and it was gone forever.. I loved it because it had an internet browser.. ugh.. man.. great great times.. where did it all go..
Back when I was a kid, if you have a PSP, you're the cool kid.
I'm just a 11 year old and got a PSP it's so fun I add custom firmware and new games then add homebrew games
I had a psp 3000 with a 4 GB Sony memory stick. This form factor was the best! Remember putting Smackdown V Raw 2011 and ben 10: protector of earth UMD and playing it all the time
your channel has grown so much over the years it’s insane. this reminds of your psp memories video you made way back
nice memories. I worked at GameStop way before the psp came. out. I bought it of course and downloaded anime episodes on it
Seeing episodes of PS Nation and Podcast beyond definitely takes me back. I had episodes of shows and I would download the E3 press conferences to my psp and watch them on lunch. My original launch psp was stolen during a move unfortunately. I got a psp 2000 and then i traded it and all my physical games for a psp go. I’ve since bought several psps and all my physical games again.
Congratulations!
The past two days I’m pretty sure I put hours into your content and even rewatched alot
My PSP 1000 was so amazing! I used to carry it everywhere!!!
Nostalgia is hitting me hard right now 😭😭😭
One of the best emulation devices ever.
fav portable console ever
That's cool you still have the catalog for PS3 launch. $599.99 and it's still worth every penny. That beast played it all and it didn't Red Ring in you. I got mine on a Black Friday deal for $499.99 but it came with five Bluray movies (to compete with HDDVD that was giving away five movies as well. I wish I'd have kept my HDDVD player, I was an idiot to sell it and all my movies.....) and an extra SIXAXIS controller that I ended up taking to a Walmart and traded it for a game instead, dont remember which one. But, what a machine. All you need today is a first gen PS3 and a PS5 and you can pretty much play it all.
I have a PSP 1000 for display, PSP 3000 to play all my disc games and UMD Movies, and my PSP Go for all my digital games.
Ah, the Kevin Butler $299 TV Spots. The Gran Turismo 5 one where he steals the car off the truck. Uncharted 2 one, cool stuff
Man I do this with my PS3. Like I can't believe what I have on there. It's been so long. I like to see the dates I downloaded the games and the save dates.
As soon as you said 17 years this feeling of dred came over me Ifeel so old lol cool video what a trip down memory lane thanks
In the middle of you showing a ps3 commercial I got a ps5 ad 😂
God I remember I once wanted a PSP. I remember some of my friends & classmates used to own one & I felt so jealous. Unfortenatly my parents were against it, since they still have the mentality where they think game consoles are only aimed at children, not teens or adults. Which is pretty stupid. Now, I'm not sure if it's worth buying a PSP in 2023 since I own a Nintendo Switch. But if anyone has a reason why I should get a PSP in 2023 and why, then I might reconsider it.
Seeing that play beyond playstation magazine brought back some memories. I just bought the play beyond network disk for playstation 3 since it's pretty rare to have
I got a launch model PSP back in 2020, and I have to say that it's by far my favorite model of the handheld. The system is more satisfying and comfortable to hold with it's slightly thicker and robust build, and the UMD door mechanism is just way less flimsy to use. Also, even though the screen has some noticeable ghosting, It's definitely not a dealbreaker, and It doesn't suffer from the weird interlacing that the 3000 has. The only major drawback for me is the fact that the D-pad diagonals on this model are trash.
I used to LOVE the old Kevin Butler commercials for PlayStation!
I had a psp for years back in the late 2000s. I miss that thing. Played the psp god of wars and Tekken dark resurrection to death. Used it a lot to watch films as well
I used to have this exact PSP. I remember walking into the kitchen and seeing my dad watching a movie on the kitchen island. I would still have this psp if not for my niece throwing it onto the tile floor and breaking it. My uncle was going to fix it for me but lost it at my grandmas house 😭
Man, I wanted a PSP so bad as a kid, but just when my grandparents were gonna buy me one, the gamestop worker had said that the vita was going to come out soon, so it would be better to hold off. I was around 8 or 9 at the time. I got my vita, but I didn't get a psp until 2019. An uncle was getting rid of his psp along with all his games, so he gave it to me all for free.
I'm a little weird, I actually like the movies on the psp more than anything, it's fun to take on road trips, but there's definitely a lot of great titles and I'm happy I eventually got my chance to play them haha.
i miss my psp, was such a cool childhood to grow up with it
Is it really just the nostalgia talking or is this truly the best era for Sony?! They captured a diverse audience because they were brave enough to allow full customizability by developers and users. Things just aren't the same these days...
*boomer alert*
The PSP was the height of gaming, we return to it with the Steam Deck
(8:49) That reminds me of when I used to save random pictures from Neopets, a game I played at the time (mid to late 2000s).
(10:46) That reminds me of when I had saved random podcasts on my iPhone I had back in 2010, back before I'd actually, through the same circles on Twitter that bring books I like to my attention, discover a lot of podcasts, mostly around books and/or tech.
Wow. I've never been much of a gamer (partially because of my upbringing), but if I could afford and had a PSP, I'd probably have copied a whole bunch of random Neopets pictures I saved on my laptop back then, probably have a Windows Vista theme, all or some of the music files I had, and/or then also video recordings from leaving my laptop on all day connected to a USB tuner to record various MediaCorp Kids Central programmes that I would've missed in primary school, as well as trying to save up for various games and films. I imagined I'd probably have like 5 or 6 physical copies of games and no digital downloads. Most of what I mentioned could also apply if I had one of those data bank devices that could record composite video.
My original PSP that I bought from launch. The UMD reader got stuck and won't play games anymore. Happened a few years ago. So I bought a second one.
The list of PSP games I have. Lumines 2, Wipeout Pure, God of War Chains of Olympus, Daxter, Ratchet and Clank Size Matters, Need for Speed underground rivals, The Sims 2, Resistance Retribution, Tekken Dark Resurrection, MotorStorm Arctic Edge, Monsters Deluxe, Final Fantasy Crisis Core, Prinny, 30 Half-Minute Hero, Patapon 2, MegaMan Power UP, Kingdom Hearts birth by sleep. A free NHL Gretzky game and a Spider-man 2 movie that both came on launch.
I loved my launch PSP, put in so many hours on it. Unfortunately, mine died a few years ago and the battery swelled up :/
Ebl battery seems to be a good replacement battery. Just make sure to get the right one for the model.
11:17 - I now have to go watch those funny-awesome PSP commercials again. Also, Daxter is still one of my favorite PSP titles too. I also liked The Lost Frontier and got 100% on it. Dark Daxter was pretty cool and so was plane customization and the new eco powers. Captain Phoenix was a tough one! Oh, and I still love the XMB layout and the features it has to this day. Very comfortable interface! This was quite the nostalgia trip. Thanks for sharing, Mystic!
12:54 I remember I used to get bored after playing some games on the PSP and would just browse the store and download some trailers to watch and one time I downloaded a Gameplay trailer for Infamous 2 and thought holy shit I need a PS3... Man, good fucking times.
Been using my PSP recently to play FFT. Still in great condition from 2009.
Do people here like classic or retro games or something
@@unicorntomboy9736 do you have problem with that?
@@A25Phoenix When did I say I do. What a threatening tone
I am slightly jealous that Mystic Ryan has an infinite number of games, when I only have a small collection
@@unicorntomboy9736 I have nothing
I'm waiting for Playstation to put everything on Playstation Now 🤣🤣🤣
So I can play Retro games or anything
@@A25Phoenix PS Now will be gone soon
I still use my psp for movies when ever I travel on planes i bring a few movies to pass the time along with a few games
I didn't grow up with a psp when I was a kid, but I did grow up with the psvita. And that was how I ended up getting into psp games since you could download them onto the vita. So one day I decided to buy a psp to see how it would feel to play the games I played on my vita, on an actual psp. I didn't keep it for long sadly since I didn't really have nostalgia for it
I always wanted a PSP but never got around to buying it 2005 wow I was 13!
Forget about the Vita, even the PSP was ahead of its time!
I still have the original model which I got for Mega Man Maverick Hunter X in 2006. Can't believe how long it's been.
Still have my pearl white psp 3001 from 2009. Havent booted it up in years now especially since I've jailbroken my vita. But I do want to really shout out the pearl white color on the psp, that color has to he my favorite on any console ever.
Edit: while I did have a cell phone by the time I got my psp, it was a flip phone so it was extremely limited in what I could do with it. And my psp was amazing not only for gaming on the go, but also having music downloaded and movies/videos as well to watch during lunch break at school or on the bus. It was just a fantastic little device and it still sucks vita didnt live up to the potential.
stay wide awake is an amazing over looked em track🔥🔥
I still have my launch day PSP. 👊 Changed the battery out about a month ago. I opened the old one and it was puffing out.
i still have my launch psp but its bricked and never know how to fix it lol
@@eddi3401 how did it brick? Doing custom firmware?
@@MrBoop4345 I was a kid at the time, i wanted to play a game that I’ve just gotten so when I popped in the UMD, the psp tried to update, im guessing it came with the game? But I panicked since I haven’t seen that before and I took the umd out while updating and I guess by doing that, it bricked it, man I remember how mad and sad I felt when it wouldn’t turn back on
"I was mobile with Salad Fingers" is one of the funniest things I've ever heard anyone say 🤣🤣