I bought my first PSP 9 months ago and it became my most played console. My Switch collects dust, I play PS4 games once a week because I am rarely at home but my PSP comes with me everywhere. This is one of the best videos about the PSP I watchet and the recommended games are not the ones everyone recommends which I like. Great work, greetings ftom Hungary!
Ah, the venerable PSP, my modded PSP 3000 got me through a 3 year stint of homelessness, it will always have a place of honor in my gaming hardware because of that. Back in the days of early smartphones it was practically a supercomputer.
It was so advance the fact you could go on the freaking internet and download mp3 songs and listen to said songs all without a PC connected! 😭 like people don’t know how it was back then cell phones could barely run google and verzion used to charge using the internet based of time 😭
@@HikikomoriMedia I grabbed a 3000 in the Japanese radiant red color. I was in Tokyo and got my system there since I can never seem to find a system in the US that hasn't been destroyed.
@@ObjoGamingNice pickup man! My brother got me a psp 1000 in box for about 9,000 yen (around $64) when he was in Japan. It blew me away how clean and cheap most of the games are over there
Honestly, Shattered Memories is my favorite Silent Hill game. Glad you enjoy it as well. The pacing and replayability is the best of the series imo. The first 3 games are great but exhausting. I don't really wanna check 50 facade doors per area again. 1 run was enough for me for each classic title, whereas I look forward to seeing what Raw Shock and character variants I'll get on my 4th shattered memories run.
I got one for about the price of a fancy cup of coffee last year - most of the titles I’ve been churning through are long-ass rpgs so it’s a pretty strong value proposition. There’s a small irritation when updating where early firmwares don’t recognize memory cards over a minuscule size and updates to get that recognition require a memory card small enough that you might not still have one laying around. Definitely some unique titles though- stuff like Patchwork heroes and Yuusha 30 stick out as relics of a more permissive time in industry.
[00:34] *positives* [03:19] *negatives* [04:59] *upgrades* [09:03] The 3rd Birthday [17:16] Gitaroo Man Lives! [21:57] Half-Minute Hero [24:18] Hammerin' Hero [27:15] Silent Hill Origins [33:07] Silent Hill Shattered Memories [37:18] Undead Knights [40:13] Work Time Fun [43:02] Me & My Katamari [45:57] *midroll* [47:51] Disaster Report 3 [51:44] Grand Knights History [54:12] Dead Head Fred [59:10] Infected [1:02:08] Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker [1:05:55] Metal Gear Acid [1:08:53] Metal Gear Acid 2 [1:12:19] Yakuza: Black Panther [1:16:42] No Heroes Allowed! [1:19:58] Patchwork Heroes [1:22:46] Retro City Rampage DX [1:26:42] *end*
I'm proud to admit that I assembled 2,000 pens in Work Time Fun and recieved an in-game email by the WTF management promoting me to a "Ballpoint Pen Manager" status. This game is great, one of my favorite PSP games.
We played WTF in high school too. Compared to a WarioWare, it's a very social experience. Also in 2005, no one had iPhones, so WTF turned the PSP into even more of a smart device than before with its unlockable Tools. We actually used the ramen timer for cooking ramen at sleepovers. Nowadays I would just tell siri to set a timer, but back then the PSP was the only device I had to do such a thing! You named most of my favorite PSP games here. People tend to forget it was also the last generation with a strong rental market. PSP was also so easy to hack even back then. I was charging five bucks to hack my friends PSPs at school. Then we could go to blockbuster, rent games, dump them, and return them for a full refund. Prior to that, I did legitimately rent a lot of PSP games though. A lot of PSP games were best as rentals. It's how I found my favorite game of all time, Final Fantasy Tactics. Seeing your peace walker resuscitation footage, having forgotten that part of the game, one could easily draw a comparison to Death Stranding. Those ghosts returning to their bodies are strangely similar to BTs. A few other games that are to your standard of obscurity: - Kenka Banchou - Brandish: Dark Revenant
that's a deep forskin cut you got there, i gotta say i really enjoy origins for it's childhood themes and bunch of weird unlockable items, great video, thank you
These system retrospectives are some of the best on the website. Love how varied the games you cover are and actually showing off the MGS goggles was a nice touch. I should play The 3rd Birthday. I watched a full playtrough of it on TH-cam when I was in highschool but never tried it myself. For a while I forgot the game's name and thought it was all a dream. Hikikomori Media is steadily becoming one of my favorite channels.
Ive got a Yellow 3000. This would be my 4th in my liftime. The first one I ever got was a refurbished 1000 in 2009. It changed my deal forever. All I would play was on my old Nintendo DS. This was a step up I would rip movies on my windows computer. Me and my friends would trade movies at school for this. We also would trade UMDs for a few months and enjoy games we couldnt afford. I then got a Vita, which wasnt as fun tbfh, I loved it but it just shut down a month after I got the Vita. Which made me a bit upset. Anyways, I carry around this Yellow 3K around a lot. I work and go to school. It has a large library of PSP/N64 games and movies on it to this day. Anime, movies, games, music. It beats using my phone and running that battery down lol. I always disliked emulating PSP unless you got something serious. I always ran into issues with emulation on my different stuff. Its cool, but no where near native hardware. Its the reason why some rather just keep the console around and have a authentic experience. I do have a emulation machine made out of a PC stick, a Xbox One S, Xbox 360, PS2, PC, PS4. My boyfriend has a switch lite (and Xbox One) and while I would love one of those. I would be happier with a Retroid pocket 3 or something like that. Overall the PSP is my little work horse. Keeps me from having to fight with battery levels on my phone, also does what I want and keeps the storage free on my phone.
Ah the PSP. Many fond memories. I was pretty hardcore into the CFW scene back in the day, I would charge other kids money to hack theirs in middle school. Also the first console I ever repaired all by myself. I ended up smashing the LCD in my 1000 model, found a cheap replacement on ebay and did a swap. I was so proud of that. Upgraded from a 1000 to a PSP Go in Christmas of '09. 16GB of internal storage was a godsend compared to the zero on board storage of the original models. By that point all of my UMD shells had cracked so going all digital with the Go didnt really matter to me. In terms of games, too many amazing titles to count. I put countless hours into Burnout Legends, DBZ Tenkaichi Tag Team, Ratchet and Clank Size Matters, the GOW games, the GTA games, the Ape Escape remake, Sonic Rivals 1 & 2, the list goes on. Also, Ape Escape Academy is slept on. It's WarioWare with Ape Escape characters! Access to movies and other media was also awesome on the PSP. I only had a few UMD movies (Tomb Raider and Adam Sandlers The Longest Yard) but as soon as I found a website that hosted download links for MP4 formatted movies and tv shows my life was changed. PSP was my go to MP3 player in the age of the iPod. Had all of my edgy middle school music on one dedicated memory stick. Since the PSP didnt have a built in camera, my photo gallery was 100% Google Images downloads of cool Dragon Ball Z characters or swimsuit models. I was an early teen, leave me alone. Fun fact about me as a content creator, one of the first videos I'd ever published to YT was a guide on how to install Daedelus 64 to a hacked PSP. Could run Ocarina of Time at about 40% speed but to me it was mindblowing. Probably around 2007 or 2008. Video is still public, but so burried on YT that it's impossible to find these days. So many fond memories. Amazing video as always dude. Top notch 👌
I will always need this precious piece of portable gaming history. One day I'll buy a huuuge sd card and fill it with as many games as possible. But I'll watch the video anyway 😊
Monster Hunter fans, there's a translation for MHP3rd on the psp too. Great video btw! Lots of games I've never even heard of that I now definitely want to try out.
Psp is my second favorite handheld i had so many memories playing psp games locoroco,patapon , lumines 2, god eaters and more :D i lost my psp 5 years ago (´༎ຶོρ༎ຶོ`) i might buy new one soon
Loved how you chose "controversial" games usually deemed as letdowns or bad games like 3rd Birthday and Silent Hill Origins. Cool to see some genuine opinion going on!
I love this video format. I have no experience with the PSP but learning Disaster Report 3 has an English translation makes me think I will be picking one up soon.
Been trying to add to my PSP collection recently, so this came out at a perfect time. Thanks for upload bro, never been disappointed with a recommendation from ya.
Always loved it. Got me through an Army deployment. Disappearing into Breath of Fire 3 and Tactics was a blessing. Man...I want one now. I still play my Vita and portable emulators, but they aren't the same.
I never used my psp for watching anime, but I did use my ds to watch a lot of stuff. For some reason there was a dedicated Spanish forum that ripped anime, movies and tv shows so you could watch them on your ds. Thats how I watched skins. Which reminds me, Cassie best girl. great work as always Hikiko, I could watch a million of these type of videos and never be bored
Awesome job on this video! With your system overview videos I appreciate the detailed looks at the games you recommend for each system. While others tend to focus on information I can easily find on Wikipedia, you on the other hand focus in what matters most, which will always be the games.
I got a Vita with every hacked rom you can think of that can run on the specs. I love it. All of Nintendo's, Sega's, Access to PS1 and PSP's full library and Atari as well as Wonderswan Color's Entire Game library. I stopped buying them games for crazy amounts of cash from Game Stores there will be no more of that crap lol.
A great selection of platform-defining games with really well-done reviews to go along! Honestly, no portables up to and since the PSP could ever match its library. PS Vita is a great, premium way to enjoy the PSP library due to a sharp screen with very minimal ghosting, the worlds-apart-better speakers, and approximately doubled battery life while playing PSP games, but I'd still recommend also having at least a cheapo PSP with a working disc drive for the game dumping purposes.
I remember bringing the PSP to school so my friends and I could watch the Fantastic Four movie at recess. Also, for the first few days my dumbass thought the analog stick was a speaker.
I loved the PSP so much, however that love did screw me over since I ended up buying the PS Vita at launch... However now I love using my Vita for PSP and Vita games, still playing a lot of PSP and Vita games on it now.
Great video Hikikomori. Man your video editing skills are outstanding and have always been excellent since we talked about this on discord. Keep up the great work. I am working on a psp rpg recommendations video soon.
Always enjoy watching these videos you make. I started a small psp library a while ago and have been wanting to add more like the 3rd birthday and yakuza black panther. Its honestly ome of the greats for long bus rides. :)
Great video as always, dude. Solid game recommendations. I'm going to try and keep an eye on that Kurohyou translation; that's crazy. I have been wanting a Vita for years to take care of my PSP game needs as well and finally bit the bullet when I found a boxed OLED system at a local used game shop with Mortal Kombat for $175. Still need to get around to softmodding it.
I have 2 hacked PSVitas (hacked & unhacked) and 2 Vita TVs (hacked & unhacked) and I usually just play PSP games on an emulator, but I still keep my PSP around because my consoles have a lot of emotional value to me. 1:33 - Same. 3:27 - God I hated the memory cards. I shelled out a ton just to get the largest card I could get because some games had intolerable loading times unless installed on UMD. Was revlieved once microSD card adapters came out (though I was probably emulating at that point). 4:10 - Never really had a problem with UMDs, but I took care of my games fairly okay. 21:57 - I remember finding out about this from a Game Trailers review of all places. Played the PC versions despite buying the PSP version, but for some reason, it would always default to "modern graphics" mode for reasons I don't understand. The "modern graphics" always seemed pretty antithetical to the sorts of games HMH was poking fun at. My favourite part is how high quality the rocking soundtrack and unlockable artwork is to how the game actually looks, GT pointed this out. I looked it up, and GT gave it an 8.7, which is really shocking to me considering how these days most critics would probably give it a 6 or something. 1:16:42 - Think I also heard about this from a Game Trailers review and the concept of playing the bad guy intrigued me. Never played too much, but I remember getting filtered by its ecosystem system. Wish the VR game was playable outside the PS4 VR, because I can't justify buying a PSVR for maybe 2-3 exclusives, especially since the PSVR2 isn't backwards compatible.
PSVR (1) is not aging well with the improvements and lower prices of modern headsets. I guarantee you'll be able to find them for 50.00 in the near future. I played a lot of odd exclusives for it that I enjoyed, but there were a lot of demos or proof of concepts that never saw full games. Last Guardian, Danganronpa, etc. Badman VR, FFXV Fising VR and Rez/Tetris Effect were great.
I have a PSP nowadays but man I wish I had one back when they were supported. Such a cool little gizmo. Some of my favorite games: • MGS Portable Ops (while I do like Peace Walker, MPO feels more like a home console game than it so I like this more.) • Star Wars The Force Unleashed (better than PS3 version in my humble opinion) • Fat Princess • Medal of Honor Heroes • Both GoW games • Gran Turismo • Wipeout Pulse
I had two PSP, one was a GO and the other one was a 3001 (still have this one, but the battery is busted). When you talked about watching anime using the system you triggered a lot of memories, I used to watch anime using my PSP-3001 in the diner next to the place I worked at. Good times! I have a hacked PSVita in which I play PSP games now that I use pretty frequently and in fact I'm replaying The 3rd Birthday right now!
@@Gloryboyquan PSP related i always have those Dreamcast ports like Crazy Taxi and Power Stone. The ones i've been playing recently are The 3rd Birthday and also Black Rock Shooter The Game, a really really underrated action JRPG exclusive to the PSP.
@@Gloryboyquan i wouldn't either, it's one of my favorite handhelds ever. Plus there's a lot of active homebrew devs that are doing some great stuff there.
I didn't play too many games on the PSP but i did love Mega Man Maverick Hunter X and Dissidia Duodecim. Square really needs to port that game or make an actual follow up to it.
What a badass and informative video. Thank you very much for your passionate work. The PSP and Vita are my favorite handhelds of all time. It’s been fun as hell collecting and watching UMD movies too!
One thing that would definitely add to the list is final fantasy type-0. Someone fully translated it and also uses the same engine as 3rd birthday so as you would expect visuals are gorgeus.
@@HikikomoriMedia Well Sir Cusakesque the honor is all mine. Your "Why You Need an Xbox / Wii / WiiU" reviews are in my top 3 hidden gems reviews. Keep up the excellent work.
such a great video! and a nice set of games, played almost all of them except for the badman series and that weird japanese natural disaster survival sim
Where the PSP Street (E-1000) at in the vid!? :( Its so interesting that this video came out while I've been binging on PSP like crazy the last couple of weeks.
A year late to the party but I bought a well kept psp1000 yesterday, very excited to get to modding hundreds of games on a good ol micro sd with an adapter. Only downside Ive noticed so far is that connecting to wifi is near impossible in the modern age, oh well
the one thing that really seperated the PSP fporm other devices, was that it COULD PLAY FLASH VIDEOS and therefore, was useful for certain.. adult content. websites that would never work on the NDS , for exmaple - worked just fine on the PSP
Can't forget both Syphon Filter PSP games, Killzone Liberation, and Resistance Retribution. And there are a few good FPS games, although using only one analog stick is awkward.
I haven’t played either Syphon filter on psp. I’m debating whether I should play them on my psp or ps5. What would you suggest? I’m leaning towards ps5
it's funny to think that few japanese publishers managed to sneak in Visual novels with hentai scenes by releasing them under "PSP VIDEO" since that side isn't as strict as releasing it under game banner xd
appreciate the psp content in 2023. New games have been trash for years, battlepasses, sbmm, paid dlc left n right, $70-100 games. Im done with it, im only playing old fun games from now on, and without all the content on youtube it wouldnt be possible, atleast not as easy.
Dr.Maybee And Scarygirl(Fritz L.VAporware) Shadow OF Destiny(Life in the FLash 24) Floating Cloud [g]od saves the Pilgrims (Okami M-Rebirth) Baroque`s really Gud on handhelds(PLaYitGOdDamnit) Rengoku Stairway 2 H.E.A.V.E.N(God-Grave Automata)
@@HikikomoriMedia I just got to the end of the ps3 vid and now have a new wants list though I already played Linger in Shadows, Datura and Rain shadow of the Colossus and have Toy home digitally to my surprise. Most of the others are way more expensive physically than expected. Fortunately the infamouse collection is still on the uk psn store with festival of blood. Linger in shadows and Datura if you look into them will lead you to the "Demo scene". All those hidden names in linger are of groupes of developers. Who held competitions every year all dragging their Amiga hardware to convention centers for weekend events. Impressive stuff.
Anyone trying to find a certain game or a certain movie/music UMD Look for lots. Buying the games individually are way more expensive. I bought a GTA VCS CIB and LCS UMD only and 3 movies for only $30. The VCS game only is going for $25 plus shipping and taxes.
Sadly all the GOOD PSP JRPG's MOST of them NEVER left Japan but the PSP is region free in fact NO TALES of game on a PSP EVER got a AMERICAN version Destiny II/Eternia for the PSP only got a English dub in Europe only but its still a port.
The most regret thing for me is “Yakuza:black panther”without English or my mother language 😢but PlayStation portable still give me surprise in 2023, compare with ps vita.
actually silent hill shattered memories and origins were ported to the ps2 with better graphics, perfomance and you can try emulating it on the pcsx2. I played those games on an original ps2 for the first time and it was a blast.
Silent Hill Origins on PS2 has an issue where it's significantly darker than the PSP version. Personally, I wouldn't recommend it. SHSM is fine anyway you play it.
I normally like his takes, but The 3rd Birthday was character assassination for Aya, Maya, and Maeda, and then effectively killing off the series after numerous director / team changes and no one wanted to work on it. It even changed genres from Hard Sci-fi to... just Cyberpunk Fantasy? The 3rd Birthday is the Metroid: Other M of the PSP.
I stand by my opinion. 3rd Birthday is one of the most enjoyable games on the system. The story from P.E. II already veered far away from Sena's source material long before 3rd Birthday.
Ahh I didn't know there was a Gitaroo Man for PSP, and of course it's expensive. Hammerin' Hero has been on my radar for a long time, but I never see it around and it is brutally expensive now - an Atlus staple before the Sega merger. I'm disappointed you didn't mention Dracula X Chronicles, the many awesome arcade racers, the Megaman remakes or some of the many collections on the platform. I don't think the 3DS+Vita combined had libraries that matched the PSP.
MGS PEACE WALKER, AC!D, AC!D2 are the most fun manly shit on the PSP! i LOVE IT! plus the women in AC!D 2 are gravure idols not JAV (gravure is not genitals/nipples, JAV is with blurs) THANK YOU FOR THIS VIDEO HIKKIKO!!!!!!!
I made a LONG PS3 retrospective where I talk about weird accessories, upgrades and 40+ games
th-cam.com/video/WjZKoz-kzQs/w-d-xo.html
Note the lack of wrist strap usage in the intro. Not now. Not ever.
please do this for ps vita we need it
Hikiko, you should do a PSVita video.
@@CLSkmkris I have plans for one. New system video will be out this week.
I too like to live dangerously.
I bought my first PSP 9 months ago and it became my most played console. My Switch collects dust, I play PS4 games once a week because I am rarely at home but my PSP comes with me everywhere.
This is one of the best videos about the PSP I watchet and the recommended games are not the ones everyone recommends which I like.
Great work, greetings ftom Hungary!
Ah, the venerable PSP, my modded PSP 3000 got me through a 3 year stint of homelessness, it will always have a place of honor in my gaming hardware because of that.
Back in the days of early smartphones it was practically a supercomputer.
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It was so advance the fact you could go on the freaking internet and download mp3 songs and listen to said songs all without a PC connected! 😭 like people don’t know how it was back then cell phones could barely run google and verzion used to charge using the internet based of time 😭
The way you so casually drop hour long videos never stops impressing me.
thanks kenny
I just got a PSP for the first time a few weeks ago so this came out at the perfect time. Definitely adding some of these to my buy list.
What model did you end up with?
@@HikikomoriMedia I grabbed a 3000 in the Japanese radiant red color. I was in Tokyo and got my system there since I can never seem to find a system in the US that hasn't been destroyed.
@@ObjoGaming thankfully, the outer shells aren't too difficult to swap out. Unfortunately, many secondhand PSP GOs are scratched to hell.
@@ObjoGamingNice pickup man! My brother got me a psp 1000 in box for about 9,000 yen (around $64) when he was in Japan. It blew me away how clean and cheap most of the games are over there
@@HikikomoriMediaSeriously, most used PSP go’s look like they got ravaged by a caveman. Proud to say that I have 2 mint condition white go’s.
My biggest psp memory is that a friend had porn on it in 4th grade.
Great video🎉
Damn, in 4th grade? Haha. I’m glad my innocence lasted longer than that!
Honestly, Shattered Memories is my favorite Silent Hill game. Glad you enjoy it as well.
The pacing and replayability is the best of the series imo. The first 3 games are great but exhausting.
I don't really wanna check 50 facade doors per area again. 1 run was enough for me for each classic title, whereas I look forward to seeing what Raw Shock and character variants I'll get on my 4th shattered memories run.
You mean to tell me... That a man that makes quality content like this don't get the respect and views that he deserves?
90 min vid on the psp in 2023? why the hell not
Please do more videos on the psp library, it seems like you've really condensed it down to the best of the best in terms of games
maybe I should cover more in a Vita video? What do you think?
@@HikikomoriMedia yes please!
I got one for about the price of a fancy cup of coffee last year - most of the titles I’ve been churning through are long-ass rpgs so it’s a pretty strong value proposition. There’s a small irritation when updating where early firmwares don’t recognize memory cards over a minuscule size and updates to get that recognition require a memory card small enough that you might not still have one laying around. Definitely some unique titles though- stuff like Patchwork heroes and Yuusha 30 stick out as relics of a more permissive time in industry.
enjoy....still a great system even In 2023
[00:34] *positives*
[03:19] *negatives*
[04:59] *upgrades*
[09:03] The 3rd Birthday
[17:16] Gitaroo Man Lives!
[21:57] Half-Minute Hero
[24:18] Hammerin' Hero
[27:15] Silent Hill Origins
[33:07] Silent Hill Shattered Memories
[37:18] Undead Knights
[40:13] Work Time Fun
[43:02] Me & My Katamari
[45:57] *midroll*
[47:51] Disaster Report 3
[51:44] Grand Knights History
[54:12] Dead Head Fred
[59:10] Infected
[1:02:08] Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker
[1:05:55] Metal Gear Acid
[1:08:53] Metal Gear Acid 2
[1:12:19] Yakuza: Black Panther
[1:16:42] No Heroes Allowed!
[1:19:58] Patchwork Heroes
[1:22:46] Retro City Rampage DX
[1:26:42] *end*
The legend returns
chapters added. @davemoore got the full credit. Thanks!
I'm proud to admit that I assembled 2,000 pens in Work Time Fun and recieved an in-game email by the WTF management promoting me to a "Ballpoint Pen Manager" status.
This game is great, one of my favorite PSP games.
We played WTF in high school too. Compared to a WarioWare, it's a very social experience. Also in 2005, no one had iPhones, so WTF turned the PSP into even more of a smart device than before with its unlockable Tools. We actually used the ramen timer for cooking ramen at sleepovers. Nowadays I would just tell siri to set a timer, but back then the PSP was the only device I had to do such a thing!
You named most of my favorite PSP games here. People tend to forget it was also the last generation with a strong rental market. PSP was also so easy to hack even back then. I was charging five bucks to hack my friends PSPs at school. Then we could go to blockbuster, rent games, dump them, and return them for a full refund. Prior to that, I did legitimately rent a lot of PSP games though.
A lot of PSP games were best as rentals. It's how I found my favorite game of all time, Final Fantasy Tactics.
Seeing your peace walker resuscitation footage, having forgotten that part of the game, one could easily draw a comparison to Death Stranding. Those ghosts returning to their bodies are strangely similar to BTs.
A few other games that are to your standard of obscurity:
- Kenka Banchou
- Brandish: Dark Revenant
that's a deep forskin cut you got there, i gotta say i really enjoy origins for it's childhood themes and bunch of weird unlockable items, great video, thank you
Hikiko your videos change me every time i see them.. they change me for the better.
- TheHikikoFan, signing out.
These system retrospectives are some of the best on the website. Love how varied the games you cover are and actually showing off the MGS goggles was a nice touch. I should play The 3rd Birthday. I watched a full playtrough of it on TH-cam when I was in highschool but never tried it myself. For a while I forgot the game's name and thought it was all a dream. Hikikomori Media is steadily becoming one of my favorite channels.
9:02 I did not expect the PSP jingle at that moment and got hit hard by nostalgia wtf man
Ive got a Yellow 3000. This would be my 4th in my liftime. The first one I ever got was a refurbished 1000 in 2009. It changed my deal forever. All I would play was on my old Nintendo DS. This was a step up
I would rip movies on my windows computer. Me and my friends would trade movies at school for this. We also would trade UMDs for a few months and enjoy games we couldnt afford.
I then got a Vita, which wasnt as fun tbfh, I loved it but it just shut down a month after I got the Vita. Which made me a bit upset.
Anyways, I carry around this Yellow 3K around a lot. I work and go to school. It has a large library of PSP/N64 games and movies on it to this day. Anime, movies, games, music. It beats using my phone and running that battery down lol.
I always disliked emulating PSP unless you got something serious. I always ran into issues with emulation on my different stuff. Its cool, but no where near native hardware. Its the reason why some rather just keep the console around and have a authentic experience. I do have a emulation machine made out of a PC stick, a Xbox One S, Xbox 360, PS2, PC, PS4.
My boyfriend has a switch lite (and Xbox One) and while I would love one of those. I would be happier with a Retroid pocket 3 or something like that.
Overall the PSP is my little work horse. Keeps me from having to fight with battery levels on my phone, also does what I want and keeps the storage free on my phone.
A few years ago I booted up a PSP that boot up screen nostalgia hit like a truck
Dude, I love watching these deep dive videos of yours. The amount of work that you put into these does not go unnoticed
thank you kindly Fubster
@@HikikomoriMediaplease ps vita
Ah the PSP. Many fond memories. I was pretty hardcore into the CFW scene back in the day, I would charge other kids money to hack theirs in middle school. Also the first console I ever repaired all by myself. I ended up smashing the LCD in my 1000 model, found a cheap replacement on ebay and did a swap. I was so proud of that.
Upgraded from a 1000 to a PSP Go in Christmas of '09. 16GB of internal storage was a godsend compared to the zero on board storage of the original models. By that point all of my UMD shells had cracked so going all digital with the Go didnt really matter to me.
In terms of games, too many amazing titles to count. I put countless hours into Burnout Legends, DBZ Tenkaichi Tag Team, Ratchet and Clank Size Matters, the GOW games, the GTA games, the Ape Escape remake, Sonic Rivals 1 & 2, the list goes on. Also, Ape Escape Academy is slept on. It's WarioWare with Ape Escape characters!
Access to movies and other media was also awesome on the PSP. I only had a few UMD movies (Tomb Raider and Adam Sandlers The Longest Yard) but as soon as I found a website that hosted download links for MP4 formatted movies and tv shows my life was changed. PSP was my go to MP3 player in the age of the iPod. Had all of my edgy middle school music on one dedicated memory stick. Since the PSP didnt have a built in camera, my photo gallery was 100% Google Images downloads of cool Dragon Ball Z characters or swimsuit models. I was an early teen, leave me alone.
Fun fact about me as a content creator, one of the first videos I'd ever published to YT was a guide on how to install Daedelus 64 to a hacked PSP. Could run Ocarina of Time at about 40% speed but to me it was mindblowing. Probably around 2007 or 2008. Video is still public, but so burried on YT that it's impossible to find these days.
So many fond memories. Amazing video as always dude. Top notch 👌
My first dabble into CFW/homebrew too. I owe it all to the PSP
@HikikomoriMedia please bro do one for ps vita
Why oh WHY do you not have 10 times the viewers?! Still the most under appreciated gaming channel out there. Much luv to HM🥰
🤨Not everyone has a PSP. (they should, but...)😉
Ty for bringing another Vanillaware gem to my attention with Grand Knights History. Literally nobody talking about it but this channel never forgets
I will always need this precious piece of portable gaming history. One day I'll buy a huuuge sd card and fill it with as many games as possible. But I'll watch the video anyway 😊
psp such a great pocket device overall mannn wow ... ! I modded my vita and love it to death very underrated both psp and vita
Monster Hunter fans, there's a translation for MHP3rd on the psp too. Great video btw! Lots of games I've never even heard of that I now definitely want to try out.
Psp is my second favorite handheld i had so many memories playing psp games locoroco,patapon , lumines 2, god eaters and more :D i lost my psp 5 years ago (´༎ຶོρ༎ຶོ`) i might buy new one soon
Dude, thank you. I needed to get some chores done and this was perfect for listening to and reminiscing about how awesome the psp was/is.
Love your dax flame avatar. Now THAT takes me back
Loved how you chose "controversial" games usually deemed as letdowns or bad games like 3rd Birthday and Silent Hill Origins. Cool to see some genuine opinion going on!
I love this video format. I have no experience with the PSP but learning Disaster Report 3 has an English translation makes me think I will be picking one up soon.
Been trying to add to my PSP collection recently, so this came out at a perfect time. Thanks for upload bro, never been disappointed with a recommendation from ya.
I never heard of Patchwork Heroes. I suprised patapon was not included, its crazy rhythm nature looks like a 100% Hikiko material
Love patapon, but wanted to include PSP games not on typical lists
Always loved it. Got me through an Army deployment. Disappearing into Breath of Fire 3 and Tactics was a blessing. Man...I want one now. I still play my Vita and portable emulators, but they aren't the same.
Now do one for 3DS? Ive been LOVING this series of videos.
I never used my psp for watching anime, but I did use my ds to watch a lot of stuff. For some reason there was a dedicated Spanish forum that ripped anime, movies and tv shows so you could watch them on your ds. Thats how I watched skins. Which reminds me, Cassie best girl.
great work as always Hikiko, I could watch a million of these type of videos and never be bored
ds?????ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwww y would u mention that rotten name over here !!!
Awesome job on this video! With your system overview videos I appreciate the detailed looks at the games you recommend for each system. While others tend to focus on information I can easily find on Wikipedia, you on the other hand focus in what matters most, which will always be the games.
I got a Vita with every hacked rom you can think of that can run on the specs. I love it.
All of Nintendo's, Sega's, Access to PS1 and PSP's full library and Atari as well as Wonderswan Color's Entire Game library. I stopped buying them games for crazy amounts of cash from Game Stores there will be no more of that crap lol.
I got a PSP back in 2007 because my mom saw one and in the box the PSP had an image of it browsing google so she thought it was a mini computer
By 2005 standards it was kinda mini computer
A great selection of platform-defining games with really well-done reviews to go along! Honestly, no portables up to and since the PSP could ever match its library.
PS Vita is a great, premium way to enjoy the PSP library due to a sharp screen with very minimal ghosting, the worlds-apart-better speakers, and approximately doubled battery life while playing PSP games, but I'd still recommend also having at least a cheapo PSP with a working disc drive for the game dumping purposes.
I remember bringing the PSP to school so my friends and I could watch the Fantastic Four movie at recess. Also, for the first few days my dumbass thought the analog stick was a speaker.
hahaaahaaaa
You still have the zombie anime poster on your closet.
I gave it a watch after seeing it in one of your older videos.
It was interesting
Yeah there was a crossover with lollipop chainsaw and that's how I got into is this a zombie. Check out chainsaw man too!
I loved the PSP so much, however that love did screw me over since I ended up buying the PS Vita at launch... However now I love using my Vita for PSP and Vita games, still playing a lot of PSP and Vita games on it now.
same here my vita modded
YES NEW HIKIKO CONSOLE VIDEO
Great video Hikikomori. Man your video editing skills are outstanding and have always been excellent since we talked about this on discord. Keep up the great work. I am working on a psp rpg recommendations video soon.
Always enjoy watching these videos you make. I started a small psp library a while ago and have been wanting to add more like the 3rd birthday and yakuza black panther. Its honestly ome of the greats for long bus rides. :)
Great video as always, dude. Solid game recommendations. I'm going to try and keep an eye on that Kurohyou translation; that's crazy.
I have been wanting a Vita for years to take care of my PSP game needs as well and finally bit the bullet when I found a boxed OLED system at a local used game shop with Mortal Kombat for $175. Still need to get around to softmodding it.
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this is how to mod it in 60 seconds :)
I have 2 hacked PSVitas (hacked & unhacked) and 2 Vita TVs (hacked & unhacked) and I usually just play PSP games on an emulator, but I still keep my PSP around because my consoles have a lot of emotional value to me.
1:33 - Same.
3:27 - God I hated the memory cards. I shelled out a ton just to get the largest card I could get because some games had intolerable loading times unless installed on UMD. Was revlieved once microSD card adapters came out (though I was probably emulating at that point).
4:10 - Never really had a problem with UMDs, but I took care of my games fairly okay.
21:57 - I remember finding out about this from a Game Trailers review of all places. Played the PC versions despite buying the PSP version, but for some reason, it would always default to "modern graphics" mode for reasons I don't understand. The "modern graphics" always seemed pretty antithetical to the sorts of games HMH was poking fun at. My favourite part is how high quality the rocking soundtrack and unlockable artwork is to how the game actually looks, GT pointed this out. I looked it up, and GT gave it an 8.7, which is really shocking to me considering how these days most critics would probably give it a 6 or something.
1:16:42 - Think I also heard about this from a Game Trailers review and the concept of playing the bad guy intrigued me. Never played too much, but I remember getting filtered by its ecosystem system. Wish the VR game was playable outside the PS4 VR, because I can't justify buying a PSVR for maybe 2-3 exclusives, especially since the PSVR2 isn't backwards compatible.
PSVR (1) is not aging well with the improvements and lower prices of modern headsets. I guarantee you'll be able to find them for 50.00 in the near future. I played a lot of odd exclusives for it that I enjoyed, but there were a lot of demos or proof of concepts that never saw full games. Last Guardian, Danganronpa, etc. Badman VR, FFXV Fising VR and Rez/Tetris Effect were great.
Love the video, psp is very dear to my heart so it was glad to see it represented here. BTW maybe PS Vita soon?👀
Possibly!
@@HikikomoriMediapleeeeaese do vita a
I have a PSP nowadays but man I wish I had one back when they were supported. Such a cool little gizmo. Some of my favorite games:
• MGS Portable Ops (while I do like Peace Walker, MPO feels more like a home console game than it so I like this more.)
• Star Wars The Force Unleashed (better than PS3 version in my humble opinion)
• Fat Princess
• Medal of Honor Heroes
• Both GoW games
• Gran Turismo
• Wipeout Pulse
I had two PSP, one was a GO and the other one was a 3001 (still have this one, but the battery is busted). When you talked about watching anime using the system you triggered a lot of memories, I used to watch anime using my PSP-3001 in the diner next to the place I worked at. Good times! I have a hacked PSVita in which I play PSP games now that I use pretty frequently and in fact I'm replaying The 3rd Birthday right now!
I also have modded ps vita...what else u play?
@@Gloryboyquan PSP related i always have those Dreamcast ports like Crazy Taxi and Power Stone. The ones i've been playing recently are The 3rd Birthday and also Black Rock Shooter The Game, a really really underrated action JRPG exclusive to the PSP.
@otako_fefe oooo I'm Playing currently Mhfu And Vita Games I Got Child of light to play but Mhfu Got Me Good Rn
@@otako_fefe I would never sell my vita this a staple In my life my fav handheld
@@Gloryboyquan i wouldn't either, it's one of my favorite handhelds ever. Plus there's a lot of active homebrew devs that are doing some great stuff there.
I didn't play too many games on the PSP but i did love Mega Man Maverick Hunter X and Dissidia Duodecim. Square really needs to port that game or make an actual follow up to it.
What a badass and informative video. Thank you very much for your passionate work. The PSP and Vita are my favorite handhelds of all time. It’s been fun as hell collecting and watching UMD movies too!
One thing that would definitely add to the list is final fantasy type-0. Someone fully translated it and also uses the same engine as 3rd birthday so as you would expect visuals are gorgeus.
same director too
This guy is the John Cusack of gaming
Better Off Dead is in my top 3 movies, so that's a high honor
@@HikikomoriMedia Well Sir Cusakesque the honor is all mine. Your "Why You Need an Xbox / Wii / WiiU" reviews are in my top 3 hidden gems reviews. Keep up the excellent work.
@@HikikomoriMediaGrosse point blank and 1408 are my favorite Cusack movies
1:01:50 that reporter exactly sounds like the one on The Tick cartoon
Why you need a Switch in 2050
such a great video! and a nice set of games, played almost all of them except for the badman series and that weird japanese natural disaster survival sim
omg the Aya Brea plot twist at the end, nooooo! XD hoooow!!!? i remember it now. ...
I have a psp and just got the go to bring everywhere
Where the PSP Street (E-1000) at in the vid!? :(
Its so interesting that this video came out while I've been binging on PSP like crazy the last couple of weeks.
A year late to the party but I bought a well kept psp1000 yesterday, very excited to get to modding hundreds of games on a good ol micro sd with an adapter. Only downside Ive noticed so far is that connecting to wifi is near impossible in the modern age, oh well
yeah, I think it operates on an old wireless encryption standard. if you remove security it may be able to connect (not recommend)
the one thing that really seperated the PSP fporm other devices, was that it COULD PLAY FLASH VIDEOS and therefore, was useful for certain.. adult content. websites that would never work on the NDS , for exmaple - worked just fine on the PSP
It's a shame that PSP doesn't have any kind of rumble. Some genres aren't the same without it.
you the man, hikiko
Dude, these are sick recommendations. Thanks!
Can't forget both Syphon Filter PSP games, Killzone Liberation, and Resistance Retribution. And there are a few good FPS games, although using only one analog stick is awkward.
I haven’t played either Syphon filter on psp. I’m debating whether I should play them on my psp or ps5. What would you suggest? I’m leaning towards ps5
it's funny to think that few japanese publishers managed to sneak in Visual novels with hentai scenes by releasing them under "PSP VIDEO" since that side isn't as strict as releasing it under game banner xd
Great stuff, really enjoyed the video!!!
appreciate the psp content in 2023. New games have been trash for years, battlepasses, sbmm, paid dlc left n right, $70-100 games. Im done with it, im only playing old fun games from now on, and without all the content on youtube it wouldnt be possible, atleast not as easy.
you should make one for the ps vita (:
Dr.Maybee And Scarygirl(Fritz L.VAporware)
Shadow OF Destiny(Life in the FLash 24)
Floating Cloud [g]od saves the Pilgrims (Okami M-Rebirth)
Baroque`s really Gud on handhelds(PLaYitGOdDamnit)
Rengoku Stairway 2 H.E.A.V.E.N(God-Grave Automata)
love this thing
I love the half min hero games a lot
I really like Origins. I thought it was awesome that if you didn't have a weapon Travis can go to town on enemies with his fists.
Yeah, comparatively it's not the best or the worst game in the series. Some fun post game unlocks.
Freaking awesome and nostalgic indeed dude
2:54 It's Grand Knights' History!
8:57 Ahhh !! I saw what you did there, Man of culture
Dam your videos are good. I wasn't intending to watch your Xbox360 vid in one sitti g and now her I am loving your PSP vid.
there's a PS3, Wii and Wii U one along the same line
@@HikikomoriMedia I just got to the end of the ps3 vid and now have a new wants list though I already played Linger in Shadows, Datura and Rain shadow of the Colossus and have Toy home digitally to my surprise.
Most of the others are way more expensive physically than expected. Fortunately the infamouse collection is still on the uk psn store with festival of blood.
Linger in shadows and Datura if you look into them will lead you to the "Demo scene". All those hidden names in linger are of groupes of developers. Who held competitions every year all dragging their Amiga hardware to convention centers for weekend events. Impressive stuff.
thanks. i just discovered dead head fred and grand Knights history
1 reason is: you actually own the games unlike new consoles
Anyone trying to find a certain game or a certain movie/music UMD Look for lots. Buying the games individually are way more expensive. I bought a GTA VCS CIB and LCS UMD only and 3 movies for only $30. The VCS game only is going for $25 plus shipping and taxes.
Where did you find a physical PAL copy of Patchwork Heroes?
Sadly all the GOOD PSP JRPG's MOST of them NEVER left Japan but the PSP is region free in fact NO TALES of game on a PSP EVER got a AMERICAN version Destiny II/Eternia for the PSP only got a English dub in Europe only but its still a port.
Definitely need to cover Tokobot if you do another of these!
Shadows of the Damnd Remaster hype!!!!
The most regret thing for me is “Yakuza:black panther”without English or my mother language 😢but PlayStation portable still give me surprise in 2023, compare with ps vita.
actually silent hill shattered memories and origins were ported to the ps2 with better graphics, perfomance and you can try emulating it on the pcsx2. I played those games on an original ps2 for the first time and it was a blast.
Silent Hill Origins on PS2 has an issue where it's significantly darker than the PSP version. Personally, I wouldn't recommend it. SHSM is fine anyway you play it.
August 15th will be The Date.
Looks so cooooooo
I normally like his takes, but The 3rd Birthday was character assassination for Aya, Maya, and Maeda, and then effectively killing off the series after numerous director / team changes and no one wanted to work on it. It even changed genres from Hard Sci-fi to... just Cyberpunk Fantasy? The 3rd Birthday is the Metroid: Other M of the PSP.
I stand by my opinion. 3rd Birthday is one of the most enjoyable games on the system. The story from P.E. II already veered far away from Sena's source material long before 3rd Birthday.
Ahh I didn't know there was a Gitaroo Man for PSP, and of course it's expensive. Hammerin' Hero has been on my radar for a long time, but I never see it around and it is brutally expensive now - an Atlus staple before the Sega merger.
I'm disappointed you didn't mention Dracula X Chronicles, the many awesome arcade racers, the Megaman remakes or some of the many collections on the platform. I don't think the 3DS+Vita combined had libraries that matched the PSP.
I tend not to mention games that appeared in the hundred other PSP videos. Maybe in a followup
@@HikikomoriMedia No worries man, I still really enjoyed the video and I like your content.
“Psp in 2024” (filmed in 2023 😳)
the PSP is eternal
@@HikikomoriMedia the PSP transcends time itself 😧
I'm looking to get both but should I be worried about battery bloat in a PSP Go?
Couldn't hurt to replace it.
Nice choice of games dude
Thanks 😁
I got a Go but the hold button is broken...
THANKS DUDE
Any time
MGS PEACE WALKER, AC!D, AC!D2 are the most fun manly shit on the PSP! i LOVE IT! plus the women in AC!D 2 are gravure idols not JAV (gravure is not genitals/nipples, JAV is with blurs) THANK YOU FOR THIS VIDEO HIKKIKO!!!!!!!
My apologies to the ladies
what is the at 2:09 ? looks really interesting
Coded Arms. It's alright.
What game did he mention at 14:23? Hellblade? Hillblade? Ill Blade? Not even the subtitles can understand what he said there. Lol 😅
He said Illbleed. Its another horror title on the Dreamcast that, in a nutshell, takes the raunchy content of The 3rd Birthday and cranks it up to 11.