I recently bought myself a PSP (Playstation Portable). Although the games are somewhat entertaining mainly GTA: Liberty City Stories and Metal Gear Acid 2 what seperates the PSP its large community of hackers who devolped homebrew. For those who don't know homebrew allows your to run applications of the PSP's memory card using the PSP as the hardware. I myself am currently several emulator (SNES, Genesis, GBA and NES) as well as some good apps like ebook reader, pdf reader (which is great for manga) and psp radio. Oh yeah another thing that it's great for since it has a nice widescreen display I use PSP Video 9 to convert tv shows, movies and anime to be viewed at a later time. I was wondering whether anyone else has a PSP around here and if they do if they are taking advantage of homebrew.

I'm loving my PSP, but I've been too busy with Mega Man Maverick Hunter X, Lumines, Syphon Filter, Me and My Katamari, and SOCOM to get into homebrew. It's such a great system even without all of the other stuff it can do.

I concur with the both of you--the PSP is a great system for gaming, as well as a great system for not gaming. While the selection of games is somewhat lacking in my opinion, the capability and options with the PSP keep my focus. Many of my wide-screen movies play quite nicely on the PSP, some manga has been refitted to be easily slideshow-able and the emulators are pretty cool.

My current games are Metal Gear AC!D (1, 2), Hot Shots Golf, Generation of Chaos, SOCOM, Dynasty Warrios and Me and My Katamari. :D

The psp can do like everything

Its alright. I've owned one since launch, and only have a few games for it. The most recent being Megaman X Maverick Hunter and Megaman Powered Up. Homebrew is a godsend, i dont know what I would do without it. I feel bad for the people who buy one now, getting a newer version of the firmware who can't use homebrew.

The next upgrade is taking too long.

Live in Sweden, couldn't wait till it was released here so I bought one from the states. And it rocks! And yes, I've been using homebrew ever since firmware 1.5 was cracked. I just love to be able to get every game for free. Sometimes i feel sorry for the creators of these games and machines though, they create these great things and we're not paying them :(

Hey what is homebrew and how do you get it to work on the psp. I would like to know. please somebody tell me. but anyways I love my PSP also. I watch AMVs on it all the time but lately It's been used as a mp3 player more than a gaming system. I'm still waiting for Gulity Gear Judgement to come out next month.

I haven't touched my PSP in almost a year. It's just been collecting dust on my shelf. There just haven't been any games out that I really want for the PSP, and I don't like the idea of paying $20 a for a movie just to watch it on my PSP. All in all, it was a waste of my money.