Layered Thoughts

Drove up to Simi Valley today for the Thanksgiving weekend so before I left, I emptied out my trunk and found my old PSP in it.  I haven’t used it in forever so I grabbed it and charged it up and have been playing with it a bit over the last two days.

I’ve decided that I’m going to install some hacked firmware onto it. Why? Because it allows me to install emulators for old game systems, which means, yes, that I can play NBA Jam wherever and I whenever I damn well feel like it.  So awesome.

The hacked firmware will also allow me to play downloaded game ISO files from the memory stick (Going to need a bigger memory stick).  Pretty nice since I do not play video games enough to warrant spending what little money I have on new ones.

I’m also going to use it hopefully for watching some movies on it.  I’ve downloaded a Windows app that makes it really easy to convert .avi files to psp formatted files so all of that will be simple once I get to that point.

Finding this thing has provided me a few good article topics for this blog that I’m hoping to publish in the next two weeks or so.  I’m thinking about writing these articles so far:

1. How to install the latest hacked firmware onto a PSP
2. How to play ISO files on a PSP
3. How to convert movies to watch on a PSP

I’m also thinking about writing about whether or not great graphics makes a video game actually better.  I mean, I generally only play old school games that I grew up with, so I’m under the impression that it’s not the visual quality but the immersive quality that makes a game great.  I’m hoping I can explore this idea in a post soon. I think it’s funny that I have these 4 posts lined up to write and I’m not even that into video games.  Oh well, good hacking stories at least.

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