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This mod turns the PSP into a tiny PS2 with Bluetooth controller
support / We love a home console turned portable, but what about
the other way around?
By Wes Davis, a weekend editor who covers the latest in tech and entertainment. He has written
news, reviews, and more as a tech journalist since 2020.
Dec 16, 2024, 1:30 AM GMT+5:30
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Retro Mod Works’ PS Placeable, a mod that “consolizes” the PSP and was featured
yesterday in a video from the YouTube channel Macho Nacho Productions.
Retro Mod Works charges $274.99 for a prebuilt PS Placeable. Those are waitlisted
at the moment, though — a message on the site says the project is a “one man show”
and that the demand for the Placeable was higher than anticipated.
Retro also offers to mod customer-provided PSPs for $100 less, and there’s an
option preorder DIY parts and do the conversion work yourself. The mod requires
either a PSP-2000 or PSP-3000 revision, as the first PSP didn’t have a video output.
It’s not clear when the DIY parts will ship — we’ve asked Retro Mod Works and will
update if we get a reply.
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A stack of PS Placeables. Image: Retro Mod Works
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Sony’s PlayStation Portal hacked to run emulated PSP games
The internet’s infamous fake portable GameCube has finally been brought to life
The primary person behind the project, named Dan, told Macho Nacho host Tito
Perez that he “hated the idea of buying digital games” for which he has physical
copies, and wanted a way to add Bluetooth controller support while preserving the
UMD drive. He’s also mentioned in replies on Reddit that his goal is to help people
revive broken PSPs with the mod, which doesn’t need the console’s screen.
But buying one of these mod kits can be pricey or require skills most people don’t
have. If you just want to play PSP games on your TV and don’t care about having a
UMD drive, the PSP Go — which lacked Sony’s oddball optical drive but supported
Bluetooth controllers and also had a way to output video — is still pretty easy to
come by.
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