Sony PSP
 At
this year E3 exhibition in CA USA Sony has finally unveiled it
final design and specifications of the new handheld PlayStation
Portable called Sony PSP.
Online resources: PlayStationPortable.com -
PSP news, release dates and specifications. SonyPSP.us -
information about Sony PSP hardware and possibilities of importing
the handheld from Japan before its 2005 release in USA. PSP is scheduled
to be released in Japan at the fourth quarter of 2004.
Sony PSP can now play PlayStation 1 Games on PSP if they are converted to EBOOT form and placed in PSP/GAMES folder on the memory stick.
Preview PSP Games : Screenshots
There is impressive lineup of games to support the launch of the
new handheld. They include
Gran Turismo 4, Spiderman 2, WipeOut,
Medievil,
Syphon Filter,
new
PSP Ridge Racer game and many more exciting new games. Read more about upcoming
Sony PSP games and view screenshots and video footage at PSP-Games.us Sony has developed an official PlayStation Portable Emulator that
is available to the developers. Apparently it runs on PC and can
be used for testing games and applications without the need to
burn them to UMD's. Source: PSP-Emulator.com
Sony PlayStation Portable Emulator - PSP roms
Sony has confirmed that PSP Slim & Lite will also feature 333 Mhz processor 32MB
or RAM and 4MB video memory. In addition to that Memory Stick
slot, Wi-Fi support and USB v2.0. Knowing this we are more that
sure that it will not take long for emulators of other console
games (game roms) for the PSP to appear. We are especially anxious
to see and download GBA roms emulator for PSP, MAME game emu
for PSP and hopefully PSX (PS One) emulator running on PSP. Source: PSPEmulators.com .
As evidence that PSX emulation on Sony PlayStation Portable
should be possible is the fact that there is PlayStation emulator
for PocketPC!
To protect the content, a robust copyright protection system
has been developed which utilizes a combination of a unique disc
ID, a 128 bit AES encryption keys for the media, and individual
ID for each PSP hardware unit. That's where PSP
Mod-Chips come into play. To unlock region lock you will have
to add a modifications chip to the psp similar to the PSX and PS2
mod chips available today. It will be challenging for ModChip manufactures
to come up with a chip design that could fit inside the PSP. As an
alternative - an external mod-chip could be introduced taking advantage
of the USB or MemoryStick slot. Sort of plug and play mods: PspModChip.com
Sony's handheld
PSP gaming hardware will use Universal Media Discs, which can store
up to 1.8GB of media such as Games, Music, Video or any other software
or data that can be used on PSP. Backuping UMD images to PC and
creating psp roms of the commercial games will be somewhat of a
challenge as Sony has no intention of releasing UMD readers/writers
for general public. Another limiting factor is the size of PSP
UMD discs 1.8 Gigabyte - that's go to be had to download over
the net. What we could be looking forward to ar 3rd party made
free psp roms containing game demos or small games that were made
by unlicensed psp developers. source: PSProms.com
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