genjiglove said:
You can now play PS1 games on PSP, or so I have read. I'm interested in this, but can you do it with any old PSP that you buy or do you need an early one with old firmware?
Also, how does it control with only two shoulder buttons?
Well, you can downgrade consoles with a firmware up to 2.81 (that s the latest news i got interested in, maybe that evolved).
However, having a later revision of the mother board (TA-082 to TA-086) means a much higher risk to brick the system when installing the famous 3.02OE-A, OE-B and 3.03OE-A firmware (the ones that allow DRM-hacked PS1 packages).
The chances of bricking the console is about 50% on these later revisions without any human error (unpluging the AC, switching off the console while flashing etc, opening the UMD drive).
The chance of bricking the 1st generation motherboard is almost null. Unless you have a failing internal flash memory.
So, better buy an older revision PSP.
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Now, about the shoulder buttons. The emulator allows several configurations.
My favourite one for digital input is the following: DPAD to move, Thumbstick to the left for L2, Thumbstick to the right for R2, Thumbstick upwards for L2+R2
The only thing impossible to have is full Dual shock controls (right analog, L3, R3).
