How to Download Games to Your PSP

Trying to find out how to download games to your PSP? Have you trying searching on the official Sony PSP website and trying to discover the secret, hoping that if it’s not in the manual it might be shown there. Chances are you will never find any topic or related material regarding download games to your PSP that because Sony intends UMD games to be their main source of gaming for PSP owner. Yes, that means everyone like you and everyone else would need to continue buying UMD games from authorized retail outlets. It will not be a bad thing if UMD games would be more affordable. Face it, who owns PSP console can constantly afford buying UMD for gaming. For sure I will not be able to afford buying UMD games myself.



So we have to find an alternative solution to satisfy our gaming desire. Do not get me wrong where I support pirating games by downloading it through the internet. I do support original games whenever I can afford to buy new games and I need to find an alternative solution when I can’t afford new games.

When I initially embark onto the trail of searching for sites to download new games to my PSP it wasn’t that simply or straight forward. But eventually I manage to get the steps for downloading it onto my PSP. It is not as complicated process as you think it would be. Just follow the simple steps;

Step 1

Connect your PSP with your personal computer. If you are not sure how to do that, simply continue reading this paragraph or else jump to step#2. You can start by connecting both your PSP to your personal computer by using the USB cable that was provided when you first purchased the PSP console. On your PSP console, change the mode by pressing on the “Home” button. And you follow next by scrolling left to the “Setting” column and then scroll downward until you find “USB Connection”. Press “X” button to enter PSP into USB mode. This will complete the connection between your PSP and personal computer.

Step 2

You computer will prompt you that a removable hard disk has been detected. And it will continue to register it on your “My Computer” windows. Open up that latest removable drive and you can start transferring your PSP games file into the correct path or else the games simply will not work. The correct path is PSP>GAME (all the folder names are in caps), if the file do not exist create it manually.

Step 3



Once the PSP game files have been completely transferred into your memory stick on the PSP unit, disconnect the PSP from your personal computer. From your PSP main menu, simply scroll towards GAME and then select Memory Stick option. Press “X” button to enter, and the list of available games stored inside your memory stick will be displayed on the screen. If you encounter any error prompted by your PSP, the games you have chosen might not be compatible with your PSP firmware version.

Depending on your PSP unit version of firmware, all downloaded games are designed to run on a particular firmware version. So you must always check your PSP firmware version before searching for games to download. As you can see from here, knowing how to download games to your psp is not complicated at all, you just need to know your PSP firmware version before downloading the games.

Free Homebrew PSP Games

First, lets talk about what does the homebrew term means. This term is all around the Internet when you search on psp’s but I guess not many know really what the term meant. Homebrew is applied to video games that are not typically user-programmable. Some refer to homebrew as home-developed games or non-commercial video games. It was found out in June of 2005 that an unsigned code can be run on a PSP firmware version 1.5. This lead to the creation of unsigned codes that is the backbone for the homebrew games. Sony had come up with many security features but still the homebrew creators are successful. One of the most popular types of homebrewed games that you might have heard of is the fangames.

There are many free homebrew video games available in the Internet. Here is a list of some of them for your reference.

1. PSP Dungeons

This comes in 3D environment and setting.

2. LUAmines

This is a homebrew version of the PSP puzzle game called Lumines.

3. Snake for PSP

Basically this is the same as what you have on your hand phone. Very basic but good to have especially if you just need to something to get you occupied while on a queue, etc.

4. Space Invaders

Considered a classic game which most of game players are very familiar with.

5. Quake V2

You should never miss this if you are a hard-core fan of the famous quake game.

6. Beats of range

Patterned after street fighter.

Just type all these titles in the Internet and you should be able to find them for free download. There are a lot of sites offering free downloads for homebrew PSP games. Check out the site first before you decide to download the stuff. Some sites may have spam or virus so its best to do a bit of research before you start your download. Do check out the squidoo website as they offer quite a good range of free homebrew games.

There is no need to list down the sites with free homebrew games because there are thousands of them in the Internet. All you need to do is invest a bit of your time to search for it in the Internet.

How to Convert Movies to PSP

Do you find it frustrating trying to understand how to convert movies to PSP? You can read the PSP manual from first to last page and you will still be a bit confused on how to start. I bought one and it took me a while to figure it out.

I love watching all sorts of movies that interests me and it keeps me occupied especially in the long commute from home to work. With the PSP console I can enjoy watching movies while I’m on the move. The problem now is how to convert movies to PSP .

Not so long ago, I came across over the Internet some software that provided me with the solution to my little problem. It really feels great to finally able to watch my favorite movies on the move. And then I realized another problem, movie files like what I have comes in much different type of formats and the software I have does not really provide converting all type of movie files to PSP format.

And again the frustration came back as I’m not able to watch all the videos I want. I went back online and searched for another solution and this time, I’m clear about what I’m after until I found this software called “Alive PSP Video Converter” software. Just to clarify that I’m not trying to advertise or promote this software but I find it very easy to use and I would like to share with everyone reading this right now.

The software that I’m using now, “Alive PSP Video Converter” is really one of the ultimate software I came across so far. The software is capable to convert the movies file format like DivX, XviD, MPEG, MOV, MPG, MOD, MP4, 3GP, 3G2, SWF, GIF, DV, MJPEG, VOB, WMV, ASF, AVI.

The software seriously solved all my different movies file format conversion and together with the simplicity of converting my favorite movie files, watching movies on the move seem to be my most treasured moments as I’m able to watch any movies converted onto my PSP console.

The software is extremely easy to operate and to convert any movie files, it simply take two steps to complete the conversion. For the first step of converting any movie file, use your window explorer and open the folder containing your movie or movie file you want to convert. Next, on the mouse or mouse pad, right click and you will see a pop-up menu. Select the “Convert to” and a sub-menu will appear to show the different types of formats. Select any of the following;

PSP MPEG-4 Video (368x206) PSP MPEG-4 Video (368x192) PSP H264 AVC Video (368x206) PSP H264 AVC Video (368x192) And now you can start converting your favorite movies to PSP formats. Personally I found that this software is also capable of a lot of other movie converting functions available. And it is the ultimate movie converting software I would recommend to anyone.