I tried SNES9x Euphoria again, turns out the performance sucked because the frameskip was set to 3 by default, I changed it to 0 and it ran beautifully. Did I solve it after all this time?

In order to cinch it, I thought I'd try beating the first dungeon in Super Mario World which I have never been able to do on a PSP before without crashing the system. Why not right? I didn't expect any problems to occur, but it would be a historic moment. Anyway, I got all the way up to the first boss, and right upon entering the boss door, the entire screen became BLOOD RED. I immediately panicked and looked through the settings to see if there was one that might fix it, gave up and returned to the game to find out that yep, it froze as well. (I panicked because I thought I would die from not being able to see anything, but in the end I had nothing to worry about, lol)

never have I been so traumatized from an SNES game D=
this some horror movie shit right here

Hey i just thought. I have three working PSPs currently. Shouldn't I be testing out some local multiplayer games? But dang. This is a huge undertaking. Guess I'll start by making a list of games to check out.

I figure most games will fall into one of several categories.
Co-op games are ideal but these are rare.
PSP has a few trading card games, which is wild. Those will be the most interesting.
The only fighting games I need to bother with are Tekken.
The worst lot to deal with is racing games, the PSP has so many of them but racing never lends itself to good multiplayer since there is a tendency for one player to pull ahead and just stay there for the entire race. WOW FUN
What else? Field Commander? Oh, hey, yeah.
Does Final Fantasy Tactics have PvP? That sounds horrible. Must try.
Dissidia.
Phantasy Star, wait does that have co-op local? If so holy shit.
Sonic Rivals.
Fat Princess I just wish it didn't have blood and wasn't named Fat Princess, because of this it has to be played by adults.
TNT Racers omg. It's Micro Machines for PSP, what is better than that??
Puzzle Quest.
Pangya assuming anyone really wants to play a golf game multiplayer.

YT comments are saying this emulator is way better. I will try it. Snes9xTYL Mod PSP 180404
https://www.gamebrew.org/wiki/Snes9xTYL_PSP

It's interesting how the SNES emulation is really bad while the Genesis emulation is really good.

I'm selling one of my PSPs, and figured I'd try to upgrade the CFW to permanent CFW. Back when I first hacked my PSP in 2015 or so, it used to be that only the original fat model PSP can have it permanent. This is not a big deal, in fact it matters so little to me that the act of making it available to all PSP models seems like a bad thing almost since it forces everyone to go through the hassle of switching, if only because one might as well.

But my question is, is it safe to install CFW on a PSP if it has another CFW installed already. I thought I could be extra safe and install official firmware 6.61 to "cleanse" the system of the old CFW before installing the new CFW. But just now I tried and it won't let me because it says 6.61 is already installed.

I should probably just leave it alone..

This is so cute, my brother texted me a photo of his son using the PSP. Totally unexpected for me, this is the first time my brother mentioned the psp at all since I gave it to him a couple years back. (And his kid was way too young at the time) Supposedly the kid likes to watch the intro to Last Raven over and over which I guess means he doesn't quite know how to actually play any games yet? Maybe i should move forward with giving him my oled vita. Oh, I should find my DS Lite with Sonic Advance!

One late night I tried the PSP port of Mario 64 and I was greeted w "Itsa me!! Mario!!!!" First thing I do is turn the volume down, but I was already at the lowest volume. My only choices are "all of China knows you're here" or mute. The game itself also doesn't have any options other than stereo / mono / headset.

PSP port of Doom had the same issue. Fucking loud or mute. There are volume settings for music and sfx but changing them had no effect. I guess they're simply there as a leftover from the PC version, the modder who ported the game didn't bother to program them to work on the PSP. It's kind of interesting from a technical standpoint, in addition to being hilarious. That said, I swear I started Doom 1 from the select prompt but it was Doom 2 that booted up, so maybe the whole thing was just a fubar coded piece of shit and I shouldn't read too much into it.

Anyway I would pin it on them being homebrew but these are not isolated incidents. Gradually over time I would find that PSP games are really loud on the lowest volume setting. In fact I used to LIKE this about the PSP. "Hey, the game is the volume I want by default how convenient is that!" And it means I can quickly toggle between sound on/off for when I want to yell at my mom to make me hot pockets. When a game had volume that actually worked the way it should e.g. LittleBigPlanet PSP, I found it really strange and I somehow looked down on the game for it. Like you'd have to increase the volume meter to halfway to be able to hear the game. How laborious! And I can no longer mute the game on a whim when I want it! Whack!

I would imagine that this flaw of the PSP would "ruin" the system for me and the only reason it hasn't (thus far at least) is because so many games let you adjust music/sfx volume in the settings, thereby bailing out the system on an individual game basis. Come to think of it, after a certain point I probably began to use this feature in every single PSP game that offers it, without fail, often lowering the sfx to 40% if not lower (and often disabling music altogether) without ever really stopping to notice the fact of it. If not for the ability to do this, this flaw could very well have been the PSP's equivalent of the way the OLED Vita's minimum screen brightness is locked to Complete Ocular Destruction. At least with Vita there is a plugin that addresses the screen thing, but the PSP does not have one to fix the sound. At least, I don't think there is one.

tl;dr - I'm getting old and can't enjoy anything anymore

Oh, I forgot to download the Sims games. I had one job!!

Oh well, maybe tomorrow I'll do it.

The good thing is I like to transfer the games in reverse alphabetical order (so they show up alphabetically on the psp) and I only added two iso games before giving up, so I am still only up to the letter S. x)

huh
I found my pro-duo adapters
and some more storage too

I'm mega impressed with the battery life of psp, I've put 6 hours of ffvii into it without charging.