Playing Illegal PSP Games

[@icebergherg2019]

OMG 😳 The DooM Mod at 10:38, i worked on that!! There was this dude going by sin (alias sinsin or sin_pl) and he did the dust1 map, while i did dust2, assault, italy and aztec. I was in love with it because it ran on my Symbian S60 phone from Nokia. With Markus Mertamas C2Doom port for s60 you could play DooM WADs, even including bluetooth multiplayer! We played this CS mod for doom for hours during class, it was awesome! Edit: If anyone here by any chance has the WAD files for "CounterStrike" aka "CounterDOOM" please let me know. A fatal HDD error in the early 2010s deleted all my project folders. Seeing my work referenced in one of my subscribed creators videos is just... i cant describe how awesome it is. and it makes me wish to find these files again. So if anyone has them, PLEASE get in touch with me. its almost two decades ago, and id love to have them again. Thanks in advance!

[@zachal-natoor9455]

this is so cool!!! background lore always so interesting. i love how content and the internet and niches connect us all

[@icebergherg2019]

@@zachal-natoor9455 I absolutely feel you. This feeling, that this absolutely niche hobby of mine 18yrs ago is suddenly appearing on my KZbin feed is nothing short of unbelievable 😅 the Internet really does connect people in the weirdest ways

[@DoYouSeeBananaManTH]

That’s sick

[@DoYouSeeBananaManTH]

@ratlobber

[@dorukdogauysal8299]

Isn't it the Xxjman0708 is the creator of that game 😅

[@luciregelt2813]

Its so insane to think how big and good games the psp was able to play in fking 2005. while being a rather small device that wont tire your hands after 30 minutes..

[@andtpfack8243]

and passive cooled, not like the new devices that have a 50 db fan on them

[@LURKTec]

Yeah, it’s still weird how it never took off while the soytendo DS did for whatever reason

[@phoenixjohnson4230]

@@LURKTecI think it’s because nintendos games lend themselves better to mobile play. (I.e. Uncharted Golden Abyss vs Mario Platformer)

[@kobold7466]

@@LURKTec it was marketed to children so if little billy got one little susie might throw a tantrum so lets just get 2 for christmas. also children are more likely to get more out of the mobile aspect of the console than an adult with a 9-5 that just wants to sit down when they get home

[@lillyclarity9699]

no it'll just make your hands cramp unless you're a manlet

[@NetZip]

I peed myself

[@filpside]

are you from Mississippi? Cause you're the only miss whose piss I sippie.

[@rmatjuhovs]

Change underwear please

[@Sid_The_Maggot]

Congrats

[@NetZip]

@@rmatjuhovs so warm

[@ratlobber]

me too

[@pealcrusher3166]

will never forget my PSP experience. Playing Jax n Dexter and listening to Linkin Park while sitting on my bunkbed after a long day of school

[@ratlobber]

so fire

[@TheeCapN]

I don't remember being able to hear music and play games at the same time on my PSP bc I was really mad I couldn't do that

[@3a.m.284]

​@@TheeCapNyou could if you modded your psp, they had music plugins, they could also just have linkin park on their iPod classic or CD player while playing jack and daxter

[@HueyTheDoctor]

Yo I watched every episode of Lost on my PSP back in the day. Downloaded the eps then converted them to mp4s at the native screen res of the PSP. They looked sick.

[@AbuHajarAlBugatti]

@@HueyTheDoctorlost is a great show anyway. I kinda miss the Tv hype back then, anyone watching it, waiting for new episodes and then talking about them the next 1-2 days

[@JennyTheNerdBat]

12:00 "Good morning, specimen, and welcome to the portal research center"

[@callisvitor]

It’s Russian, right?

[@R031-E]

yep@@callisvitor

[@_matteo]

i think its polish

[@Its_Host]

​@@callisvitorI am polish and yes it's Russian but I didn't understand it

[@festivalis]

This is a russian version of Glados intro dialogue

[@uhh12131]

i will download this video illegally, and save it to my psp HEAVILY COMPRESSED

[@volundrfrey896]

Sorry to burst your bubble but downloading copyrighted material isn't illegal, it's uploading that's illegal.

[@SpectreblueLeftTesticle]

People make homebrew gba video ports which is even better. Someone put the first spongebob movie on it and its ultra crusty

[@uhh12131]

@@volundrfrey896 country dependant lmao

[@The_Prizessin_der_Verurteilung]

You wouldn't download ̶a̶ ̶c̶a̶r̶!̶ a heavily compressed video!

[@najtrows]

@@volundrfrey896 maybe they are going to break in to a military facility and use their hardware to do it. that would be pretty illegal I think.

[@PiggyPorkchop]

"ratlobber" already sounds like a psychologically damaging PSP game anyway so you're uniquely qualified to cover this subject.

[@Aeduo]

Like squirrel stapler?

[@sd1gaming]

​@@Aeduoratlobotomy

[@mr.pothosswag8396]

cringe

[@ZeranZeran]

Wait why is everyone calling this guy crazy just for making a Portal Port on the PSP!? I think that's impressive Also I think the message is in russian, and (I AM NOT AN EXPERT) I think it literally just says "Hello, Welcome to the test laboratory of Portal"

[@jamesrosewell9081]

​@@Aeduo You know about that too?

[@BringusStudios]

Ok now we're talkin

[@rageglol]

i bought the bringus sticker pack

[@emperorfaiz]

PSP is such a legendary handheld console on the same level as Gameboy. Unlike Nintendo handheld family, it doesn't last long when Vita released but the original PSP has left a great legacy people still appreaciate it today.

[@jamesmcmackin8773]

PSP had better online implementation than the Switch, that sounds like a joke but Nintendo gets a pass for being horribly antiquated with almost every hardware generation and never being able to figure out a competitive or even remotely competent online service like Sony and Microsoft.

[@3a.m.284]

What are you talking about? Psp lasted 10 full years, 2004 to 2014, that far outlived any of the Gameboy lineup

[@dia5494]

"but the original PSP has left a great legacy people still appreciate today" no kidding 95% of my gaming time in 2024 (20 years after the console came out!!!!) so far has been playing monster hunter and wipeout pulse on the emulator 😭

[@angeloh58d]

Its the best handheld device

[@primalconvoy]

What? The Vita was a complete and utter failure. The PSP was absolutely more popular and long-lived than the Vita.

[@wingdings5812]

blockland mentioned in 2024 is crazy, that game was my childhood

[@Theehannle]

I miss the old janky maps the game had.

[@DgkYogi]

i grew up on roblox around the time it was first coming out and then eventually grew on and transitioned to blockland. greatest lego but not lego game to ever exist lol. i remember downloading a left 4 dead mod for it and being addicted

[@wingdings5812]

@@Theehannle do you remember the secrets they had? I could swear there were ways to go outside on certain maps like the bedroom and kitchen, I found that so awesome as a kid

[@psychonauts0]

I used to host a pretty big Blockland server back when I was in middle school. Occasionally I boot the game back up out of curiosity and it's a tragedy the ways they've ruined it over the years. Man I loved that game.

[@siralgae]

@@psychonauts020217 was my blid, had thousands of hours on bl, such a great timeline to be a part of

[@unoriginalperson72]

The Gaydar is the most 2000s era joke I've ever seen, I can imagine back in the day someome used it on their friend and they got really pissed that it said they were gay.

[@garaktartv3647]

no because the concept of jokes wasn't new back then lmao

[@vinegro4579]

Nobody wants to be gay!

[@Rad-Dude63andathird]

​@@garaktartv3647 Yes but you underestimate how dumb kids can be lol

[@WTFisYoutubeDoinWitUsrNamesHUH]

there's that futurama episode where bender uses his built-in gaydar

[@ALongAndLowTide]

​@@garaktartv3647bro were you even alive back then?

[@LuiDeca]

And I love that you showed Quartal. I was involved with making the maps back in the day.

[@patrik_k04]

BRO!!! Thank you so god damn much, I've been trying to find the 'The Powder Toy' game for so god damned long, but could never remember the name. Thank you. Made my day.

[@mexoc]

12:00 Russian language, GladOS says: "Доброе утро, подопытный. Приветствуем Вас в лаборатории исследования природы порталов".

[@Beanzops]

cool

[@scrm4297]

cheers

[@doge-of-venice]

God bless.

[@SolitaryElite]

guessed

[@Josuh]

Atomic Heart at home:

[@Sniperantics_]

man your making me miss my psp so bad rn, i lost it when my apartment caught on fire. i will never forget it 😔

[@MineSlimeTV]

I'm so sorry for such a loss and issue you encountered Whenever if happened I hope that you're doing better as of now

[@cez_kor]

im sorry to hear your psp burned down 😞

[@Elctrucr54]

I feel bad for you the more I spend time on reading it..

[@some-replies]

They're super cheap now

[@Dewm_]

I miss this scene. Met a lot of good friends through these games as I tested, played around with, and occasionally attempted to mod a lot of these. Some of them I haven't talked to in ages, but I'll never forget the memories I had. I still remember playing early builds of NZP with Lunarrocker, Jukki and Blubs. I'll also note that in the scene MotoLegacy and Biodude were some extremely talented individuals when it came to getting Quake working great on the PSP. I hope they're doing well.

[@madnessscs]

These intros are a vibe, I really like them

[@HammMann]

I only recently got a PSP in 2023 and got a 2nd one for LAN play in 2024. Not only have I loved using them, but flicking through the pre-owned hard drives which the owners decided not to wipe really reassured what you said at the beginning of the video. The first one was owned by a kid called Jake in 2010. He had a PSP Camera, and what was in the gallery was the kind of thing that children my age would have took on a Dsi or 3DS. The second one was owned by an English "lad" in his late teenage to early adult years named Alex. He used it to store old photos of his mates at the pub, had TONS of music stored onto it (153 tracks to be specific, so we probably know what he used the most) and what gave me the biggest laugh was that in the video folders was EXCLUSIVELY pornography. That had me laughing for the whole day. So yeah, i can definitely confirm what you said in the intro.

[@DiddlyDoink]

I've had a theory brewing in my head, given the era and market for the PSP it was probably one of the biggest storage mediums for pornography. It was at the time where magazines were leaving the top spot, the internet wasn't yet the juggernaut of naughty stuffs where you could just stream 8 hours of whatever you please. It's only a theory though because I rarely bother to ask someone how they stored porn like 2 decades ago

[@1990alone]

​@@DiddlyDoinkoh totally, I remember a buddy getting his first PSP around the time all my elementary class mates were sharing 15-second 3gp porn via infrared.

[@HammMann]

@@DiddlyDoink Hell, news outlets aren't right about many things, but one giving it the nickname of ,"Playstation Pornable" was absolutely correct.

[@najtrows]

@@DiddlyDoink in "my documents\schoolwork"

[@BiggestNightmareJim]

Yes the good ol' Porn Station Portable

[@PelleSpokes]

These videos are getting a lot better man, especially with all the little 3d animation bits in between!

[@JannyBesmircher]

Man, I loved my PSP so fkn much. That thing got me through some tough times.

[@NetZip]

Never mind I figured it out

[@mosquito7307]

LMAOOOOO

[@1990alone]

Legend.

[@HuntMeDown237]

Dude, you have the COOLEST edits and effects and theme to your videos I've EVER seen!! Absolutely LOVE your content so much!

[@barackyobama6139]

i swear thats the psp little big planet music at the beginning

[@PeacockReignsSupreme]

it's the LBP2 pod music, the LBP psp pod music sounds almost exactly like the LBP1 pod music

[@NagitosWifeSpotty]

no matter what it is its still fire tbh

[@AKAProm]

I'm so happy more people are speaking up about how absolutely GOATed the PSP was. That thing was my first multimedia device and I basically lived out of that thing. It was also the first device I had that had wifi and allowed me onto the internet privately. Nothing was cooler than putting a whole sprite comic I liked onto the PSP and reading it during lunch at school while listening to my favorite music and then playing Death Jr. on the bus home. PSP kicked ass.

[@A_Random_Canadian]

So glad to see NZP get a spotlight here, I loved it back in high school since it was one of the few homebrews that worked on my janky jailbreak. Unfortunately my model needed a Pandora's Battery which I didn't have so I had to use a janky workaround and god, NZP was my jam. I even enjoyed the PC port of it, and ended up planning to work on a map but never started.

[@ZealousChuck]

Great content man, enjoyed thoroughly with a big grin on my face🙃keep it up🤘

[@ratlobber]

thank u brother. i like ur vita videos :)

[@DuncanMcParty]

What was it with late 2000s commercials and having the voiceover guy at the end who sounded horrendously depressed?

[@Kerosene_Agent]

I have never had a psp my entire life. But some how i could relate to every single word this man said. Also yohr voice is so good for these kind of videos i felt like am watching a 2010 video.

[@macdonald_duck]

12:00 It's Russian, just like most of those "obscure homebrew bootleg games I found on a dead website only available via web archive".

[@joejoemyo]

Good morning something. My Russian is very rusty

[@RageSoulOpma]

@@joejoemyo Good morning, test subject. Welcome to the portal nature research laboratory.

[@pithgoblin]

This was a trip down memory lane, I was really good friends with a lot of the quake psp modders at the time. There's a bunch of abandoned games that never really went anywhere that had some great potential. Such as a goldeneye and metroid prime clone.

[@Totoroto187]

I used to jailbreak other kids' psps and put the games they wanted in them in exchange of money and other random stuff back in middle school, it was basically a free money glitch as it was super easy to do.

[@miiraoftheborealvalley3983]

seeing the Blockland bedroom here totally flashbanged me, and then the fact that you recognized it made my heart swell. i've been playing Blockland since 2005 and no one ever knows wtf i'm talking about when i bring it up. very cool to randomly come across someone else who played it ;w;

[@Knifegash]

Your editing style is immaculate. You've definitely got it, perfectly captured that fresh futuristic style the late 90's/early 2000's is known for, perfectly ported for the delicately-maintained veneer of normalcy wrapped around a dystopian nightmare we have found ourselves in today. Amazingly done!

[@xamtastic]

Poetry!

[@Miataswiththreateningauras]

the psp holds a very special place in my heart, my first brand new "console". Ill never forget opening that christmas present, what a fantastic little nugget

[@Boone227]

12:00 Thats russian GLaDOS, it's saying "доброе утрo подопытнй, приветствуем вас в лаборатори исследования природ порталов" the translation would be like: "Good morning subject, welcome to the department exploring portals" or something like that

[@doge-of-venice]

God bless.

[@Dovah_Slayer]

Google says it translates to "good morning test subjects, welcome to the portal nature research laboratory" not sure how accurate that is as I don't speak Russian

[@Boone227]

@@Dovah_Slayer Im not russian but I'm studying it, I don't know how accurate my translation is but yeah the concept is kind of the same.

[@Mihayi_]

​@@Dovah_Slayer as Russian, I can say that you're right, you got it

[@Dovah_Slayer]

@@Mihayi_ oh cool

[@ilovewastingurtime]

love how hl2, css, portal 1, tf2c are on mobile now

[@na8291]

the michael jackson game has immense early newgrounds energy.

[@yeisMat]

Ily and keep up the super dope intros, outros and obvs content (I ACC love the edits)

[@some-replies]

Gimme a dollar too

[@Retr0sOwl]

0:10 Bro got the LBP2 pod song 🔥

[@oysterscrolls]

The jailbroken Halo game was actually my first love. Never owned an Xbox so it was my first Halo game ever. actual gateway drug into the series.

[@Nada-fj8ij]

The PSP thought he was gay

[@noahpawson8702]

Always a good day with a rat lobber upload

[@chungman1500]

Bro is editing like the bills are due

[@Alex169o]

?

[@felfel7510]

I see you are a man of culture cause of that Jackie chan stunt master background music.

[@beardalaxy]

the psp homebrew community does live on, in the vita community. and it's absolutely nuts. rollercoaster tycoon was just ported.

[@Ashhtaaa]

Ratlobber I actually love ur videos and edit style such a nostalgia wave but i did not think u would resort to illegal activities

[@WMan37]

I used to carry my CFW PSP-3000 everywhere with me. I would download youtube videos like Idiots of Garry's Mod and Arby & The Chief and watch them on it, I would download a Stepmania port called PSP Revolution and play the heck out of it, I had software that let you rip your DVDs into a format and resolution that PSP recognized, and I watched stuff like Riddick: Pitch Black and Austin Powers: Goldmember on it, and it essentially became my new game boy advance using gpSP because I could either watch Shrek 2 via Game Boy Video or watch my DVD rip in much, _much_ higher quality while carrying my game boy advance collection with me. You have to understand, at the time, the closest thing we had to a portable DVD player were chunky... Well, portable DVD players that were the size of small laptops, until laptops themselves could just play DVDs. It's hard to explain to people who are used to smartphones nowadays that can just _do_ all that stuff now just how novel all of that was at the time since we hadn't experienced the iphone yet. There was truly no portable experience like it, phone or otherwise. The closest thing I have ever done in my entire life that recaptured this kind of feeling of tinkering with a portable device this hard and reaping huge benefits from it is messing around with DeckyLoader plugins on a Steam Deck.

[@jjrussell_gallery]

Cool modding scene. I didn't know about PSP jailbreaking

[@ixxirecords26]

I remember cracking every PSP I had, and sharing one with my brother. We were able to play torrented ISO’s over ad-hoc with one another which is insane nowadays. For broke kids in elementary school, it was killer. The counter-strike homebrew entertained me for a few hours for… some reason. I think my mind was just blown by the fact it existed.

[@gamepusher1229]

The powder toy still has a good community today.

[@Engimaintrust]

I agree, the game is fun as hell

[@LuiDeca]

But you missed Kurok. It's a few levels from "Turok" remade in a heavily modded Quake. It doesn't even feel like quake. To me that was the most impressive PSP homebrew ever made, along with NZombies Portable (which is also a heavily modded Quake).

[@Ivan4n09]

This is such an otherworldly experience. I feel reborn

[@LOLYOU1337]

RAT LOBBER VIDEO ALERT TIME TO GET COMFORTABLE 🍿🍿😊

[@Flyhn]

lolyou!!

[@DanielWindows]

some games are legal. and some are not. and some is illegal and legal at one time as well.

[@nyafnix7060]

its on russian it says "welcome to portal labalatory"

[@Cats-TM]

14:12 FINALLY! I HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR THAT GAME FOR _YEARS!_ I saw it so many years ago and have wanted to play it for so long! I never knew the name though! Thank you so much!

[@Kahoooona]

ratlobber hits different

[@str7der]

Keep up the great work man I love all your content your so close to 200k u got this!

[@NetZip]

How do I make this show up in the comments

[@inanestereo]

you did it

[@RaverSnowLep]

One small point, its a Custom Firmware PSP. This was the term before everything began to be referred to as jailbreak. That used to only refer to iPhones. Android was root. Great video!

[@lindelheimen]

yaya lobratter uploaded

[@foxy-48514]

ratoober

[@user-sn8zx5mv1x]

Lotrotter.

[@alexbratov3095]

Dear ratlobber. You are the only youtuber that makes amazing content regardless of the fkn content. No matter what ridiculous topic you choose it is just god cursengly good. Thank you.

[@ratlobber]

thank u brother. i appreciate the kind words

[@dlacy1979]

ratlobber should just make a video of his intros

[@lptabor]

For some reason every kid in my school today plays powder in class because I discovered it and showed my friends

[@Ezraph2001]

BLOCKLAND MENTIONED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@julescastel]

god i miss that game!! it really all went downhill after all the maps were removed and Badspot stopped caring about the game to make furry art instead huh? 😔

[@lovelydumpling]

Did I just hear the phrase "super old PC game from the late 2000s"

[@austin2727]

It's the dot-gay bubble

[@dimoniysh5075]

12:00 - it's russian, and it says "Good morning research subject, we welcome you in laborotary of portal nauture"

[@Ursanator_]

Going to be a good day

[@donkeldoothedapperdog]

That intro felt like an old PSP advert. I haven’t watched the video yet but I’m already intrigued

[@KingJeffKiller]

The disembodied voice said "good morning, we are welcoming you to the Laboratorie of studying the nature of portals"

[@utka_dudka]

11:57 It is in russian GladOS says: "Доброе утро, подопытный, приветствуем вас в лаборатории исследовании природы порталов" Love from Russia!

[@ROXAshby]

As someone who absolutely loved their homebrewed PSP, this video is SO nostalgic! Nazi Zombies, and Lamecraft were so good back then!

[@elsienova4269]

You should have mentioned that Xash3D, the near perfect reverse engineered port of GoldSRC for mobile, runs on both the PSP and the PS Vita. On the psp you get around 40-60 fps throughout the entire campaign, and on the Vita you get around 70-90 fps. And both of these ports also support Counter Strike.

[@chase5298]

nah don't really care

[@alexandera.7127]

When I stumbled upon that weird ass 2050 Last Island game last year, I really felt like I discovered some unique long lost gaming artifact lol. Fascinating to see someone else finding these strange little pieces of history. Cool video

[@KeeKeeSteel]

Im surprised you didn't try xhash3d

[@Devinpetersenn]

Genuinely one of my favorite KZbinrs, just banger video after banger video

[@kitor2818]

12:22 bro glados speeks russian Or polish maybe ukran

[@CluelessDriversofSouthCarolina]

Russian Glados is surprisingly based

[@Xalo_]

russian

[@zorkotrawan3198]

That's weird to say, but I really love the blur/bloom effects on these psp games, that was something cool back in the time !

[@wonder6759]

nzp is fire, the community is still extremely active and the developers listen to the comments made on it . lot of old ass zombie players currently running it. thanks for spotlighting it !!

[@gamerjones7086]

the outro as amazing

[@ceelogaming3537]

How come Ive only discovered you now?? Quality video my good man! 🙌

[@spongeythumb]

The lbp2 music was so good, brought back memories ❤

[@MTLYev]

Oh, dude! Lamecraft!!! Man, you unlocked quiet the memory here! I remember stumbling upon it before Minecraft became really big and was unknown that well where I'm from. I genuinely didn't know about Minecraft until after Lamecraft. With how simplistic that game was, I put SO MANY hours into it!

[@harryb12993]

Thank you for documenting this, it feels like a waste for it to not be known about by most people.

[@defskape0068]

Dude! I absolutely love your intro. Good job :D

[@najtrows]

I remember when I first heard about a PSP version of GTA. And saw it played the first time, it was amazing. Still pretty cool versions of GTA Classics tbh.

[@iddkirdk3577]

Best KZbin intro I’ve seen

[@TheSeriousDog]

powder toy just unlocked a lot of memories, had no ideia this port existed

[@Eho419]

I still play it to this day, they have android win/Mac/Lin ports, and it's actually been updated not that long ago!

[@DilemmaCS]

MJ baby dropper has the same aura as Hong Kong 98

[@fueledbydms2136]

Man. This made me fondly remember years gone by. Thank you. ❤

[@blackomet5049]

Imagine being a rat just loving life and you get picked up by a human, and not being able to tell whether this human is ratlobber or his twin, ratlover. The suspense

[@XTX767RT]

"illegal psp games" and its just homebrew reminds me of that one spongebob rollercoaster gif

[@timkrivacsy4855]

Thanks for supplying good content on KZbin 🙌🙏

[@VivoCubino]

All these PSP homebrews have more "backroom" or "liminal space" aesthetic then every single video about it on YT

[@not-alot-of-options]

Thank you for introducing me to nzp, just lost over an hour blasting zombies like the old days.

[@PolarityMetal]

It’s amazing how the games I spent the most time on my PSP were CSPSP (counter strike 2D) and a guitar hero homebrew game. Amazing console

[@Sicbay138]

"Fuck off!" "No." Lmaaaoooo. That made me laugh way harder than it should have. This video is fantastic, great job man.

[@ratlobber]

thank u

[@iztoksnipovsky]

the best sytem for emulating with one of the best emulators on the market which makes this console a magic wonderland

[@Vaareth]

i found a couple days that there is a non official minecraft version of lamecraft. and it's pretty well made