The PSP version you’ve NEVER heard of…

[@MultiSilentAssassin]

Cars 2 and Geronimo Stilton, two of the best sources for street knowledge

[@lemon66111]

doesn’t gs spend half his time writing articles though

[@jamestamz]

@@lemon66111click bait material

[@brodiecalvert2317]

Geronimo is a legend frfr

[@sedeuphadude80]

yeah gotta know how to scheme evil and then be a rodent

[@eko9554]

I used to read geronimo books

[@aligator5779]

My grandpa used to say: "psp in the streets, ps vita in the sheets" or something like that idk

[@TreadLightlyFolk]

Yea no he didn't

[@bluekaiokenobama]

@@TreadLightlyFolkr/wooosh

[@adventureridergirl]

It's always fun seeing the momentary confusion of Americans when they see the international date format.

[@robertkennedy8503]

Some people think there is nothing outside the US, specially the ones who have never traveled to another country.

[@adventureridergirl]

​@@robertkennedy8503, I'm a dual US/Italian citizen (Italian mom, American dad) and grew up both in the States and in Europe. On the downside, I spent a lot of time on Airplanes, on the plus side I speak both metric and imperial (and 5 different languages) and was able to legally drink at 16 (although it's 18 now in Italy). I currently live in South Texas and all the doctors here use CM and kilos for height and weight and almost every time they apologize and offer to convert it for me before I tell them I'm Italian and not to worry about it.

[@AlKaseltzer87]

I work for a European flavors company in the US. The computers are set up to use the European format. It doesn't confuse me much, but certain dates still get me sometimes.

[@lucymorrison]

a lot of people, especially in the gaming space seem to think that North America, Europe and Asia are the only places on the planet (and that Europe is a small place when it's one of the most populous places in the world), especially obvious when people just say "Europe" instead of PAL, or "European units" instead of Metric/Celsius "European dates" instead of standard or international dates, all of these things are used by pretty much the entire world aside from North America or even JUST the US. People in KZbin comments (almost certainly Ameircans) will also go "eww bri ish" or something like that when you do something thats a standard in every dialect other than specifically US English, like spell it "colour" or "realise", like even Canada uses those spellings.

[@adventureridergirl]

@@lucymorrison, I'm not sure what happened to my other reply that went over some of this (it seems to have disappeared), but, I'm a dual US/Italian citizen (Italian mom, American dad) and the ignorance of people in my own family astounds me sometimes. I grew up both in Europe (all over Europe, not just Italy) and the States so I can use either imperial or metric units for just about anything and I speak 5 languages.

[@BodziuM]

most common and cheap PSP console here in Europe ;)

[@Bassjunkie_1]

Its not common here in the uk.. I might own one lol, but compared to the previous gens, its not common.

[@PAUL-MH]

​@@Bassjunkie_1It was common because i have one myself not touched it for years it's rubbish!

[@mareksinister]

​@@Bassjunkie_1he means central Europe, it's extremely common in Poland, Slovakia, Czechia etc.

[@ps-lover8380]

Same in India

[@robertkennedy8503]

@@mareksinister Yeah I got mine from Ukraine.

[@Sceneemofemboy0666]

The squeaking noise can be caused by the UMD motor being not used for a while, it just needs to be used for a bit (maybe for some hours) and it will come back to normal, i have a PSP Street myself (in from italy)

[@BreytonMothee]

The PSP Street actually looks more premium lol

[@borrellipatrick]

Like the matte plastic. Hated that everything was glossy that generation

[@onkelhiphop]

I feel exactly the same it looks and feels super cool

[@cokelife5831]

Nah it looks cheaper for sure like the ps3 superslim was a super cheap ps3

[@MyRegardsToTheDodo]

@@borrellipatrick Check the PSP 3000 Monster Hunter Edition. Hard to get but really, really cool. It's matte plastic, has a different stick that's easier to grip and uses the PSP 1000 battery (which was the better quality battery).

[@hisoka9365]

Yes look premium but hand on feel is cheap but psp 2000 and 3000 was much better of all

[@xdradt8463]

11:32 It's not glued in. If you take the back piece off and remove the warranty sticker there is a screw with which you can take the cover off and then remove the battery

[@MyRegardsToTheDodo]

You don't have to remove the warranty sticker to do that. The PSP E-1000 is the only model you can take completely apart without removing the warranty sticker.

[@Snacky._.]

Imagine a legit big chungus psp mod

[@lucymorrison]

the PSP Street is pretty solid just as a low-cost, low-risk gaming device similar to the 2DS. I'm in Australlia and my friend had one back in the day just for playing games on the schoolbus, only issue with it was no Ad-Hoc multiplayer so me and my other friends who had PSPs could play stuff like LittleBigPlanet, ModNation Racers and WipEout together on the bus or at recess and poor 'ol Ben who got a PSP Street had to play solo, didn't seem to mind too much though.

[@mareksinister]

I remember back around 2011 my friend brought his PSP 3000 to school and he played GTA Liberty City stories all day. It was the coolest thing ever. So naturally I wanted one. I asked my mom nicely, we went to the store and all they had was that, the PSP E1000. It was 99€, Lego Harry Potter bundle. I loved it and was Incredibly thankful to my mom, but I always wished I got the 3000... I mean I could sell mine and buy a 3000, I still have the original box and everything but I can't, I have too many memories with it.

[@thelastofus2872]

Nice. Honestly you're not missing out on anything important, the Internet no longer works on them and the extra speaker is solved with headphones.

[@thesummergamer7245]

the battery isn't glued in, what you have to do is squeeze the sides of the umd bracket and push it forward, when it's loose, the whole back will come off and then you unscrew the plastic cover, the battery is similar to the one on the ps3 controller

[@jrob0021]

Well that’s not much better haha, honestly that’s the biggest reason why I’m hating on this thing. Removable battery on the psp 1000/2000/3000 was huge

[@d-tech3190]

They are region free for games. The only region locking was for the few movies that shipped on UMD.

[@lukeweeks3470]

I bought one of these in early 2012! It cost me £90 brand new. Brilliant console, annoying that it was offline only, but I bought a PSP-1000 model later on. The screen is arguably the best one in all PSP models. I will fight to the death about that. I own 2 of these and 2 PSP 1000s but I’ve used every model.

[@mareksinister]

I think it used the same screen as the 3000.

[@lukeweeks3470]

@@mareksinister Very similar but doesn’t seem quite the same imo.

[@jrob0021]

Maybe my unit had a bad screen or something, but it was noticeably worse than my psp 2000 screen

[@plan7a]

@@jrob0021 Sometimes screens (and screen temperature/lights) vary (as you know). I know it's possible to replace the screens, with better ones; especially if they are not very bright; or are yellowing).

[@lilkoss407]

Where ur from Haha same I got one in 2012 I was 8 and got this I’m from Ukraine so that was the version there .my mom said this was better than the ps2 because I was a kid and could take it anywhere, also somehow the games they let me play to try it out looked better to my 8 year old eyes than ps2 games. Anyways I loved it it came loaded with every game a 8 year old shouldn’t have 😂all the gtas god of war all the m rates stuff u want

[@Hockeyarcadeandcoins]

Yooo I heard it’s your 29th birthday today! Happy birthday Jacob. By the way, that was a funny GameStop video yesterday lol

[@nogueira2006]

nahhh nowadays it lost most of its negativity, internet on the psp doesn't matter nowadays, so it's just a matte black and (somewhat) bulky revision, basically sacrificing a bit of the portability for a stylish / more modern appearance.

[@jrob0021]

I thought I’d agree on stylish when I saw photos of this thing, but I think the psp 1000/2000/3000 look much better once I compared them in person. Honestly, the go is my favorite in terms of looks

[@bramvandenbroeck5060]

I have a custom one, got it for basically nothing, i had a broken black one, and i bought a white one for 15 euros, it was broken as well, so i made a white and black version, every button is black, even the bar underneath the screen is black on my psp, and i have to say, it looks amazing! Yes the back is a bit finicky, but, if you know how to take it off it is actually easier to get acces to the disk drive, that squeeky noise is because the motor slips on a gear that gets sticky because of the lubricant sony used (very cheap and horrible stuff), clean that out of there, and it works like new! I've put in a battery from a ps 4 controller which is 50mah more than the stock battery, gives me great batterylife.

[@Z3R0-FC]

The squeaky noise is because the moving parts in the UMD drive lost their grease. You just have to oil up the gears and motors again to fix it.

[@ld6363]

Looks kind of like a cassette player when you opened the back (aging myself)

[@CecilTheDarkKnight234]

oh I've heard of this model and was told to avoid at a cost, not only did they cut out the Wi-Fi/internet from it there is AV ports for hooking it up to tv like the 2000-3000 and Go have. This was for all intense purposes a cut down PSP, thankfully they're easy mod unlike the Wii-Mini.

[@forest_gamingredux8156]

I also find this model odd and would also avoid as well. Otherwise this was a cool video to watch on the street.

[@matteobesho]

Correction about the psp street (I opened one): The battery is not glued to the console, you can actually replace it but the process is more involved, because you have to take apart the whole back plate of the console, remove a sticker, remove a philips head screw and then you can swap it

[@justjoshp8581]

i actually really enjoy the look of this psp. i think it looks a lot cooler being matte plastic

[@Corbin-Creates]

I didn’t know the street model was this uncommon that it would be in a “that you’ve neverrrr heardddd offf” video.

[@OkamiVines]

that was a pretty commum option here where I live, cause street was sold on the Europe, had friends here in Portugal that still have it

[@ОлегСтарченко-у7ы]

This model was very popular in Ukraine and Russia. It was cheaper than previous models.

[@la.lanalanita]

I have that PSP model and it was amazing. It was cheap so my family was able to afford it, and it gave me hundreds of hours of fun. I didn't care about internet since I was very little, and I only had 2 games, but it still made a really wholesome chunk of my childhood

[@JacobWard20000]

Happy Birthday Jacob R

[@markpragai17]

i own a PSP street, it left me some good memories playing fifa 12, tekken 6 and cars 2

[@alvarochaves1999]

Geronimo Stilton is an Italian children's chapter book series.

[@Lola__Cola]

I had one of these, the matte black looks really nice but the no internet sucks. Don't really care about the mono speaker but the und door is better made

[@Roman_neBlbec]

"The PSP version you’ve NEVER heard of…" meanwhile me owning this this and whole europe too

[@Qmitt]

psp street was my first ever handheld, i still have it to this day after YEARSSSS.

[@callme_Sweetpea]

"The PSP version you’ve NEVER heard of…" Me: "looking over at my PSP Street with tears in my eyes* "apparently, I have never heard of you... I am sorry!!! American's rule the World, and no matter what I believe, I have never heard of you."

[@RetroReviewYT]

Happy birthday! I’ll be 29 at the end of November myself.

[@plan7a]

Yes the PSP is region coded; the one you have there is a region 5 edition (according to what I noticed it says on the box). Not sure if the games you have there are region 5 or not. (Because it is modded, however, it may be that the region code is irrelevant; as this is something that can be done when using a modded/jailbroken device I believe). (Correction - as someone else has said the region code is for movie discs, the games are region free. A mod/jailbreak still would allow this to be no problem. An Action Replay would also allow multi region either way).

[@BigManJayTee]

6:28 “Yeah, this PSP Street? It’s not good.” *boom*

[@onkelhiphop]

I absolutely love it😊

[@RhythicManRhythm]

I used to read the Geronimo books. Didnt know there was a game.

[@lemon66111]

bro sameee

[@kentaarooo3375]

this is my first PSP lol, look so slick 🤩.

[@wolfpuck5845]

My psp made the same noise even after having it cleaned

[@thelastofus2872]

Most of them do. It's nothing to worry about. You can fix it pretty easy. There's videos on here how to stop the squeek

[@Sm5-9-6]

My friend had this while i had a 3000, we tried to play gt with eachother and always wondered why his never connected to wifi and didnt have a wlan switch

[@beaconcake8045]

Happy birthday jacob,hope you always the best bro

[@FBl]

“The PlayStation console you never heard of” bro I have one 😂

[@skirnir393]

I have two psp streets and I love them despite the downsides. No wifi (it doesn't matter today), mono speakers (I always use my headphones anyways). I love how this model feels in my hands, it has a better grip than the 2000. Also in previous models the battery cover seems like is going to fall.

[@patryk123nr]

Still have and use my 13 years old psp street. Fully functional on all original parts, so I really can’t complain about the build quality, and I think it looks the best out of all the psp’s too!(limited editions excluded) The screen is imo the best out of all the non-GO models too, if you can get over the dimming when looking at it from underneath. It also feels more comfortable to hold than the slim 2000/3000 models to me due to the extra thickness. The only psp I like to use more is the Monster Hunter limited 3000

[@eliasmaissour437]

I still own qnd use mine daily, it feels better in hand than the slim and is built like a tank. Bought it in 2012 and it’s still running all original harware and no stick drift. Battery is concerningly good

[@Concrete-wy4tx]

me when I see that charger: finally a normal charger in a video!

[@jeroenboth167]

This was actually me 2nd version of the PSP that I ever owned 😁

[@AlKaseltzer87]

There are many older videos of the psp e1000. To say we've never heard of it is an overstatement.

[@some13ls3]

Not sure about this version, but my PSP 3000 started squeaking and I think it's just an age thing. I had to open the UMD cover and take off a plastic sticker covering the UMD drive motor near the bottom around the hinge. Once the sticker was off, I could take a q-tip with multi purpose oil and rub it into that motor area. There was a video on KZbin that helped me figure it out. Not sure if that would work on this model though.

[@Aragon23-p2k]

Actually, I did catch the announcement for this PSP version. 99 euros.

[@hotspotkage7998]

you can little bit oil the rails for the laser. that will help often.

[@SSR_RedDevil]

Strange that you think that glossy says premium, when I associate glossy with cheap. Matte finishes are nicer to me.

[@timzthescorpio]

I still have this PSP till this day the only thing i liked about it was when using UMDs it was so silent on my PSP

[@therunawaykid6523]

With this psp the umds we’re quieter when playing them?

[@dishanthakur8570]

I have my psp street since 9 years still in mint condition, honestly the matte body feels really nice and solid than the fingerprint magnets the other psps are, not that I ever got to hold one in my hands.

[@Needmoreair]

Bro, thats my psp

[@OhHeyItsJessica]

I have memories of the PSP from my childhood. This was my first own console before I got my 360. I played so much motorstorm it's not even funny.

[@MuhammadAayan-jt6bd]

i used to have psp street now the screen dosent work and the right shoulder button

[@surfacner5989]

The psp for the streets was less than 100€ on sale you could even find it for like 50€ it was actually pretty decent for the price while the psp go/3000 were 150 or more

[@fivejedis]

I wish Sony made the PSP street more premium. I like the matte finish it has, but not having internet and being cheaper in build are setbacks, not a fan of the buttons, too. If I could build my own dream PSP, it'll probably be the matte finish from Street, the screen from the 3000 (though I heard the Go has a better screen but idk) and give it proper buttons at the bottom, I'd even keep the back piece of the street, but I'll keep the auto opening from the 1000 series, a feature I wish they never removed from later models and obviously make the battery easier to remove.

[@jrob0021]

Yeah the matte is a cool design. I’d agree with your assessment- essentially make one of the older models matte and that’d be cool

[@am_pm.17]

That defeats the purpose of the Street. It was meant to be a budget model. Every more premium thing automatically adds to the cost of making them and the retail price,

[@thx134]

I remember seeing this in magazines thinking that its such a weird design.

[@cppctek]

This is the “ We have psp at home “

[@Lost_n_Found_1]

@@TheBraydenBunch58 Sure does feel like one 🤣

[@Lost_n_Found_1]

@@TheBraydenBunch58 🤦‍♂

[@KanoWhite53]

This was my first PSP and it had problems not long after purchase. I ended up buying a 3000 and had no problems

[@creeperhaed1267]

I started watching this video by talking with the video: "Today we will look at a PSP you have probably never seen" Me: "except me, because i got one without WLAN and no one likes it, so it must be my PSP"

[@creeperhaed1267]

I literally predicted the whole video...

[@Serliu]

Ong the Geronimo Stilton books went so hard in elementary.

[@nathanglynn7443]

My psp street has a really great screen. I have every psp model modded and the street is the one I take everywhere because it’s quite durable. Cheap feeling and loads of plastic, but that’s exactly what makes it durable for travel. Like a big ol dmg. It doesn’t have internet and I kinda like that, it has all the games I could ever want on it from ps1 and psp. Because I use it as my travel psp I’ve grown super attached to it, as a stock psp it’s horrible, but you can do a super big battery mod that utilises the umd drive spot, (you just glue the back on permanently and only play games from memory card) I found myself putting a couple of tiny totoro stickers on it and it feels like a good friend. Now getting a normal psp and putting on a glass lens, ips screen and larger battery is obviously better in every way shape and form, good bang for buck. The street screen should be way better than what you’ve got there which is a shame, it literally shared the same as the 3000 internals and screen specs from memory. I just think it’s like a neat cross over between a dmg and a psp. I fully agree though that it’s not worth the price in America but in Europe and Australia (pal countries) they’re pretty common and cheap if you know where to look. It’s become my favourite psp due to practicality, size and weight and like I said it’s fairly durable. If I could recommend one psp to someone who doesn’t have one it would be the psp go though now that you can expand the memory so much

[@robtheslob1221]

It's so crazy to think that there's so many different variations. It's so cool!

[@Parapoose]

Honestly, I absolutely love my PSP Street. Although the build quality is definitely cheaper, the full black, matte design to me is far more pleasing than the glossy fingerprint and scuff magnets of the other models.

[@mightaswhale]

NGL that sleek design with the matte black is smooth.

[@Calbruh]

Tbf, a well-preserved PSP Street is the best PSP you can get for a reasonable price, especially in central/southern Europe. WiFi is outdated anyway, and the mono speaker isn't an issue, at least for me, since I play mostly with headphones.

[@Rieku_]

This was a fine psp for myself at least, quite quickly i modded it and put emulators on it, it was my favourite. Still got it somewhere at my parents place. Should look for it.

[@RuruFIN]

It is region free, my friend has some games from Japan and they work perfectly fine.

[@thatssomegoodpie]

The squicky drive means the rail of the laser needs some grease.

[@thisiscjh]

The psp street is extremely common in Europe. And ive gotta say, i love it. Its so nostalgic

[@TheVHSReviver]

I wonder if these versions of these games need preserved. If so would you mind dumping them?

[@MiguelDeMarchena]

if the psp has custom firmware it becomes worldwide and have no region if you enter the recovery menu you can shutdown the UMD that is no longer needed because games can run from the memory stick, each time i remember my phat psp died from age in 2016, my psp 2000 lasted until 2018 but it fell and have broken screen. After both giving me years of good service, i wish i can get my hands on a psp once again or rebuild my old ones that still have good motherboards

[@Taneuma_563]

I remember seeing the Geromino Stilton books a lot when I was in elementary school.

[@keiranmacdonald4980]

I have indeed heard of the PSP Street. I have one in my collection somewhere. I grabbed one after I screwed up a mod on my PSP 3000 series

[@WaspEma]

Geronimo Stilton is a books trend for kids here in italy... Wtf there are a psp game? In a bundle with these plastic psp version? Amazing

[@yoonvsaechao]

I'm surprised that battery hasn't swollen up

[@rojeliopaniagua4054]

I mean, you are comparing a system that retailed at over $250 vs a system that hit the end of the market at $99

[@Connif3r]

There’s a Geronimo Stilton game?! I used to love those books when I was a kid!

[@StealthCloudchaser]

That thing was everywhere in Europe at the time, I hated how it felt in the hand.

[@imnotsodefeated]

"the version youve never heard of" me, who bought it as my first psp console & am playing it right now:

[@dhruvprakash7355]

Heard of, have it, still playing, still enjoying

[@abdelali9279]

I once had one that my mom found in a thrift store one time she wanted to flip things on FB Marketplace, it worked fine, but I had to regrease the worm gear in the drive because it is too squaky, after that the squeaking was mostly removed, but it is funny since it is a rare console in this continent, it sells at a higher price than other PSP models despite being inferior, but some collectors are into it just for completion sake

[@roflBeck]

Man, I always wanted a PSP. Parents got me a DS back then, which is enough. I have so many things that can run PPSSPP now that I dunno if it's worth trying to get one. They are pretty dang cool though.

[@The_Laser_Channel]

PSP has some good games to play even in 2024.....I have a modded PlayStation Vita with Adrenaline (Adrenaline is pretty much a full blown PSP for Vita)....but even just a few months ago I was playing GTA Vice City Stories, Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker, Mortal Kombat (PSP ones, I do have the Mortal Kombat game for Vita as well), God of War games for PSP...i use my Vita to play more PSP games than I do to play Vita games....another note, PSP is in fact region free

[@TheBasedSociety]

The PSP-1000 is still the best model IMO. Kinda like the OG NDS, it's chunkier but it works for the ergonomics. Shame it has only half the RAM.

[@DeadCrusader]

Ahh, reminds me of my childhood spent hours and hours on this psp.

[@BelgiumNLmillenium00]

I had one in 2012 but it's without Wi-Fi/WLAN and i hated that. Now i still have PSP-3004.

[@RickyTan10111]

It came out way before the ps vita, more along the end of the psp cycle. It was not cheaper than a normal psp, it was the same price. The psp remained at its normal retail price for years just like the ps2, which never went on sale with a notable discount.

[@HamOzer]

is this video is reuploaded after this was already uploaded 3 hours later?

[@PrinsessePeach]

Wait what…..are you saying a cost cut version of a product isn’t as good as the original….🙃

[@spiderkidLarry]

Is this good to just watch umd and MP4 on it? I'll put ark on it so I can watch video on it. I have a PSP 3000 but looking for something else in case my 3000 breaks down. If you don't recommend would you recommend getting another 3000? Thanks.

[@KozenaDrzka]

Saw it in store shelves and known people who had it. I still have 3004 version.

[@ifgstop5630]

I have that PSP I’ve had it for the last 2 1/2 years it’s the PSP E1000 mine actually came from Russia with about eight games.

[@Faapu]

This was my first PSP, it's pretty whatever and kind of useless unmodded but I gotta appreciate it for getting me into PSPs

[@calvo131]

They're really common here in Australia too.

[@CrucianCarpEnjoyer]

I remember seeing PSP Street for 1000 UAH in 2013 (like 120$), no wonder it was so popular. Even the cheapest smartphone of the time would cost more and provide worse gaming experience.

[@toastedg1]

Alot of people claimed the 1000 version was to heavy but every version after was made cheaper. It felt like cheap plastic and. The 1000 was super tough. It could get dropped and thrown and it would probably be ok. The 2000 version and after would crack, chip and the bottons would break easily

[@KBlade1]

The PSP 1000 feels like a powerhouse in comparison. It was $250 at release. Makes sense!

[@Lost_n_Found_1]

Let's just put it this way... I hope the seller accepts returns, lol.

[@cyphaborg6598]

lol

[@jrob0021]

Yeah I already have a return queued up lol. I would’ve kept it if it wasn’t for that horrible umd noise. Probably an easy fix but I shouldn’t be having to fix that for what I paid

[@wilmanflores5772]

Dude is not like is broken or something…..just lube the spinning mechanisms with some oil

[@RedxShinobi]

@@wilmanflores5772that’s actually not the case with this issue. You have to replace the whole piece that’s causing this noise and that requires you to take the whole PSP apart completely so it’s a lot more work than just lubing up the spinning mechanism lol it’s kinda ridiculous