PSP information needed please.

[JJB]

Hello,

   My younger brother has been asking me to buy him a Sony PSP like his friends so they can trade games and play together, although I am not familiar at all with PSP's at all and I have found the most information on this forum so far but I am still unsure due to so many abbreviation and talk about additional's  and requested items needed to be purchased, also please excuse and understand if I mention something that is not allowed on this forum as I would be unsure due to my unfamiliarity and lack of understanding in this area. So Mod's please edit and remove any parts that you feel necessary.

Anyways in simple term's, my brother and his friend are aged 13, his friend has a PSP that is the version or year 2000 *made in china*, he is able to play games in which he has downloaded from the internet, also known as a cracked PSP, which I know is illegal, but, I have heard there is loopholes in which you can obtain information and make your PSP like this without lawsuits.

The only versions of PSP I can find are 3000, brite lite? also ive seen some on ebay for sale but they are the 2003 UK version, I will not post the link as I do not want to appear as advertising

from what I understand and have read so far, I need ''Classic PSP''  but Im unsure if 2003 UK version qualify's as this as Ive only read about people mentioning a ''homebrew psp'' to legally obtain the files needed for this, and Pandora's box and certain memory sticks, but the deeper I read into it the deeper I am becoming confused as I do not want to be a person who will buy something without understanding it clearly like people have done with that Datel Tool in which does not seem to work.

I am very sorry for my lack of understanding but these area's are not something I understand easily.


Thank you for your kindness and understanding.

[Loonix]

My oh my...
First of all, there is no Loophole, Piracy is piracy.
You can share Homebrew all you want and most Homebrew capable PSP's can also play Backups of games you own.
So lets not talk about that again.

So lets have a look at your other questions.
PSP-1000 units (Phat/Classic) are a paradise for Cutom Firmware but they are hard to get.
Most PSP-2000 (Slim) can install Custom Firmware and make bateries but the newest ones cant.
And you are right, on PSP-3000 units you cant install customfirmware at the moment.
There is a Homebrew enabler that works on PSP-3000 (checkenHEN) but it is very beta as far as i am informed.

Have a Look at THIS THREAD at Dark-Alexs Forum (he is THE custom firmware and custom firmware installer creator)
to read up on the Models.
And at THIS THREAD on the MaxConsole forum to identify the Packages.

So... you should check if your brothers friends PSP can use THE OPEN SOURCE PANDORA BATTERY CREATOR to make a pandora battery.
If he can
you dont need to look any further to buy anything else but the PSP for your Brother
his friend can make the Memorystick and the Battery without extra cost and material.
(in my experience like 98% of all memorysticks are compatible (dont buy lexar memorysticks and if it is too cheap to be true most of the time it isnt ))

so... dont buy a PSP-3000 (at least for now) and look at the box codes or ask for them.
And feel free to ask about anything that is not clear but pirated games...

[Bravo Teapot]

(dont buy lexar memorysticks

Why not?

 I have a 4GB lexar stick and She runs great.
come to think of it I have not tried to make a mms (magic memory stick) with it.
is this why you say that? non mms compatibility?

[Loonix]

Back then we had very very bad reports about these sticks
They where slow like hell, got often corrupted and we had many reports that they could not be 'magicked'
Maybe Lexar improved the quality in the meantime but about two years ago they where realy bad and quite expensive.

I still reccomend SanDisk sticks.
They have been reported to be faster then Sony originals and cheeper too.
Also you had much better chances to get a legit Sandisk stick on eBay then to get a original Sony one...