What should you may flip a PSP with a damaged display right into a miniature PS2, join a Bluetooth controller to it, and play PSP video games in your TV? That’s the concept behind Retro Mod Works’ PS Placeable, a mod that “consolizes” the PSP and was featured yesterday in a video from the YouTube channel Macho Nacho Productions.
Retro Mod Works costs $274.99 for a prebuilt PS Placeable. These are waitlisted for the time being, although — a message on the positioning says the venture is a “one man present” and that the demand for the Placeable was larger than anticipated.
Retro additionally gives to mod customer-provided PSPs for $100 much less, and there’s an possibility preorder DIY components and do the conversion work your self. The mod requires both a PSP-2000 or PSP-3000 revision, as the primary PSP didn’t have a video output. It’s not clear when the DIY components will ship — we’ve requested Retro Mod Works and can replace if we get a reply.
The first individual behind the venture, named Dan, informed Macho Nacho host Tito Perez that he “hated the concept of shopping for digital video games” for which he has bodily copies, and wished a manner so as to add Bluetooth controller assist whereas preserving the UMD drive. He’s additionally talked about in replies on Reddit that his purpose is to assist folks revive damaged PSPs with the mod, which doesn’t want the console’s display.
However shopping for one in every of these mod kits may be expensive or require abilities most individuals don’t have. If you happen to simply need to play PSP video games in your TV and don’t care about having a UMD drive, the PSP Go — which lacked Sony’s oddball optical drive however supported Bluetooth controllers and in addition had a technique to output video — continues to be fairly straightforward to return by.
