Customize your PSP

Are you looking to customize your PSP with free themes? Almost everyone wants to customize their PSP with themes, wallpapers, and skins. Themes allow you to give your PSP a unique personality. In fact, customizing your PSP is a lot like customizing your PC's wallpaper.
One of the best ways to find free PSP themes is to simply go to Google and type in "free PSP themes." There are thousands of sites offering free PSP downloads.

You can also search forums and newsgroups. These are great places to find custom-made PSP Themes. Community sites like DeviantArt have an amazing collection of PSP themes made by the site's members. Or, if you really want to get creative, why not just open up the graphics program on your computer and design your own custom theme. As long as you save it as a JPEG file, it should be compatible.

There are a few things you should watch out for when looking for PSP themes.
First, stay away form the Sony PSP site. A lot of people think this is the best place to go, but in reality you won't find many original themes here. Most of the themes are pretty old and have already been downloaded thousands of times. They do have quite a few good themes, but if you're looking for something unique, this is not the place to go.

Also be sure and stay away from the torrent sites. They are full of spyware, adware, and corrupted files. Plus, torrent sites put your computer at risk of leaking personal information. I'd avoid these sites at all costs. If you'd like to download lots of Free PSP themes along with unlimited access to millions of PSP games, movies, music, and tv shows, you'll want to sign up for a PSP membership site.

God of War Skins

Darth Vader Skins

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Sony's PSP

The Playstation Portable is a jack of all trades. It plays music, videos, browses the Internet, and plays games. However, for an increasing number of people, this still isn't enough. With its powerful dual-processor configuration and Memory Stick Pro Duo slot, the PSP is a pocket powerhouse, capable of much more than just gaming and multimedia.

This is where the homebrew community comes in. With some modifications to its system software, the PSP can run 3rd party software, just like an ordinary computer. A massive community has sprung up online that is dedicated to these modifications.
When Sony first released the PSP, it had no restrictions. It was possible to write 3rd party software and install it to a memory stick. The PS2dev community created a homebrew development kit for the new system, and the community of developers began to grow.



After a while, Sony started to realize this was a problem. Although 3rd party utilities and games were harmless, they realized it was possible to run commercial games from the memory stick as well, using homebrew ISO loaders. Sony knew that this could hurt their game sales, so they issued firmware version 2.0, which removed this functionality. In this version of the firmware, and every subsequent release, it is impossible to run anything but UMD disks and official game demos from Sony. While this makes piracy impossible, it also dealt a serious blow to the burgeoning homebrew community.





In late 2005, Homebrew developer Fanjita discovered a tantalizing hole in Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories. By copying a special hacked game save to the memory stick and loading it in GTA, it was possible to purposely crash the PSP, and load custom code! For the first time since the release of firmware 2.00, it was possible to run homebrew code again. At the time, PSPs with firmware 1.50 were in high demand, and supplies were dwindling. Using this software exploit, Fanjita and the Noobz team were able to create a "downgrader" for the current firmware, version 3.40. It became possible to downgrade any PSP, as long as it had nothing higher than 3.40, to the older 1.50 firmware, and thus use it for homebrew once again.

Sony was none too happy about this exploit. They issued a recall on GTA:LCS, and sent new, patched copies to stores. They also began releasing firmware updates in the game disks themselves. Newer games required newer firmwares, and so homebrew users had to choose between a fully functional PSP, or a crippled system that was compatible with newer games. As always, the scene found workarounds, specifically a program called Devhook, but it was confusing and complicated to set up.

Old skool console games

Remember those old days when we used to play Atari in the '80s? Sure you do... Well, in case you haven't notice, these are a few console games which didn't top the chart...

Emerson Arcadia 2001

Emerson Arcadia 2001

In 1982 a company called Emerson Radio Corp released the Arcadia 2001 a not so well known second generation video game console. Many retro gamers know about this console and at the time it was far more powerful then the market dominated Atari 2600.
The graphics on the Arcadia 2001 are easliy compaired to that of the Mattel Intellivision and a total of 51 games were put out fo r the console.

On an interesting note Emerson sued the company then named Arcadia Corporation who manufactured the 2600 for trade mark infringement by using the Arcadia name. The console was originally marketed as a portable system and came equiped with a 12-volt power supply so that it could be used on a boat or in another vehicle, however of course you would need a television as well and at that time in the early 80's having a telelvision in a car or boat was pretty rare.

Sega SG-1000

Sega SG-1000

Providing the basis for the Sega Master System the Sega SG-1000 was released in July of 1983. Being test marketed in Japan the SG-1000 received some popularity and sold well up until 1985. It's best remembered in Asia as one of the first consoles available at the time however to find one today is rare.

The console is very hard to find and is considered a collectors item sometimes selling for $300 on eBay reason for the rarity is that it was never released in North America.
Zoom 909, Girl's Garden, Galaga and Monaco G.P. were some of the games that were available for the Sega SG-1000. The graphics on the Sega SG-1000 can be somewhat compared to that of the ColecoVision which was released the year before.

Epoch Cassette Vision

Epoch Cassette Vision
Its full title being the Epoch (Super) Cassette Vision was created by a company named Epoch in Japan on July 30, 1981. You're probably thinking it uses cassettes; well it actually uses cartridges and was the first programmable console in Japan selling for about 13,500 yen.

Some people say that Sega and SNK made games for the console but no one is for sure. Wouldn't believe it for a 1981 console but the graphics were less then that of the Atari 2600 which was made years earlier and somewhat like older consoles such as Pong the Epoch Cassette Vision only had 4 knobs which the player would control with.