This mod turns the PSP into a tiny PS2 with Bluetooth controller support

What if you could crook a PSP with a breached surface into a miniature PS2, link a Bluetooth controller to it, and play PSP games connected your TV? That’s the thought down Retro Mod Works’ PS Placeable, a mod that “consolizes” the PSP and was featured yesterday successful a video from the YouTube transmission Macho Nacho Productions.

Retro Mod Works charges $274.99 for a prebuilt PS Placeable. Those are waitlisted astatine the moment, though — a connection connected the tract says the task is simply a “one antheral show” and that the request for the Placeable was higher than anticipated.

Retro besides offers to mod customer-provided PSPs for $100 less, and there’s an enactment preorder DIY parts and bash the conversion enactment yourself. The mod requires either a PSP-2000 oregon PSP-3000 revision, arsenic the archetypal PSP didn’t person a video output. It’s not wide erstwhile the DIY parts volition vessel — we’ve asked Retro Mod Works and volition update if we get a reply.

The superior idiosyncratic down the project, named Dan, told Macho Nacho big Tito Perez that helium “hated the thought of buying integer games” for which helium has carnal copies, and wanted a mode to adhd Bluetooth controller enactment portion preserving the UMD drive. He’s besides mentioned successful replies connected Reddit that his extremity is to assistance radical revive breached PSPs with the mod, which doesn’t request the console’s screen.

But buying 1 of these mod kits tin beryllium pricey oregon necessitate skills astir radical don’t have. If you conscionable privation to play PSP games connected your TV and don’t attraction astir having a UMD drive, the PSP Go — which lacked Sony’s oddball optical thrust but supported Bluetooth controllers and besides had a mode to output video — is inactive pretty casual to travel by.