This Mod Turns The Psp Into A Tiny Ps2 With Bluetooth Controller Support

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

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

Retro too offers to mod customer-provided PSPs for $100 less, and there’s an action preorder DIY parts and do nan conversion activity yourself. The mod requires either a PSP-2000 aliases PSP-3000 revision, arsenic nan first PSP didn’t personification a video output. It’s not clear erstwhile nan DIY parts will alloy — we’ve asked Retro Mod Works and will update if we get a reply.

The superior personification down nan project, named Dan, told Macho Nacho large Tito Perez that he “hated nan thought of buying integer games” for which he has beingness copies, and wanted a measurement to adhd Bluetooth controller support while preserving nan UMD drive. He’s too mentioned successful replies connected Reddit that his extremity is to thief group revive room PSPs pinch nan mod, which doesn’t petition nan console’s screen.

But buying 1 of these mod kits tin beryllium pricey aliases require skills astir group don’t have. If you conscionable want to play PSP games connected your TV and don’t attraction astir having a UMD drive, nan PSP Go — which lacked Sony’s oddball optical thrust but supported Bluetooth controllers and too had a measurement to output video — is still beautiful easy to recreation by.