PSP LogoThe PlayStation Portable (officially abbreviated PSP) is a handheld game console manufactured and marketed by Sony Computer Entertainment. Development of the console was announced during E3 2003,[8] and it was unveiled on May 11, 2004 at a Sony press conference before E3 2004. The system was released in Japan on December 12, 2004, in North America on March 24, 2005, and in the PAL region on September 1, 2005. The PlayStation Portable is the first handheld video game console to use an optical disc format, Universal Media Disc (UMD), as its primary storage medium. Other distinguishing features of the console include its large viewing screen, robust multi-media capabilities, and connectivity with the PlayStation 3, other PSPs, and the Internet. Despite the console’s superior computing power and multimedia capabilities, sales have (with cyclical exceptions) lagged behind its main competitor, the Nintendo DS. Nevertheless, the console is “the most successful non-Nintendo handheld game system ever sold”. After the release of a remodeled, slimmer, and lighter version of the PlayStation Portable, appropriately titled Slim and Lite, in early September 2007, sales quadrupled in the United Kingdom the following week and increased by nearly 200% in North America for the month of October. Two more PSPs have been made, PSP-3000 & PSP Go.

PSP 1000

Psp1000

PSP 2000

PSP 2000 black

PSP 3000

PSP 3000

PSP go

PSP go

Technical Specifications

The following Technical Specifications apply to all PSP’s unless noted for a specific PSP series:

CPU

  • MIPS R4000 32bit Core – 1~333 MHz at 1.2V
  • 128bit Bus at 2.6GBit/s
  • Main Memory: 8MB eDRAM
  • I-Cache and D-Cache
  • FPU, VFPU (Vector Unit) at 2.6GFlops
  • 3D-CG Extended Instructions set

PSP Media Engine

  • MIPS R4000 32bit Core – 1~333 MHz at 1.2V
  • 128bit Bus at 2.6GBit/s
  • Sub Memory: 2MB eDRAM

PSP Graphics Core 1

  • 1~166 MHz at 1.2V
  • 256bit Bus at 5.3GBit/s
  • VRAM 2MB eDRAM
  • 3D Curved Surface and 3D Polygon
  • Compressed Texture
  • Hardware Clipping Morphing, Bone (8)
  • Hardware Tessellator
  • Bezier, B-Spline (NURBS)
  • ex 4×4, 16×16, 64×64 sub-division

PSP Graphics Core 2

  • 1~166 MHz at 1.2V
  • 256bit Bus at 5.3GBit/s
  • VRAM 2MB eDRAM
  • Rendering Engine and Surface Engine
  • Pixel Fill Rate: 664 Mega pixels/s
  • Up to 33 million polygon/s (T&L)
  • 24bit Full Color: RGBA

PSP Sound Core

  • Built in Stereo Speakers
  • Built in Microphone (PSP 3000 and above)
  • 128-bit Bus at 166Mhz at 1.2V
  • Contains Virtual Mobile Engine (VME)
  • Reconfigurable DSP’s
  • 5 Giga Operations/s
  • 3D Sound, Multi-Channel
  • Synthesizer, Effector, Equalizer and more

Universal Media Disc

  • Diameter is 60mm
  • Laser Diode is 660 nm
  • Dual Layer capacity up to 1.8GB
  • Transfer Rate up to 11MBit/s
  • Read Only
  • Shock Proof
  • Secure ROM by AES
  • Has Unique Disc ID
  • Can contain System Software Updates

Power

  • 5V DC In AC Adapter
  • 5V DC In USB Charge Mode (PSP 2000 and above)
  • 1500mAh, 1800mAh, and 2200mAh Battery (PSP 1000, 2000 and 3000 Only)

Mother Board Revisions

The PSP has gone through many board revisons through life of the product. Most mother board revisions are to improve system security, reduce production costs or add features such as a new model of the PSP.

  • TA-079 V1: Initial mother board sold with PSP 1000 series.
  • TA-079 V2
  • TA-079 V3
  • TA-081
  • TA-082: This mother board implemented a new Ipl that refuses to boot any firmware below 2.50 without modification
  • TA-085 V1: Initial mother board for PSP 2000 series
  • TA-085 V2: users can not write to the PSP Battery EEPROM
  • TA-086: Last mother board for PSP 1000 series
  • TA-088 V1
  • TA-088 V2a
  • TA-088 V2b
  • TA-088 V3 Integrated IPL signature checks. All Special Ipl’s for Custom Firmware fail to load on the revision and later
  • TA-090 V1: Last mother board for PSP 2000 series; signature check for IPL is absent in this revision
  • TA-090 V2: Initial mother board for PSP 3000 series

PSP Mainboard TA079