Buying a PSP from Japan: One Fault, One Easy Fix

You might know by now, if you’ve been keeping up with my articles this year, that I’ve become rather obsessed with Sony’s PSP. What started as a fascination purely with the hardware design has turned into a firm belief that playing games on their original hardware really does have something special about it. I used to think that idea was a bit of nonsense before picking up a few of these myself. After all, when I emulate PSP games on a retro handheld, I can upscale the image, save whenever I want, and play on an AMOLED screen. But despite all of that, I’ve found that owning one of these beautifully designed devices and experiencing the games as they were originally intended carries a certain...magic I guess would be the best word for it.So, while browsing Mercari (via Buyee), I came across what looked like an incredibly clean white PSP-2000. So cheap! This roughly equates to $33 USDSuspiciously clean. One thing you quickly learn when buying second-hand PSPs is that the thumbstick…