If you don’t use any home brew firmware then you’ll enjoy downloading the regular new releases of firmware updates for your PSP.

Sony is always releasing these updates to let your PSP do more things by adding new features. Some recent updates have included cool things like the ability to play AAC files, download video through RSS and, for anyone with a PlayStation 3, you can now download and play PS1 games.

Of course, if you do use firmware, you shouldn’t install the upgrades because then you won’t be able to play home-brew games anymore. The choice is yours…..

Here’s how to upgrade your firmware in 6 quick and easy steps.

1. First, before anything, you’ll need to be able to get your PSP connected to the internet. In the next step you will connect so it will be pointless if you don’t have internet connection. After making sure you can connect to the web, scroll all the way left on your home screen then all the way to the top of the menu. Select Network Update and press ‘X’ button.

2. Select the name of the connection you want to use and press the ‘X’ button. The PSP will connect to the Internet and tell you if an update is available.

3.  If no update is found to be available, then you can stop and go back to what you atre doing. If there is an update available, you can move on and download the update. You’ll need to make sure your memory card has around 21Mb or so free space (update sizes vary a little). If you do, press ‘X’ to continue and download.

4. The update will begin downloading straight away. This may take a while, depending on your internet connection. Just be sure you DON’T switch your PSP off. Leave your PSP on and it will finish the download automatically.

5. Once the download is complete, press ‘X’ to continue and begin installing the update. Your PSP will reset itself and reload with the new updated program.

6. Once it resets, you’ll be prompted to go through the update install and accept the licence agreement, so Press ‘X’ to start the update then press ‘right’ on the D-Pad a couple of times to accept the licence agreement. Read what’s in the update and press ‘right’ one more time. Press ‘X’ to begin updating. It is vital you don’t unplug or turn off your PSP until the updating process is complete; or you could be in big trouble!

Once it’s done, you’re finished …until the next update is released! Congratulations! You’re free to enjoy gaming in the world of no homebrew restricted garbage!

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Sony’s PSP is a real electronic wizard in the hand held entertainment world and there really isn’t too much that it can’t do. One great thing that I and others use their PSP for is watching movies!

But I later realised that not everyone knows how to download movies to a PSP! It’s not as hard as people seem to think so hopefully once you’ve read this article you’ll know how to put videos on your PSP.

The first thing that you need to know about how to put videos on PSP is you need enough free memory on your memory stick. You are going to need to buy as big a memory stick as you can afford. I have a 1GB stick but 512mb is going to be the bare minimum to store the movie files.

The second essential is to have a computer handy which you can connect your PSP to via a USB cable. An internet connection will be useful too, but is not essential unless there are still things you need to download.

The third thing is that PSPs can only play movies that are in MP4 format. Before you upload any video media to your PSP, you’re going to need to convert any files that aren’t MP4.

There are a bunch of free media converters out on the internet so you might want to just Google “free mp4 movie converter”.

Once you have your MP4 files, you’re ready to upload them to your PSP.

1. Connect the computer and the PSP together with your USB cable, making sure that the PSP is switched off to begin with, and switch the PSP on once the connection is made.

2. With the PSP go into the SETTINGS menu, and look for the USB connection option and press X, which will link your PSP to the computer. If you then go into MY COMPUTER on the computer, you should see an extra volume has been attached. This is inside the PSP/Playstation Portable’s memory card.

3. Open the PSP memory card and then open the folder called PSP. With this open you need to create another folder inside that one, this one called “MP_ROOT” and then another one called “100mnv01″.

4. Save the movies you want to watch in the folder “100mnv01″ and then you are ready to rock!

The movies can be started by clicking on the saved image inside the memory card. Remember that the movies need to be in MP4 format (Google it if you don’t understand), and if you want to convert your existing DVDs etc to this format you may need to get some specialized software.

Alrighty! There we are, how to put movies on PSP in 4 easy steps!

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