Beginners Guide: PSP Information
Published by  blizard54 on 2009-06-07
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Beginners Guide Introduction:
For all you beginners out there wanting to get to know your PSP and what firmware you would like, then you have come to the right place. This is an example of what you can find on a PSP that has been modded and currently has 3.71 M33-2 installed on it. It explains in an easy-to-understand way of what you can find on your PSP and how everything works. Hope it helps :)
The following is a list of the main areas:
The System Itself:
When you open the box, the first thing you see are things such as the cleaning cloth, the instruction book etc. After that you lift up a cardboard flap, just like with the PS2 box. Inside that is another, smaller, cardboard box like structure containing the PSP. Next to that is cords such as the battery charger, music controller, and earplugs.
First thing everyone probably does is pop in the demo disc to check things out. Just so you know, there isn't any playable games on it, just videos. Inside the demo disc is full length music videos, movie trailers, and game previews.
The music videos aren't bad, but nothing that really interests me. Some great movies are coming out. If you got the PSP when it first came out, there would be different videos on there than what there would be now due to the fact that different movies are coming out at that time.
The first million units came with Spiderman 2 the movie. If you have never watched a movie on a PSP, I suggest you do. The quality is good as it is DVD-like. Even if you have movies on the PSP you have seen before, once you start watching it, its hard to go back as it is pretty good quality for a hand held device. The sound is really good, but it's a lot better with the earplugs in.
When you turn on the PSP, you get the start-up screen. If this is the first time you have turned it on, it will ask for the date, time and possibly nickname. It turns on pretty quickly too. The main screen has a left-right, up-down scroll menu. You scroll left and right to change categories, and up and down for each sub-category under the main categories. The first option (from left to right) is Settings.
Settings:Note: These features are on the very left of the PSP's icons.
Network Update
The Network Update updates your software/ firmware on the PSP to a higher version.
USB Connection
USB connection is where you go when adding or removing things from your memory stick. You plug in your USB transfer cable (may not be included in box if you have not bought the full kit), and click on USB Connection. If it did not come in the box, there is a good chance you have one of these as it is a common cable. The usual "New Hardware Found" should pop up (on your computer screen). Now all you have to do is drag and drop or copy and paste files into the right folders.
Video Settings
This is inside the settings area on the far left of the screen on your PSP. Inside the Video settings option is yet, more options. As it may seem, these options are never-ending. The first option is Menu language. This allows you to select the language that you prefer. The following languages are included:
English
Danish
German
Spanish
Finnish
French
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Dutch
Norwegian
Portuguese
Russian
Swedish
Chinese
At the bottom of the list there is an Language Option. If you hit that it will come up with the following:
Afar
Abkhazian
Avestan
Afrikaans
Akan
Amharic
Arabic
Assamese
Avar
Aymara
Azerbaijani
Bashkir
Belarusian
Bulgarian
Bihari
Bislama
Bamabra
Bengali
Tibetan
Breton
Bosnian
Catalan
Catalan
Chechen
Chamorro
Corsican
Cree
Czech
Old Slavonic
Chuvash
Welsh
Danish
German
Divehi
Dzonghka
Ewe
Modern Greek
English
Esperanto
Spanish
Estonian
Basque
Farsi
Fulah
Finnish
Fijian
Faroese
French
Frisian
Irish
Gaelic
Galician
Guarani
Gujarati
Manx
Hausa
Hebrew
Hindi
Hiri Motu
Croatian
Hungarian
Armenian
Herero
Interlingua
Indonesian
Interlingue
Igbo
Inupiaq
Ido
Icelandic
Italian
Inuktitut
Japanese
Javanese
Georgian
Kongo
Kikuyu
Kwanyama
Kazakh
Greenlandic
Khmer
Kannada
Korean
Kanuri
Kashmiri
Kurdish
Komi
Cornish
Kyrgyz
Latin
Luxembourgish
Luganda
Lingala
Laotian
Lithuanian
Luba-Katanga
Latvian
Malagasy
Marshallese
Maori
Macedonian
Malayalam
Mongolian
Marathi
Malay
Maltese
Myanmar
Nauruan
Norweigian Bokmal
North Ndebele
Nepali
Ndonga
Dutch
Norwegian Nynorsk
Norwegian
South Ndebele
Navago
Chichewa
Occitan
Ojibwa
Oromo
Oriya
Ossetian
Punjabi
Pali
Polish
Pashto
Portuguese
Quechua
Rhaeto-Romance
Kirundi
Romanian
Russian
Kinyarwanda
Sanskirt
Sardinian
Sindhi
Northern Sami
Sango
Serbo-Croatian
Sinhala
Slovac
Slovenian
Samoan
Shona
Somali
Albanian
Serbian
Swazi
Sesotho
Sundanese
Swedish
Swahilli
Tamil
Telugu
Tajiki
Thai
Tigrinya
Turkmen
Tagalog
Setswana
Tongan
Turkish
Tsonga
Tatar
Twi
Tahitian
Uighur
Ukrainian
Urdu
Uzbek
Venda
Vietnamese
Volapuk
Waloon
Wolof
Xhosa
Yiddish
Yoruba
Zhuang
Chinese
Zulu
Audio Language
After that comes the Audio Language, which just like Menu language, has the same options which can be found above under the video settings.
Subtitle Languages
After that comes yet another language option. This one controls the Subtitle languages and, yep, it has all of those languages that the past two options have as well just to top it off.
UMD Video Volume
For once we have an option that does not have anything to do with language. It's the UMD Video Volume. This allows you to change the UMD volume from 'Normal' to '+1' and '+2', its up to you on how fast you want to destroy your ear drums...lol, jokes.
L/R Button
There are two options to this. You can either choose the 'Do Not Use' or 'Skip' option. The 'Skip' option works fine for me.
Sequential Playback
This is the last option under 'Video Settings'. Sets of Sequential Playback of videos that are saved on the memory stick. You can either choose to have this on or off.
Photo Settings
Photo settings only has one option, which is Slideshow speed. You can either choose from Normal, Slow, or Fast.
System Settings
Next up we have System Settings. The first option is Nickname. That's simple enough. You name your PSP. I really like this feature, I'm not sure why yet.
System Language
Second up is System Language. Not as many options as the recent language options, but it does have a few options to choose from.
Character Set
You can set the character code to be applied to music and other types of files. Usually it is not necessary to adjust this setting.
UMD Auto-Start
When you start up your PSP, you will find that if you have a UMD disk in there, it will automatically boot it. If you want to be able to turn your PSP on with a UMD in there and do not want the PSP to boot from the disk, then you can change this in the UMD Auto-Start settings.
Battery Information
After UMD Auto-Start is Battery Information. It tells you your charge level percentage, how many hours you have left, your power source, and the battery status.
Format Memory Stick
The next option is Format Memory Stick. Same as your Hard Drive when you format it, it will wipe your information and reset it back to its original state. Make sure you back up what you want before you do this.
Enable WMA Playback
When you enable this, it allows you to listen to WMA tracks on your PSP. This a a good feature to keep enabled.
Enable Flash Player
I would suggest you make sure you have this enabled aswell as it allows you to use the flash player.
Restore Default Settings
Following Enable Flash Player Stick is Restore Default Settings. If you have done something to your settings and need to restore the original settings, just click on this and it will go back to its original state for you.
System Information
System Information is next on the list and it provides information such as, Your MAC Address, System Software, and Nickname.
About PSP (PlayStation Portable)
If you want a small insight about your PSP, then this will tell you what you may need to know about it. It practically tells you that the PSP is a trademark etc...
Theme Settings
Inside Theme settings you have three sub-categories. The first is the 'Theme' itself. This allows you to choose your desired theme and if you don't like them, you can have one of your own photos up instead.
Color
This lets you choose the color that you would like for the theme of your PSP.The colors include:
Grey
Yellow
Light Green
Pink
Dark Green
Light Purple
Aqua
Dark Blue
Dark purple
Orange
Brown
Red
Wallpaper
In here you have 2 options, either use the original wallpaper or you can use you own photo as a wallpaper for your PSP.
Date and Time Settings
Under Date and Time settings, the first option is Date and Time. This is where you set the date an time on your PSP. This can be edited at any time.
Date Format
Date format consists of the format you wish to view your date. There are three ways you can view your date, DD/MM/YYYY, MM/DD/YYYY and YYYY/MM/DD.
Time Format
The next option is Time Format. That means you can choose from the standard 12 hour clock, or the 24 hour clock.
Time Zone
You can choose the timezone that you are in according to where you live. The following timezones from around the world are available:
GMT - 11:00 Samoa Islands
GMT - 11:00 Midway Islands
GMT - 10:00 Hawaii
GMT - 9:00 Alaska
GMT - 8:00 Pacific Time (US, Canada)
GMT - 8:00 Tijuana
GMT - 7:00 Mountain Time (US, Canada)
GMT - 7:00 Chihuahua
GMT - 6:00 San Jose
GMT - 6:00 Central Time (US Canada)
GMT - 6:00 Mexico Citt
GMT - 5:00 Quito
GMT - 5:00 Eastern Time (US, Canada)
GMT - 5:00 Panama City
GMT - 5:00 Bogota
GMT - 5:00 Lima
GMT - 4:00 Caracas
GMT - 4:00 Santiago
GMT - 4:00 Atlantic (Canada)
GMT - 4:00 Pureto Rico
GMT - 4:00 La Paz
GMT - 3:30 Newfoundland
GMT - 3:00 Sao Paulo
GMT - 3:00 Buenos Aires
GMT - 1:00 Azorez
GMT + 00:00 Casablanca
GMT + 00:00 Dublin
GMT + 00:00 Lisbon
GMT + 00:00 Reykjavic
GMT + 00:00 London
GMT + 1:00 Amsterdam
GMT + 1:00 Algiers
GMT + 1:00 Andorra La Vella
GMT + 1:00 Vienna
GMT + 1:00 Windhoek
GMT + 1:00 Osio
GMT + 1:00 Copenhagen
GMT + 1:00 Zagreb
GMT + 1:00 Sarajevo
GMT + 1:00 San Marino
GMT + 1:00 Skopje
GMT + 1:00 Stockholm
GMT + 1:00 Tunis
GMT + 1:00 Tirana
GMT + 1:00 Paris
GMT + 1:00 Valletta
GMT + 1:00 Vaduz
GMT + 1:00 Budapest
GMT + 1:00 Bratislava
GMT + 1:00 Prague
GMT + 1:00 Brussels
GMT + 1:00 Belgrade
GMT + 1:00 Berlin
GMT + 1:00 Bern
GMT + 1:00 Madrid
GMT + 1:00 Monaco
GMT + 1:00 Ljubljana
GMT + 1:00 Luxembourg
GMT + 1:00 Rome
GMT + 1:00 Warsaw
GMT + 2:00 Athens
GMT + 2:00 Amman
GMT + 2:00 Istanbul
GMT + 2:00 Jerusalem
GMT + 2:00 Cario
GMT + 2:00 Kiev
GMT + 2:00 Sofia
GMT + 2:00 Damascus
GMT + 2:00 Tallinn
GMT + 2:00 Nicosia
GMT + 2:00 Vilnius
GMT + 2:00 Bucharest
GMT + 2:00 Beirut
GMT + 2:00 Helsinki
GMT + 2:00 Minsk
GMT + 2:00 Johannesburg
GMT + 2:00 Riga
GMT + 3:00 Kuwait City
GMT + 3:00 Baghdad
GMT + 3:00 Moscow
GMT + 3:00 Riyadh
GMT + 3:30 Tehran
GMT + 4:00 Abu Dhabi
GMT + 4:00 Yerevan
GMT + 4:00 Tbilisi
GMT + 4:00 Baku
GMT + 4:00 Muscat
GMT + 4:30 kabul
GMT + 5:00 Karachi
GMT + 5:00 Tashkent
GMT + 5:00 Bishkek
GMT + 5:30 Calcutta
GMT + 5:45 Kathmandu
GMT + 6:00 Astana
GMT + 6:00 Dhaka
GMT + 7:00 Bangkok
GMT + 8:00 Kuala Lumpur
GMT + 8:00 Singapore
GMT + 8:00 Taipei
GMT + 8:00 Perth
GMT + 8:00 Beijing
GMT + 8:00 Hong Kong
GMT + 9:00 Seoul
GMT + 9:00 Tokyo
GMT + 9:30 Adelaide
GMT + 10:00 Sydney
GMT + 12:00 Wellington
GMT + 12:00 Suva
Daylight Saving
The last option for under Date and Time Settings is the Daylight Saving Settings. Are you in Daylight Savings time? If no, choose Standard. If yes, choose Daylight Saving.
Power Save Settings
Now we head into Power Save Settings. These are settings designed to save power on your battery. The first option is back light Auto-Off.It The default time is 5 minutes for the back light but you can change this to either off, 2 minutes, 5 minutes or 10 minutes.
Auto-Sleep
Auto-Sleep works on your PSP just like it does on your computer. You have four options on how long you want your PSP to stay on for. Off, 5 minutes, 10 minutes and 15 minutes. If you have chosen 10 minutes for example (which is the default time) and you walk away from your PSP and forget that you have left it on, it will automatically shut down and it will save the rest of the power on your PSP.
WLAN Save Settings
The third, and last, option under Power Save Settings is WLAN Power Save. It has the options of On and Off. The default option is on but that can be changed to off if you want to save power when not using the WLAN switch.
Sound Settings
In our next section, Sound Settings, we have three choices. The first one is AVLS. Alvis limits the volume of the sound and helps save battery.
Dynamic Normalizer
The second option is the Dynamic Normalizer and allows you to play audio with the volume automatically adjusted to the same level when music tracks or audio with different volume levels are played.
Key Tone
The last option for sound settings is the Key Tone. That's the little clicks you hear when you are scrolling through options. This can be turned on or off.
Security Settings
After Sound Settings comes Security Settings. This section also has three options. The first one is Change Password. This allows you to change the 4 digit password you may have set or you can set your password up here.
Parental Control Level
Following that is Parental Control Level which is the second option on the list.This allows you to limit what the PSP user is allowed to access, view and do.
Internet Browser Start Control
This allows you to adjust settings for the Internet Browser to suit the way you like it.
RSS Channel Settings
You can change the number of items that can be saved for a channel under RSS Channel. If [Last 5 items] under [Item Save Options] is selected, the latest 5 items in the channel are saved. If the Memory Stick Duo™ media already contains items from the same channel, the latest 5 items will overwrite those items. The number of items can be changed to suit you likings.
You can choose either Latest item which only saves the last item, Last 2 items, Last 5 items, last 10 items and All items.
Network Settings
Our last section is Network Settings. We can choose Ad-hoc (PSP to PSP), or Infrastructure(PSP to Access Point to PSP). To set this up check out our tutorial here.Main menu:Photo
The next section is the Photo's. There are three options to this. 1st option is the camera. With this option you can attach a portable camera and when the photo is taken it is automatically stored onto the PSP. The memory stick option is to view the images you stored on your memory stick. If you have a UMD in your, PSP you may view pictures that are stored on the disk.
Music
This has two options to choose from. The UMD and the Memory Stick. Same rule applies to this, as it does Photos. Pictures that are stored on the UMD and Memory stick can be viewed after selecting the sub-heading.
Video
Next comes Video's and this has 2 options to choose from as well. Same as before, stored on the UMD and Memory stick which is also viewed off that.
Game
The last section on the main menu is the Game's section. The game section consists of the following:
Game Sharing
Saved Data Utility
UMD
Memory StickNetworkNote: These features are on the very right of the PSP's icons.
Online Instruction Manuals
You can view the Online Instruction Manual once you have set up Wireless Internet on your PSP. Once you are connected to the Internet, you are able to access the Online Instruction Manual which can help guide you with problems on your PSP
If you are unsure of how to set up the Internet on your PSP make sure to check out our other tutorial here.
Location Free Player
The LF-PK1 LocationFree® Player Pack gives you the ability to view live TV, recorded TV (via DVR), VHS tapes or DVDs from your home to your PlayStation® Portable or PC over a broadband internet connection. The Player Pack includes the LocationFree base station and easy to install LocationFree Player for PC.
Remote Play
Remote Play is a feature on the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable which allows a PlayStation Portable user to interact with their PlayStation 3's Xross Media Bar. This also allows you to connect to other PSP's as well.
RSS Channel
The RSS Channel allows you to get videos, music, and photos. By going to a RSS Channel site, you can download contentto your PSP. Find the channel you want, click on it, and then click add channel to download it.
Internet Browser
The Internet browser allows you to connect to the Internet. Note: You must set up the WLAN switch and the wireless before you can access the Internet. Check out this tutorial if you are having trouble setting it up here..
PlayStation Spot
PlayStation Spot is a service that allows PSP owners to download game demos and other data from download terminals. The free service debuted at the Tokyo Game Show and eventually made its first retail appearance at the Sony building in Tokyo's Gina district. Nintendo offers a similar service for the DS called Touch!
You can get a PSP from one of your local Retail stores or online at places like eBay, Amazon etc.
More updates coming soon!
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