Quick question about a PSP purchase

**LazerTag** · January 10th, 2007, 15:29

A buddy of mine wants to get a PSP and wants to make sure it's one he can use custom firmware etc... on. We live in the US and he is looking at his one currently

http://www.yesasia.com/?/cgi-bin/div-cn/psp-jap.html

Will this work for him?

Does it matter that it's listed as the Japanese model?

Any help here would be appreciated so we can make sure he gets the right one.

Thanks

**dejkirkby** · January 10th, 2007, 15:46

From the webpage, this is downgradeable.

**F9zDark** · January 10th, 2007, 16:05

No it doesn't matter what country the PSP comes from, it will play all games. Not to mention, if you downgrade to 1.5 and then upgrade to 3.03OE-A, then I think any region encoding that might have been present will be overwritten.

But I still believe that UMD games are region free.