Best places to buy 1.5 Firmware PSP's

[Greenlink42]

So I'm planning to buy one for Christmas, yet I want to make sure where I can buy one without getting ripped off. A list of websites with descriptions would be nice.

[wraggster]

SuccessHK

Cheapest and most reliable

[Greenlink42]

Interest increasing... Do the Japanese Region PSP's have an English language option?

[Shrygue]

They do, yes.

[AvengedSevenfold Fan]

Interest increasing... Do the Japanese Region PSP's have an English language option?

on the japanese psps thought, O and X are switched, but this can be changed with custom firmware if you know how to do that kind of stuff.

[eddieh4444]

Can these Japanese PSPs play American UMDs? If so I found my Christmas Present.

[pibs]

yep they are region free

[eddieh4444]

Nice, what about UMD movies?

[pibs]

Never recall buying any since you can easily rip your dvds and put them on your psp memory card and watch them for free haha

but I think they are region locked, but there is custom firmware that allows you to use "fake region" and play all of them. Custom firmware also allows you to do other goodies like play GBA, N64, PS1, SNES, Genesis, etc.....

[jamotto]

Nice, what about UMD movies?

No, UMD movies are region locked. The only way to get American movie UMD's (region 1) to run on a Japanese psp (region 2) is to have an American psp rip the moves to an ISO and copy that over to the Japanese psp.