Wed Mar 12, 2008 4:42 am by DarkPacMan77
The slim PSP offers a few advantages. It's (mathematically) just shy of being 19% thinner than the older PSP units and weighs a noticeable amount less as well mostly because of the new UMD tray and less metal brackets inside. The slim also offers advantages in onboard NAND memory. The old PSPs had 32mb and the new ones have 64mb. Firmware aside, the slim PSP units THEORETICALLY would be the very best for homebrew that is memory intensive, like the Daedalus project that StrmnNrmn is working on. The slims can also load most UMD games (and isos) faster because of a umdcache.prx (I think is what it is) that uses some of that extra memory to load data faster.
There's really two MAJOR negative aspects to the slim PSP. 1.) homebrew incompatibility - which is being worked on, and 2.) loss of IR (Infra Red) support. You would no longer be able to use any of the various IR programs that would turn the PSP into a universal remote.
Other than that, the differences are pretty slim. The question then becomes, "are the new features worth buying a new PSP?". If you have the extra money, I say yes, but if you're cautious with your dollar, I'd say to wait on buying a slim PSP still for a little bit longer. If the extra resources aren't made available for emulators like Daedalus or snes9x, I'd argue that the new PSP may not be worth the working man's dollar (if he already had an older model, that is). I think it's a great purchase for people just buying their first PSP though.
-DarkPacMan77-
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