Picked this up for cheap. I haven't been able to find this in-store for a while but last time I saw one it was like twice as much as I got this one for.
Gameboy Printer! Cool!
This thing is in REALLY good condition, as far as I can tell.
It didn't come with a roll of printer tape so I wasn't able to test it but apparently GBP printer tape is extremely cheap and abundant on eBay because nobody ever bought them in stores. I'll order one and try it out.
w-what's this?
*finally owns a psp*
Yes, I bought a psp. It's a PSP-1001 and I got it for 9 bucks...
...because it was listed as broken.
Long story short, the site listed it as for parts, but in the same description noted that it hadn't been tested to actually check if it was working or not. I decided to take a gamble and hope that the seller was too lazy to check if it actually worked and just listed it as broken.
So I get it, and it looks like this:
Huh, that's not even bad. It looks used, but I don't see anywhere where it was broken.
So after giving it a quick once-over, I popped open the UMD drive, and- Hey, there's a game in there!
So I popped the game out and it was a copy of NBA Live '08... except the UMD's outer case was basically destroyed and there was some kind of liquid inside of it. Crap. Please don't tell me this thing has water damage.
So I pulled out the UMD and snapped it open (since the case was basically falling apart anyway) and the actual game disc itself was in decent enough condition except it had what appeared to be... toothpaste...? or something sticky on it. As I was cleaning it off it started to smell really strongly of, like, toothpaste and orange juice and I started gagging involuntarily because it was just so disgusting.
Disc aside, the UMD drive looked otherwise okay. Then I checked the battery compartment. The battery itself had the bottom corner sliced off (meaning someone tried to Pandora it) and wouldn't stay inside the system with the battery door off. It got a charge for like three seconds but then went out so I thought I short-circuited it. The little water-damage checker thing had pink dots on it so I was prepared for the worst, but according to Google, regular PSP battery compartments have the same pattern of pink dots when they aren't water damaged. So I breathed a sigh of relief.
Knowing that it didn't have water damage, I decided to try plugging it in and turning it on. I grabbed a charger that would fit, plugged it in, powered it up, and,
Well, now I see why it was listed as broken.
The outer glass showed no signs of cracks or breakage, but as you can see the LCD panel itself is cracked and destroyed. (The gray and black areas are where it's broken, if you somehow can't tell.)
I popped in my copy of Wipeout Pure which loaded and ran and played just fine (I had to navigate the menus using only that tiny area of screen to the left, ahaha) but obviously I couldn't see anything.
I went on eBay and ordered the cheapest brand new LCD panel (with the tools to replace it included) that I could find, so we'll see how that goes.
I bought these for Mario World and Sword of Mana, but Porsche Unleashed and the second copy of KNiD aren't a bad bonus.
Beautiful books, the highlight in my small collection so far.
