This is a basic guide describing how to connect your PSP to your PC for transfer of files. Please note that this guide is intended to be a means, and not an end. Basically, transferring any type of file to the PSP requires a USB connection with a computer. This guide is thus the precursor to our other guides -- the Video Transfer Guide, the Music Transfer Guide, the Image Transfer Guide, and the Save Game Transfer guide.
The process is very simple, and most people reading this post have probably already figured out how to do get things up and running. Nevertheless, there may be some users who don't know what cable to buy, where to go to access the PSP, and so forth. In other words, this guide offers even "uninitiated" users the chance to get their PSPs connected with their PC, and serves to provide a reference point for our other guides.
There are a total of 6 short steps to getting your PSP connected to your PC. And I say "PC" because I mean PC -- if you use a Mac and are interested in contributing a guide for Mac users, please let me know. So let's get to it.
Materials needed:
PSP
Memory Stick Duo (any size)
USB Mini cable (5-pin)
PC running Windows 98SE or above with a free USB port
Step 1: Verify that you have a Memory Stick Duo inserted in your PSP
It seems obvious, but this step is certainly the most important. Connecting your PSP to your PC without having a Memory Stick Duo inserted won't get you anywhere. The Memory Stick Duo slot is located on the left side of the PSP (when viewing the LCD). There is a small notch cut into the plastic cover, and it opens in a fashion similar to a car hood. For Japanese users, the PSP Value Pack includes a 32MB Memory Stick Duo. For American users, all PSP packages at launch include 32MB Memory Stick Duo.
Step 2: If necessary, format Memory Stick Duo using PSP
If this is your first time using the Memory Stick Duo in your PSP, you'll want to format it. It is important that you format your Memory Stick Duo using your PSP instead of your PC. Not only will using the PSP for formatting the card enable you to take advantage of greater file capacity, but it will also create the directory structure needed for proper usage of all files on the PSP's Memory Stick Duo. You will only need to format your Memory Stick Duo once; if you have already done so, doing it again could (and probably will) result in erased data.
Step 3: Connect your PSP to your PC using the USB cable
One one end of the USB cable is a bizarre looking USB Mini connector. On the other end is a normal looking USB connector. Plug the bizarre looking end into the port on the top of the PSP, and plug the normal looking end into your PC's free USB port. Please excuse my extremely dirty computer, by the way.
Note that no USB cable is included with the PSP. You will need to purchase a USB cable before you can connect your PSP to your PC. Though your local Best Buy or Fry's may carry these cables, it is far cheaper to order them online. We recommend this cable from Newegg.com; it costs about $3.50. And a quick word about the cable: be sure you purchase a cable that supports USB 2.0. Since the PSP itself supports USB 2.0, you will see significantly faster transfer rates when using USB 2.0 in conjunction with a Memory Stick PRO Duo. When transferring large amounts of data to and from the PSP, this will make quite a difference in transfer speeds. The NewEgg cable supports USB 2.0. Also, PSP-Vault member sirchode points out this important tidbit:
Be sure you buy the correct cable (the 5-pin version).
Step 4: Enter the PSP's "USB Mode"
Under your PSP's "Settings Menu" is an option called "USB Connection." Highlight this option, press circle, and you'll see a screen similar to the screenshot I've posted on the right. You'll need to enter USB Mode every time you want to connect your PSP to your PC.
Step 5: Access the PSP using your PC
Depending on what operating system you use, you may or may not be presented with the above dialog. If you are, great -- just click on "Open Folder to View Files," then "OK." If you do not see this dialog, you will have to find your PSP the old fashioned way. That is, select the proper drive from My Computer. On my machine, my PSP is listed as F:. This letter will vary depending on the number of hard drives and removable storage drives your computer has.
Step 6: Navigate the PSP's folders using your PC
Now that you've found your PSP, you're basically done. Simply double-click on the drive in My Computer, or if you clicked the 'Open Folder to View Files" in the last step, it is already displayed. If you used your PSP to format your Memory Stick Duo in step 2, as you should have, you will see a folder called "PSP." My screenshot above shows an "MP_ROOT" folder because I have video content stored on my Memory Stick Duo; if you'd like more information on this, be sure to read our Video Transfer Guide. Again, though, if you have formatted your Memory Stick Duo, this folder will not be showing.
Now that you know how to connect your PSP to your PC, you're ready to start transferring files to it. The PSP can handle a number of file formats -- MP3 audio, MPEG-4 video, game saves, and images.
This guide describes the process to transfer save games from your PC to your PSP. As you may know, PSP-Vault offers save games for download. These save game files can then be transferred to your PSP, where they can be used as though they were your own. Some users may frown upon such practices, labeling them as cheating, but we here at PSP-Vault will at least provide everyone with the option. Outlined below is a process by which you can transfer save games downloaded from the Internet (or another source) to your PSP.
Materials needed:
PSP
Memory Stick Duo (any size)
Save game archive file
USB Mini cable
PC running Windows 98SE or above with a free USB port
Step 0: Follow the PSP to PC Basic Connection Guide
Step 1: Navigate to SAVEDATA folder
In your PSP's "PSP" folder is a directory called "SAVEDATA." Inside the SAVEDATA folder you will find something similar to the above. I am yet to completely figure out the naming scheme that these folders follow, but the codes do match the codes printed on the spines of PSP game cases. Anyway, and I think this goes without saying, but different games use different folder names. In my screenshot above, ULJS00002 is a save file of the game "Kotoba no Puzzle: Moji Pittan."
And here's where things get interesting. You're probably asking "wait, so can I have more than one save game folder for the same game?" The answer to that question is maybe. Implementing "multi-savegame" functionality is the responsibility of the developer. In Moji Pittan, for example, there can be only one save game stored on the Memory Stick at the same time. While many games implement profile systems to differentiate between different "save games" (note that it is in quotes because the physical files remain the same), many games do not. Certain PSP games have support for more than one save file, certain PSP games do not. Moji Pittan, for example, will only search for save games in the "ULJS00002" folder. Any other folder (even if it contains Moji Pittan save data) cannot be read.
Now that you understand a bit about the SAVEDATA folder's architecture, let's move on to transferring that save file you've just downloaded.
Step 2: Extract save game
This process will vary depending on which software you use to extract .zip files, but I believe it's pretty straightforward. WinRAR offers the "extract here" option, which will simply extra the contents of a .zip file to the current directory. All save game archives on PSP-Vault are only one level deep. This means that you needn't create any folders so the PSP can recognize your save files correctly, nor do you need to worry about moving save files to higher levels in your folder structure to transfer them to your PSP. On to actually transferring the save files, then. Step 3: Transfer save game to folder
As we mentioned, no folder or file locations need to be modified to use PSP save files posted on PSP-Vault. Just copy the folder you just extracted, and paste it into the PSP's "SAVEDATA" folder. However, PAY VERY CLOSE ATTENTION to any folder overwrite warnings! Because the PSP save game folders use the same names for the same games, copying folders into these locations could lead to lost data. For this reason, we recommend that you backup your old save games before overwriting them. In my case, I would simply rename a folder like "ULJS0002" to "ULJS0002_backup." Step 4: Exit USB Mode
Since your PSP has been in USB Mode throughout this entire process, just push X to exit. Step 5: Verify transfer of save data
To verify the integrity of the data you have just transferred, use the PSP's built-in Save Data Utility. Select it from the "Game" menu.
This guide describes the process to transfer MP3 files from your PC to your PSP with album art. Note that the first 5 steps of this guide are optional; if you don't care about having album art associated with your MP3 files while playing them on the PSP, feel free to skip them. Also, this tutorial has a series of sub-steps; the letters A, B, C, and so on depict certain operations users are asked to accomplish within the screenshots themselves. It's not that I think you're stupid, it's just that I wanted to be as clear as possible.
Materials needed:
PSP
Memory Stick Duo (any size)
MP3 album(s)
(Optional) Album Art
(Optional) ID3v2 editor software with support for album art (this tutorial is based on The GodFather, a freeware editor)
USB Mini cable
PC running Windows 98SE or above with a free USB port
Step 0: Follow the PSP to PC Basic Connection Guide
Step 1 (Optional): Launch the GodFather, setup
For the album art section of this tutorial, we'll be using a piece of freeware called The GodFather. As I mentioned in the overview, there are a number of tools that can accomplish this task -- I more or less chose the GodFather because it was the first thing that came up in my search. The first part of this tutorial deals with assigning album art to MP3 files through the use of ID3v2 tags, because this appears to be the only format the PSP can read them from. If you already know how to create album art using ID3v2 tags, skip ahead to step 6. If you don't, go ahead and start The GodFather, and we can begin.
A: Select your MP3 album from your hard drive. You won't be able to edit the ID3v2 tags of files stored on read-only media such as CD-R.
B: Choose "Manual Edit." I unfortunately can't find an option to automatically add album art to albums.
C: Notice that the "Pic." column is empty. Double click on the Pic box for the first track in your album. You'll see a dialog. But before you do anything in that...
Step 2 (Optional): Copy album art to clipboard
The GodFather has a function to tag album art directly from the clipboard, so there is no need to save image files to your hard drive. Album art for pretty much any popular album can be found at Amazon.com. If you're looking for something more obscure, you're probably better off with Google Image Search. Right clicking on an image will give you an option to "Copy Image." My screenshot is from Firefox, but Internet Explorer has a similar option in its right-click menu.
Step 3 (Optional): Apply album art to first track
A: Back in The GodFather, click on the "Pictures" button in the dialog that we spawned in step 1c.
B: Now that you have your album art in your clipboard, go ahead and paste it using the "Load from Clipboard" option that can be reached by click on the folder icon immediately below the "Standard" button. Step 4 (Optional): Finalizing changes
Your image will show in the box if you've done things correctly thus far.
A: This step is extremely important! For one reason or another, the PSP will not read album art if it is named. By default, The GodFather names images pasted from the clipboard "Picture1." To remove this name, just highlight the text and push your delete key.
B: When you're ready, click "Save & Close."
Notice that the "Pic." column now displays a check mark.
Step 5 (Optional): Finalizing changes part deux
The PSP will only read album art from the first track*, so you're ready to close out.
A: Click the "Update" button to update your file's ID3v2 tag. The GodFather's status bar will display "ID3v2:updated." You are now through with The GodFather, so feel free to exit it. Step 6: Copy MP3 folder to clipboard
Using Explorer, copy the entire MP3 album to the clipboard.
Step 7: Paste album in PSP's "MUSIC" folder
Navigate your way to the PSP's "MUSIC" folder under F:\PSP (where F: is the drive letter of your PSP). Paste your MP3 folder into this directory.
Step 8: Exit USB Mode
Since your PSP has been in USB Mode throughout this entire process, just push X to exit.
Step 9: Verify transfer of MP3 files, directories
Under the Music menu, select Memory Stick. All albums you have loaded on your Memory Stick Duo will be displayed. Select an album, select a track, and it will begin playing.
*I've done some experimentation, and found that the PSP will only read different album art from multiple tracks within the same folder. Thus, a "mass album art apply" would be useless.
Sony's trying to encourage people to purchase PSP specific versions of movies distributed with yet another Sony proprietary format, UMD. So far, the selection is limited to titles released by Sony, which severely limits the catalog of options and doesn't account for a majority of available movie titles. While some people are up in arms over the format being read only, which doesn't really matter (DVDs happen to be read only too), you can take your movies with you by ripping them and converting the files to MP4 and transferring them to a Memory Stick Duo Pro. If you've previously converted DVD movies to a digital format like DivX or WMV you are well on your way. On the other hand, you can start from scratch and end up with an equally useful result. Read on for a detailed explanation of the process.
The easiest way to accomplish the conversion is to spend a few dollars on software to do the work for you. Currently, Mobile Media Maker is the only app I've seen with end-to-end support for converting DVD movies directly to a PSP compatible file. If you prefer not to spend $35 to convert your movies in one fairly simple step, the alternative is to use a manual multi-step process, which is free but considerably more time consuming.
Most of the tools available for ripping DVDs contain tools that may be determined to be illegal in the United States at some point in the future because of their ability to defeat copy protection, so tread with caution in this area. The current free tools that seem to be popular for ripping DVDs both legal and otherwise are DVD Decrypter and SmartRipper. While the tools do contain features that defeat copy protection, there are also plenty of legal reasons for ripping DVDs created by you or by someone who has given you permission to use their content.
I'm making the assumption going into this that you've done your homework on getting video files off of a DVD and are now interested in being able to use those files for some other purpose. If you haven't, do a quick Google search for DVD Ripping and come back when you have the VOB files on your hard drive.
In addition to having a Sony PSP, you also need a Memory Stick DUO Pro with enough space to store a feature length movie. For acceptable quality levels, you want a minimum of 256MB but ideally you want at least a 512MB Memory Stick. The 32MB Memory Stick included in the box isn't going to cut it unless you are only interested in watching 3-5 minute short films.
Since most DVD ripping tools break large DVD files into several smaller VOB chunks, I'm currently using FlasKMPEG version 0.78.39, which automatically recombines all the VOB files to form a complete movie during the VOB to AVI conversion process. The disadvantage to version 0.78.39 is it doesn't use an installer, so everything lives in the folder you unzipped it to.
After launching FlasKMPEG by clicking on the .exe, open your video file from the File > Open menu.
At this point in the process we will output the highest quality AVI file possible and keep the video the same aspect ratio as the original.
Go to Options > Advanced Options to configure settings for the AVI file.
On the video tab make sure Don't resize is checked. Check Perform dual pass encoding, which takes slightly longer but results in a better quality video file. Leave the output framerate and video structure set on the defaults.
Click the Audio tab and choose Decode Audio and 44100 Hz.
Leave the default settings on the Post Processing tab.
On the files tab, name the file and choose a location to save the output Click OK when you are finished.
From the select output button, make sure the AVI Output option is selected. Click Configure Output Module to choose the audio and video codecs used to process the AVI output.
My best success is using the Microsoft MPEG-4 Video Codec V1 for video and << Uncompressed PCM Audio >> for the audio codec. Accepting the defaults seems to produce great video for me. At this point, FlasKMPEG will process the VOB files and output an AVI file. Plan on processing time to be approximately as long as the playtime of video file you are converting.
Click Save and Close when you are finished with the conversion.
To transfer movies from your PC to the Memory Stick, you either need to connect the Memory Stick via a card reader or you need to connect the PSP in USB mode. The rest of this tutorial covers using PSP Video 9 to do the file transfer because it offers a reasonably simple user experience.
In order for the PSP to find videos on your Memory Stick, the files must be stored in a specific location. Each card must have a directory in the root folder called MP_Root with a subdirectory 100MNV01. When you browse the Memory Stick from Windows Explorer it might look something like: E:\MP_Root\100MNV01. By connecting the Memory Stick (or PSP with Memory Stick inserted) to your PC and running PSP Video 9, this directory is automatically created on the Memory Stick.
PSP Video 9 offers some convenient profiles that let you select conversion settings based on movie length. You may need to try different settings in order to find one that leaves you with enough space on the Memory Stick without having really poor video quality. For feature length movies, start with the setting for Movies 0-2 hours and experiment with other settings to figure out what works.
With the videos converted, switch to the Copy tab to transfer files directly to the card, delete videos from the card or transfer video from the PSP to your PC.
Before you begin, make sure you have a PSP 2.x: * Does your PSP main menu has an Internet "Globe" icon. If so, you have a 2.x.
Make sure you have the right USB cable to connect your PSP to a PC
Make sure your memory stick is formatted. If it is, you will see the directory PSPPHOTO when your PSP is connected to a PC (via USB).
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Connect your PSP to a PC now. Besides hooking up the USB cable, you'll have to select "USB Connection" from the first PSP main menu icon. If successful, your PSP will appear as a drive icon on a Windows or Mac.
Copy the wallpaper(s) to PSPPHOTO. For example, if your PSP appears as E: drive, then copy the pictures to E:PSPPHOTO
Get out of "USB Connection" mode by following the instructions on the PSP screen (on a Japan PSP, pressing the "X" button. On a US or European PSP, press the "O" button).
From the PSP main menu, navigate to the Photo icon and view the copied picture
When the picture is displayed on-screen, press the "Triangle" button
Choose the second icon from the left ("Set as wallpaper")
Confirm your selection
Done.
In newer PSP firmware, you may have to do 1 more step: Go to the "Settings" icon (left most). Scroll down/up to "Theme Settings". Go to "Wallpaper", press the O button (for Japanese PSP) or X button (for US PSP). Choose "Use Wallpaper". Done.
Version 1.50
Make sure you have a PSP 1.5 * Go to the first (left-most) PSP main menu icon. Navigate to "System Information" to find the exact version of your PSP. If it says 1.0, then you're out of luck.
You'll need to "enable" your PSP to run "Homebrew" programs.
You'll need a "Homebrew" PSP wallpaper software like PSPersonalize. * Note that if things go wrong along the way, you may damage/corrupt your PSP permanently. So be very sure you want to do this. We're not responsible if you render your PSP useless.
Finally, you'll also need a detailed tutorial for PSPersonalize. A good one can be found here.
First off, you need to get to the main menu from wherever you are on your PSP. You can do that by pressing the Home button, a tiny button just to the lower left of the screen.
Now you'll want to move left (pressing the "<" button) until you get to Settings, then down (pressing the "V" button) until you get to Network Settings:
Now you'll have two choices: "Ad Hoc" is when you want to connection two PSPs together with any sort of Internet wifi base station / access point involved, and "Infrastructure Mode" is when you connect to your local wifi device. The latter's what we want:
You'll probably only have the one choice of New Connection, but if you don't, choose it anyway:
First option is to specify a mnemonic connection name. The default here is "Connection 2" but yours might be "Connection 1", or similar. I recommend you actually enter a different name so you'll be able to remember what location works where.
To enter a new connection name, press the "X" button and you'll get to the "keyboard" screen:
When you're done struggling to enter your selected name :-) move to the green "Enter" box and press the "X" button. Now you'll be ready for the big important step: a Network Scan:
If everything's working well with your device and you've turned on the WLAN switch (How to turn on the PSP WLAN Switch) you'll see the following status message:
Hopefully, you'll see at least one network listed, if not more. If you don't see any networks, then you're out of luck. If the only networks you see have some sort of security setting, either WPA or WEP, then you must know the security password to access that network.
Once you're ready, the next step you'll want to take is to select an access point:
In this case I'm going to select Steve Hardesty since it's the strongest network with the Security setting of "None":
Now you'll have a chance to confirm your security setting from the different choices. Notice that the default is just about always the correct choice, which you can select by pushing the ">" button again and again:
Now you can also step right past the Address Settings:
You'll get a confirmation screen that shows all the settings you've specified:
Press the ">" button again, and you'll be able to save your settings:
That's what you'll want to do: press "X".
Now, the most important step in the process - to Test Connection.
You'll most definitely want to do this! Press "X" to start the test...
If something's wrong, you might end up seeing this:
If you do see that, then try moving closer to the wifi access point and rerunning the test, perhaps that'll fix things. Otherwise, try a different network connection.
Hopefully, however, you'll find that your connection works just fine:
If you've gotten here, congratulations, you're online!
Let's just quickly test it by going online and checking the latest news. Again press Home but this time use the ">" button to move all the way to the right, then "V" to go down to Internet Browser:
Since you've already specified a connection, it'll use that:
Everything should work just fine, and you'll either get to a blank page, the default page for your Web browser, or the page you've specified as your default. In my case, it's Google News:
I just recently updated my Sony PSP unit to the 2.0 firmware release too, so i can step you through the procedure I used. For this one, I used the download to PC option; if you have a wireless wi-fi network, you can use the detailed instructions I posted earlier instead: Sony PSP update instructions for wireless wifi networks.
The first step is to go to the Sony Playstation Web Site and make sure you have all the required items there.
Now, scroll to the bottom of that page and click that you "agree" with their terms of update. You'll then be asked by your Web browser if you want to open the file or save it to your disk:
I'm running Firefox here, so my dialog box might be a slight bit different from what you'll see with Internet Explorer, but the basic idea here is that you can't open this file - it's for the PSP - so just save it to disk.
Once the download has finished, hook up your Sony PSP to your Windows PC - I have WinXP Pro - and make sure that on your PSP you choose 'USB Connect' (I have more details on how to do that in Sony PSP to Windows PC: Music and Photos? if you need it). The PSP will show up on your computer as the unimaginatively named "Removable Disk":
Click on the device, you should see a folder called "PSP". Open that and move into a subfolder called "GAMES". Within that you'll have to create a new subfolder called "UPDATE":
Now, finally, you're ready to copy the downloaded file across to the PSP so you can run the update. Just drag and drop the file EBOOT.PBP into the newly created UPDATE folder:
Once that's done, eject the PSP from your PC. Almost done!
On the PSP you now need to make sure your unit is still plugged in to the wall (this is critical so that you don't have a battery glitch and trash your PSP unit!), then navigate to the "Game" area. One of the choices here will be Memory Stick. Choose it by pushing the "X" button and you'll see PSP Update ver 2.00.
That's what we want! Push "X" again to start the update process. It clears the screen, vanishes for a few seconds, then comes back and either says "PSP System Software Version 2.00" and has a "Start" option, or tells you that you don't need to apply the update since you're already running 2.00 on your Playstation Portable.
Assuming that you, like me, don't yet have 2.0, you'll want to choose "Start", go through the user agreement (are there too many lawyers on this planet or what?) and leave your PSP untouched until it's done. My update took about two minutes. Not too bad.
That's it. You should now be the proud owner of a Sony PSP unit that has the 2.0 firmware system installed, which means you now have a Web browser and lots of other spiffo updates to the system. I'll write about how to work with the browser in another article, but I hope this will get you up and running with System Software 2.00 on your PSP!
Oh! One last tip: once you're done with the update, you'll want to delete it from your Memory Stick. Do this by again going to GAMES then Memory Stick, then when you're looking at the "PSP Update ver 2.00" push the upward pointing triangle button (on the right control area, not one of the four directional buttons on the left). You'll see three choices, one of which is "Delete". Choose that, and you'll have just deleted the now-obsolete update file.
I get a lot of questions from people who don't fully understand how to work with the PSP Memory Stick devices, and I believe that this is exacerbated by the fact that Windows really likes to hide files from regular users when browsing devices.
As a result, what you're seeing is that you have files that aren't being shown in a regular Windows (or Mac, for that matter) file view, but are clearly still on the Memory Stick.
Or, a simpler possibility: you're dragging things into the trash, but you aren't actually emptying the trash and deleting them from the device!
In any case, I recommend that every so often, and particularly when you first buy a memory stick, reformat it on the Sony PSP so that anything added by the memory stick manufacturer is removed, along with any hidden files you might have accidentally added.
You can format any size Memory Stick Duo in the Sony PSP by doing this:
Push the little HOME button on the bottom left of the face of the unit.
Use the arrow keys to move to the SETTINGS area, then move the up and down keys until you get to System Settings.
Once you are there, click on the "X" button and scroll up and down as needed to find Format Memory Stick. Click on "X" again to select that option.
The Sony PSP will now confirm that you want to reformat the memory stick (which removes every file and game save thereon, of course): choose yes and it'll format in just a few seconds.
Now you have a pristine new Memory Stick to work with and should have no problems with music, photos or other material you might seek to copy onto your PSP.
Go to YouTube and pick the video you want to convert. We chose a video about blenders, as it was the top rated clip the day we looked. Go up to the address bar, click it, and Ctrl-C to copy the video's address.
Go to YouTubeX.com. Paste your video's address into the main box and click Get Video. Click Download and save your video to the desktop.
Right click your newly downloaded video and change the name from get_video to get_video.flv. You may be asked if you're sure you want to change the file extension, in which case you should reply that you are.
Go to TVC's homepage and click Free Download. Save the file to the desktop, then double click it and follow the installation instructions.
Run the Total Video Converter programme. Click on get_video.flv and hold the left mouse button down. Drag the video into TVC's Track List Window. On the screen that pops up choose PSP Mpeg4. Click Convert Now and wait while it does its thing.
Now all you have to do is put the converted video on your PSP.
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With your PSP turned off, insert the Memory Stick Duo into the Memory Stick slot on the left of the PSP console. Turn your PSP back on and go to the home screen and access the Settings. Scroll down to System Settings and press X.
Within the System Settings section, scroll down to Format Memory Stick and press X. Confirm that you want to format the Memory Stick Duo and wait for a few seconds while it takes place.
Once formatted, return to the Settings section at the home screen and scroll to USB Connection. Connect one end of the USB cable to your PC and the other to your PSP and then press X.
This will enable your PSP's USB connection and, after your PC has loaded any drivers it needs (as long as you're using Windows ME, 2000 or XP it'll do this automatically), open My Computer on your PC's desktop.
Double-click on the Removable Drive icon and then on the MP_ROOT folder. You'll now see a selection of folders, one of which is called 100MNV01. Open this folder by double-clicking on it with your mouse.
You can now save or drag and drop video clips into this folder, either individually or in their own sub-folder. Once transferred, press O on your PSP and go to the Video icon on your PSP's home screen and press X.
With your PSP turned off, insert the Memory Stick Duo into the Memory Stick slot on the left of the PSP console. Turn your PSP back on and go to the home screen and access the Settings. Scroll down to System Settings and press 'X'.
Within the System Settings section, scroll down to Format Memory Stick and press 'X'. Confirm that you want to format the Memory Stick Duo and wait for a few seconds while it takes place.
Once formatted, return to the Settings section at the home screen and scroll to USB Connection. Connect one end of the USB cable to your PC and the other to your PSP and then press 'X'.
This will enable your PSP's USB connection and, after your PC has loaded any drivers it needs (as long as you're using Windows ME, 2000 or XP it'll do this automatically), open My Computer on your PC's desktop.
Double-click on the Removable Drive icon and then on the PSP folder. You'll now see a selection of folders, one of which is called PHOTO. Open this folder by double-clicking on it with your mouse.
You can now save or drag and drop photos (.jpg or JPEG files) into this folder, either individually or in their own sub-folder. Once they've been transferred, press 'Circle' on your PSP and go to the Photo icon on your PSP's home screen and press 'X'.
Set up wireless networking using tutorial guide. Scroll all the way to the right on the PSP's home screen to select Network, scroll down to Internet Browser and press 'X'.
When the browser has loaded press 'up' to select the address bar. Then press 'X' to jump to the text entry screen. The address you want for the mobile MSN client is http://mob.e-messenger.net/mobile
When you select Enter, your PSP will connect to the wireless network and begin loading the page. When you return to the browser you can save time in future by adding the page to your bookmarks. Press 'down' on the d-pad to select the navigation bar, then select the heart icon. Select My Bookmarks then [Add to Bookmarks].
Now press 'triangle' to view the page itself. Use the PSP's analogue nub to select the email address and password boxes and enter the information you use to sign in to MSN on your home computer. Select Signin.
Wait a moment for the page to load and your buddy list will appear. Select someone's email address to begin a conversation.
The conversation window works as you'd expect: select write to send a message and reload to check if anyone's said anything to you. When you're finished chatting click Contacts then Exit to log off.
On your PSP's home screen, scroll all the way to the right. Scroll up or down to Internet Browser and press 'X' to run it.
Press 'Triangle' to bring up the address bar. Press 'Up' to highlight it and press 'X'. Enter the address of the website with the podcast you want. We're going to use Portable Gaming Revolution's PSP podcast in this example, so the address we need is http://pgrevolution.com/ When you've typed it in press 'Start', then 'Triangle'.
On the PGR site, hold 'Square' and press 'Down' to scroll all the way down the screen. You're looking for the icon that says podcast, under the heading Syndicate Me. Move the cursor over it and press 'X'.
You'll be asked if you want to add the podcast to your list of RSS feeds. Say that you do, then go back to the home screen.
On the home screen scroll right to network then down to RSS Channel. Press 'X' then select the podcast you want to check and press 'X' again. Tell your PSP it's ok to connect to the internet, then wait a moment while everything loads. Scroll down to the episode of the podcast you want and press 'Triangle'. On the right hand menu select save. Wait for the episode to download.
Go back to the home screen and scroll left to Music. Press 'X' then select your podcast and press 'X' one more time to play it.
Congratulations! Now you're podcasting like all the pretentious indie kids in Apple adverts.
