Read: our finest words
- Over and Over: Overlord II Impressions
- Wot I Think: Anno 1404: Dawn Of Discovery
- An Hour With… Ghostbusters
- The Quest Journal: Mysteries of Westgate Interview
- Wot I Think: Arma II
- Why Can’t I… Teleport In MMOs?
- And much more...
Revisit: a random post
The Sunday Papers
Respond: to our gibberish
- Marcin : “I was briefly interested and then I read the Fileplanet bit. Why does it always have to be Fileplanet? :|” on North American Section 8 Beta Freed(Ish)
- Marcin : “That is a yummeh trailer. It has gratuitous, and space, and battles. That's all I got. Oh okay, one more thing. Sold!” on Space! Battles! Gratuitousness!
- runescape gold : “These were runescape accounts worrisome times. It had not been so long before, during a runescape money Vatican meeting with an aide to the pope’s ...” on New Star Soccer 4.07: Can You Click It?
- michael jordan shoes : “Due to his hard working , not accept to give up belief, the quality of the pursuit of success, Michael Jordan take up the post ...” on Brutal Redux: Crunchball 3000
- runescape money : “These were worrisome times. It had not been so long before, during a Vatican meeting with an aide to the pope’s secretary of state, that ...” on Brutal Redux: Crunchball 3000
Discuss on the forum
Play: indie, mods and webgames
Browse: the mighty RPS archive
PC On Your PSP?
Written by John Walker on October 7, 2008 at 11:11 pm.
You know the problem with various consoles? They’re not PCs. It’s a downfall that they can so rarely overcome. So how about turning your PSP into an extra PC monitor? Why? Don’t ask annoying questions – because you can!
QJ.net pick up on a project by Jochen Schleu, which allows a PSP to act as a second monitor, with an extended desktop. Best use I can think of: two PSPs as wing mirrors for your PC. Anyone got any better suggestions? Video of it in action below.
__________________
« Beauty School Lag Dropout? Beauty Factory Demo | Civil Ceremony: Mosby’s Confederacy Announced »
andy says:
interesting. if they figure out how to put an actual windows os on there i’d buy one in a heartbeat.
October 7th, 2008 at 11:41 pm
Jeremy says:
It’d be rather fun to play that 2D TF2 game yous guys had up a while back.
October 7th, 2008 at 11:42 pm
DigitalSignalX says:
Good idea of using it for a mini-map, or perhaps a persistent inventory screen Other then that.. the cost of a psp would be better spent on a real monitor.
October 7th, 2008 at 11:55 pm
Ian says:
You could mount it on the side of your monitor and make it a dedicated Itunes (or other) mini player monitor.
October 7th, 2008 at 11:57 pm
Finn says:
Extra points if you can name the song playing, and game it’s from.
October 8th, 2008 at 12:27 am
Shadowmancer says:
I know its possible to play Crysis on the ps3 and also to install windows operating systems as well as mac for some reason.
October 8th, 2008 at 12:35 am
MarkN says:
Viewing what other people are using a PC to look at, remotely, and preferably without their knowledge? Can’t think of any use for that at all.
Oh – hang on…
October 8th, 2008 at 1:14 am
rekki says:
it may be pointless but it sure is clever..
might just do it myself with my psp its been sitting around for about a year now might as well get some use form it..
October 8th, 2008 at 1:19 am
K3ViN says:
You CAN put windows on a psp. It was one of the first hacks for the psp. Also for 99% of psp users this would be useless, however I would use it to monitor something thats running while i am at my desk (not my computer desk)
October 8th, 2008 at 5:33 am
Mythrilfan says:
THREE mirrors.
October 8th, 2008 at 5:53 am
Wedge says:
@Finn “You’re Not Here” from SH3
Also this would be cool as a second monitor extension, vertically it’d fit a media player perfectly, and be awesome if you could bind the PSP controls to control that. However all this video shows is a replicated monitor, which isn’t so useful.
October 8th, 2008 at 6:58 am
pi8you says:
I’d totally use that for IM while watching full screen video/playing games(PS3/Wii route through the monitor).
October 8th, 2008 at 7:44 am
x25killa says:
Main screen has game running at full screen, while on the PSP, the rockpapershotgun website (wait, there are other sites?)
Pretty nifty if you already got a PSP but I wouldn’t justify it for buying PSP.
Still a cool idea though.
October 8th, 2008 at 8:01 am
Cigol says:
They were actually going to use the PSP officially for something like this in their PS3 F1 game. It was going to be implemented, post release, as a rearview mirror. Which is odd as they only have side mirrors in real life. I don’t think they ever did patch it in, but it would have been an interesting novelty.
October 8th, 2008 at 9:28 am
Heliocentric says:
Get windows on my DS and then you’ll be talking. The interface is inherently suited to an os.
October 8th, 2008 at 10:13 am
AbyssUK says:
You can get VNC for both the PC and the PSP.. i believe the PSP one even has usb keyboard support…. both devices have wifi so.. yeah easy.
October 8th, 2008 at 11:01 am
AbyssUK says:
Above was meant to say for both the DS and PSP…. and just where has the edit fucntion gone… I miss it
October 8th, 2008 at 11:02 am
Radiant says:
You still have to have your psp connected to your pc via a usb cable.
It’s not wireless.
For the price of a PSP [£129] you can get a crappy second monitor.
I love my psp; you can pry ridgeracers from my cold dead fingers but there are countless other innovations on it [non hacked] that are miles better.
October 8th, 2008 at 11:32 am
Radiant says:
Hey why can’t I edit my posts?
I had a nice rant about the blind eye towards custom firmware/console piracy over pc piracy.
October 8th, 2008 at 11:34 am
Cigol says:
Regarding the Edit function; the RPS overlords giveth, and taketh away.
October 8th, 2008 at 12:12 pm
Neuromante says:
Thanks for the link! I’ve been waiting for something like this since I got my PSP ^_^
October 8th, 2008 at 12:45 pm
mpk says:
Think of all the things you could do with a Gamecube and a GBA connected together* – now just transfer that to the PC/PSP combo.
*omgminigames
October 8th, 2008 at 1:40 pm
James Egan says:
Silent Hill 3.
Mary Elizabeth McGlynn.
“You’re Not Here”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bs1NgZOxBik&feature=related
October 8th, 2008 at 6:25 pm
Kommissar Nicko says:
Ah good. I thought SH3 meant Silent Hunter 3, and I was about to ask a few more questions in that regard.
October 9th, 2008 at 4:44 am
ascagnel says:
This sounds pretty interesting, but I don't have a spare USB port & cable with which to set this up. It would be nice to have this as an AIM or chat view for while you're playing a game on your main screen.
October 8th, 2008 at 7:56 pm
Scotch Mist says:
Okay, so I just got this working on my psp:
http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z201/czarniwoop/pspscreen.jpg
There are a few problems with it though (as you might expect).
I don’t seem to be able to get it to act as a proper second screen, unless I set it as the primary monitor and my 19″ screen as the secondary. Which has all the drawbacks you’d expect, like all my programs starting off running in the psp, before I delicately try to grab hold of them and move them over without clicking on anything else. Instead in secondary mode it just shows the upper corner of my screen.
Winamp is far too tiny to be usable either, (as may be obvious in the picture :P).
Anyone else manage to get it working? Have any hints for how to get it to work as a second screen, instead of just mirroring the primary?
October 8th, 2008 at 4:41 pm
Add your comment
Statistical chance of typo-free post: 0.932%
© 2007-2009 Rock Paper Shotgun Ltd
Hosted by Positive Internet
Design by James Willock
I guess it could be used for all kinds of video/audio work while on tour. I suppose the PSP doesn’t need power supply, just like your notebook.
It could also make a very nice minimap, with some additional modding.
October 7th, 2008 at 11:39 pm