PSP-1000 on HDTV
A Guide for Playing Your Sony PSP™ Wirelessly on Your HDTV™
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Newer Sony PSP handheld video gaming consoles allow you to connect them to your TV using low resolution RCA™ cables and use the PSP as a gamepad as a controller allowing you to control play your games. There is a major problem with this solution – cables. You’re limited to the length of the cables plus they get in your way, can be accidently disconnected and of course offer a really low resolution. There is an alternative which will allow you to wirelessly play your Sony PSP games in high-def and this guide will show you how.
Using your computer, video card, sound card, wireless controller and some cables you can connect your Sony PSP 1000 to your computer which then sends the video and sound via HDMI™ to your 720p/1080p compatible HDTV. Once this is setup you can control your Sony PSP with crystal clear quality video and crisp audio with a wireless gamepad on your HDTV basically turning your Sony PSP into its own stand alone video gaming console.
Of course you’ll need some things to get this done. Due to the number of ways you can go about this I’ve listed three examples of what hardware you can use. The first is what I will cover in this guide, the second allows for the use of a normal television and the third keeps you sitting in front of you computer due to no video-out and a wired gamepad (which is still better then a blurry television signal).
No matter how you wire up your Sony PSP 1000 you should know that you will be voiding your warranty; that is, if you already haven’t. This entire guide assumes you already have a “homebrew” compatible Sony PSP also known as having a Custom Firmware (CFW) installed in place of the official Sony firmware. This guide also assumes you know how to transfer files to/from your Sony PSP to your computer and know how to add “plug-ins” (aka seplugins) to your Custom Firmware as this guide depends on two pieces of software to get r’ done.
Optimal Hardware Requirements
High Definition TV (HDTV™) with HDMI™ Input
Sony PSP™ 1000 Series with CFW
Windows® XP™, Vista™ or 7™ Based Computer
Video Card with HDMI™ Output (Video & Sound)
Sound Card with a Line Input Jack
Logitech® Wireless F710 Gamepad™
Male <-> Male Stereo Headphone Cable
HDMI™ or DVI™ -> HDMI™ Cable
PSP Compatible USB Cable
PSP Charging Cable
Mediocre Hardware Requirements
Television (HDTV™ or NOT)
Sony PSP™ 1000 Series with CFW
Windows® XP™, Vista™ or 7™ Based Computer
Video Card with Video-Out
Sound Card with a Line Input Jack
Dual Analog Wireless Gamepad
Male <-> Male Stereo Headphone Cable
Video Card Video-Out Compatible Cable
PSP Compatible USB Cable
PSP Charging Cable
Bare Hardware Requirements
Sony PSP™ 1000 Series with CFW
Windows® XP Based Computer
Sound Card with Line Input Jack
Analog PC Gamepad (with enough buttons)
Male <-> Male Stereo Headphone Cable
PSP Compatible USB Cable
PSP Charging Cable
Bare Hardware Requirements
Sony PSP™ 1000 Series with CFW
Windows® XP Based Computer
Sound Card with Line Input Jack
Analog PC Gamepad (with enough buttons)
Male <-> Male Stereo Headphone Cable
PSP Compatible USB Cable
PSP Charging Cable
Optimal Hardware Example
The methods and parts may very (like using a DVI -> HDMI converter and a Stereo -> RCA converter), but the main setup really remains the same. It goes down like this; you need to connect your Sony PSP to your computer via USB and then connect the Stereo output from the PSP to your speaker system. In the Optimal example you will have your PSP hooked up via USB and a Male <-> Male USB cable and a Male <-> Male Stereo cable to your soundcard’s LINE IN jack. Then you’ll use your video card that supports HDMI output with sound to send the signal (video + sound) to your HDTV or compatible receiver and then using the included software you can control your PSP with a your wireless gamepad connected to your PC. Add in a constant power supply from either a wall outlet or a USB charging cable and you’re golden.
Software Requirements
• Custom Firmware M33 5.50 -> 6.60 PRO B/C
• Remote Joy Lite v0.19 (RemoteJoyLite_019_for_62X-63X_b.zip)
• PSPdisp v0.6 (PSPdisp_v0.6_setup_all_platforms.exe)
Software Installation
The first thing that needs to be done is to install the remote drivers for the Sony PSP. This can be done by running the PSPdisp v0.6 installer. Once you’ve past the License Agreement screen you will be prompted on what components you wish to install.
Components you do not need for this guide are the PSP Application and due to the fact we don’t run the PSPdisp executable there is no reason to put it in your startup so uncheck both of those. I have not toggled the others to find out if the end result is the same so you can do so at your own risk (risk of having to uninstall, reboot and install again).
After this screen the PSPdisp installer will drop to the CLI (some people still call it DOS) and it will prompt you to install three drivers. Select “Install this driver software anyway” for all three prompts.
The next screen after installing most of the drivers will warn you that the “Driver signature enforcement” has to be deactivated. What this basically boils down to is during the startup of Windows 7 you must enter the startup menu and select to boot without the enforcement activated. This allows the unsigned drivers to work. Make sure while in this mode not to install anything you aren’t familiar with. Windows will inform you with a pop-up that the PSPdisp Display Miniport Driver is unsigned – just ignore this by clicking “close”. During this final process of the installation you will give the last driver permission to install.
Next plug your PSP into your computer via the USB connection and turn the PSP on. You should see Windows 7 install the driver for it. Then if you look in the Device Manager you will see the PSP and the inactive display driver.
Now you will need to open “RemoteJoyLite_019_for_62X-63X_b.zip“ with your favorite file archiving application. Once open you need to copy the contents to a place you’ll remember or can create a link from. You will need to either run “RemoteJoyLite_en.exe” or point your link to it (don’t run it yet, just copy it someplace).
Next you need to copy the “RemoteJoyLite.prx” file to your Sony PSP’s Duo Card into the “seplugins” folder/directory. Once copied you will need to add the entry to active the plug-in into “game.txt”, “pops.txt” and “vsh.txt”. Simply type “ms0:/seplugins/remotejoylite.prx 1” into each file (vsh.txt pictured below). Adding the “1” after a space after the end of the prx entry will ENABLE the prx (plug-in). Also make sure there is a second (or last line if you have more plug-ins already) that is blank.
Now it is time to reboot your computer, go into the startup menu and disable the driver authentication. You do this by pressing the “F8” button right after your BIOS posts and before the Windows Logo shows up. It’s common to just press F8 every other second during the startup of your computer at first just to make sure you get into the menu. Once in the menu select the “Disable Driver Signature Enforcement” by pressing “ENTER” on it. Now the drivers needed for RemoteJoyLite to work will be loaded.
Once you boot into Windows with the Driver Signature Enforcement disabled you will now see that the “PSPdisp Display Driver (Vista)” is no longer carrying the exclamation mark, but is functioning properly. Now we need to load up the RemoteJoyLite executable, configure it and then get down on some action.
When you run the program it should automatically display the VSH (Menu System) menu and you can see you can control it using the PSP’s buttons.
Let’s configure it. “Right Click” on the RemoteJoyLite window and the settings menu appears. It contains the following menus; Joy, Key, Etc, Filter, Capture, PSP and Macro. Under the Joy menu you will be presented with a list of all of the PSP’s buttons. Click on the first one and press the button on your gamepad you wish to assign to it. Do so for the entire list. Does your gamepad not support that many buttons? Well, that’s why I recommended the Logitech Wireless F710 Gamepad.
Now under Etc you want to enable “Keep Aspect Ration” and “Always on Top”. This will ensure when you enlarge the game screen that it displays the game without being overstretched and keeping it on top will ensure that no other program(s) will load up over RemotJoyLite when you’re playing a game.
Under PSP turn on “VBlank Forced Transfer” and “Turn PSP screen off”. The first option will make sure RemoteJoyLite is working under normal PSP games and the second will save your LCD screens life as there’s no reason to use the LCD now that the image is on your computer screen. You’re all done. Run RemoteJoyLite and turn on your PSP.
Troubleshooting
If RemoteJoyLite sits there with the “waiting …” text, but does not connect to the PSP check your USB cable and make sure the drivers are active or that you disabled Driver Signature Enforcement properly. Also make sure your entries in the vsh, game and pops text files in the seplugins directory are spelled right.
If RemoteJoyLite connects, but displays only a black screen or both RemoteJoyLite and the PSP displays black screens then try disabling “VBlank Forced Transfer” under the PSP menu in RemoteJoyLite (right click in the window for the menu). After it’s disabled and then RemoteJoyLite is working and you launch a game and you get only a white PSP logo screen and the game plays on the PSP then enable “VBlank Forced Transfer” at this point in time. If this is the case you may want to invest in a wireless mouse and optionally a keyboard so you do not have to get up and go to the computer to disable/re-enable “VBlank Forced Transfer” all of the time. You can also try updating your display drivers for your video card to see if this solves this issue.
If the game you’re playing is running slow you might want to over clock your PSP’s CPU which can be done by holding the “Right Trigger Button” when starting the PSP and then do so through the VSH MENU.
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