PSP Game Downloads Things To Consider

Before you start downloading any games to your Sony PSP there are some certain factors which you need to take into consideration first. These will ensure then that you get the best possible downloads for your device. Below we provide some guidelines which will help to ensure that you get the best when it comes to doing PSP game downloads. If you can along with buying your PSP it may be wise to purchase a memory stick at the same time. Doing this you will then be able to keep all the files that you download in one place, plus if you want you can also transfer them over to your PC or laptop so that they can be safely stored away and retrieved when required. For someone who is going to be playing a large number of games on their PSP (which is what it was designed for) then they need to get a memory stick with a large memory base.

One particular good memory stick which is compatible with the PSP is called the Pro Duo Card. If you are downloading games from the internet onto your PC before you put them on to your PSP rather than directly on to your PSP you need to check that they are in the right format. If they are not then actually downloading them from your PC on to the PSP will be much more difficult to do.

So first off you need to check what operating system (firmware) is installed on your PSP and then you need to find games to download which are compatible with it. When looking at the various different download websites and you have found a game that you want to down load the first thing you should do is check the file. Only ones which end in "PSP" are suitable for you to download. This is important to remember as a number of websites will offer the same program in a number of different formats as they are cater to all the various gaming consoles now available.

Plus you will soon discover that a lot of the games available for the PSP have also been compressed so you will need some sort of compression application in order to uncompress them. For Mac computers you will use something like Expander whilst for PC's which are running Windows then WinZip is often the most favored of all compression applications available. Once these folders have been unzipped you will discover that there are two files contained within the folder that you have downloaded. Once folder contains the game itself and the other is a "read me" file which has come from the author of the game.

But in order for you to actually get the games you have downloaded off of your PC and on to your PSP you need to connect the two together. There are two ways in which the games can be transferred from the PC to the PSP. You can either connect the two together using a USB cable which connects into a USB port on your PC and the USB port on the PSP. Or you can use a memory, which you transfer the files held on to your PC and then plug this into PSP and then move them from the memory stick on to it. But using the cable method you will need to press the home button on your PSP and then go into settings.

Once in this particular part of your PSP you need to go down to USB connection and then press the X on the PSP. The memory stick contained within your PSP will then connect to your PC. Now all you need to do is copy the file over, but remember to place them in the PSP>Game file on your memory stick in your PSP or they will not work properly.

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