PSP Downloads: A Quick Primer

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If you’ve just bought your PSP you are probably concerned about the prices of the games. One alternative to buying games is to download them from websites. You need to be careful however as some sites are illegal while others are legal. Many free sites have proved to be illegal whereas the membership style sites are legal.

You can either join one where you will be expected to pay either a yearly or monthly subscription fee or there are ones which just you require you to pay a one time life time membership fee. Both of these kinds of sites will then generally allow you unlimited access to all the games that they have stored within their databases.

In order for you to download any games to your PSP from these sites you will first of all need to download them on to your PC or laptop. This is really easy to accomplish as long as you make sure that you have the correct software on your PC or laptop that will allow you to download such games for your PSP.

All the membership sites we reviewed provided us with the right software to enable us to download PSP games and movies. The main difference we found was in the quality of the instructions. You can choose to pay monthly which will cost you around $15 per month or you can select a onetime payment which will give you lifetime membership from around $39. Once your payment has been confirmed you are then able to choose the games and movies you want and start to download them.

You’ll first download the games or movies to your local hard drive on your PC or laptop. Once you have them then it’s time to transfer them to your PSP. The membership site you’ve chosen should provide you with easy to follow instructions. Of all the sites we reviewed PSPnerd had by far the best.

To complete the transfer to your PSP you have a choice of methods. The first and easiest is to connect your PSP to your PC with a USB cable. Your PSP should then appear as a device on your PC and you can simply transfer the files across. The second method is to use a compatible memory stick. Firstly copy the files from your PC to the memory stick then insert the memory stick into the PSP.

If you use the USB method your PSP should show up immediately. You then just need to drag and drop the files to the correct folder. This is by far the easiest method and a child should be able to complete it without any problems. The only problems happen id you have used the wrong file type of transferred the files to the wrong folder.

If you haven’t downloaded games to your PC before or are not sure how to do it then you should check out the reviews of the different PSP download sites. There are some significant differences between them all.

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