Sold mine earlier this year because I needed the money for rent. I loved that thing, I miss it all the time. It was my Persona and SMT machine, so many hours...
Vita. Once you mod it, which is easy and recommended, you can play any PSP game on it you might want, on a slightly bigger screen, with much better controls.
You can get a mint condition Japanese PSP-1000 for about a quarter of the price of a Vita! If you solder in a 5000-6000 mah battery you can get some 14+ hours of gameplay between charges! You can also fit a ton of games on a cheap 64-128gb microsd with a $3 adapter, and adding a USB-C port so it charges with the same cable as everything else is pretty easy!
I had a 3000 model. I bought it only because a coworker told me that it was trivially easy to install CFW and run my own local ISOs from the memory card, and a bunch of us would play pirated copies of Shinobido and Macross together on breaks.
That thing was a surprisingly capable little device. I lost mine a while back, and I honestly kinda miss it sometimes.
Modded PSPs were the best way of playing retro games on the go for the longest time, I'd say it's only very recently that portable android consoles have even come close
You tried hardmodding it? Soldering in a USB-C port and a massive internal battery is apparently even easier on the 1000 than on the 3000 that I did it on!
I had the fat one and loved the bumps, made it so comfortable I couldn't touch my friends' slim. Miss it a lot but last time I tried it had a terrible stick drift. Wonder if they're still available somewhere
I've recently started playing on my PSP slim again, it's a neat wee device especially when loaded up with 32gb of games, a 12ish hour internal battery, and a USB-C port so I can charge it with the same cable as my phone!
Had a ton of great first-party releases back in the day, it emulates everything up to the PS1 and some DOS games like Fallout pretty well, and the homebrew scene is still quite active - the CFW/launcher I use gets new features every few weeks and a few of the games like NZ:P still have regular updates.
I keep mine charged to play Castlevania Symphony of the Night occasionally. And gravity rush. A shame they don't bring out a successor but I think Nintendo has cornered the market unfortunately
I love the Vita! It just feels so right in the hand, and the clicky d-pad/face buttons are the best. I like it so much that around a year ago I ported one of my favorite indie games to it.
Loved my Vita, but they were so stingy with those memory cards. Out of spite I never upgraded my storage so only ever had like 2 games on it at a time lol.
You reminded me I got a SD2Vita at some point, then I moved before I could try it and now I'm not sure where it is. I need to go scour my handheld shelves and boxes.
Oh yeah... I was still very much into console wars at the time it released, rooting for the Vita against the 3DS, haha.
I ended up importing it from HK to get it a few months (perhaps mere weeks even) before launch and I even made unboxings, reviews and news "coverage" on YT at the time. I loved that handheld to bits.
I don't have my day one console anymore, but I do still have one (hacked 2000 model, I'd love to get a Hori grip for it but those are way too expensive nowadays...).
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