Trying to find out how to download games to your PSP? Have you trying searching on the official Sony PSP website and trying to discover the secret, hoping that if it’s not in the manual it might be shown there. Chances are you will never find any topic or related material regarding download games to your PSP that because Sony intends UMD games to be their main source of gaming for PSP owner. Yes, that means everyone like you and everyone else would need to continue buying UMD games from authorized retail outlets. It will not be a bad thing if UMD games would be more affordable. Face it, who owns PSP console can constantly afford buying UMD for gaming. For sure I will not be able to afford buying UMD games myself.

So we have to find an alternative solution to satisfy our gaming desire. Do not get me wrong where I support pirating games by downloading it through the internet. I do support original games whenever I can afford to buy new games and I need to find an alternative solution when I can’t afford new games.

When I initially embark onto the trail of searching for sites to download new games to my PSP it wasn’t that simply or straight forward. But eventually I manage to get the steps for downloading it onto my PSP. It is not as complicated process as you think it would be. Just follow the simple steps;

Step 1

Connect your PSP with your personal computer. If you are not sure how to do that, simply continue reading this paragraph or else jump to step#2. You can start by connecting both your PSP to your personal computer by using the USB cable that was provided when you first purchased the PSP console. On your PSP console, change the mode by pressing on the “Home” button. And you follow next by scrolling left to the “Setting” column and then scroll downward until you find “USB Connection”. Press “X” button to enter PSP into USB mode. This will complete the connection between your PSP and personal computer.

Step 2

You computer will prompt you that a removable hard disk has been detected. And it will continue to register it on your “My Computer” windows. Open up that latest removable drive and you can start transferring your PSP games file into the correct path or else the games simply will not work. The correct path is PSP>GAME (all the folder names are in caps), if the file do not exist create it manually.

Step 3

Once the PSP game files have been completely transferred into your memory stick on the PSP unit, disconnect the PSP from your personal computer. From your PSP main menu, simply scroll towards GAME and then select Memory Stick option. Press “X” button to enter, and the list of available games stored inside your memory stick will be displayed on the screen. If you encounter any error prompted by your PSP, the games you have chosen might not be compatible with your PSP firmware version.

Depending on your PSP unit version of firmware, all downloaded games are designed to run on a particular firmware version. So you must always check your PSP firmware version before searching for games to download. As you can see from here, knowing how to download games to your psp is not complicated at all, you just need to know your PSP firmware version before downloading the games.