PSP hooked up to third party GPS receivers

Using nothing more than a little fine soldering, it is possible to get your PSP to accept the data output from 3rd party GPS receivers from Holux, among others. Like a lot of past PSP mods, this probably isn't one for mere mortals: you'll have to have a heavy dosing of leet skill to pull this one off, and be able to understand the gobbledegook that the custom executable throws up -- although it will apparently work with Map This, a third party GPS and Map app for the PSP. Nevertheless, it's all there on the read link, so check it out if you dare.

[Thanks, Wraggster]

[Merovingian @ Oct 21st 2007 11:38AM]

...And then what? Waste of time. Standalone GPS systems go as low as $169.99, like the Mio C220, and function a lot better.

[quanta67 @ Oct 21st 2007 11:46AM]

What l33t skills do you need exactly, beyond buying the cable and installing the app.?

[Khris @ Oct 21st 2007 12:10PM]

You need to be able to use words such as "l33t" in everyday conversations!

If you aren't l33t, you just aren't cool.

[Jeff Seale @ Oct 21st 2007 2:11PM]

...or Garmin's Legend CX. But with Navteq probably tying the knot with Nokia, the software/firmware for these things probably wont be appearing on anyone else's GPS units anytime soon. Not sure who else makes the stuff but Navteq is the best.

[Chris Aubeck @ Oct 21st 2007 12:15PM]

The last time someone told me how cool their PSP was for net browsing I told them to get lost, so this may be a useful tool.

[johnathon @ Oct 21st 2007 12:18PM]

This is a pretty old mod...been around for a while.
I rather use [and do] the Sony GPS reciever and Mapthis...cheaper and less work to be done.

[strider_mt2k @ Oct 21st 2007 12:43PM]

Why, according to these lines of code...we're back at Gamestop!

Remarkable.

[PSPMAN90 @ Oct 21st 2007 1:22PM]

well.. This is not big deal! But I congrats the guy who did this! (0_^)

[David @ Oct 21st 2007 1:42PM]

Spell check time. "I" before "E," except after "C."

[Reader @ Oct 21st 2007 4:05PM]

Aha! I always am trying to remember that rule, the damn C is what I forgot.

[Drew Baumann @ Oct 21st 2007 2:19PM]

Yeah, this mod is ancient. Im surprised engadget is even reporting on it at this point.

[pyro @ Oct 21st 2007 2:54PM]

this gps hack for psps has been around for at least a year or two now.

[Nightwing @ Oct 21st 2007 5:26PM]

Must be a slow news day...

Yep been out for a while....

Been known since the slim came out that it still had Serial I/O even if the iR was droped.

Now if they had a cheep cable that fits the slim you could buy... A 2way iR - Serial I/O adapter. Or just a keyboard... Would be news.

This is a zilch.

[Gabe @ Oct 21st 2007 6:26PM]

I would have much rather seen a PSP modded with a 150GB HD, which is what the PSP SHOULD have instead of the stupid UMD drive that is slow and requires expensive cartridge games.

[suv4x4 @ Oct 21st 2007 6:54PM]

It's looking scary with the command logs printed like that :P it looks like a real computer (which it is, but we too conveniently forget about this under the guise of the candy game graphics).

Jesus guys, look at what computers have become. Cameraphones, PDA-s and gaming multimedia devices.

I wonder how this will look like in 10 years.

[alex @ Oct 21st 2007 10:48PM]

This was done to the DS a looooooong time ago. Natrium 42 is a god!