Man inexplicably brings touchscreen to the PSP

A certain jube808 has launched a quixotic quest to add a myriad of features to the PSP that he believes should've been there from the start, including beefed up battery life, a better control pad, and touchscreen support. Think what you will of his aims, he certainly seems to have some hardware chops, as he's got a touchscreen up and running on the handheld. So far he's just got a proof of concept keyboard, which works with a finger or a stylus, but the hope is to provide full touchscreen support for homebrew gaming. Let us know how that goes, jube. Videos are after the break.

[Thanks, Craig]

[Sora @ Aug 9th 2008 11:03PM]

The PSP needs dual analogs before it needs a touchscreen...

[Flashpoint @ Aug 9th 2008 11:27PM]

YOU BEAT ME TO IT !!!


The PSP's biggest problem is emulating the PS and the PS2 without having a controller that properly emulates the control available ont hose systems. We don't need R2, R3 and L2, L3 but the analog sticks themselves are a must.

Imagine having both sticks and getting Call of Duty4 on there !
I played Rainbow 6 Vegas on PSP and was disgusted. The game looked great but without being able to properly look around (right stick) it felt totally wrong.


As for the touchscreen...if your gonna take the PSP down the iPhone route, speed up the CPU and add more onboard memory including a 4GB (or better) NAND drive.

I think its fine time for a new PSP to be released while we wait for Xbox 720 and PS4.

[atomicthumbs @ Aug 9th 2008 11:44PM]

Just get a Pandora. It has everything. http://openpandora.org

:)

[Glenn @ Aug 10th 2008 12:31AM]

There is a dual analog mod already out! Its called the Razor and its made by those guys on www.acidmods.com

[jay.viz @ Aug 10th 2008 12:33AM]

@atomicthumbs

So I went to http://openpandora.org
but I didn't find a way to "Just get a Pandora."

[OziD @ Aug 10th 2008 1:15AM]

i found myself using the PSP for browsin the web more than playing games, to be honest.

would be nice to have the touchscreen for the keyboard... or something.

but i sold it and got an ipod touch. i woulda kept it but there wasn't many good games out at the time, i miss loco roco very much though :(

[Carl M @ Aug 10th 2008 1:40AM]

And if it gets a touchscreen, wouldn't it then need dual screens, since otherwise you won't see the action behind your fingers?

Hmm, dual screens. Someone should make a handheld like that...

[PlopperZ @ Aug 10th 2008 2:19AM]

@atomicthumbs
Why am I not surprised to see you here?

Yeah, buy a Pandora....whenever it's released.


A PSP touchscreen is useless, unless it's standard. I don't know why this guy went through the trouble.

[liv @ Aug 10th 2008 9:32AM]

If the PSPII will be all touchscreen then they will have a big problem with touch feedback. Maybe haptics will solve the problem but a dual analog, touchscreen PSP will rule. The UI is great. The device could have a better CPU and a SSD would be great. Put Bluetooth Object Push profile support in and you have a winner.

[Marvin Quach @ Aug 10th 2008 11:56AM]

@atomicthumbs

So is this thing a handheld video game device or a UMPC/netbook? From the specs, it sounds more like a netbook without a mouse and with hand held video game controllers to me...

[Wwhat @ Aug 11th 2008 2:37AM]

Openpandora sounds nice, except that nobody will develop games for it (it's 'open' after all), bit of a bummer to only have backgammon and solitaire on it I imagine.

[tyj @ Aug 9th 2008 11:09PM]

I think that he does this by putting the psp in usb host mide with an external usb enabled microcontroller (such as some if the PIC 18Fs or arduino) getting coordinates from the touchscreen. 1337 setup huh.

____
1ST POST! WOOT!!!

[andres @ Aug 9th 2008 11:27PM]

try fourth

[doudOSX @ Aug 10th 2008 8:01AM]

try 17th

[Decoy @ Aug 10th 2008 8:47PM]

Try not. Do, or not do.

[(01) @ Aug 9th 2008 11:09PM]

hell of a lot prettier than gluing a phone to the back of it.

[Ty Johnson @ Aug 9th 2008 11:14PM]

never mind the first comment part. how old is this post 10 minutes?
there's already 3 more people!!!

[andres @ Aug 9th 2008 11:26PM]

i see what you did there.

[Bryant @ Aug 9th 2008 11:36PM]

I see what you failed to do there.

[TareX @ Aug 9th 2008 11:36PM]

Excellent work! Finally, RTS gaming will be the way it was meant to be.

All we need now is an emulator running old PC Strategy games.

[Bunson @ Aug 10th 2008 1:27PM]

How about we use a PC to play PC games.

[TareX @ Aug 10th 2008 2:05PM]

Or, wiseguy, we can have a way to expand the PSP genre library by adding a practical way to play RTS games.

[jon @ Aug 9th 2008 11:40PM]

lets just say you all tied for first, how about that?

[chris @ Aug 9th 2008 11:46PM]

unfortunately that probably isnt good enough for them. i say fight to the death is a better idea

[XIYL @ Aug 10th 2008 1:17AM]

Only if they all die and the world is spared from their genetics.

[AndrewAmazed @ Aug 9th 2008 11:52PM]

the psp does not need touchscreen.
what would be the point of it?

for browsing the internet?
for viewing movies/pictures/music?

as previously said, i would much rather get dual analogs before getting a touchscreen...

[jon @ Aug 10th 2008 12:04AM]

why not have a touchscreen?

[tekdroid @ Aug 10th 2008 1:47AM]

have you ever tried typing on the PSP?

[OCEAN 12 @ Aug 9th 2008 11:54PM]

cool this is looking, now it just needs multi touch, then this
will be perfect

[OCEAN 12 @ Aug 9th 2008 11:55PM]

cool this is looking, now it just needs multi touch, then this
will be perfect

[doudOSX @ Aug 10th 2008 8:04AM]

lam are you looking
double posts are you having

[faliceer @ Aug 10th 2008 9:45AM]

Weird you are talking.

[Stellar Developer @ Aug 10th 2008 12:00AM]

omg dude... that was funny. +1 rank from me.

[neutronfiasco @ Aug 10th 2008 12:27AM]

Paul Miller, your opening sentence is effing awesome.

[doudOSX @ Aug 10th 2008 8:04AM]

WOOT 1+

[Phoenix @ Aug 10th 2008 9:29AM]

"quixotic"

presumably in the manner of Don Quixote? Hmm. Nice word. *remembers*

[MARSHAK @ Aug 10th 2008 12:31AM]

KINDA LIKE THE IPHONE!!!!???

[andres @ Aug 10th 2008 12:47AM]

no, nothing like it

[XIYL @ Aug 10th 2008 1:19AM]

You should know by now that just thinking that word around here gets you low ranked.

[Kit @ Aug 10th 2008 9:33AM]

Seriously, iPhone kinda like Plam too!

but the best thing about the touchscreen is we can put load p0rn application on it and.....

[doudOSX @ Aug 10th 2008 8:07AM]

ok seriously MARSHAK just saying that sentence qualified you for hell.
the iphone is a curse word on engadget and anyone that says it should got hell...........i am alredy going there so there.

[xValentine @ Aug 10th 2008 12:34AM]

lol.

http://meow.catsplz.com/cats/pictures/234/I-see-what-you-did-there.jpg

[Levi @ Aug 10th 2008 12:54AM]

Not like this is a serious place for discussion, but...

If the PSP had an iPhone quality multitouch screen, and Sony didn't DEMAND that people use the touch screen features to death like Nintendo does with the Wii's feautres and DS's features, it could be pretty cool.

Puzzle games would benefit, RTS's would be awesome (can't wait for one of those to show up on the iPhone), selecting menus is better with a touch screen (like battle menus in FF for DS).

@ the other guys sayin we need a new PSP, I don't think we need an upgrade just yet... at least I don't want to pay for another hand held lol

[james @ Aug 10th 2008 1:50AM]

epic FAIL!

[scott @ Aug 10th 2008 2:14AM]

win.

[Unknown @ Aug 10th 2008 8:45AM]

This is ONLY for Homebrew and CFW PSPS.

Next version replaces (with) Analog.

[Unknown @ Aug 10th 2008 8:49AM]

And believe me,

HOMEBREW COMMUNITY makes atleast 20% of entire PSPs manufactured.

This man is going to be RICH, in a very short time.

[aldrin @ Aug 10th 2008 8:49AM]

haha!! HAHA LOOK CLOSELY AT THE DPAD WHILE HE PRETENDS ITS A TOUCH SCREEN. you can see a ghost of his fingers touching it the same time as he pretends to touch screen. just look closely. its a fake. haha you guys fell for it. he put two vids together.

[Unknown @ Aug 10th 2008 8:54AM]

Where? What time?

[Wwhat @ Aug 11th 2008 2:40AM]

Don't do drugs and post at the same time perhaps?