So recently, I spent a fair time chatting with the creator of PSPunk, a website I’m sure many here might have visited. But that chatting (which ended up being an interview) pivoted instead to something a bit different from what I usually end up doing with articles.

Rather than just talking about the website itself, we ended up discussing the people who keep older gaming communities alive. We covered how PSPunk started as a simple custom firmware guide, why preserving guides and community knowledge is just as important as preserving games themselves, the modern PSP homebrew scene, and why the handheld still has such an active community more than 20 years after launch. You might recognize me from a few PSP articles I’ve done these last months, I just…think they’re neat:

It was also interesting hearing from someone who doesn’t consider themselves a developer or a major figure in the scene, just “a helpful user who creates guides.” I think that humility says a lot about projects like this, because every community needs people documenting, organizing and preserving information just as much as it needs people writing the software.

I have my old PSP 1001. Do you think it’s worth buying a battery for or should I look into a PSP 3000?

Holy shit! The Perfectdark! Huge props to you!

Although I’m a techie I never got quite as far as you but do dabble at the sidelines of all that work.

Just know that there a lot of people who appreciate effort like yours hugely.

I should really dig my PSP out and see if it holds a charge still