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The PSP D-Pad Mod is God-ly.

Well, a few days ago I opened up my PSP for the upteenth time. This time, it was in preparation for the Crisis Core madness that would presumably take over my life for a week or so.


Warning: Crisis Core is a visually pleasing game that may take over your life for a few days, or weeks.

While cleaning out the crap from underneath my screen, I decided to do the D-Pad mod. I mean, what the hell, right? The D-Pad was even looser than usual due to a slight wiggle room caused by my custom faceplate. It's not a hard mod, really.

D-Pad Mod

I used that up there. Though I did have slight printing issues, because my printer has no idea what the hell "print as" means and had it at 110% zoom. Otherwise, the mod worked beautifully. I used a pushcard, the kind you get from political-minded students and has that nice smooth feel to it. Perfect material to use in terms of thickness and stiffness. Just used some regular white glue and tada! It's done and by Dawkins the difference is phenomenal. Who knew that a thin piece of cardboard woud make such a significant change?

The D-Pad is amazing now. It's like the PS2 D-Pad, only on a PSP. Basically, you need to do this.

I also applied the D-Pad mod principle to my square and X buttons. They're amazing now as well.

The man who came up with this deserves a big