There's nothing bad or illegal about modding your psp system. The only negative is that you may void your warranty, or if you're careless you may brick your PSP. You can have a modded PSP and still be an 'honest gamer'. There are so many apps available only for modded PSPs that makes the official, non-modded PSPs look pretty much useless. Sure it can watch movies, read comics, organize your game files and listen to music, but you can do all of that AND you can read ebooks (there's a dedicated ebook reader that reads txt and pdf files so that you don't have to pay over $100 for a device that only reads ebooks), multi-task (have up to 2 applications open at once. for example you can play a game and then open bookr to read a game guide for the game you're playing all without exiting out of the game) extract the file from your legally purchased UMD disc and then transfer it to your memory stick and that eliminates those excruciating load times. You can also install CWCheat and guess what... it doesn't necessarily HAVE to be for cheating purposes. With CWcheat you can take screenshots and re-configure the control layouts of any psp game (say if you want to remap the movement in the svr games from the dpad to the analog stick, you can do that)

and atually, modded PSPs had a comic book reader years before sony released theirs, and we also had game-categories years before sony implemented theirs. Game-categories organizes your games and other files into certain folders.

The only thing illegal about it is downloading games... and while it may certainly be a motivating factor in why alot of people decide to mod their psp, it certainly doesn't make the act of modding it illegal. here's another upside. If you brick your PSP (psp 1000 or first editions of psp 2000) you can unbrick it yourself (if you made your battery into a pandora or purchased a cheap pandora) hassle-free and in under 5 minutes completely free. That sure beats having to pay Sony $90 bucks for such an easy job that really isn't even worht 90 bucks. They're ripping us off when it comes to unbricking our psp.

I'm probably gonna be getting Smackdown Vs Raw 2011... (I loved 2010's story creation mode and I hope they keep it for the next installment.)

I am DEFINITELY gonna be getting Dragon Ball Z Tenkaichi Tag... I've been dreaming of a tenkaichi game on PSP since I got it... it's gonna be sweet...

The A Ranked missions are pretty freakin easy if you've customized your characters. I use either Neji or Sasuke who are my strongest customized fighters. I am however having trouble with the fight with Sakura. I can perform the 3 extra hits fairly easily, but am having trouble with the substitution jutsus. I don't use customized characters in that fifhgt because she'll die very quickly, but even with the regular ones, I still cannot seem to do it.

I say go for it... the PSP freakin owns man... if that new PSP is released, you could always just sell it and use that money to buy the new one.. If you wait it out I'm sure it'll be a long time before the new one is released.... C'mon dude, you still have God Of War Chains Of Olympus, The new god of war game that's coming out for PSP in a couple of months, MGS Peace Walker... there's just so many great PSP titles you can be playing right now...

thanks, but I finally got through that hell hole of an insane mode yesterday... Don't think I'll be trying it again any time soon though