Free Sony PSP Software: What's Available?

I just got a Sony PSP - darn neat gadget, I gotta say - and want to know what kind of cool software utilities people have written to help me use my PSP with my Windows PC or my daughter's Mac laptop?

Dave's Answer:

I agree completely with your assessment of the PSP, and I actually just wrote about I think it could well be what I call a killer gadget in the marketplace: The Best Gadget I own: The Sony PSP.

There's a lot of software available for these units too, from what I've seen, but a lot of it is a mixed bag, and, alas, unlike companies like Apple with its iTunes for ipod or Palm for its Palm Desktop software, Sony hasn't released any software for the Mac or PC that I've seen.

For example, PSP 411 has a good PC PSP software list of twenty applications, ranging from converters to translate your existing music into the MP3 format the PSP likes and translate various movie formats into MP4 videos, to utilities that let you read books on your PSP, and more.

Flipping to the major download sites, Download.com lists a more impressive thirty matches, with download count and user ratings. Darn helpful! If you sort by most popular, you'll find that the non-PSP-specific movie format translator MPEG4 Direct Maker has been downloaded over 193,000 times. If we just look at PSP software, then Mobile Media Maker PSP is the winner with over 23,000 downloads.

For Mac software, I always pop over to VersionTracker which shows a somewhat smaller eleven matches, again, mostly video and audio format translators that can also work with the PSP formats. Most popular? ffmpegX, with over 45,000 downloads.

From my own personal experience with different PSP software on the Mac and PC, I have to say that there's nothing better available than PSPWare for Windows or PSPWare for Mac. They're both shareware not completely free, but $15 isn't much to pay for a program that'll make working with your PSP so much easier. Frankly, this is the program Sony should license and ship with all Sony Playstation Portables at this point.

In any case, yes, there are a number of terrific different software applications available for your new Sony PSP, utilities that will make it easier for you to work with pictures, music, and video, among other things.

Good luck to you!

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Reader Comments To Date: 53

Maurice said, on October 13, 2005 1:10 PM:

where can i get Windows 98 Sony PSP Drivers

miniman said, on January 7, 2006 12:54 PM:

Please can you help with the following ?
after decrypting vts files with video9 the movie is in vts 1,2,etc segments so how do i get the movie to playback as one whole dvd instead of me having to start a new vts segment manually at the end of each vts segment

regards and thanks.

Alfonso said, on January 14, 2006 12:30 PM:

Hey! I want to export files to my PSP but I have a Win98 computer so I need a driver that supports the PSP, but the only place I know wants $5 dollars.

Geoff said, on January 19, 2006 1:21 AM:

Can you tell me what software supports VTS. I have brought a sony dvd-digital video camera and cannot edit any of the movies as the software I have does not support VTS.

Ben [PlayerPal] said, on May 11, 2006 11:38 AM:

If you want to use your PSP to remote control your PC music you could try PlayerPal. It lets you remote control your iTunes or Windows Media Player music from any web browser, including the browser on your PSP (system software version 2.0 and up). PlayerPal has a skin especially designed for use from the PSP. You can see it and read about it on the PlayerPal website http://www.playerpal.com. There are real pictures of it on a number of devices and you can read what people say about PlayerPal too!

Nathan said, on June 5, 2006 9:55 AM:

Im thinking of downgrading my psp to version 1.5 but does it have a web browser because i dont want to give up having an internet enabled psp just so i can play my old snes games.

Andy said, on December 27, 2006 6:33 AM:

If you downgrade your psp to 1.5 use the latest DEVHOOK to emulate it to the latest firmware. Also buy a memory stick duo and you will never need to buy another game.

sam said, on February 16, 2007 2:56 PM:

hi does anyone know any free software that i could use to convert dvd's to my psp? many thanks

moga said, on March 3, 2007 2:16 PM:

i am finding problem in putting programs into my psp

Raz said, on March 24, 2007 2:58 PM:

How do you downgrade!!!! i need to really baddddd. and hjow do u use all that devhook stuff????

Frank Rizzo said, on March 26, 2007 2:12 PM:

I have a new sony sr-1 camcorder and I having problems downloading into imovie for editing. I also have sony DVDirect and it is converting to a vts file that I can not import to imovies.HELP!!!!!!!

kip purvis said, on April 7, 2007 9:46 PM:

Do you answer questions or just post them?

Dave Taylor said, on April 8, 2007 1:24 AM:

Kip, well, I'm answering this question! :-) Seriously, I've posted answers for almost 1500 questions at this point, and keep adding a post a day, like clockwork. Lots and lots and lots of answers here, and if you don't see an answer you seek, ask me.

edwin vazquez said, on April 8, 2007 6:28 AM:

WHERE CAN'I GET WINDOWS VISTA SONY PSP DIRVERS?

Sam Bush said, on April 26, 2007 4:43 AM:

just wondering.......im having a bit of trouble dowloading music onto the psp from my laptop. we have the usb cables and memory card but just cant get it to work. is there any programs that is needed to do this or what is the go??????

tim said, on June 27, 2007 4:38 AM:

i have a psp and bought usb cable today, it wont install on my computer i have windows 98, and its really confusing me, please help me someone, i want music on my psp.

bill said, on July 11, 2007 2:08 PM:

how can i play lineage2 on my psp;and how can i have internet on my psp;

erik said, on July 14, 2007 10:11 PM:

I found the best way to convert dvd/video to psp is using clonedvd mobile for dvd and psp video express for mpeg/avi's. Clonedvd mobile will also convert dvd to various platforms like cellphones,ipods and other video players.
If your dvd wont work because of copy protection, use anydvd to decrypt it.

salvador said, on July 26, 2007 9:07 AM:

Every website i go to it say: you javascript is turned off, or u need to upgrade flashplayer. why duz it say this, i have javascript and its always on?

BOBBY said, on September 24, 2007 5:15 PM:

IS THERE A FREEWARE SITE WHERE I CAN DOWNLOAD MUSIC VISUAL PLAYERS FOR PSP, AND ALSO WHAT PROGRAM WORKS BEST FOR CONVERTING ALL DVD FORMATS TO PLAYABLE PSP FORMAT, ?

Devon s said, on December 11, 2007 11:42 AM:

can u download vista onto sony psp and still use word and ect.

diana cavanagh said, on December 25, 2007 10:55 AM:

im having trouble loading my psp camera to my psp, i have it connected to the usb but it keeps coming up to connect the camera, can u help me??

Bill said, on January 28, 2008 12:20 PM:

where can yuo buy a copy of Sonys Click to DVD

Adam said, on February 7, 2008 11:14 AM:

Im having trouble trying to put movies on my psp and i have tried just about everythting and that even includes information that people said on a website on how to download movies to your psp. can anyone please tell me how to get movies downloaded from limewire on to my psp????

Kindall said, on February 8, 2008 6:52 PM:

Someone said they had trouble getting movies onto their PSP. Not really sure if this will help. Once you download the movie off of limewire, it should go to a designated folder on your computer. Make a folder on your memory stick named VIDEO. Then all you should have to do is open the folder your video went to, and drag the video into the PSP folder entitled VIDEO. I hope this helps. If not, sorry!

juanrico said, on March 6, 2008 9:47 PM:

pls help---> i have a brand new ps1000 here. and i just want to upgrade my 2.81 firmware to other version firware. I can't play my ISO games file thats why I able to upgrade my firmware. But i asked to the store they say that it can if I will modified the psp first before I can upgrade to the latest version. I hope someone can help me.........

Adeel said, on March 29, 2008 9:16 AM:

Hello, i have a psp wit 3.71 version so i just want to convert into 3.71 m33-4 ...Tell me hw can i do it?

lorena said, on March 30, 2008 7:53 AM:

where can i get the drivers for windows xp what else do i need to do to download mooovies games an video for my kids

amy said, on June 5, 2008 3:14 PM:

what software can i download on my laptop so that i connect me psp to it. My software on my laptop is windows vista home basic.

Chris Fialkowski said, on July 29, 2008 9:04 PM:

Hello Free Good Software.
Any ideas
Thanks you
Best of luck

firdaus said, on August 6, 2008 7:40 AM:

hai, can every1 tell me, can or not to use microsoft office in psp?? please.. i wanna bu a psp...

men said, on September 15, 2008 7:38 AM:

my psp have no iso files how can gaet iso or cso files

jiann_jiann said, on November 18, 2008 8:43 AM:

why sony PSP can't connection wireless,how to setting???pls reply me asap...thanks

Kiko_22 said, on December 30, 2008 8:50 AM:

i got one problem.... i got psp software 5.02. can i bac to 3.11? please help! i realy need help

mohammed mustafa said, on January 25, 2009 9:48 PM:

you have crack then iso file come and cso also there in your psp

ziaudeen said, on May 3, 2009 7:29 AM:

once i formatted my psp 3.71 , then icould not play any games through memory stick .how do solve this problem ?

daniel said, on May 22, 2009 12:29 AM:

i want to use my psp to browse on the internet so when i switch on my wireless i get the signal strength i cant use i to browse so i contact a friend and he showed me this site so i want to ask whether i need an internet software or you will guide me on how to use it . if there is any software please email me and inform me so that i can down load it

Jamal said, on June 21, 2009 11:24 AM:

i want to use my psp to browse on the internet , i don't have internet , nor do my neighbours , do i need an internet software. because i cannot get a wireless signal at where i live. please let me know if there is any way i can browse the internet for free,Thank You.

sumit said, on July 9, 2009 2:02 PM:

where should i make ISO folder in my sony PSP 3006PB

orlando said, on September 16, 2009 8:38 PM:

hi. why every time i try to open my emails with my psp 3000 it says "do you want to save this file?

KUMARDAS said, on December 8, 2009 8:22 PM:

I recently purchased a psp 1006 for my son but he connected the psp to my home computer and tried to do somthing , now is psp dosent work , is it because the screen got damaged or some software issiue?

Darrell said, on December 27, 2009 12:01 PM:

everytime i try to connect to the internet on my psp it says i either have javascript turned off or an old version of adobe's flash player. but i have updated it. how do i turn javascript on?

josue said, on April 24, 2010 3:25 PM:

we turn off our psp while it was updating and now the psp dosent have a working software.. is there a way to get that fixed??

tatenda said, on June 2, 2010 11:58 PM:

my psp dosent want to switch on the screen it vhad said sme fin abt upgradind then i tryed 2 upgrade it then never went on

chris said, on June 30, 2010 2:35 PM:

hi how do i get go cam to work on my psp i have the 3000 model and can not turn cam on i can hear the person but only see me can you help thanx . chris

abdalla said, on September 4, 2010 3:37 AM:

i do like to have some so dat i will entertain

naing said, on September 29, 2010 5:11 AM:

i have psp game consol but very difficult to find game software and very expensive.how you will sport to do this problem and how to care for psp game owner.

Ameer Hamza said, on November 18, 2010 3:22 PM:

Is there any software for PSP1001 model wire for in the wire in computer and i have one wire that is same like PSP1001 model but it is not reading that wire

linlin said, on December 25, 2010 5:30 AM:

I have download free games from internet but my PSP 3006PB software does not support this, do i just redownload my software or is there any solution to this.

Shawn said, on May 7, 2011 5:37 AM:

just bought invisimals for psp. plugged in camera & nothing. Does anybody have any ideas about why camera wont work?

NHNHN said, on December 11, 2011 5:58 AM:

get internet whitout wireless net

kapil bhandari said, on December 29, 2011 11:10 AM:

hy.i have psp update software version6.60 & when i want to installed it.my psp have already ver.9.90 you do not need to installed it told how to solve it?but my psp version is 5.50GEN-D3....

matt said, on February 1, 2012 7:14 AM:

how to get microsoft office tools in my pspslim 2000??

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