PSP is for China. You can directly buy genuine games to play. However, because the price of genuine games is relatively high, everyone generally chooses to crack the PSP system. After cracking, the PSP can bypass the startup. Some genuine verification programs during the game, thus starting the program directly.

At the same time, after the PSP is cracked, it can also run some unofficial home-made software, such as some e-book readers, music players and the like, which cannot be run on an unbroken PSP.

The cracked version cracks the PSP's own system, using system vulnerabilities to implement software programming and achieve the purpose of running home-made software and games. However, since the PSP system itself is constantly being upgraded, new games released after the upgrade may not be able to run directly, so the ISO image files of the games generally need to be cracked for new games. Games previously released can generally be run directly.