Last night, I finally decided to get my PSP downgraded. I’ve had the unit with me for the longest time, and due to the bloody firmware version it had installed (the PSP came from Canada), I couldn’t initiate the process myself. So from around August last year to January of this year, I had a pretty much useless PSP.

Come January, though, I began using it to watch movies on the go (old movies ripped from DVD’s, mostly). I also started looking for stores that could help me out with my downgrading problem. At SM Centerpoint in Sta. Mesa, I found a little stall that was willing to downgrade my PSP for five hundred clams. Which, if you think about it, wasn’t so bad - it was still cheaper than your average UMD (cheaper than a PSP battery, even).

But the problem was, I didn’t have my PSP with me at the time, so that didn’t play out. At a mall near my office, I tried looking for a game store that offered the same deal. Problem was, the mall didn’t have that many game stores, and the only one that I could find wanted to charge me one thousand bucks for the simple act of downgrading.

Which was a flat-out, insufferable way of saying highway robbery.

A buddy from the office told me to check out Tipid PC, a website that hosted buying and selling of computer-related parts and services in the Philippines. It didn’t take me long to find somebody who was offering downgrading services for two hundred bucks - which if this was the real deal, was awesome. So I message the guy, and pretty soon we had arranged to meet later that night. So it was set. I just had to commute from Ortigas Center to Buendia corner Taft at nine in the evening. Not a mean feat, if you count how long the travel would take.

But it was worth it. The entire process took all of five minutes (WHAT), and by twelve midnight, I was happily playing Harvest Moon: Innocent Life. All for two hundred clams. If that wouldn’t put a smile on your face, I don’t know what will. Seriously.

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