Need some answers and advice?

Hey everyone,

I have a question for anyone willing to answer it.

1) Are all PSP region free? (I am planning to buy a PSP 3000 and planning to buy lots of Visual novel games)

2)If it is region free and I buy visual novel, will I need additional hardware and such like a firmware or onscripter?

For those that answer this question,,,Thanks :)

Wait for psp vita!

To my knowledge most psp games don't have region locks, i believe only a few do have them(source). If you buy a vn psp novel via the umd format then it should be good... problem is their 80 to 100$ bucks here.. if you don't have a japanese connection. It much easier to use a cfw/ofw firmware hack which if you get the 3000 series then you don't have to perma flash aka install a permanent hack firmware, but a lcfw or a firmware once to turn off it just dumps the hack and reboot to normal sony firmware.. which is best because perma flashing can brick you new toy. And just download the iso and play.

Yeah the vita is coming out after Christmas in japan but the us/euro is going to be pushed back until march or april 2012... The neat thing is that you can turn in your psp and us games for credit for the psvita when you want it.. best buy aka my friend dirty said that they will buy back psp at 70$ in great condition... or buy one off ebay.. in package unused for 60 to 80$... i got one for 39 still in the box.

It up to you if you really want to wait or whatever.source

Most of the PSP stuff isn't region locked, most of the Japanese PSP stuff is however.

just install custom firmware

This, you can buy a refurbed or used psp go for cheap and crack it easily, and 16 gigs is plenty for a couple iso's, and with cfw you're pretty much free to play anything