Have you ever been sitting on the pot and wished that you could be checking up on your downloads or maybe even to see if your friend
wrote you back. Well wait no more, now you can use your PSP to
access your computer completely wirelessly.
You will need:
What version of firmware does my PSP have?
To check this go to the Settings tab of your PSP then to System Settings -> System Information you will see a page that looks like this:
 Start by connecting your PSP to your PC via your USB to Mini USB cable, after you have connected the cable go to the settings tab in your psp and select "USB Connection"
your psp should now display "USB Connection" in the upper left corner of the screen and "USB Mode" should be displayed in the middle of the screen.
 Now your pc should detect your psp and map it as a drive accessible via My Computer.
Now browse to your psp and go to I:\PSP\GAME if this directory doesn't excist then you haven't been doing any homebrew.. so just create the directories. depending on your psp's version install the corresponding version of pvnc, for me I would copy the content of 1_5 to my I:\PSP\GAME folder.
Now on your PSP go to the settings tab then to the Power Saving Settings and Turn off "WLAN Power Save" by doing this you use more battery but you get much better performance out of pvnc.
 Next we need to configure our PSP to work on our network. to do this we go to the Settings tab then all the way down to "Network Settings" From here select "Infrastructure Mode" then "-New Connection-" name it whatever you want to. On the next page you need to know your SSID, if your network is broadcasting your SSID you can just press the Scan button, here you will also need to input any encryptions your network may have, Assuming we have no encryption and our network is broadcasting our SSID (most factory defaults are set this way) we will select the Scan option and select our wireless network. On the next page titled "Address Settings" YOU MUST SELECT CUSTOM FOR THIS TO WORK WITH PVNC. In IP Address Settings select MANUAL you will be presented with a page that looks like this:
 The easiest way to find this information is to get on a windows computer that is on the same wireless network, it can even be wired to the router, you can get this info in windows by going to the Start menu > Run > cmd, then type "ipconfig /all" you will be presented with information simular to this:
The information that is in the Red Square is what we are interested in, you can copy all the fields over directly except for the IP Address feild, this address needs to be Identical to your Default Gateway except for the last for digits, so if your Default Gateway is 192.168.1.1 you can use anything between 192.168.1.2 - 192.168.1.255 Note that most routers by factory default set there DHCP to start routering pc's on 192.168.1.100 so its a good Idea to use an address lower then that or significantly higher.
Here is what your psp should look like with all the correct information from the ipconfig.
 On the next page it will ask you about a Proxy Server, in most cases you won't need this so just select "Do Not Use" The following page just verifys your settings, just click next and press X to save. Now go over to your pc and install TightVNC, its pretty straight forward so we won't go over it in this tutorial. Next go back to your PSP and go to the "Game" tab, scroll down to "Memory Stick" and click on it. You should see a program called "Portable VNC Viewer" Click on it. If all goes well you will be presented with a screen that looks like this:
 Click on your Wireless Access Point and Add a new Host
 Add your Host (pc running TightVNC) IP to your psp's database, you can obtain the ip of your host using the ipconfig command that I told you about earlyer.
Name your connection, Any name will do.
 Click X then Select an Icon for your new connection
 Now select the connection you've just created and connect, you should see an image of your desktop on your PSP, you can use a virtual keyboard by pressing the Triangle key and the X and O buttons are your right/left mouse clicks. Have fun and Enjoy!
 And thats an image of my psp via vnc of me working on this tutorial ;) I hope you guys found this useful. Enjoy!
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