Japan psp slim in America..

[Bonzai11]

I have a fat psp but on a recent trip to puerto rico somehting got fried.
i checked on froogle and saw import ice silver slims for 200 which is
 a good price but i was wondering would the japanese origin of the psp
effect cfws?

I wouldnt think it would but my original psp was Us so i dont know
if anything would happen due to japanese psp using different
firmwares for 1.5 and 3.80

thx

[anthonyta]

dont think so

[tanoz]

custom firmware wont be affected by the psp country of origin. ive done two psps from japan and one from hong kong and they are no different, u just change the language and umd region via recovery. You also will want to change the select button to X or O depending on what u use.

[Korlithiel]

The UMD region in the recovery, last I checked in 3.71 M33-4 +1.50 kernal, only effects which icons show up in the XMB. It will not let you use other regions UMD videos.

Please note, the only things I did not test were ripping a UMD video of a different region and the various options with a video ISO. All testing was done using a UMD from Japan on a US PSP, one that wasn't released in the US and was imported.