I’ve been meaning to pick up a hard case for my PSP slim in China, but it was harder than I thought. Since the PSP slim is pretty new, most places only had cases for the old, fat version of the handheld. Thanks to my mediocre Chinese, it was also difficult to describe to them that I wanted a case for the slim PSP and not a slimmer case for the old PSP. One place even tried to sell me a DS case when I told them none of their PSP cases was what I was looking for.
I finally found a PSP PlayGear Pocket knock-off for the PSP slim for 40RMB which equates to about $5-6. Not bad.
Since the PlayGear Pocket knock-off is a bit more heavy and harder than I expected, I also picked up a thinner, flimsier hard case for my PSP. This one doesn’t feel as solid, but it’s easier to hold for casual playing. I might save the Playgear Pocket knock-off for heavy traveling.
I was also looking out to buy a copy of Final Fantasy Tactics for the PSP, but buying legit games is incredibly hard in China. All the stores I went to had about 3 or 4 old PSP games that were genuine and booklets and booklets full of bootleg PSP games. I was tempted to have them mod my PSP so I could play the bootleg games, but I never had my PSP around when I was in the game stores and I was worried about not being able to play legit games anymore.
