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Give Your PSP a Face Lift

Posted Mar 29, 2006 at 12:02PM EST by QJ Staff

Listed in: How-To, Mods Tags: psp tips and tricks

HardOCP's console division has released a tutorial on a simple mod that can give your PSP a fresh look. The biggest issue facing a PSP player is the button mashing smears all over the face plate. Using a Flat Black face plate they picked up online, they gave their PSP a face lift and helped prevent further button mashing smears. At $35 it's a nice change.

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Watch out folks, I have the matt black asterix and it is really their gunmetal black version with a matt coating on it without primering or sanding first...

it came off after 6 hours off playing!!! (where you put your thumb at the cross button, and no I'm not sweaty) and became shiny..! I took some polish and a cloth, and a bit later I had a shiny gunmetalblack asterix faceplate...

No offence to asterix, I understand nobody bought the gunmetals, but do some primer or sanding first...

The other asterix faceplates are really great!!!

Also the gunmetalblack is really nice and also not so "fingerprinty", but matt is really...

btw I sanded the "not so" matt really lightly so the caoting would attach, and gave it a couple of layers matt clear coating... looks great again...

# OK MAN! — p0p5ux 2006-03-29 13:38

I will be careful

# My modded psp is better =P X100 — Gosugenji 2006-03-29 13:43

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v704/gosugenji/PSP/PSP-Angled.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v704/gosugenji/PSP/PSP-overhead.jpg

# ... — cory1492 2006-03-29 13:43

the flat black was supposedly redesigned.

Im gonna see if I cant just get someone to do a quick sandblast pass over the control areas in a diamond shape... (got the metallic black XCM faceplate to do it to as well ;0)

# HEAALP! — VietxGangstuh 2006-03-29 13:52

where would you actually order these at?

# This is pretty cool. — CarXCrashXHearts 2006-03-29 13:54

To the question, "That´s pretty cool!

Question: Are those metal buttons?" I don't think they are. They are probably the same buttons as the original ones but a different color.

This mod is cool, but I wouldn't like to take my own front of my PSP off just to put a new one on.

# matching sides — Guest 2006-03-29 13:57

finish the job with matt black sides:

http://www.dclxvi.nl/psp/DSC002288.jpg

# ... — Guest 2006-03-29 13:57

On Lik-Sang I found color faceplates i bought metalic blue and i miss match the buttons ^_^

# cool — MDCosta911 2006-03-29 13:57

I have a white faceplate on my PSP with deep blue colored buttons. Love it.

# .. — Guest 2006-03-29 14:05

when will they make a carbon fibre one??

i would definately order one

# mod — Guest 2006-03-29 14:06

i got a flat black faceplate just waiting for my orange buttons

# cool — Guest 2006-03-29 14:55

I put a new faceplate on my PSP almost 2 months ago. I got the light blue one by XCM. It works great, although the screen was slightly small so i couldnt use the HORI screen protector. So now the screen is scratched up again. I ordered another one today, same color and everything, but Pelican will be replacing my brick with a screen protector, so it should stay in better condition this time. from the stories i read, XCM is much better than Asterix ones, although they arent as customizable as far as buttons, and the screen itself cant be replaced.

# awesome — Guest 2006-03-29 15:05

Metalic crystal blue withthe matchin buttons!!! my psp is now sick!!!

# . — Guest 2006-03-29 15:17

That red and black looks pretty sick

And i got my faceplate at decalgirl.com

# Guest 2006-03-29 15:28

i think that i will get a faceplate after my warenty runs out. just in case it does get bricked then i will get it fixed. but i do like the black with red. i also liked the clear with clear buttons.

# matching sides — Guest 2006-03-29 15:41

anon at 557...where do buy the black sides?

# ASTERIX ROX!! — Guest 2006-03-29 16:14

Screw XCM!! ASTERIX ROX... NOOBS use XCM

# POintless — Guest 2006-03-29 16:39

COME ON PEOPLE!!! THIS SHlT is F.U..CKING POINTLESS!!, The person that cam out with these g@y face plates should be d@mmed and sent to heIl,,,

# matching sides — Guest 2006-03-29 16:40

you paint them (sorry), bit of an operation.... have to take the screen and bracket out, and the right control print as well... also the parts where the switches are, are very thin so be carefull, and look carefully how there're attached...

the sides gonna get a silk matt finish when totally dry..

right now I'm thinking about smoothing the baseplate and (car)laquer it a few times to make it as shiny as the original top (and put that back on)....

# how about the screen — Guest 2006-03-29 16:45

im thinking about getting a new face plate...... damn scratches...when replacing the face plate, is the screen replaced as well?

# I've had the FLAT BLACK asterix faceplate for about a month — InTheZoneAC 2006-03-29 17:19

No problems, paint doesn't chip, everything looks all stealthy and nice.

# well.. — Guest 2006-03-29 17:53

well im LOVING that white with red buttons... what kindof faceplate and buttons are those? (yes its a dumb question..)

also.. should i get that white or this flatbacks kind? (i originally wanted to get white with red.. but this looks nice also)

...ugh last question.. once you change the faceplate and buttons can you put the originals back on?

# lol i suck — jOeCooL 2006-03-29 18:30

im the only one who broke my whole psp analog stick putting one of those custom cases on. lol

# Urine Stain? — Guest 2006-03-29 19:20

Im frightened

# Anyone know .... — Guest 2006-03-29 19:31

Anyone know some good color combinations?

If not, I'll probably just end up mismatching as much as possible.

# CLEAR BABY, LIKE ICE!! — Guest 2006-03-29 22:14

nocomment

# CLEAR BABY, LIKE ICE!! — Guest 2006-03-29 22:20

i bought a clear face on ebay about 3 months ago. it came all the way from china i think its bootlegged. well , i know it is but so wut! it looks sick all clear with all clear buttons. not good when someone is playing my psp (they cant tell which button is which) but its not for others its 4 me. word of advice, KEEPING THE LCD CLEAN AND LINT,DUST FREE BEFORE PUTTING THE NEW FACE ON IS A REAL BIZNITCH !!! i took it off many times to get that "last lil stubborn spec of dust out. pain in da a$$

# DUST — Guest 2006-03-29 22:46

The one in the article looks like mine. I've got the red button set from liksang, cost about £8 I think including postage.

And the above poster is right, every damn time I put the facplate on, I got dust trapped under the screen.

TIP - make sure you wash your hands, or wear some rubber gloves or something, pesky finger prints!

# deltido- — Guest 2006-03-30 01:03

yeah that thing looks godly...can't get much better than a black psp that doesn't get sticky(cause it's not the same material on the outside)and with read buttons..ahhhh...getttinnniitt!!

# ! — Guest 2006-03-30 03:47

Whats wrong with just leaving it as it is, bunch of nerds.

# well — Guest 2006-03-30 03:58

we like sexy things.

# Chrome baby — Guest 2006-03-30 04:32

i want the chrome one, it looks sweet

# too funny — Guest 2006-03-30 05:13

I had to laugh at the "Pizza boy and his brother snotty" part...LOL . Nice mod, I'd like to see a metallic green one myself ;).

# I AM TLOPE!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!! — Guest 2006-03-30 05:33

Can somebody post a pic of a crystal light blue faceplate already on the PSP. I wish I could find a transparent blue XCM faceplate.

# White — Guest 2006-03-30 05:38

Does the white faceplate show fingerprints, or is it dull like the dull black?

# Ohh Yea Koolaid roxxx — Guest 2006-03-30 05:50

I like Pizza

# WHITE BABY — homepc909 2006-03-30 06:19

WELL ***** IT I'M GOIN FOR THE WHIT WITH THE RED BUTTONS!!!!!!!

# Customize always — Guest 2006-03-30 07:05

I like the white buttons. They're clear with white background, instead of solid white like the ones that come with the ceramic psp.

# Agent Orange — Guest 2006-03-30 10:39

I quite like this one myself

http://spaces.msn.com/nate1990/blog/cns!DF92F0B3A087A61A!572.entry

# Price is going up. — Guest 2006-03-30 12:42

Better buy 'em cheap while you can....E-mail from decalgirl:

"...Our flat black faceplates are on back order for the next 3-4 weeks so that

may influence your decision. Also the facplates are going up in price with

in the next month or so. The manufacture has increased their prices. "

# too bright.... — Guest 2006-04-11 15:00

the orange one kinda hurts the eyes a bit...

my fav. color combinations

white faceplate- red buttons

it be nice for a pearl based faceplate

# nice — Guest 2006-04-28 17:24

wow... that is freakin sweet.... i need to get me one of thoes...^_^

# Orange Pwnds!! — Guest 2006-07-30 20:27

Im think of getting a Chrome Orange with green buttons n side but white n red looks prettt awsome too.

# Links~! — Guest 2006-07-30 20:34

this r some link wer u could get some:

http://www.decalgirl.com/browse.cfm/2,199.htm?AFF=G_PSP&gclid=CPeMzYG6u4YCFR9-CwodhQ7PNw

http://www.gameconsoleskins.com/interface.htm?content=http%3A//www.gameconsoleskins.com/skins/psp/console/psp-skin/skins1.htm

TO #14 ^.^ Also thers a carbon Fiber out ther here is the link for the carbon fiber

http://www.evolutionvinylworks.com/?function=detail&id=1694&name=PSP-Skin-Carbon-Fiber

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