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  playstationWhy the PSP Is the Import Collector's Perfect HandheldPop the battery cover before you pay for any secondhand PSP. If the door sits proud of the shell, or the cell inside has puffed up like a tiny pillow, you're looking at a swollen lithium battery — and no amount of "tested, works great" in a listing makes that okay. The PSP is one of the most rewarding handhelds a collector can chase, but it pays back the people who check the right things. Let's get you there. UMD, the format everyone laughed at, is now the point The Universal Media Disc was p
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  Stare & GradareBuying a Game Gear or Lynx? Check These Failure Points FirstPop the battery covers off a Sega Game Gear and sniff. That faint fishy smell is leaked electrolyte from failing capacitors — an amine odour every Game Gear tech knows — and it means the console in your hands is running on borrowed time, if it runs at all. Cartridge collecting is mostly about cosmetics. Classic handheld collecting is about the hardware itself, because on a Game Gear, an Atari Lynx or an early PSP, the shell can be showroom-clean while the inside is quietly dying. Here's how to
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  Stare & GradareHow to Grade a PS1 Disc Before You Buy or SellHold the disc under a lamp and tilt it. If the underside glows that deep, smoky black, you're holding the real thing — Sony pressed original PlayStation discs with black-tinted polycarbonate on the read side, and nearly thirty years on it's still the fastest authentication check in retro collecting. If it's silver, put it down. Everything else about grading a PS1 copy comes down to two honest questions: will it still play, and is it actually complete? Sellers blur both all the time. Here's how