Pyrofyr said:1)I can just 'make' the battery though right like it says in the sticky? How hard is that, like for someone with NO soldering experience. From what I read of it, I just need to cut the right wire, and from there it's actually no soldering at all, I only need to get a pencil and rub the graphite on it (One option, probably what I'll go for). If this is the case, I can do it myself with an Exacto knife.
2)My main reason for wanting UMDs is that the pro carts are so much more expensive than per se microSD carts, so a 4GB would cost me around 50 bucks in a store (Target) whereas I can get that much memory on a microSD for 20 bucks (Although I know I shouldn't compare).
In any case, that's my reasoning behind that. I'll probably wait for the next amount of money I get to come through (Aunt and grandma sending money, probably 50 each as usual, leaving way more than enough). ATM I have a 1GB that I bought for basics. Nice to know that 8GB is supported, because I had read earlier it wasn't, but if I have an 8GB I only need one.
3)How significant is the difference between the 2 in battery life? The life overall with the standard battery seems crappy (5 hours? Eww).
I'm sorry for having so many questions, but when you google you never really get a straightforward answer, and sifting through pages and pages in the stickies to find the answer obscurely referenced to would be a nightmare.
1. It's not really worth hardmodding a battery when you can just purchase a "Tool" battery for under $10.
2. With the 8 gig cards, you need to put your homebrew apps in the first 4 gigs and the remaining gigs can be used up for iso's. 4 gigs is plenty if you don't want all your games on at the same time. you can alternate between games easily. There's only a handful of games that are above 1 gig (FF7:CC, GoW and a few others). Usually i find i only want to play those games once anyway.
You can also use the adapter that someone also mentioned. It will work, only difference will be that it doesn't display it's "magic gate" supported, but that doesn't effect you usage.
3. The "tool" battery can only be used to boot your psp into service mode [To put the custom firmware on the psp]. It can's be used to power your psp.