A kind of easy way to manage your ever-growing PlayStation download list

With the demise of the PlayStation Store on browsers (sort of), and thus the easy download-queuing of PSDLE, I needed a somewhat easier way of keeping track of my downloads short of making my own giant Google Spreadsheet. So how about this:

Using a Vita and your cell phone (or ideally with a PSTV and a proper capture card recording), make one video for each year of your download list. 

It's important that you're viewing your download list on your Vita because that way you'll know instantly if the content you want to download is in fact Vita-compatible. Games with cross-buy DLC (like the Hatsune Miku games) won't tell you if the content you selected to download is the PS3 version or the Vita version, and on a PS3 you can download both. And because the download list is always ordered the same way, if you're on a PS3 and you want to download the PS3 versions of cross-buy content, you can refer to your Vita download list to see which content can't be downloaded on a Vita, because that's going to be PS3 content.

Getting Suikoden II on your PSP in 2020, and other Media Go notes

This was harder than it should have been.

According to my receipts, I bought Suikoden II on December 9, 2014. For some reason it wasn't in my PSP backups, so I downloaded it on my PS3 to transfer it to my PSP. But the "Copy" option wasn't there. This GameFAQs topic mentions that the ability to copy to PSP was added later... but that's not exactly true, or if it was, it's not anymore. Redownloading it from the PS3 won't help; you have to download directly from the PSP or Vita download list. 

Problem is, while the PSP store and download list work (barely), the PSP's lack of WPA2 support means you're probably not going online anymore, short of camping outside a McDonald's or Walmart for their free, unsecured Wi-Fi. I had to go online with my hacked, firmware-spoofing Vita and scroll all the way down to my December 2014 purchases to download Suikoden II. This is because the PS5 killed the Web browser storefront and therefore PSDLE and hassle-free download. I then opened up VitaShell and transferred Suikoden II (I think in ux0/pspemu) wirelessly via FTP. Once it was on my PC, I copied the GAME and LICENSE folders to my PSP.

More Media Go notes:

Even if you backed up your PSP content with the following folder structure on an external hard drive:

• P:\PlayStation Portable\Media Go\AutoBackup\PSP\Licenses

Your licenses are actually only and always automatically backed up in your C drive Documents folder no matter what: 

• C:\Users\User\Documents\Media Go\AutoBackup\PSP\Licenses (Windows 7)

In other words, your externally backed up License folder has to be continually updated by the real License backup folder in your Documents folder.

Even more Media Go notes:

If Media Go has a backup of a game that you got for free with PlayStation Plus, but you bought that game later and want to backup the non-timed version of the game, you'll want to:

1. Delete the PS Plus version of the game on your PSP and PS3, and Vita
2. Download the game on your PS3 and transfer to your PSP
3. Delete the game from wherever you backed the game up and the license from your C drive Documents folder (and probably your other backup just in case)
4. Start Media Go, verify the games are deleted, then close Media Go
5. Manually copy the game and license from your PSP to your game backup folder and C drive Documents folder (i.e. without Media Go)
6. Open Media Go

If you don't do exactly this, Media Go might overwrite your purchased license with the PS Plus timed license, or still say your game is "Expired" in Media Go even if you have the good license. 

(And yes, I know the npdrm_free plugin means all this license documentation isn't truly necessary, but I like good bookkeeping and I might as well take advantage of the fact that I have legit, activated PSPs)