How much are they and is getting the 170$ slick silver bullshit worth it?

I also don't know much about the games other than I know I want to get Final Fantasy Tactics, FF Crisis core, and probably the star wars battlefront game. So some help with info on the games that I can get with it and if its worth the money.

Also is that Medievil game any good that came out for it?

My classmates have PSPs and I borrow those sometimes. I could say it might be a better choice than DS if you're looking for a portable console.

You could get almost any game on the psp, the only thing that wil limit you is your memory card size. From the internet you know there are stuff..
Also, it has popular titles there and I know there's also a huge amount of RPGs that were made for it.

i bought a fucking ds a couple of years ago. i have used it to play one single game, hotel dusk, and that's it. the ds fucking stinks. i mean, i have bought six games for it but all of the rest are godawful. i wish i bought a psp back then cos i might actually use it every now and then but i'm not spending money on a psp now, unless i can sell the ds for the same price i could find a psp at.

seriously i feel like such an idiot for buying that.

Yeah the PSP is much more useful and entertaining than the DS any day, I mean theres already many homebrew programs for the PSP and when custom firmware has been installed on it, there are so many things you can do on the PSP.

Just buy the 150$ slim model and find a 8gb memory card somewhere.  Read a tutorial on creating a pandora battery to downgrade your PSP that way you can play homebrew, play ripped games on your memory card, and play PSX games.  There's also a new battery available (the thing is HUUUUGE though and I forgot the name) that literally gives the PSP 40 hours of battery time.  It's pretty beefy and weighs like 2 pounds but 40 hours is ridiculous.

I bought one yesterday and got a 2gb card because I couldn't find any bigger ones there. Is that Homebrew shit just psx emulators or are they ripping psp games and playing them? I tried looking through the homebrew topic but it was fucking huge.

Ended up getting the God of War deal because the factory renewed psps costed like 150$ and I was gonna get God of war anyways

I really enjoyed the Armored Core game, the Metal Gear ACID series, and Metal Gear Solid : Portable Ops.
Medievil was good, Death Jr. was awesome, and both Grand Theft Autos lived fully up to their PS2 mother with the sick addition of motorcycles in Liberty City Stories. Really amped up the gameplay there!
Plus, if you've got a PS3 you can dl PSone games and put them on your PSP memory stick! I'm currently playing Wild Arms 1. Both the Worms games were pretty good, though I dislike the damned 3D backgrounds. That killed the games for me, honestly. (Sloooowdown)

Games I anticipate, and you might too: God of War : Chains of Olympus, Beats, Patapon, the upcoming Kingdom Hearts game, --that's all I can think of atm. I know there's a few more I'm looking forward to (though apparently not THAT much).

I bought one yesterday and got a 2gb card because I couldn't find any bigger ones there. Is that Homebrew shit just psx emulators or are they ripping psp games and playing them? I tried looking through the homebrew topic but it was fucking huge.

Homebrew is a catch all for programs, original games (or ports of older games like Cave Story), emulators, and the like.  There's no PSX "emulator" because the PSP emulates the games itself.  You just need to hack the firmware to bypass the security measures.

Ironically enough, it's all legal according to Sony's End User's Agreement but they crack down on it because of the rampant pirates.

Ah, I have both a dS and a PSP, I play the PSP more, but I don't own any PSP games. I mainly Play Grandia or FF8 on it.

I saw a guy at work playing FF8 on his PSP. Fucking cool, man. I want that. Maybe I -will- mod my oldie PSP when I get the Slim.

Depending if you got a slim it will be a lot easier to mod. As for PSP games..

Patapon - Just buzzy as hell.
Crisis Core - Repetitive but still worth it in the end.
Wipeout games - These are just some great racing games.
Tales of Eternia - If your into this series.
Brave Story A New Traveler - It's an alright game.
Metal Gear Solid Portable Ops - Heard it's good.
Syphon Filter games - A lot better then I expected.
Daxter - I love the Jak series and this is no disappointment.
Tekken Dark Resurrection - Just a great fighting game.
Burnout Legends - A fun game.
Killzone Liberation - It's alright.. Short though.

Not many upcoming games but some to look out for would be.. Resistance Retribution, Dissidia Final Fantasy, Parasite Eve The Third Birthday.