To run ISO files on original hardware, your PSP must be running Custom Firmware. This "unlocks" the system to read digital backups from the memory card.

When browsing an archive, users will often encounter two file types:

Players had left things there, intentionally or not. A confession tucked beneath a boss fight; a recipe typed into an unused note box; a photograph of two hands held around a summer melon, pixelated and warm. The more time I spent, the more the lines between my thoughts and the game's textures blurred; I realized the archive harvested more than files. It gathered echoes.