So my PSP got bathed in some very tasty cream soda entirely by accident a couple weeks ago. I turned it off ASAP and left it that way for a couple days, and dried off what I could externally. I went to turn it on, and thanked the gaming gods that it powered on. Buttons are sticky, but the hardware seems to be just fine.

However, the problem came when I put in a UMD. It made the most gawd-awful churning sound in my life, which I could only assume to be the reader being sticky with syrupy residue. Not buena.

So now I have a choice. I can probably disassemble and clean the hardware by hand, thus saving my PSP. Or I can take this opportunity to say farewell to a used and abused old friend who has seen a lot of battle (and has the dings and scratches to prove it), trade in my modest pile of PSP games, and take a little out of my next paycheck for a DS Lite (which would be catering to my Nintendo/Sega fanboyism and my recent loathing of Sony).

So what do you guys think? Lay her to rest, or attempt to resurrect?