@moderator007, the firmware it ships with causes an error that repeats “avrdude: warning: cannot set sck period. please check for usbasp firmware update.”. And you need to keep your project’s clock speed 1mhz speed because the programmer can’t change it.
@SammysHP, I was reading about some issue with an extra connection to D- on some boards and a patched version. But mine looked slightly different than the one shown on those discussions, so idk. Mine looks like the picture I posted. Where might I find these patched versions you saw? I think I will get a new USBasp and try again with one of those patched versions.