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the psp owns and its becoming so forgotten that my MacBook auto corrects psp to pop. Lets post to remember Sonys great system and talk about such great 5* translations like the recently released yakuza translation also emulation still owns on it especially PS1 games. playing front mission 3 is great Here's some good info ExcessBLarg! posted:Here's some random PSP purchasing thoughts related to this: ExcessBLarg! posted:Skip the battery and charger. OEM batteries have near-universally gone puffy by now which makes them a safety hazard and basically don't work. As for the charger the PSP takes 5V @ 1A as I recall, which practically any USB charger does these days, so you can just get a USB-A to barrel connector cable. That means you just need to find a PSP-200x. Empress Brosephine fucked around with this message at 19:07 on Mar 10, 2021 |
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I haven't had one for years. But it was a beautiful and powerful device the world wasn't ready for. I could never get over even just how clean the home screen looked. I can't imagine I would have had a very good experience with it if I hadn't been able to do a firmware downgrade and get all the homebrew stuff going. I only ever ended up buying like three games and one movie. The homebrew community proved how under utilized the technology was. The NES and SNES emulation on it was already pro, then the official PS1 emulation was introduced and really blew me away how smooth all of the games played. (I don't even know how the official PS1 releases worked, I imagine they didn't officially release very many). Back in the day I had one of the homebrew apps on there that used the IR port to turn the system into a universal remote, and on vacation I used to turn off televisions in restaurants. I probably played super mario bros 3 on it more than anything else. I want another one!
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I had no idea the ir blaster could do it that rocks I remember watching UMDs and buying a couple like terminator 2 drat the psp owns
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Jan 7, 2021 13:37
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My battery exploded. Great little library and great stuff that was never made digital for vita either. Always kind of wanted to get a new one since the god of war one I have is a little embarrassing
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Jan 7, 2021 13:47
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Just posting to tell people to get the Densha de Go! PSP games; they're just lines from DdG Final but they're portable.
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My PSP existed solely to play Metal Gear Solid Ac!d 1 and 2. Like sure, I played a bunch of other titles like the sadly way overlooked Crush and eventually installed homebrew but my god in heaven, Ac!d games had me completely hooked.
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Jan 7, 2021 14:03
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Random Stranger posted:Just posting to tell people to get the Densha de Go! PSP games; they're just lines from DdG Final but they're portable. Wait that exists?!??
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Jan 7, 2021 14:39
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Back when I had regular long distance train rides I got one specifically to do all the homebrew stuff and it furnished me with entertainment quite literally far beyond what I imagined. A great machine. I still have it but something's wrong with the power connection and I don't know enough to fix it or where I could get it fixed. Battery's probably stone dead anyway (which may also just be the issue in the first place).
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Jan 7, 2021 14:40
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I still have a PSP Go hooked up as a dedicated PS1 machine and its wonderful. The Go was such a weird experiment that Sony learned a lot from but drat if it wasn’t a beautiful thing way ahead of its time.
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Jan 7, 2021 14:44
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I bought a psp go a few months ago from a good. The controls kind of suck but otherwise it's quite the amazing machine. Also I want to say some of the best psp games: Lumines Lumines 2 That weird golf game with anime Dj max Also yakuza just got translated to English like yesterday.
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I got back into the psp recently after combining two broken systems into one and was compelled to get a new radiant red system to try and get my gf to play coop stuff with me. PSP has to be in the top 5, or even top 3 of best handhelds ever made. The vita is cool but Sony barely supported it in the way they did the PSP. I could rattle off a list of incredible games but you could spend your entire life playing Peacewalker, Phantasy Star Portable 2, and Monster Hunter Freedom Unite. Mainly been using them to play ps1 rpgs, lol. Something about rpgs on a handheld is the only way I will actually complete them. I still really want a Go and the dock, but I am NOT paying 400+ for that privilege. I think overall the 3000 is the best model.
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Jan 7, 2021 17:08
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Is phantasy star portable 1 any good
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Jan 7, 2021 17:14
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Yeah but 2 has coop ad hoc and is arguably better.
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If you still have an OEM battery and haven't touched it in years,  remove your battery before it explodes, or at least goes puffy.If your PSP-3000 screen has yellowed I'm sorry for your loss. Actually the screen isn't hard to replace, but I'm not convinced the replacements won't eventually yellow too. I bought a black PSP-1001 when the Dracula X Chronicles was announced and the system was probably worth it for that alone, but made so much better by custom firmware. Two years ago I decided to get back into the PSP and picked up a handful of Japanese PSP-3000s on eBay in varying colors (and condition) and restored them, mostly by replacing yellowed/dead screens. Although I also have a Vita, the PSP is my preferred way to play PSP and PSX games. The fact you can load up a massive microSD card using cheap adapters is just perfect. Internet2 posted:I don't even know how the official PS1 releases worked, I imagine they didn't officially release very many. Actually that was one of the issues as Sony wasn't able to license digital rights for all their physical releases including Metal Gear Acid and Crisis Core. There's also weird stuff like Final Fantasy I/II being available digitally in Europe but not North America, which I can only imagine is the result of Square sitting on a pile of unsold physical copies. Custom firmware makes that largely a moot point as you can dump your own UMDs. Sony was really ahead of the times with digital downloads, honestly to the point where they didn't quite get it right.
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I have 2 PSPs Go. Also the original model. I have been collecting physical games for it for a few years now. I finally beat Mega Man Powered Up recently after starting it like 14 years ago.
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I loved my PSP and I was absolutely obsessed with the homebrew side of things. Like, habitually checking qj.net every day for quite a few years. The day the 2.0 to 1.50 downgrade finally hit is still probably the most excited I've ever been about anything video game related; I was going through a phase of devouring every SNES RPG I could get my hands on at the time, and it was mindblowing to be suddenly able to shift over to playing them anywhere instead of hiding in the school library hoping I didn't get caught playing games and kicked out. (You could technically still run homebrew on 2.0 at that point, but a) you had to launch it through GTA Liberty City Stories and b) that exploit had no kernel access so performance was degraded and you couldn't go into standby or switch to a different emulator without rebooting the system and sitting through the loooong GTA load time again)
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Also one thing I hadn't thought about in years was how every single PSP-1000 seemed to have at least two or three dead/stuck pixels straight out of the box and Sony's official line was "lol yeah that'll happen, it's fine, deal with it" and goddamn how was that ever acceptable on a device where the massive industry-beating display was one of the key selling points? Were manufacturing yields on those LCDs really that low?
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Pretty good posted:Also one thing I hadn't thought about in years was how every single PSP-1000 seemed to have at least two or three dead/stuck pixels straight out of the box and Sony's official line was "lol yeah that'll happen, it's fine, deal with it" and goddamn how was that ever acceptable on a device where the massive industry-beating display was one of the key selling points? Were manufacturing yields on those LCDs really that low? It was baffling but I lived with it so joke was on me
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Pretty good posted:Also one thing I hadn't thought about in years was how every single PSP-1000 seemed to have at least two or three dead/stuck pixels straight out of the box and Sony's official line was "lol yeah that'll happen, it's fine, deal with it" and goddamn how was that ever acceptable on a device where the massive industry-beating display was one of the key selling points? Were manufacturing yields on those LCDs really that low?
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I remember having to do the memory card swap on the bootscreen when the psp was first hacked until they discovered the way to hack the psp was to make a folder on the memcard called like PSP iirc lol
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I'm building a reasonable PSP collection at the moment as no one seems to be interested in it compared to Nintendo's portables and the games are pretty cheap for it.
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My recent favorite is Disgea: Afternoon of Darkness which was a whopping $10. Any recommendations?
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Domus posted:My recent favorite is Disgea: Afternoon of Darkness which was a whopping $10. Any recommendations? Oh man that version of Disgaea had the best bugs. About the only other real game I regularly played was the FFT port, despite the atrocious animation lag.
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Pretty good posted:Also one thing I hadn't thought about in years was how every single PSP-1000 seemed to have at least two or three dead/stuck pixels straight out of the box and Sony's official line was "lol yeah that'll happen, it's fine, deal with it" and goddamn how was that ever acceptable on a device where the massive industry-beating display was one of the key selling points? Were manufacturing yields on those LCDs really that low? I exchanged seven PSPs at Costco before getting one without dead pixels. SEVEN. Also didn't the PSP get hacked wide open because Sony accidentally mailed someone the pandora battery?
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I bought 2 PSPs to replace my other PSP that had a dead pixel. Anyways, I love the PSPs and have played the ever living crap outta it. I am currently playing tactics Ogre after beating GtA Chinatown wars. CW was super underrated and I love it to bits. Great throw back to the birds eye view GTA. Also Lumines is 1 million times better than Tetris. Wish I had a way of playing with people.
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SOCOM is insanely good on the PSP. Probably the best shooter on the whole system if I'm honest. Wish I could still play it online but SVDL only supports the PS2 SOCOMs and not the PSP ones right now
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My battery got swole so I had to toss it, now I can’t play my psp. I wasn’t playing it before, but now I can’t.
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just checked my battery and thought it was puffy at first but then i realized they designed the psp battery to have a weird rear end angled bit to it. battery not puffy. the best was when I opened up the back panel on my 3DS XL a couple years ago and as soon as I got the last screw out, the thing flew off to reveal a party pinata of a rechargeable battery. that was a fun time
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Jan 12, 2021 17:42
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Puffy batteries are puffy on both sides.
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barnold posted:SOCOM is insanely good on the PSP. Probably the best shooter on the whole system if I'm honest. Wish I could still play it online but SVDL only supports the PS2 SOCOMs and not the PSP ones right now Got the "big box" SOCOM 2 last weekend and still had the headphones with it, and seemed to be unused
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barnold posted:SOCOM is insanely good on the PSP. Probably the best shooter on the whole system if I'm honest. Wish I could still play it online but SVDL only supports the PS2 SOCOMs and not the PSP ones right now I totally agree with this. Wish we could still play online 
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You Am I posted:Got the "big box" SOCOM 2 last weekend and still had the headphones with it, and seemed to be unused You can find a couple full S2 lobbies most nights of the week on SVDL if you feel bold enough to set up your system for LAN tunneling, it's a blast. You can also just download a pre-made PS2 emulator all ready to go minus the BIOS and game iso from the SVDL page too but that poo poo's lame imo, real hardware or bust for me. I will never forgive Zipper for turning Abandoned into a night-vision map though, the original was so much better  Been playing Midnight Club LA Remix again lately, in between bursts of endurance racing in Gran Turismo 2 (I'm so close to winning gold on every event in Simulation Mode  )
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The original Midnight Club LA is one of my favorite games ever; never played the PSP one. I presume its fun?
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It's incredibly fun, as long as you know going into it that like pretty much every PSP port, it's extremely pared down and limited in various ways. The career mode is split into two different campaigns, the LA Career (which uses a modified version of the map from Midnight Club II actually) and the Tokyo Career. Half the cars in the game are ONLY available in LA and vice versa for Tokyo. There are no police chases while free roaming and what few police chases you do get into are incredibly linear and end pretty fast. The game also is about half as difficult as the console version, even on the "red" hard races, mostly the biggest challenge is avoiding oncoming traffic that pops into view 0.01 seconds before you hit it thanks to the PSP's resolution. It's significantly better than NFS Underground or Most Wanted 510 though imo
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Sounds fun Ill try it out I never understood the poo poo the psp and vita got for ports yet suddenly all anyone wants on switch are ports
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it's probably that the switch's hardware can actually handle running a fully-fledged port rather than lopping the game world in half, cutting the more ambitious game modes and reducing the available in-game content. in an era where people were really excited about complex open world games with lots of exploration on proper consoles, no one really wanted to go back to that PS1-style linearity. though of course some really impressive and great games came out on the system like Vice City Stories of God of War with those elements as for the PS Vita, well, the problem with those ports is that they were released on the PS Vita. I will never forgive Sony for what they did to the Vita Empress Brosephine posted:That weird golf game with anime that's Pangya and it's incredibly good. I prefer it to hot shots golf and I'm not even a weeb tbh the game is just so good barnold fucked around with this message at 23:29 on Jan 13, 2021 |
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I got a used psp from an online friend and now I'm playing Liberty City Stories. This analog nub kinda sucks.
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Breadallelogram posted:I got a used psp from an online friend and now I'm playing Liberty City Stories. This analog nub kinda sucks. I was so blown away by that game, I went from having a GBA with GTA Advance to that in the same year. It get's pretty drat hard at the end, but it's fun as all hell throughout. Make sure you pick up Vice city stories. It's probably my first or second favorite of the 3d trilogy. Dozens of business's to take over and upgrade over both islands, a decent story, and tons of cool poo poo like gangwars and business missions. It's also got a ton of weird systems that the other games don't have like an actual stealth and melee system that let's you snap peoples necks.
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Being able to swim in vice city was dope
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VCS owns. I decided to try out metal gear acid again and I don't think I like it still lol Any of you play the yakuza translation yet
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