The official I Love Games SONY PSP thread!

The first thing you're going to want is the 1.5 firmware downgrader.

http://www.psphacks.net/content/view/378/2/

is meteos its sister?

anyone played meteos?

I'm not big on puzzle games but I just might

Lumines is great - if you like falling block games. It's got some top choons. But when you get good, games last 3 hours plus.

Filling my 4 year old son with e-numbers finally paid off. Today he won me (well, us, I suppose) a Sony PSP!

I can't find a PSP thread on ILG so here's where you tell me what games I *need* to buy for me and throw in one or two suggestions for what the kids might like.

Oh, and any general battery, accessory, etc. advice would be nice too.

What's out there that would suit a 4 and a 6 year old? They like superhero games, 3d platformers and movie tie-ins (most of their games are a combination of the three).

Is THUG 2 Remix any good?

gta: liberty city stories is out this week tho apparently

or at least CA games, in decourcy's arcade, say they'll have it in

"But by far the best part of MGA and the PSP is that when you use certain cards like Olga gurlukovich or Vamp, you get a cut scene from MGS2.."

and then they waffle on about how this somehow proves that the PSP is superior to the DS. what a chump.

any good rpgs yet?

Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner
Atlus

Compatible with Sony PSP™
No Region Protection

Ok. Any word on awesome JP only games?

from turning on the machine -> playing the game:

SEVEN LOAD SCREENS

This would be way better on a DS with touchscreen/stylus. Plus there is a Rainbow Islands Revolution out for DS in Japan and Europe too!

This makes no sense.

it would be good if you could burst the bubbles by tapping on them.

animal crossing has given me new respect for the character-control potential of the stylus.

xpost

What special stuff can you do with the stylus in Animal Crossing?

Laura, if you READ what I wrote I didn't diss 2 screen Bubble Bobble, but the idea of using a stylus to play.

http://www.rdg.ac.uk/StUnion/Anime/document/image4.jpg

(that looks great though!)

Anyway, I have a $100 gift thing to Amazon so I want use it to get some games. I was thinking Worms2 and Katamari?

Also, I have a few turds I need to sell -- what older games (IE: I can buy @ gamestop) should I get?

stuff like this.

The original is still the best.

AWESOME

i must guiltily confess the games i play most are pro evo soccer, worms 3d, GTA, tho i would like to try new things. mostly, are they fun? can a clueless lo-tech fule figure them out okay? i do spend large periods of time stuck in hotels with nothing to do...

but you *don't* have a psp?

ouch... is there anything on it that would challenge my perceptions of gaming?

New online store that lets you download "official" games and other stuff to your computer then to your psp. I'd imagine having this stuff on a memory card instead of umd will solve the load times problem? Only two psp games in the US store as of this post (I'd imagine more must be coming?) - ten or so ps1 games already though...

http://store.playstation.com/

They still make these things?

I've been considering picking one up for a while now.... looking for a decent, cheap way to watch tv shows on the bus that i download (that isn't an ipod, fuck those)

oh and i want to play that jeanne d'arc game. and MG portable ops. and what else... FFT again.

The God of War thing maybe?

I had a PSP for like three years and never bothered to watch a single video on it besides Spiderman 2. I didn't have much of a memory stick but my ipod was so much easier for that shit.

they have the new smaller silver one.

the version of Pirates! for the PSP surely must rank among the best on-the-bus-time-waster games ever

Ice Silver contains: The Sony PSP - Ice Silver, AC power cord, AC adaptor and battery, 1GB Memory Stick Pro, Daxter the game, and Family Guy UMD.

not bad for $199

I mostly use mine to play Tekken DR.

I'm looking forward to Patapon in another week and a half. Only 20 bucks too.
http://www.us.playstation.com/patapon/

I just got a PSP so's to make my current lifestyle of airplane hell somewhat more bearable. My old reflexes would prefer easy puzzle-style fun rather than twitchy shooting and whatnot. Any recommendations?

lumines
crush
loco roco

Is there a sequel to Lumines?

Crush looks pretty cool.

There's a Lumines II but I haven't bought it because the main new thing (apart from new music and themes) seemed to be battle modes and I don't have anyone to play against.

Archer Maclean's Mercury is twitchy puzzle fun which I find addictive but infuriating, though it might just be that I'm not very good at that sort of thing. It's probably my favourite PSP game so far, but I hardly have any. In fact, I could use some similarly puzzly recommendations too.

(looks guiltily at unplayed Sid Meier's Pirates on PSP game shelf)

I got Loco Roco. It's very cute, but the lack of precision in the controls ain't so great. So far, my fave has been Atomic Punk Bomberman, which I played a lot in 1992-3 or so as an arcade game.

Does anyone still have one of these? I just won one, with Madden included, and I'm wondering if there are any games worth getting. God of War maybe?

Sure. God of War is pretty much the most technically impressive psp game I've played. Of late, I mostly pull out the psp for some N+, the Gradius Collection, or Star Soldier (which plays in TATE!). The various Capcom and SNK collections are good values if you want to play a bunch of old games on the go. I also enjoyed Echochrome quite a bit (you can download it from the psp pc store for around ten dollars). WipEout and Hot Shots Golf also got lots of play (both downloadable from the store too). Finally, can't forget Mega Man Powered-Up - I need to play that more, actually.

hwo do you play a psp in tate?!

http://jl13.com/images/star_soldier_tate.jpg

PSP GET

Recommenxions pls

(yes thread is full-o-recs but time/longevity is key)

lumines.

would like some more recs meself as i only have that + gta + two wipeouts (which are all good value). haven't actually played with it in donkeys.

My brother got one yesterday, so I got him the Namco arcade, LocoRoco, the dual Castlevania one, and WipeOut Pure. All used, all better value. We'll see when one he likes.

And I think Level-5 has been making RPGs for this for a while now. They haven't put out a proper PS2/PS3 one since Rogue Galaxy.

there's a bunch of quality games up on the ps store too

aa - not sure what you mean by "time/longevity"

The first thing I would recommend is buying a decent sized memory card (if one didn't come with it). More and more psp games are available as direct downloads, and it's cool to have a nice selection of games stored on there that you can play anytime w/o having to worry about UMDs (plus the load times from the memory card is much better). Depending on what region you are in, there's different selections of downloadable PSX games you can get for around $6, either from the ps3 store or the online PC store too.

Recent download only releases Everyday Shooter and Super Stardust are probably good pick up and play in short bursts games to have on there (if you don't have the ps3 versions). I also found Echochrome an enjoyable playthrough when on the road (though once you beat it, there's not a lot of temptation to go back to it).

For racing there's the Wipeout games and also Burnout Legends seems well done (though just reprises the earlier ps2 games).

I'm a big fan of the Gradius collection, Mega Man Powered Up, Lumines, Space Invaders Extreme and Tekken DR.

The various multi-title collections, like the two Capcom collections or the SNK one, offer a pretty good value.

Thanks so much for your tips.

Yesterday I picked up a 4Gb memory card (bargained it down to $40) and Wipeout Pure, which I've not played yet. The Echochrome demo is fantastic. Fighting games, meh, pass.

Supposedly starting in 2009, all new first party psp games will be available for download and I'd imagine most new games (if there are any).

I bought the Mega Man X remake today - just made it to the first boss, but so far it seems pretty great.

Another remake coming in 2009 (supposedly) that I'm REALLY looking forward to is Umihara Kawase as Yumi's Odd Odyssey in the US. The rumor was that they were fixing up the (reportedly) crappy Japanese port, though I haven't heard anything for a while - so I don't know if it's still on track?

Also looking forward to LocoRoco 2, which looks to improve on the first. I guess it's already out in some territories?

It's out here. Got the demo but haven't played it yet.

If you buy a game and delete it, do you have to buy it again?

Nah - it's tied to your account, so I believe you can download it again as many times as you want as long as you do it through the same account.

Ace, ta.

Puzzle Quest is the most addictive PSP game. Lumines games are the second most addictive puzzle games in my opinion.
Any fighter game - Like Street Fighter 2 Alpha 3 Max - hurts your fingers like crap and is not worth it.
Other than that, if you have cracked your psp and download .iso's (or .cso's) of any psp game you want, I suggest getting at least a 4gb memory stick. I have a 1gb memory stick and certain games I cannot fit on it. It is incredibly easy for me to download any game I want off a torrent. Since some games are smaller than others I have 4 on my memory stick right now (N+, Street Fighter.., Locoroco, and Puzzle Quest).

Reluctant to crack. Dunno why. I'm happy buying games anyway, considering they're ~$20 a pop.

but if you crack it you can play Cave Story on the go!

crack u bitch

Has anybody on here played Killzone Liberation? I'm not sure why I've never picked it up - it looks interesting

I ws drunk when I posted tht sorry

also cracking PSP leads to playing Bushido Blade on the bus

http://cache.kotaku.com/assets/resources/2008/02/2257628900_77906cf29f_o-12.jpg

http://cache.kotaku.com/assets/resources/2006/08/xboxportablehomebrew.JPG

the PSP Go is apparently going to have a RRP of £249 in the UK.
Sony u mad.

lol no 1 @ sony understands exchange rates

and US$250 is 2 much btw

ya dont get why you'd pay more for a smaller screen

+ being locked into their pricing structure with no secondhand market

The thing is, the real enthusiasts and new tech geeks WILL pay 250 or whatever. Come February 2010 Sony can then cut the price to 200 to stimulate sales. It's the established pattern.

yeh, but then they're just selling to the same people over & over again. its hardly great business.

The thing is, the real enthusiasts and new tech geeks WILL pay 250 or whatever. Come February 2010 Sony can then cut the price to 200 to stimulate sales. It's the established pattern.

there arent enuff of these ppl to makes this profitable is there? lol early adopters adopting fiscal mgmt. and even @ $200 its still too much money. and this is obv just such a terrible strategy for brand growth not 2 mention developer fatigue/disinterest

Well, it's the same price they launched the original psp at and they've now sold over 50,000,000 of those

The lineup of upcoming games looks pretty good

50MM fuuuuuckkk may have to reconsider my lol psp stance. do u have a link to the release slate tbh i tht the range of games was hella narrow compared not even comparing to the ds just generally but youve shaken my world view here

og psp was £180 in uk not £230 o_O FFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUU sony

that is a crazy price

The upcoming games I'm personally interested in is definitely led by Gran Turismo (Oct. 1), but there's also Soul Calibur: Broken Destiny, Hot Shots Tennis, Persona remake, Little Big Planet, Metal Gear Solid Peace Waker, Holy Invasion of Privacy Badman, Fate/Unlimited Codes Portable, Tekken 6, Pixel Junk Monsters Deluxe and Fat Princess. There's also a selection of about 40 more ps1 games promised before the end of 2009 (gotta be a few good things in that batch - Metal Gear Solid this week or next, I think, for instance). Of course you can still download and play all those games on the older, cheaper PSPs. The smaller size and lightness of the go is kind of appealing to me though. The price obviously less so, but...

New Peace Walker trailer...
http://www.konami.jp/kojima_pro/event_2009/en/

Sonys genius pricing plan for the UK

PSP Go £224.99
PS3 Slim £249.99

what if the Go only existed to make ps3s look even better value? its the only rational explanation...

that's $400 dollars folx

That's what you get for buying more Sony systems, Europe!

wait - it converts to only $371.96 - quit your crying :)

$250 in the US is crazy, but that's insanity. Does the UK have some kind of massive new handheld tax or something?

killer app imo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85SstHcshow

when I converted it it was over $400, my crying is justified; along with the fact america now has a sub-£200 PS3 while we still have to pay £250 I am suggest banning sony

oh my days

square enix are releasing THEXDER neo on the PSP

http://www.joystiq.com/2009/09/16/dutch-retailer-boycotts-sale-of-psp-go/

Euro retailers boycotting the PSP Go since digital distribution is going to eff them in the ay.

Doesn't make sense - I thought nobody was buying UMDs anyway? I definitely prefer just downloading and having games on a memory card or hard drive, and am glad that's the way things seem to be going. I do think the big game stores are going to have trouble surviving in the long run, but it seems inevitable. If I were them, I wouldn't pass up the chance to at least sell some hardware, but whatever - it's their money to lose.

i thought the reason the Go was so expensive was because they'd built in a much larger margin to placate the retailers?

I think it's expensive just to gouge early adopters / because they can. The price will certainly come down - possibly before Christmas.

http://www.square-enix.co.jp/thexderneo/

I just tried out the Rock Band Unplugged demo & people should be talking about this games as it seems awesome - I'm definitely going to pick it up. It's basically a very slick version of Amplitude. You play it with the left and up buttons on the-pad & the triangle and circle buttons (your thumbs resting over the buttons?), and move between streams with the L or R buttons. Here's a video from it in on expert (obviously not me and not a great run, but it'll give you an idea)...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-3Cd2nq2l0

It got a pretty tepid critical reaction, if i remember correctly. It seemed kind of fun when i tried it out on a demo kiosk.

Euro retailers boycotting the PSP Go since digital distribution is going to eff them in the ay.

I am in the UK and pretty much can't find PSP games in any shops any more anyway, so, uh...

I never patched my PSP to run homebrew because I was scared of bricking it - I take it I could still run paid-for digitally distributed games off the memory card? Haven't looked into how it all works.

That's exactly it - you can use any psp to play any of the digitally released games off your memory card - and you can now buy an 8 gig Sandisk Memory Stick Pro DUO for just $22 US(!). One of the major disadvantages with the new pspgo is that you won't be able to use it to play games that aren't released digitally or import games, so I think it's pretty smart to stick with the older systems for now. I also like the bigger size screen and it seems like the button placement is better (even if it's not great).

Having a handful of good games on your memory card is nice though. Games load faster, use less battery and obviously you never have to hear the umd drive spinning. There's around 100 or so games available digitally now (depends on your region though), and they've promised to have 300 available October 1st - though I think that is a typical bullshit Sony promise - as I can't see them accomplishing that in the next two weeks. To legally get stuff on there, if you're on a wireless network and have the latest firmware 6.0 you can access their online store directly from your psp. Just as easy, download their media go thing on PC, connect your psp to your computer via usb and you can shop online via media go... oh, you can get that here http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/products/mediago/default_enu.asp?page=download

Looks like the Gran Turismo game came out pretty lackluster :(
http://www.gametrailers.com/video/review-gran-turismo/56347

Thanks for yr help, Jeff! Have downloaded the software but haven't tried it yet, felt pangs of guilt about almost-unplayed UMDs sitting on the shelf. But it's getting hard to find physical product around here now so this is the way forward, if there is one for the PSP. Let's hope so.

what's the best gran turismo?

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i thought the reason the Go was so expensive was because they'd built in a much larger margin to placate the retailers?

― zappi, Thursday, September 17, 2009 6:20 PM (5 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this is so insane to me. like in what universe does it make sense for me to pay retailers an extra $100 because they'll be making less money in the long run? wtf am I supposed to get out of that besides the satisfaction of keeping EB games in business?

as if the customers needs come first!
according to this http://kotaku.com/5286488/analyst-sonys-249-pspgo-is-too-much
"Sony's John Koller has said over the past week that the device will carry a higher profit margin for retailers"
but then that is loltaku

Nhex, I checked out the reviews for Rock Band PSP and they're mixed, I guess, but a lot of really positive ones too (four in the 90s) http://www.metacritic.com/games/platforms/psp/rockbandunplugged?q=rock band psp

The main criticism in the low scores seems to be that the game recycles songs from the console games and that it's just more fun to play Rock Band on Rock Band instruments than a PSP.

But here's the thing... I live in an old apartment building and never bought Rock Band or Guitar Hero as I thought those types of games would piss off my neighbors

So I went for the PSP version (after trying out the demo a bunch) and I'm REALLY enjoying it. In a way, it feels like what negative comments there are were based upon & caught up in the game being called and marketed as Rock Band portable. If instead it had been called Amplitude 2 portable, I think people may have felt more positively about it.

The controls did take me a little while to get used to, but now that I've unlocked about half the game and am getting better and better at it, I find myself having those zen moments, where everything is just clicking and it really feels great. I don't think I'll ever be able to do the expert runs though - game is pretty hardcore. Definitely worth checking out.

woah - Metal Gear Solid Peacewalker demo available NOW
http://psp.ign.com/articles/102/1027904p1.html

downloading!

yknow jeff, rock-bandy games (except the drum pedal i guess) don't really make much more noise than real games. you're just standing there fiddling with a plastic guitar.

how's the demo?

also get some new industrial designers, sony, ffs
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2009/09/pspgocableconvt5.jpg

Yeah, getting to try out the demo of the new Metal Gear game six months early was a cool surprise. It definitely felt like a couple things were missing that will end up in the final game - most notably, you can go prone in the demo, but you can't crawl. Overall, it made a very good first impression. Controls were good. Visuals were really nice. Felt very close to MGS3. The demo is all in Japanese though, so it was even more confusing than normal! Although I didn't get to try it out, the demo makes it seem like the game has a big emphasis on being played co-op. It seems like the game will be composed of a lot of arena like areas where you have to take out everything to pass to the next area. So maybe less of a focus on sneaking gameplay and more of a focus on mini-boss type encounters? At least that was the impression I got from the three demo levels. Anyhow, I enjoyed the demo enough that I actually want to replay it and see if I can do better & figure more stuff out. That's more than I can say for MGS4!

The psp online store in the US just uploaded a shit-ton of games (bold emphasis is mine)...

PSP GAMES

► Full Games
○ Gran Turismo PSP ($39.99)
○ God of War Chains of Olympus ($15.99)
○ Secret Agent Clank ($31.99)
○ LocoRoco 2 ($15.99)
○ PixelJunk Monsters Deluxe ($19.99)
○ Daxter ($15.99)
○ Resistance Retribution ($31.99)
○ MLB 09 The Show ($31.99)
○ MotorStorm Arctic Edge ($39.99)
○ IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey ($29.99)
○ Cabela’s African Safari ($14.99)
○ Rapala Trophies ($14.99)
○ Gun Showdown ($14.99)
○ SWAT: Target Liberty ($19.99)
○ Crash Tag Team Racing ($14.99)
○ Cabela’s Dangerous Hunts: Ultimate Challenge ($14.99)
○ Crash: Mind Over Mutant ($29.99)
○ Crash of the Titans ($19.99)
○ Activision Hits Remixed ($14.99)
○ Guilty Gear XX Accent Core Plus ($24.99)
○ Dragon Ball Z Shin Budokai ($14.99)
○ Dragon Ball Z Shin Budokai Another Road ($14.99)
○ Shin Megami Tensei: Persona ($39.99)
○ Capcom Classics Collection Reloaded ($19.99)
○ Monster Hunter Freedom Unite ($29.99)
○ Dirt 2 ($29.99)
○ Pinball Hall of Fame ($9.99)
○ Puzzle Challenge: Crosswords and More! ($4.99)
○ Brunswick Pro Bowling ($9.99)
○ The Sims 2 ($14.99)
○ The Sims 2 Castaway ($9.99)
○ The Sims 2 Pets ($9.99)
○ Need For Speed Underground Rivals ($14.99)
○ Need For Speed Most Wanted ($19.99)
○ Need for Speed SHIFT ($39.99)
○ Need For Speed ProStreet ($19.99)
○ Need for Speed Carbon ($19.99)
○ Medal of Honor Heroes ($19.99)
○ Fight Night Round 3 ($19.99)
○ G.I.JOE The Rise of Cobra ($39.99)
○ Madden NFL 10 ($39.99)
○ Scrabble ($19.99)
○ Medal of Honor Heroes 2 ($19.99)
○ Burnout Legends ($19.99)
○ Burnout Dominator ($14.99)
○ Lord of the Rings: Tactics ($9.99)
○ Def Jam Fight For New York: The Takeover ($9.99)
○ Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 10 ($39.99)
○ NCAA Football 10 ($39.99)
○ Dynasty Warriors Strikeforce ($29.99)
○ Warriors Orochi 2 ($29.99)
○ Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings ($19.99)
○ LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventure ($19.99)
○ Thrillville: Off the Rails ($19.99)
○ Star Wars: Battlefront Renegade Squadron ($19.99)
○ Star Wars: Battlefront II ($19.99)
○ Star Wars: The Force Unleashed ($19.99)
○ Mortal Kombat: Unchained ($19.99)
○ Hot Brain ($14.99)
○ SOULCALIBUR: Broken Destiny ($39.99)
○ Blade Dancer: Lineage of Light ($4.99)
○ Mana Khemia: Student Alliance ($14.99)
○ Disgaea: Afternoon of Darkness ($14.99)
○ Disgaea 2: Dark Hero Days ($29.99)
○ Prinny: Can I Really be the Hero? ($9.99)
○ Dragoneer’s Aria ($14.99)
○ Obscure: The Aftermath ($29.99)
○ Beaterator ($39.99)
○ Alien Syndrome ($15.99)
○ Super Monkey Ball Adventure ($15.99)
○ Crazy Taxi: Fare Wars ($15.99)
○ Iron Man ($19.99)
○ Sonic Rivals ($15.99)
○ Sonic Rivals 2 ($29.99)
○ Full Auto 2: Battlelines ($15.99)
○ Sega Genesis Collection ($15.99)
○ Crush ($15.99)
○ The King of Fighters Collection ($19.99)
○ Metal Slug Anthology ($19.99)
○ SNK Arcade Classics Vol. 1 ($19.99)
○ Samurai Showdown Anthology ($19.99)
○ THEXDER NEO ($9.99)
○ Avatar: The Last Airbender ($19.99)
○ Juiced 2: Hot Import Nights ($19.99)
○ SpongeBob SquarePants: The Yellow Avenger ($19.99)
○ MX vs ATV Untamed ($19.99)
○ WWE SmackDown vs RAW 2009 ($19.99)
○ Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs ($29.99)
○ Tom Clancy’s EndWar ($29.99)
○ Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Vegas ($19.99)
○ Prince of Persia Revelations ($9.99)
○ Prince of Persia Rival Swords ($14.99)
○ 300: March To Glory ($14.99)
○ Justice League Heroes ($14.99)
○ Lego Batman The Video Game ($19.99)

► PSone ($5.99 each)
○ Jumping Flash! 2 ($5.99)
○ Um Jammer Lammy ($5.99)
○ Nuclear Strike ($5.99)
○ Gex 3: Deep Cover Gecko ($5.99)

○ PixelJunk Monsters Deluxe ($19.99)

DDDDDDDDDDDDDDOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT

wow, that reads like someone transcribed Helen Keller. my point is that I would like to play PJMD.

shdve bolded the prices

gross

the future is expensive

does psp play any ps2 games or is it only ps1?

wow, that reads like someone transcribed Helen Keller. my point is that I would like to play PJMD.

― "I have seen bloodstains on the Pac Man joystick" (jamescobo), Thursday, October 1, 2009 1:49 AM (11 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i think u can buy it for ps3 for cheaper...

great game tho

this whole psp go thing is a complete sham imo

anyone who buys one is a sucker

I already have it for PSP, it's really the only tower defense game I've ever enjoyed for more than a few minutes. the ability to play it at the dinner table/on the bus/on the terlit w/o having to fuck around with Remote Play is frighteningly appealing.

but since I won't be able to either gameshare or "preview" it I'll probably just have to gaze wistfully out the window pondering what might have been

no holy invasion of privacy badman what did i do to deserve this

hope all u yankees are picking up demon's souls or else sb

too busy oppressing talented filmmaker roman polanski mb l8r

Lamp - holy invasion of privacy badman is up there - went up a couple months ago, I think. It's on sale too, for $10 - I'm definitely planning to pick it up this weekend.

Kinda weird that you can do this with the new psp...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ipr2dnKlPo

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/reviews/2009/10/psp-go-review-sony-is-charging-you-much-more-for-much-less.ars

Adhoc party is officially coming to North America (supposedly this month)
http://blog.us.playstation.com/2009/11/adhocparty-for-psp-available-soon/

"PSP titles with adhoc mode traditionally require you to play within close proximity to each other. AdhocParty takes advantage of the interoperable capabilities of the PSP and PS3 systems. It enables you to play games featuring Ad Hoc mode, such as Gran Turismo and Monster Hunter Freedom Unite, over the Internet through the PS3. Your PSP connects to the PS3 via Wi-Fi, allowing you to chat online with fellow gamers in North America before jumping into competition from the comforts of each of your respective living rooms."

I tried AdHoc Party out tonight. It was very weird to actually be able to race other people online in Wipeout Pure. I need to get back into practice. The system is a little clunky and crazy, it reminds me of trying to use the internet in the early days. Kind of fun actually.

There's a walkthrough here... http://blog.us.playstation.com/2009/11/adhocparty-for-psp-the-walkthrough/
Probably worth watching just to see how weird the system is.

pretty sick PSP collection

http://www.gamestop.com/Catalog/ProductDetails.aspx?sku=190354

* B.O.B.: Help B.O.B. blast his way through alien goon squads and rendezvous with his galactic babe!

* Budokan: Walk the path of the warrior as you master the most deadly martial arts.

* Desert Strike: With a fiery blast from your Hellfire missiles you must annihilate a ruthless tyrant's military arsenal.

* Jungle Strike: The Desert Madman is dead. Now his vicious son plots a nuclear strike against the U.S.A.

* Haunting Starring Polterguy: Scare an evil family out of their house by being scary, funny or just plain gross.

* Mutant League Football: Anything can happen when mutants battle to prove who rules the galactic gridiron.

* Road Rash: Blow opponenets off the backroads in California's most illegal, unofficial and dangerous race.

* Road Rash II: Road racing isn't just a sport. It's an attitude! Cruising cross country just got a lot harier.

* Road Rash III: Keep an eye out for wildlife and other hazards as you engage in a 150-MPH bike brawl.

* Syndicate:Sources indicate a rival sydicate has developed a dangerous new computer program. We want it.

* Ultima: The Black Gate: Solve the mystery that has befallen Britannia before its manifestation is complete!

* Virtual Pinball: You design the pinball game, you build it, you play it!

* Wing Commander: Lead your elite Tiger's Claw squadron against the forces of the Kilrathi Empire.

* Wing Commander: Secret Missions: Come face to face with the ultimate threat to mankind, a weapon capable of destroying entire planets!

ignore me I'm being dumm

who wants to buy a psp from me

I bid £10

reserve not met

I just bought one of these, for some reason... PSP, LBP and Patapon 2 for $100. Are there any other good games? Any at all? Including those snack-sized deals?

Both PSP Wipeout games are excellent, though I think the second, Pulse, is better and has online play. Mega Man Powered Up is also a really great game.

what about that Joan of Arc game?

I'd pay about a hundred bucks for that; they should start at that price and then stop.

$100 for the thing and two good games or $100 for the thing?

$100 for the thing and two good games. Did you buy it from a friend?

no, from a pawn shop in a depressed neighbourhood. LPB was still in the shrinkwrap.

crack it and put Cave Story on it

oh and Pac-Man CE is available as a Playstation Mini

jeanne d'arc is supposed to be incredible if your into strategy games. holy invasion of privacy badman is p rad. i wld also be into clash of heroes & that final fantasy fighting game.

Pixeljunk Monsters Deluxe is a version of PJM you can play on the terlit, so of course it's a win. Sid Meier's Pirates is a portable version of maybe the greatest strategy game ever. Half-Minute Hero is fun & unique. I think there's a PSP Persona game too.

having said all that, I just sold my PSP a few weeks ago and don't really miss it; even my game-hoarding ass can't justify keeping a system I play less than my GBA. also the battery life is a butt.

What are you still playing on the GBA?

I'll buy one of these for a cnote with a game or three if anyone in the NY area wants to bite.

xpost just catching up on my insane backlog - the FF6 remake, one of the Klonoas, other random shit like that.

you can probably buy mine by june or so forks

I like the gradius collection. if you've never played gradius gaiden before and like the series, it's definitely worth picking up.

ant: call me.

Ooh you can get The Warriors for this ish! I love the PSP!

any pspers wanna be gameshare buddies?

MGS peace walker looks the shiz

It seems like there's another mini-wave of interesting titles coming, with both Peace Walker and Hot Shots Tennis in June, Persona 3 in July, and Mod Nation Racers (using the Wipeout engine) in May.

Also very curious to see if June will bring news of a psp2. Would be crazy if they could make it run downloadable ps2 games and if it has a second analog stick (hopefully improved from the nub). Or maybe they will go in a more iPod Touch direction?

... not to mention valkyria chronicles 2 and the knights in the nightmare port

I'm almost tempted to pick up a cheap 3000

I have a 3000 and feel like it's a big improvement over the original model, especially the buttons and d-pad feel better & brighter screen that got rid of the motion blur is nice. That said, I still feel like it's the least essential of the primarily game playing devices currently on the market. Also 5 years old!

persona 3!

did anyone pick up patchwork heroes? I love the visual style

I just tried out the demo. It's basically QIX. The graphic style is really nice, but I didn't find the gameplay too compelling. Basically you're a lil' guy moving across a flat ship and you have a time limit to cut off portions of the ship, which eventually will destroy it when you've trimmed off enough parts (or if you don't the ship drops it's bombs and you can try again from the beginning). There didn't seem to be much to it - at least on the two early demo levels I tried out (I didn't even feel interested enough to beat the second level).

what wd sony stand to lose by allowing PSP games to be played on PS3?

the sale of any psp ever again?

PSP only sells in japan and I'm sure my idea wouldn't affect that any

it was dead in the water in the UK last time I looked

http://www.mcvuk.com/news/39164/New-free-games-offer-for-PSPgo
if they let you choose the games (which they won't) I'd probably be on board

desperation hanging heavy for these guys

cozen argos are clearing their stock for £140. has this been hacked yet cos i might go for it at that price + games + emulators

did ANYONE buy the go

looked like teh dumbest thing ever

smaller screen! less games! less things you can do! $100 more!

think i read somewhere that its sales were tracking worse than the Virtual Boy

the 10 free games

- Assassins Creed: Bloodlines (Ubisoft)
- Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories (Rockstar Games)
- Gran Turismo (SCE WWS)
- James Camerons AVATAR: The Game (Ubisoft)
- LittleBigPlanet (SCE WWS)
- MotorStorm Arctic Edge (SCE WWS)
- NEED FOR SPEED SHIFT (EA)
- Pursuit Force: Extreme Justice (SCE WWS)
- 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa (EA)
- WipEout Pure (SCE WWS)

Thats a bargain.

I got my PSP go cheap after my phat bit the dust and I use it all the time. but that said, my feelings would be different if I had paid £250 for it.

I always hated UMDs anyway and a Go with a 8 gig card in it can have all the games above plus a load of films and .mp3s

but this is most probably a flush before the PSP2 gets announced and really no one buys a go.

even with all that, $250 is way way too much. Maybe 150.

driving games, eh

So there's a new, really easy hack for the psp out that allows you to run homebrew & emulators (NES, SNES, PC Engine etc). No pandora batteries or weirdness, it's a simple exploit involving the Patapon 2 demo. Only up to firmware 6.2 though. Even works on pspGO.

This thread explains how simple it is...
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=401927

I still love my PSP

just got a PSP super cheap! 1st gen but in great condition & has latest firmware installed.
so... i need suggestions for PSP games plz, especially Action RPGs and anything with unusual gameplay that you can't get anywhere else.

I still have (and love) my PSP (as above)

the only PSP game actually worth paying for is Sid Meier's Pirates

Disgaea is a time black hole when you get into it....

I note that 5 out of 7 PSP Coint+Plick noms so far are JRPGs - is this the one remaining PSP market?

(I enjoyed the hacking and slashing bits of Recettear, maybe I should find out if I like jRPGS proper. Though apparently I was playing it on an earlier version which had much easier combat than it was meant to, and I'm too scared to upgrade because I don't want to die any more often. So if real ones will have me dying every 30 seconds I guess I'm not into them.)

PSP2!

wait

fuck

http://www.abload.de/image.php?img=psp2cmxi.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXoVDJWP12I

gizmodo

The Sony PSP2 has arrived under the codename NGP. It has a nice, big 5-inch OLED touchscreen, dual analogue sticks, dual cameras, and the most interesting part—a touch-sensitive panel on the back of the device used for control.

Uncharted
Killzone
WipeOut
Resistance
Monster Hunter
LittleBigPlanet
Hustle Kings
Hot Shots Golf
lol

£1000

lol

out in Japan this 'holiday' season, whatever the fuck that means

looks good to me but it does look expensiiiiiiive

ikr

Appaz the screen is so high-res and so incredible and so futuristic that it's like looking at, say, AN IPHONE 4.

This whole thing reminds me of when JVC was pushing that new video tape format a few years ago.

CPU
ARM® CortexTM-A9 core (4 core)

GPU
SGX543MP4+

External Dimensions
Approx. 182.0 x 18.6 x 83.5mm (width x height x depth) (tentative, excludes largest projection)

Screen
(Touch screen)
5 inches (16:9), 960 x 544, Approx. 16 million colours, OLED
Multi touch screen (capacitive type)

Rear touch pad
Multi touch pad (capacitive type)

Cameras
Front camera, Rear camera

Sound
Built-in stereo speakers
Built-in microphone

Sensors
Six-axis motion sensing system (three-axis gyroscope, three-axis accelerometer), Three-axis electronic compass

Location
Built-in GPS
Wi-Fi location service support

Volume buttons (+/-)

Wireless communications
Mobile network connectivity (3G)
IEEE 802.11b/g/n (n = 1x1)(Wi-Fi) (Infrastructure mode/Ad-hoc mode)
Bluetooth® 2.1+EDR ?A2DP/AVRCP/HSP?

COD
Rockstar

also

http://i.imgur.com/H6eje.png

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-sony-ngp-analysis

Does sound like a pretty great machine. But I just don't expect there to be much on there I actually want to play.

Well, in three years...
Anybody have a price for this thing yet? If it's competitive with the 3DS that's one thing but if it's a 500 system...

gonna be at least $300

who needs this thing?

I'll be curious to see whether they're subsidizing the 3G connection (either they do that or any kids who want this thing will have to come up with monthly money). I wouldn't be surprised at all if they ended up with 2 different offerings - one $500 w/ subsidized 3G and one $300 w/ a $30/month contract.

also folks with UMDs catching maaaaad dicks in the butt w/ this thing. "you can either rebuy your games on PSN or maybe we'll rerelease them on SD cards!"

had to read that three times to determine you weren't saying "forks with UMDs catching maaaaad dicks in the butt w/ this thing"

and the replacement for the XMB looks utterly butt-ugly; the only reason I can think of for it would be to use the rear touch panel to flip through it.

xpost well I guess that would depend on how many UMDs you own

nerd language aside, how much better is the speed and graphics?

oh, I didn't see that article JimD ~ good comparisons in it

also folks with UMDs catching maaaaad dicks in the butt w/ this thing. "you can either rebuy your games on PSN or maybe we'll rerelease them on SD cards!"

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wah wah, I don't remember my SNES games playing on my N64, my N64 games playing on my GameCube, my Saturn games playing on my Dreamcast etc.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
http://www.gamestop.com/Catalog/ProductDetails.aspx?sku=020163&loc=homeflash1

for balance, here is a list of THINGS I DO FIND APPEALING ABOUT THIS THING
- cross-compatability w/ select PS3 games (i.e. some PS3 games will let you continue playing on PSP2, allegedly without even having to buy it a second time [though we'll see about that])
- non-disc media
- touch-sensitive back panel (been intrigued by this ever since it was mentioned as a possibility for the iphone 4)
- screen will probably be purty
- dual analogue sticks will be rad if/when this thing gets ha><ored
- a 3G connection which actually allows you to impulse-buy games anywhere would be great if they can actually pull it off in a manner which doesn't make this thing EVEN MORE expensive
- Uncharted
- thin
- buying new toys is fun

xxpost time marches on; every console & handheld put on the market since like 2004 (except for the PSP Go and DSi/XL) allows you to play at least SOME of your old games without having to buy them all over again. 3DS will too.

will play all PSN PSP games.....

how would it play PSP non-digital games without a UMD slot, and nothing says future-proof more than a UMD slot.

buy them again via digital download?
supposedly theres going to be a 3G+wi-fi version and a separate wi-fi only version of the hardware
either way its gonna be $$$$

Got this yesterday

Now need recs for titles.

so far, I've picked up:

Patapon 1/2
LocoRoco
Wipeout Pure
Jeanne D'arc
PixelJunk: Monster Party or something
Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters

Stuff I dig: JRPGs, games with really cool weird Japanese art-design , 16-bit graphic aesthetics, etc

Valkyria Chronicles 2; Persona 3 Portable; Tactics Ogre: LUCT, Maybe the Kingdom Hearts game if you're into that, also: crack the sucker & PS1 RPGs = :)

P3 Portable is a must. the Ys games are fun Zelda ripoffs. Half-Minute Hero is retardedly fun, I totally would have voted for it in C&P (SIGH) if I'd played it in time. and of course I will never pass up a chance to recommend Sid Meier's Pirates.

Final Fantasy Tactics: War Lions, Castlevania Dracula X

I'll second the ys games but I don't really think they're zelda rip-offs. the combat is quite different. very fast-paced and similar to brawlers in the later games.

have only played ps2 person 3 but that's a great one, yeah.

don't play too many racers but outrun 2006 is one of my faves. top-notch sega blue skies action.

if you're into shmups, I've gotten a lot of mileage out of the star solider psp collection. that's an import but it's fairly cheap for one and the psp isn't region locked.

is valkyrie profile any good?

when is PSP 2 out?

last i heard Nov/Dec in the West, early 2012 in Japan

picked up plenty of games.

now playing Kenka Bancho, Ys 1 & 2, and Lunar a lot

they're cheap! this is a great system for budget gaming.

I liked the Star Ocean remake even if I had no idea what was going on half the time.

The Disgaea game has the most irritatingly juvenile JRPG plot and characters but the gameplay is really great. It's turn-based strategy but somehow it works quite differently.

Isnt one of the Disgaea games really good and the rest crap?

Also, the psp port of Ys 1 makes for a suprising great air-travel rpg. It's an 8bit jrpg with a graphical upgrade, but the simplicity and terseness make ideal for bouncing in & out of in airports, airplanes, on the train home, etc

It just needs a mini-map.

The one I got was Disgaea: Afternoon of Darkness which is a port of a PS2 game iirc. It's almost universally considered good (but like I say the humor, story, and characters are awful as is the voice acting) but there are a bunch of spin-offs which I don't think are that great.

Also, the psp port of Ys 1 makes for a suprising great air-travel rpg.

yeah, this is exactly how I played as well and I 100% agree.

have any of you played XSEED's corpse party?