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?

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?