PSP Core is now $169 US

[vivman1107]

Effective this week, the PSP Core pack is now $169 US. The Core pack just has the system with AC adapter. This puts it just within a reasonable price range for anyone who was thinking about it before. Now the only question is if I should spring for a PSP or stick with my 360 for Lumines (one of the few games I want for PSP).

[TheApprentice]

Well now is a good time I guess...

PSP does have alot of good games you know > Tekken:DR, Socom Fireteam Bravo 1/2, Loco Roco ( ), Ace Combat X, GTA:LCS/VCS, Syphon Filter... (At least thats what I have and they're great...)

Don;t have lumines strangely...

I bought my Value pack about a year ago...
@ 250 US...

[Netizen1]

Wow, this is sorta good news


brings the handheld within budget for Christmas shopping

[vivman1107]

Well, my thing is that I want handheld games that are different from my console games. My DS fills that role perfectly. I play my DS mostly at home so for me the advantage of having a portable version of a console game is nullified. The only exceptions would be the re-releases of old console games that I may have missed the first time they were released (like SNES RPG's). Even this may not be needed when Live Arcade and Virtual Console beef up their library in the next few years.

[TheApprentice]

^Well I hear your point...

But psp has its gems too..like Loco Roco...

Boy do i love that game

[Crixx_Creww]

yeah as everyone knows iam not a sony fan

but the new price makes it atleast interesting
so i spent about 10 minutes trying to see if anything about it interest me

well... it can play mp3s... on sony's memory stick dou's, aka expensive hmm

i just got my v3i and iam gonna get a bigger memory card so yeah, mp3s covered.

it can play mpeg4, stick dous again, or lol buy a umd movie ahahaha yeah right.


and then the mod scene... what mod scene? sigh

no rom capabilities for backing up my ridiculously expensive games?

hmm pass again

all i would want it for is some mp3.mpeg play and maybe tekken dr oo and i see there is a 300 game looks mildly interesting and damnit my neighbours cookin sunday lunch an i eh have nun an my modda gone out!! steups!!!

[New Era Outlaw]

This belongs in Handheld Gaming. *boot*

Yeah, I'm somewhat disappointed that the PSP's only redeeming titles are virtually all remakes of pre-existing titles. On top of that, waiting for a new title that's worth getting is like waiting for Colm Imbert to grow a brain.

Still, I'm quite happy with what titles I did manage to get (excluding Street Fighter Alpha 3 Max, which is severely beaten down by the PSP's crappy controls.)
With that said:

- Yu-Gi-Oh GX Tag Force
- Mega Man: Maverick Hunter X
- Gradius Collection
- GTA: Liberty City and Vice City Stories
- Tekken: DR

...are probably the best the system has to offer. Haven't played Daxter and Lumines as yet, though, but I'm sure they're good also.

[Saxito Pau]

off-topic: NEO...at this point I really going to ask you to post a rant about Colm Imbert. You have SERIOUS issues with the guy!! Remind me of one maths teacher (who was damn good, but I'd deck him in a flash for his self-righteous arrogance) who claims when he and Imbert was in UWI, Imbert used to talk so much they had to keep telinghim "shut up!"

On topic: US$169 doh seem too bad for core handheld console....but is sony... too many bad rep for my liking now..

[rb]

and then the mod scene... what mod scene? sigh

no rom capabilities for backing up my ridiculously expensive games?

hmm pass again

you really should get ALL your information before making comments like that.

PSP's are downgradable to version 1.5 which allows for booting of games on memory sticks via loaders, for post 2.71 firmware there are methods that allow this also.  Not because it doesn't use a mod chip or a physical device means it can't be modded.

I'm tempted into getting one of these now, if only for castlevania rondo of blood.

[Crixx_Creww]

oh well i did say i spent all of ten minutes looking

and one of my primary sources was www.jkentertainment.net

heard of that website?


but after wards i did do a torrentspy search for generic psp and it did turn up results

but iam seeing games at 452 megs and wondering if that could really be the whole working game

iam not gonna condone any illegal actions on the site
so if yu have more info, hit me up on msn please

u just may change my mind about this thing

[rb]

jk's website is outdated, i'd know that very well. Look for the new site very soon

[Crixx_Creww]

[Crixx_Creww]

ok dokey guys

my bro bought the psp core for me

coming in with my nephew tomorow.

Now to get a memory duo and start the download fest.. i mean start saving my pennies to buy original games.... >.>

[EmpireKing]

iz probbably illegal but can sumone explain to me how ppl download psp torrents an then play it

[rb]

good luck finding a first edition original liberty city stories to boot those acquired games.

[Crixx_Creww]

explain rb?

[rb]

well in order to get acquired games to work , you have to downgrade. Post 2.71 if try to downgrade on certain boards it kills the board sort of. Theres a downgrade involving the 1st edition GTA LCS but to downgrade you need the game. Later versions of the same game will not work.  The 1st unpatched edition of LCS goes for like a couple hundred US on ebay.

[Fkacn_tt]

its like the ps2 uses ps1 games to boot exploits, gta is the same as it allows homebrew to be booted

[TheApprentice]

I have a 1st gen copy of GTA:LCS if anyone willing to make a $$ offer... 

(I hate GTA :| )


@ crixx as yuh a member of the PSP family.. read up/register at these forums, you'll get all what you need to homebrew up yur psp if you wish, or basically learn about PSP Media Portals etc..etc...etc....  (no illegal torrent game download talk though)
>
http://boardsus.playstation.com/playstation?category.id=psp

[EmpireKing]

chek dis rite....i ah broke trini

iz there anywhere in trinidad that does do whatever you hav to do to the psp to make it able to play dloaded games?