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Gaming => Handheld Gaming => Topic started by: vivman1107 on April 07, 2007, 11:13:28 AM
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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).
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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 ( :D ), 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...
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Wow, this is sorta good news
brings the handheld within budget for Christmas shopping
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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.
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^Well I hear your point...
But psp has its gems too..like Loco Roco...
Boy do i love that game :P
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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!!!
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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.
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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..
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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.
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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
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jk's website is outdated, i'd know that very well. Look for the new site very soon :P
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^_^
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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.... >.>
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iz probbably illegal but can sumone explain to me how ppl download psp torrents an then play it
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good luck finding a first edition original liberty city stories to boot those acquired games.
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explain rb?
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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.
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its like the ps2 uses ps1 games to boot exploits, gta is the same as it allows homebrew to be booted
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I have a 1st gen copy of GTA:LCS if anyone willing to make a $$ offer... :happy0203:
(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)
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http://boardsus.playstation.com/playstation?category.id=psp
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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?
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you don't necessarily have to install mod chip or whatever you know...
What firmware do you have installed?
and when did you buy your psp?
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i doh hav a psp......but i want to buy one in august. I wanna knmow if it can be done bcuz im sure that i wont be able to buy alot of games
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Well most probably that new psp would have the new system boards in them which incompatible with current mod chips etc...
It all depends on the firmware version you get with it..
Right now we up to FW 3.5
The ones that you could downgrade and use with said pirated/downloaded games, you will need backwards of 3.3 (i think) which you downgrade to an older firmware and run homebrew etc....
again take a read up on those forums i posted earlier...you'd learn alot ;)
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aiight then thnx
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ok
got my psp
wednesday night
bought my memory stick pro duo, 2 gig, this afternoon
hey checked it and saw its firm ware version 2.71 so iam A OK for the downgrade right? yayz, will download one of those downgrader thingies and try it
loaded some pics and mp3s.
Finding some irritating probs
teh gifs not playing
it not detecting the videos on the memory stick
the wallpaper does dissapear when yu play mp3s or check another pic
ok update
was about to go ahead with the downgrade (lol) then saw a note ,like oh btw if yu ahve a ta-082 mobo yur proper f***** for downgrading
and iam like hmm welll how do i check htat??
lol open the umd slot and look for writing on the inside on the mobo
iam like okkzz ill look, heyy nooo writing wait hmm wats that in the corner 1c1003
whats that/??
adn they are like oh if yu see 1c1003 yur proper f***** and iam like noooooooooozzzzzzzz
so then i frantically google
see an interesting tid bit on wikipedia
clicked it
saw a name dark alex
hmm
googled that
then voilllaaa
resources galore!
did some more digging and reading and found out that this dude is like the neo of psp haxzxzx
and hes gotten around the ta-082 for the 2.71 and 2.80
so tomorow afternoon ill be downloading all thats neccessary and ill spend the day reading up all the instructions
and by tomroow night i should have 1.50 so i can do cool stuffies like play mp3s and watch pics same timeszz yayzz
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and i told him on msn...
GET A DS !
^___________^ IT HASPOKEMON
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^lol thise the only reason i want a DS....
and probably brain age :yay:
@ crixx... ley out yuh options.. if your intention is to run homebrew/ try downoaded (illegal) games... go right ahead...
I heard they have these new cracked firmware updates u cud do, so once u dwngrade properly etc.... u cud upgrade the 3.5OE or something like that...
As for me I updated all the time...features in 3.0+ connectivity to ps3, music visualizations and a whole lot more....
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PSP firmware 2.71 is the new golden firmware because it gives a good midpoint to downgrade and upgrade to.
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yeah
now that the ta-082 mobo has been cracked wide open
upgrading to 3.30e is the new flick all the latest updates and compatibility with all the newest games plus many more features than normal psp
i was up til4 this morning ultra tabbing and just reading like crazy lol
i even found a gba emulator with all the pokemon and other gba games lol
so illl be really happy when i get that
i think ill buy tekken dr though
but iam gonna home brew like crazy
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I had down to a 64 emu on my last psp before i sold it but it wasnt stable. The Snes on the other had had down to a cpu speed setting to help with playing games.
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first post from my psp at lcm food court green dot wireless apparently
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cool
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If you ever in Trincity mall Greendot have a connection set up in the food court by the cinema, but it kind of iffy. On another note 3.51OE might be coming out soon and i read somewhere that it might have an iso loader built in courtesy of sony.