Thread: PSP

**Suede** · Sun, 02-06-2005, 07:00 PM

My cousin has an imported PSP. He can play Ridge Racer for around 6-6.5 hours fully charged. Is it worth it? To me it is, but im a big playstation fanboy. I will wait til they sell the value pack alone in the states. As it is now they are only selling the bundle pack which ships for $400 in late march.

As for the DS nothing about it impresses me, the touchpad is a joke peoples ignorance amazes me, they act as if this is some brand new technology. The graphics are laughable and the screens are tiny. It isnt the PSP thats overhyped its the DS, mashing on a itty bitty screen has no appeal to me, so while some kid is giving himself blisters ill be watching a movie then switching over to some grand theft auto.

**Aeon** · Sun, 02-06-2005, 10:28 PM

The only store I know that is forcing people to buy a bundle is EB at that 400$ price tag. We had a damn 7am meeting today with a Sony Rep about it and GT4(we get to host a Best Buy Tournament at my store). He made it sound cool with the pictures, music and wireless stuff but I still don't want one.

(And phuck anyone that mentions the SuperBowl, I can't even get on aim/msn [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-sad.gif[/img].)

**Barumonk** · Mon, 02-07-2005, 04:07 AM

Way too lazy to read all 5 pages of this. ^^;; The PSP has an extremely low battery life, plugging it into a wall to counter that defeats the point of the system being portable. There are also reports that the 'Square' button is screwed up. They designed the screen too big and moved the Square button to the right, but didn't change the placement of the button on the casing, so the result is that its less responsive and tends to stick. Sony's response to both game developers and consumers was basically "deal with it, we aren't fixing it." Some 4,800 PSP units have already been returned because of this one issue.

In contrast, the only thing reported about the DS is that if you lose the touch pad styles you have to buy more in 3 packs. There have also been reports that the programmers screwed up on the Wario DS game and the touch pad isn't configured correctly for a few of the minigames, but thats a software issue for a single game.

**Turkish-S** · Mon, 02-07-2005, 09:59 AM

u can chat with the ds with other people the whole group on our scool is buying one and than it's going 2 be an chat party all around the scool but does anyone know how far the ds can go with ...????
i think it is blou touth but maybe its infra red who knows that and can tell me??????

**LobsterMagnet** · Mon, 02-07-2005, 11:21 AM

Thats the thing about nintendo. They always make good hardware and reliable software. I've seen people have all kinds of trouble with their respective x-box's and ps2's. I've had a gamecube for about 3 years now and I've never had a any problems with it.

Sony is much less reliable. Anyone here see the psp video where the system launches the disk out from the back like a ninja star?

Psp has the better hardware but it's really going to be the innovation that determines how succesful each respective system is. If just one good strategy/ rpg is released for the ds it's over for me I've got to get
one.

I think a few are in developement to. Like the xenosaga ds game and the baiten kaitos ds game. Plus one of the guys who left the final fantasy development team started his own company and is making a strategy rpg game for the ds. As it stands now most of the ds software sucks. Most developers seem to be afraid to use the ds more affectivly. They don't know what to do with the second screen aside from put health and maps on it.

**Suede** · Mon, 02-07-2005, 01:18 PM

What makes a system are the games. The DS has none. Sure you can play GBA games on it but whats the point of getting the system then, might as well get a gba and save yourself the money. The DS is slated to only have 100 games available by the end of 2005. The same thing that killed the gamecube is going to haunt the DS.

**LobsterMagnet** · Mon, 02-07-2005, 06:00 PM

ditto for the psp.

Aside from the occasional half-assed ps2/ps1 port.

**jing** · Mon, 02-07-2005, 06:06 PM

Originally posted by: turkish-shikamaru
u can chat with the ds with other people the whole group on our scool is buying one and than it's going 2 be an chat party all around the scool but does anyone know how far the ds can go with ...????
i think it is blou touth but maybe its infra red who knows that and can tell me??????

why would anyone do that.............

**Turkish-S** · Mon, 02-07-2005, 06:12 PM

cuzz its fun...... not??

**Lucifus** · Mon, 07-31-2006, 06:04 PM

Well, I just ordered a PSP fully decked out for 320$ and Tekken-Dark Ressurection. (Nice way to spend my first paycheck eh?

)

And I've got some questions. Anyone here own a psp? And if so, can it browse the web decently? I heard it can but I just can't see it doing that..... Also, it can only play ps1 games, music, and movies right?

**Aeon** · Mon, 07-31-2006, 06:17 PM

Why for 320? What all did you get with it?

**ChaosK** · Mon, 07-31-2006, 08:54 PM

Originally Posted by Lucifus

Well, I just ordered a PSP fully decked out for 320$ and Tekken-Dark Ressurection. (Nice way to spend my first paycheck eh?

)

And I've got some questions. Anyone here own a psp? And if so, can it browse the web decently? I heard it can but I just can't see it doing that..... Also, it can only play ps1 games, music, and movies right?

Okay now then..
1) I own a PSP
2) Yes it can browse the web rather well using wifi.
3) ...PS1 games? what are you talking about? Are you going to Ram a CD into that thing? It can only play PSP games, except for if you hack it into an emulator and end up playing...mario bros or something.

4) Yes it plays music and movies well. You'll need to get PSP video 9 for the movies or any video file.

Also, what the hell do you mean by "decked out" Did you buy a big pro duo memory stick? Because $320....

**Fox Fire** · Mon, 07-31-2006, 11:13 PM

Originally Posted by Chaoskiddo

Okay now then..
3) ...PS1 games? what are you talking about? Are you going to Ram a CD into that thing? It can only play PSP games, except for if you hack it into an emulator and end up playing...mario bros or something.

..

They said at E3 that they will have downloadable ps games for it by the end of this year
Like RIIIIIIIDGE RACER!

**Souryusen** · Mon, 07-31-2006, 11:15 PM

Originally Posted by Chaoskiddo

Okay now then..

3) ...PS1 games? what are you talking about? Are you going to Ram a CD into that thing? It can only play PSP games, except for if you hack it into an emulator and end up playing...mario bros or something.

PSP is getting PS1 emu support in the upcoming fall in an official Sony firmware upgrade, speculated to be around October. This is the same update that's providing VOIP support.

**ChaosK** · Mon, 07-31-2006, 11:24 PM

Originally Posted by Souryusen

PSP is getting PS1 emu support in the upcoming fall in an official Sony firmware upgrade, speculated to be around October. This is the same update that's providing VOIP support.

Oh sweet, also, when was the last time you posted?

**Souryusen** · Mon, 07-31-2006, 11:26 PM

Originally Posted by Chaoskiddo

Oh sweet, also, when was the last time you posted?

I do believe that was 6/6/06.

**Lucifus** · Mon, 07-31-2006, 11:52 PM

Haha, tight, yet eerily creepy. Hey man, don't know ya, but I'm guessing your one of the local return of the living dead guys. Welcome back.

Thanks for the info. Reading the reviews, seeing all the features, and all the emulators available for the PSP. I think I'm gonna like the buy. Surf the net, send ims, watch videos, music, playstation,snes,nes,gba, etc games on my psp?

Tight. Forget the Ipod. And ya, the reason it was so expensive was because I bought all the accessories I saw available, and bought the 4 GB Harddrive for the PSP.

Edit: O, n Souryusen, nice sig n ava. =)

**samsonlonghair** · Wed, 08-02-2006, 09:09 AM

A built-in PS1 emulator sounds great, but I don't really trust SONY anymore; they've got a bad track record as far as I'm concerned. They promised that PS2 would have some kind of "emotion engine" that did all sorts of amazing stuff. They even claimed that it could render Toy Story in real time. Not long before launch, they claimed that PSP was more powerful than PS2.

As for emulattion, it's a GP2X for me. The list of emulators for this thing runs out the door and around the block. It's got great hardware; the only thing it lacks is a 3D accelerator. Unlike the PSP, gamepark holdings doesn't disable all your emulators with every firmware upgrade.

My favorite part is the batteries: just plain old double As. If I'm on the go, and my GBA-SP runs out of juice I've got to plug it into a wall to keep playing; with this thing I just pop in two new batteries, and I'm good to go.

By the way, good to see you on the boards Souryusen. Don't be a stranger.

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