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Is the PSP worth it? Ive just been reading up on the PS3 (which il be getting around october) and read about the compatibility with the PSP and im compelled to get one.
What are the bad facts about the PSP? Most sites that sell it big it up with no negatives (obviously) and what are good features that a buyer actually wants not "GRAPHXS R GOOD" like most selling sites.
Dude I'm telling you, PSP is GOD!!
You have so many more options than the rival DS.
Its almost like a friggen Wii except it doesnt play just retro nintendo games, it plays all of them.
As you might have noticed I am speaking of illegal mods here but besides those the psp has a wide variety of games in pretty much every genre (only the rpg section could use a bit more support imo...)
I've heard the PSP even has more power than the Ps2 but that developers arent allowed to fully use it yet cause of marketing plans etc etc.
Newayy this is just my uber sony fanboy opinion.
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It does lack some good new games. With the exception of the new ratched and clank game its not that many killer apps in the future. You should get at least 2 gig MS for movies and music. Its really not that much bad IMO. And with firmware 3.30 you can now (finally) view movies in full resolution. That was really the biggest downside of it but its fixed now. It still does not play divx and WMV im afraid. Its big so you need some large pockets for it. I usually use my jacket to carry it. I don't care much about scratches any more, but I'm surprised how well its doing without any protection in my pocket. The jostick has a bod habit to fall off after a long time. It happens to many people but you can easy put it back on. I lost mine someplace and had to create my own.
What really makes the PSP good is when its hacked. Sony don't want you to know it but tens of thousands psp owners does this. If its hacked you can run homebrews that people have made. Its tons of different applications and homemade games thats already been created. Sony tries to stop this with firmwareupdates since if you can run homebrew, you can run pirated games from memorystick without any need for a hardware mod.
Firmware 1.5 allows you to run homebrews and pirated games, but on 1.5 you dont have a browser or other extra good features sony has added. A Spanish guy named Dark_AleX does a slick job to merge firmware 1.5 and the newest one. So you can have all the sony features and run homebrew.
People are also working to make PSP go from a new Sony Firmware back down to 1.5. When you are at 1.5 you can upgrade to Dark_AleX firmware with all good stuff intact.
The newest Firmware out is 3.30. Dark_AleX have fixed firmware 3.10 and called it 3.10 OE (Open Edition). He is now working on 3.30 OE
The latest firmware you can downgrade from is 3.03. To downgrade you need an unpatched version of GTA:LCS. New GTA versions have fixed a bug. A friend might have it.
If you find a PSP in stores with FW 2.71 you can downgrade without the GTA game. But i think they are all gone.
So if you buy a PSP, get one with firmware 3.03 or lower.
(pfew, that was alot)
If you wonder what homebrew can do, I can tel you that the have managed to run win 95 and macintosh on it. It takes half and hour to boot them but you get the idea. Anything can created for homebrew. Remote controls, quake 1 and 2, email readers, gba/nes/atari++ emulators. Someone just come up with a MMO FF Cardgame for it.
BTW: When you downgrade and upgrade without sonys official ways you do risk a very slim chance to brick it. That means you destroys your psp firmware inside and makes it unusable
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PSP is well good. It cant do much to do with PS3 yet though. Also... It doesnt have that many good games. xD I mainly use it for MP3, pics, music, video and internet. Also Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops and Locoroco are amazing!
Up coming games like Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII and Silent Hill: Origins look really good.
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I also read on this forum (or another) that you can port (illegally?) games like FF7 onto it.
Yup you can. Im gunna do it once i find out how. xD
Yup you can. Im gunna do it once i find out how. xD
Yes you can run it, I have. And it dont have to be illeagal. The psp has a psone emulator thanks to the sony service of psone games on ps3 stores. But it really supports and emulates all psone games. You have to have a costum Firmware, convert you FFVII cds on your comp (or download the psone ISO) til a format that the psp can read and then simply put the converted finle into ms:/psp/game/FFVII/ folder
The converting program is called popstation and its a lot of different ones.
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Thats awesome. Im definetly getting it then. I enjoy FFVII and the rest of the FF PS1 games. But sitting inside on my Playstation gets boring fast these days. FINALLY something to do on the bus.
Thats awesome. Im definetly getting it then. I enjoy FFVII and the rest of the FF PS1 games. But sitting inside on my Playstation gets boring fast these days. FINALLY something to do on the bus.
Dont forget to find one with FW 3.03 or lower so you can downgrade and then install a costum firmware. Good luck
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Yes you can run it, I have. And it dont have to be illeagal. The psp has a psone emulator thanks to the sony service of psone games on ps3 stores. But it really supports and emulates all psone games. You have to have a costum Firmware, convert you FFVII cds on your comp (or download the psone ISO) til a format that the psp can read and then simply put the converted finle into ms:/psp/game/FFVII/ folder
The converting program is called popstation and its a lot of different ones.
So you've done it yourself?
Mind...PMing me and explaining it? XD plz Henrik <3333
Sorry for the thread hi-jack. xD PSP R0x, purchase.
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But about the PSP thing, I recommend you buy a 4 or 8 gig memorystick with it (4 gig costs like 70 to 92 dollar somewhere on the net, and I bought my 8 gig for 150 euros)
A ps1 game like FFVII which was 4 discs large takes around 1.5 gigs of memory on your psp. And remember that if for example you use a 2gig memstick you dont actually have access to 2gigs of disk space but more like 1.6gig...
And I assume you also want to have ordinary psp games, music and movies on your psp at the same time so I recommend going for the 4 or 8gig memorystick.
I love my 8 gig to bits and I'm sure you'll do the same
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