Final Fantasy IV : Cecil's Journey

[Devia Eleven]

Too bad PSP games cannot be played on the PS2 or the PS3.

[Bambi]

I've had to patch the system a few times.

But yes Patapon was not the game to base your psp opinion on.

[Sybarite Paladin AxL]

I chose Patapon because it was cheap. My brother was offering to sell me his PSP for relatively cheap, is the thing, and I wanted to know how badly he had flocked it up. Then I borrowed it and ran into problems not caused by him, but by Sony.

 

When I say built in save, I mean a hard drive, or cartridges. The thing told me I had to go out and buy a memory card. I realize you can tell it doesn't have a flip screen, that's not something I just discovered. I've never had to patch another system before, though, save my PC, what else does that?

 

Get a transparent screen protector sticker, a memory card as big as you can afford and a custom firmware. I can help you with that. And you'll soon see why the PSP is so great.

[BlackKnight]

When I say built in save, I mean a hard drive, or cartridges. The thing told me I had to go out and buy a memory card. I realize you can tell it doesn't have a flip screen, that's not something I just discovered. I've never had to patch another system before, though, save my PC, what else does that?

Oh yeh, I agree not having a HDD of some sort in the machine was just stupid. Luckily 4GB sticks are pretty cheap now, as compared with 2 years ago when I bought mine :/

 

As for the patching, all the latest consoles do it- PS3, 360 and Wii. iPhones, Zens, Zunes all do it. The only thing on the market that doesn't update firmware is the DS.

[OverlordMondo]

I chose Patapon because it was cheap. My brother was offering to sell me his PSP for relatively cheap, is the thing, and I wanted to know how badly he had flocked it up. Then I borrowed it and ran into problems not caused by him, but by Sony.

 

When I say built in save, I mean a hard drive, or cartridges. The thing told me I had to go out and buy a memory card. I realize you can tell it doesn't have a flip screen, that's not something I just discovered. I've never had to patch another system before, though, save my PC, what else does that?

 

Get a transparent screen protector sticker, a memory card as big as you can afford and a custom firmware. I can help you with that. And you'll soon see why the PSP is so great.

After fixing all the problems yourself it's great? I don't know how I feel about that.

[L.S.D]

For a handheld, PSP does great.

 

Pros:

- You can watch quality movies on it. (if you use the UMD ISOs like me, you

can get almost DVD quality videos on it, which is already great)

- You can listen to music on it. Sony always produce good quality music on

their hardware (Walkman, hifi etc etc). With a pair of good earphones, you

can enjoy some of the best quality music.

- You can emulate lots of things on PSP. PSP is a powerful machine. Nearly

every known retro consoles (NES, SNES, Genesis, GBA, CPS1, CPS2, NGPC,

NeoGeo, MVS etc etc, N64 coming into fray) are emulated on PSP and

run almost flawlessly with great speed and no hint of lag or hiccups

whatsoever.

- you can make homebrew.

- with CFW, you can play lots of games without buying it Not encouraged

but still worth it for those that might want to try the game out first before

buying it.

- library of games. Still lesser than NDS but definetly have higher ratio

of quality games compare to NDS IMO. I have been playing Monster

Hunter 2 for 90 hrs and it is a one year old game. Been enjoying Tekken DR

which is a near flawless rendition from the arcades with a plus-like

console option. Been enjoying the remake of Megaman, Ghost N' Goblins and Castlevania

with renewed graphic which make the games fresh (I will never understand those that still

prefer older graphics ). Enjoying original games for PSP like Loco Roco, Patapon (yes, I love it!)

 

Cons:

- need to invest in a memory stick with a high capacity. not a biggie to me

- analog stick can be cumbersome to some. not to me though as i work around it and

apply it in most games especially fighting games

- battery life. Roughly 4 hrs without charging if using it to play games from

the memory stick. Using UMD to play might shorten it. Might be troublesome for travellers.

But if use to listen to songs, can last 8 hrs++. Have tried it from Malaysia to Australia on a flight.

 

Call me a PSP fan boy if you want, i still think the pros outweight the cons

[Lucandrake]

I personally think the PsP is more of a "Play-at-home" portable, while the DS can go places, like portables are meant to be >.>.

[BlackKnight]

I personally think the PsP is more of a "Play-at-home" portable, while the DS can go places, like portables are meant to be >.>.

I feel the opposite way.

 

When I have to blow into the machine to dust off prints for Ema Skye, and I'm sitting on a train with people watching, I feel like an ass.

 

On the other hand, when I am playing some beast like Tekken with awesome graphics on a slick looking machine, I don't mind doing that in public.

 

Why exactly can't the PSP go places?

[Lucandrake]

To me a lot of the games require at least an hour sitting before saving.

 

I played MG AC!D in my home, I took it out and as soon as any conversation began it had to be turned off.

 

Sonic Rush had the same feel, but then again I really wanted to beat that game, like any other Sonic game.

 

Meanwhile my friend happens to make new friends playing Brain Age (on a pink DS mind you) and Warrior Touch (or w/e that name).

 

O, and my PsP was in danger of confiscation several times, I've actually seen teachers pull out DS's and play with students (it was computer class though o.0).

[BlackKnight]

On the save issue, you can always put the PSP in sleep mode, which uses up almost no charge as compared to the DS's sleep mode.

[L.S.D]

On the save issue, you can always put the PSP in sleep mode, which uses up almost no charge as compared to the DS's sleep mode.

THat is right, and also, a lot of recent games have save function available almost everywhere. The only game that can only save after 50 min is MHF2. And that is also if you sucked in playing that game and need 50 min to complete a quest.

[OverlordMondo]

I've left my DS on sleep for days at a time before coming back and playing again, so I don't think that's a large problem. :\ The PSP might have a better ratio of good games to crappy ones, but the DS has like ten times the games to begin with. Sure, most people don't want the series of dog training games, but it's not hard to just gloss over them. Looking over your list of pros, I can really cross off everything up until CFW, whatever that is. All that other stuff I'm not really interested in for a handheld. I don't even care that it's handheld, really, because I don't travel a whole lot.

 

Anyway, where do I get the PSP memory cards at? I haven't seen them before.

[BlackKnight]

They're just standard 'Memory Stick Duo's. So you can get Sandisk branded ones (they're cheaper), or whatever you like. You might even have one lying around that was bought for a Sony camera or something.

[OverlordMondo]

I have no idea what those are, but okay. Shouldn't be too hard to find.

[Ryuken]

get both handheld, which is what i did. both system have games taht aren't really portable, like who plays an rpg on the go, by the time ur done reading what everyone have to say, ur off the bus and gametime over. games like tekken and ridge racer with the sleep mode on the psp is what i prefer. and since ds sleep mode still uses battery, it makes it less useful for me. they both have great games i want to play tho

 

back on topic, i wonder if this was on the psp, could they use those cutscene graphics as gameplay graphics