Official PSVita/PSP chat thread

KING · July 7, 2010, 7:20pm

True_Grave:

Ok now i’ve never cared much for, nor have I ever been handheld gamer. In fact, that is still true today. The sheer awesomeness of the PSP is the one and only exception to this.

Anyhow, point is since i never had a handheld there are many titles i never played. Recently i went and got the original Double Dragon for the gameboy and beat it this morning. Nice! Graphics, gameplay, and music were nearly on-par with the NES version.

Always figured that aside from the Best-Made GB titles, the majority of the rest were crap compared to their NES counterparts. Yet DD1 was one of its first games and quite Decent.

Last i checked a while back there is no good mame emu available. There are some that claim to be able to run Mame-only arcade titles, but i’m not sure how well they work and don’t feel like trying it out.

For example, heres one that claims to be able to run Konami’s arcade games. Which would be awesome if it worked, give it a shot:
FBA4PSP v12.4.0 Released | PSP Hacks · PSP Go Hacks · PSP Homebrew, PSP Downloads, PSP Custom Firmware

i want something that can play the first Killer Instinct (and no, i will not settle for the SNES version, LOL).
Some arcade games that i really want PSP-emu’ed are: Simpsons Arcade game, TMNT, 6-player X-men…you know, the good stuff. :sad:

Taito · July 7, 2010, 9:32pm

Speaking of MAME, has anyone had success with this set of emulators? url=http://psp.nukenin.jp/HTM/index_MAME04.html

I hear they’re a little unstable, but my problem is I can’t find a compatibility list.

Luc · July 13, 2010, 1:23am

Question: If I buy a PSP game in the PS Store via my PS3, will it be stored on my PS3’s hard drive for remote play? Or will I have to put the game I purchased on my PSP’s memory stick?

akumatrunigga · July 13, 2010, 5:33am

I have interests in getting the PSP for the sole reason in getting Kingdom Hearts this september. :tup: But now I need to think about other games on the go so any suggestions?

ShinAkumax · July 13, 2010, 5:51am

Persona 3 Portable

MrQuotes · July 13, 2010, 6:15am

Persona 3 Portable is fucking gold.
Jeanne D’arc was recommended to me as well

Luc · July 13, 2010, 10:18am

MGS Peace Walker

Sonichuman · July 13, 2010, 11:27am

I would have thought that someone would have posted this info somewhere in this thread by now…but I guess not

God Eater Burst Announced
God Eater Burst Announced - PlayStation Portable News at IGN

If you don’t know what this game is then you should know it’s similiar to Monster Hunter…which means Japan was all over it when it came out. I think it actually topped the charts for a few weeks over there if I remember correctly. May want to keep an eye on it.

NecroZerumus · July 13, 2010, 12:01pm

The only PSP games I played the hell out of were the Metal Gear Acid games and the Gradius/Salamander Collections.

Smashbro29 · July 13, 2010, 9:25pm

Finally! So there are other people looking for a good MAME emulator!

I’ve only been able to get 64 and SNES working, go any recommendations for what to use for the other oldies?

True_Grave · July 13, 2010, 11:59pm

We’ve all wanted a good mame emu, but have just accepted that one won’t be made for a loooong time, if ever.

PSPHugo- Pc Engine(Turbografx 16)
NesterJ- NES
Snes9xTYL- SNES
PicoDrive- Genesis & Sega CD
MVSPSP- Neo Geo
CPS1PSP- Capcom CPS1 arcade
CPS2PSP- Capcom CPS2 Arcade
MasterBoy- Gameboy/Color, GameGear, Master System
GPsp- GameBoy Advance
Race!PSP- Neo Geo Pocket Color
Bookr- .PDF & E-book reader

^^ Needless to say, you should try to find the latest versions of the above.

Smashbro29 · July 15, 2010, 12:14am

Wow! That was nice of you.

Way to encourage my future contributions here.

DoctaMario · July 15, 2010, 5:54am

Taito:

Youtube player is another feature, from the top of my head.

Back to what I originally said, the extra non-gaming features that made PSP a great multi-functioning device can now be done on other inexpensive portable devices (like iPhone for one example), and usually in better quality. In 2005 PSP stood alone.

And for a lot of people, retro gaming (emulation) is a novelty. For you, emulation might be the 2nd big attraction behind the official games, but for somebody else, it might be video (especially if the PSP isn’t modded). PSP does so much, modded or not, that you can’t say which feature is most important. Personally, emulation wasn’t enough, but it was the do-everything factor that kept me using PSP between game releases.

Have you ever tried Cave Story? It’s a really cool Metroid-type game.

I’ll cop to my iPhone 3GS basically taking my PSP’s place when it comes to portable gaming, but the emulators for it aren’t quite up to snuff yet. And playing with the touch screen controls isn’t bad as long as there aren’t a ton of buttons. NES and GBA emus are pretty good.

I haven’t touched my PSP in awhile but I walked past the PSP rack at GameStop the other day and saw a lot of pretty kick-ass titles up there like BlazBlue, Dante’s Inferno, Silent Hill Shattered Memories and SHADOW OF DARKNESS! Seriously, if you guys haven’t played Shadow of Darkness (it’s a port of an old PS2 game that was FANTASTIC!) you really oughtta give it the once over this time around.

hanzohattori1 · July 15, 2010, 10:27am

well, it turns out that the motherboard on my star wars psp wasn’t messed up at all, but just a short in the d-pad connection(sensor, whatever). i found a step by step guide online for replacing the motherboard. i used the guide to break down my daxter psp, then switched that d-pad sensor with the messed up one from my star wars psp, and it was all systems go from there. one down, one to go…
btw, how’s the new socom? i’ve never played any of the games before.

Taito · July 15, 2010, 9:13pm

I didn’t know NeoGeo Heroes was coming out for PSP: [media=youtube]Ao4OLlk3vTg[/media]

I gotta figure out Prometheus before the end of the month…

Ephidel · July 16, 2010, 1:43am

any saturn?

DoctaMario · July 16, 2010, 5:33am

More than likely there won’t be a playable Saturn emu ever.

Darkstalker · July 16, 2010, 5:41am

I’m finding this a LOT better than P3. For reference, I absolutely hated P3.

This time though, controllable characters, and the writing for the new main seems to be a vast improvement (the writing that more or less was taken from the old game I still have a problem with though).

Ephidel · July 16, 2010, 5:47am

May I ask why? Is it because of the whole PSOne/SCEA matter that you can play PS1 on PSP?

Mr_Mort · July 16, 2010, 6:54am

Hardly, the problem is the Saturn’s architecture is so complex the PSP isn’t anywhere near powerful enough to handle it.
For that matter there are no Saturn emu’s that run anywhere near 100% because it’s such a pain in the ass to replicate the Saturn’s wonky innards.