PSP

Warlock · Post by **Warlock** » Tue Mar 29, 2005 11:07 pm

any one get one? got mine the day it came out and i love it. so much better then the pos DS

Tetrad · Post by **Tetrad** » Tue Mar 29, 2005 11:14 pm

That puzzle game is awesome. Wouldn't pay $250 just to play a fancy version of puzzle fighter 2x (z mode) on the go, though.

Vertigo 99 · Post by **Vertigo 99** » Wed Mar 30, 2005 2:32 am

★■◆●ing sucks, has a 4 hour battery life

Tyranny · Post by **Tyranny** » Wed Mar 30, 2005 4:31 am

Where will you be that you have time to play it for 4 hours straight? Thats what a regular console is for, not handhelds. I'm sure a battery pack with a recharger is or will be available. I remember the Nomad having roughly that amount of battery life. Had a battery pack that was rechargeable.

Sirius · Post by **Sirius** » Wed Mar 30, 2005 6:06 am

The DS is expensive for a handheld, while the PSP is just insane. (To my cheap ass, anyway.

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And do you really get any games that are all that decent? The DS has a backlog of GBA stuff that was often ports of extremely awesome SNES games...

Vertigo 99 · Post by **Vertigo 99** » Wed Mar 30, 2005 2:43 pm

car rides, plane trips...

the entire point of a handheld to me is to be able to play it in an environment where it CANT be regularly recharged...

Warlock · Post by **Warlock** » Wed Mar 30, 2005 4:45 pm

Vertigo 99 wrote:****ing sucks, has a 4 hour battery life

ummm u need to think your haveing to run a moter to spin the cd thus useing power. but mines lasted almsot 8 hours

JMEaT · Post by **JMEaT** » Wed Mar 30, 2005 7:26 pm

The launch titles are pretty blah. Maybe I'll pick one up if they release some stuff worth shelling out cash for the hardware.

bash · Post by **bash** » Wed Mar 30, 2005 8:07 pm

When it gets GPS and a browser, I'm in.

Sirius · Post by **Sirius** » Thu Mar 31, 2005 12:25 am

Warlock wrote:ummm u need to think your haveing to run a moter to spin the cd thus useing power. but mines lasted almsot 8 hours

There's something to be said for cartridges... why did people dump them again? Yes CDs are cheaper... but...

Ferno · Post by **Ferno** » Thu Mar 31, 2005 1:20 am

...but were subject to shock, and did not have the capacity that CD's have.

/me remembers the 'blow on the NES cartridge connector' days.

Instig8 · Post by **Instig8** » Thu Mar 31, 2005 1:47 am

let me know when you got to level 60.

Sirius · Post by **Sirius** » Thu Mar 31, 2005 3:11 am

Um... the NES cartridge connector was a bad design. Things improved a lot from then on.

You can also give them pretty much as much capacity you want... although I have no idea how much that would cost in FMV-riddled games. Probably far too much.

Other than that, solid-state generally is quicker and more energy efficient than CDs... but anyway.

roid · Post by **roid** » Thu Mar 31, 2005 3:48 am

oh my goodness. imagine the insane technology you could put into solidstate cartridges thesedays!

i remember a snes game that had an early form of 3D card integrated into the cartridge. take that idea and run with it and andand&&&&&&.

*head explodes*

remember that the biggest problem with custom hardware is that it's hard to get software to support it - so it's hard to get ppl to buy (and install) your hardware JUST to play a game. but if the hardware is part of the game (cartridge) itself, then you can go nuts with it, essentially designing your own hardware and software - for the cheap - both at once.

you could have dedicated hardware physics engines. chips that perform a specific function for your very game. i mean seriously, you could justify designing and using a chip that solely models a specific in-game character's AI. A DEDICATED CHIP FOR AI!
good grief, the performance would be staggering.

i'm drooling.

Admiral LSD · Post by **Admiral LSD** » Thu Mar 31, 2005 4:01 am

You might be thinking about Donkey Kong country which, iirc, had some sort of co-pro developed by SGI on it. There was also the SuperFX chip which was used in a number of games but I don't think it was advanced as what was in DKC. Sega also had a "3D" processr, the VDP, which was used in the Genesis/Mega Drive port of their Virtua Racing arcade title. The problem with putting extra hardware in cartridges like that though is that it increases the cost and becomes fairly cost-innefficient if a number of games start using it.

roid · Post by **roid** » Thu Mar 31, 2005 4:32 am

yes the superFX chip.

cost innefficientcys are a butt pain.

Defender · Post by **Defender** » Thu Mar 31, 2005 6:49 am

SuperFX chip = Star Fox et all.
Didn't exactly make the game better looking though.

MD-2389 · Post by **MD-2389** » Thu Mar 31, 2005 10:43 pm

PSP = Portable Porn Device

Kyouryuu · Post by **Kyouryuu** » Thu Mar 31, 2005 11:55 pm

The new Ridge Racer looks pretty groovy, but the PSP and its games are just way overpriced for me.

JMEaT · Post by **JMEaT** » Fri Apr 01, 2005 8:29 am

MD-2389 wrote:PSP = Portable Porn Device

PornStation Portable

Bwhaha

*Javed* · Post by ***Javed*** » Sat Apr 02, 2005 11:46 am

I didn't know this thread existed, and I didn't bother posting about me getting mine cuz about 80 percent of the people here criticize everything.

Anyway, I was the first one to get it at the gamecrazy I went to. Waited outside, and got it. This thing is cool; however, it requires you to buy stuff for it. Memory stick with more space, car adapter, screen protector, screen armor, warranty, then of course the games. the total is well over 350, but it's worth it.

I also visited many forums and found a couple of ways to browse the internet on it.

Here's the most common way.

http://forums.gamebattles.com/t/290968.html

The cool thing is, it really works. In either case, if you dont have wipeout, sony will release a patch soon enough so you could officially browse the web.

I personally didn't find the battery thing a problem. I have an AC adapter for the car, and a normal one that plugs into my wall.

Grendel · Post by **Grendel** » Sun Apr 03, 2005 12:46 am

Nice. Thx for the link.