To All PSP Owners!!

reagen · Postby **reagen** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 7:48 am

Yo!!

I was wondering if any of you got PSP? What game are you playing now? What do you think is good? And...does anyone know any ways to make your Region 3 PSP can play a region 2 UMD?

Thanks!! And, I'm playing Metal Gear Ac!d, Dynasty Warriors, and Sengoku Cannon. Yeah, I'm new to the PSP business!

Cogboy · Postby **Cogboy** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 8:56 am

I have a psp, imported it from Japan 6 months before it was released locally.
I have Wipeout Pure, Metal gear acid, Ridge Racers, bleach hts 1 and 2, and lumines. wipeout pure and lumines are two games that you have to get if you have a psp. the other games are also very good, maybe with the exception of the bleach games. the first one is like an unfinished version of the 2nd one. still a fun little fighting game, if a bit simple.

I mostly use my psp for homebrew though. Doom, Quake, Quake 2, SNES, NES, Gameboy colour, Genesis, Megadrive, all that shiz. there is also a bunch of great fan made games and applications such as an internet radio client that works over wifi.

As for different umd regions, for games you can play them from anywhere, but movies this is not the case. you may be lucky as there are some movies with a universal region coding but if not there is currently no way to bypass it. if you have a big enough memory stick you can always format the movie from a dvd using software like www.pspvideo9.com.

The Eva Monkey · Postby **The Eva Monkey** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 11:49 am

I would like a PSP, but I don't have the money. If I did get one, I would get Lumines and rock that shit out all day.

SEELE 08 · Postby **SEELE 08** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 11:52 am

DS forever! I got mine used, I'm the cheapest!

ThroneofDravaris · Postby **ThroneofDravaris** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 12:01 pm

I was going to buy one in the near future, but then I heard Final Fantasy III was being remade for DS...

reagen · Postby **reagen** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 10:11 pm

Aw, too bad!! Well, I guess I'll see what the future brings!! Hopefully there'll be a way to make your PSP universal for movies too because those Japanese AV UMD is really killing me-in a good way-, they better find a way fast, or I'll sell mine and buy a new one in Japan! (So, anyone interested? Cheapest price you can find of course..)

Anybody know any good RPG for PSP? Is 'Legend Of Heroes' any good? Judging from the screenshot it looks pretty cool!

DS with 'Animal Crossing', GO!!! Final Fantasy III? I thought it was Final Fantasy IV! (With Cecil as a hero, right?)

ThroneofDravaris · Postby **ThroneofDravaris** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 10:59 pm

FFIV-VI are being release for the GBA (FFIV:Advanced is already out in Japan and the US) They are basically just ports with slightly improved graphics and extra dungeons. Iâ€™ve played a ROM of FFIV:Advanced; itâ€™s nothing to get too worked up about.

FFIII (as in, the original 8 bit Japanese FFIII) is being remade for the DS, this time with a better battle system and 3D graphics.

Postby **drinian** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 12:09 am

Make your PSP universal for movies?

1) Buy a memory stick.
2) Learn how to rip DVDs.
3) Stop paying extra money to buy useless discs with lower picture quality than DVD.

PSP discs are one of those things that I can't really understand the purpose of. Then again, the trend seems to be towards making customers pay for each time they want to view a film in a new context anyway...

reagen · Postby **reagen** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 9:08 am

drinian wrote:Make your PSP universal for movies?

1) Buy a memory stick.
2) Learn how to rip DVDs.
3) Stop paying extra money to buy useless discs with lower picture quality than DVD.

PSP discs are one of those things that I can't really understand the purpose of. Then again, the trend seems to be towards making customers pay for each time they want to view a film in a new context anyway...

We can do that? You mean saving a movie in a memory stick, don't ya?
Nice...., I'm so gonna learn how to do it!!

Space Penis · Postby **Space Penis** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 9:36 am

Wait, what's the capacity of a PSP memory stick? I thought they were just 256MB usb drives. You'll have ahard time fitting a DVD rip onto one of those.

jcmoorehead · Postby **jcmoorehead** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 1:03 pm

Space Penis wrote:Wait, what's the capacity of a PSP memory stick? I thought they were just 256MB usb drives. You'll have ahard time fitting a DVD rip onto one of those.

Goes from 32meg to about 2 gig at the moment.

Postby **ObsessiveMathsFreak** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 3:45 pm

If I had such a device, I would run emulators on it.

reagen · Postby **reagen** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 9:08 pm

Will 1 Giga be enough? 2 Giga is just too expensive!! And How big is a DVD rip? Some Megas? Or gigas?

Well, they got some old-school emulator running on PSP!! I myself got NeoGeo Emulator! So, anybody know if we can download other emulators?

Space Penis · Postby **Space Penis** » Wed Feb 01, 2006 12:49 pm

DVD-rips can vary from about 700 megs up to 1.4 gigs.

Postby **drinian** » Wed Feb 01, 2006 6:16 pm

reagen wrote:Will 1 Giga be enough? 2 Giga is just too expensive!! And How big is a DVD rip? Some Megas? Or gigas?

Well, that depends. I don't own a PSP and am not sure what formats of video they can take. If it's like other Sony products I've used, my guess is that they use some fairly proprietary format that you will have to convert to from whatever you ripped your DVD to. So there's probably a guide from Sony giving a megabytes/minute rough estimate.

Also, I don't know if this is still true, but around this time last year there was a shortage of 2 gig Memory Sticks. My professor found a websitie purporting to have them in stock, ordered, and was sent two 1-gig Sticks. So watch out.

reagen · Postby **reagen** » Wed Feb 01, 2006 10:25 pm

PSP can only support MPEG4 for video. Hopefully, my one giga will be enough!! How much is a 2 Giga anyway? Is it that popular there?

Postby **drinian** » Wed Feb 01, 2006 10:49 pm

reagen wrote:PSP can only support MPEG4 for video.

That's only half the story -- the other question is bitrate.

Hopefully, my one giga will be enough!! How much is a 2 Giga anyway? Is it that popular there?

Actually, I suspect that, given their cost, the 2 Gb sticks aren't popular at all; there just aren't that many of them around to sell. Doesn't make sense to keep them in stock.

Cogboy · Postby **Cogboy** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 4:28 am

for the movies, i have a 1gb stick and that is plenty. you could fit two or three movies at good quality easy. for converting the dvds, use pspvideo9.
You can change the video quality to fit more on if you like. when i had a smaller stick i managed to get fight club down to 150mb but it looked like crap.

There are a few psp rpgs out but nothing that has really interested me yet. I just play ff6 and crono trigger on the snes emulator.

reagen · Postby **reagen** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 11:59 pm

Thanks for the tips!!

Anyway, Do any of you know where can I download PSP emulators? I only got NeoGeoCD. Would really like more emulators on the system!!

And.., what's the homebrew PSP thing on the PSP Video9 site? Is it necessary to download that to use PSP Video9?

Cogboy · Postby **Cogboy** » Fri Feb 03, 2006 8:23 am

no, thats just some sort of program to organise homebrew on your computer. you don't need it to use the video conversion software.
The site i use for all my homebrew news and files is [url]www.pspupdates.qj.net[/url]. it has all the emulators and any other homebrew software available for download there.
if you have any other questions about homebrew on the psp don't hesitate to ask, i can probably help with most things.

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