/v/ - Video Games

The best portable emulation machine of its time, and still the most convenient and readily available one on the market. A modded PSP was something that had no competition.

Personally, I even got a lot of usage out of the multimedia functions. Saved my ass when my MP3 player broke, back when MP3 players were a thing.

PSP is cool

I just downloaded the Ever17 port for it the other day, I never realized it had been translated until someone posted about it on nicoblog

I bought it for piracy, but I've actually wound up buying all the English release games I spent significant time on (except for Gurumin. I would have bought it but they gave away the PC version for free) except Dungeons and Dragons Tactics (which is impossible to find).

>>15402046

>The best portable emulation machine of its time

Of all time so far really. Vita died and nothing came close to it ever since.

>>15402194

I like having physical copies, especially of games I like, but UMD being a shit medium outweighs it in the case of the PSP. Though, I do suppose most games on it are pretty cheap these days due to low demand if one did want to. Still fucking stupid that SCEA had that regulation on PS1-to-PSP ports preventing ones that didn't have 10% (I think) changed/added content being cleared for NA release. I guess it's not that big a deal for most games (and the system was the Piratestation Portable), but then you've got cases where the original PS1 game was rare/expensive and no official PSN version, and in which even a native port would have been welcome. At least with Tales of Eternia, PAL saw the PSP port but even then Bamco wouldn't even touch it there, leaving fucking Ubisoft to pick it up (and glitch the fuck out of a print run or two until fixing it).

>>15402253

>Vita died

Its homebrew, piracy, modding and emulation scene is ramping up like crazy though?

Not to mention the Vita can perfectly emulate the PSP and also use the PSP's homebrew inside the PSP emulator

Its only going to "officially" die in the west by the middle of next year that is basically when no more new games will come out on it, maybe a handful, but there are still chances that real games will come out on it and probably by the end of next year or the beginning to middle of 2020.

>>15402283

the latter part of the last sentence was referring to the Vita in Nippon

>>15402283

What's the state of unofficial PS1 eboots on a hacked Vita these days? Still audio issues?

>>15402289

>Unofficial PS1 eboots on a hacked vita

You mean through Adrenaline or natively on the Vita?

I haven't heard of audio issues in a while, I don't fully know though; its probably on a case by case basis though

>>15402274

I never said I actually USED the UMDs. In fact I only opened one to check the hash (it matched the dump I used). The only good thing the SCEA PS1>PSP rule did was force Square Enix to include the DLC with the English release of Tactics Ogre (most of the new content was actually DLC in Nippon)

I think a modded vita is pretty superior to the psp. For its time it was a beast but the vita is capable of the psp + more. Granted both are pretty much dead at this point but as long as you take care of your vita theres plenty of life left in them both.

The PSP-1000/2000 was the most cyberpunk vidya console to ever exist

thumbstick? more like a cheese grater

I only got a PSP 3 years ago. Back in middle and high school I was turned off by it because everyone around me was praising it as the best shit ever even though no one was even capable of recommending a single game for it and just praised LOOK AT MUH GRAFIX.

>>15403677

>UMDs were ultimately a good thing since they allowed more data storage for games (1.8GB maximum, compared to the 512MB max size of the DS cartridge)

A fair point, but it was the amount of loading and battery wear that killed them.

>I would honestly love more ports of old nippon PS2 games on the Vita, like the PSP had

I like the Vita for what it was, but it did seem a bit of a shame more companies didn't try to make it double as a PS2P, so to speak. At the same time though, various PS2 HD collections on it had enough issues at times.

>Cant complain much about this year's vita releases

>Metal Max Xeno

NISA is reason enough to complain.

>>15403846

I'll admit I was surprised to have run across KxKxK for the PSP on a download site, before they purged eroge and straight up hentai from their listings.

>the other PS2 Tales of

I still find it weird Abyss went to the 3DS instead, but it hit a different brand market, I suppose. Does seem odd that Destiny DC never got a port to the PSP or Vita like Destiny 2 and Rebirth did with the PSP.

>>15403882

Any chance you can post KxKxK to the share thread?

>>15402289

It's pretty solid these days.

>>15403919

> I can't really think of anything else to use it for.

> Not playing SNES games while in bed after a long day of worries

You miss out on a lot of comfy my nigger

>>15403954

I don't think I actually downloaded it. Priorities were on actual games at the time as I'd just put CFW on the system. Nor did I expect them to purge eroge so soon after. But I think what was uploaded had just been a UMD video of the OVA episodes. I could be wrong though. Also tried looking for archives. Site's exempt from wayback machine, and unfortunately archive.is has very little actual section/game content. It does look like the game's got a PC version as most eroge tend to, though I suppose that's not as conveniently on the go.

>>15403919

fat 1000 is the best. 2000 are cheaply made as fuck.

>I wish I could find a use for it still,

<not watching your movies in bed.

ok then.

>>15402018

The PSP is probably the last machine that gives me lost future vibes

Playing it at the time, I could see the future of handheld gaming - essentially a PS2 in my pocket with full-featured Grand Theft Auto and Ace Combat games (Yeah yeah it wasn't quite as powerful, but close enough, and it was only a matter of time before San Andreas Stories…) with all sorts of neat little features. Eventually the web-browser would get YouTube and that'd be great too. But none of those things happened. The PS Vita delivered on a hardware level, but the games never came. Now you can get San Andreas and YouTube on your phone with much better battery life, but it's just not the same as what I imagined at the time. I find it quite normal to get that lost-future vibe looking back at older consoles when technological development was at a faster pace and mid-size studios could still compete, but the PSP was very late in the game in that regard.

Excellent system all around. Shame all the replacement batteries I've got have been useless, leaving it portable only in the sense it contains it's own screen.

bump cuz i just got a PSP 3000 last month, same one as the OP.

when i bought it, the thumbstick was covered in nigger feces. very obvious since it's white.

a trick is to get a qtip and put soap on it, the thumbstick looks brand new now.

also years ago i imported one of the japanese monster hunter portable 3rd special edition PSP's. at the time they were the same price as a normal PSP and i wondered why.

and i knew why as soon as i got it. they look gorgeous in the promo images but IRL they look like a cereal box toy. way cheaper than a standard PSP's build quality.