[SuperWes]

[Gideon Zhi]

Protip: If playing Maverick Hunter X on one of these godforsaken portables, it's almost impossible to rapid-fire the X buster AND jump at the same time. The buttons on the thing are just too small and too close together. The solution is to play with the controller config, and stick the Shot function onto R (and dash onto L, or vice-versa.) I've switched triangle and circle to be weapon swap left and right. This config actually seems to work really well, and I no longer feel like my hands are too small for the thing.
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[Gideon Zhi]

Oh, and by the way, for anyone whose PSV is locking up while in standby with a blue PS light on, this seems to be a hardware fault. I exchanged mine with Amazon, and the new one (at least so far!) does not have this issue. So.
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[SuperWes]

[Persona]

This is confusing - I can't not read PSV as Phantasy Star V.
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[Gideon Zhi]

On that note, I want a Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection for the Vita.

Edit: Reports from gamefaqs say that while you can't buy it directly on the PSN store, if you download to PS3 and transfer to vita the PSP Sega Genesis Collection will work. Rad.
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[BenoitRen]

[Moogs]

Turn the filters off.

[BenoitRen]

That still leaves us with a sloppy emulation package, though.
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[Kappuru]

[Felix]

I dunno man, I get pretty pedantic about paying for emulation packages that are inferior to what my PC could produce in 1998, too.

Granted, Gid is the absolute last person I'd ever call on it.

[Gideon Zhi]

It's mostly about having portable versions of Phantasy Star 4 and (to a lesser extent) Fatal Labyrinth. There are very few Genesis games I care about and so long as I can play the games on an actual console, I'm usually okay with good-enough emulation. It doesn't have to be bleeding-edge-best or anything, just so long as it plays the game with reasonably good audio and no slowdown.

On that note, the Sega Genesis Collection is indeed transferable to the PSV from a PS3 (though you can't buy/download it on the Vita directly yet, unfortunately.) If you set it to "fit" instead of stretch, it actually ends up looking pretty good - there are black bars along the side of the screen so it maintains a 4:3 ratio, but you honestly don't notice them 'cuz the Vita's screen when dark is nearly the same color as the Vita itself. It'd probably look more horrible if the Vita was white. I imagine there's some smoothing action going on, and I've got the Vita's bilinear PSP filter enabled, but it looks Good Enough for the most part. As mentioned with regards to Maverick Hunter X I probably wouldn't want to play an action game on the thing, though. Vectorman would probably make my fingers hurt like hell.
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[Mikey]

Early adopters win?

http://www.joystiq.com/2012/03/05/motorstorm-rc-free-for-a-limited-time-on-vita-in-the-us-thanks/

[Teflon]

[firenze]

[Moogs]

I think I liked DLC better when it was horse armor.

[jjsimpso]

Firenze, how do the armored core games play on the Vita? I think they are configurable, so they should work pretty well with the right stick. That was the only thing that kept me from buying them on psp.
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[Rud31]

As research the Best Buy Vita's section was cleared out of games. It still had 2 systems and the only memory cards available were actually the largest, 32GB.
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[firenze]

[Monsieur Eek]

Here's about seven minutes of Queasy Game's quantization platformer Sound Shapes. Pixeljunk Eden and Everyday Shooter were actually significant reasons for why I originally bought a PS3, so I can't wait for this.

Also, does anyone know if Sumioni is any good? It's being brought out by XSeed, who I really like, for twenty bucks, but videos I've seen of it aren't very exciting.
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[scratchmonkey]

Euro retailer Play leaks some upcoming Vita titles.

Big ones/ones that interest me are:

GTA: Vice City Nights
Monster Hunter Portable 3

[probably fine]

Hey, if any of you SB Vita owners are playing MotorStorm RC, add me on PSN: probably_fine
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[galaxyghost]

Motor Storm RC is pretty rad, and also guys - I dunno - I may still be in the honeymoon phase but holy shit do I love my Vita. It's pretty great.

[firenze]

[Felix]

Sound Shapes better get ported to something else. I was way impressed with Everyday Shooter, and the Steam release was an unexpected treat back before I bought a PS3

[SuperWes]

[Monsieur Eek]

Yeah, that's not what I meant. Just that I remember both those games helped tip me into buying the system and are sort of the kind of thing I expect on Sony hardware at this point. See also Patapoon and Lumines (by yet another Q company) on the PSP.

edit: just gonna leave that typo
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[allensmithee]

I'd like to pat a poon.
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[jjsimpso]

[Duckzero]

OK, so I found a vita on Craigslist for 200 bucks with a mem card and a few games. Sounds too good to be true.
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[firenze]

Vita is looking like it's gonna have a pretty solid May-June stretch in North America if Gamestop's current dates are to be believed. In consecutive weeks we'll get Resistance (5/29), Metal Gear Solid HD Collection (6/5), and Gravity Rush (6/12). Then two weeks later is Little Big Planet (6/26), which looks like THE showcase for taking advantage of Vita hardware gadgetry. Not too shabby for higher profile games during a normally dead time.

It's notable that this is also a pretty dead time for all of the other systems. Also especially promising in that we're talking 3-4 months after a system launch, which is often a fairly weak time for new systems waiting for more games after having everyone rush to get stuff out at launch.

[Rud31]

firenze: you're actually excited about Resistance (a series perpetually between Halo and Half-Life with only a surface understanding of each) and Little Big Planet (you can build your own stages and games, but why would you want to with those physics?)
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[Monsieur Eek]

Little Big Planet is really wonderful, dude. The gripe a lot of people have about the physics always struck me as kind of missing the point, in that it's not supposed to be Mario.
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[Monsieur Eek]

My point was more that it's not even trying to be Mario. One of the conceits of the game is that everything in it is supposed to feel like a physical object, and the physics kind of follow from that. So Sackboy and everything else in the game have a certain heft that some people have interpreted as bad controls but actually works perfectly fine for the game and which, from my experience, non-gamers actually find pretty intuitive. I think it's just a matter of getting past preconceptions. I can't really refute whether or not you think it's fun, but it's one of my favorite games... I was gonna say this generation, but really it's just one of my favorite games, period. I love that it's this wonderful accessible creative platform. It just amazes me that it exists, and it doesn't get old for me.
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[Rud31]

that's great for your eek! I don't want the physics to be Mario or Super Meat Boy or even Banjo Kazooie. They were certainly designed a certain way. A way I hate and feels awkward and stop calling me a gamer >:|

It's neat to see someone that is actually the audience for LBP because everytime I played it I went, "Is this fun for anyone?"

It's really weird that if you have a mic connected the sackboy will match your voice and mouth movements to a certain extent. It's kind of creepy.
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[Monsieur Eek]

Ha. Yeah, but even wonky shit like that can be fun to mess with occasionally with other people.
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[firenze]

[skelethulu]

Played Gravity Rush a bunch at GDC and really liked it, so hurray. That was the only upcoming game Sony had at the show, though.
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[firenze]

I take some perverse pleasure in knowing that I am the reason people in my neighborhood who check the Near app will see Art of Fighting and wonder what the fuck that is. I followed that up with some KoF '95. For some reason, Neo Geo Station and TG-16 games show up in Near, though normal PSP games don't.

People around me seem to dig Lumines, which is still holding the top popularity spot over the fast rising (and totally free) Motorstorm RC.

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[Gideon Zhi]

Hey so is there any whay to turn off Live Area update notifications? I keep getting notices that THE LIVE AREA HAS BEEN UPDATED and it takes me to the stupid goddamn video app that I never ever ever ever plan on buying anything through. It's starting to get annoying.
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