[BenoitRen]

I would like to talk about Sony's PlayStation Portable game case design for a moment. In particular, how it's manual-unfriendly.

• The manual is kept in place by only one holder. Due to this, the manual is always being slightly folded in two. Game cases for other systems always have two holders or a different setup.
  
• There are two pieces of plastic at the top and at the bottom of the right side. They were probably meant to keep the manual in place while the case is closed, but in practice they damage the paper. Depending on the transport, the cases are likely shaken a lot, which only makes it worse as the plastic pieces make dents.

I'm talking about this because a couple days ago I opened my shrink-wrapped copy of Phantasy Star Portable 2, and I noticed yesterday evening that the top of the manual was badly damaged. How was this possible? It's brand new! It was then that I noticed those pieces of plastic I talked about, which matched the damage done to the manual. It also explains the similar damage I noticed on the manual of Yggdra Union, which I bought from someone who, as a lover or JRPGs, I assume took good care of his collection.

Needless to say, this sucks. :(
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Please provide your sources for the awful sales. The only nugget of information we got from Atlus USA was that fear of low sales was not the reason.
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I made myself an EBOOT of R-Type Delta, complete with a relevant icon and background! To get official artwork I used the Wayback Machine on Irem's official site, which used to have a R-Type Delta section and a collection of wallpaper.



The icon only has to be 60x68 if you want to use the default template that places it in a small PSOne-branded box. Select "Default" in the options and you can use the regular icon size, which is 144x80.

It runs great. My only criticism is that it takes a while for POPS to load. I wonder if it's because the EBOOT is compressed.
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I made myself another EBOOT, this time of Capcom Generations 2 - The Chronicles of Arthur.



I wish I could have used a better-looking background, but most official artwork is in a portrait/flyer orientation, which doesn't lend itself well to the PSP's widescreen orientation. As for the icon, it's a cropped and resized screenshot of the title screen. I'm going to take multiple screenshots later to extract the logo from it by comparing what didn't change between them (the background scrolls).

By the way, I found how to turn off the white reflection on the icon. In the options, choose the first (blank) entry for Icon0.

So far, the games play as they should, though they seem to skip the stages overview when you begin a new game. In the case of Ghosts 'n' Goblins, it was skipped after showing it for a split second, but it kept playing the music. I also have to say that the sprites are so small that it's as if they were rescaled from bigger versions, but that's probably not the case.
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Did everyone get Half-Minute Hero? It's awesome!
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Get your physical Class of Heroes 2 now! Today was supposed to be the last day, but the pre-sale has been extended into the weekend. I ordered myself a copy. How about you?
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We did it! The physical edition of Class of Heroes 2 is a success!
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Finally, Europe will be getting Elminage Original! Thank you, Ghostlight!
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It looks like Carnage Heart EXA finally got rated by PEGI a couple days ago. It's been 4 months since the game was released in North America!
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