PSP we hardly knew ye

Loki Laufeyson · Posted: Wed Mar 20, 2013 5:50 pm

i think it's been over a year since i used my psp as anything other than a comically huge mp3 player. maybe i should get ys 7 sometime.

i think the psp games i played most were parodius collection and mana khemia. but my fondest memories are of using it to play judgement silversword and ps1 dodonpachi in tate mode.
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BotageL · Posted: Wed Mar 20, 2013 8:47 pm

ionustron · Joined: 05 Dec 2006

Just try not to buy memory off dealsextreme or something... Well the fake "legit" memory from there MIGHT be okay but the MS I bought from them self destructed pretty unceremoniously. About a month after.

The pandora battery from them is pretty nice though.

BenoitRen · I bought RAM Joined: 05 Jan 2007

I'm waiting for an 8 GB Memory Stick to show up at a second-hand shop for 10 euro bucks. So far I have only seen a few 2 GB and 4 GB ones.
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Ymer · Joined: 05 Oct 2009 Location: PAL region

So I got one of these:
http://www.amazon.com/PhotoFast-CR-5400-MicroSD-Adapter-Dual/dp/B001I0T92Q
Loaded up with two 16 GB MicroSD and it works great so far. Can't notice any difference in load times at all and write speeds even seem to be slightly faster then with the Sony stick. The adapter is a fake though according to this (can't say I expected much else considering how cheap I got it) but I've yet to notice any problems. There is a somewhat longer startup time though for the system but I'm pretty sure it's just the size of the combined memory itself causing that.

So anyway, even if you only plan to use one of the slots there I'm pretty sure it'll be a much more cost effective then trying to find Sony's old legacy stuff.

BenoitRen · I bought RAM Joined: 05 Jan 2007

My PSP froze on me after returning from standby mode today. It's the first time this has happened to me. I was playing Half-Minute Hero. I was just messing around, so I didn't lose any progress, but I'll think twice in the future before using standby mode again.
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BenoitRen · I bought RAM Joined: 05 Jan 2007

Where can you find the icons and backgrounds used for official eboots of PSOne games? All I can find are custom ones.
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BenoitRen · I bought RAM Joined: 05 Jan 2007

I didn't expect them to look that way. I thought they looked similar to PSP games's assets. I'm definitely going to make my own, now. Thanks for the heads-up!
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km · Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2013 2:40 am

Fix all of your PSP problems with money

2x16GB MicroSD + MSProDuo adapter: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003NTQDUG/ ($30 now, I got it for $22 a bit over a month ago, works fine, slow writes though)
Screen protector: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000MED9FM ($2, buy 2 for when you mess up the first one)

Also, BenRen, here are the sizes of the various images you want:

icon - 60x68 (which seems really strange, but it's what PSX2PSP likes)
bg - 480x272
info - 310x164
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lolipalooza · Joined: 05 Dec 2006 Location: Curitiba, Brazil

Can the PSP recognize the 32GB from that setup?
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km · Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2013 4:10 am

Yep! It's like 28GB formatted or whatever but otherwise no problems at all.
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BenoitRen · I bought RAM Joined: 05 Jan 2007

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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Adilegian · Posted: Wed Apr 03, 2013 9:40 pm

Chiming in to say that my PSP has received extra life for its ability to play PSone games that I've got off PSN on the go. While waiting for my wife to get out of surgery today, I played ~2.5 hours of Persona 2. It was great, and it made me the object of suspicion among the 70+ crowd who shared the room and smelled strongly of cigarettes.
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This particular hack of fftactics is satisfying to play and the best part is that i can play it on the go! It even includes all that multiplayer only things available in single player. the bestest part being that the slowdown (in the original PSP release) is also patched out. I actually prefer the redone script vs the original PSX version.

it's what i've wanted in the original game. a rebalancing of enemies and player skills while still being fun and challenging without being too ridiculous.

http://ffhacktics.com/smf/index.php?topic=8739.0
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rye · Joined: 06 Dec 2006

One of the bullet points in that FFHacktics thing says "SLOWDOWN FIXED"

Does that actually mean this person fixed the game's slowdown problems? I could never bring myself to play the PSP version because of it, but if it's fixed now, I will need to take a look at this.
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km · Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2013 6:49 am

I am really, really enjoying persona 3 portable!

Weren't there psp remakes of personas 1 and 2 as well? Are they any good?
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Adilegian · Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2013 7:08 am

Adilegian · Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2013 7:09 am

Rud31 · forum ruler of Iraq Joined: 05 Dec 2006 Location: SanAnTex

It was on sale, now it is normal price.
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Dark Age Iron Savior · Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2013 7:52 am

the slowdown fix came out a few months ago and is available separately (with more details on the development/how to use it in the relevant Hacktics thread). The forum is worth browsing if you're a fan of FFT, as there are a rather surprisingly number of "finished" hacks. I wonder if any have any cool implementations of the unused stuff (not counting the sound novels)...

ionustron · Joined: 05 Dec 2006

I should really get around to finishing that silly original character do not steal!! sprite and try this out soon. It's really cool when this stuff happens.

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BotageL · Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2013 6:23 pm

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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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Adilegian · Posted: Fri Apr 05, 2013 4:36 am

I don't know if I'd want Persona 2 retranslated. It might make Ulala sound like the human being who we want to think we aren't (but probably are anyway).

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wait there's a girl named Ulala in P2?

ugggghhh, I made such a mistake in 2000 when I bought Grandia or whatever instead :(

(Grandia is pretty good)

Dark Age Iron Savior · Posted: Fri Apr 05, 2013 8:42 am

is that really the best way you have of taking pictures

I guess it's cool to see the pixels??

BenoitRen · I bought RAM Joined: 05 Jan 2007

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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Adilegian · Posted: Fri Apr 05, 2013 11:28 pm

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are you somehow switching back and forth between TV and PSP playing?
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Adilegian · Posted: Sat Apr 06, 2013 1:38 am

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That's slick, BenRen. I dream of having all my favorite PS1 games wrapped up in pretty EBOOT packages. I should get one of those dual micro SD memory stick things and give this a saturday afternoon.
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BenoitRen · I bought RAM Joined: 05 Jan 2007

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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rye · Joined: 06 Dec 2006

I picked up one of those 2x micro SD adaptors. Put it in my PSP and formatted it. It recognizes the card fine in the PSP (1 card with a 30gb total), but when I connect my PSP to my computer it only shows half of the total memory (just one of the cards, 15gb) as a writeable disk. What happens when I want to copy more than 15 GB of data? Is the other card sitting in the adaptor just useless?

EDIT: Nevermind. When I copied my data over from my old stick to the new one in my PSP, the PSP stopped being able to read it. Maybe the whole thing is useless. : (
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