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Greng
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I loved my PSP and wouldn't mind another one in the future.
Monster Hunters is a fantastic game and for a grind-fest, very enjoyable indeed.
I mainly liked the abundance of Tactical RPG's on it, notable Jean D'Arc and the Tactics Ogre remake which I'm very pleased they finally made. Being able to put Castlevania SoTN and Front Mission 3 on it was nice too.
Let's not forget how awesome Metal Gear Acid 2 is.
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BenoitRen
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I've yet to get more opinions about the The Legend of Heroes games that aren't Trails in the Sky. Has anyone here played them? All I know about them is that the text translation reeks of a babelfish job and that the gameplay is very traditional.
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dementia
Joined: 05 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2013 3:09 am |
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| Q? Entertainment made some fun PSP titles. I really enjoyed E3 and both Lumineses. Never got around to playing the Gunpey game. |
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Ronnoc
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| Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2013 4:11 am |
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| There's still a gamecube inside new Wiis but no controller ports or memory card slots |
This is a bit misleading. The Wii's CPU is basically a more advanced GameCube CPU. The Pentium II to the original Pentium, if you will.
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| and the firmware blocks gamecube games on these newer slightly cheaper systems. |
From what I read the disc drive can't accomodate GameCube discs on newer Wiis. If you mod them with a drive that can, like a Wode, it can play GameCube games.
Curiously, the latest Wii bundle here in Europe, the Inazuma Eleven Strikers pack, features a Wii that is backwards compatible. |
Presumably they're just getting rid of backstock. Like how when Microsoft sent me my 5th Xbox years after they stopped making them without HDMI ports, mine didn't have a HDMI port :< |
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Rud31
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| Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2013 8:17 am |
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| BenoitRen wrote: |
| I've yet to get more opinions about the The Legend of Heroes games that aren't Trails in the Sky. Has anyone here played them? All I know about them is that the text translation reeks of a babelfish job and that the gameplay is very traditional. |
Yeah that's about it. But you are a guy that charm can carry the game for, so go for it I guess. The translations are REALLY bad and they are VERY TRADITIONAL JRPGs.
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BenoitRen
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| Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2013 11:57 pm |
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Another PSP game question: Taito Legends Power-Up has a port of arcade classic Kiki Kaikai. How good is the port? Hardcore Gaming 101 doesn't say.
EDIT: I've also been meaning to ask about this SD to MS adapter. How good is it? I know that the bigger your Memory Stick is, the faster the read speed, though it pretty much caps out with the 8 GB Memory Stick. Is the read speed using the adapter comparable?
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Schwere Viper
Joined: 14 Feb 2007
Location: Western Australia
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| Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2013 5:18 am |
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| Another PSP game question: Taito Legends Power-Up has a port of arcade classic Kiki Kaikai. How good is the port? Hardcore Gaming 101 doesn't say. |
Myself I found the PSP Taito Legends lacking in both selection and quality. Stick with the PC or console versions.
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thestage
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| Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2013 6:42 am |
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| I need to finally finish off Tactics Ogre |
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firenze
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| Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2013 8:00 pm |
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| Texican Rude wrote: |
| BenoitRen wrote: |
| I've yet to get more opinions about the The Legend of Heroes games that aren't Trails in the Sky. Has anyone here played them? All I know about them is that the text translation reeks of a babelfish job and that the gameplay is very traditional. |
Yeah that's about it. But you are a guy that charm can carry the game for, so go for it I guess. The translations are REALLY bad and they are VERY TRADITIONAL JRPGs. |
To go into a little more detail:
Yes, they're super-traditional JRPGs. I find the sprites, general style, and traditional JRPG story charming though - it's total JRPG comfort food (in that way, not unlike something like the Dragon Quest IV-VI DS remakes). I found the characters to be pretty endearing actually. Battle system is basic and tactics end up being quite repetitive, but there is some element of attacks causing you to move around positionally on the battle field (think Lunar or Tales games). They don't necessarily do a ton with this concept, but some of the groundwork for the more sophisticated Sora no Kiseki/Trails in the Sky trilogy battle system is forming here.
The translations probably get a worse reputation than they deserve because by far the worst of the bunch was the first English release and the localization sloppiness and janky text presentation gave the series a really poor first impression for mostly aesthetic reasons.
The first two games in the Gagharv trilogy were actually released in reverse order in the US Namco Bandai releases (JPN Legend of Heroes 3-4-5 were released in the US as Legend of Heroes II-I-III). I'd suggest starting with the original order - i.e. the game released in the US as "Legend of Heroes II: Prophecy of the Moonlight Witch" first. It's a slightly more basic game (not by much), but is better presented and will let you judge the series more on the qualities of Falcom's original game instead of being clouded by the worse localization job on Tear of Vermillion. The final game in the trilogy is the most polished and advanced in terms of battle mechanics (but again, still quite straightforward/traditional), and doesn't have localization issues as glaringly bad as Tear of Vermillion.
To add even MORE confusion, the Gagharv world chronological timeline is not consistent with either the Japanese or NA release order. Timeline is actually LOH4j -> LOH5j -> LOH3j. I still recommend 3j first though, to me the storyline just provides the best introduction to the world and has the most likable main characters.
Any of the games could really be played on their own, but they do all have storyline links that can be neat to see for people who had played the other games (i.e. playing in the original release order, you'll encounter events in the LOH4j/5j that were described in lore in the chronologically later LOH3j). |
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Talbain
Joined: 14 Jan 2007
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| Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2013 1:30 am |
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So I successfully installed the 6.6 CFW using the little tutorial, but I can't figure out how to actually run games. What do I need to do?
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ionustron
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| Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2013 1:44 am |
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| Little vague, but go to the recovery menu (in or out of actual recovery mode if your CFW supports it) and try changing the UMD iso mode to M33 driver or something if you're trying to run your backups. |
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Ymer
Joined: 05 Oct 2009
Location: PAL region
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| Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2013 2:08 am |
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| I haven't had to do that for any of the games I've tried. If you have the ISO files you just need to put them in the ISO folder that should in the Memory Stick root after installing CFW. It should then appear in your PSP Game menu. |
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Talbain
Joined: 14 Jan 2007
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| Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2013 2:26 am |
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I got it working. Think I just placed some files in the wrong place. Thanks for the responses guys!
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meauxdal
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| Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2013 5:12 am |
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new wiis can (hypothetically) play gamecube games once they've been modded, but last I checked you still need a gcn controller, the ports for which have been removed. i haven't looked it up in a few months but there is some work being done on being able to use classic controllers and wiimote+nunchuks for gcn games, but it hadn't come to fruition yet. the wii homebrew scene is pretty nice, all told.
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Talbain
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| Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2013 4:05 pm |
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I mean, anymore it's easier to just emulate most Wii games. To be honest, in some ways Dolphin is farther along than even PCSX2.
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BenoitRen
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| Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2013 7:41 pm |
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| i haven't looked it up in a few months but there is some work being done on being able to use classic controllers and wiimote+nunchuks for gcn games, but it hadn't come to fruition yet. |
What I've read about it said that it's pretty much impossible. There's too little space for the game patching to add support for Wii peripherals.
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| I mean, anymore it's easier to just emulate most Wii games. |
Not true. You need a very capable computer to do it, and that costs a lot more than a Wii. Not to mention that the emulation isn't that accurate because it'd need even more resources.
...What does all this nonsense have to do with the PSP, anyway?
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meauxdal
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| Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2013 10:40 pm |
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| BenoitRen wrote: |
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| i haven't looked it up in a few months but there is some work being done on being able to use classic controllers and wiimote+nunchuks for gcn games, but it hadn't come to fruition yet. |
What I've read about it said that it's pretty much impossible. There's too little space for the game patching to add support for Wii peripherals. |
You're referencing Devolution, I'd guess. I'm reading the gbatemp thread right now and they don't seem to have conceded defeat on the matter as of yet. It hasn't been done yet, but it seems to be a top priority given the fact that Wii U also lack GCN ports but still has the (locked) capability of playing GCN games. For the longest time everyone said loading GCN from USB was impossible, but, um, I'm doing it right now :)
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BenoitRen
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| Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2013 11:05 pm |
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It required some clever coding to redirect DVD reads to USB. My guess is that at the time there wasn't enough knowledge about GameCube mode and the MIOS's importance in it.
However, Wii peripherals are out of the question at the moment as the library that needs to be loaded for them to work is ~600 kB. Maybe if someone would be willing to rewrite it to be smaller things would be different.
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TheUser
Joined: 09 Dec 2006
Location: Irvine, CA
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| Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2013 12:48 am |
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I bought my metallic blue PSP-1000 on a whim at Anime Expo a number of years ago. I went straight to the NIS booth. They knew me a little because my girlfriend was a tester at the time, and I told them that I just bought it and wanted any game just because I was anxious to play it. I asked which of their games they recommended. The woman helping me told me to buy a game from a different company.
I bought Aedis Eclipse, and it was okay. During the intro there was a typo. My girlfriend told me she had actually reported that one, but I guess it didn't get fixed.
My favorite PSP game, and one of my favorite games ever, is also by NIS, although my girlfriend had nothing to do with his one. Prinny: Can I Really Be The Hero has all the NIS humor and animation charm but in a challenging platformer rather than a SRPG. You start the game with 1000 lives, and that's that. If you run out on the last level, too bad. Luckily I finished without running out of lives. I wish I wrote down how many lives I had at the end. I love the humor, and I'm a huge fan of big, gorgeous sprites. Platformers are also one of my favorite genres, so that helps.
Another fantastic game is LocoRoco. You tilt the world left and right by using the L and R buttons to roll the LocoRoco characters towards the goal. It's very cute and charming, and I love the art style. The best aspect though is the demos. Besides a regular demo, there's a Christmas themed demo and a Halloween demo as well. I played each of those on their respective holidays for years. Sadly, I haven't played them the last couple years because I never have my PSP charged or even anywhere easy to find, but I still find them great holiday games.
I hope these two recommendations help someone to discover these games! |
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Rud31
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BenoitRen
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| Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2013 8:44 pm |
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I tried Loco Roco recently. It's too simplistic for my tastes.
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Rud31
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Since Botoggle retweeted it so I was forced to think about it again, Corpse Party and it's sequel are smut. They are murder pornography of no redeeming artistic value. Do not play them.
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zombieman000
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| Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2013 12:18 am |
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| Work Time Fun scratches the same itch that Wario Ware does for me but unlocking new games can be tedious. The best/most efficient method for making money may be to cap ballpoint pens for hours but hell no. |
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Deets
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| Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2013 12:33 am |
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| Texican Rude wrote: |
| Since Botoggle retweeted it so I was forced to think about it again, Corpse Party and it's sequel are smut. They are murder pornography of no redeeming artistic value. Do not play them. |
Glad we summarily wrote that whole series off completely! |
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Rud31
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| Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2013 5:16 am |
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| Deets wrote: |
| Texican Rude wrote: |
| Since Botoggle retweeted it so I was forced to think about it again, Corpse Party and it's sequel are smut. They are murder pornography of no redeeming artistic value. Do not play them. |
Glad we summarily wrote that whole series off completely! |
I'm very hopeful everyone does! I'm willing to listen to someone make the case for the worth about a game that is about sexual-toned graphic explanation of murders of high school girls. Here's the review that brought it back to my mind.
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ionustron
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| Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2013 9:13 am |
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| Texican Rude wrote: |
| Deets wrote: |
| Texican Rude wrote: |
| Since Botoggle retweeted it so I was forced to think about it again, Corpse Party and it's sequel are smut. They are murder pornography of no redeeming artistic value. Do not play them. |
Glad we summarily wrote that whole series off completely! |
I'm very hopeful everyone does! I'm willing to listen to someone make the case for the worth about a game that is about sexual-toned graphic explanation of murders of high school girls. Here's the review that brought it back to my mind. |
Someone was streaming Book of Shadows recently and I'm almost inclined to agree with Rudie here. Almost because I couldn't watch more than 10 minutes. However most of it was black screens with really bad descriptive writing over hysterical japanese VAs. |
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Deets
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| Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2013 3:08 pm |
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Wow okay I didn't realize the new one was in fact literally murder porn complete with them removing the game part entirely
Point made. |
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ionustron
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I dunno. It's VN at this point, prolly about as dumb or drawn out as the deaths in a Type-Moon game or something. The writing just stuck out to me as not very good (even for a game) and not sure who to blame for that.
If only someone would put Gunhound up for digital (and then decide to make it PS3 download only.) |
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BenoitRen
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There's still a chance that Conception will be localised.
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spectralsound
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| Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2013 2:14 am |
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get Cave Story
the snes emus aren't that terrible (just don't expect to play Mode 7/SuperFX stuff)
most of the good psp games are kind of stupidly hard to get these days, just pirate them (make an "ISO" folder in your memory stick's root directory and put the roms in there)
yeah the psp failed because Sony themselves lost confidence and gave up on it before anyone else did (this is also (hilariously) exactly what is currently happening with the Vita)
not even going to touch the Corpse Party/Conception portion of your post
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ionustron
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I'm not sure how much of it has to do with the old Gamefan folks but they hyped up that one I'm sure the seeds would've been planted. We ended up getting the 999 and Stiens:gate-whatever stuff right?
Feel kinda bad. Wydward seems an interesting fellow and Corpse Party was pretty much his project from how I understand it. Didn't care for what I saw of any of it. |
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Deets
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The PS1 emulator is the best thing on the PSP, and it's officially Sony supported. Genesis, CPS2 & Neogeo emulation is also phenomenal. (I didn't realize SNES emulation was still bad, though.) |
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dementia
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| In Drill Dozer prefer the feel of my PSP 1000's shoulder buttons to any of my GBAs |
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Rud31
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Mikey
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| Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2013 4:37 am |
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| dementia wrote: |
| In Drill Dozer prefer the feel of my PSP 1000's shoulder buttons to any of my GBAs |
Drill Dozer sans rumble can't be the same |
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allensmithee
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| Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2013 8:29 am |
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Wyrdwad is a bit of a punk-ass, he really fucking loves that Corpse Party joint. He also defends moé til his butt bleeds.
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BenoitRen
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| Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2013 3:07 pm |
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| spectralsound wrote: |
| most of the good psp games are kind of stupidly hard to get these days |
What are you talking about? Everything is still available and a lot is on PSN.
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Shiren the Launderer
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| I'm a big advocate for Gunpey and Metal Gear Acid |
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BenoitRen
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| BenoitRen wrote: |
| I've also been meaning to ask about this SD to MS adapter. How good is it? I know that the bigger your Memory Stick is, the faster the read speed, though it pretty much caps out with the 8 GB Memory Stick. Is the read speed using the adapter comparable? |
I'd still like some thoughts on this.
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