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What would I need to buy for the PSP to have the most fun with it? (USB stuff, memory stuff, etc.)

How are its emulation capabilities? All I've heard are people geeking about it.

Exactly how long does it take to load games? I've seen vids where it takes 6 minutes to load a wrestling match, but I dunno if they're fake or not

How good are the actual gams for it?




Well that's about it. I'm going to be getting one for Christmas, so I wanted to know a few things.

You'll def. want to get a 1GB stick (which is really cheap now) and a mini usb to usb cable so you can upload all your shit onto it.

Games I'd recommend:
Tekken: Dark Ressurection
MGS: Portable Ops
The MGS AC!D games are quite fun
SOme old classics like mega man and ghosts and golbins is fun

Your best bet would probably be to find an Entertainment pack. For $50 more then the core, you get a game (ATV Offroad Fury: Blazin' Trails), a UMD movie (as useless as they are, Lords of Dogtown), and a 1 GB Memory Stick Pro Duo. Alternatively, a core is $200 new, comes only with the console and an AC adapter, but you could probably find a 1GB stick for like $30 if you don't care about the crappy game or movie.

How are its emulation capabilities? All I've heard are people geeking about it.

GBA fullspeed, SNES nearly full speed, Neo-Geo runs well (as do Capcom Play System 1 and 2), and you can pretty well expect anything lower in power than those to run full speed. The thing is you need to be careful in what you buy. If you want the best setup, you'd pretty well have to buy used, make sure that it's an old motherboard, make sure it's an old firmware... bit of a hassle. If you buy a new console, odds are you'll end up with a console that's hackable with a good mobo and firmware, but apparently there are some newer ones out there... so it could be iffy.

Load times vary from game to game, but the general rule of thumb is avoid wrestling games, and avoid EA games. The one that takes an eternity of time to load is Smakdown vs Raw 2006, and man is that one steaming pile of shit. EA never seems to bug test or put any time into the PSP games they make, so the best thing to do there is to check online before you buy a game. Portable Ops, my latest purchase, is quite speedy in loading, I'd say about as long as MGS3 took.

As for top recommendations, in order:

Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops (and seriously I can't recommend this highly enough to anyone)
Valkyrie Profile: Lenneth
Syphon Filter: Dark Mirror
Tekken: Dark Resurrection
LocoRoco
Mega Man Maverick Hunter X / Powered Up!
Metal Gear Acid 1 and/or 2 (2 is a lot better then the original)
WipeOut Pure
Killzone Liberation

I'd also say Lumines or Lumines II, but if I remember right you already have the Live version.

I have the demo of the Live version.

And yeah, I'm gonna end up getting a newer one no matter what. (Parents are gettin it so there you go)

Oh well. I'll have to search like hell to find out how to make it support homebrew.

wat firm does mgs po require vamp???

Just go to http://www.psp-hacks.com/ Cheetor.

And it requires 2.81, fanboy. New devhook supports up to 3.02, so it doesn't really matter .

devhook? Is that the thing that lets you play roms and homebrew programs?

No, it's a firmware emulator that allows you to load games beyond what SCE wants you to.

Cheetor wrote:What would I need to buy for the PSP to have the most fun with it? (USB stuff, memory stuff, etc.)

Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin
Advance Wars
Zelda: Phantom Hourglass
Nintendogs
Brain Age
Mega Man ZX
Trauma Center
Super Mario D.....oh oops, you said PSP.....well ah....i can't think of any....maybe if you buy a converter....

I would get a DS, but I like the thought of being able to do all that hacking shit with the PSP.

Plus, I havn't seen any games I really want for the DS other than Mario 64 DS.

Cheetor wrote:I would get a DS, but I like the thought of being able to do all that hacking shit with the PSP.

Plus, I havn't seen any games I really want for the DS other than Mario 64 DS.

yeah, the hacking stuff's pretty cool, i agree. I happen to love the Castlevania "Metroid-style" gameplay, hence the DS love.

PSP games.....the GTA games were good i hear.

jay i love dawn of sorrow. after i get mario kart POR is prob my next buy

Wiizerfanboy wrote:jay i love dawn of sorrow. after i get mario kart POR is prob my next buy

dawn of sorrow is awesome, and has a great soundtrack, which you can d/l for free at http://gh.ffshrine.org/soundtracks.php?r=16755

I just got ACID2 and it's fucking amazing. Get it!

Mecha doesn't have the DGN. He's a not a real Metal Gear fan.