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themanwithnogf

themanwithnogf

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I recently bought a PSP off of ebay to have something to do during work downtime, I've had a lot of fun so far playing MGS Peace walker, Ace Combat, and Midnight Club 3. Any other PSP enjoyers out there?
 
Psp is still great. I have 2 working ones plus a jailbroken one.
There were a lot of great remakes of PS1 RPGs that were released for it. I ended up snagging a boatload of physical games back in 2012 at gamestop for 5-10 bucks a pop.
The Persona games, Breath of Fire 3&4, Final Fantasy Tactics War of the Lions, Star Ocean 2, I've got a damn shoebox full of games I've acquired here and there since then.
If you're looking to collect then games can get a bit pricey. Mom and pop used media shops generally have them but they've generally wisened up to the ebay market.
The jailbroken one is used for emulators and a fun little converter program called PS1 to PSP. It'll pretty much convert any PS1 game into a PSP file that you just transfer to the PSP via USB. I use them to kill time in Airports and such.
 
Some favorites:

Metal Gear Acid 1&2
Final Fantasy Crisis Core & Tactics
Persona 3

What I'm playing on & off:

Brandish: Dark Revenant
Ys: Oath in Felghana
Ys 7

Things I downloaded but haven't tried much of/any yet:

Black Rock Shooter
Fate/Extra
Silent Hill Origins
Wild Arms XF
Gurumin
Kingdom of Paradise
Trails in the Sky
Summon Night 5
Shadow of Destiny
Tokobot
Tales of Eternia

Diet Coke 4 Life said:
Still own mine. Absolutely fucking adore Corpse Party.
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It's surprisingly good. Too bad the sequel didn't click with me.
 
Had one a long time ago, when they were new.

I remember enjoying the ARPG Untold Legends: Brotherhood of the Blade.

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If you can find the UMD or ROM it's worth a shot.
 
PSP was very much my childhood, I had a PSP-1003, but it kinda broke so I bought a PSP-3000 on ebay, which is also more powerful.
as a kid one of my favorites was Legends of a Fat Princess, I also really liked Loco Roco (I've played the sequel as a kid now I'm playing the first game) .
Holy Invasion of Privacy was an interesting game as well, but I wasn't good at it for obvious reasons.

and let's not forget the peak that is the Patapon series. Soon, a spiritual successor made by the same developers IIRC, will drop, it's called Ratatan.
I've also played a lot of Pac-Man Championship Edition and some Namco Museum with Pac-Man in it, I really liked the Namco Museum version because it featured a story mode with various gimmicks in its levels, like elevators, jump pads, and stuff.
My first ever console :)
 
There is a D&D title for it that plays like fantasy xcom that is pretty fun. The lego titles are great too. All the ad-hoc multiplayer games still work, phantasy star portable is a pretty fun co op rpg.
 
Most of what I remember playing outside of emulating SNES games was Lumines, Every Extend Extra, Gunpey, Gitaroo Man, DJ Max Portable games, the Ridge Racers and Tekken 5 Dark Resurrection. There's Jean D'Arc if you like SRPGs. And well regarded ports of Final Fantasy I & II.

Edit: I forgot, the Wipeout titles are enjoyable also. Though I preferred the first one, Pure, the second can be a bit too chaotic.
 
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PSP is good if you're a fighting game player, because it has the definitive versions of Street Fighter Alpha 3 and Darkstalkers, the latter being a port of "matching services" on Dreamcast but with the addition of a tower mode that's REALLY challenging.

Only thing I don't like is that it doesn't have L2/R2, which I like to use as 3P and 3K respectively.
 
PSP got me into homebrew and computers as a kid so definitely played a big part in my early life. It was also my primary music and media machine since I was ripping classic Futurama and Simpsons to it after encoding down to its 270p screen

Midnight Club 3
Ratchet and Clank Size Matters
Tekken 5 DR
Emulating the whole SNES and PS1 library

I’ve owned every model since I was flipping electronics as a kid. The PSP Go is really slick and beautiful and with a soft mod the lack of UMD is a non issue. Can also pair PS3 controllers and bt headphones to it since they added Bluetooth. Which model did you get?
 
GTA Liberty City Stories and Vice City Stories are great. They're both prequels to their respective PS2 entries.

GTA: Chinatown Wars is the old school top down view style of GTA game, but greatly refined and easier to play.

Burnout: Legends for a fun chaotic racing game, it rewards destruction and aggressive racing, ramming your opponents in to walls and traffic n shit.

MTX: Mototrax is a dirtbike racing game that takes some inspiration from thr Tony Hawk Pro Skater games, there's an objective based free mode where you can unlock more tricks and levels in addition to the career racing mode you can play alongside it, progress is shared between them.

Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops preceeded Peace Walker. Everyone insists it isn't canon, even Kojima himself, but it fits in to the overall MGS story perfectly and, IMO, has a better story than Peace Walker, showing how Big Boss first came to realising his dream of Outer Heaven through inspiration from that games villain, Gene. Young Grey Fox is in it too, in the early stages of his ninja soldier programming shit. It's a greatly underrated MGS game. (NOTE: "Portable Ops Plus" is a different game entirely with no story mode, instead intended more as an add-on/arcade version. Don't mix them up, avoid "Portable Ops Plus" unless you already played the normal version)
 
Mine is no longer operable, but it was a banger of a machine. Especially after jailbreaking, which let you run emulators on it (PlayStation, GameBoy Advance, many others.) Most of the games I liked were mentioned, except one. You should try the flagship title Loco Roco and Loco Roco 2.
 
I recall that Tony Hawk's Underground 2 had a really good port on this system. That version added four more levels to the main campaign along with its classic mode, new skaters, and tricks. It remains a very good on-the-go THPS game that keeps a lot of its original code compared to the predecessors on the GBA and earlier.

Project 8 also had a good, last-gen version on the PSP that played just like the PS2 release, but I never played that one a lot. Both of these were downright awesome if you wanted a portable skating game.
 
I miss mine from time to time. Its port of Tekken 5 still blows me away with how much stuff they managed to keep intact
 
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The anime aesthetic and high school setting are a little annoying, but I rather enjoy the tactical game play.
 
Celebrate Nite said:
PSP is good if you're a fighting game player, because it has the definitive versions of Street Fighter Alpha 3 and Darkstalkers, the latter being a port of "matching services" on Dreamcast but with the addition of a tower mode that's REALLY challenging.

Only thing I don't like is that it doesn't have L2/R2, which I like to use as 3P and 3K respectively.
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I was disappointed when Capcom Fighting Collection 2 didn't have that version of Alpha 3. Pretty lazy on Capcom's part to not include it.

Bilbo Boglims said:
There is a D&D title for it that plays like fantasy xcom that is pretty fun.
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That sounds interesting, I might check it out.

Dammit Mandrake! said:
Ys 7 is really good and the PSP is the comfiest way to play it.
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Technically I'm playing it on Vita, but yeah, still quite comfy.
 
SSj_Ness (Yiffed) said:
I was disappointed when Capcom Fighting Collection 2 didn't have that version of Alpha 3. Pretty lazy on Capcom's part to not include it.
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To be fair, everything in the CFC games are strictly arcade versions, including alpha 3 upper, which was a game on the SEGA NAOMI arcade board.

As much as I hate current Capcom, I wouldn't fault them for that considering those games are more focused towards tournyfags that are looking to play old fighters on new systems online (even though they will wind up going back to FightCade anyways)
 
I still have my PSP-1000 launch model. The screen is mouldy and playing monster hunter on it was like pulling teeth. Just sits as a shelf decoration on a 3D printed stand now.
 
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