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GeorgeFloydFentanylStash said:
I downloaded a whole PSP rom collection. What are some good underrated games that i could find?
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Here's some of the best:

Metal Gear Acid 1 & 2
Final Fantasy Crisis Core
Final Fantasy Tactics
Persona 3
Brandish: Dark Revenant
Ys: Oath in Felghana
Ys 7
Growlanser IV: Wayfarer of Time
Lunar: Silver Star Harmony
Soulcalibur: Broken Destiny
Hammerin' Hero
Riviera: The Promised Land (I played the GBA version, I assume this is better)
Lumines

Hammerin' Hero is kind of a hidden gem, a super colorful and adventurous 2D Platformer (not a lot of those on PSP).
 
One of my favorite PSP titles was a little gem called Rengoku: Tower of Purgatory.

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It was a third-person action game made by Konami that was loosely themed around the tower of Babel. You collect equipment that grafts on to your body changes your appearance as you progress up a tower. The way the loadout and the weapons handled made it almost play like a quasi-Armored Core. There were some light RPG elements with assigning stats to things like weapon damage and resistances.

 
Croaking Spider said:
One of my favorite PSP titles was a little gem called Rengoku: Tower of Purgatory.

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It was a third-person action game made by Konami that was loosely themed around the tower of Babel. You collect equipment that grafts on to your body changes your appearance as you progress up a tower. The way the loadout and the weapons handled made it almost play like a quasi-Armored Core. There were some light RPG elements with assigning stats to things like weapon damage and resistances.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=psuZASjlAnU
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Published overseas by Konami, but developed by Neverland, the guys behind the Lufia and Rune Factory series.
 
I have never really used PSP as a media player in the past - it was always a gaming device for me - but I'm bedridden now with a lot of free time so I decided to try that out.

I downloaded ISO rips of a couple of UMD movies and moved them to the memory card. Keeping in mind the age of the device, I was impressed. The menus are there, subtitles and chapters too, the controls are fine. Pretty much a mini DVD player. Very nice. It made me think that were it not for my almost-busted battery, I'd probably take PSP with me on a few trips to watch stuff on it even in this day and age.

As far as music is concerned, I definitely won't be using PSP as a music player. There's no support for non-standard characters in the metadata (which sucks because I have a lot of foreign music) and hi-res album art. I don't feel like editing every song I want to put in there to keep my autism happy. The size of the handheld in combination with the headphone jack location make for quite an awkward and uncomfortable listening if I want to put it in my pockets while listening to music. And one more thing - and I know I am probably asking too much from a thing this old - it's sad there's no bookmarking feature which would make listening to podcasts more comfortable. I'm basically forced to listen to them in one go unless I want to remember where I left off and then rewind to that spot every time I leave the music "app".

Anyway, this testing made me nostalgic for the days when smartphones practically didn't exist and everything didn't revolve around them. PSP really was an amazing little piece of machinery.
 
Cloaca Rimjob said:
Castlevania dracula x chronicles
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That game also comes with the full version of Symphony of the Night.

Dracula X is fine and all but SotN is the real reason to get that game.

Anyway, I got rid of my original version, jailbroken PSP a long time ago. The battery crapped out and at the time there were no decent replacement options so I sold it. Kind of wishing I didn't, it was an amazing machine.
 
SSj_Ness (Yiffed) said:
Is there a reason to play it over the PS1 version?
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It wasn't a full remaster or anything but I think it added a few improvements over the PS1 release. At the time it was also probably the only way to play it portably (other than playing the original also on your PSP). Now any cheap handheld can emulate PS1 so it's a moot point.
 
Stasi said:
It wasn't a full remaster or anything but I think it added a few improvements over the PS1 release. At the time it was also probably the only way to play it portably (other than playing the original also on your PSP). Now any cheap handheld can emulate PS1 so it's a moot point.
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Maniacal Foreigner said:
They added Maria as a boss and a playable character like in the Saturn version, but she plays differently from it.
They also redubbed the game with 2000s anime voice actors, so the goofy charm of the original is lost.
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Interesting. That's a good enough reason to play it then.
 
Has there been any work on screen replacements for PSP? Last time I checked ones existed for PSP-1000 models but I only have a 3000 and I swear some parts of the screen are discolored.

I had a lot of fun with it, and it still gets points for having a portable version of Outrun 2006.
 
Maniacal Foreigner said:
They added Maria as a boss and a playable character like in the Saturn version, but she plays differently from it.
They also redubbed the game with 2000s anime voice actors, so the goofy charm of the original is lost.
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It's been awhile since I've played it, but I think you also get the two familiars not available in the western release. The nose goblin and the sprite. And if Alucard sits in a chair with the sprite equipped she will eventually sit on his shoulder and sing Nocturne.
 
Dysnomia said:
It's been awhile since I've played it, but I think you also get the two familiars not available in the western release. The nose goblin and the sprite. And if Alucard sits in a chair with the sprite equipped she will eventually sit on his shoulder and sing Nocturne.
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I thought the fairy singing when alucard sits in the chair was only on the sega saturn version?
 
Dysnomia said:
It's been awhile since I've played it, but I think you also get the two familiars not available in the western release. The nose goblin and the sprite. And if Alucard sits in a chair with the sprite equipped she will eventually sit on his shoulder and sing Nocturne.
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themanwithnogf said:
I thought the fairy singing when alucard sits in the chair was only on the sega saturn version?
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The two extra familiars were first added in the Japanese v1.2 PS1 release in 1998. (aka "the Best" or "PSOne Books" release). Later they were also in the Saturn version.
They were planned from the beginning (hence Nocturne on the original soundtrack) but couldn't be implemented originally due to time constraints.
 
I dusted off my PSP again and tried LocoRoco 2. I remember seeing it as a cute kids' game that can be fun for mature players too for a while, but now I am very surprised to see just how rich in content the game is.

It's quite a collectathon with all the lums (money), MuiMui guys, postcards and stamps, materials for the MuiMui house, cutscenes, mini games, black clouds, new stages. Then there are all the random events like bomber raids on the house, time attack trials, searching for lost butterflies or seeking that hilarious fat MuiMui wearing striped pants. The randomness adds to replayability but I feel like it prolongs the game a little too much because I have the impression I'd have to spend dozens upon dozens of hours to really complete the game (the house in particular) and I don't really have that much free time now.

Another thing that surprised me is that the adorable, child-like exterior can lie a lot because it hides some really difficult stages, believe it or not. Many times I thought, there's no way a little kid can clear that stage or find that hidden area.

In conclusion, the game is a gem well-deserving of a spot on the list of the best games on the console. It's obvious a lot of care and effort went into making this game and I genuinely recommend it to everyone, no matter the age.
 
I'm 26 and the PSP is one of the first things that comes to mind when I think about my favorite things to play with as a kid, up there with LEGO. I strongly associate it with being a kid in the summer of 2009-2010. I wasn't allowed to play M rated games but some T rated games were allowed. One of these was Rock Band Unplugged, a pretty interesting footnote in rhythm game history. I played the shit out of that, Star Wars Battlefront 2, and the LEGO games. There was also one of those ATV racing games and Need for Speed which I also enjoyed. Crash of the Titans, too. I still hold that that game was underrated.

My mom never sold or threw out my PSP even after I hadn't touched it for years. I think it's sitting in some box in a closet right now. I can't remember the time I played it, might have been before the pandemic. Regardless, I should really try plugging in the charger and seeing if it can still run or if the battery is just that fucked from time. I remember hearing of a lot of instances of people's older brothers selling their PSPs though.
 
Never touched the PSP but I've seen listing for its most popular games an God of War always pops us near the top. I can't understand why a glorified autism test is a top rated game.
 
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