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#1 Jul 30 2009 at 4:45 AM Rating: Decent
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i've just about decided to pick one up for the wipeout games alone... that pirates looks to be super bonus... but it seems to be lacking a good rpg.

i've read reviews on a bunch of different ones, but none of them are jumping out at me. any suggestions?
#2 Jul 30 2009 at 6:09 AM Rating: Good
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Crisis Core was superb IMO.
#3 Jul 30 2009 at 7:52 AM Rating: Excellent
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Crisis Core was superb IMO.


It is very, very good if you like the FF7 story.

Sadly, I don't use my psp to play psp games -.-
I run homebrew and emulate other systems on it and play old games of the past with it :P

I've yet to play it but I am told Brave Story: New Traveler is a great RPG.
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#4 Jul 30 2009 at 8:18 AM Rating: Good
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Both Star Oceans. Disgaea.
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#5 Jul 30 2009 at 9:51 AM Rating: Good
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I personally like Final Fantasy Tactics, but I've loved that game since it first came out on the PS1.

Metacritic's top-rated PSP titles. Well worth a perusal...

Oh, not to derail the thread (but I'm gonna), but maybe someone around here can answer a question. I have a first-gen PSP (model# 1001 specifically). I've been wondering if there's any reason to upgrade to the newer generation? Alternately, is there a reason to stick with the old one? I vaguely remember reading that the older ones were easier to hack for homebrewing purposes...
#6 Jul 30 2009 at 11:50 AM Rating: Good
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I think they remade Rivera for the psp. It was good on the gba, so I'd assume it's good on the psp.

Disgaea, same as above.

I think there might be a few Tales games on the psp, but I don't remember for certain.

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Metacritic's top-rated PSP titles. Well worth a perusal...


I don't think I'd want to trust anyone who puts God of War at number 1, personally.

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#7 Jul 30 2009 at 3:52 PM Rating: Good
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I don't think I'd want to trust anyone who puts God of War at number 1, personally.

Metacritic doesn't do their own reviews. They create an average score based on reviews (thus META critic).

http://metacritic.org/about/scoring.shtml

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Each movie, game, book and album featured on metacritic.com is assigned a METASCORE®, which is a weighted average of all of the scores assigned by individual critics to that movie, game, book or album.
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The METASCORE is considered a weighted average because we assign more significance, or weight, to some critics and publications than we do to others, based on the overall stature and quality of those critics and publications. In addition, for music and movies, we also normalize the resulting scores (akin to "grading on a curve" in college), which prevents scores from clumping together.

Metacritic put God of War at the top because it's received excellent reviews overall. Lumines held that position for a long time; God of War took #1 almost as soon as it was released.

I've found Metacritic to be useful in judging a game's overall quality, even if the specific style or genre isn't to my tastes. For example, WipEout Pure and Ridge Racer are in the top 10; I don't really like racing games, so I wouldn't pick up either one. That doesn't make them excellent games.

It's also nice to be able to peruse many different reviews all at once, both from professional critics and from normal every-day players like me.
#8 Jul 30 2009 at 4:08 PM Rating: Good
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I've found Metacritic to be useful in judging a game's overall quality, even if the specific style or genre isn't to my tastes. For example, WipEout Pure and Ridge Racer are in the top 10; I don't really like racing games, so I wouldn't pick up either one. That doesn't make them excellent games.


Did you mean to write this? I think you need another negative in there.

Though that does make ore sense that games would be sorted by popularity there, if they don't do their own reviews.

I just.. uggh, God of War.
#9 Jul 30 2009 at 4:21 PM Rating: Good
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Did you mean to write this? I think you need another negative in there.

I don't like racing games, so I wouldn't buy WipEout Pure or Ridge Racer. People who _do_ like racers probably would like either of those. Just because I wouldn't buy them doesn't make them bad games, just ones I personally wouldn't enjoy.

If my intent wasn't clear, I apologize. :(
#10 Jul 30 2009 at 4:23 PM Rating: Good
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Crimson Gem Saga is a generic turn based RPG, it has a skill tree system that you learn with ability points earned through battle. Quest system from town, etc. I played it and it was fairly decent, worth a try. My brother beat it and said it was short and got pretty easy near the end. But then again, most RPGs get fairly easy after you grind a bit.

There's Mana Khemia Student Alliance. RPG with an alchemy synthesis system. I haven't gotten very far with this game, but it seems fun.

Stay away from Class of Heroes, unless you are a fan of old style labyrinth RPGs like Wizardry. I found this game to be horrid and could not even play past the first random battle.

Disgaea 2 is coming out too.

I wish Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep would come out :(

And if you are a fan of Shin Megami Tensei it'll be out soon.

I liked Jeanne D'arc even though I hated the fact that the fights had turn limits. I like playing around during battle too much, and a turn limit really messes with that.

There's Tales of the World, Radiant Mythology. A decent Tales game.

Valkyrie Profile many people liked it, I found it interesting but the whole thing of the Valkyrie Profile games kinda throws me off. My first one I tried was for the DS, and while an interesting twist, I ended up not caring for it too much.

Brave Story, New Traveler. Generic. My brother played it for a while, it kept him busy. But games like this is why it's good to try before you buy. I hear the PSN has Demos of some games available... I wonder if

Phantasy Star Portable is fun if you have a person you can play multiplayer with. I believe it only utilizes direct PSP to PSP wireless connections, not WiFi, so you can only play locally, not of the internet.




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Oh, not to derail the thread (but I'm gonna), but maybe someone around here can answer a question. I have a first-gen PSP (model# 1001 specifically). I've been wondering if there's any reason to upgrade to the newer generation? Alternately, is there a reason to stick with the old one? I vaguely remember reading that the older ones were easier to hack for homebrewing purposes...


There is no reason to upgrade. The 2000 and 3000 models have more memory (64MB instead of 32MB, or something like that) but it's only really useful if you are running homebrew stuff on your PSP, and even then not that useful. The 1000 and most of the 2000 models are easier to modify for homebrew purposes. But all of them, 1000, 2000, and 3000, can be modified in varying ways for homebrew.

Edited, Jul 30th 2009 8:45pm by TirithRR
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#11 Aug 02 2009 at 10:01 AM Rating: Decent
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thanks for the info... i cheapened chickened out.

i picked up disciples 2 and neverwinter nights (the first one) for pc. nwn is an opengl game though, so my laptop actually gets better fps in wotlk. disciples 2 is kinda fun... there's no manual though and the tutorial tells you do stuff without really saying how or where, so the first map, on easy, is kicking my ***.
#12 Aug 02 2009 at 11:26 AM Rating: Decent
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If you decided to install custom firmware, not only would you have some of the pretty decent RPG's already listed in this thread, but you would also have access to pretty much everything pre-ps2. Was in a long car ride to a wedding and back today and yesterday and thoroughly enjoyed the trip because I had GTA2 and Castlevania: SOTN eboots. I came home with X-COM: UFO Defense, Chrono Cross, and Saga Frontier 2 downloaded and awaiting conversion.

PSP is beyond win.
#13 Aug 02 2009 at 12:32 PM Rating: Good
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Rykhorne wrote:
Oh, not to derail the thread (but I'm gonna), but maybe someone around here can answer a question. I have a first-gen PSP (model# 1001 specifically). I've been wondering if there's any reason to upgrade to the newer generation? Alternately, is there a reason to stick with the old one? I vaguely remember reading that the older ones were easier to hack for homebrewing purposes...


There is no reason to upgrade. The 2000 and 3000 models have more memory (64MB instead of 32MB, or something like that) but it's only really useful if you are running homebrew stuff on your PSP, and even then not that useful. The 1000 and most of the 2000 models are easier to modify for homebrew purposes. But all of them, 1000, 2000, and 3000, can be modified in varying ways for homebrew.


Can't the 3000s (not sure if the 2000s can) hook up to your TV?
I love my old fatty, but I always thought it would be cool to play my PSP on my big screen tv :p
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#14 Aug 02 2009 at 12:37 PM Rating: Good
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Sandinmygum wrote:
TirithRR wrote:

Rykhorne wrote:
Oh, not to derail the thread (but I'm gonna), but maybe someone around here can answer a question. I have a first-gen PSP (model# 1001 specifically). I've been wondering if there's any reason to upgrade to the newer generation? Alternately, is there a reason to stick with the old one? I vaguely remember reading that the older ones were easier to hack for homebrewing purposes...


There is no reason to upgrade. The 2000 and 3000 models have more memory (64MB instead of 32MB, or something like that) but it's only really useful if you are running homebrew stuff on your PSP, and even then not that useful. The 1000 and most of the 2000 models are easier to modify for homebrew purposes. But all of them, 1000, 2000, and 3000, can be modified in varying ways for homebrew.


Can't the 3000s (not sure if the 2000s can) hook up to your TV?
I love my old fatty, but I always thought it would be cool to play my PSP on my big screen tv :p


I think the 2000s and 3000s have TV out.

But really that was never important to me. And I'd rather have a PSP 1000 with custom firmware than a 3000 with TV Out. The 3000, while homebrew capable, is not nearly as nice as the 1000 and 2000, since it cannot be completely modified the way the older ones can.
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#15 Sep 03 2009 at 1:23 PM Rating: Default
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woot. psp 2000 to be in hand in 179 minutes. now to learn meself some homebrew...

yikes. after 20 mins of looking i think i'll stick to daxter and atari classics for a couple weeks.

Edited, Sep 3rd 2009 5:50pm by axhed
#16 Sep 04 2009 at 10:30 AM Rating: Good
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woot. psp 2000 to be in hand in 179 minutes. now to learn meself some homebrew...

yikes. after 20 mins of looking i think i'll stick to daxter and atari classics for a couple weeks.

Edited, Sep 3rd 2009 5:50pm by axhed


XD

When you need help for setting up a CFW, come back here. There are a few of us that can help you.
I've never cracked a 2000 model. The only thing I can suggest is if you plan on trying to run on CFW later, to not update your Firmware. It probably is already, but the lower the OFW is, the easier it is to crack (unless there has been some easier hacks found, I had to use a tool to do it).
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#17 Sep 04 2009 at 12:51 PM Rating: Decent
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i'll prolly be following this guide. pretty sure my firmware is 3.71 too.

how long before i stop tilting the damn thing trying to raise the camera angle?
#18 Sep 04 2009 at 1:52 PM Rating: Good
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i'll prolly be following this guide. pretty sure my firmware is 3.71 too.

how long before i stop tilting the damn thing trying to raise the camera angle?


That is a pretty good guide. You will need the Tool Battery if you are on OFW 3.51+, DX has it for under $7 and S&H is free. I ordered mine through them and it took maybe a week to get to me.

Wint has a good guide on how to hack it too.
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#19 Sep 04 2009 at 2:56 PM Rating: Good
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There is also a method of cracking your PSP that doesn't require a Tool battery. It was developed as a way to run homebrew for the PSP 3000, but works on the older PSPs as well, and allows modification without the Tool.

2000 Models with the TA-088v3 Motherboard can't get Custom Firmware, and neither can the 3000 models. (But there are other things that mimic Custom Firmware that can be ran).
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#20 Sep 04 2009 at 3:51 PM Rating: Good
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TirithRR wrote:
There is also a method of cracking your PSP that doesn't require a Tool battery.
And it woooooooooooooooorks~

As this topic seems to be about this, I'm wondering what programs people use on their PSPs to run other games? Currently all I can figure out how to run is SNES, but I'm looking for Gameboy Advance (for Mother 3), Genesis (For the Phantasy Star series), and obvious PS1 (Wild ARMs, Suikoden, etc etc ...) and what I find I'm having problems with. So, if anyone has and has working personally and could do a step by step, it would be appreciated. Especially PS1.
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#21 Sep 04 2009 at 4:12 PM Rating: Good
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PS1 games can be played on the PSP without any special program to run. You need to have at least 3.01 or 3.50 firmware, I forget which one that Sony added the "Playstation on PSP" "PlayStation One Portable Station" or "POPS" emulation. Sony added this for the classic PSX games you can download from the PSN, but of course, people found a way to create their own eboots from their own games. You need to have Custom Firmware (obviously) and the PSX games need to be converted into "Eboot" files (a format that the PSP uses for the games). Google a program "PSX2PSP". I used it to backup my FF9 discs and create a multi-disc eboot (1.5GB) that I can play on my PSP without any issues.

GBA can be played using the emulator "gpSP", and it is nearly perfect (freezes during the opening cutscene of Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories, but once that is bypassed, it's fine).

Edited, Sep 11th 2009 10:10pm by TirithRR
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#22 Sep 04 2009 at 7:19 PM Rating: Good
cool, i didn't know about there being a hack for 2000 & 3000 w/o the tool now.

I run snes, nes, gba, and sega gen on my PSP. And then some neat home brew tools/games (I have a Daft Punk mixer. it is kind of neat).

I use the site qj.net (dl.qj.net is the download page).

If you have a Emu working, the set up is about the same for the others. But I'm not sure on PSX, as I don't emu them...I have a modded-psx Smiley: sly

Edited, Sep 4th 2009 10:22pm by Sandinmygum
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#23 Sep 11 2009 at 12:17 PM Rating: Good
I'm pretty sure POPS actually stands for "PlayStation One Portable Station". I remember the very first time I booted up a PSX game with it after I modded my PSP there was a quick splash screen that said something like that... I never saw it come up a second time though.
#24 Sep 11 2009 at 6:08 PM Rating: Good
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I'm pretty sure POPS actually stands for "PlayStation One Portable Station". I remember the very first time I booted up a PSX game with it after I modded my PSP there was a quick splash screen that said something like that... I never saw it come up a second time though.


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