PSP to Get Classic Game Download Service 106
Krishna Dagli writes to mention an Ars Technica story about a classic game download service for the PSP. It's supposed to work with the PS3 as well, and will at this point mostly consist of old PS1 titles. From the article: "According to Kawanishi, the new service will work either through a PC with a broadband connection, or through the PlayStation 3 itself. The user will be able to download games designed for the original PlayStation 1, which according to the Sony head works well. 'As for emulation power there is no problem,' he said, although he added that some changes have to be made to the games because the PSP only has a single analog stick and fewer control buttons than the PS1. He did not mention which titles would be made available, but he mentioned how Amazon had a list of "all books," indicating that Sony probably wants to put a large number of games on the service."
Great (Score:2, Funny)
My advice: (Score:5, Insightful)
Emulators are useful for developing homebrew (Score:3, Insightful)
I am an IP holder; my IP is 69.246.213.81, leased from my ISP. If you are referring to copyright, say "copyright" [gnu.org]. And yes, I am a copyright owner as well.
Could Microsoft reasonably attack Bochs [sourceforge.net], claiming that it "enables" the use of unauthorized copies of MS-DOS? No, because FreeDOS (which recently turned 1.0 [zdnet.co.uk]) works on Bochs. Likewise, when I use VisualBoyAdvance [ngemu.com] to r
If you have a heart, mod parent up (Score:1)
Re:My advice: (Score:5, Insightful)
Or, god forbid, buy a copy.
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Roms provide a service for people who can't get them any other way, if they set up a legal site than I see no reason it couldn't become the next iTunes.
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How 'bout a classic game download service?
My friends and I have had good luck finding the old goodies on 2nd hand sites like trademe and ebay.
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However there is more potential trouble using EBay and you are using real money in the real world. EBay is just an interface that put you in contact with person and you cannot just run "McAffee something" to filter the crap.
That said, I don't think there is a lot of problem on EBay for that ki
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That's fine, ROMs are legal and easy to get. You just have to own a copy of the game.
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That's really just speculation though.
All your base are belong to whom? (Score:2)
What about third parties who have made primarily arcade video games? Take Toaplan, the (defunct) developer of the side-scrolling shooter game Zero Wing. To whom are all our base belong?
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Sony Innovation (Score:3, Funny)
In all seriousness though, there's a huge difference between downloading a game that's a few hundred kilobytes, and is not available in any stores anymore (Except ebay), and downloading a game that is the size of a CD, and is probably still available used at many B&M stores.
Sony fails again...
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How about Dragon Warrior? If supply was purposefully limited in the US because the company was boneheaded, you damn well have a right to sail the jolly roger instead of paying a high price.
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Nin-ten-do, they're developing this console called the Wii....perhaps you've heard of it?
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The above is traditionally recognized as an indicator that the poster was trying to use humor in the lines that preceded it.
Variants may include (but are certainly not limited to):
1)"But seriously folks"
2)"Seriously, though"
Though humor is sometimes subtle and difficult to spot, continued study and instruction will ensure that you, too, will soon be able to recognize and appreciate it.
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Re:Sony Innovation (Score:4, Interesting)
They will probably make other games available later on, but remember that part of the issue is not just providing a game that can be downloaded for the PSP, and porting the controls (or creating a universal way to handle porting the controls
The article also mentions that you can download UMD movies (i.e. to a memory stick and the computer/PS3's hard-drive
The fact that they expect the service to work either through a PC or the PS3 also underscores the idea of making the PSP and PS3 integrate (and perhaps explains Sony's position that the PS3 is a computer, not merely a "console"). Personally I think it bodes well for the platform.
Re:Sony Innovation (Score:5, Funny)
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In all fairness though, Sony does offer ONE innovation. No one else charges $600 for it.
-Eric
Re:Sony Innovation (Score:4, Insightful)
- $600.
- Blu-Ray.
- Delays.
- Controller.
- Root-kit.
- Real-time weapon switch.
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- Giant enemy crab.
- Attack its weak point for massive damage.
- Riiiiiiiiiidge Raceeeerr!
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FF7 had two or three discs. Not that it defeats your point but if it breaks a gig lots of people would find themselves needing to spring for a bigger memory card.
bound to fail (Score:2)
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So then I'm not the only one who thinks that Sony kills their developers after they've outlived their usefulness.
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Plus, there are such things as modern classics. Think about books: they've been around for thousands and thousands of years (almost a thousand years if you only consider actual printed works) and yet books written within the last fifty years are
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Yay (Score:1)
missing 2 buttons (Score:1)
this is honestly a big deal, the lack of R2 and L2, as well as no right hand stick is going to flat out cut out a number of games from being played this way.
Meh, if they do this right (charge VERY little per game, and have some reliable way of backing them up), then more power to them!
If they are going to be charging horrible prices and including some horribly crippling DRM (I only say this as it is Sony), then there is another mon
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L2/R2 buttons (Score:2)
Off the top of my head; almost every FPS game, almost every fighting game, almost every sports game, the Metal Gear Solid series and most of the platformers on both consoles.
Now if were talking about the much forgotten, hard to use, L3/R3 buttons, I'd have modded you up. (For those that forgot, the R3/L3 buttons are when you push the analog sticks downward, into the controller.)
Re:missing 2 buttons (Score:4, Insightful)
The analog sticks where barely even used on the PS1. And the games that did always worked fine with the classic DPad controller anyway. (Don't forget, PS1 didn't get the dual shock for quite a while).
As for L2/R2, that is a pretty big problem. Best solution I can think of off the top of my head is, analog stick for movement (replaces D-Pad), and use some of the PSP's DPad to replace the missing buttons (but that's very awkward).
I have a PSP, and I'd say that if this takes off and gets some good games in it, I would seriously consider getting a bigger memory stick (since I doubt the 32-meg it came with would work all that well for storing games), and even re-buying one or two of my old PS1 games (plus there were certainly quite a few good games in that generation I missed anyway).
Hell, I was already planning to buy Valkyrie Profile: Lenneth as soon as Best Buy (which I wouldn't touch with a 10 foot pole if I didn't have a 50$ gift card to spend) gets it back in stock, and it's supposed to be a "Remake with better cutscenes" deal (think the FF:Anthologies/Origins for PSX).
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Well, if you're going to accuse Sony of stealing the idea from someone, you might as well accuse them of stealing it from MicroSoft. "XBox Live! Arcade" has been out for a while, and while MS doesn't exactly have previous games they can
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This is hardly a surprise, and I would hope that each system integrates well with their respective platform.
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You say that Nintendo has actually done the motion-sensitive controllers, but I don't seem to be able to find them. Until you can buy one, the Wii is every bit as much a concept as the PS3 and its features merely vaporware.
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WTF? Right now, Wii looks a heck of a lot more tangible than the PS3's motion controller.
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I never implied that they were doctored. Saying that you can see pictures of people playing is like saying that you can see pictures of people using Vista - yes, you can, but you can't buy it yet. What I was saying was, at this point, it's just marketing hype and should be treated as such.
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Which, coincidentally, seems to be afflicting the PS3's Amazing Motion Control Sensor Controller, wh
yay! (Score:2)
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need more power than the GBA: none
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WipeOut Pure? that's really original, I still have it for the Sega Saturn...
Look it up in an old history book.
Very interesting interview (Score:3, Informative)
At any rate, the emulator was only a small part of the interview. Most of it focuses on the interaction between the PS3 and PSP. He went so far as to say that the PS3 will be like a home server and the PSP will be like a PDA/cell phone. He even said that users would store their movies on the ps3 and then could download the ones they want onto the psp. He also dismissed PC emulation but started talking about cell phones again.
In fact, he talked a lot about cell phones and how he envisions the future of portable media. So much in fact the interviewer asked him if he thought it would be possible to combine psp and cell phone technology and his answer was that "I think that is one possibility"(again rough translation). So I guess we won't be surprised if a few years down the road we see a psphone.
120 MB of game and the rest compresses nicely (Score:3, Informative)
A lot of games for PlayStation used either Red Book CD audio, which compresses by about 11:1 when converted to a 128 kbps ATRAC stream (where the sound effects cover up any lingering artifacts), or XA ADPCM audio (especially in Capcom games), which compresses by about 3:1, or
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PSP Fantasies (Score:2)
FF3 and FFA are still Nintendo exclusive (Score:2)
Almost. Final Fantasy 1, 2, 4, 5, and 6 (as well as Chrono Trigger) have been rereleased on PS1. But Final Fantasy Adventure was Game Boy exclusive, and the remake titled Sword of Mana is GBA exclusive. The remake of Final Fantasy III is also Nintendo exclusive.
from e3 presentation (Score:1)
(oh, great)
Not trying to be anti-Sony or anything... (Score:1)
Hah! (Score:1)
huh? old? (Score:1)
I wonder if they will have.. (Score:1)
anyone remember that game?
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*looks about... whispers*
Legal.
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Or you can buy a DS and get it even cheaper (Score:2)
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The DS has sold more units than the PSP has shipped worldwide.
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2) The "shipped" vs "sold" distinction is one I've heard before, and one that reaks if idiocy. Do you know how expensive it is to keep unsold inventory around? There are entire classes management folks take on how to avoid standing inventory. Moreover, its not like Walmart will order more PSPs (causing the shipped count to increase), before it sells the ones it has. Thus, the number of units shipped should be very clos
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It's just the distinction between having your stock in the hands of customers, or the combined total off all units sent from the factory (including those sitting on the shelf). A retailer will stock up when they sell out of previous stock, before Holidays, or in the event of a major game release, they will bring more in house expecting to sell more. This will cause the # of units sold vs. shipped to fluctuate by a
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From what I've heard from friends and read on the Web, most people who've bought one either regret it or don't regularly use it.
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I own a DS Lite and a PSP. The DS Lite is okay, but I basically only bought it for the new FF game that's coming out. I haven't found it nearly as fun as my PSP, and the lack of texture filtering and lack of an analog stick is driving me up the wall. Mario 64 is a shadow of its former self without those two features.
However, that's a point sample. It proves nothing. The only thing that's useful is sales figures, and they show Nintendo with a relatively marginal le
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From a pure gaming standpoint, the PSP is a let down. If you're looking for all gaming, yes, it would easy to regret your purchase. However, I still use it every single da
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Exactly.
It isn't fair to compare the sales figures for the Nintendo DS and the PSP because most PSP owners don't use their PSP to play games.