Anyone played Street Fighter Alpha 3 Max on the PSP, if so, how the HELL do you perform the moves properly!?

Anyone played Street Fighter Alpha 3 Max on the PSP, if so, how the HELL do you perform the moves properly!?

Try using the analog nub or performing physical modifications to your PSP.  It's literally impossible to press diagonally on the PSP's pad on purpose with more than a 20% success rate (try it sometime).

I think I'll stray away from the modification, and the analog stick is annoying as hell, but I'm getting their, I can do Ryu's uppercut haha.

Anyone played Street Fighter Alpha 3 Max on the PSP, if so, how the HELL do you perform the moves properly!?

You can't. Really though, unless you stick a PS2 analog nub on there you won't be able to. I can't even play with the analog stick, so I stick with the directional pad.

Anybody getting pretty excited about God of War coming out next week? The demo played just like the other God of War games, so I'm really looking forward to downloading and playing it.

Same I really love how you need special conditions or ways of killing bosses, this is the first GOW I've ever played....
EDIT: Actually really surprised how well it goes on the PSP.... the controls and everything.

I think I'll stray away from the modification, and the analog stick is annoying as hell, but I'm getting their, I can do Ryu's uppercut haha.

Well there's a simple and popular method a lot of people use where they just like pry off the sticker around the d-pad.  Seriously look into it sometime.

It's been a while since I needed to upgrade my psp. Since 3.30 OE-A I've been satisifed with Valkyrie Profile, Crush, MH:F2,  Jeanne D'Arc, PoP, Brave Story, MGS:PO and Alundra. There's been a whole lot of time invested in these titles, and I play time on and off.

However, with Patapon and GoW coming on the horizon, the time has come to take the next step. I trie dlooking around for the answers myself, but I found some really disturbing notes on the upgrades, that all saves from 3.4+ would cease functioning on 3.553 and eventually 3.71m. If this is the case, I'm not certain if I want to play patapon any longer.. does anyone know if that was just a specific firmware I was browsing, or if there's any easy way (with savefile compability) to take the leap from 3.3 to postmodern firmware?

It's been a while since I needed to upgrade my psp. Since 3.30 OE-A I've been satisifed with Valkyrie Profile, Crush, MH:F2, Jeanne D'Arc, PoP, Brave Story, MGS:PO and Alundra. There's been a whole lot of time invested in these titles, and I play time on and off.

However, with Patapon and GoW coming on the horizon, the time has come to take the next step. I trie dlooking around for the answers myself, but I found some really disturbing notes on the upgrades, that all saves from 3.4+ would cease functioning on 3.553 and eventually 3.71m. If this is the case, I'm not certain if I want to play patapon any longer.. does anyone know if that was just a specific firmware I was browsing, or if there's any easy way (with savefile compability) to take the leap from 3.3 to postmodern firmware?

I don't know where you heard that but I just upgraded from 3.40 oe to 3.52 m33 to 3.52 m33-4 to 3.71m33 and I can load my past saves and everything works...Patapon is such a great game however I am so shit at it...

ya and that isnt the top cfw at the moment, btw. 3.90 m33-2 is the newest.

I just want to know what firmware God Of War and Crisis Core will be needing as I'm on 3.71 M33-4. Also Kalar, I'm pretty sure that won't happen because I upgraded from 3.40 OE-A and all my saves work perfectly.

Kalar, I've never heard that before. I know tons of people who have updated from previous firmwares. Saves shouldn't have an issue at all loading.
Crisis Core is probably going to need 3.80 or 3.90 firmware, as well as God of War. The lowest would be 3.71, but I would upgrade just in case. I'm already at 3.90 and I'm having no issues so far.

Man I also love this PSPtube program. It's a program that allows you to watch youtube on your PSP. It's great whenever you're....not at your computer.

Crisis Core japanese version requires 3.71.  I'm positive the US edition will require 3.90 or higher for no reason other than sony likes it when people upgrade shit.

Also, 3.90 custom firmware is available through the PSP network.  Some people have bricked their PSP's with it (but pandora battery instantly fixes it) but future hacked firmwares will be available as an automatic download so you don't have to go through several dozen steps just to upgrade to a hacked version.  It's really not that difficult but it's surprising how many people can't follow the directions of a simple readme.

Yeah I heard you just update through your psp now instead of the old ways, downgrading, then upgrading, then more fucked up shit. Is 3.80 more stable then 3.90?

God of War rules!!! amazing gaming experience, I really missed a lot by not playing the ones on PS2 first.

I'm afraid to play Rygar.... I mean God of War for the psp. The D pad is so aggravating... I hate playing 3d games with it. I used to be able to shrug it off but not being able to scroll diagonally or use the analog stick without cramping my thumb (the spring [or ][/or] is too fucking tight on mine) made playing games unbearable.

You play God of War with the analog stick.

And yes, it's fucking amazing. There is no handheld game that looks as good as this game. None. The puzzles are complete shit though. Some are pretty clever, but others are just a waste of time.
Oh, and you only need 3.71 firmware for this.

the full game is out and you didn't know?