Topic: PSP Recent Homebrew/Piracy Breakthroughs (Read 46534 times)

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b..but...their spirits are with you


neophyte showp me you're honor........
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also yeah, i encountered that same thing, exactly.  i got 777 two times in a single podunk battle, leveled up twice, and then proceeded to spend the next ten minutes fighting ifrit and not having ANYTHING but random limit breaks happen.  what an inconsistent experience system!  my fire spell is really good now (the only level six one), but everything else just seems to get ignored, so i think maybe the first slot is favored?  or maybe it's just a bad randomizer or something.  either way, i don't know who thought it would be a good idea to make your character and abilities level based solely on what is either a totally random, or just almost completely unintelligible system.

another thing is, given the mobile nature of most enemies i've encountered, it's frustrating that spells like blizzard take forever to cast, and then drop on wherever your enemy was three seconds ago.  it's too easy to evade it on their part by just randomly moving around like all enemies seem to and thereby making yourself nearly impossible to consistently hit, or on my part by just pressing square whenever i see anyone casting anything.  hopefully spells will become more difficult to just... outmaneuver as they go up in power, but judging from my experience with the third-level iterations of them they give you on the first training mission (firaga et al), the same basic premise was still there, and in fact i think blizzaga took LONGER to cast, so it's actually worse.
Last Edit: March 21, 2008, 08:19:22 am by bazookatooth
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speaking of FF7, Patapon is a really good game for PSP. there are different 4 beat patterns you must follow in order to advance in the game. for example, O,O,X,O will make your army attack anything it its way. O,[],O,[] will make you run away, /\,/\,[],O will make you defend, etc. There are different classes for your patapons such as archer, spearer, knight, horseman (they have random names ending in -pon, kibapon for example). and they each get different upgrades such as shields, weapons, armor. Ive been playing this game nonstop for a long time now. very fun indeed.

i always wanted DDR on the psp but thought it was impossible. UNTIL.....PSP:Revolution. www.pspr.us its pretty much a stepmania port for the PSP. runs great just the only problem i see with it is that songs do not load the videos corresponding to them. also it crashes the PSP sometimes depending on your version
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It's called being a rotten piece of shit and stealing things.

EDIT: Man I really want to torrent this but my code of ethics is struggling to convince me otherwise guys I need help

Wait.... so you actually bought all those versions of RPGmaker?
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Wait.... so you actually bought all those versions of RPGmaker?

Yes, I have bought the most recent two.  But I guess you've got me I didn't buy RPG Maker 2000 when I was like 16 and didn't care about these things and it sort of wasn't for sale in America anyway.
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Has anyone tried out Wild Arms XF?
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Has anyone tried out Wild Arms XF?

Yeah I bought it.  It's the sort of game that you really want to like because it's technically good and the maps always have clever hooks and you have lots of classes and everything.  However, it really just isn't any fun.  I keep going back to it because I keep remembering that its features describe an interesting game, but then when I'm playing it I realize that I am just getting bored and frustrated.  I can't really recommend it.
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good thing you paid for it!  seriously, do you really feel good about buying a game only to try it and realize it's boring and terrible?  if you feel so strongly about this, how is it you can't trust yourself to download it, and delete it/buy it if you like it, or at the very least buy it in hard copy for moral reasons (i'd run it off a memory stick even if i owned a copy of the game, if only for battery life)?  at least that way, if you really liked the game, you could just go out and buy it, but without the apparent danger of spending $40 plus tax (that is what wild arms cost, isn't it?) just to find out you don't enjoy a game.  even if you have the spare cash lying around, it's just wasteful.
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good thing you paid for it!  seriously, do you really feel good about buying a game only to try it and realize it's boring and terrible?

I don't know man pirating games just makes me feel rotten.  If I buy a game and then end up not liking it then whatever it's just a video game!  Anyway I'm going to stop preaching because it's actually pretty obnoxious so.

if you feel so strongly about this, how is it you can't trust yourself to download it, and delete it/buy it if you like it

From personal experience I cannot trust myself to buy it later!

Anyway Wild Arms XF isn't very good so you shouldn't play it.
Last Edit: March 25, 2008, 04:40:10 am by maladroithim
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Anyway Wild Arms XF isn't very good so you shouldn't play it.
I think I'll just download the soundtrack. The Wild Arms series has very very good music(IMO).
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I'm lovin XF honestly.  The levels are very varied and the game emphasizes strategy and theres never really one way to complete a level.

Im on Act 3-4.  The story isn't to good but it gets the job done! That guy Levin is an idiot!
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I just want to warn you guys I got some huge Virus's from PSPISO last month, just virus checked and traced them all back to the site, apparently when the site got hacked they just went through peoples accounts and I was one of them, so yeah.

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Ok, so I finished Crisis Core, and I gotta say. MOST DEPRESSING ENDING EVER. I won't lie, I teared up. And the thing that got me the most was that the last thing on Zacks mind was Aeris. Right up  to the bitter end....

Great job Square, excellent game, and definitely pushed GoW from my number 1 spot. (Something which I could never imagine happening)
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Ok, so I finished Crisis Core, and I gotta say. MOST DEPRESSING ENDING EVER. I won't lie, I teared up. And the thing that got me the most was that the last thing on Zacks mind was Aeris. Right up  to the bitter end....

SPOILAR

Final Fantasy 7 PSP has sucky mechanics

The slot machine is pretty stupid I agree.  However it isn't completely random and is actually scaled in a number of ways to try and be as similar to a straight experience system as possible.  Since you gained two levels in one battle through dumb luck, it would be a long time before you gained another one.  The longer you go without gaining a level, though, the more likely you are to gain one.  My problem with this system is that it is carefully designed to be just as much like a normal experience-based system as possible but with a ton of extra fluff to make it more mysterious.  Also about magic: Blizzard often misses mobile enemies but will always hit stationary ones.  Incidentally, it does a lot of damage.  So when an enemy is slow or not moving, you use blizzard, and if they are moving, you use thunder or fire.  I don't think elemental properties are very important in this game (if they exist at all) and rather your decision on which spell to use is based more on how the enemy behaves.

Personally I really like Crisis Core.  Action RPG battle systems usually suck compared to action games and this is no exception, but the story is serviceable as fanservice and it provides me with novel avenues to make my numbers go up so as far as games I play on the toilet go this is one of the best I've had in awhile.  I will never understand why games that have this much money thrown at them aren't refined to have tighter play mechanics like Devil May Cry or something like that.  They are content with very awkward systems that only work because the enemies are programmed to be nonreactive.  They could always make my character a little more agile and thereby make the game a lot more engaging, but they only want to go halfway.
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I think crisis core is really boring since it's completely mash x. I'm pretty impressed with the graphics though.

I just wish the missions had been a bit more spread out (more chapters or story pieces, maybe?) so I don't feel obligated to do all 400 as soon as I get them in fear of missing something later.
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Ok, so I finished Crisis Core, and I gotta say. MOST DEPRESSING ENDING EVER. I won't lie, I teared up. And the thing that got me the most was that the last thing on Zacks mind was Aeris. Right up  to the bitter end....

Great job Square, excellent game, and definitely pushed GoW from my number 1 spot. (Something which I could never imagine happening)
ahahahaha

oh btw i have CONTINUED PLAYING IT and even coming from a person who is not an especially big fan of god of war, it beats the shit out of this.  my opinion after more time invested in it is still, unfortunately, a) boring, repetitive, one-note, convoluted battle system, b) bad voice acting, c) stupidly gratuitous story no one who has any taste or is over the age of eight could enjoy.  god of war is sort of just a dumb action game, but at least its excuse for having a silly story was that it's... not as story- or character-driven as an rpg.  and also it was cheesy in the over the top way, and not the irritating jrpg way, which i personally have less of a tolerance for.  also it made an effort to include combos, so it ended up being fun in a button-mashy, platformer kind of way.  button mashing wasn't so fun in crisis core when it was done with no combos and just one button.  it plays like the melee parts of gta.
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Have the slowdown issues with emulating Persona 2 ever been sorted out? I've been considering buying a PSP just to replay Persona 2 (as I've never had the patience to unlock the EX dungeon) on the go.
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Have the slowdown issues with emulating Persona 2 ever been sorted out? I've been considering buying a PSP just to replay Persona 2 (as I've never had the patience to unlock the EX dungeon) on the go.
From what I've read, no. That's an issue Sony is going to have to tackle, since it has nothing to do with custom firmware. Eventually it will get fixed, but it could be awhile.
I'd still buy a PSP by the way. I would even say that it's probably the best handheld ever made. Custom firmware just expands it even more.
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no matter what i can not get psx games to work on my 3.90 cfw. i loaded pops and everything....no results.
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wait, so what happens when you load pops?  my shit wouldn't work on 3.90 either 90% of the time (unless you really need to play a game that requires the latest cfw, i don't see too much of a reason to update it when the previous version is more stable, honestly), but the psx games immediately started running perfectly when i switched to 3.72.  does it just stay broken when you try that?