PSP Recent Homebrew/Piracy Breakthroughs

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#21 December 28, 2006, 06:56:35 pm

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It's pretty amazing that Sony basically just made an emulator for all the piraters. That's what they get for requiring a fucking PS3 to do it legally, eh?

Also, that does look pretty solid. I could see there were just a few emulation issues, but that's perfectly fine.

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#22 December 28, 2006, 07:14:38 pm

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That's incredible. That's a reason for me to get a PSP.

Quote from: WIP on December 28, 2006, 06:56:35 pm

Also, that does look pretty solid. I could see there were just a few emulation issues, but that's perfectly fine.

Which ones did you see? I didn't see any.

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#23 December 28, 2006, 07:27:32 pm

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Quote from: Dada on December 28, 2006, 07:14:38 pm

That's incredible. That's a reason for me to get a PSP.
Which ones did you see? I didn't see any.

The biggest issue so far are the games that require multiple discs, but don't let you save before the disc change. You can play the first disc fine, but when you play the second disc iso, it tells you to load the first one.

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#24 December 28, 2006, 08:34:21 pm

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Apparently there are a few games that don't work, and a few with lag and sprite clipping problems, but otherwise it runs like a dream.

Also PAL (European) isos don't work unless you convert it to NTSC.

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#25 December 28, 2006, 08:39:07 pm

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I just played Vagrant Story and Alundra FLAWLESSLY.

Seriously, this is amazing and a giant LOOGIE in the face of Sony. I always thought of the PSP as this AMAZING system but fucking Sony just doesn't care. With the possibility of custom firmware, I hope more and more features of the PSP can be made and people will see it as a better choice. If I didn't own one, I'd buy it right now off the back.

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#26 December 28, 2006, 09:03:32 pm

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I'm really thinking about buying a new memory stick just for this. But what are the games that have some sprite clipping and such?
Someone mentionned there's a way to make ISOS smaller in size, can someone please tell me how?

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#27 December 28, 2006, 09:08:12 pm

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Quote from: Mateui on December 28, 2006, 07:27:32 pm

The biggest issue so far are the games that require multiple discs, but don't let you save before the disc change. You can play the first disc fine, but when you play the second disc iso, it tells you to load the first one.

I don't know a single game that does this... maybe Fear Effect. Every multi-disc square game I know has this, I'm certain Dragon Quest VII has it, and so does Grandia.

Yea, Fear Effect might be the only multi-disc ps1 game I know that won't let you save.

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I think I'll be buying a frickin' memory disk just because of this. How much does 2 gigs cost now?

Should be about $50 on amazon but I bought mine almost 6 months ago so I'm certain the price has dropped.

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#28 December 28, 2006, 09:15:33 pm

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With all of these breakthroughs with PSP emulation, it's really a surprise no one's figured out how to make a PC based emulator for it.

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#29 December 28, 2006, 09:28:54 pm

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Quote from: Chainer on December 28, 2006, 04:01:06 pm

And a big hardy FUCK YOU goes to shadowtext.

Wow. You spend entirely too much time thinking about me, if that's your first thought when reading this. Especially as I don't see how this is bad for me.

EDIT: I take that back. It is not possible to think about me too much. But it is odd things that make you think of me, and that is the bad kind of weird.

I had heard something about being able to play any PSX game on that device now, and that's a pretty cool little development that definitely makes it a more attractive device. Legend of Mana on the go would be pretty neat....any word on the battery life when emulating PSX games this way? Like I would assume that it would be more of a drain than using the "official" Sony method.

Also, if I bought one would I be allowed to mention THAT DEVICE by name without Chainer going apoplectic?

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#30 December 28, 2006, 10:14:18 pm

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Perhaps I did something wrong... but with Harvest Moon Back to Nature I just get a blank screen.

I ripped the ISO and used popstation with Hot Shots 2 to create the eboot.pbp, and I just get nothing. I can press the home key and get the menu to quit. Do any of you guys that got PSX games to run have any insight? I have a legal copy of Harvest Moon that I directly ripped from... so the ISO shouldn't be the problem.

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#31 December 28, 2006, 10:21:38 pm

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Quote from: angry black man on December 28, 2006, 09:08:12 pm

I don't know a single game that does this... maybe Fear Effect. Every multi-disc square game I know has this, I'm certain Dragon Quest VII has it, and so does Grandia.

I think that unless you manually save right before entering the Blast Furnace, you'd also be unable to switch the Metal Gear Solid discs.

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#32 December 28, 2006, 10:38:17 pm

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I've been thinking about this... is it easy to control? The PSP doesn't have R2 and L2 plus it only has one analog stick

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#33 December 28, 2006, 10:40:28 pm

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The emulator or whatever comes with like... 5 or so different control schemes, so you can pick which is more comfortable for you. However, I don't think the right analog stick is even in the controls... I'll have to check again later.

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#34 December 28, 2006, 10:46:54 pm

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Quote from: Dada on December 28, 2006, 07:14:38 pm

Which ones did you see? I didn't see any.

Just some framebuffer issues, it looks like. Notably the cursor when you go to select a target.

I vote we change this thread to "PSP Recent Piracy Breakthroughs". Pirating PSX games is not homebrew.

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#35 December 28, 2006, 10:53:20 pm

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Well, I fixed my issues... turned my ISO ripper corrupted the ISO... a new rip worked fine.

This isn't necessarily piracy... assuming everyone is just ripping from their own collection... but we all know what assuming does...

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#36 December 28, 2006, 11:31:20 pm

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Quote from: Shadowtext on December 28, 2006, 09:28:54 pm

Wow. You spend entirely too much time thinking about me, if that's your first thought when reading this. Especially as I don't see how this is bad for me.

EDIT: I take that back. It is not possible to think about me too much. But it is odd things that make you think of me, and that is the bad kind of weird.

I had heard something about being able to play any PSX game on that device now, and that's a pretty cool little development that definitely makes it a more attractive device. Legend of Mana on the go would be pretty neat....any word on the battery life when emulating PSX games this way? Like I would assume that it would be more of a drain than using the "official" Sony method.

Also, if I bought one would I be allowed to mention THAT DEVICE by name without Chainer going apoplectic?

Wait, what's going on between you and chainer?

And the battery life is consistent with most modern PSP games; 4-6 hours depending on whether or not you have a newer model (I have an older model and I noticed my battery is considerably weaker... I should buy a new one). It's actually less of a strain since the game loads from the memory stick as the disc drive sucks a lot of juice.

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Pirating PSX games is not homebrew.

I haven't beaten 80% of my ps1 games so this is pretty handy when I don't feel like busting my laptop out and using epsxe.

It's not priacy if you own the game and aren't sharing it and I assume this is what everyone here is doing, right?

RIGHT??

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#37 December 28, 2006, 11:33:56 pm

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Quote from: angry black man on December 28, 2006, 11:31:20 pm

Wait, what's going on between you and chainer?

That Final Fantasy Tactics topic I made about the FFT port/remake for PSP included in its title a pun on the term "tactics" that he took as a slight against the PSP, and it lead to this whole big thing. The only explanation I can think of for his comment earlier is that he's still smarting from it.

And yeah, I can see where loading off of the memory stick would save some juice, since I'm told most of the PSP's battery life issues come from how much energy it takes to power the UMD drive.

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#38 December 29, 2006, 12:43:51 am

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Aye, I set this up the day before yesterday, I think it was. Brother showed it to me. o.o

Still, it's pretty nifty. Sony's lost the whole COMPANYvsHACKERS war and really, I doubt there's much they can do that the underground community won't crack. Not really worth continuing, you'd say, but then we don't get any new stuff that we can crack, eh?

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#39 December 29, 2006, 01:22:18 am

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To tell you the truth, part of me wants to believe Sony's gig is about setting boundaries so the fans can break past them and Sony doesn't have to worry about doing it themselves. After all, most of man's major technological advances happen during war. Just look at the major leap between 1900-1945. Cars, television, mass production, etc.

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#40 December 29, 2006, 01:35:15 am

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Persona 2 has sprite clipping.

That's probably the most PROMINENT game that has this problem.

Edit: The ones that don't work are (so far):

Aqua GT
Area 51
Kaikan Phrase
Loaded
Marvel vs. Capcom
Point Blank
Resident Evil 2 (it crashes partway through)
Rugrats USA
Skullmonkey
Super Puzzle Fighter (but Super Puzzle Fight Turbo II works, so you might as well play that)
Thrasher Skate and Destroy

Yeah, you're not missing out on much.

Last Edit: December 29, 2006, 01:53:17 am by Niitaka

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