I haven't as much as looed at my PSP for almost a year. This suddenly makes it the sexiest gaming device to ever hit the face of the earth - fuck Wii, I'm getting a huge memory card.

I'm getting some errors in Wild Arms 2 - when in battle the menus and stuff do not show up properly or don't show at all... But that could be the iso I downloaded. We'll see if I can play past early stuff where it's  PRESS X ATTACK ATTACK ATTACK.

The real question is, why are you even playing Wild Arms 2? 

Just pretend it doesn't exist (or don't go past the second disc... seriously)

Marcus: Well, I played and loved the first one, and when Wild Arms 2 came out however many years ago for some reason I got the strategy guide and never the actual game (Yeah I don't know how that even happened...). So I've always wanted to play it. So far it seems pretty good. Is the second disc all that bad?

I won't spoil it for you but the second disc takes every event that happened in the first disc and tosses it out the window.  The problem is, the new "event" that it introduces is incredibly bullshit as in "Ridiculous limited run shojen anime" bullshit.  You'd think you were watching a filler of Naruto or something.  The 2nd disc does to Wild Arms 2 what the 2nd disc did to Xenogears (although you can actually play the 2nd disc of WA2).

You can seriously stop after the first disc and still get a satisfying story and ending.  All the 2nd disc does storywise is complete the storyline behind the Sword Magess, extend Ashley's love interest with his girl, and Kanon is developed slightly although she still remains an emo bitch who's pretty much silent the entire game.  The other characters are completely forgotten except for Valeria and you never hear about that wizard girl's sister ever again which I thought was incredibly stupid.

Meh, I'm not telling you not to finish it because I love Wild Arms, but you probably won't like what happens that much.  Still, the ending was pretty good so I recommend finishing it just for that and then forgetting it.

p.s, minor brad spoiler that isn't story related you find out he's gay

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):

Resident Evil 2 (it crashes partway through)


Yeah, you're not missing out on much.

what
you are crazy

i have been waiting for a portable version of this FOREVER

what
you are crazy

i have been waiting for a portable version of this FOREVER

Persona 2 or Resident Evil 2?

Anyways, I have a copy of the original Resident Evil 2 so I'll try ripping it and playing it myself.  Maybe it's only the dual shock version that fucks up.

Persona 2 or Resident Evil 2?

Anyways, I have a copy of the original Resident Evil 2 so I'll try ripping it and playing it myself.  Maybe it's only the dual shock version that fucks up.

I am going to have to do this too
if it is only dual shock I will be happy

Wait, how the fuck you guys are going to play some games that use both analog sticks and L2 and R2? I'm just kinda wondering.

Wait, how the fuck you guys are going to play some games that use both analog sticks and L2 and R2? I'm just kinda wondering.

They have 4 different control schemes that let you customize how you use L2 and R2.  The default one is that thumbstick left is L1 and thumbstick right is R2.

Is there any other way to charge a battery in a PSP without using the AC adaptor? Like the usb port or something?

Not that I know of.  There are charging stations you can buy for about $30 but other than that there's barely enough current flowing through a USB cord to charge an iPod so charging your PSP like that is out of the question.

And you can tell your PSP is bricked when it doesn't give you the Sony message at startup after atleast 10 seconds.  All "bricking" means is that something happened to the firmware so the PSP can't access it's main menu (which means you can't do shit).  The recovery module is basically a watered down COMMAND CONSOLE which lets you run everything including firmware updates which will repair the system.

Can you still play roms when you upgrade? Like SNES and GBA games?


also, why can't you just upgrade to 3.02 without downgrading first?

Can you still play roms when you upgrade? Like SNES and GBA games?


also, why can't you just upgrade to 3.02 without downgrading first?

Yes, in fact, you don't have to run devhook anymore to run them. All you have to do is make a GAME150 folder in /PSP and all your emulators will automatically show up in the XMB. Same goes for PSP isos or PSX games. My PSP is getting so much more use nowadays. I'm currently playing Dino Crisis on it as I've never played it before or any other adventure/horror game either. Everything has been going smoothly.

You have to be at 1.50 in order to install 3.02 OE-A. (So, you have to find the appropriate downgrader for your firmware.) Afterwards, you can install 3.02 OE-B. If you're already using the official 3.02 then I'm afraid you can't downgrade to 1.5 at the moment.

I'm currently playing Dino Crisis on it as I've never played it before or any other adventure/horror game either. Everything has been going smoothly.

I know man, I just beat MegaMan Legends in one sitting last night.  I've been trying to beat that game for years but I guess the novelty of being IN MY HANDS got the better of me.

Also, do you know what the sizes of the pictures (ICON0, PIC0, PIC1) are supposed to be?  I'm getting tired of seeing HOTSHOTS 2 as my icon and background.

I know man, I just beat MegaMan Legends in one sitting last night.  I've been trying to beat that game for years but I guess the novelty of being IN MY HANDS got the better of me.

Also, do you know what the sizes of the pictures (ICON0, PIC0, PIC1) are supposed to be?  I'm getting tired of seeing HOTSHOTS 2 as my icon and background.

Just to help you out... here are the icon and pics I made for SOTN.  PIC0 is an overlay that some games have, I just made it transparent so I won't display it here, but it is the same size as PIC1.  They need to be pretty small in size, so I suggest converting them to 8bit, or else popstation won't accept them.

kewl thanks.

Also, do you know how to change the name so it won't be HOTSHOTS?  I don't want to edit the file (as the readme advises against this).