Sold my DS, got a PSP

[DrunkN]

So I sold all of my seldom-used-at-this-point DS games to buy a PSP and pre-order Dissidia 012. (I'm not really a fan boy of Sony or Nintendo, recently I just realized how much I don't care for the DS at all. That being said, I like to troll occasionally, so I'm hoping this really sticks it to Tenser and Jim)

So far I plan on just playing Dissidia on Tuesday meaning I have no games for the system at the moment.

I'm going to

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some games eventually, so any tips on that would be appreciated.

[Dudebro]

Tenser and Jim

Don't you mean steven?

[Demon-Mask]

Before you begin pirating PSP games, tell me the model of your PSP, if it was a PSP Go or a PSP 3000, you can't do much. If not, then there is a specific motherboard of the PSP 2000 that doesn't work for piracy. Also, if you are going for Dissidia 012, you need the the latest official firmware, so you can't really have CFW and still play it, save for temporary CFW that has been built off of the latest official firmware.

Oh, people have signed various emulators to work on official firmware, so you can get emulators for SNES, NES, Genesis and all sorts of things.
As far as games go, I've got a very long list of recommendations, here's a shortened version of it:
Kenka Bancho: Badass Rumble {think River City Ransom + GTA}
Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII
Dissidia: Final Fantasy
Shin Megami Tensei: Persona
Persona 3 Portable
Monster Hunter: Freedom Unite
Lords of Arcana
Disgaea
Disgaea 2
ZHP: Unlosing Ranger vs. Darkeath Evilman
Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together
Final Fantasy Tactics: War of the Lions
Phantasy Star Portable 2
God of War: Chains of Olympus
God of War: Ghost of Sparta
Metal Slug Anthology
King of Fighters Collection: The Orochi Saga
Samurai Shodown Anthology
Guilty Gear XX: Accent Core Plus
Street Fighter Alpha 3 MAX
Darkstalkers Chronicle: The Chaos Tower {the title is something like that}
Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops
Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker
Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection
Tekken 6
Metal Gear Acid
Metal Gear Acid 2

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Oh, Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep is pretty good too.

[DrunkN]

I have a 3000. Oh well, I guess I'll actually have to use money to play video games...

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Originally Posted by Dudebro

Don't you mean steven?

I always forget which is which...

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[Demon-Mask]

You can still get emulators though, that was the whole reason I got custom firmware, I wanted emulators, because at the time I only had a crappy 32 MB memory stick.

[Kugyince]

Hope you have better luck with the PSP than you did with the DS.

What PSP games are you interested in?

[jim5cents]

I always forget which is which...

No sweat. It happens, after all, for both of us, our awesomeness transends the internet.

Actually, I'm not a fan of handhelds period. I had a PSP at one point. Sold it when I realized that I didn't touch in in 6 months and it was just collecting dust.

[DrunkN]

Originally Posted by Tenser

Hope you have better luck with the PSP than you did with the DS.

What PSP games are you interested in?

At the moment I'm just waiting for Dissidia, though I have been thinking of getting the port of Grand Theft Auto as well as the remake of Final Fantasy II. Recently I've chosen to be a thrift gamer and buy games when they become cheap, so I'll get em as I see em.

To break into it, I typed this on my PSP. Not too useful in the grand scheme of things.

[Tails]

Took ya forever eh?

[Kugyince]

A remake of FFII/IV or FFIIj? I'd be pretty interested in the former, not so much the latter.

If it's II/IV let me know how it is and if it's anything like the DS remake I've been eyeing since they go for $8 used now.

[DrunkN]

Originally Posted by Tails

Took ya forever eh?

And the little clicking noises of going through the keys didn't go silent once. Guess I have to use the computer that is a foot away.

[Demon-Mask]

Yo, DN, as it turns out, there is a way to get permanent custom firmware on the PSP 3000, and it is based around a high enough firmware version that it should be able to play newer games.

@Tenser:
The remake of FFII that is currently out is a remake of the Japanese game known as FFII, not the one known as FFIV in Japan. There is a remake of FFIV in the works, which will contain everything every version of FFIV has had before, save for the 3D graphics of the DS version, it uses new-ish 2D graphics of a higher quality than the original version. It also will contain "Final Fantasy IV: The After Years" in its entirety, so you don't have to deal with any episodic release crap.
Final Fantasy IV: The Complete Collection Set To Ship On April 19, 2011 - PlayStation Portable News at IGN
It is planned to be released in April.

[CatalystiCam]

custom firmware wasn't that hard for me to do, and it's really handy. I used like 3 programs, put them on the psp and installed them in a different order. I have a 1000 though, I think I heard 3000's were much more difficult to hack.

[Demon-Mask]

But you don't need to bother with the pandora battery type thing with 3000s, though permanent custom firmware is still new on the 3000, so I wouldn't touch it just yet.

Since the master keys to the encryption have been found and the encryption method reverse engineered, many homebrew programs have been signed to work on official firmware, mostly emulators, and you could sign them yourself too.

[DrunkN]

Originally Posted by Demon-Mask

There is a remake of FFIV in the works, which will contain everything every version of FFIV has had before, save for the 3D graphics of the DS version, it uses new-ish 2D graphics of a higher quality than the original version. It also will contain "Final Fantasy IV: The After Years" in its entirety, so you don't have to deal with any episodic release crap.
Final Fantasy IV: The Complete Collection Set To Ship On April 19, 2011 - PlayStation Portable News at IGN
It is planned to be released in April.

[Slime Slayer]

Originally Posted by drunkninja

I always forget which is which...

That's cool, I always get you mixed up with Sezthemank.

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As far as your decision to sell your DS and get a PSP, that was dumb, concidering the 3DS is out in just over a week.

[DrunkN]

Originally Posted by stevencassidy13

concidering the 3DS is out in just over a week.

Name one 3DS game that you think makes the 3DS a worthy buy.

[Slime Slayer]

I would buy it for the 3d photos/video, web browser, and and pre-installed apps alone.

[Kugyince]

@DM: Thanks. I'll have to pirate it into my 3DS as it sounds different from the DS FFIV.

Originally Posted by drunkninja

Name one 3DS game that you think makes the 3DS a worthy buy.

Allow me to alphabetize:

Assassin's Creed: Lost Legacy
Boy and His Blob
Cave Story 3D
Contra
Devil Survivor: Overclocked
Kid Icarus: Uprising
Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance
Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time + Master Quest
Mario Kart 3D
Mega Man Legends 3
Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater 3D
Professor Layton and the Mask of the Miracle
Resident Evil: Revelations
Saint's Row: Drive By
Shin Megami Tensei: Persona
Star Fox 64 3D
Super Mario Bros. 3DS

[DrunkN]

Originally Posted by stevencassidy13

I would buy it for the 3d photos/video, web browser, and and pre-installed apps alone.

Originally Posted by Tenser

Assassin's Creed: Lost Legacy
Boy and His Blob
Cave Story 3D
Contra
Devil Survivor: Overclocked
Kid Icarus: Uprising
Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance
Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time + Master Quest
Mario Kart 3D
Mega Man Legends 3
Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater 3D
Professor Layton and the Mask of the Miracle
Resident Evil: Revelations
Saint's Row: Drive By
Shin Megami Tensei: Persona
Star Fox 64 3D
Super Mario Bros. 3DS

Granted, that's some convincing swag, but in a ditch-defense effort to back up my game trade I at least have put myself to the plan of buying primarily last-gen games. I mostly wanted to get rid of my DS before the 3DS came and the DS and DS accessories would drop in price.

More appropriately put; I am not interested in paying for any of the said features. They would be nice to have, though.

[Kugyince]

@Steven: Actually the web browser in the 3DS will be the same exact one they use in the PSP/PS3.

@DN: I wasn't trying to say you made a bad decision or anything. Everyone has their own tastes and that's cool. I just wanted to point out that there will be good games for it which is why I preordered it. My issue is none of those games will be available until at least May.

[DrunkN]

Originally Posted by Tenser

@DN: I wasn't trying to say you made a bad decision or anything. Everyone has their own tastes and that's cool. I just wanted to point out that there will be good games for it which is why I preordered it. My issue is none of those games will be available until at least May.

Nah, its fair. I put you (two nintendupes) up to the challenge of naming a game and you listed several. I was aware that there will be some decent buys, but there's nothing good for me so far with the 3DS. Good luck to you with that though.

[Slime Slayer]

The list of launch titles is really good compared to other systems. Most systems launched with 3 or 4 titles, the 3DS has 20 or so... I don't see where the hate is comming from. This isnt babby's first handheld is it?

[CatalystiCam]

I'm definitely not buying the first 3ds model right away, I don't trust that since the first ds model I bought breaks easily and the touch screen scratches over every little thing. Hopefully they don't make the first 3ds model like this and I doubt they will but I'm definitely waiting for comments on reliability before I buy one. I mean, I think they probably got everything good and fine now but I don't have money to throw around and I'm still ticked that my first ds got outdated more and more like 7 times, that and I can't play my ds unless i'm in a dark room now.

[Kugyince]

I've never had a single issue. Guess I'm lucky?