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November 12th, 2006, 11:48 Posted By: wraggster
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Its that time of the month, and you know what that means! The new issue of XTREME PSP is now available to download. Issue 17 contains all the usual content from previews and reviews to homebrew games and more and it's over 90 pages long, perfect for the commute to or from work. Previewed in this issue are Jeanne d'Arc, Crisis Core: FFVII and more, reviewed games included NHL2007, Scarface and Infected..
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November 12th, 2006, 11:26 Posted By: wraggster
It was heralded as the next big driving force behind PS2’s entry into the mass market, but retail has reacted angrily to the launch of the Pink PS2 earlier this week after Sony chose to limit its availability.
GAME, Woolworths, Argos and Toys R Us were the only retailers offering the machine this week.
A Sony spokesperson told MCV: “These four retail partners have been asking us to supply a Pink PS2 for some time – thus they are the route we have chosen to trial with.”
However, other major retailers were only recently told of the move.
“Sony told consumers about it but we weren’t given any information,” CHIPS joint MD Don McCabe told MCV. “Customers asked us about it and we simply didn’t know what to tell them.”
Indie retailer Simon Gough of Media Entertainment added: “Every website and magazine told us that the ‘Pink Pound’ would save Christmas. Little did we know that we would be shafted by Sony yet again.”
But Sony’s chosen retailers are still endorsing the product. Woolworths trading manager for games Gerry Berkley told MCV: “Pink PS2 is an item that will help increase the mass-market appeal of the games industry and we’re very pleased to support it.”
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November 12th, 2006, 11:25 Posted By: wraggster
Sony have posted details on how to Install another Operating System on the PS3, heres the instructions:
1. Insert the disc or storage media that contains the installer in the system.
2. Select (System Settings) under (Settings) in the home menu.
3. Select [Install Other OS].
The system searches for the installer. When the installer is found, its content and location will be displayed.
4. Check the content of the installer, and then select [OK].
The installer starts. Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the operation.
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November 12th, 2006, 11:22 Posted By: wraggster
Via Neogaf:
OK. Some guy claims to have asked support and got the reply "If u swap it and it stops working during the warranty period we can't support that. If u use the original HDD and it still doesn't work and the drive you tried to swap in didn't break the PS3 we will honor the warranty"
Seems like there's no problem at all here. The cant be expected to support some problem caused by a crap HDD from a different company. Just the fact they're letting us use off the shelf HDDs is makes me happy enough! I just sent an email asking support how they confirm the drive you tried to swap in didn't mess up your unit. I'll post the reply when I get it.
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November 12th, 2006, 11:20 Posted By: wraggster
Japan's Impress Watch media site took delivery of a retail PS3 unit today, and quickly began putting it to various tests. It took the system apart (see check out this article for pics of the innards), confirming that every PS3 does indeed include the PS2's Emotion Engine and Graphics Synthesizer combo chip as an assist for backwards compatibility. More importantly, at least if you're interested in saving some cash, the site conducted a hard disk test to see what happens when you put a new hard disk into the system.
According to Impress, the 20 Gig PS3 includes a Seagate LD25.1 hard disk running at 5,400rpm and with a cache of 2 megabytes. The 60 Gig PS3 has a Seagate Momentus 5400.2 running at 5,400rpm with a cache of 8 megabytes. The site investigated what would happen when you replace the hard drive with a Seagate 7200.1 series 100 gigabyte hard disk running at 7,200rpm and with 8 megabytes cache. This hard disk was purchased at a standard PC parts shop in Akihabara for the equivalent of around 180 dollars.
You'd expect a faster hard disk to speed up the transfer of game content from the Blu-ray disk during game installation. But that's not the case. The three hard disks took approximately the same amount of time to install Ridge Racer 7 (9 minutes, 45 seconds) and Gundam (8 minutes, 13 seconds). The site speculates that the bottleneck during the install is reading from the Blu-ray disc rather than writing to the hard disk.
There also isn't that much difference when playing games that have been installed. Impress reports hardly any difference between the three hard disks when going from Ridge Racer 7's stage select to the start of a stage.
Finally, the site put one more PS3 multimedia feature to the test. It transferred a large amount of data from compact flash to the hard disks in order to compare write speeds. The 20 gigabyte hard disk performed the worst, taking 4 minutes 56 seconds for the transfer. The 60 Gig and 100 Gig hard disks took 4 minutes 28 seconds. It appears that the cache size of the latter models is more important than the speed jump to 7,200 rpm for the new 100 Gig hard disk.
As its final judgment, Impress recommends that, for now at least, users should avoid a 7,200 rpm drive due to cost and potential heat concerns. Instead, the emphasis should be placed on hard disk size and cache size.
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November 12th, 2006, 11:05 Posted By: wraggster
Kotaku is running an article prompted by an email from a foreign student in Japan. The reader unveils the sad reality of the modern gaming industry. Japanese businessmen made ample use of homeless people and Chinese nationals to obtain PS3s for re-sale. There was also a large amount of pushing and shoving, some fights, and almost no police presence at the most crowded stores."
From the article:
"Based on my observations of the first twenty PS3s sold at Bic Camera, they were all purchased by Chinese nationals, none of whom bought any software. After making their purchase, television crews asked for interviews but all were declined. These temporary owners of PS3s would then make their way down the street where their bosses waited. After several minutes, a dozen PS3s were rounded up, as their Japanese business manager paid out cash to those who waited in line for them. I witnessed a homeless-looking Chinese man, in his sixties or seventies get paid 20,000 yen for his services and was then sent away.
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November 12th, 2006, 07:25 Posted By: quzar
Play Asia will start shipping tomorrow for the new Genesis Collection for PSP.
Already out on PS2, this collection features a slew of great Sega classics:
Alex Kidd in the Enchanted Castle
Altered Beast
Bonanza Bros.
Columns
Comix Zone
Decap Attack starring Chuck D. Head
Ecco the Dolphin
Ecco II: The Tides of Time
Ecco Jr.
Kid Chameleon
Flicky
Gain Ground
Golden Axe I
Golden Axe II
Golden Axe III
Phantasy Star II
Phantasy Star III: Generations of Doom
Phantasy Star IV: The End of the Millenium
Ristar
Shadow Dancer: The Secret of Shinobi
Shinobi III: Return of the Ninja Master
Sonic the Hedgehog
Sonic the Hedgehog 2
Super Thunder Blade
Sword of Vermilion
Vectorman
Vectorman 2
Virtua Fighter 2
USD $38 (with shipping to US)
Sega Genesis Collection for PSP U.S. version
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November 12th, 2006, 02:20 Posted By: happy_mak
The PS3 auctions are in full swing or so it seems from the Yahoo Japan Auctions site.
Going at double the official prices and sometimes even 3 times is being witnessed presently.
It has also been said that many a group of chinese youngsters have been the majority PS3 buyers, expecting to sell them out for some handsome profits. The Japanese popular community board 2ch is full of all these discussions at present.
http://blog.livedoor.jp/gai_jin/archives/50678243.html
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November 11th, 2006, 23:35 Posted By: wraggster
Takka has released a new release of his Unnofficial version of the GBA Emulator GPSP for the PSP:
Heres the crappy translation:
The acceleration of save state
With this environment
With sony 1G [memosute] approximately 25 seconds - > approximately 2.5 seconds (acceleration of approximately 10 times)
With san disk 4G [memosute] approximately 2.5 seconds - > approximately 2.5 seconds (almost the change)
Was.
Yep the translation is rubbish
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November 11th, 2006, 23:13 Posted By: wraggster
Mailas G has posted a new release of his excellent looking Megaman game for the PSP, heres whats new:
You guys deserve and update. Its been so long, but hey, just remind you that its finally here! Phew. But the bad part is, not much has been done like i promised. I apologize for that but the bullet system was pretty hard to do.
The score tally is unfortunately not up, as for I havn't set any collisions for the bullet path yet. I apologize, for all you can do now is shoot with the Right button, and sqaure button. Hey, atleast its multiple bullets 
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November 11th, 2006, 23:05 Posted By: wraggster
Martek posted this news/release:
Now I have uploaded the next public release of my program PSP Media Administration v0.5!
I hope I have fixed all known bugs, but if there are some more bugs I will fix them as soon as possible!
Here the complete changelog:
Now can set Order to: Homebrews, Videos, Music and Pictures (Videos do not have any preview pictures yet but that will be added to next version)
Delete not needed savegames
Possible to show preview to these filetypes if you want to order pictures: jpg,jpeg,png,bmp (gif,tiff will be added to next version)
Autodetect PSP
Two DateTime styles added: Month/Day/Year and Day-Month-Year
Now can set order also to homebrew _ with Kxploited folder homebrew_~1%
Prompt error message in selected language if getting an error with DateTime errors
WinXP style Drive selection
A few little bugfixes
Now I will list all features I will add in future Versions, so these features are NOT included yet!
change Name of Homebrews
change MP3 ID3 Tags
show and change preview pictures from videos
better style of preview pictures (some have white parts that should be black)
more Compatible filetypes to pictures(gif,tiff)
convert iso to cso by simply drag & drop them from explorer to my prog
convert Kxploited Homebrews to 1.0 Homebrews by simply drag & drop them from explorer to my prog -> this will also make homebrews compatible with 2.71SE like IRSHELL that are not compatible without editing them =)
Show real names of Homebrews
Show pictures of ISOs
Edit favorites of your browser
Edit RSS feeds(not sure yet)
Better Design with more information in the listbox
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November 11th, 2006, 23:00 Posted By: wraggster
the_darkside_986 posted this news/release:
Presenting to the fine members of the psp homebrew community:
A playable demo of my upcoming game Die, Critters, Die!.
What is this? This is like Frogger, except you run over the animals with your car. The controls are simple: use D-pad OR analog stick to move car around to dodge deer and traffic cones and try to hit the cute little possums and bunny rabbits. No real objective except gaining a high score before running out of health. The start button is used for starting the game and pausing.
This is just a demo, but the final game should be released around the end of the year or beginning of next. It will have three built in levels as well as the ability to mod levels and objects using a plain text file.
Did I mention, this is written in C not LUA! LUA is good though but I have known C/C++ for a long time. I wrote this using a game engine for the PSP that I am developing.
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November 11th, 2006, 22:55 Posted By: wraggster
Yongobongo posted this news/release:
Currency Converter for PSP Version 2
I have just updated the currency converter, with some simple updates:
-Now in EBOOT format
-More Currencies
-Better GUI
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Compatible with:
1.00 - 2.71 and 2.71 SE-B (and SE-A)
This will not work on LUAPlayer windows!!
This is KXploit format, so it will definately work on 1.50, and 2.71SE-B.
Enjoy guys!
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November 11th, 2006, 22:54 Posted By: Zion
Hi all.
As promised I have finished the "secret" game i told you about earlier in the week.
The game is based/type of PSPRevolution/Dance Club game, and is my most advanced game yet.
Game Features
Fully Automated Dancing Character.
Multiple Animated Lights on Dancefloor.
4 Levels.
The aim of the game is to press the arrow buttons on your psp that corrospond to the arrows displayed on screen.
This is my most Advanced and impressive Game release so far so please check it out.
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November 11th, 2006, 22:51 Posted By: wraggster
The new PSP Hardware revision known as Ta-086 has had new images surface in China
Images Via Comments, What secrets the TA-086 holds in unknown at this time but as soon as we find out we will let you know.
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November 11th, 2006, 22:46 Posted By: wraggster
Article from Boston Herald
With the holiday shopping season inching upon us, I’ll be writing soon about Sony’s new PlayStation 3 (launching Nov. 17 for $600) and Nintendo’s new Wii (launching Nov. 19 for $250), as well as games for Microsoft’s Xbox 360 ($400). But there is yet another great gift option: Sony’s handheld PSP.
After a year and a half on the market, it’s still pricey at $250. But scores of good games come out for PSP every month. It is sort of a luxury item, but I love it. It fits in my pocket, yet the screen is splendid. Here’s a look at some classic PSP games and a few newbies.
Newish ‘‘LocoRoco” is a holy-cow game, as in, holy cow this is a cute, addictive, bizarre blast. You play as a yellow, happy blob. You roll along a cartoon land, picking up items along the way, like in ‘‘Sonic the Hedgehog” but gentler, merrier and slower. You don’t have feet to run. Instead, you press buttons to turn the world sideways, and gravity forces you to roll along. I imagine that kids, adults who aren’t allergic to cuteness and female gamers would eat this thing up. It’s rated ‘‘E.” Grade: A.
The new ‘‘Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories” and 2005’s ‘‘GTA: Liberty City Stories” may be the most entertaining games available for the PSP, if you’re into shooting people, robbing them and driving fast cars through city streets. Rated ‘‘M.” Grade: A.
‘‘Tiger Woods PGA Tour ’07” is the signature sports title for PSP, I think. It has lush greens, gorgeous action and swinging is easy to figure out. It’s easy at first, very difficult later on. Rated ‘‘E.” Grade: A.
This summer’s ‘‘Field Commander” is one of the most fun role-playing games I’ve played on any system, and I don’t love role-playing games. You send tanks, helicopters and soldiers along a chesslike path to beat competing armies. It’s a great brain game with nice artistic flourishes and fairly difficult. It’s rated ‘‘T.” Grade: A-.
‘‘SOCOM U.S. Navy SEALs: Fireteam Bravo” is more ambitiously entertaining than it sounds. You go undercover and save the world from terrorists. The fun is in negotiating intricate, moderately difficult battlefields, or shooting against other gamers. Also out now is the sequel-worthy ‘‘SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs Fireteam Bravo 2.” The original is rated ‘‘M,” the sequel ‘‘T.” Grade: A.
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November 11th, 2006, 22:20 Posted By: wraggster
Article from IGN
The PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable are like two peas in a pod, sharing and sharing alike all the way down to the common XMB menu -- these two were made for each other. We connected up our PSP to the final retail PS3 (updated to version x1.10) to see how well the duo worked together.
Remote Play
The highly-unexpected PS3-to-PSP Remote Play feature is unfortunately not yet active at this time -- the feature is listed on the PS3 menu and is functional, but because the PSP will not be updated to the necessary v3.0 until later this month, the PSP cannot reciprocate the feature. We did notice a few things about the feature, however. For one, the set-up seems to have some manual functionality to it, as the PS3 asks for the PSP's SSID (which should be displayed on the PSP once it's updated to v3.0 -- we don't know yet how long this SSID will be.) The menu will not let us get past that, but assumedly, from here the PS3 and PSP would begin auto-searching for each other and then it'd go from there. On the Remote Play feature set, we were able to test the mode and were a little surprised (and somewhat disappointed) that the PS3 actually has to kick out of HD mode to 480p when it switches to Remote Play -- it'll take 1080p video and stream it to your PSP, but the PS3 has to take time resetting itself (and your monitor) for the mode.
Media Playback
The PlayStation 3 will mount just about any time of USB drive and, so long as it has the proper directory structure, will take its media from that system. PSP mounts as a USB Memory Stick device -- nothing special, but since PSP folders are the same as PS3 folders, your PSP Memory Stick should be pre-formatted out of the box.
One of the first things you'll notice is that the PSP itself is recognized as a PSP -- the menu will say PSP, will list a PSP icon, and will even pull the name of your PSP as the media device you are using (for example, our Japanese Ceramic White PSP showed up as "Gandalf", as we had cleverly named it Gandalf the White way back when we bought the system.) Your media will show up in its proper place from the PSP, with Music, Video and Photos loading from the PSP to PS3 easy enough. In a nice extra feature, you can tap triangle and browse a full media structure on your PSP Memory Stick -- you actually see what folders files are stored in and can see not only the currently-chosen media type but also whatever media type is available to check out.
File loading is as fast as your Memory Stick allows, and in our tests, there was no delay at all loading tunes and videos off a connected PSP -- it all runs about as fast as a PlayStation Portable does. You also have the option of copying media from here, either from the PSP to PS3 or the other way around. (This same option is available for all USB connections.)
One of the disappointments so far with PS3 media playback: no thumbnails of most media types unless it's on the HDD. Pictures, it does fine with -- it loads thumbnails of your pictures right away. Video, however, will neither load the standard bitmap thumbnail (in the old MP_ROOT folder) or auto-generate a running thumbnail from the video itself. (In an aside, it seems that Sony was incorrect in stating video thumbnails were "realtime" on the menu when running from the hard disc -- instead, the PS3 generates and stores a thumbnail video for the file, similar to how the PSP used a THM file for its thumbnails.) And most surprising of all, Music folders did not display their album thumbnail, a common feature on media players -- it works on PSP, but it doesn't work yet on PS3. (Note that this may simply be a feature to be added later, as even CDs ripped and auto-labeled for Album/Artist/Song do not include album art.)
On a final couple of notes, the PS3 does not have the ability to modify or browse PSP saves -- game saves and PSP applications do not appear anywhere on the PS3 front-end when reading from a PSP unit (or loading a Memory Stick). You also cannot use the built-in Memory Stick formatter to format a stick on PSP -- you must take out the Memory Stick and plug it into either the Memory Stick slot (with adapter for the smaller Memory Stick Duo format) or USB Memory Stick device. Signs also appears to point to a lack of the PS3 to play downloaded games off of anything but PS3's internal hard disc -- when we formatted our Memory Stick for PS3, it did not have a GAMES folder as on PSP, although it did create a PS3 root folder and an "Updates" folder for downloading PS3 updates from the web and loading them onto PS3 (if you can't connect your PS3 up to a network connection.) One bit of good news is that the PS3 can offload game saves -- PS3, PS2, or PS1 -- to the PSP's Memory Stick, making saves perfectly portable (so long as they're not locked saves, as a few PS3 saves will be.)
Gameplay Cross-Play
There is not yet a PS3 game out yet that uses the PSP for any purpose -- the first should be Formula One (although we haven't heard much about that "Wing Mirror" feature since last E3, so we're assuming it's still in at this point), and we do not yet have a test version of that game. However, PS2 games that cross-link to the PSP work fine, as this is a simple matter of connecting the PSP up as a USB device.
We'll have more on PSP and PS3 cross-compatibility in the near future as more abilities are added to both systems.
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