Psp

[Risteard]

UMDs are ridiculously expensive, yes?

[anto1208]

UMDs are ridiculously expensive, yes?

ive been looking into it as im getting a psp this week , a umd movie is about 30 euro the games are about 40 to 60 , but you can get software to turn your normall dvd into a umd movie file ( it also plays mpeg4 video files ) and you can store this on a memory card , a movie takes up about 500mb

the cards are going on ebay for about 30 to 40 euro for a 1 gb ( there 150 in town ) so you might get a movie an episode or 2 of your fav show and a few songs on one card to carry with you .

best bet is to have 2 cards and fill them up before you go on a trip

the new psp is out in japan now its white , it has new firmware and a better sharp screen (samsung do the europeen one ) you can surf the net with out cracking your machine , it is also game region free so you can play imports which is very important for getting say winning eleven 9 (pro evo 5 )which came out this week for psp ( end of november here ) and of course the movies are region 2 same as here so you can play your movies you buy here .

i reckon i can import a psp value pack (carry case earphone memory card etc) for a total cost of 230 euro and have it in 3 days !!

[anto1208]

well i got mine yesterday and yes its better than i thought it would be , ive all ready ordered about 85 movies 30 games and 2 1gb memory cards all for under 150 euro from ebay . that should see those boring airport waits sorted for a few months .

picture quality is brilliant , the games are allmost as good as ps2 but the movie quality is better than my tv in my sitting room , they have some weird 3d happening you get drawn right into the screen and forget about the size .

if i had to pick a bad point ........................................ its a bit too shiny ..... and the buttons are painfull to use after 30 mins you get pains up your tumbs but a simple add on all ready out will sort that .

[anto1208]

after allmost a week with this console i can honestly say its the best gadget ive ever had

ive converted my DVD's to play on it , iv every south park ,family guy , 70's show ,trailer park boys episode ever made ready to be watched on it . and all my movies as well .

this soft ware you can download for free online ,

now the best bit , you can save games to your memory card , you need to download a "loader" but it basically means you dont have to carry around the disk with you ( it can be used to download all the games available for the PSP for free and play them at your leisure but this is highly illegal )

basically you fork out 250 for your psp about 60 EUro for a memory card on ebay( 150 in ireland ) and thats about it . all the games you can download and all the movies etc ....

one bit of advice if you are getting one they give you a disk with an update DO NOT UPDATE YOUR PSP , the operating system is firmware 1.5 the update is 2.0 , 1.5 allows the copying of games etc in 2.0 sony have fixed this problem .

if you have allready installed 2.0 like i did before i found out this stuff then dont worry it is possible to downgrade to 1.5 it involves crashing your psp twice but it does work .

there are also homebrew's online ( home made games ) and emulators that allow you to download and play old classics from snes and sega megadrive etc .