dave19711998
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- Jan 16, 2006
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I tthink sometime we don't realise a well off we are and lucky we are to have a machine that offers so much of so little.
I'll tell you a little story about myself looking into buying a psp. I wanted to buy a psp and looked at all the magazines. Great 3d games (not bad), you can pay more for films on UMD format than DVD (RIGHT) but where are all the emulation games?
So I decided to sell my GP32 and buy a GP2x. Why? It's simple, I love old emulation games. Some of the best games I have played recently has been home grown. For me there is some about a game made buy someone who has poured his or her heart and soul into it and I don't think the PSP will ever really be able to offer me the same experience.
Just to give you an idea of what I currently posses. I have a PSX, PS2, 2x Dreamcasts, Gamecube and 7 PCs but none of them gave me the joy of running black tiger on mame, on a hand held console.
Also, i find the quirks of the console challenging and for me, there's a sense of achievement in getting something to work that didn't work before.
I have tried playing music on the machine, I gave a 40 gig MP3 player for that but for movies, I would recomend anyone using POCKETDIVX. It's free and can convert a movie or a batch of movies in a short amount of time. There is no slow down and depending on the size of the original can reduce a film. I.E. The Matrix to about 260 MB with a decent picture and sterio sound at 128KBs and in my opinion is great.
I start to wonder how empty my experience would have been if I had bought a PSP and thank god I didn't.
Hope you enjoyed my little write up of a machine that in all fairness should be selling millions.
I'll tell you a little story about myself looking into buying a psp. I wanted to buy a psp and looked at all the magazines. Great 3d games (not bad), you can pay more for films on UMD format than DVD (RIGHT) but where are all the emulation games?
So I decided to sell my GP32 and buy a GP2x. Why? It's simple, I love old emulation games. Some of the best games I have played recently has been home grown. For me there is some about a game made buy someone who has poured his or her heart and soul into it and I don't think the PSP will ever really be able to offer me the same experience.
Just to give you an idea of what I currently posses. I have a PSX, PS2, 2x Dreamcasts, Gamecube and 7 PCs but none of them gave me the joy of running black tiger on mame, on a hand held console.
Also, i find the quirks of the console challenging and for me, there's a sense of achievement in getting something to work that didn't work before.
I have tried playing music on the machine, I gave a 40 gig MP3 player for that but for movies, I would recomend anyone using POCKETDIVX. It's free and can convert a movie or a batch of movies in a short amount of time. There is no slow down and depending on the size of the original can reduce a film. I.E. The Matrix to about 260 MB with a decent picture and sterio sound at 128KBs and in my opinion is great.
I start to wonder how empty my experience would have been if I had bought a PSP and thank god I didn't.
Hope you enjoyed my little write up of a machine that in all fairness should be selling millions.