I’m jealous, how much did you get the lot for?
Nice to see Tales of the World and Tales of Rebirth there - ended up selling my copies just because I was struggling to make the time for them, but I’d love to hear what you made of them.
I got Boku no Natsuyasumi 4 today and I thought it was interesting that the game’s manual explicitly asks players to set the colour space on their system to Normal before playing, which implies the developers were designing the graphics in mind for the colour gamut of the older PSP-1000 and PSP-2000 screens and were conscious of the fact the newer model’s much wider default colour gamut would mess with that.
I’m surprised Sony didn’t just set a flag in the OS for games released after the PSP-3000 to automatically switch to the newer or older gamut if developers only targeted one.
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Finally had the batteries come in and unfortunately the problem still persists. I found that if I turn the PSP on and then put down the hold/lock switch, the system stays on indefinitely which makes me suggest there’s something wrong with the power switch.
You could try taking it apart and cleaning up the power switch with alcohol and contact cleaner. It could also be something wrong with the power board or the connection to the main board.
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Thanks, I’ll try to do a teardown soon and post pics.
Took me a while to get around to it, but it turned out to be a fried ribbon cable. I tried replacing the power switch at first which didn’t change anything so the ribbon was the only culprit. Comparing it to the replacement and it was visibly darker. No idea how it happened though.
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Just won an eBay auction for a Go and a cradle for $220AUD. Pretty stoked because the cradles seem to go for that alone.
One question - are all Go component cables created equal? I see they look different to the standard PSP ones but was wondering if there was anything else to look out for.
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Ah man I wish I could find a Go. Being able to use the Dualshock 3 while playing PS1 games would be amazing. I think the component cables for the Go are different from all the other ones, but the same for all Go’s.
the component output on the PSP is a tad soft, which honestly I think really works in its favour. it’s even softer than S-video on a PS1, so you get an image with great colors, with the softness of composite without any of the dot crawl. seems to be a happy medium for a lot of PS1 games
MiSTer component:
PSP component:
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I think there was/is another modder trying to recreate the dock but it’s been years since I’ve heard anything so nice to see another attempt.
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I went to a hospital appointment this week, and when the Doctor asked what I do for a living I told him I make video games. He said “oh cool! so what is it… do you have PSP?” …which I found so random. It’s like 20 years old.
Then he told me how he’d found “the slightly smaller Game Boy” (Pocket) in a drawer when moving house. I said he should get it on eBay!
Then he pushed back my appointment 3 months. 
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I may be misremembering this but I thought homebrew devs were using the 2nd core as far back as 2006. Feel like one of the more prominent emulators, maybe gpsp or daedalus, got huge speed gains from it?
I think you’re correct, this seems to be aiming at full utilisation.
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Big TIL moment there. I wonder if 3DS will see the co-processors opened up for homebrew. iirc, New 3DS doubled the number of processors and co-processors for a total of 4 CPU cores (one of which is used for the eye tracking I think) and 4 co-processors.
Not sure on the details there but just unlocking the extra L2 cache in luma speeds up a bunch of games.
Yeah, 804Mhz and L2 cache on N3DS works wonders. I never documented my findings but the game that stuck out to me as having the biggest boost was Rayman 3D.
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So I recently picked up a Retrontink 6X CE and I figure now is as good a time as any to try out this PSP Go dock I’ve had for years. Thing is, it didn’t come with a component cable.
Is there anything I should be aware of when looking for Go cables or do they work the same as long as it has the right connection to the dock?
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Just got a silver PSP (3000) dropped off on my desk at work. Pays to be the “old videogames and electronics guy” sometimes!
Console is beat to hell, missing battery cover, and had a huge buldging battery. I’m ordering a cheap one of each and looking for cool UMDs now!! Always wanted to play the Rondo remake, maybe now is the time.
PSP is an interesting system that never fully clicked with me. It’s mainly the hardware… the buttons, screen and UMD format.
However, I still have one game to this day – OutRun 2006 Coast 2 Coast. I could never bring myself to part with it, despite having no hardware to play it on.
The other day, I downloaded PPSSPP on my laptop, which is over a decade old and was not a gaming machine to begin with. To my surprise, OutRun ran at a stable 60fps (2x resolution, 2x clock speed). More amazing is that the fan didn’t turn on, the computer didn’t heat up, and the battery drained at its typical rate!
Emulation has come a long way in the last decade, that’s for sure.
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