Good, stuff, nice to see "I feel asleep" in there.


It's just a remake of the first Mega Man game. Which was amazing, Mega Man X is a better game obviously, but I hear the extras in Powered Up are fantastic.

Beat Katamari and Final Fantasy X both last night. So much fun.

Nintendo, Super Nintendo and Game Boy games are gonna be pretty much the only games you'll see me post in here.

All three of those are awfully good.


I could actually beat big bear, the second guy or whatever, in seven seconds, or whatever his claim is in the end credits.

17 I think. You must tell me your secret.

Can't remember, it was ten years ago. I'm sure an FAQ could tell you though.

Good luck getting one that cheap. GameStop/EB sells 'em for $180 used, sans memory card. It's not worth using a PSP for music. A 2GB memory stick is about $130-$150 new, and that doesn't even hold a ton. Plus, PSPs are quite large compared to iPods.

PSP games typically range from $30-$50; most are about $40 now.

Should I PM a mod/admin about pinning this thread? Who would be the best person to contact?

figured you would be the one to reply....and thanks 'cause I did find one on craigslist with a game and (512mb) memory. as long as its has no dead pixles and no scratches!
All for $160 so I might go for it. as long as I can put a couple albums a day on there for the music that will be fine. and ebay and vraigslist for $15-$25 cause $50 is waaay to much for a psp game IMO.

Picked it up last night. Barely got started at all, and then watched the Twins comeback instead. Gordon Freeman is no Master Chief, I'll tell you that. Jump you pussy. But the other V.O. work in the game is way better than both the Halo games. A bit more subtle and a lot more sophisticated. The story isn't just left up to lengthy cut-scenes. It seems a bit more realistic for the gamer as you are more immersed in the world.

I'm not missing out on too much narrative if I never played Half-Life 1, am I? Obviously, a lot of these returning characters are the same.

FYI: Its down to $19.99 new at EB Games now, if anybody cares. That's one good thing about the 360, old XBOX games come down in price quick.

you kids see this?

video game themes in concert

already been a couple thread on it, yeah.

yeah, i figured you'd have been on top of that one.

do people flip out at these shows, after realizing that "omg! they just used the warp zone theme to transition from castlevania intro to kid icarus finale! holy shit!"

i attended the one with all final fantasy music. all in all, the audience was very appropriate. it was cool when nobuo uematsu came into the theatre to take his seat in the audience with everyone else, and he got a standing ovation.

They screwed up by putting it on Xbox. It came out at the same time as the 360 and essentially bombed. That's why it's $20 already. Typically, it would be about 9 months before that kind of drop.

The only games I've played in the past mumblty years (besides Adventure/Zork) are the Rocknor's Bad Day and Rocknor's Donut Factory puzzle games from my friend Hanford Lemoore at Monolux. you can download a free trial version of the games from the Monolux website.

Yeah. For a game that has received such universal praise, it sure seems to have been overlooked. Oh well. Their mistake = consumers' gain.

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So I was thinking about my all-time favorite games when I was bored at work this morning. Limiting to a top-5 is tough (i.e. couldn't do it), but here it is:

1) Super Mario Brothers (NES)
2) Super Mario 64 (N64)
3) The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (N64)
4) Halo 2 (XBOX)
5) Tie: Mortal Kombat III (SNES) / Mario Kart 64 (N64) -- we played an absolute TON of these games in college and got drunk and talked smack. Good times.

Honorable Mention

The Legend of Zelda
Mike Tyson's Punch-Out
Super Mario 3
Castlevania
Mega Man 2
Metroid
Super Metroid
Kid Icarus
James Bond: Goldeneye (Mainly for the multiplayer)
Star Wars vector arcade game

Does the game have extreme framerate issues when played on a standard Xbox? I got it for Christmas and only have an Xbox 360, and it runs horribly. I traded it in before it dropped to $20.

The backwards compatibility on 360 is terrible.

Not that I've seen, but I haven't gotten to serious combat yet. From what I've heard, the main issues crop-up for a few seconds after a load occurs, but that's about it.

Not surprised it blows on 360. My friend's Halo 2 was laggy on it, as was Ninja Gaiden Black. Isn't a patch coming out to improve it via Live? I thought I heard that somewhere.

Could be. I'd consider picking it up in the future, because I really want to play Half-Life 2 (but I don't dig PC gaming). The frame rate was obnoxiously bad when played on 360. I hesitate to say unplayable, but I personally wasn't willing to play through it like that.

This is the only time that i encountered slowdown my first time through the game. It does get quite choppy at times, but its due to the engine trying to render too much all at once. I can forgive them for it, because what they accomplished with HL2 on the Xbox is quite astounding.

I haven't thought deeply about this in quite a while, but I can name my top two favorites:

1. Super Metroid
2. Final Fantasy VII

Other all-time favorites: Final Fantasy X, Killer Instinct Gold, Kingdom Hearts, Metal Gear Solid: Twin Snakes, Metal Gear Solid 2, Metroid Prime, MVP Baseball '03-'05, Parasite Eve, Phantasy Star Online, Resident Evil 4, Super Mario 64, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3

For as little as I've played my GameCube since it was released, I've got three games listed for it (Metroid Prime, MGS: TS, RE4), while only one for Xbox (MVP, which is multiplatform but best on Xbox).

Not a FPS fan, eh Deja? No Halo/Halo 2 as an XBOX owner? I asumed that was mandated in the user's manual.

The Halo series has never attracted me like it does most people. I won't talk smack; the multiplayer is grand, but the single-player never did it for me. And I've played less than two hours of Halo 2, ever. Single or multi. And I did get a free copy, haha.

Call of Duty 2 was one of my favorite games of last year, though.

my top 20 (unofficial)

1. Tetris (all systems)
2. Goldeneye (N64)
3. Final Fantasy VII (PS)
4. Street Fighter 2 (all systems)
5. Dance Dance Revolution (arcade)
6. Super Metroid (SNES)
7. Super Smash Brothers Melee (Gamecube)
8. Ms. Pac-Man (arcade)
9. Shadowrun (SNES)
10. Galaga (arcade)
11. Contra (NES)
12. Flashback (SNES)
13. Super Bomberman 2 (SNES)
14. Time Crisis (arcade)
15. Dr. Mario (NES)
16. River City Ransom (NES)
17. California Games (NES)
18. Katamari Damacy (PS2)
19. Advance Wars (Game Boy Advance)
20. Missle Command (arcade)

I guess for the most part, but star wars, blitz and the thing run perfectly. I hear ninja gaiden is fine too.

It's a broad statement... certainly there are titles that work fine, but there are several that don't and are on the official list. They shouldn't approve a game unless it works 100% like it would on a regular Xbox.

Are we doing top 5s or whatever? I'll throw in.

1. Super Mario Bros 3
2. Final Fantasy III (VI)
3. Sonic The Hedgehog 2
4. Chrono Trigger
5. Earthbound
6. Street Fighter Alpha 3
7. Super Metroid
8. Mega Man X
9. Star Fox 64
10. Legend Of Zelda: A LInk To The Past

<oldster>Single player of any FPS besides Doom and Goldeneye is boring boring </oldster>


Nice list, Contra, River City, Smash, and Bomberman 2 would all make my top 20 if I could figure one out. I find it hard to believe you like Street Fighter more than I do though.

Very glad to see Super Metroid on all lists so far. That was the first game I ever got really hardcore about, and I still play through it roughly every other year and love it.

The boss battle at the end was just so, so epic. That's what sticks out in my mind. Probably the first time I ever felt emotional pull with a video game, and they did it with shitty graphics, no dialogue, and a fantastic soundtrack. Until that point, completing a game for me was done just so I could say "I beat it".

In that game, I wanted to kick her ass so bad because of how she fucked me and my little buddy over.

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Half-Life 2/Halo Series comparison/complaint/question:

Last night I got through the Kanals, and made a lot of headway on the little water-scooter. Its a fun game, and I find myself getting surprisingly intense at times. Those flying saw-blades coming out of the dark in a confined tunnel, and that creepy "whirring" noise buzzing around the home theatre is creepy and claustrophobic. And I know that the best is yet to come (i.e. Ravenholm).

But here's my gripe: everything so far is just too damn confined. The entire game has been: run around stack of boxes, jump through abandoned train car, crouch through tunnel, etc. Once I got the water scooter, I'm confined to that damn river with huge walls on both sides.

There is no huge scope and grandeur to it. In the first hour you can rarely see more than 10 feet in front of you, and I don't think I've ever seen the horizon even from the river. The topography that I can actually access seems really, really small and the game is really linear taking me from Point "A" to Point "B".

I've never been a huge FPS fan. Goldeneye ruled back in the day, but the genre left me cold until Halo 2. I had even blown off Halo. But I love both of the Halo games' campaigns, largely because the scopes of the games were so huge. Oceans that disappear on the horizons. Mountains. Cliffs. 30 story water falls. Huge structures to scale and climb. Wide open valleys that serve as battle arenas, full of rocks and cliffs and trees that you can choose to use or not. Flying thousands of feet into the air and divebombing enemies.

The Halo games just seems so much larger, and that openness made it fun to watch and play.

Half-Life 2 just doesn't have that same feel. I know I'm really early into it. Somebody please tell me that this changes as I progress. Otherwise, its sort of disappointing.

</ramble mode>

I'll throw this game somewhere on my best-of list:

hey deja do you have an emulator that lets you play SNES games on your PSP. looks like the one I'm getting is version 2.60 so it seems that you have to have GTA to get the emulator to work on the psp. but that might be just for NES games, and I want to just play SNES. any clues on how hard this is to get working.
thanks (for always answering my gaming questions )

OTM. Best climax ever. The only game that's come close to that for me was Ico

lmfao

I love how unbelievably pissed Samus gets, so pisses she starts shooting mega lasers and shit. It's the best.

No problem, but I don't have much of an answer for this. I'm not into the modding/emulation scene at all, so I operate only by hearsay. From what I've heard in the past, you need one of the early versions of the PSP software to run those programs, but perhaps (like you said) you can use GTA to somehow boot the software from the memory stick. But I couldn't tell you for sure, so just Google it and see what comes your way.

Man, so tonight I'm taking a seminar at school about making movies on your PC (I needed the one credit hour), and I just found out yesterday that we needed to shoot some footage in advance. So last night, 3am, my buddy and I... Guitar Hero, Jagermeister, a broken window. And five minutes of stupid, stupid footage. That's all I've gotta say.

Dude, I am psyched to see this shit. I am burning my movie right now to dvd to display as a lofty goal for all to try and obtain. When we're done with these, they must be uploaded to youtube for all the internet to see.

Now I must get to work and wait for Pat to film his dvd...whatever it may be. Possibly an unsolicited sexual escapde on tape. With his girlfriend wearing a Nancy Reagan mask....?

The Super NES version of this was actually pretty good.


Just got this in the mail today. Can't wait till I can get home and play it. This brings back memories of me not doing homework and eating Peanut Butter Crunch with the house all to myself.

Yeah, this brings back memories for me, too. Fucking awesome stuff. A much simpler time for all.

Oh man, I'd probably fucking leave right now if I didn't have to train someone. Lest we forget to mention the awesome soundtrack by Green Jelly as well? I've only beat this game once, and that was with a special controller. Probably one of the hardest and longest games I've ever played.

It's so dumb. I doubt anyone who hasn't played the game will be amused by it. But eh, whatever.

Maximum Carnage was tits.

My top 10 aka Laundromat Legends:

1. Super Mario Bros.


2. Double Dragon


3. Galaga


4. Mortal Kombat II


5. Street Fighter II


6. Ghosts n Goblins


7. Golden Axe


8. Bad Dudes


9. Pit Fighter


10. Smash TV

im pretty surprised that like half the seminar geeked out for guitar hero. sadly though, noone got to enjoy the tale of Rock Juice.

i got this today:

Indeed, quite strange that two different Macs had distinct issues with my plain ol' .MPG files. Oh well, got the grade.

I'm just over halfway through Syphon Filter for PSP. It's good for a PSP game, but wouldn't be so grand on PS2. A bit boring, but oh well.

Rufus - How is it? I've never played a Mr. Driller game. Also, can you pin this thread?

Pit Fighter? Really?

what are the MUST HAVE psp games?

Must haves? None.

So in the arcade version, if you're playing 2 player and you beat the game, then you actually have to fight each other? I was just reading about that last night. I never knew because I've only played it on NES.


Check my soulseek ticker.


Check my user pic.

i only have the genesis tengen port. game suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucks

The only absolute must-have for PSP is Lumines. One day, it will hopefully be hailed as this generation's Tetris.

Otherwise, here's some other great games: Grand Theft Auto, Wipeout Pure, and Hot Shots Golf: Open Tee. I thought both of the Metal Gear Acid games were great, but many would disagree. Also, Ridge Racer and Burnout Legends are both fine racers.

I can't call the PSP a must-own system for everyone yet, but I've found enough to play to justify the purchase (especially since I got mine for $170 the month after it came out). There have been some months (especially late last year) where I didn't use the system at all, but I'm glad I didn't sell it.

I remember when the original wipeout caem out for psx it was hailed as the greatest racer ever or whatever. Gosh did I ever not like it.