• 2 months ago
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    One late night I tried the PSP port of Mario 64 and I was greeted w "Itsa me!! Mario!!!!" First thing I do is turn the volume down, but I was already at the lowest volume. My only choices are "all of China knows you're here" or mute. The game itself also doesn't have any options other than stereo / mono / headset.

    PSP port of Doom had the same issue. Fucking loud or mute. There are volume settings for music and sfx but changing them had no effect. I guess they're simply there as a leftover from the PC version, the modder who ported the game didn't bother to program them to work on the PSP. It's kind of interesting from a technical standpoint, in addition to being hilarious. That said, I swear I started Doom 1 from the select prompt but it was Doom 2 that booted up, so maybe the whole thing was just a fubar coded piece of shit and I shouldn't read too much into it.

    Anyway I would pin it on them being homebrew but these are not isolated incidents. Gradually over time I would find that PSP games are really loud on the lowest volume setting. In fact I used to LIKE this about the PSP. "Hey, the game is the volume I want by default how convenient is that!" And it means I can quickly toggle between sound on/off for when I want to yell at my mom to make me hot pockets. When a game had volume that actually worked the way it should e.g. LittleBigPlanet PSP, I found it really strange and I somehow looked down on the game for it. Like you'd have to increase the volume meter to halfway to be able to hear the game. How laborious! And I can no longer mute the game on a whim when I want it! Whack!

    I would imagine that this flaw of the PSP would "ruin" the system for me and the only reason it hasn't (thus far at least) is because so many games let you adjust music/sfx volume in the settings, thereby bailing out the system on an individual game basis. Come to think of it, after a certain point I probably began to use this feature in every single PSP game that offers it, without fail, often lowering the sfx to 40% if not lower (and often disabling music altogether) without ever really stopping to notice the fact of it. If not for the ability to do this, this flaw could very well have been the PSP's equivalent of the way the OLED Vita's minimum screen brightness is locked to Complete Ocular Destruction. At least with Vita there is a plugin that addresses the screen thing, but the PSP does not have one to fix the sound. At least, I don't think there is one.

    tl;dr - I'm getting old and can't enjoy anything anymore
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      Editing … You will enjoy cooking Ruk. Even old people like cooking.
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      Editing … I already tried cooking during my vegan years. I even uploaded pictures of my meals to wordpress and imgur. (cringe) Almost all of it was unhealthy slop. I made bourginion, chili, pasta, vegan bbq, pancakes. and even banana bread. Fucking BANANA BREAD. I'm done. I've gotten it out of my system. I will never cook again.
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      Editing … If I enjoyed cooking, maybe I wouldn't be underweight
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      Editing … That food looks pretty good rukk.
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      Editing … @Husky if you enjoyed beer you wouldn't be underweight
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      Editing … Your food pics look fine to me. Only thing I question is all the white bread, white pasta and white rice everywhere. I don't know why you were so unhappy with that food. It even looks relatively balanced. Much healthier than traditional American folk food such as McDonalds and Chinese takeout and energy drinks. Also if you keep cooking, you will become better at it at your food will only get tastier. It's an investment. It takes time but it's worth it for sure. Also takeout is fucking expensive I don't understand how people eat out all the time. Are they made of money?!
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      Editing … Cooking should only be done when it's required, like rice, potatoes or meat, and nothing else should be done to it. Anything else is literally just playing with your food. It's at best a hobby, kinda like that guy who makes sculptures out of chocolate. Which I guess is nothing wrong, it's just not for me.
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      Editing … I made my kebab! I used 1kg of lamb mince, paprika, salt, pepper, garlic powder, onion salt, herbs..... maybe some other stuff I'm forgetting too. It was too big to fit in our little blender so I got the potato masher out and spent 20 minutes mashing, my arms are aching. I definitely need to invest in a blender! I rolled it into a sausage, wrapped it in foil and it's in the fridge marinating for 24 hours. I love cooking, it's exciting. I don't even care that the main reason I'm doing this is so I know every ingredient that goes in my body, I've caught the cooking bug and I really enjoy creating stuff now. You should cook again rukk, I'd defo eat those pics you posted.
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    Oh, I forgot to download the Sims games. I had one job!!

    Oh well, maybe tomorrow I'll do it.

    The good thing is I like to transfer the games in reverse alphabetical order (so they show up alphabetically on the psp) and I only added two iso games before giving up, so I am still only up to the letter S. x)
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      Editing … I downloaded The Sims 3 Pets for my 3DS. I wonder if it's any good. Also, why does that sentence makes sense, but I can't say "I wonder if it's any bad?"
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      Editing … Sims on consoles suck. They are not the same game. I remember being so excited to play ps2 sims 2 with my friend back in the day but after 5 minutes we realized we had been ripped off.
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      Editing … But that doesn't automatically make them bad. In fact I put an unexpected amount of hours in Sims Castaway on PSP way back when, I think 2017, before I even had cfw meaning it was actually a physical copy. The only reason I stopped was because the game kept crashing during a later island when I started planting stuff. Normally I'd blame the game for crashing, but I think it may have been because I used to leave my PSP's WLAN switch on, which I was told causes memory leaks on the 3k model which causes games to crash. And I think the guy who said this was actually telling the truth!! Flatout on PSP used to crash constantly for me, but down the road I gave the game another chance and didn't encounter any issues. There is no reason to have the WLAN switch on anymore so I always considered playing Castaway again. If it doesn't work I could always try on Vita assuming that makes a difference.
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      Editing … I don't think I could ever enjoy console sims games. I just stick to the real sims 1 and 2. I have customized sims 2 as well and I downloaded a shit ton of fan creations. It's much more fun that way. The community is still quite active for sims 2.
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      Editing … I find 1 and 2 harder to play, 3 and 4 are mine. Likewise, a fuckload of custom content.
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      Editing … I guess I like the SIMplicity (hehehe!...) of 1 and 2 but I would love to play a more modern sims that lets you build the town itself as well like sims 2. There is a lot you can do to modernize sims 2 a bit but it has it's limits and the game internally is a huge mess. But it's not looking like the sims 5 will be anything like what I am waiting for. Maybe I could try sims 3 one day. I tried sims 4 but I was a bit put off by the sims themselves and the fact that EA wants me to be perpetually online and connect via their weird online thingy.
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      Editing … Wow, I didn't know it was always online. I play one of those copies that doesn't have that.
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      Editing … It's not always online I think but to play it it has to check online if you are allowed to play or something. I didn't know there are sims 4 copies that don't require an origin account or EA app. That seems like a better deal then. Especially when origin is down. It seems that if origin is down nobody can play the game at all. So offline version would be superior definitely.
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      Editing … I hope sims 5 will not be shit and online but my trust in EA is -100. Luckily these are multiple sims like games in development such as paralives, inzoi and life by you. So maybe one of those atleast will be good.
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      Editing … Oh yeah, it's one of those free copies that has all the DLC, and if it was able to check online, it would say I'm not allowed to play.
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    huh
    I found my pro-duo adapters
    and some more storage too
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      Editing … DJ JJ approves
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      Editing … I just noticed my PSP stopped charging. It was working fine when I last played it, I was playing Phantasy Star Portable 2 and got bored of it. Ended up getting back into MTG Arena on my laptop, which I now play every day. I wonder if there is a correlation. (laptop uses more power from the power strip which causes PSP to get none??) That or the AC adapter is busted which is the simplest explanation. It's no name ebay adapter. I had one in the past with issues, not surprising that it would happen again.
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      Editing … Shame it happened now that I got around to getting GBA games on my PSP. (I was adding the files to PSP just now and that's what caused me to notice the charging issue) Mr. Driller 2 is the only game I tried so far but it seemed to run flawlessly.
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      Editing … There should be aftermarket replacement batteries somewhere. Maybe even an AC adapter.
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      Editing … Mine is a cheapo aftermarket adapter from ebay. I may have coiled it too tightly or tugged on the PSP a bit too hard. That's the most likely explanation.
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      Editing … I just figured I should be using my PSP more, but maybe it's time to retire it? But.. technically, I still need to find out if it's broken or not, so I'm forced to buy that charger anyway. xP
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      Editing … Is the battery fine? A lot of PSP batteries are swollen now. Guess it's their time to die.
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      Editing … Swollen batteries...Ew.
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      Editing … Yeah I hear about that. Hasn't happened to me yet. Truth be told I actually turned my PSP around and half expected to see swelling, but nope. I think I have a spare charger someplace if I can find it. It's a one piece charger, hard to find on ebay.
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      Editing … wow I switched charger and it still doesn't work. =.= Looks like PSP is over... maybe I'll hook up my Switch Lite here instead.
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    I'm mega impressed with the battery life of psp, I've put 6 hours of ffvii into it without charging.
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    Putting FFVII on my PSP ready for holiday :)
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    Heh, I have some great games now for my PSP.
    I used this: https://cdromance.com/psp/language/english-patched/
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      Editing … Yeah, cdromance is a good site.
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      Editing … ooh, it's the site I kept mentioning! I guess it's thanks to me you found out about it. Or at least that's what I'm going to tell myself. :p Anyway I have not played many english patched games so far. Just FF-Type 0, Grand Knights History (in emulator, just to see if it was any good), and Multi Raid 2. (which had next to no english in it. false advertising to call it english patched!) The one fan translated game that I liked was Pokemon Card GB2 which is a GBC game, but PSP emulates it perfectly.
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    I now have 219 ISOs :D

    Not long before I have a full rom set.
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    I now have 148 iso's, 2 eboots, and around 15 umds. Thanks for the recommendations everybody. If you think of more let me know.
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      Editing … To be honest, I think most of the PSP owners resorted to hacking near the end of the system's lifespan. The last thing that Sony tried to do was to push a final firmware update to prevent hacks. But then some software engineers just tested and released new hacks. I'm pretty sure that the PSP is the most frequently hacked game system of all time. I mean, Sony wouldn't bother trying to regulate anything at this point. Costs too much time and money. Lol.
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      Editing … Also the store in the PSP menu went offline years ago, so it's usually easier to just hack and hunt for ROMs.
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      Editing … Yeah, I noticed the store was offline. I have 225 games now though. Google tells me there are approx 700 English PSP games, so I'll get them all this week.
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    I now have 106 iso's, 2 eboots, and around 15 umds. Not bad for 26 hours of ownership.
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