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To me the question is not what the PSP does, but is it the best PORTABLE. In terms of portability the DS has a number of advantages.

You can fold it up and not have to worry about scratching the screen.

There are no discs that can get scratched up or skip. 

No moving parts means greater reliability, longevity and greater shock resistance. 

It easily fits in a small purse or jacket pocket, no case needed.



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FishyJoe said:

To me the question is not what the PSP does, but is it the best PORTABLE. In terms of portability the DS has a number of advantages.

You can fold it up and not have to worry about scratching the screen.

There are no discs that can get scratched up or skip. 

No moving parts means greater reliability, longevity and greater shock resistance. 

It easily fits in a small purse or jacket pocket, no case needed.


excatly and thats y the ds is winning. most ppl want a portable just for the games, believe it not!



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Custom firmware user here.

In my opinion, and this doesn't reflect all PSP users, but the PSPs true power is unleashed with custom homebrew/custom firmware enabled.  This little black device is quite a little beast in terms of all the things it can possibly do.  Playing NES, SNES, GB(A), PS1 games on a portable device is very neat!  Also points to its physical expandability, I changed the faceplate and added a 4GB memory stick.

Its really a nice device to play around with.

While I do agree that there may be a lack of good titles on the PSP, I personally am not interested in the major DS titles that are selling (except new mario and yoshi island maybe) so I went with a PSP.  I have like...2 PSP games (tekken and wipeout) and the rest I enjoy doing videos, emulator stuff and expanding its usability.  But in all honesty I probably wouldn't have gotten a PSP if custom firmware didn't exist.  And I do believe custom firmware is a factor in the low game sales too.



crappy old school NES games are more entertaining than next-gen games.

"I knew about the calculator trick. However I dont need to worry about anyone finding my porn. I am 22, and my wife knows about it. ;) "

then what about you 3 yr old son?.

daddy can i play with your pspeeee?!..... MOMMY! this lady has a big boo boo between her legs, and that man has 3 legs!!! O.O.. jk

anyway to people who keeps saying psp doesnt have quality tiltles, they do.. it started coming out last year, so saying the "psp has no good  games" is a really old argument train that has ran out of steam, and if your using it your obviously misinformed..

btw kudos to Diomedes1976 he sure know a lot of games.. ^_^




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Kwaad said:

iclim4 - I dont have the custom firmware on mine. I'm not willing to chance bricking mine... It's too hard to go back and forth, and I dont have the ability to install the custom firmware anyways, I dont have the game with 1.50 on it :(

Because if I was to go with custom firmware, I would definatly want the ability to go from version to version as I please. 


Once you install CFW theres no need to 'go back' to earlier/official firmwares.  latest CFW offers everything the official firmware has plus extra.

Either way you have to downgrade to 1.5 and theres always a chance of bricking it.



crappy old school NES games are more entertaining than next-gen games.

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ok i seen alot of people post what the psp can emulate but just recently the psp has been able to emulate the ps1 and the n64. im pretty sure that it will be able to emulate the saturn if someone starts working on an emulator for it. anyone who says the Ds has better RPG's needs to realise that most of thiere RPG's are remakes of old ones. and the psp can play the old ones just fine thru emulation. I currently have the first 7 FF runing on my PSP. and i can have upto FF9 if i wanted 2. NES, SNES emulator handles FF1 - ff6, ps1 bulit in emulator can bring in ff7 - ff9. custom firmware is somthing that DS owners will never know of or appriciate due to some people being cheap and others being to scared to get the most out of a psp. BTW custom firmwares also have a recovery mode in case you ever brick your psp by accident. recovery mode allows a bricked psp to reset back to firmware 1.5 and it becomes operational again.



Great thread, for the most part.  I also use custom firmware.  It takes a little longer to get the updates that the official firmware provides but once the custom version is released you can do all the official stuff on top of the emulation and other homebrew.

As for games, I agree that the "no good games" argument is old.  The PSP has 44 games ranked 80% or better on gamerankings.com versus 32 for the DS.  I am not saying which games are better, that is left to a person's taste, but there are plenty of games for the PSP as people have mentioned.

Based purely on a games argument, the PSP is a great system.  Adding the multimedia functionality and up to PS1 and N64 emulation is icing.  Very sweet icing.  I actually didn't know about the N64 emulation until this thread, so I look forward to trying that out.  It's been awhile since I've played a lot of those games.