Exploring what is (possibly) the largest retro-focused game convention in the country! MGC in Milwaukee, Wisconsin is full of pinball and arcade machines, vi...

A few weeks ago I wrote about taking a chance on a cheap "junk" PSP-2000 from Japan, replacing its faulty charging port, and ending up with one of the nicest handhelds I own.. One of many PSP's I've bought though.

Quite a few people here on Lemmy reached out afterwards asking about jailbreaking, or just sharing that they planned to buy UMDs for it. I guess this article is my answer (or maybe just yet another thinly veiled excuse to write about my favorite old handheld...the PSP) to that.

Rather than another super technical wiki, I wanted to write a bit of step-by-step with just pictures of all of it. I cover installing ARK-4 custom firmware, setting up a microSD card, loading games, movies and music, a handful of homebrew recommendations. I really, really love Sony's PSP. I think as far as industrial design language goes, you just can't beat it.

So if you've recently picked up a PSP, are thinking about picking one up, or have one sitting in a drawer gathering dust, I hope this helps you give it a second life!

And if you don't want to read through, then ask me here and I'm more than happy to recommend things to you.

I had a couple Wisdom Tree Game Boy games as a kid, never knew there was a port of Spiritual Warfare until recently. Excited to find a copy for a not ridiculous asking price!

Crossposted from https://lemmy.world/post/49129778

• Downloads: https://www.hvsc.de/downloads
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After the recent post about thousands of chiptune music from cracking teams in mp3 format, I wanted to share an already well known collection of Commodore 64 music in their original tracking format. To play these SID format music files, an audio player that supports the format is required.

You only need to download a single complete package, that is in size 80 MB for 7z format or 97 MB for RAR.

61157 SIDS

About HVSC

The High Voltage SID Collection (HVSC) is a freeware hobby project which organises Commodore 64 music (also known as SID music) into an archive for both musicians and fans alike. The work on the collection is done completely in the Team and contributors' spare time and is proudly one of the largest and most accurate computer music collections known.

You can also grab it all from IA: https://archive.org/details/Keygen-Music-Archive

"GOG seemingly shares that they are considering physical PC 'big box' games. Maybe?This could be the case, or could not be. They shared a post on Reddit 19 hours ago from their official account, and I thought it might be nice to share that here, at least to spark some discussion.They simply shared a post titled:Shall we? 📦💿With the following image:Link to the Reddit post is here if you want to see what others are saying about it!"

I finally got my hands on a copy of the original Phantasy Star and it was not cheap!

I was a huge, huge, fan of Phantasy Star Online when I was in high school. I used to play PSO BB well into 2015 on emulated servers and I still listen to the OST today. I can honestly say the game shaped me into who I am today, but I've never played any of the original series.

This is my first Sega Mark III game ever and I have to say the graphics are pretty impressive.

I've yet to beat the game, but it looks like this is a type of game where it really helps to talk to every pedestrian and walk into every house to gather as much information as possible.

The battle, so far, is kinda annoying because you can't pick which enemy to attack. So when it's clearly advantageous to beat a weakened enemy so that you have one less monster dealing you damage, the game will randomly pick the one that's nearly at full health.

I was also surprised at how smooth the animation was in the 3D dungeon area, but it would really help if there was a map. I scribbled it down as I explored but I must have screwed up somewhere because my map ended up being twice as big when compared to something I found on the internet. Oh and the music in the dungeon is amazing! I recognized it right away because they used it in PSO too!

Again, it's just such a pretty game!

And I love how manuals from the era had some much more info on it.

I love these kind of projects.

"We've waited 16 years to share our FIRST official game trailer" - I Heart Pizza, the Fort Wayne-based indie developer run by endlessly likeable cancer survi...

As we’re heading into the age of digital only downloads and more people start to scavenge for physical media, I was wondering if there is a list out there that catalogues if the game doesn’t need any downloads, patches or internet connection. I assume starting during the ps4 era it became more common place to only have partial data on physical media. I’d love to know what will be worth collecting/searching for in the future and what will potentially just serve as a frisbee.

Found this cool Japanese radio station on radio garden that plays retro pc game music

This was brought on by the Sony news that all disk based distribution will stop.

At what point do I have be concerned that a cart or disk I buy won’t work on my system without a mandatory download?

The ps3 seem pretty clear but I seem to recall a game or two that did require a download, or system update, to play.

How many ps4/ps5 games would I be able to play without a server connection?

What about switch 1 /2 games?

Is there a website that tracks this or a way to tell?

... Dracula's eyes still look like two red pixels. I guess my crt isn't crt enough. Maybe if I smear some Vaseline all over it.

But in all seriousness, still not sure how I feel. Something seems different about the visuals, and it is nostalgic. I might try to change up my setup to use it as a second display, but I think if I had fallen for the hype and spent $100+ on one of these, I would have been very disappointed.

Today's crt filters on modern displays is more than enough for fun effects, but I would never characterize any of this as objective improvements.

The music...

First try on a boss! 🤘

(Invidious link)

Chapters:

0:00 Intro
0:54 Ghosts 'n Goblins (Arcade)
11:18 Famicom / NES
16:22 Commodore 64
19:58 Commodore 16
22:50 ZX Spectrum \ 27:44 Amstrad CPC
32:22 MS-DOS
35:37 PC-88
38:20 Amiga
40:41 Atari ST
43:08 Game Boy Color
45:04 LCD Handheld
48:30 Java (Mobile Phones)
50:45 Mobile (iOS/Android)

No UI other than MiSTer menu

PlayStation controller slots disabled by default

Memory card slots disabled by default

Superdock can't boot PlayStation games

Doesn't have any documentation. Only a single youtube video.

Support: "Join the Discord"

Why is this even PS1 shaped if it's just a MiSTer???

Am I the crazy one here? Should I have not expected it to be a drop-in replacement for my aging PSone?

I'm going to need to look up a game manual for this one, no idea what I'm doing or how to use half of the items I'm finding.

Thanks for all the Lynx game suggestions in my previous post - I'm on the hunt!

Bonus Shot:

Fun Fact: San Fierro's only gun store is on the border of the city's queer district.