I'd buy a PSP if it were $150 and the good sticks weren't $100+. Right now I'd be spending over $350 just to emulate old games on the go, and occasionally play some music.
I'd buy a PSP if it were $150 and the good sticks weren't $100+. Right now I'd be spending over $350 just to emulate old games on the go, and occasionally play some music.
Honestly, video is really the only reason you'd ever have to go huge on a memory stick. Even the 32 M stick that comes with the PSP holds my savegames, NES emulator with tons of roms, and my SNES emulator with a couple roms.Originally Posted by Lindy
I bought a 1 G stick but it was defective so I'm waiting for the replacement to come back from SanDisk. Until then I've been using my 32 M one and it's been doing just find holding everything that I've needed so far. I'm quite sure that with a 128M or so you'd be totally set, like I said, unless you want to have video playing off of your memory stick.You definately pay for the quality. Luckily, you do get what you pay for.
I do wonder how far emulation on the PSP can go.
It can play NES and SNES, so that should naturally lead to Genesis emulation, as well as a lot of arcade games.
Then you think, can it emulate up to the level of the PSX? If you have a 1gb stick, you can hold the ISOs, and if it can do PSX, then it should be able to do Saturn and the even more recent, graphically heavy arcade games.
Now could it go even further than that? Emulate early PS2 games maybe, the ones that ran on CD?
I've got a 128 and am currently holding:
13 songs
3 NES games
18 SNES games
with .5 MB to spare
Battletoads runs pretty smoothly if I overclock it. Weird... I'm just now realizing that out of the 21 games I've got I only play Battetoads and FF1.
There are emulators for it for everything post 32 bit era, including GBA and such. Unfortunately, the SNES and probably other equal systems emulators run fairly slow on the PSP hardware. I'm fairly sure that if they clean up the core programming they can make them run normal speed but I'd say PSX and other 32 bit era systems are out of the question.
Right now you can have the emulator skip frames to compensate for the slowdown on the SNES emulator.
Well, for starters, how many songs would you want with you?
I have a Mini Zen Creative only costing me £134 [The Ipod is around £300] and its a 5g [1250 songs]
For me, thats more than enough, and Zen is a very good make, alot better than an Ipod!
"Creative's Zen Micro is the digital audio player with attitude. Designed with ergonomics in mind, it's micro-sized and fits naturally into the hand, placing the touch-sensitive control pad in the perfect position for navigation with just one finger. The Zen Micro will store up to 2,500 songs in WMA or 1,250 in MP3 on its 5GB hard disk."
I have the DS aswell, ive also had the GBP, GBC, GBA and the GBSP,im a Nintendo fan girl to be honest, The DS is awesome though, but the games are expensive and there isnt a good range out as of yet, so maybe wait awhile yeah?
Im not really a fan of the SP, its the worst imo, i dont like how you hold it, i still love the Advance, its still my favourite <333
Last edited by Zeldy; 07-17-2005 at 07:48 PM.
Get a Creative MP3 player. They are low-priced and very good quality. I've dropped my Zen Micro numerous times and it still works flawlessly. I think, though, the best selling point is that many of the Creative products have removable batteries. After a while the iPod's battery will lose its charge and you'll either have to spend $50+ on a battery replacement kit, or you'll have to send it in to Apple and they'll charge you for the replacement battery and service. The Creative Zen's battery is something like $30 and it takes ten seconds to replace it.
As for your handheld gaming. Get the SP. With your collection of GB games, you'll probably get more use out of it than a DS. Be warned, however, the GBA is slowly dying out.
The DS can emulate as well. It's just a little trickier than doing it on a PSP. You'll need a flash cart and a WiFi-me or Passme hack to replace the current DS BIOS with one that can run homebrew code on it.
I have the newest ipod 20 gb and its really really great. I love it. I charge itfor three-5 hours or longer and its worked fine all day with several people using it for music so I certainly wouldnt say it goes insanely fast though I dont have much expierience with MP3 players in general but its been running for more than 12 hours and its still working fine. You can use any pair of ear phones on most MP3 players and ipod is one of them. And what you mean by sound quality I dont really know, it plays the music as good as another small mp3 player I used to use and as well as my disc man. I dont see anything to complain about with sound quality. I paid the price you mentioned and the ipod I have so far has been worth every cent. I dont know much about your mp3 player but does it have as many options and uses as the ipod?
Music, photos, playlists, artists, albums, compilations, songs,genres, composers, audiobooks, extras, clock, contacts, calendar,notes, photo import, voice memos, games, settings, shuffle songs, backlight, sleep timer and more options like that? I mean if you add all those things up and another mp3 player like the ones youve mentioned cant do most of them then yeah I think its fair for it to be at that price. But I generally dont know wether or not it can do those things. Also the screen is in full colour for the plain ipods now which is pretty class in my opinion and the pictures it uploaded from my pc in seconds were at digital camera quality and maybe this is just my perosnal collection of pictures but the pictures are very entertaining to look at, the same way my friends like looking at each others pictures on there mobile phones. And I really like the touch wheel. Its a cool feature to have on an MP3 player. Yeah its not a big deal at all but it is nice to have and easy to use. I expect you have more expierience with the techs of mp3 players than me, Lindy but with all those things included if another mp3 player cantdo most of those things then I certainly think its been worth the money I paid for it. Sure I bought an overpriced mp3 player at first but the additionals have made me very happy with my purchase.
I love the GBA SP, in my opinion it's close to a perfect handheld console. Unfortunately, handhelds don't last like home consoles in the shadow of a new generation. GBAs are very quickly dying out, there aren't going to be many new games from now on, and I'd say it won't be an incredibly long time before retailers stop carrying new GBA games. It's a wonderful system, but only get it if you're happy with what's around right now.
No fair, mine is a 20 GB, but it's black and white. xD
It was 300 dollars too.
Last edited by Rye; 05-01-2008 at 02:22 AM.
Poor you, I think this model was just released a few days before I bought mine online (with free name engravement which is a little comforting if it were to ever get lost) but hey one day (porbably before the end of this year my ipod will seem be outclassed by some other 20gb ipod. Ipods go like hot caked on ebay Rye. If you sold it and had a bit of money to add to it you might be able to buy a newer version.No fair, mine is a 20 GB, but it's black and white. xD
It was 300 dollars too.
I Have the White one
£134 from Currys
Last edited by Zeldy; 07-17-2005 at 07:41 PM.
And how many of those do you actually NEED?
Every MP3 player has ID3 tags, so your artist/album/compilation point is moot, and all Creative players have those ways to find songs split up like that. Audiobooks are just MP3 files, and Creative players come with a bookmark setting so you can save where you were in a track.
Clock, yeah, that's a given, backlight yes, of course it has shuffle, as well as an alarm and sleep timer.
Now comes the rest of it, why do you need a calender, games, photos, or things like that IN AN MP3 PLAYER? When you know, the point is to play MP3s.
By sound quality, I mean that the iPod cuts out large portions of the actual music, because it lacks the range to cover them, yes MP3s are a lossy format, but most people encode them at 192 or 192 VBR, but iPods can't handle much beyond a very narrow range, so you miss out on a lot of the music, in the same way that a bad pair of headphones won't help either. Like, a bass beat in the background of a song, or some parts of drum beats, certain vocals and backing, things like that.
So really, put like that, the Creative player I have can do everything your iPod can, without the extraneous crap, at a much lower price.
Oh, and it charges to full from empty in about an hour too, after the first charge anyway, rather than taking three like your iPod.
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Out in a few months.
Ive dropped myn once and somebody stood on it =3 It suffered a minor scratch.
But theres one thing negative about it that ive found, myn has a tendancy to freeze and i have to take out the battery and insert it back in again, why is that?
Im thinking it may be the time it got wet, id put it in my bag and my bag fell over and it was pouring it down that day, how long it was there i dont know
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