Who would like to get PSP v1.50?

[theonlyestone]

How rare is it?

[the real mr bob]

extremley you would be very lucky to get it at a store look on ebay you could get one and prob save some money

ps. i know i cant spell :roll:

[Dal]

Got mine at EB Games.

[EzEfoSurE]

how long ago?

Dare I ask: What is so good about 1.50?

[Pagnell]

How dare you!! :lol:

V1.5 (and V1.0) is good because you can run homebrew on it. Simple as.

Oooohhh.

Meh. I'm sure I'll live without home-made games and/or illegal ROMs :P

[Pagnell]

Illegal roms are not what I am talking about. From a personal point of view I am talking about the emulation of old gaming systems, be them the 8bit computers of yesteryear (Spectrum/C64 - still waiting for these two to be emulated ) or the 1st/2nd gen consoles (Atari 2600/Nes). However, with so many 'video game' newcomers owning PSPs it's no real surprise a lot of them aren't that bothered about the ability to emulate these older systems on their new handheld. Most noobs probably haven't heard of half these old systems even though the PSP wouldn't exist without them.

I've certainly heard of those old systems, and played rather a few of them. Yes, in their day they were good, but I'm not into the whole "games were much better back then" thing.

I'd rather play what's new and what's now. Many times I have gone back to play games I thought were amazing as a child and realised how bad they are. It ruins the memory for me.

And I thought emulators were illegal? Surely they must be if you're playing something for free...

[Pagnell]

Originally Posted by Doodle

I've certainly heard of those old systems, and played rather a few of them. Yes, in their day they were good, but I'm not into the whole "games were much better back then" thing.

I'd rather play what's new and what's now. Many times I have gone back to play games I thought were amazing as a child and realised how bad they are. It ruins the memory for me.

And I thought emulators were illegal? Surely they must be if you're playing something for free...

I'm not into the 'games were much better back then' thing either. However, they were good enough to play back then and a lot of them are now. My beef is that Sony seem hell bent on making it a UMD Game or Homebrew choice - why can't it be both? Because they don't make money off the console, only off the games and it isn't in their interest for things to be free on it. Well, they can cram it up where the sun don't shine. I won't be updating from 1.5 for anything as homebrew is just as important to me as commercial games. Anyway, with Wab's version changer, hopefully it won't matter anyway as new games that require new firmware will work anyway. I have already tested it on my friends Euro UMD of F1 (which requires 1.52) and it works perfectly on my 1.5 PSP.

As for emulators being illegal - only the copyrighted game roms/disk images you run on it are, not the emulator itself. So providing you own the original game or the game in question has been abandoned by the publisher (like 99% of 8-bit computer games have) then it's perfectly legal.