My wife just surprised me with a new PSP battery after listening to me moan about not having one ever since reading PerfectDark’s most recent PSP article. After messing around with broken USB cables and jumping through hoops to un-spoof my old prome-2 firmware version for too long last night, I finally got ARK4 running and had a blast playing Wipeout Pure.
My favourite PSP game back in the day was probably Monster Hunter Freedom Unite… so many late nights spent playing that with friends in my freezing flat. There was something special about LAN parties with handheld games. I remember putting serious hours into Peace Walker and Dissidia too.
Now I want some game recommendations… tell me which games you loved on the PSP! I might even have a look around for some UMDs!
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Cave Story and Dracula Chronicle X on the psp was pretty great!
Nobody mentioned Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep. That’s pretty much kh1/2 off ps2 except on a handheld. Super cool and replayable game.
PATA PATA PATA PON!
Play patafour! (I was once a major maintainer! It’s a bit abandoned now but if any souls wanna help it’s ripe for the taking)
FEVERRRRR!!!
I just got a new battery and screen for my Darth Vader PSP2000 just to play this but have been struggling because the audio is so terrible which makes it difficult to hear the beat over the other sound effects. I had to try three different pairs of modern headphones to find one that even worked and yet the audio is still so hard to hear. IIRC the original earbud that came with it was a mono piece (just one ear) so maybe I need to buy an amp or something. Or perhaps its the 30 years of hearing abuse I’ve subjected myself to in the interim that is the culprit.
Could be the perhaps part… or your audio jack is defective - the PSPs audio output is fine. Maybe try some cheap inears or Ports Pros if you can.
Loco Roco was nice and I don’t think its been mentioned.
@VerseAndVermin @PeculiarGoat Agreed! Forgot about that one.
Locoroco. It was just so sweet and cheerful.
The sounds the balls made were just beautiful. Oooooo
So cute.
And I loved the main theme.
I can’t believe out of all the comments there’s so few mentions of Locoroco. It was soooo good!
Wow I had forgotten about this game… definitely going to give it a jam again!
There’s a disturbing lack of Phantasy Star Portable 1 & 2 in this thread.
Also want to second Rock Band Unplugged because it has similar gameplay to the ps2 game Amplitude.
I still have my PSP on my desk, on who knows how many battery replacements. I come back for:
- Burnout Legends
- Locoroco
- Lumines & Lumines II
- N+
- Echochrome
- Guilty Gear XX
Brave Story is a great RPG that doesn’t overstay it’s welcome and that I’ve enjoyed a lot. The enemy design was what really got me into it at the time, but the fun story and quality of life features kept me going
LocoRoco, Patapon, the God of War priquel and Crisis Core
And also Armored Core Formula Front, it’s such a weird game in the series.
Oh, and Carnage Heart EXA. I’ve never managed to actually get far, but it’s the most unique mecha game there is. You program your mecha from scratch using logic blocks, and you can make it fully autonomous, fully manual (but you have to program each button press), or a combination of two. It takes as many hours to learn as an Armored Core game would take to complete.
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I played Lumines so much I would see squares when I closed my eyes
We should call that something. “The Lumines effect”?
Every time I hear a song from that game, the world starts looking like Minecraft.
- Field Commander
- Gran Turismo
- Grand Theft Auto Chinatown Wars (the best GTA)
- Hellboy The Science of Evil
- Jackass The Game
- Killzone Liberation
- Metal Gear Solid Portable Ops & Peace Walker
- Midnight Club LA Remix
- Motorstorm Arctic Edge
- Socom Fireteam Bravo 1-3
- Star Wars Battlefront Renegade Squadron
- Twisted Metal Head On
- Untold Legends Brotherhood of the Blade
- Worms Open Warfare 2
- Ys Seven
Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters.
Played through that sucker more times than I care to admit to.
Same, and I heard people saying that one is the worst game of the series ;-;
Final Fantasy Dissidia duo decim and Crisis Core were the only games I really enjoyed on the PSP.
Dissidia is probably the best Final Fantasy game no one remembers anymore
Yeah, I played Crisis Core, VII-IX and GoW on mine a lot. I may have even had a Jax and Dexter on it? I can’t remember. It was wild to me that I could play my final fantasy games on it.
Original games - LocoRoco Midnight Carnival, Crisis Core Final Fantasy VII, Daxter, Trails in the Sky trilogy, LittleBigPlanet PSP, Silent Hill Origins, MGS Peace Walker, Gran Turismo… Remasters/ports: SMT Persona 2 Innocent Sin, Lunar SSSC, Breath of Fire III, Tales of Eternia (all of these games are JRPG, and all of them are the best version of these games in my opinion), Crazy Taxi, Prince of Persia games, Tomb Raider games…
There seems to be an overwhelming amount of JRPGs on the PSP right? It could take years to get through them all haha.
