Tuesday, February 28, 2006
Deluxe Paint 4 on a PSP?
Bwaaahahahahaha.
I love this thing.
Labels: consoles, emulators, photos
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Monday, February 27, 2006
Yup.... I'm sure no-one cares what systems I'm emulating on my PSP, but I don't care.Here's the updated list.
Sinclair Spectrum
Commodore 64
Nintendo NES
Nintendo Gameboy/Colour/Advance
Nintendo SNES
Sega Megadrive/Genesis
Atari Lynx
Neo Geo CD
Of these, all run at a very playable speed except the GBA, which is a bit ropey still.
What I'd like next is an Atari 2600 and an Amiga emulator.
There's talk of an N64 emulator, but it seems to me that if the PSP struggles to do the GBA, it's got no hope of doing the N64.
There's also talk of doing the PS1... and that's maybe more of a possibility. We'll see. It's just all rather good fun, being able to have nearly every worthwhile retro games machine in your pocket at the same time. (Okay, so it's a big pocket.)
Okay.... update time...
I got an Amiga emulator running on it too now.
Yay!!!
...and
Neo Geo Colour Pocket
PC Engine
Vectrex
Atari 2600
Steve 7:50 AM [+] (0) comments
Friday, February 24, 2006
This evening/morning has been spent installing more emulators onto my psp, and loading them up with the best games I can remember from each format.So now the thing can run Sinclair Spectrum, Atari Lynx, Sega Megadrive, Snes, and Gameboy/GB Colour. I did have a Game Boy Advance emulator on there, but dumped it, coz it was just a smidge too slow to be worth the bother, especially when I have the real thing... which is a damn site easier to carry around.
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Tuesday, February 21, 2006
Wahay! I finally got round to buying a sensible size monitor, after making do with a 15inch one since I started using PCs.This one was an absolute bargain. It's a 17" TFT from Suyama. Nope... I've never heard of them either, but at £120, brand new, from ebuyer.com, and great picture quality, I don't care who it's made by.
In other news, Fanjita has updated the eloader for the PSP, used to run homebrew on the psp via the Grand Theft Auto game save exploit.
It's now much more stable, and works every time, instead of one attempt in 10.
The original beta was an impressive proof of concept, but as a useful tool... it just wasn't worth the effort. This update on the other hand, makes running emulators and the like on the psp an entirely more enjoyable experience.
Labels: consoles
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Monday, February 13, 2006
More gaming.I've been playing F.E.A.R on the pc.
I'd read some rave reviews about it, though couldn't actually remember what it was they'd said was so good... but bought it anyway, coz I found it at a bargain price.
So... graphics? Nothing special. No better than Half Life 2, and not even close to Far Cry or Doom 3.
Scary? It's supposed to be, but in all honesty, it hasn't made me bat an eyelid yet.
Guns? Oh baby!!!
It's not that the guns are any bigger, fancier or cleverer than in any other game. It's the sound, and the way they handle. You really feel like you're shooting a gun.
AI?
Oh my, oh my!!!
You know how on some games, the bad guys are kinda predictable? They either do the same things all the time, or run away... or charge at you. Some behave a little more logically, as if they're actually displaying an ammount of thought, but then you realise they're limited... like they stay in a certain area, and never leave it.
What you'd never expect to happen is to go from an indoor scene... load up the next bit, which is an outside area, go through the doors, shoot at the bad guys... turn around and run back inside, and have them come in after you when you hide around the corner inside.
That's exactly what happened tonight. They came in after me, split into groups and cornered me.
Very, very impressive, and the best gaming shootouts I've ever had.
Still not scared yet though. Maybe that comes later.
Labels: games
Steve 2:38 AM [+] (0) comments
Saturday, February 11, 2006
Unfortunate.I had to remove the Stumbleupon rss feed script, coz when it displayed a long url, it broke the design of my blog. I may look for a workaround layout later. But then I may not.
Steve 1:43 PM [+] (0) comments
So at around 1am this morning we nipped out to Tesco to do some grocery shopping... as you do.
While we were there, I picked up a copy of Sega Classics Collection for PS2, at a bargain price.
Updated and original versions of Outrun, Space Harrier, Tant R and Bonanza Bros, Fantasy Zone, Golden Axe, Virtua Racing, Monaco GP and Columns.
Now, some of these are conversions of Megadrive or Master System games with somewhat updated graphics, some are straight conversions of arcade games, and some are updated versions of arcade games.
To be honest, I can't really be bothered to talk about each one individually, coz there's one that simply stands out head and shoulders above the rest... for me at least.
I never got to play Virtua Racing in the arcades, mainly coz it was so expensive, no arcades would buy it, but later on, I did have it for my Sega 32X/Megadrive... and much later on, on my Sega Saturn.
Now neither of these conversions were bad at all, but I could tell just from the pics in the magazines of the original that they really weren't that close a copy.
And on PS2?
Awesome.
Obviously, compared to modern racing games, this looks naff, but when you remember that this was created before 3D was the norm, that it runs at a rock solid 50fps, and was running on hardware designed by Lockhead Martin for military simulators which cost tens, if not hundreds of thousands of pounds per cabinet... you start to appreciate this exact copy that cost all of £15.
Labels: games
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Friday, February 10, 2006
There's 3 new photos on my flickr photo album. You can get there via the link down on the left, should you wanna take a look.(Edit)That link is no longer there, as this is a new template, so click here instead.
Labels: photos
Steve 11:43 PM [+] (0) comments
There's a new feature down on the bottom left of this blog.
See those links? They're an rss feed of the most recent sites I set as favourites on my Stumbleupon page.
So now you don't have to go to my stumble pages to see my most recent faves... like.. obviously you all do that ... (cough).
Stumbleupon do the whole rss feed code and technical stuff, and I used the script on this site to display the feed on my blog.
Steve 8:28 PM [+] (0) comments
Ouchie!
Today saw a trip to the dentist. This dentist is rather less brutal with the drill than the one I saw back in Milton Keynes a couple of years back, but yeash, she fairly ripped my gums up with that needle.
So I'm sitting here, now that the numbness has worn off, feeling like I've been kicked in the face.
Ah well... I can't really complain. The next visit will be much worse. I've got a surgical extraction scheduled, where she's gonna have to cut my gum. That'll be fun!
Steve 7:32 PM [+] (0) comments
Thursday, February 09, 2006
It's rather interesting just how many people have messaged me on yahoo messenger since I did this yahoo 360 thing.It's also kinda odd... coz there's lots of information about me on there, yet I still get people messaging me out of the blue asking "asl?"
I mean... come on... they must've found that page to be messaging me. What did they do? Just look at the pictures?
I know I've spoken of such things in relation to different chat environments before, but still, such things never cease to amaze me.
Steve 2:15 AM [+] (0) comments
Thursday, February 02, 2006
I'm messing around with the Yahoo 360 social networking, blogging, gallery, and something of everything site.I can't decide if I actually have a use for it, since I already have all of those facilities at my disposal, but it's another way of increasing my web presence, so has to be a good thing.
Steve 1:22 AM [+] (0) comments
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