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Post by ††Apostle††™ on Dec 19, 2004 5:20:50 GMT -5
oh...does old..Apostle have a little surprise for all you guys! Started working on it last night...still not finished with it. But by tonight. You are gonna have all the info you want on the PSP. Check back kiddies, real soon! I'll be home from work around 3pm. P.S. When I upload the movies, get them as fast as you can, cause not sure how long they are gonna sit around! |
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Post by ††Apostle††™ on Dec 19, 2004 17:34:59 GMT -5
OK folks, here it is PART 1 of my little exploit of the PSP. I have scanned the web looking for all the best info and I think I have found it. But the best part is...it's gonna be found right here, in one big happy place! THE JSS! So enjoy and download till your little hearts are content! PART ONE [/b] Opening up the Value Pack, it contains the Sony PSP console itself, a 100-240 multi voltage power supply, Battery Pack, Soft Pouch, Earphone & Remote Set, Memory Stick Duo 32MB, instructions manual (Japanese), a UMD movie demo disc as well as an appreciation letter (latest is of course not included with units sold on Dec, 12th.). Please browse further below for a step by step image gallery. Turning on the Sony PSP for the very first time, you will be able to select your preferred interface language (English or Japanese) as well as set your local time. The PSP interface and settings offers a large variety of options that can be changed, including choosing a nickname, providing information on the battery life, playback of pictures and movies which can be stored on the Memory Stick Duo and a lot more. A movie containing further interface navigation is available for download further down on this news post. Speaking about the Memory Stick Duo, we have tested a conventional Memory Stick Duo Pro 512MB from our Sony digicam which was finally found compatible. The Memory Stick lets you store pictures, music as well as your own video files that can be played back on the PSP console. Sony announced a MPEG4 movie converter to be available for download before end of the year. Fortunately a Demo UMD Movie Disc has been included with the PSP Value Pack. We expect the disc to be bundled with every unit shipping on Dec 12th. The Movie Demo disc contains videos of upcoming PSP titles (such as Armored Core, Doko Demo, Minna no Golf, Metal Gear Acid, Puyo Puyo Fever, Ridge Racers, Segoku Musou, Vampire Chronicles and more) as well as UMD Movies (such as Kung Fu Hustle, Spanglish, Biohazard 2: Apocalypse, Hitch, Wicker Park, Naruto and a sample video) and UMD Music previews. The UMD demo has been entirely filled with videos of upcoming software only, no game was playable. A variety of videos that we have taken straight from the PSP screen playing back the demo can be found further below in this news post. We have compiled a truck load, so to say, of videos to give you an impression of the device. The videos feature the menus you can browse and adjust settings, and we have taken videos from the supplied demo disc. We have tried to make the videos as good as possible and dimmed the lights so you will only see the actual PSP display. Occasional blur or loss in sharpness comes not from the PSP console but from our capture. Audio was extremely downsampled because of technical reasons while processing the videos, we apologize for this. Unit videos Power on the PSP (~10MB) Main Menu (~3MB) System Information (~1.4MB) Donation Certificate Screen (~2MB) Video Settings Menu (~6.8MB) Music Menu (~1.4MB) Game Start (~1.3MB) Sample disc gamesRidge Racers (~6.5MB) Metal Gear Acid (~6MB) Armored Core Formula Front (~5.7MB) Shin Sangoku Musou / Dynasty Warriors (~7MB) Dokodemo (~7.5MB) Puyo Puyo Fever (~6MB) Minna No Golf Portable / Hot Shots Golf (~6MB) Mah Jong Fight Club (~5.7MB) Rengoku: The Tower of Purgatory (~6MB) The Legend of Heroes Gagharvtrilogy White Witch (~5MB) Talkman (~6.5MB) Vampire Chronicle: The Chaos Tower (~6.6MB) Kotoba no Puzzle Mojipittan Daijiten (~6MB) Sample disc videosNaruto (~14.9MB) BioHazard 2: Apocalypse (~17MB) Sample Video (~11MB) Sample Music Videos (~38MB) |
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Post by Breathern on Dec 19, 2004 18:54:05 GMT -5
I probly wouldnt take apart my brand new PSP.. heh... Unless they hid some candy inside, or plane tickets to japan or something...
I dunno whats going to go down with the handhelds... They both seem appealing... Its going to come down to what system has the best games... I dont give a shit about all the super duper mp3 umd clicky clacky of the PSP.. I just want a little box that fits in my hands and plays games I want to play.. The PSP is probably going to have some homebrew stuff though.. Which might be kinda sweet, considering how it might be easier to transer files..
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Post by ‡GHOSTFACE‡™ on Dec 19, 2004 19:10:15 GMT -5
That's awesome Apostle. Thanks for posting. Things like this make coming to this site worth it. I might have to get that. It looks cool. Thanks for the infomation.  |
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Post by Lýfelíëk Heroblãde on Dec 19, 2004 20:18:31 GMT -5
That's what I love about our boards and the people who post here. We have a bunch of guys who REALLY know gaming and what they like about it. If you want all of the pertinent info without the fluff, then this is THE place to come...
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Post by ††Apostle††™ on Dec 22, 2004 6:08:51 GMT -5
PART 3
Now for some of the bad! You have to see the Sony PSP's LCD display in person to appreciate how impressive it actually is. It would not be inappropriate to use an adjective like "jaw-dropping" to describe the image quality. The 4.3-inch 16:9 widescreen display has a 480x272 resolution, which outputs an extremely sharp picture considering that all those pixels fit into a small display area. The screen is bright and has a surprisingly wide viewing angle that'll allow you to show off the PSP to people sitting to your left and right if you're on a plane. However, the pixel-response time does seem slow since we did notice some ghosting while watching the various movie trailers and music videos on the UMD demo disc. Some people have reported problems with dead pixels. We can't speak on how widespread the problem is, but, we have seen one dead pixel out of the batch of PSPs that we've seen. As for reports about the UMD slot popping open at inopportune times, we did notice that we could set off the lid's spring-loaded eject by applying a little pressure to the top right of the unit while holding the left side in place. The miniscule flex was enough to trigger the eject mechanism, so we imagine this might be an issue Sony will address in future design revisions. While the PSP's screen gets all the attention, we also have to say that the system's sound quality deserves plenty of praise too. The PSP shatters the perception that portable game consoles can't have great sound. The extra large 1.8GB UMD media allows for CD-quality sound, and Sony takes full advantage of it in all of its media and game applications. The extra large media support allows a simple puzzle game like Lumines to achieve a cohesive look and feel by combining stylistic visuals with a unique, high- quality soundtrack. The PSP unit itself features stereo speakers, and a built-in headphone jack for private listening. Battery life ranges anywhere from one and a half hours to eight hours depending on the application used. A puzzle game like Lumines, with its minimal UMD accesses, can last for over six hours, but Ridge Racers may only last for two or three hours since it needs to access the UMD each time you enter or leave a race. The PSP battery is removable, so you can keep a fully charged battery in reserve and swap it in as needed. Recharging the battery back to full strength only takes an hour and a half to two hours. Using the wireless capabilities will reduce battery life even more. Wireless gameplay is currently limited to players in close proximity to each other, but Sony has indicated that users will be able to play against each other over the Internet in the future. We were able to get a three-way Ridge Racers game going without a problem, and we got about ninety feet away from each other before dropping out of range. Sony hasn't announced the PSP launch date for North America yet, but we expect an announcement early next year, possibly during next month's 2005 Consumer Electronics Show. The Sony PSP does have a region-lock mechanism, but Sony has decided to disable the region lock for games. Other types of media, such as movies, will still be region-locked. Anyone importing a PSP system from Japan should be able to play games released in different territories, but Sony has warned that, although it won't be actively barring cross-region game support, it won't be testing games for cross-region compatibility. |
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Post by Lýfelíëk Heroblãde on Jan 19, 2005 19:51:54 GMT -5
OK... here's the deal- IGN tests the PSP's battery life so you don't have to: HARD PERFORMANCE TEST:- SCREEN: Full brightness
- AUDIO: Speakers, full volume
- WIFI: OFF
- UMD: Low use
- MEMORY STICK: No use
FINAL RESULTS: 3 HOURS, 32 MINUTES HEAVY UMD LOADING TEST:- SCREEN: Full brightness
- AUDIO: Headphones, full volume
- WIFI: OFF
- UMD: Frequent
- MEMORY STICK: No use
FINAL RESULTS: 5 HOURS, 9 MINUTES SLEEP MODE TEST:- SCREEN: OFF (exect when out of Sleep mode - Full Brightness after Sleep)
- AUDIO: Headphones, full volume
- WIFI: OFF
- UMD: OFF (exect when out of Sleep mode - disc spins up for 1 minute approx. every hour)
- MEMORY STICK: No use
FINAL RESULTS: Negligible Battery Impact Over 24 hours WiFi MULTIPLAYER TEST (Local):- SCREEN: Full brightness
- AUDIO: Speakers, full volume
- WIFI: On, Ad-Hoc Mode
- UMD: Low Use
- MEMORY STICK: No use
FINAL RESULTS: 2 HOURS, 46 MINUTES MP3 PLAYBACK TEST:- SCREEN: OFF
- AUDIO: Headphones, full volume
- WIFI: OFF
- UMD: OFF
- MEMORY STICK: Constant
FINAL RESULTS: 10 HOURS, 39 MINUTES |
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Everything you wanted to know...and more! I put them in sets of three's to make it nice and easy to scan them! ;D
