@PerfectDark Maybe I should find a picture of my PSP mod where I use an external 18650 battery. 😁

It’s not pretty!

Sure gets a lot more run time though!

@PerfectDark I don’t know about “art” or whatever, lol. I did love the PSP to death for a long time though. While the NDS had more games, some of the stuff exclusive to the PSP was really amazing. (The way so many devs saw the NDS and 3DS as “mini” systems to make less full games on really hobbled some things sometimes. The NDS and 3DS had some truly amazing games in their time, but it’s sad how many with potential were brought down to a smaller game level just because they saw the platform as not serious. The PSP didn’t have that problem much.)

I only ever had a handful of games (and POPS conversions) but I absolutely got so much enjoyment out of my PSP for a long time. Definite nostalgia for those days spent waiting and just pulling out my PSP and playing Pop’n Music or whatever.

@jodanlime I always wondered why Nintendo never just did the whole thing that SONY did where the PSP could connect up to a PS3 and that sort of thing. I felt sure they would do that with the Switch when it came out, but they didn’t.

I can’t entirely agree that that was a defining factor that would make or break it though. The GB, GBC, GBA, NDS, and 3DS all were not dockable and they were all insanely successful for a really long time. The thing is, truly portable gaming is different. Each has its own purpose and use-case and allows for different gaming experiences. The Switch gave us full-scale games with full-scale graphics (within limits) and the full console experience in handheld, but the 3DS was small, light, and easily played hours and hours on end even lying down.

@jodanlime @PerfectDark I’m wondering about even this. It really feels like Nintendo almost entirely stopped caring about the Switch Lite not even that long after it came out. It should definitely have been a bigger focus IMO, but everyone seems to want everything bigger and bigger and bigger these days…

I too absolutely miss just sticking my N3DS in my pocket. (Also StreetPass. Why did that go away with the Switch??)

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@Zander @Eeveecraft @mozilla @firefox Yes, I’d say they’re fairly similar. It’s a fork of the mobile version of Firefox, so it’s kind of a different beast in its own way, but they take similar views and methods on privacy and security.

@Eeveecraft @mozilla @firefox What are you talking about? Mozilla saw that everyone was going to their browser to get away from Google, so naturally they did the intelligent thing and became more like Google. I mean, it makes perfect sense, right?

There is a setting in about:config to completely disable it, but I’d recommend that you switch to a fork like LibreWolf on PC or IronFox on Android to ensure stuff like that will be disabled to begin with even if later updates would turn it on.

@PerfectDark Got my HD hooked up. I need to reinstall some stuff among other things, so now was a good time.

Add to my earlier list:
Ico
Shadow of the Colossus
Dragon Quest VIII (don’t worry, zero connection between DQ games of this range, so it doesn’t matter where you start)
Drakan - kind of fun game, but don’t play on disc, use a harddrive
Need for Speed Underground 2
Odin Sphere (hard to believe this is a PS2 game graphically! But sadly gameplay does get grindy and repetitive. Heck of a story and graphics though.)
R-Type Final
Rule of Rose (might be hard to find)
Ys VI: Ark of Napishtim
Baroque translation
Breath of Fire V: Dragon Quarter
Phantasy Star Universe (undub)
Star Ocean 3 (undub)
Wizardry - Tales of the Forsaken Land
Rogue Galaxy

There are more!

@PerfectDark There are two Tenchu games on the PS2, but I loved that one because the one character (Rin I believe was her name) was a lot more fun to play somehow. Couldn’t say how, just was.

It’s a stealth game though, so if you don’t like stealth you probably won’t like Tenchu. You can technically play it without stealth, but it’s not going to be much fun…

Persona 3 is excellent. I think, depending on preferences, 3 and 4 are the best in the series. 5 had its moments, but it was like 75% of 4 to me story-wise. Between 3 and 4 it depends on what you like. 4 is a bit lighter-hearted and more “Japanese culture” whereas 3 is much darker and more directly “save the world” type stuff.

@PerfectDark (I’ve got a lot more and I want to remind myself, but sites like Mobygames are giving me a hard time. Anything good for just a simple list of games?)

@PerfectDark Oh man, I have so many… The PS2 was probably my favorite actual console before the Switch and even then I have so much nostalgia… I think I have a few recommends you may not hear as much elsewhere and a bunch you probably will. Should I dig out my HD and remind myself of things?

Here are what immediately come to mind:

Ar Tonelico 1 & 2 - beautiful RPGs, deep stories, music that blows the mind. Undub of course.
Persona 3 FES & Persona 4 (undubs preferable)
The Burnout games are good to work out some things, lol.
Katamari games of course.
Pop’n Music 11-14
Disgaea 1 & 2 (undubs)
Shin Megami Tensei III (Nocturne)
Melty Blood: Act Cadenza
Tenchu Fatal Shadows (best one in the series IMO)
Tales of the Abyss

Oh geez, I need to dig out the HD. I need to reinstall anyway

@[email protected] Yeah, but nothing can beat this one from DKC2!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Qp0_NE8M1c

@[email protected] I didn’t think this would work, but it actually kind of does?

That was definitely one of the absolute best themes in the original DKC.

@flwwhtrbt Choosy kids choose

apparently not JIFF.

This always bothered me because basically it’s a name. It’s like if someone tells people to pronounce their name a certain way and then half the people around them say “no, you’re wrong. Your name isn’t pronounced that way. I’m going to pronounce it my way instead.”

@[email protected] If you like RTS games, they’re pretty solid for their time. I guess all in all Warcraft and Starcraft were more fun (to me at least) but C&C was pretty fun and they had some interesting “story missions” where you’d lead just a squad and would have to try to keep them alive to the end. I hated losing every single one even though they were just pixels on a screen.

@[email protected] Man it felt so amazing seeing cutscenes back then. It was quite a change from all the times before with just plain text over the screen and usually quite simplistic characters moving around.

Some games really overdid it or were horrible at it, but the C&C games got it mostly right. Lol, mostly…

@[email protected] Exactly!

If they like the aesthetic, ok, that’s their business. I’m sure many people do, though I can’t, for the life of me, understand why. But… let us choose?

Internal resolution can be adjusted. Heck, that’s basically a thing in modern games anyway thanks to this FSR/DLSS crap (yeah, not a fan. I want native rendering.) If they want a 320x200 DOS era or PS1 looking game, that can be in there. Wobbly, textures with dithering is also being done via effects (shaders most likely.) That can be switched off easily and save the GPU some processing resources anyway. Even if the textures are flatter without the PS1-style dithering, I’d rather the visual clarity.

We aren’t playing games on cheap 17" CRTs anymore. Let us enjoy that.

@Auster1 @isthereanydeal You know, my impression is that the people doing this are mostly people who did not live in such times. They’re going for an aesthetic that predates their own lives.

Maybe it represents such a thing to them in some way, but I think rather they think it’s some kind of artistic or neat thing in their eyes. I just wish they gave us end users more actual choice in the matter.

@[email protected] I grew up in that era. No. They’re not. I was glad to be rid of that. And it’s not great on the eyes today.

But forget the wobbly textures. What’s driving me insane is people using insanely low resolutions. I was driven since I first got a computer to always try to get things looking sharper and clearer with more detail. It was hard back then! Now I’m watching a trend where all that is being thrown away. And the thing is, we viewed those blocky 256x224 games on a television that interpolated the image in ways that still can’t be quite replicated exactly with the most complex modern algorithms (because it was analog, not because it was complicated.) And we were still glad to see more resolution and visual quality finally come about and interpolation reduced.

@[email protected] ngl, I like roguelikes, but I’ve gotten picky over the years and need something more “modern.” Sadly even Vulture doesn’t do it for me. What I really wish we could see is stuff like “Adventure Labyrinth Story” on the 3DS. (I keep hoping they’ll port it to the Switch in English, but I guess that won’t happen.)

I wish roguelikes that were roguelike were more popular. I hate that people today think that term means “any game with any RNG element of any kind anywhere” (so basically everything…)