Tag: psp

The PSP is leaving the Japanese train station

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As Sony retire the PSP in Japan, I look back at one of my favourite PSP franchises. To me, Densha De Go was the PSP. I’ve moved on to the PS Vita now — that was a Day Zero purchase on the strength of the PSP system, and again the long-lasting games are the ones that attract me (notably another Need for Speed, in this case Most Wanted, and Little Big Planet). But if there was one game (indeed franchise) that I think of when the PSP is mentioned, it’s Densha De Go. Read on at Medium.com.

Old Time Podcasters, The Playstation Show, and the evolving Vita Voices.

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Back in 2006 I started another podcast, The Playstation Show, which would be a short weekly podcast on the Sony Playstation Portable. It slowed down a bit in 2011, but never really went away. With the PS Vita on the way, I decided in January that it needed to be brought “up to the boil” for the year (and in the process helping me keep abreast of the portable gaming world – all the more important as it becomes an interesting battleground in the smartphone world). The show got a little bit of a rethink, moving away from a news-bulletin

Remembering Densha De Go on The Playstation Show

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The PS Vita might have code compatibility, but that doesn’t mean my favourite PSP games will make the jump Settle in as I talk about the strange tale of Densha De Go, the Japanese train simulator that I had to import, and won’t be available on Sony’s Next Generation Portable Console – even though I’m happy to pay for them again. [audio:http://www.archive.org/download/tpcpsp_134/tpc_ps_20120202_134.mp3] MP3 – Show Notes – RSS Feed

Sometimes you can give a Playstation too much protection

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The thing about Sony being hacked because, in their words, "[they] tried to protect its intellectual property" is that their protection methods were draconian, allowed no homebrew code to run on their machine, banned out-of-region sellers from selling games (famously closing down Lik Sang, thus depriving me of an official supplier of Japanese games such as the Densha De Go series for my European PSP), forced firmware updates, don’t allow you to transfer a UMD disc based game into a digital download… …or they’ve not confirmed a Monster Hunter Portable version for the PSP Vita. You choose.