Rod_S wrote:This is how totally fucked Sony are - I bought a DS Light last week and I'm *loving* it, even the Mario games.
Me, playing Yoshi's fucking Island 'til 3am on a Saturday. Amazing.
I take my DS everywhere with me now. Me and Tiki the Kiwi are firm traveling companions.
"Shouting lager, lager, lager, lager. Shouting lager, lager, lager, lager. Is just one of the reasons you're not welcome at Claridges any more". -Psychic Bob
I love the way people in that thread are talking about how stupidly astronomical £300 for a console is - but still a fair few people here paid over a ton more than that just recently for another one, that has practically no games out for it.
Goatboy '04 wrote:PSP = Sony's first slip up. It won't be a bad machine, but they HAD TO get the jump on Nintendo, as they did with the Playstation and they haven't.
A great number of sony (PS2) customers are GBA/SP owners as well - which handheld are they going to want for Xmas? The one in the shops, that works with all their old carts, or the one that might be out eventually, that might have a decent battery or might not, and might well have some good games for it, or might not. Even the Metal Gear Solid is a card trading sort of game, the sort of thing Nintendo is very well known for, especially in the handheld market.
DS has had a decently strong lokoing launch and posesses tons of character. The PSP is just a nice proof of concept with a bunch of interesting screen shots to the gamer on the street.
Either way, the smart man will get another couple of titles for his GBA then give it until the summer before he spends a few hundred quid on hardware and games.
XBox Gamertag: GovernmentYard
Everything else: governmentyard
Heh. That 5:1 thread was a fun read, with all the speculation about how things were going to happen. I particularly love the "Halo on Gizmondo" rumor on page 20-ish.
At the time I was staying out of PSP vs DS debates because I knew I'd end up with both and it just seemed silly. Nowadays I think the PSP is underrated but still a solid second system to a DS, but at the time I was expecting to be one of the few who'd end up preferring Nintendo's experimental little machine. I figured this forum would end up in the Nintendo camp, but the gneral populace would go for a slightly underpowered handheld PS2. And then Sony turned into the company we're all too familiar with today. As a happy owner of Ouendan, whose sister is playing Pokemon Diamond behind him, I'm pleased to see Nintendo do so well.
It would have been better for gamers is Sony had put up more of a fight, though.
Basicaly I want a machine that can play all the Mercenary games :p
The ST versions should play well on the ST emulator. The ST emulator works pretty well on the PSP I gather, and if my phone can emulate an ST playing Mercenary then the PSP certainly can.
Rod_S wrote:This is how totally fucked Sony are - I bought a DS Light last week and I'm *loving* it, even the Mario games.
Me, playing Yoshi's fucking Island 'til 3am on a Saturday. Amazing.
Your dick will fall off any minute now!
That happened when I took my pup for his first walkies in Nintendogs.
The Speccy emu has made me very happy.
Just like to second that, (about the speccy emulator that, is)
Now, just need FrodoDS to be a bit quicker and everything will be perfect
Yeah, FrodoDS up to full speed and Stella too and then i will be a happy yakkie .
I have been enjoying trawling through a mighty collection of Speccy games on my DS - it seems to be nigh on perfect for Speccy stuff whereas c64 stuff doesn't look quite so perfect on account of the DS screens being lower rez than the real thing. The best of the Speccy stuff is really very good but my goat there was a lot of tosh out for it (mind you the same can be said of the c64 and indeed any of those old machines really).
The Master System/GG emu seems to be pretty decent too, I was playing Ashtray Warriors on it and it seemed pretty authentic.
Which Speccy games are we all enjoying on the DS? Be interested to hear what works the best and what's the most playable. The DS controls work so well for some games, so far I've enjoyed Jetpac, Deathchase 3D, Lightforce, Guardian II, and Arkanoid for far too many hours. The DS form factor feels just right for Speccy emulation - strangely, moreso than a chipped Xbox ever did. Shame there's no joystick support on Ant Attack though.
Is there a good Space Invaders port for the DS? Tried Space Invaders Revolution and didn't much like it, is there anything more like the classic coin-op? Also looking for a Breakout clone that's better than Break 'em Out, if there's one around.
