My wife just surprised me with a new PSP battery after listening to me moan about not having one ever since reading PerfectDark’s most recent PSP article. After messing around with broken USB cables and jumping through hoops to un-spoof my old prome-2 firmware version for too long last night, I finally got ARK4 running and had a blast playing Wipeout Pure.
My favourite PSP game back in the day was probably Monster Hunter Freedom Unite… so many late nights spent playing that with friends in my freezing flat. There was something special about LAN parties with handheld games. I remember putting serious hours into Peace Walker and Dissidia too.
Now I want some game recommendations… tell me which games you loved on the PSP! I might even have a look around for some UMDs!
Alas, PSP plays SNES games pretty poorly, need a lot of frameskip. GB/NES games work great. Not so much GBA. Even the Vita struggles with GBA, to my dismay!
I never had issues with SNES game performance. I bet some emulators did better than others, or maybe some games used features that didn’t emulate efficiently like mode 7 graphics or star fox with its 3d chip.