Sony PSP, who's getting one?

[bombadier337]

So I'm wondering who's planning on getting Sony's new PSP March 24th. I've had mine reserved for about a month, I don't think you can even reservethe firts batch anymore. Anyway, there's probably a good chance that people will be able to write their own programs for it; you can see some of the reverse-engineering work already going on at www.ps2dev.org . We've jokingly suggested that we will use the PSP to drive our robot next year. It could probably be modded if you stripped the internals and added a wire to plug into the OI. But, what would be the absolute coolest thing ever, is if you could somehow build a box to use the 802.11b signal from the PSP to drive the bot, and were somehow able to wirelessly transmit the rs-232 signal from the dashboard. Then, if enough has been found on the PSP, or you can get hold of a devkit, be able to interpret the info from the dashboard port into a dashboard type program written for the PSP. That would be so much work, and most likely impossible w/o the assistance of Sony, but who else thinks that would be about the sweetest thing ever used to drive a bot?

[Joe Matt]

Hey Shaver, did you and Chris get one last night/today? Man, I'd love to see one in person. :)

[gobeavs]

I got one yesterday..its extremely nice. The screen and graphics live up to the hype. No dead pixels here either...

EDIT: Oh, and I forgot to mention. I got Tony Hawk: Underground 2 Remix and Lumines. It was really hard to part with $340 bucks, but the PSP is a beauty...Its also hard to part with the $40 and $50 dollars for a game :(.

I'll be at the Las Vegas regional if anyone wants to game ad-hoc.

[Clark Gilbert]

I got one yesterday..its extremely nice. The screen and graphics live up to the hype. No dead pixels here either...
I'de love to get one, but don't have the $400 to blow on it (to get some good stuff). If anyone here gets one and wants to link to some pictures of it they took I would be interested in seeing them. (Always nice to see pics from people you "know").

[False Illusion]

Oh man, I would love to get one myself too...but, don't have the money yet. Have to save up, and spend wisely especially with college coming up. Some of my friends have it though, I'm so jealous. One of them even skipped some classes just to go get it that day, lolz.

[Koko Ed]

I'd like to have one for the flight down to Atlanta and for the long hours in the hotel (I don't sleep well at competitions) but I have to convince my wife to let me spend over $250 on a toy (not an easy task I assure you. Especially since I already have a Gameboy Advanced and a PS2).

[Denman]

we happened to be over there for the release of them. I think one of our team may have got one but i am not totally sure
stuff like that is half the price to buy there than it is to buy here.... eg a typical ipod 20gb is £200 which is about $400, whereas they can be as little as $250 we found :(

[1086Programmer]

About a third of the guys at DRHS have one. It's unreal. Everyone is sneaking them into school and playing them at lunch. They're awesome. I haven't had the chance to play one yet, but about 3 of my guy friends have one. I'm still trying to convince myself that it's good enough to work for this summer, since my parents are firm believers in "Just wait until it goes on sale". x_x Besides, i can live with my PS2 for now... Right. XD

[Lil' Lavery]

A couple of my friends have one, and its pretty sweet. Only thing is I dont wanna spend $250 for it, and then $40-50 a game. Especially when not many of the games so far I actually want. Think ill stick with my GBA until the prices go down and more games come out.

[Laura 1547]

I'm thinking of getting one but i havent used PS2 lately because my brother stole my memory card...does the psp play dvds? and how long does the battery or whatever last for?...im too lazy to go look on the website :P

[Clark Gilbert]

.does the psp play dvds?

Sort of... The PSP runs off of Sony's new UMD discs which are smaller than DVDs, but DVD movies (http://pricewatch.i4u.com/cgi-bin/apf4/amazon_products_feed.cgi?Operation=ItemSearch&Keywords=umd&SearchIndex=DVD) are being released on the UMD format.

[Laura 1547]

Sort of... The PSP runs off of Sony's new UMD discs which are smaller than DVDs, but DVD movies (http://pricewatch.i4u.com/cgi-bin/apf4/amazon_products_feed.cgi?Operation=ItemSearch&Keywords=umd&SearchIndex=DVD) are being released on the UMD format.

oh thats good in a way...but that means i have to buy new dvds right? :(

[Clark Gilbert]

oh thats good in a way...but that means i have to buy new dvds right? :(

Yep, the UMD disc is pretty small.

http://www.macitynet.it/artimgs/aA17004/img1.jpg

[Laura 1547]

ha just a bit

[Joe Matt]

oh thats good in a way...but that means i have to buy new dvds right? :(

Yeah, and full price +. Some sell for $20, some for $26! No thanks!

[Clark Gilbert]

I'de love to get one, but don't have the $400 to blow on it (to get some good stuff). If anyone here gets one and wants to link to some pictures of it they took I would be interested in seeing them. (Always nice to see pics from people you "know").

I found some money to blow (traded in my PS2 and games) and I bought one. I only have one game so far and the sampler disc, but this PSP is pretty impressive. :)

[Koko Ed]

I got 4 games (Twisted Metal: Head On. NFL Streets 2, World Tour Soccer and Ridge Racer). I am waiting for Coded Arms to come out in July (I'm a sucker for FPS!)
http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/2005/136/920834_20050517_screen011.jpg
I am trying to figure out how to play MP3s on my PSP now.

[Clark Gilbert]

I got 4 games (Twisted Metal: Head On. NFL Streets 2, World Tour Soccer and Ridge Racer). I am waiting for Coded Arms to come out in July (I'm a sucker for FPS!)
http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/2005/136/920834_20050517_screen011.jpg
I am trying to figure out how to play MP3s on my PSP now.

This looks like it might be a good tutorial.
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,1780878,00.asp
I need to get a bigger memory card....

[NeedMoreEngines]

A PSP would be awesome to have, but I don't have the money to be able to spend $250+ and still have enough pocket money for daily use. I'm saving up for a laptop now (that hp one with the 17" screen and the 3.0 ghz processor. oh yes). the PSP is at the bottom of my list and I'm going to wait until better games and movies come out for it, and after sony fixes any bugs and really perfects the whole shabang.

[Vince lau]

i have a psp with 3 movies and 5 games, 1 - 512 and 1 - 1gb memory sticks, i'll be using the psp for scouting next year