This had better work, Ofaliss/sniper712.
Freelance, when you play Prehistoric Isle in 1930, is it much slower on your PSP than on your PS3? Or if you\'ve only played it on your PSP, does the game just seem oddly slow? Not in fits and spurts, just kind of consistently glacial all the time.
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Good question. Haven\\\'t played my PSP much. I\\\'ll check right now and fill you in after.
No, I never play crap on my consoles anymore so I never played the game on it.
OK I have played it. I probably am not a very good judge as I never played it on the PS3, but the game runs fine to me. Only time it gets slooooow is when I don\\\'t have a single speed powerup. Other than that I haven\\\'t noticed any odd slowness.
Oh and by the way...
*shoots you with a high powered rifle*
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*with blanks*
Only time it gets slooooow is when I don\'t have a single speed powerup.
Ah, but even with no speed power-ups, it\'s not actually supposed to be all that slow--certainly not slow enough that you\'d write \"slooooow,\" anyway. But, that\'s subjective.
How about this: take a look at this clip of a guy playing the game on MAME (I\'ve set the clip to start playing from where Stage 2, the high-speed stage, begins). Watch this guy play up through the Stage 2 boss. Does the game play this fast on your PSP? Like with the boss pterodactyl beating its wings like it\'s on crack? Not so on mine.
Incidentally, this player is pretty darned good. He\'s confident enough in his abilities and memory of the stage that he doesn\'t destroy the enemy nests. Instead, he lets them keep sending out swarms for him to shoot, farming them for points. Also, I discovered from this video something I hadn\'t known: the gold dollar signs give more points (max 1000) if you wait a bit before picking them up.
This hole through my head tells me you forgot to empty the chamber before loading the blanks.
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Hmmm yes, the mame version is a lot faster with that Pterodactyl, and that\\\'s stage 3, not 2. I wonder if he was using some speed up function on the emulator. On the PSP the dactyl flapped more steadily and seemed more naturall to me than that dactyl on crack in Mame. I didn\\\'t know about the dollar signs either.
P.S. That guy\\\'s a pro.
Oh sorry. Here\\\'s a bandaid.
No, that\'s the second stage. I think you\'re counting by boss fights, but the game\'s first boss is actually the mid-boss of Stage 1; each of the game\'s five stages has a mid-boss and an end boss, with Stage 2 being the exception, as it only has an end boss, the pterodactyl. Here is another clip of a MAME player (not as good as that first guy), where the beginning of the clip shows the stage title card, \"Inquiry 2: Airborne\" (the guy in the first clip button-pressed before the card was finished displaying).
Anyway, my point was that the footage in these MAME clips, with the crackhead pterodactyl, is how fast the game plays on my PS3 (using the exact same settings loaded from my PSP\'s save data). I think the PSP plays the game slower than it\'s supposed to run. As powerful as it is, it may not have the horsepower to emulate this title at full speed. Well, either that or the emulation engine is being inefficient.
We\'ve (I\'ve) been calling him a pterodactyl, but the boss name display actually reveals he\'s a rhamphorhynchus.
Besides, I always wear one of those bright orange hats.
Those are such easy targets. Here, you\'re going to need this band-aid I got from Freelance. I don\'t need it anymore, as I\'ve become a holey man.
Assuming Freelance is still reading this topic (maybe she doesn\'t revisit past hunting grounds?): Freelance, you\'d get a kick out of the place I visited today. I sure did. I\'m in the Baltimore area this weekend visiting family, and I dropped by the newly opened National Pinball Museum (well, new in its new Baltimore location, where it moved from Washington, D.C.). It\'s fairly small in its reincarnation, only a fraction of all the hardware actually owned by the curator, but it\'s got quality stuff. Loads of pinball history, including tables from the 1930s, 40s, 50s, and up (the playable machines start from the 50s, as far as I can recall, and go through the 90s).
The playable machines there which I\'ve played video game simulations of before: Slick Chick, Funhouse, Whirlwind, Black Knight. The non-playable machines there which I\'ve played video game simulations of before: Humpty Dumpty (yes, they have the first flipper pin, and its flippers were powered on and working), Gorgar, Baffle Ball (1931!), Knock-Out. There\'s also a fair amount of historical presentation going on, with verbose exhibit descriptions, like for Montague Redgrave (I did not know of this guy, but he patented the spring-loaded bagatelle shooting mechanism in 1871 that is now a pinball fundamental), the creation of Humpty Dumpty\'s flipper, the rolldown pinball (another thing I\'d never heard of, pins which had the player manually drop the ball in from an opening in the glass at the top of the table; it was a workaround for cities who considered the plunger to be the same as a slot machine handle, and thus pinball a form of illegal gambling), Williams\' entry into the market, etc. I spent something like an hour (a significant part of my 4 hours of admission . . .) just talking to the curator about his collection and pinball history. Naturally, I also played a lot of pinball, though not even close to half of what was available. Missed out on their Whirlwind, Funhouse, Addams Family, and Twilight Zone, darn it. I did play the ST:TNG machine, though! And I discovered I suck at real Black Knight even more so than in Pinball Hall of Fame: The Williams Collection (my worst leaderboard position in that is that table).
National Pinball Museum! Go have a visit!
Freelance, don\'t know if you\'ve seen this video, but it\'s a detailed behind-the-scenes look into FarSight\'s making of Pinball Arcade (which is already out for iOS/Android, I believe).
By the way, I hope you didn\'t already get the DSiWare game 101 Pinball World, given your track record of buying bulk pinball. :) The reviews I\'ve seen for that title are abysmal, and even just watching the trailer feels offensive to the pinball senses. Amusingly, it\'s actually more than 101 tables--which I guess means it\'s even more offensive.
Also, I just watched some YouTube clips of people playing the Classic Arcade Pinball TV Game plug-n-play system (it\'s a collection of 3 proprietary tables, for which I wrote an FAQ years ago). These \"reviewers\" \"played\" the games primarily by just pounding the flipper buttons non-stop--no regard whatsoever to, you know, aiming at anything. And then they went and concluded that the game was no fun. Ugh. Watching people who clearly suck at and don\'t even understand pinball is kind of nauseating. I\'m reminded of another reviewer I saw years ago who couldn\'t make it past the first 5 seconds or so of Gradius and said the game sucked.
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Haha no, I never got 101 Pinball World. I could tell just from the trailer that it would be horrible.
I\'ve seen youtube vids of ppl playing pinball for fun and all they do is press the flippers over and over and over even when the ball is nowhere near them. Sad.
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Wow this is lame. I installed several of my PSX, PSN and Minis to my PS3 to play on the big screen but I noticed something. On the PSP I was able to change the button layout for Extreme Pinball so I could use the triggers for flippers, but on the PS3 there is no such option at all. I am forced to use the default option which is pretty bad. I thought it\'d be the same configuration for each system. Bah.
On the PSP, PS1 games allow you to change the controls because the PSP doesn\'t have all the buttons/sticks of the PS1 controller. The thinking with the PS3 is that there\'s no need for that because the PS3 controller does have all those. Nobody thought it would be a problem for someone. :)
Also odd, some of my PS1 titles from the PS Store allow taking screen caps on the PSP (GaiaSeed and Kyuiin come to mind . . . hmm, they\'re 2 of my 3 imports), but that capability is missing when they\'re played on the PS3.
Freelance
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GaiaSeed has a screengrab option? I never knew that.
In Extreme Pinball The entire D-pad is the left flipper and Square is the right flipper. I\'ve always found such controls very awkward for pinball. Better than Alien Crush though, where you couldn\'t change buttons at all but compared to all my other pins it\'s not very good so I didn\'t mind that too much. I guess I\'ll just continue to play it on the PSP then.
At least I can now hunt prehistoric animals on my 21 inch screen. I tried last night and it felt good, except I have to unlock all the weapons and maps again.
During the times when those prehistoric animals are of the flying variety that you shoot from a 1930s biplane, be prepared to deal with things being quite a bit faster than what you\'re used to. :)
Chaos, when playing GaiaSeed on your PSP, press the PS/Home button when you want to take a screen cap. One of the options on that menu will do that for you, saving the image to the Memory Stick. I forgot what directory on the Memory Stick it ends up in, but it\'s viewable from the XMB\'s Photo section in a game-specific folder. Also interesting, the screen cap even includes IP owner copyright information at the bottom of the PNG image--text which is obviously not actually onscreen during the game.
except I have to unlock all the weapons and maps again.
Why not just copy over your save file from the PSP? The PS3 can share save files with the PSP for both Minis and PS1 games (the latter require a format conversion when going from the PS3 to the PSP, though). Sadly does not do the same for TG16/PCE games.
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Great oogly moogly, I thought the saves were different for each system. Yay now I can hunt a Rex using only a pistol on the big screen and failing miserably. Thankie for telling me.
Haha yes I actually tested Prehistoric Isle last night and yes, it does run faster and unfortunately it made it harder as well.
The only TG16 game I have is Alien Crush so meh. Hehe.
Anyway, Can\\\'t wait for SSX this Tuesday!
Freelance, FarSight just announced this cool news yesterday:
We are happy to announce that any Pinball Arcade tables purchased in our upcoming PlayStation3 version will be portable to the PS Vita version (and visa-versa). That means you'll only have to buy tables once to play them on both systems!To clarify, this will be true for purchase of both the game and additional tables- you'll only pay once for either.
"Visa-versa"? Is that like MasterCard?
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