The ORIGINAL Sony PSP....

Hikaru Ichijyo

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Take a look.... :loco: :kekeke: :eek:

The ORIGINAL Sony PSP

I picked one of these units up from this guy and just got it in the mail today.

Aside from the obvious disadvantage of being a CD-I compatible unit, it's a nice and quirky little unit. The system I got came bundled with two of the more forgettable Zelda games in existence, Link: The Faces of Evil and Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon. There was also a CD-R included that had Zelda's Adventure on it (as well as photocopied instructions).

The system would be ideal for all of the 7 CD-I owners out there as it's nice and compact and has A/V outs so you can plug the unit into a TV. The biggest drawback however is that the unit lacks a DV Card, so you can't play games like Dragon's Lair, Space Ace, or such timeless classics such as Thunder in Paradise :kekeke:

The unit is bulky and I couldn't imagine carrying it around like an actual PSP (the battery pack would make your wrist snap in two). :p One nice thing about the A/V jacks though, there's a toggle switch so you can switch from Line Out to Line In. If you have it set to line in, you can basically use it as a portable monitor for your game systems or DVD player :) .
 

Baseley09

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No DV cart capability is a shame, seemsa like quite most of the latter games need it.

Swell unit though, prolly worth picking up.
 

abasuto

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Seems pretty cool, a good collectors piece to own. It's odd how the D-pad is on the right / buttons on left though.
 

soopafamicom

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Abasuto said:
Seems pretty cool, a good collectors piece to own. It's odd how the D-pad is on the right / buttons on left though.


Probably designed by the same pleb who did the layout for the sega master system joystick.
 

galfordo

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Baseley09 said:
No DV cart capability is a shame, seemsa like quite most of the latter games need it.

Swell unit though, prolly worth picking up.

You need it to play movies, as well as most of the better games on CD-I. Dragon's Lair, Space Ace, and the 7th Guest are my three favorite games for the system, and none of them are available without the DV card. Voyeur and Burn: Cycle can be played without it, those are about the only decent ones I can think of that are decent and don't require it.
 

OrochiEddie

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it's prolly better than the yet to be released PSP
 
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