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Oh, right... no, like I explained, your save game stuff goes on the Memory Stick. If creating the folders by hand doesn't work for you for mp3s and what not, try moving your game save data to your PC, then format the Memory Stick and move it back.

Sticks & Stones, my friend..Sticks & Stones, Ha! BTW, at least HG aligning their product with an orginization that deals with making world a better place to live. Really? Which one? In any case, at least Big West comes up with some original content now and again. In 20 years, all HG has is Robotech, and even that wasn't really original.

CRT is definately the way to go if you want a smaller TV. But if you want a bigger TV, CRT sets are simply to large and heavy, and the picture seems dimmer the larger you go beyond 36" JsARCLIGHT, I don't think DLP TVs are really any larger/thicker than RP LCD. LCD computer monitors are pretty thin, but also relatively small. At the 44" size, they're both between 14"-15" deep.

Not sure exactly what you mean, but if you never formatted it, and you still saved games on it, it's fine. You just need to create the rest of the directories yourself. When browsing the PSP's Memory Stick (for the sake of discussion, let's say your PC named it 'I'), you should have two folders. I:\MP_ROOT I:\PSP Unless you want to watch movies, you don't need the MP_ROOT folder. (For those of you that do want to watch movies, there should be another folder inside, I:\MP_ROOT\100MNV01, and all of your movie files go in there. Remember, they must be in the mp4 format, and they must be named M4Vxxxxx.mp4 where xxxxx is the number of your movie. If you have two movies, they would be M4V00001.mp4 and M4V00002.mp4). Inside the PSP folder, there should be four folders (if you already have save data, the PSP must have created one of them already). I:\PSP\GAME I:\PSP\MUSIC I:\PSP\PHOTO I:\PSP\SAVEDATA Pretty self explanitory. GAME is where games that can load from the Memory Stick (like future Emulators) would go. MUSIC is where you put your mp3s, and PHOTO is where you put your jpg files. SAVEDATA should be the one that's already there, and that's where your game save files and your Network Settings file go.

If by that they mean whoring their bastard series for 20 years with almost no original content to show for it, then that'd be accurate, right?

Yessir! So... actually... I was kind of thinking it'd be better if they used Voltron instead of Robotech. Everyone likes Voltron.

Within the next 5 years, analog broadcasts are supposed to be ceased completely. Current schedule is at the end of 2006, NTSC ceases to air. http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/consumerfacts/digitaltv.html Hence why I wouldn't even consider buying ANY TV that wasn't at leat DTV-ready. Right on, which is exactly why I'm sticking with my good old fashion 27" CRT brute, the generic $10 a month cable, and S-Video hookups until I can afford to buy a nice 42"-50" Widescreen HDTV, in either RPLCD or DLP.

Of course. It uses the magic "M" word, which is as good as gold. It can do no wrong, and everything it touches is pure and perfect. Personally, I don't think the UN should mess with either. It's kinda like having David Spade host some award show for videogames... it's one of those things that the guys in suits think is "cool" that really just comes off as lame. But if you have to chose between one or the other, it's always better to go with the original than the horribly spliced and bastardized knock-off. If you put it that way, it does kind of make sense. Hate to admit it, but I'm with AOne and Arnie. Especially if Hillary runs in 2008 *shudders*.

But you can't just think of the present... I'm assuming our friend here won't be replacing this TV anytime soon? Within the next five years, HDTV television broadcasts will gradually become more common. Blu-Ray or HD-DVD will start to replace standard DVDs. And it's a given that all three next-gen videogame consoles will support HD video; 16:9 widescreen support is also much more likely. My advice to you, Ladic, would be to think about how much you want to spend on this TV now. If it's going to be a smaller TV and you think you might want to invest in a larger TV down the road, go with that Samsung. At 30", a CRT TV is pretty heavy, but not unmanageable, and for a Korean company, Samsung's products (at least the ones I've used) are pretty much on par with their Japanese competitors, and usually more reasonably priced. For anyone else taking a gander at this thread and thinking they want to go more-all out that Ladic, I'll warn you off plasma right now. Yes, they're the thinnest. Yes, they have an absolutely vibrant picture. But they're also expensive to buy, expensive to maintain, problematic with videogames, and more prone to burn-in than other units. Rear projection LCD TVs are less expensive, but you really have to be looking at them dead on for the best picture. They're also a bit thicker than all but the CRT units. If you're on a budget, they're not a bad choice. For your money, though, from everything I've read and everyone I've talked to, DLP is really what you want. They're pretty close to plasma in price and not quite as thin, but they're nearly as vibrant with better blacks and fewer issues with videogames and burn-in.

Crawl before you walk? Did the first automobile move at 200mph? Did the first plane reach 100k feet, or break mach 1? You have little faith... Right right... and following that line of reasoning, it'll still be awhile before anyone's stomping off to work in their Zaku... but maybe I can get me a Ball in my lifetime...

Right. As I mentioned before, the surface of the front of the PSP isn't actually the LCD surface. Rather, most of the unit's face is under one uniform layer of plastic. As long as you're careful around the buttons and the UMD drive, you should be alright to wipe the front with a damp cloth.

I just keep my PSP in its sock when I'm not using it. The entire front face of the PSP seems to be one piece of plastic, and the actual LCD itself seems to be underneath said plastic. So I figure it's probably okay to wipe the PSP's screen area with a damp cloth (I'd be careful around the buttons, though). For those worried about liquids, though, I'll just point out that I spilled a glass of coke on my laptop once. No problems, save for the buttons sticking. Figuring that water couldn't do more damage that coke, I misted the keyboard and wiped the whole thing down. Works fine to this day.

that ain't real.....right? Definately not. Although it is ugly enough to be a Sony product. Yeah, but look at the size of the disc loader/UMD loader compared to the rest of the unit. To be real, the PS3 would have to freaking enormous... say what you want about Sony's designs being ugly (frankly, only the metallic purple they've used in PC and laptop casings for their VAIO line has really been ugly, IMHO), it's Microsoft that makes consoles you need a forklift to move.

I think almost everything pales in comparison with that little "prank" . You said it! At first I was quite suprised...Obviously would have ment a lot of changes in our lives...But I quickly got rather excited about the whole thing...even started laying out preliminary plans for the babys room, telling a few of my friends, etc...this was going to be so cool Then she clued me in on the joke and now I feel let down If that's how you really feel, maybe you guys should think about starting and family.

Hard drive's in the backlpack with the battery. Remember the Proton Packs they used in Ghostbusters? Now imagine that, instead of going to a thrower, the cord runs from the backpack into a PSP.

Simple solution for that: Don't buy it. Or buy it for Lumines anyway, and trust that the games you want will start to come in for it. But you see... I buy hardware for software. I don't buy software for hardware. A system with no games I want is crap, regardless of how powerful it is. Besides, while I'm sure somethign I want WILL come out eventually, when it does we'll be a price cut or 2 down the road, as well as 3 hardware revisions. I'll get a better sysetm for less money. Hardware revisions won't be like the N-Gage's. Any hardware revisions that Sony will do to the PSP at this point would either increase the price, or negate any potential price drop. nah it won't be anything major. most likely better latches for the disc launcher and maybe better analog stick. Right. I wasn't speaking in terms of new case, new features, etc. I was speaking in terms of fixing existing flaws(one's already done, yay!) and reducing the cost. There are not two versions of the NES. There's close to 15. There are not 2, 3, or even 4, PS1s. There's about 10 if I recall. My bad. I thought you were thinking of a more drastic change, ala the rumored PSP with 40GB harddrive.

Simple solution for that: Don't buy it. Or buy it for Lumines anyway, and trust that the games you want will start to come in for it. But you see... I buy hardware for software. I don't buy software for hardware. A system with no games I want is crap, regardless of how powerful it is. Besides, while I'm sure somethign I want WILL come out eventually, when it does we'll be a price cut or 2 down the road, as well as 3 hardware revisions. I'll get a better sysetm for less money. Hardware revisions won't be like the N-Gage's. Any hardware revisions that Sony will do to the PSP at this point would either increase the price, or negate any potential price drop.

Simple solution for that: Don't buy it. Or buy it for Lumines anyway, and trust that the games you want will start to come in for it.

I'm not sure about a player for music or what-not (I still use Windows Media Player for that), but the absolute best video player is VLC (you should be able to find it at videolan.org. Visually, the player isn't much to look at, but it plays everything you can throw at it, inlcuding videos that DivX or WMP wrote off as being corrupt, or not having the proper audio/video codecs for. Oh, and if you want to use WMP without all the dicking around, open the folder where you're keeping your tunes (in Windows Explorer), highlight all the songs you want, right click and select "Add to Now Playing List." Then WMP will start with just the songs you wanted playing. If you want them to play in a random order, click the "Now Playing List" button, and select the "Play Shuffled" option.

I'll totally agree on the lack of a display unit thing. I've met people who weren't really interested, played with mine or someone else's, then went about trying to coming up with $250 to get their own. People need a chance to see and feel the PSP in person to see what makes it stand apart from previous handhelds. But, display units are supposedly on the way. Rumor has it that PSPs that have been returned for dead pixels will be replaced (it's already happening), and if the dead pixels aren't too bad, they'll be reused as demo units. The Super Wal-Mart in Latrobe PA already has a display unit playing the Spider-Man 2 movie that it came with.

Shawn or Graham will be down later to put cellophane on your toilet seat.

Source: Gamespot article. Does this comment strike anyone else as being asinine? I mean, how do these guys get jobs doing this? Just because the PSP hasn't sold out everywhere, it's not a good launch? Does this mean that the DS did have a good launch, because it did sell out? Nevermind the fact that the DS was sold out because, between launch and January, our store had maybe 20 units. And nevermind the fact that we had 70 PSPs, of which we have maybe four left. I mean, you'd think professional analysts of the videogame industry would be capable of making a more educated analysis. I don't want to sound like a Sony fanboy, because I'm really not. I have all three consoles, and I've had every incarnation of the Gameboy, and I've got a DS. But selling out of hardware during the Christmas season when Nintendo shipped us less than half of the quantity of PSPs we recieved doesn't impress me, and frankly, the DS's software really dissapoints me. And now, when a lot of those DS's are being sold back, we've been able to sell nearly 70 PSPs at $100 more per unit, with the feedback from those customers being much more positive. On top of all that, while you may or may not be able to find a truly stand-out system seller, the quanity and quality of launch games has been much better than any other system, handheld or home console, in recent history (nostalgic nods still go to the Dreamcast for launch games...). I'd say that's pretty damn successful.

Did you get the import or US version of Ace Combat 3? The Japanese version was 2 discs with cutscenes/movies. The US version was trimmed down to one disc. http://www.gamespot.com/ps/driving/acecomb...ere/review.html I would think that this collection of Namco games would come to the US if not I'll import I guess. I'd be willing to bet that it'll make it Stateside. I mean, Namco jumpstarted the retro collection scene with the first Namco Museum way back on PSone, and by now, retro collections are the in thing... I mean, just for the current generation (no PSone collections) Intellivision had one or two, Atari had one or two, Midway is working on their third, Sega did one plus a Sonic Collection, Capcom did one for Megaman and one for Street Fighter, etc.

Totally unnecessary. Save yourself the extra $10, and just get a no-frills mini USB cable. If you formatted your Memory Stick before you started playing with it, the PSP will have already created all the folders you need, save the one for movies. All you really need is that mini-USB cable (I've seen them at Wal-Mart for around $5). Once the USB is connected, you go to the PSP's USB menu (all the way to the left under Settings), and your PC should automatically detect "PSP - USB Mass Storage Drive" and treat it just like a card reader. From that, you can simply drag and drop mp3 and jpg files into their proper folders using Windows Explorer. You can also take your game save files and copy them to your hard drive. Now, everyone says movies are trickier, but if you've been using the FREE PSP Video 9 software that was posted a few pages back, just have your PSP connected like normal and PSP Video 9 should automatically detect it and create the folders you need for movies. Then, you can use PSP Video 9 to convert your video files to mp4 (it will also rename them properly so the PSP can recognize them). From there, you can either drag and drop in Windows Explorer, or if you really want, PSP Video 9 will even copy the mp4 files to your PSP for you.

I just bought a plain jane car charger so far as the only accessory. I've basically just been putting the PSP in its sock, then putting that, the car charger, and any games I might want to play in my briefcase, then taking the whole shebang with me to work. Which reminds me, you might want to stay out of videogame stores for awhile if you want any kind of customer service from the clerks. On the other hand, if you're tired of us hawking reserves and subs, now's the time to go, while we're too busy doing wi-fi Wipeout tournaments to bother you.