Sort of got home a little later than I hoped however I still managed to spend a fair amount of time tinkering with my new toy.
The size and weight are fine, though a smaller unit would have been handy since it would have fitted in a jacket pocket, the PSP really needs to be put into a bag whilst travelling which is fine by me. The ergonomicas of the unit are fine, though I can see playing for long sessions is going to get uncomfortable quite quickly.
First problem is that the firmware version on the unit is 1.51, I was hoping for 1.5 though I had been expecting it to be 2.0. So I decided to upgrade the unit to 2.0 so I could play with the browser and movie playback features.
I had already ripped my Sin City DVD as a test MP4 a few days ago, and I have to say that the movie playback is amazing. The music playback is good as well, the shell on the PSP is nice and easy to use.
The browser is quite good, SSL support seems okay only tried the company intranet area and a few other things I could think of whilst being up at 2am.
I bought Burnout Legends which plays amazingly well on the PSP. In fact my brother even worked on this games in the early stages, it was meant to be one of the release titles however they slipped by a couple of weeks. The other game I am looking forward to is GTA Liberty Cities, which is set between GTA 3 and Vice City, so far from the screenshots and talk on the net, it looks like it is going to become the benchmark for the PSP.
I really want to be able to play emulators and homebrew code on the PSP, however until 2.0 firmware is cracked or a downgrader is released I’m kind of stuck. I have been surfing the various PSP community sites prior to ordering my
PSP hoping that the supposed downgraders and hacks being discussed are real, and will eventually result in a solution to the problem. Though Sony will probably have 2.5 ready in the next month or two.
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