My wife just surprised me with a new PSP battery after listening to me moan about not having one ever since reading PerfectDark’s most recent PSP article. After messing around with broken USB cables and jumping through hoops to un-spoof my old prome-2 firmware version for too long last night, I finally got ARK4 running and had a blast playing Wipeout Pure.
My favourite PSP game back in the day was probably Monster Hunter Freedom Unite… so many late nights spent playing that with friends in my freezing flat. There was something special about LAN parties with handheld games. I remember putting serious hours into Peace Walker and Dissidia too.
Now I want some game recommendations… tell me which games you loved on the PSP! I might even have a look around for some UMDs!
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Cave Story and Dracula Chronicle X on the psp was pretty great!
PATA PATA PATA PON!
Play patafour! (I was once a major maintainer! It’s a bit abandoned now but if any souls wanna help it’s ripe for the taking)
FEVERRRRR!!!
I just got a new battery and screen for my Darth Vader PSP2000 just to play this but have been struggling because the audio is so terrible which makes it difficult to hear the beat over the other sound effects. I had to try three different pairs of modern headphones to find one that even worked and yet the audio is still so hard to hear. IIRC the original earbud that came with it was a mono piece (just one ear) so maybe I need to buy an amp or something. Or perhaps its the 30 years of hearing abuse I’ve subjected myself to in the interim that is the culprit.
Could be the perhaps part… or your audio jack is defective - the PSPs audio output is fine. Maybe try some cheap inears or Ports Pros if you can.
Locoroco. It was just so sweet and cheerful.
I can’t believe out of all the comments there’s so few mentions of Locoroco. It was soooo good!
The sounds the balls made were just beautiful. Oooooo
So cute.
And I loved the main theme.
Wow I had forgotten about this game… definitely going to give it a jam again!
Loco Roco was nice and I don’t think its been mentioned.
Yeah, Monster Hunter Freedom Unite was probably also the game I spent most time on my PSP.
It depends in what games you Mike, but I loved Persona 3 Portable and Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep.
If you liked Monster Hunter, you could also try God Eater. It is a really gold Monster Hunter Like with a good story!I like so many different types of games so all recommendations are good… I’ll check those out. God Eater sounds appealing, I haven’t played anything from that series!
There is a good fan translation patch for Monster Hunter Portable 3rd - could be right up your alley.
Final Fantasy Dissidia duo decim and Crisis Core were the only games I really enjoyed on the PSP.
Yeah, I played Crisis Core, VII-IX and GoW on mine a lot. I may have even had a Jax and Dexter on it? I can’t remember. It was wild to me that I could play my final fantasy games on it.
Dissidia is probably the best Final Fantasy game no one remembers anymore
Original games - LocoRoco Midnight Carnival, Crisis Core Final Fantasy VII, Daxter, Trails in the Sky trilogy, LittleBigPlanet PSP, Silent Hill Origins, MGS Peace Walker, Gran Turismo… Remasters/ports: SMT Persona 2 Innocent Sin, Lunar SSSC, Breath of Fire III, Tales of Eternia (all of these games are JRPG, and all of them are the best version of these games in my opinion), Crazy Taxi, Prince of Persia games, Tomb Raider games…
There seems to be an overwhelming amount of JRPGs on the PSP right? It could take years to get through them all haha.
Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters.
Played through that sucker more times than I care to admit to.
Same, and I heard people saying that one is the worst game of the series
I played Lumines so much I would see squares when I closed my eyes
We should call that something. “The Lumines effect”?
Every time I hear a song from that game, the world starts looking like Minecraft.
There are plenty of good titles already mentioned here so I’ll go with something less popular.
- PangYa: Fantasy Golf - it’s a golf game, as you can guess from the title. It has simple but really fun gameplay with customisable characters (outfits and equipment, the latter affects character stats). It also has a story mode to get you started.
- Puzzle Quest - RPG with match 3 gameplay for combat. Really addictive in a “just one more quest” kind of way.
- Ridge Racer 2 - it’s Ridge Racer. Riiiiiidge Racer! Tons of content, bunch of modes, fun to control - it’s great! Might be my favourite handheld racing game (and definitely one I spent the most time with). It’s pretty much a celebration of the franchise until that point, especially the classic era.
Puzzle Quest! Man, I was way too addicted to that game!
It’s so easy to just keep going. It’s great!
Golf game with a story mode? That sounds interesting!
It’s a silly and light hearted romp about a golf tournament, with a cast of weirdos as your rivals. It’s pretty fun as long as you don’t mind anime aesthetic and tropes (it’s not egregious or anything, I just know some people are allergic to anything anime adjacent).
+1 for Pangya!
What a fun and silly story this has! I have spent countless hours playing this! Overall my favorite game on the PSP.
Honestly the only real negative is the gotcha system for getting most of the accessories.
It’s been so long since I played this game I genuinely forgot about the gacha store. Shows how much I interacted with it (maybe I was just lucky enough to get by with what I got). At least most other things can be bought normally.
Jeanne D’Arc
A fantastic RPG.
It was indeed
Did they ever manage to port Jeanne D’Arc to any other platforms? It would be a shame if they didn’t it was an excellent game.
As far as I know it’s either PSP or you play it on an emulator.
Figured as much, thanks. My PSP is a release model and is iffy. I’ll probably try and track down an iso file some day since I don’t think there is a viable way to play the PSP physical media any other way.
wipEout, Jeanne d’arc, Battlefront, locorocco, peace walker, Ys seven, Mega Man Powered Up, Gran Turismo, Dissida, Final Fantasy Tactics, Ghosts of Sparta
Brave Story is a great RPG that doesn’t overstay it’s welcome and that I’ve enjoyed a lot. The enemy design was what really got me into it at the time, but the fun story and quality of life features kept me going
LocoRoco, Patapon, the God of War priquel and Crisis Core
And also Armored Core Formula Front, it’s such a weird game in the series.
Oh, and Carnage Heart EXA. I’ve never managed to actually get far, but it’s the most unique mecha game there is. You program your mecha from scratch using logic blocks, and you can make it fully autonomous, fully manual (but you have to program each button press), or a combination of two. It takes as many hours to learn as an Armored Core game would take to complete.
Since nobody mentioned it. Exit 1&2 are super fun
