Played Out Run 2 on my PSP yesterday. Still one of my favourite racers ever, absolutely love it.

Firm handshakes. Legendary game.

It has a round charger port so whilst official chargers were like hen's teeth yo could use any old one from shop. I always used to have a couple with switchable voltage, worked fine

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I was just talking about that today, first game I worked on. I may even be in the manual. Good times.

Outrun 2 was awesome.
Well done Nick. You still with Sumo?

This evening I will be mostly attempting to load a shitload PSP Roms onto my Galaxy S7. 

Is PPSSPP still the go-to Android emulator of choice?

Thanks

x

Thinking of trading my superb cracked PSP for a Vita as my S7 is good enough for retro stuff. Is it worth the effort cracking those or is there enough on the store that’s worth going legit for?

Am I right in thinking that if I get A NES Mini it's easy to get the emulator from the SNES Mini on it?

Nice, that'll save twenty quid. Thanks.

At the prices things are currently, that's the difference between the NES and the SNES. Though I'll be waiting until after Christmas, just in case my dad took the hint I was after one, though.

Picked up two Bluetooth adaptors for them recently because they were really cheap and I've already got two Bluetooth SNES pads for my TV, so I'm all set. May end up using PS4 pads though, apparently they're compatible.

We have our Nes mini filled with nes, snes, gba and probably more. Two 8 bit do Snes controllers and it works great. Looks a bit weird, but not as weird as the US Snes mini would have.

I’ve got one. It’s cool. Haven’t spent much time emulating other than a quick go with SNES stuff just to try it out. If you want me to try something specific let me know and I’ll give it a shot and post back.

I prefer MAME stuff, and I've tried PI 2 and 3 with various images and there seems to be noticeable lag, not huge but enough to put me off it. I even bought a Real Arcade Pro 4 Kai stick but it has been barely used. I like stuff like Scamble, Smash TV, Galaga, 1943 etc and that slight lag is such a pain in the arse. It may have been to do with the overheads on the CPU if I had scanlines on, but I can't quite rememeber.

I am aware that the Shield is a lot more powerful than the PI 3, but it is currently on sale in Curry for £159 with the controller, and that is still a fair outlay if it is not going to do the job.

Will have a blast with MAME this weekend. Love a bit of Galaga.

So I've just dabbled in some very, very basic ROM hacking with pre-hacked patches.

Got a Famicom ROM of Contra, which includes superior graphical features and includes 'cut scenes' over the NES version.

I then downloaded an English translation/hack which comes as an IPS file that you have to write to the ROM using a free programme. Simple enough and worked a treat.

Tried the same with Contra Hard Corps on the MD and it didn't work as I didn't have a ROM in the correct format, so it seems it's not always really simple.

I was wondering if anyone knows where you can get ROMs pre-hacked?

There's not a ton I want but there are a few older games that had superior versions in Japan, and the odd one such as Castlevania II that would benefit from fan made translations/hacks.