I only used my 1.5 PSP for emulation before.. SNES, Genesis, PC engine/Turbo Grafx, C64, etc. That was the main reason for me having a PSP, for the portable retro gaming opportunity. I wouldn't go anywhere near any sort of upgrades as i was happy with the 1.5.
Then a mate of mine at work upgraded his to 3.10 OE-A so i had a bit of a play around with that.
All i have found is that it does everything i was doing with 1.5 but more. First i tested all my emulators and they work fine (i just had to manually navigate to the roms folder the first time i launched an emulator, but they ran automatically after that).
To be honest there's not a great deal of PSP UMD games i was after, Loco Roco was my first choice as that's fantastic, and then i'll probably go for Metal Slug and Gradius Collections, and Ultimate Ghosts n Goblins.
What was cool with the update was the ability to take PS1 games and transfer those to the PSP. There's loads i would like to have on the move from my PS1 collection..... Tombraider, Metal Gear Solid, Raystorm, Silent Bomber, Crash Bandicoot..... tons of stuff. They look great on the PSP. They run well, no slow down. This was the reason i upgraded.
The one thing with the PS1 games is that they haven't converted with a 100% success rate. Of the games we tried about 75% converted and work no problem. Some didn't, but when we tried another disc of the same game sometimes they did for some reason. Tombraider 2 hasn't converted at all and we (me and the mate at work) have tried both our discs.
What compatibility issues have you heard of?
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