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7,000 Emulated PSOne Titles on PSP By 2007?

Up to 7,000 PSOne games emulated on the PSP by the end of 2007. That's what Sony is promising.

There's no release date or further details (like, HELLO! Pricing?), but Sony did confirm for the UK PSP Magazine that Tomb Raider, Symphony of the Night, Final Fantasy VII and VIII and Silent Hill.

That's a pretty exciting attempt to shore up the PSP's games line-up, although we're curious if these emulated versions will nix attempts to release Tomb Raider and Silent Hill remakes. But 7,000 games? Yes, they used the dreaded qualifier 'up to' but that's a bold claim that can only be good for those of us who haven't yet flushed our PSPs down the toilet. Crecente, I'm looking at you.

Florian Eckhardt
June 29, 2006

Source: Kotaku

PSP Camera Revealed

The Japanese-language site ITmedia recently visited what appears to be a boutique PSP store decked out to promote LocoRoco. Besides an impressive collection of yellow-blob plushies, they snapped a nice shot of a PSP add-on Eye-Toy camera on display. Translation revealed speculation that the camera will be officially shown at the Tokyo Game Show this coming September. Sony representatives were unable to confirm this to be true when contacted today.

The camera itself certainly looks snappy in shining metal, and if the imprint on the base is to be believed, sports a decent 1.3 Mega Pixel resolution. We're hoping the big white plastic base is there for display purposes only, and from the looks of the hole cut for the camera, it probably is. Sony is a believer in Eye-Toy related games thanks to the success of the web-cam attachment on the PlayStation 2 and has already shown Eye-Toy applications on the PlayStation 3.

Beyond the traditional Eye-Toy games that put a player on-screen, the addition of a camera to an intrinsically mobile device like the PSP opens a wide range of possibilities. Games could challenge players to find specific real-world objects or landscapes and physical motion could potentially be tracked via camera movement. Coupled with the forthcoming GPS and mapping programs currently in development (confirmed by Sony representatives today), the PSP could become a geocacher's dream machine. The PSP's WiFi capabilities also allow for the possibility of mobile video-chat, and possible video transmissions to the PlayStation 3.



itmedia.co.jp

Gerry Block
June 29, 2006

Source: IGN

Sony Memory stick PRO duo reaches 4GB

Sony has upped the ante on the amount of memory you can carry around with your PlayStation Portable. The 4GB Memory stick PRO duo (MSX-M4GS) for PSP will be available this August in Japan, and will follow in North American shortly thereafter.

The 2GB Memory Stick PRO Duo sells right now for $119, we can expect a price of around $249 for the 4GB model.



Fabrizio Pilato
June 29, 2006

Source: Mobile Mag

Podcast of Hacking the PSP Interview Now Available!

I was interviewed for about an hour last night by Alfred Poor on WBAI Radio 99.5 New York. It was a lot of fun, and there were a number of phone calls from PSP users, so it was great answering their questions and getting more people excited about the PSP. You listen to the interview, which can be downloaded to your PSP or iPod or portable music player or computer or whatever <grin> at the following link:

http://www.pcradioshow2.org/

BTW: Listen in the beginning to where they're asking for people's favorite software app... I was on hold waiting to be interviewed when I was put on-air live, as though I was one of the folks who called in for the favorite software question. You can hear how surprised I was, since I wasn't expecting to be on-air yet! <grin>

Enjoy!

-Auri