Today's an exception for my social media break because this is a pivotal moment in podcasting history and I need y'all to listen to it ;)
Into the Aether VIII: The Sony PlayStation Portable
https://intothecast.transistor.fm/episodes/into-the-aether-viii-the-sony-playstation-portable
The PSP might be almost 20 years old… but in 2025 it’s STILL a homebrew beast!
From DOOM to Minecraft, retro emulation to PS1 games – here’s your complete modern PSP guide 
Watch: https://youtu.be/KZj8E1MwIKo
I'm a sucker playing Castlevania.
My biggest problem is the habit to rush the stage like Super Mario... 
Al final voy a ver si soy capaz de pasarme: Castlevania - The Dracula X Chronicles
Es un juego de PSP que siempre quise probar.
Gentes que me leéis, recomendadme juegos de PSP.
Me interesan principalmente RPGs que estén en castellano.
Initial experience with #PSP games on the #RetroidPocket5 is mostly good! BurnOut runs with some stuttering. I can probably tweak some settings to get it to a steady FPS. #PPSSPP crashed and caused #Rocknix to reboot once, and I can't find a way to run it as a #libretro core so that Auto-Saves work consistently. I'm hopeful that those details can get worked out.
I bought the RP5 because my Anbernic RG Arc isn't powerful enough for #Dreamcast, #GameCube and #PSP, but I can't really fit all the games I want for those systems on my 512GB sdCard so I bought a 1tb one. That ought to be big enough to fit all the #PS1 and #N64 games too! I might throw my #SegaSaturn games on there too just to be a completionist.
I got #Rocknix installed on my #RetroidPocket5. But it's #PSP emulator doesn't accept .7z files so I've got to decompress my whole collection and convert them to .chd files. Also, the Dreamcast .chd files I built from redumped bin+cues aren't compatible with #FlyCast so I've got to convert all of those to .gdi then re-chd them. I hope Launch ox doesn't lose all my favorites when I switch the files 
Pirating games is a lot of work!
Edge #146 (February 2005)
PPSSPP v1.19.3 Released: https://www.ppsspp.org/news/release-1.19.3/
#linux #linuxgaming #update #foss #emulator #psp #ppsspp
I finished Final Fantasy Tactics on the PSP today! It's a really good game. Very frustrating, though. I ended up putting it down several times over the course of playing it.
Instead of posting a multi-post review of it, I just put that same writeup on my knowledge repo. Spoilers for a nearly 30 year old game, though. https://knowledge.rachelbrindle.com/games/fft.html
It feels like I haven’t done any gaming in the garden on the ol’ PSP for a while. I’m going with another Bomberman game, this time Super Bomberman 3 via the SNES emulator.
Finally, @ratatui_rs running on the PSP! 
Powered by Mousefood + rust-psp
https://github.com/j-g00da/mousefood
The implementation is not complete... join our debugging thread on Discord: https://discord.gg/pMCEU9hNEj
Ok, compare and contrast; the first shot is of the Mega Drive’s Mega Bomberman, the second the PC Engine’s Bomberman ‘94. ‘94 has much more vibrant graphics, and I that river isn’t animated on the Mega Drive version, but is on the PC Engine version. The music does sound quite lethargic however. Maybe there’s a setting in the emulator I can play around with.
Well whaddayaknow, I’m on my PSP again. I needed to get away from my warm PC and sit outside for a bit. I’ve gone for one of my old faves, Mega Bomberman. I’ve also got a PC Engine emulator on here with Bomberman ‘94 which I think is pretty much the same game, I might do a quick comparison and see if there’s much difference, if any (apart from Bomberman ‘94 being in Japanese).
My Switch 2 arrived.
It's smaller than expected.
And the magnetic connections are so strong I don't get the Joy-Cons off.
Gonna spend some more time in the garden playing some old classics on the PSP, starting with the GameBoy version of Tetris.
