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Alright, this is really pissing me off.

I picked up a USB cable today, and I did not forsee the string of complicated and frustrating events that would follow.

So, I come home and hook up the PSP to my computer, and then I spend two hours trying to get it installed on my computer. This little icon appeared in my system tray and was like "new hardware detected"...and then it wouldn't go away. Apparantly it was installing the hardware, so I let it go. I went and played MGS3 and came back, and it was still there.

So I decided to shut my computer down and try again. So it was shutting down, and it got to the part where it says "saving your settings", and then it stayed there. I left it like that for about 20 minutes, then I just pushed the button and turned it off. That has happened a few more times sense then.

But anyway, I eventually restarted and tried again. It took a while, but it finally came up and said "new hardware is installed and ready to use".

So I went to the USB part on the PSP, and then opened up KXploit and generated the files for an SNES emulator. I thought everything was good....but then I tried to put a ROM on there. I put the ROM in the correct folder, and then went to the memory stick part of the PSP. There was nothing there.

I thought maybe I didn't wait long enough, so I went back to the USB thing on my PSP (btw, is the only thing it's supposed show is the text "USB"?) and I tried again and waited about ten minutes before leaving the USB thing on my PSP and going to the memory stick. Still nothing there.

And I would like to take this time to mention that every time I hook my PSP to the computer and turn on the PSP, for some ****ing reason, my internet stops working and I every site I try to go to "times out".

I have no idea what the problem is.

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setup has the option right away, unless they changed that, then the basic program defaulted in spanish, so you'd have to go through it like that before changing it to english.

and that doesnt hide the fact that PBP does a better job. i never liked how Kxploit turned everything you did into its own icons on the psp, so every emulator would have that same boring psp dev icon. i like to see the original icons made by the ppl who made the emulator.










And it sounds like something is screwed up with the USB settings, or USB drivers on the computer. really all that should happen is you plug the wire in, computer goes ding dong! wait about 10 to 20 seconds and it will say everything is ready to use.

then when you goto 'my computer' there should be a f drive or a e drive or somethign, and when you go into it it would list a folder just like any drive would. and you drag and drop files like normal.

you could try going to control panel/admin tools/computer managment/device manager and make sure in the USB section theres no question marks or x's or anything.



Or, try plugging it into a Different USB slot, and letting it set it up there real quick.

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Ok, thanks Null. I plugged it into another USB slot, and it worked. I guess that one must have been messed up.

But the SNES roms are really slow...

So how do you change the system settings like you and Kyuzo were talking about? I want to up my processor speed...I know that will suck away my battery life, but i don't care, I have an outlet to jack into. :D

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I remember mentioning it before, but press left on the analog stick. Then use the settings posted earlier.

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Thanks, I've got it now. :)

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Ok, new problem. Last night I turned off my PSP while playing a ROM, and today when I turned it on, it's stuck on that screen.

When I click the "Home" button, a screen pops up, but none of the buttons will let me select "yes" to get back to my desktop. And I can't move or do anything in the game, either. I'm stuck there. -_-

Edit: Nevermind, I fixed it. I had to remove the battery.

Note for every one else: Don't just turn your PSP off while playing a ROM.

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i turn it off all the time. you just press home and left to use and press X.


However, if it is stuck you dont have to remove the battery, just completely turn off the PSP.

pressing that power button up and letting go sends it into Standby, holding up for 10 seconds or so turns it off completely.

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Oh well, I didn't know that. I was scared for a few minutes becaues I couldn't get back to the home screen.

But it works fine now, and I've been playing a japanese SNES fire emblem game that's been translated into english...it's awesome.

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I use sleep mode all the time. I usually go back to the ROM selection screen.

Other people's cards have corrupted, but mine hasn't yet. And I've done it plenty of times.

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So, what games have you guys been playing lately?

I've been playing a lot of games that were only released in Japan but have been hacked and translated into English.

Right now this is what I'm playing:
1. Harvest Moon 2 (GBC)
2. Secret of Mana (SNES)
3. Front Mission (SNES)
4. Fire Emblem: Seisen No Keifu

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So far I'm trying to find out how to get Genesis to save.... I can Save States in SNES9x but in Genesis I dunno how to do it.

I've been playing Sonic 3 and been wanting to continue from where I left off.....
Also Streets of Rage 3.

I'm fine w/ Chrono Trigger, it has a Save State...

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1. Terranigma (SNES)
2. FF6 (SNES)
3. Claymates (SNES) <3
4. NBA Live '97 (SNES)
5. Outrun (MAME)

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Double Dribble! lol. addictive NES game. even tho the computer cheats on higher levels.

all the mario's
all the Zelda's

Sonic 2 and 3

punchout and super punch out




and i dont think genesis emu can save yet. keep checking for newer versions of it tho, its coming, just dunno when.

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Good god, Double Dribble. I think my grandma still has that NES game somewhere. That game was interesting

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lol

i had the game on NES. we has some good tournaments with it back then.

right now. i dunno what it is about it. its just quite addicting. started off just to see it again, then i couldnt put it down and had to finish the game.

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I've tried playing LttP and the SNES Mario games, but from my experiances the SNES emu really only runs well enough for RPG and other slow paced games, so thats what I'm using it for until better versions come out...

Then it's time to platform.

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for snes i've had better luck with all the games running better with the newest version of uo_snes9x instead of just snes9x. i got some platformers running pretty well with that at the moment.

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I might've mentioned it before, but Claymates, as a platformer, works without any frameskipping or anything. It's hot. And I love Claymates. <3.

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It appears as though some emulators are starting to be able to read games compressed in .zip format. That's pretty awesome, especially for us people on a 32 MB card.

But my question is, will there be a loss in quality of audio or video when playing a compressed game?

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ZIP'ing a filing or playing through a zip doesn't compress the quality. ZIP batches the files into an archive making one file, decreasing the file size a bunch. If the files and folders are expanded the overall file size increases too.

When a file is zipped up however, it doesn't lose any quality whatsoever. two 6 meg MP3s can be zipped up to 8 megs, and unzipped as 12megs and have it's same quality.

it's just the process of archiving all files together so the system recognizes it as only one item.

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Alright, that's cool.

I have another question:

How do you update an emulator that's on your PSP?

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Delete the old EBOOT.pbp file and run kxploit to install the new one... *shrug*

You could probably just install the new one over the old one, but I havn't tried yet I've always deleted the old one first...

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as long as the folders are the same name, just put it on the memory stick as normal and it should copy over the old.

BTW, the new version of PBPmaker has an english exe so you can understand it all now. and it has an option to change the icon for when its on the PSP, i made a few of my own :) plus it has a sort option, you can arange the order the icons will appear on the psp.
i deleted kxploit off my computer now. pbpmaker is so much nicer.

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I tried doing what you said before I asked Null, about just placing the eboot right into the folder...but that didn't work, so I'm going to run kxploit and see if that fixes it.

Thanks guys.

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hmm. its always worked for me. i usually do that or delete the folder on the psp first.

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KXploit can be in English... There's some kind of text file that installs along with it... Inside it says "Language=0" or something... I changed it to 1 and wham bam, English...