I'm sure non-emulating PSP owners are as rare as Liverpool away goals this season, but just in case anyone else picks this up.
Got this today. Had a quick game on Altered Beast, Golden Axe 2/3 and Thunderblade. Thunderblade really benefits from the analogue nub - controlling your chopper is much easier than I remember it. Golden Axe played quite well, but the controls made it difficult to pull off the special attack. Altered Beast, the game with what I feel is an underved reputation as a crap game which has somehow attained classic status, had noticeably had the difficulty toned down. On my first go I got near the end of level three, further than I'd ever managed before.
Full game list
Alex Kidd
Altered Beast
Bonanza Bros
Columns
Comix Zone
Decap Attack
Ecco the Dolphin
Ecco: The Tides of Time
Ecco Jr
Flicky
Gain Ground
Golden Axe 1,2 and 3
Kid Chamelean
Phantasy Star 2,3,4
Ristar
Shadow Dancer
Shinobi 3
Sonic the hedgehog 1 and 2
Super Thunderblade
Sword of Vermillion
VectorMan 1 and 2
Virtua Fighter 2
28 games in all.
From the main menu, you can highlight a game and play it or see the "museum" which gives you history of the game, tips and box art. A nice feature.
Unlockable extras include five games (Astro Blaster, Congo Bongo, Eliminator, Space Fury and Super Zaxxon), a load of interviews, some trailers and the Sega Cheat sheet. Some of these are unlocked by completing all or part of games, not unlike X-box live achievements. Others just by trying games, and the cheat sheet by watching all the interviews. I haven't done that yet, of course. Anyway, it's not as cool as the slot machine game in the most recent Capcom compilation.
Games can be pixel perfert, best fit, or stretched. Controls and difficulty levels can be changed in options, as well as health bar lengths in some games, but there doesn't seem to be a way of setting the number of continues. In fact, there don't seem to be any continues at all on some games. Altered Beast just flipped me the Game Over finger, with no option to continue. However, you can save your game at any point, which seems odd for this sort of package. I suppose it's useful for gaming on the go, but I would have preferred a few continues. I checked Shinobi 3 for continues before writing this first play, and it offered me the option of continuing. Hopefully most of the rest do.
The digitised speech still sounds great. "Rise from your grave" and "Welcome to your doom" all add to the nostalgia. The "Sega" on the title screen has been modernised, however.
Adhoc multiplayer is available, haven't tried it.
Hope this helps anyone umming and arring about getting the game.
Got this today. Had a quick game on Altered Beast, Golden Axe 2/3 and Thunderblade. Thunderblade really benefits from the analogue nub - controlling your chopper is much easier than I remember it. Golden Axe played quite well, but the controls made it difficult to pull off the special attack. Altered Beast, the game with what I feel is an underved reputation as a crap game which has somehow attained classic status, had noticeably had the difficulty toned down. On my first go I got near the end of level three, further than I'd ever managed before.
Full game list
Alex Kidd
Altered Beast
Bonanza Bros
Columns
Comix Zone
Decap Attack
Ecco the Dolphin
Ecco: The Tides of Time
Ecco Jr
Flicky
Gain Ground
Golden Axe 1,2 and 3
Kid Chamelean
Phantasy Star 2,3,4
Ristar
Shadow Dancer
Shinobi 3
Sonic the hedgehog 1 and 2
Super Thunderblade
Sword of Vermillion
VectorMan 1 and 2
Virtua Fighter 2
28 games in all.
From the main menu, you can highlight a game and play it or see the "museum" which gives you history of the game, tips and box art. A nice feature.
Unlockable extras include five games (Astro Blaster, Congo Bongo, Eliminator, Space Fury and Super Zaxxon), a load of interviews, some trailers and the Sega Cheat sheet. Some of these are unlocked by completing all or part of games, not unlike X-box live achievements. Others just by trying games, and the cheat sheet by watching all the interviews. I haven't done that yet, of course. Anyway, it's not as cool as the slot machine game in the most recent Capcom compilation.
Games can be pixel perfert, best fit, or stretched. Controls and difficulty levels can be changed in options, as well as health bar lengths in some games, but there doesn't seem to be a way of setting the number of continues. In fact, there don't seem to be any continues at all on some games. Altered Beast just flipped me the Game Over finger, with no option to continue. However, you can save your game at any point, which seems odd for this sort of package. I suppose it's useful for gaming on the go, but I would have preferred a few continues. I checked Shinobi 3 for continues before writing this first play, and it offered me the option of continuing. Hopefully most of the rest do.
The digitised speech still sounds great. "Rise from your grave" and "Welcome to your doom" all add to the nostalgia. The "Sega" on the title screen has been modernised, however.
Adhoc multiplayer is available, haven't tried it.
Hope this helps anyone umming and arring about getting the game.
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