PlayStation "minis"

[Brad]

It's nice to see it's finally been confirmed as it's been rumoured for a while now.

Although it's nice to have the option I'm not exactly sure if I'd want to play my minis on a HD screen. Just had a look on wiki and it says the maximum resolution on the PSP is 720x480, I didn't realise it was that high so it may not be too bad and it outputs progressively too.

It'll be interesting to see if standard PSP games also get the same treatment at some point as there was talk of that a few months back too.

The PSP's screen resolution (and therefore the resolution of its games) is 480x272. Whenever you play PSP games on a TV they come out with gigantic letterboxes. Expect N64 quality graphics on your TV for these PSP minis.

[Del Boy]

Seems the minis on PS3 issue is solved as im playing Finball fantasies in 40" glory lol.

[MisterBubbles]

Remember you need to re-download the games again from the store to get them to work on your PS3.

[watusi]

shame they've excluded tetris mini from working on ps3. Especially as thats the only one I own. I expect its because they are planning a PSN release for tetris at some point.

[MisterBubbles]

Did you re-download Tetris as i thought all minis worked as of 3.15, have you updated to 3.15 as you need this for minis to work , this update ainy auto you gotta do it hourself from system update.
p.s just checked tetris isnt even on the store no more.

[Sketcz]

Question:
Does Hysteria Project work on the PS3 (don't have PSN access to check)?

I like the idea of an FMV game.

So, what other PSP Minis are worth looking at? PSPminis.com is OK, but they're not easy to navigate. I feel like there's a swathe of minis worth looking at, but no one is talking about them?

[Brad]

Age of Zombies is the best I've played so far. It's a really good twin stick shooter basically with some nice humor.

[rmoxon]

Question:
Does Hysteria Project work on the PS3 (don't have PSN access to check)?

I like the idea of an FMV game.

So, what other PSP Minis are worth looking at? PSPminis.com is OK, but they're not easy to navigate. I feel like there's a swathe of minis worth looking at, but no one is talking about them?

All PSP minis work on the PS3 as far as I'm aware.

Monster (Probably) Stole My Princess is the best Mini I have played so far, its absolubtley brilliant.

[Number45]

No, there are definitely some that don't. Usually states it in the store updates.

http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2010/04/15/playstation-minis-game-hysteria-project-available-now-on-psp-and-ps3/

Looks like this one is fine though.

[Sketcz]

Cheers all.

Bought it and quite like it, for only $2. Pity the video is so grainy, I really wished they'd have made a standalone PS3 version with a higher-resolution.

[Family Fry]

Hysteria Project for me was a disappointment, thought it was going to be an FMV adventure and blindly bought it. Was about 15mins long and at the end of it

->Open Spoiler<-

to be continued, grrrrr!

Don't forget in Firstplay Ep2 (uk only) you get a ?2.49 Mini for 99p when you buy the episode, D-Cube World and it's not a bad little puzzle game.
Some PSP Mini games I have been enjoying. Age of Zombies is good fun, Echoes, Rocket Racing and Blast Off from Halfbrick 3 quality little games that work really well on handheld. Alien Zombie Death from Pom Pom is a cool little Wave based shooter. Pinball Dreams and Pinball Fantasies are just pinball classics, do prefer Fantasies though.

[Brad]

NormalTanks is out on the US store tomorrow. Looks like a fun little mini:

http://beatshapers.com/normaltanks

[JP]

Thought I'd update this as I've been playing a few lately.

They've give a couple of minis away each month if you're a PlayStation Plus subscriber, July had Fieldrunners & Age of Zombies.

Fieldrunners

I know this is a fairly old game now but I've not played it before and I've been playing it on my PS3 and I'm dead impressed with it.

Age of Zombies

I'm not sure if this is a port from another format or not but it's a really decent shooter.

I going to recommend Cubixx which is quite clearly inspired by some classic games. This foe me is by far my favourite of the minis that I've played so far. It's well worth the ?2:50 or what ever it was I paid for it.

Cubixx


I think what's really got me back into these games is that I play them on the PS3 now and the just feel better on that format for me. They can look really good on a HD TV as well which surprised me a little.

[Number45]

Fieldrunners wasn't for me to be honest. Played through about 15 waves and got very bored, but then I'm not into TD games.

Age of Zombies I really enjoyed though (Even bumped the FP thread for it a couple of weeks ago).

I don't think I'll buy any minis, but I'll try out the free PlayStation Plus ones each month.

[Number45]

http://www.joystiq.com/2010/07/22/review-young-thor/

This was in the store update on Wednesday. Liked the look of it from the trailer, but I'm tempted to pick it up after reading that. Short, but seems to warrant multiple playthroughs.