Half-Minute Hero: Super Mega Neo Climax!

[Aklyon]

My main reason for not having a memory stick full of psp games: They take up too much space! I can fit about 4-5, maybe, on my 2gb stick (2 max if it included a giant game like Monster Hunter, which last I saw took an entire gig). And I don't want to spend more money on it, I have other things I want and/or need to buy.

Or I can put Patapon 2 on there (I bought it, and since it was a download-only game then anyway theres no difference between that copy and this one), Half-Minute Hero, a UMD (whichever one,Loco Roco 2 maybe?), and fill the rest of the memory stick with GB/GBC/GBA games and SNES games (and a pdf/other file formats reader, because why the hell not make it a pseudo-ebook reader as well?), which take more room to fit the emulator on than they actually do individually.

[LaughingThesaurus]

Oh dear. Oh dear. Aklyon.. you're pulling me closer to the dark side, Aklyon. I want to play Half-Minute Hero on PSP, Aklyon. I want to play that Japanese version that I can't get in this country. Ooh, but, don't they need the moneys?

[Aklyon]

They could use they money plenty, yeah. Though I don't know whether I'd want to try the japanese version, some of the maps have important hints and I don't remember all of them.

Eitherway, having a mostly umd-based psp collection is a good offset for, well, everything else on it except for the random pdfs.

[LaughingThesaurus]

Well there's like a sequel or something with all kinds of crazy layers of stuff added but it's only in Japan or something. And I mean, HMH to me was always a bit about 'screw up a bunch then do it well' which is really all the language barrier would do to me.

But yeah like I dunno, a hacked PSP might be nice but anything not-illegal it could do could be done by like a phone or a tablet or something. That's all, really.

[Aklyon]

Well, I have the opposite problem:
Laptop (graphics chip is crap but it runs lots of things, so /shrug) does plenty of stuff. Also holds a lot.
CFW PSP does plenty of stuff. And emulates. And has a minor ability to read pdfs and such if I leave room for them.
Phone, is a phone. I don't have a smartphone because I hardly use this one right now.

So, I could get a tablet, and do tablety things, but I don't have a reason to and having no touchscreens (DS Lite notwithstanding) also gives me another reason to completely ignore Windows 8.

[LaughingThesaurus]

Tablety things are always good, and you don't really need the lack of a tablet to give you an excuse to avoid Windows 8. Windows 8 could cure cancer, I still wouldn't put money towards it.

I actually have been considering a laptop, but I mean desktops are like half the price I think, so I really haven't been considering that hard. I'm not on the move often enough to justify the cost.

[Aklyon]

I have a laptop because present. Would've preferred to actually pick it myself and have the graphics to do more, but it could've been worse. Desktop is still better due to upgradibility I'd say, but they're also heavier.

And I don't know enough tablety things to get one anyway. The only two I can think of without going to look for them is Shadow Era (which works on here fine anyway) and Uplink the tablet version.

[LaughingThesaurus]

Oh I don't know much about tablety things, but tablets which do tablety things might be appealing to some people.
Half-Minute Hero would be amazing on a tablet or something if you're just doing like 2 minutes tops of questing.

[zebramatt]

Half Minute Hero's on my list. My PSP is relegated to a box somewhere gathering dust, where's it's been since I fell behind the jailbroken firmware curve and never got round to catching back up. So I'd almost certainly get Super Mega Neo Climax if I got any version. All the above is pretty accurate - it's packaged as a remix of the original, rather than a necessarily enhanced version. They've made the core game much bigger but stripped out the different play styles of Evil Lord (originally a sort of RTS-style game), Princess (originally basically a shmup) and Knight (action adventure) in favour of slightly different spins on the core game mechanic. Which, as it happens, suits me fine - for if I got it, it would be for that very core game mechanic.

But that said, there's a fair chance I'll not get round to it. (My games backlist is pretty mega.) The best chance I had of picking it up would have been as homework for Homework but now that's behind us, chances are slim!

[Aklyon]

You can't really fall behind on the CFW curve as far as I can tell. As long as you have something at least version 5.50 most games will work, and if not, theres a couple newer versions you can use.

[zebramatt]

Whatever version I was on when I last looked at it, a few years ago now, I needed to first downgrade to another version from which I could then upgrade to whichever I wanted. That used to happen more often than I could be bothered with, I seem to recall. Things might well be different now! (It was quite some time ago indeed.)

[Aklyon]

You probably had the official firmware too far ahead or something.

Major CFW for the psp that I can think of off the top of my head:
5.00M33-6 (old, but well known)
5.50GEN-D2/3/4 (More compatibility, more recent) [not sure which one was the last one]
6.xx (whatever the most recent one is, not nessesarily better but its there.)

[zespri]

Ok, so I tried it on my PSP, so far nothing to rave about. I think I did the tutorial level and the level 1 and currently on the level 2 that I'm so far not sure how to beat. It's mildly interesting but does not feel all that exciting at all.

[LaughingThesaurus]

Level 1 is pretty sane as far as the game's concerned. It's really just a 'get to the end'. But, as you progress, there are more complex ways to make your way to the overlord castle, or more gimmicks to deal with. In level 2 for instance, the bridge is out, and you need to get it fixed. A blacksmith needs his hammer to repair the bridge, so you go get that, give it to him, and he repairs the bridge. Simple as that. But, later on, you're looking at the possibility of multiple routes within routes, mazes, companions, or even areas without any enemies at all and a level 40 overlord. What ever do you do when quests get more complex?

That's what I liked. It's I guess kinda like an RPG, but it's really more of a puzzle game, and it throws a fair number of unique things at you. The PSP version is certainly the superior one, but ultimately if it's not your kind of game, I wouldn't be entirely surprised.

I'd say give the game until level 6 or 7 or so at least. There's more to the game than you'd think.

[Aklyon]

Its an RPG puzzle.