Gradius collection for PSP

dark penguin · Post by **dark penguin** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 10:38 pm

MSZ wrote:My copy has been shipped out from play-asia today.

Should be arrived in 10 days or so.

Mine says shipped as well...I paid for the fastest UPS shipping, so hopefully I'll have it by next week. I like how Play-Asia has the UPS data integrated right into their site.

Balzac · Post by **Balzac** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 3:40 am

Nullsleep wrote:So has anyone got their hands on this yet?

Looking for confirmation on a firmware upgrade requirement, to what firmware version, and if a psp version changer is enough to get around this.

Any info appreciated!

2.50+

Generally speaking, version changers don't work beyond 2.0. A few 2.1+ games work due to some piracy voodoo in which you replace the .prx files in an ISO with that of a game that works on older firmware, but Gradius Portable isn't one of them.

MSZ · Post by **MSZ** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 4:34 am

Official website updates:

back cover:
http://www.konami.jp/gs/psp/psp_gradius/

wallpapers for desktop and PSP:
http://www.konami.jp/gs/game/gra_psp/dl.html

Nullsleep · Post by **Nullsleep** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 6:40 am

Balzac wrote:
2.50+

Generally speaking, version changers don't work beyond 2.0. A few 2.1+ games work due to some piracy voodoo in which you replace the .prx files in an ISO with that of a game that works on older firmware, but Gradius Portable isn't one of them.

ugh ugh ugh ... thanks for the info, Balzac.

This is pretty lame, I'm not willing to give up homebrew. So I guess I'm going to be holding off on this. What a nasty decision to be forced into ...

BIG · Post by **BIG** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 3:50 pm

Got the game yesterday. Here are some notable features:

- Three display options: normal,large,and full screen.
- Hit box options: normal/small.
- Gallery mode: music/intro movies from previous Gradius compilations (deluxe pack,III&IV,Gaiden).
- Single-Player ONLY.

FYI,as many others have previously stated,Gradius Portable requires fw 2.50 upgrade.

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captain ahar · Post by **captain ahar** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 4:46 pm

Neo Rasa wrote:There were a bunch in this region also that, out of the box, had hairs under the screen. So apparently there's a "rub onto one's groin" station on the PSP assembly line somewhere.

yeah, i applied for the position, but they told me i was way overqualified for the job. fucking politics.
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i know this post is old as all hell, but it was too funny to not quote and reply to.

anyway, the fw upgrade is disappointing. i've got sengoku cannon on the way, and was looking forward to gradius keeping it company.

as i don't know much about the homebrew scene, i have a question. is this one of those, "it's only a matter of time" kind of things, before someone finds another go around? or at this point, is it a matter of me saying one or the other?

OT: homebrew is supported up to v2.1 now right?

BIG · Post by **BIG** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 5:14 pm

captain ahar wrote: anyway, the fw upgrade is disappointing. i've got sengoku cannon on the way, and was looking forward to gradius keeping it company.

as i don't know much about the homebrew scene, i have a question. is this one of those, "it's only a matter of time" kind of things, before someone finds another go around? or at this point, is it a matter of me saying one or the other?

OT: homebrew is supported up to v2.1 now right?

Well, there's this one 2.50 reach-around program I haven't tried yet (PSPsetX,I think?).

I'll let you know if that works.

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iatneH · Post by **iatneH** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 6:40 pm

Large/small hitbox options? Weird

All of the games on this collection should have "large" hitboxes in the original versions, right?

Dylan1CC · Post by **Dylan1CC** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 7:13 pm

Fajita of the uh, appropriately named www.fanjita.org is already hard at work on on a 2.6 firmware flasher. I have been using his 2.0 flasher for over a month, and even thought it crashes 4/10 times, it loads all my emulators perfectly when it does open. Best of all, fajita's programs do not allow ISP loaders and they refuse to work on a downgrader (which allows ISO play), they insist their emphasis is on homebrew/emulators (which is probably why Sony hasn't bothered to shut down the site yet as MPH's was)

Anyways, I ordered this today from NCS. With portable Gradius 1-Gaiden and Capcom Classics to go next month (Varth and 1941 baby), losing my roms hurts a lot less personally. If they can crack later on, fine, it's icing. But if not, I can look into a Gamepark or a PDA. Megaman Man X, Mega Man Powered Up with 100 extra challenge mini levels, online level edior, Daxter looks hot too. Bah. I don't need my roms, I'll just play 'em at home.

Soldato J · Post by **Soldato J** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 8:56 pm

I'm with Dylan1cc on this one. My sentiments almost exactly. Though I would like to play some Neo Geo/snes/genny emu on it...

Dylan1CC · Post by **Dylan1CC** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 9:15 pm

That's www.fanjita.org btw. Sorry for the typo. (fajita/Begeta/Vegeta

)

Thunder Force · Post by **Thunder Force** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 3:11 am

Dylan1CC wrote:With portable Gradius 1-Gaiden and Capcom Classics to go next month (Varth and 1941 baby), losing my roms hurts a lot less personally. If they can crack later on, fine, it's icing. But if not, I can look into a Gamepark or a PDA.

You're going to take your PSP to 2.5 firmware early? It might be a good idea to rethink and wait until a robust 2.5 exploit is out first (if ever). Having a few new v2.5+ shmups will be great, but in the process your PSP might be forever losing two or three dozen better v1.5/2.0 shmups. Only kill your homebrew-compatible firmware if you're absolutely sure. There's no certainty that a Gamepark or a PDA will do the job as well as a 1.5/2.0 PSP.

BIG · Post by **BIG** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 4:01 am

Thunder Force wrote:
Dylan1CC wrote:With portable Gradius 1-Gaiden and Capcom Classics to go next month (Varth and 1941 baby), losing my roms hurts a lot less personally. If they can crack later on, fine, it's icing. But if not, I can look into a Gamepark or a PDA.
You're going to take your PSP to 2.5 firmware early? It might be a good idea to rethink and wait until a robust 2.5 exploit is out first (if ever). Having a few new v2.5+ shmups will be great, but in the process your PSP might be forever losing two or three dozen better v1.5/2.0 shmups. Only kill your homebrew-compatible firmware if you're absolutely sure. There's no certainty that a Gamepark or a PDA will do the job as well as a 1.5/2.0 PSP.

This is the reason why I own two PSPs,since I'm a bit skeptical about the GP2X's romz capabilities.

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roker · Post by **roker** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 5:09 am

funny

I've been playing Gaiden like crazy for the last few days

I'm still not going to buy a psp

Dylan1CC · Post by **Dylan1CC** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 7:08 am

Thunder Force wrote:
Dylan1CC wrote:With portable Gradius 1-Gaiden and Capcom Classics to go next month (Varth and 1941 baby), losing my roms hurts a lot less personally. If they can crack later on, fine, it's icing. But if not, I can look into a Gamepark or a PDA.
You're going to take your PSP to 2.5 firmware early? It might be a good idea to rethink and wait until a robust 2.5 exploit is out first (if ever). Having a few new v2.5+ shmups will be great, but in the process your PSP might be forever losing two or three dozen better v1.5/2.0 shmups. Only kill your homebrew-compatible firmware if you're absolutely sure. There's no certainty that a Gamepark or a PDA will do the job as well as a 1.5/2.0 PSP.

As I said before, fanjita is already hard at work and close to cracking both 2.5 and 2.6. And you don't need to wait 'till they make the fix. I'd already upgraded to 2.0 (Tokobot forced me) when I downloaded their V.9 changer which works great.

But OTOH, I didn't buy my PSP to be an emulator (seriously didn't start using them until at least 3-4 months after i bought it when the thought had finally caught my interest). It is a nice extra feature but at this point it's either play 1.5 UMDs forever just to play my old console games and Noiz2a (never got Rrootage to work) or buy some new releases.

I love my emu but as an example if I had a choice between Tokobot or my roms, I'd choose Tokobot just for the fact that I want a new title on my system now and then, ya know?

BIG · Post by **BIG** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 7:19 am

roker wrote:funny

I've been playing Gaiden like crazy for the last few days

I'm still not going to buy a psp

This aint NG.com war room.

kthxbye.

B-

LSU · Post by **LSU** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 5:44 pm

I 'm just itching to get Gradius but I'm sure as hell not gonna upgrade and lose all my homebrew. I guess the only way to be sure is get two PSPs.

Damn you Sony. You giveth and then you taketh away.

Soldato J · Post by **Soldato J** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 6:31 pm

Hey at least you can get white as a second...I am tempted myself

Nemo · Post by **Nemo** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 7:47 pm

iatneH wrote:Large/small hitbox options? Weird

All of the games on this collection should have "large" hitboxes in the original versions, right?

Yeah, basically the original games have large hitboxes (the whole ship), and there's an option for small hitboxes (dot in center of ship like manic shooters), at least I think this is how it will be.

gs68 · Post by **gs68** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 12:37 am

It's not the entire ship but it is the length of the ship, I think. Basically if your shots go through a gap you can go through it, even if your tail/bottom is touching the walls.

Dylan1CC · Post by **Dylan1CC** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 1:13 am

BIG wrote:
roker wrote:funny

I've been playing Gaiden like crazy for the last few days

I'm still not going to buy a psp

This aint NG.com war room.

kthxbye.

B-

Is that the new "evolution" of the old Cloudchaser war room? Cuz I remember that place of "discussion."

Lone Deranger · Post by **Lone Deranger** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 1:21 am

Has anybody tried running this (or any other 2.5+ UMD) through the Fastloader hack? I'm on firmware 1.5 and can run the BurnOut UMD (a 2.0+ game) through it without a problem. I see no reason why this would work for 2.0 games but not 2.5+.

I'll be damned if I give up my homebrew capability because of $ony's paranoia.

LSU wrote:I 'm just itching to get Gradius but I'm sure as hell not gonna upgrade and lose all my homebrew. I guess the only way to be sure is get two PSPs.

Damn you Sony. You giveth and then you taketh away.

Dylan1CC · Post by **Dylan1CC** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 1:27 am

Lone Deranger wrote:Has anybody tried running this (or any other 2.5+ UMD) through the Fastloader hack? I'm on firmware 1.5 and can run the BurnOut UMD (a 2.0+ game) through it without a problem. I see no reason why this would work for 2.0 games but not 2.5+.

I'll be damned if I give up my homebrew capability because of $ony's paranoia.

LSU wrote:I 'm just itching to get Gradius but I'm sure as hell not gonna upgrade and lose all my homebrew. I guess the only way to be sure is get two PSPs.

Damn you Sony. You giveth and then you taketh away.

I thought the fastloader was only for ISOs? Or is it also a stand alone program that lets you boot UMDs?

Lone Deranger · Post by **Lone Deranger** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 1:38 am

Dylan1CC: Not just for ISOs... It has various functionalities. One of them being the ability to boot a UMD. There is also an option to make an ISO dump of the currently inserted UMD.
A really nice feature is the ability to unlock the PSP's processor speed to full 333Mhz glory. Tears through your battery though.

Anyway, you start the fastloader from the MemoryStick, so yes... it's a standalone program.

BIG · Post by **BIG** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 2:06 am

Lone Deranger wrote:Has anybody tried running this (or any other 2.5+ UMD) through the Fastloader hack? I'm on firmware 1.5 and can run the BurnOut UMD (a 2.0+ game) through it without a problem. I see no reason why this would work for 2.0 games but not 2.5+.

I'll be damned if I give up my homebrew capability because of $ony's paranoia.

LSU wrote:I 'm just itching to get Gradius but I'm sure as hell not gonna upgrade and lose all my homebrew. I guess the only way to be sure is get two PSPs.

Damn you Sony. You giveth and then you taketh away.

I ran it through fastloader,umdemulator,devhook,and wab.

Nothing.

Has anyone tried running it through PSPsetx?

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Nullsleep · Post by **Nullsleep** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 2:32 am

BIG wrote: I ran it through fastloader,umdemulator,devhook,and wab.

Nothing.

Has anyone tried running it through PSPsetx?

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Thanks for the info, BIG. I gave in and bought picked this up today, even though I've got a 1.50 PSP and have no plan to upgrade it. Hoping to find some workaround to get it playing though.

PSPsetx requires 2.00, right? Would be interested to know the results if anyone tries this as well.

roker · Post by **roker** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 3:56 am

BIG wrote:
roker wrote:funny

I've been playing Gaiden like crazy for the last few days

I'm still not going to buy a psp

This aint NG.com war room.

kthxbye.

B-

sex?

biocat · Post by **biocat** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 3:59 am

LSU wrote:I 'm just itching to get Gradius but I'm sure as hell not gonna upgrade and lose all my homebrew. I guess the only way to be sure is get two PSPs.

Damn you Sony. You giveth and then you taketh away.

I have two PSPs --a 1.0 and a 2.6. It's pretty nice having both capabilites but I have to say I play my 1.0 PSP much more.

BIG · Post by **BIG** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 4:31 am

roker wrote:
BIG wrote:
roker wrote:funny

I've been playing Gaiden like crazy for the last few days

I'm still not going to buy a psp

This aint NG.com war room.

kthxbye.

B-
sex?

deff0

B-

Thunder Force · Post by **Thunder Force** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 12:21 pm

Lone Deranger wrote:Has anybody tried running this (or any other 2.5+ UMD) through the Fastloader hack? I'm on firmware 1.5 and can run the BurnOut UMD (a 2.0+ game) through it without a problem. I see no reason why this would work for 2.0 games but not 2.5+.

Some games with newer tech simply don't work with Fastloader (aka UMD Emulator)

For reference, you can find an almost complete list of titles that do/don't work with that booting method HERE