How one fan's passion project became a home for guides, homebrew and preserving the knowledge behind Sony's iconic handheld.
  • Strider@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    6 days ago

    Holy shit! The Perfectdark! Huge props to you!

    Although I’m a techie I never got quite as far as you but do dabble at the sidelines of all that work.

    Just know that there a lot of people who appreciate effort like yours hugely.

    • xspurnx@leminal.spaceEnglish
      3·
      4 days ago

      Depends on what you’re looking for. To me the 3000 has the best screen, the 1000 has pretty noticeable ghosting. The 1000 might a be better fit for your hands, the screen does not have “scanlines” and the colors are somewhat more accurate.

      You can put a replacement into the 1000, but the colors aren’t as good…

      The 3000 has more RAM so games load faster and the speakers are placed better.

      I’d always go with a 3000, but that’s just personal preference and an argument can be made for each model, I guess (I’d stay away from the street though).

  • PerfectDark@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    58·
    8 days ago

    So recently, I spent a fair time chatting with the creator of PSPunk, a website I’m sure many here might have visited. But that chatting (which ended up being an interview) pivoted instead to something a bit different from what I usually end up doing with articles.

    Rather than just talking about the website itself, we ended up discussing the people who keep older gaming communities alive. We covered how PSPunk started as a simple custom firmware guide, why preserving guides and community knowledge is just as important as preserving games themselves, the modern PSP homebrew scene, and why the handheld still has such an active community more than 20 years after launch. You might recognize me from a few PSP articles I’ve done these last months, I just…think they’re neat:

    It was also interesting hearing from someone who doesn’t consider themselves a developer or a major figure in the scene, just “a helpful user who creates guides.” I think that humility says a lot about projects like this, because every community needs people documenting, organizing and preserving information just as much as it needs people writing the software.

  • Aralakh@lemmy.caEnglish
    10·
    7 days ago

    Any love for a PS Vita still? Though tbh, since getting a steam deck it’s not been as appealing.

    • GunValkyrie@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      7 days ago

      They are a LOT more expensive and harder to find. Which is why the psp gets more coverage. The ps vita is objectively better in every way.