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From: Nigel Critten <Nigel@100tinsoldiers.com>
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Subject: Re: PSX
Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 23:03:13 +0100
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Its still a long way off but I'm really excited about the PSP, it just 
sounds so interesting, not sure about minidisc compatible, I would 
suspect it isn't using the Universal Media Disc instead, I suppose it 
wouldn't be out of the question to support minidiscs, if they let me d/l 
mp3 onto the PSP then I'll be happy, also with Movie support, don't know 
if this means we'll have to buy all the DVDs on UMD which I wouldn't 
like to do...

I was suprised Nintendo didn't do an analogue joypad on the GBA, so I 
think it should be standard, as you say not all games work with analogue 
and you could probably read the stick as digital just by seeing if its 
gone past a certain point and using that as left, right etc.

And I'll take one of those devkits as well please :)

And if you want a sound->light generator looks like you need to get Jeff 
Minter on board :)

NIgel


> Yeah, i'm especially looking forward to the PSP though.  I don't think 
> there will be any shortage of developers wanting to get their hands on 
> it.  (PSP devkit, please!)
> 
> If Sony could make the PSP backwards compatible with existing MiniDisc 
> titles (and build in a nice sound->light generator, something like the 
> later PS1 revisions but better), then that really would be a piece of 
> killer hardware IMHO, sales would go through the roof. (looking round at 
> my MiniDisc collection and wishing).
> 
> I suppose it depends on whether that new disk will fit into a MiniDisc 
> shell.
> 
> Wonder if they'll do away with the D-pad altogether, and just use the 
> analogue on/off button to save space on the device?  Might be a bit odd 
> for some games unless there was some way of letting you know which 
> direction you've pressed - something like an analogue version of the 
> NeoGeo Pocket Color stick would be good (if that's possible).
> 
> 
> Andy P
>