sanderson72

@Cronodoug If you have access to a PS4 or PS5, I believe there was a PS4 port released a few years ago called Dragon's Crown Pro? It's available on disc or via the store.

Discs don't have the full game on them and haven't since the PS2 days - mainly because most games these days 'go gold' (i.e. ready to be burnt onto a disc) when the game is barely finished, resulting in the enormous Day 1 patch downloads.

The one thing that the disc does though is allow access to those patches and so on after the game has been de listed. An example is Driveclub on the PS4. The game has been de listed from the PS Store so you can't buy it any more but you can buy the disc, shove it into the PS4/5 and wait while all the patches are downloaded. More games are going to go this way and the physical disc is the key to unlocking the non-visible data/patches.

I wish Playstation was being run by Shawn and Shuhei - might not be the corporate vileness that they are now. Can you imagine either of them killing off physical media??

I do wish they'd do an Amiga Remix cartridge and include all the best versions of things like World Of Sensible Soccer, Cannon Fodder, Chaos Engine and so on.

Despite having all those generations of PlayStation consoles knocking around, the Evercade is still the only console my son and I can play Sensible Soccer on. Of course, I can always get the A1200 out of the loft for the best experience.

Can't go wrong with the Competition Pro but I also rather liked the Cheetah Bug, though it wasn't built like the Comp Pro. It was one of two controllers over my gaming life that suffered from stick drift - the other was the PS5's DS5!

@slider1983 Yep, some games won't work on the A600 so this will suffer from the same problem.

Thankfully, I still have my C= A1200 in the loft!

Yep, Ultimate: Play The Game should be on there. They weren't Rare until they moved to Twycross, were they?

Sorry to say but I believe it's an Amiga only release (he says dusting off his old A1200) Depends if Team 17 want to try and port it, I suppose?

My mate had an ST which was impressive enough but as soon as games came out making use of the raft of custom chips in the Amiga, it was going to be a downward slide for the ST (MIDI aside).
Still got my Commodore A1200 up in the loft. Dug it out the other month and it booted up first time from it's enormous 340Mb internal hard drive!
It's funny that the Amiga gets described as 16-bit but that was only the address bus (I think) on the original 68000 processor. My A1200 has a Blizzard 1230IV with a 50Mhz 68030 on and that's full 32-bit.

Around the time of the Xperia Play, I had to decide between that and the Mini Pro with the slide-out physical QWERTY keyboard.
Went for the latter and don't regret it - never been able to type faster on any phone since!

"The information then gets transferred to tape backups"

Very 1980s.

Bung an SSD in the PS4 Pro and the boot time is, if anything, slightly quicker, than the PS5...
PS2 and PS1 don't have hard drives or network connections and so they're just booting from the firmware OS.

You forgot Motorstorm (probably Pacific Rift)

Has Andy Davidson said how v1.5 of the Director's Cut is being distributed?

Hope it's on a 3.5" floppy!!

@Sketcz Our were £22.65 for 3 and came from retro-refurb on eBay. Doesn't look like they do them any more though? So far, they've lasted a long time but I don't think they're the 3600mAh that they claim for the 2000/3000 series? Maybe 1200?

The Ostent ones seem to be the best of the 3rd party ones and are about £10-12 on Amazon.

Not too long ago, I bought 3 extra new PSP batteries for mine, my wife's and son's PSP 3000 so we can charge two and swap when the other one runs out if not near a socket.

Weirdly, the original Sony ones still seem to last longest??
Obviously built back in the day when Sony over-engineered stuff rather than the Driftsense company they are today.

My A1200 is waiting....

The Chaos Engine was so much better than the 2nd one so hopefully they could release the Amiga versions of those classics.

It's a bit like Sensible Soccer - the Amiga version was just so much better than the Megadrive version that the Evercade has on the Codemasters collection. That said, can the Evercade really do quarter pixel scrolling?

@GeneJacket Unfortunately I think you're right. The people who gave a toss seemed to have left at the end of the PS4 era and we just have accountants in charge now.

A better Wipeout 30th Anniversary celebration would be - a new Wipeout! But due to Sony pulling the plug on Studio Liverpool, I suspect that day will never come.

This is better for Vita:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01B2F1YUQ/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Playstation had one mission - to humiliate Nintendo - and this game with its never-before-seen-in-a-home gameplay and thundering soundtrack is just one of the reasons it succeeded in its mission.

How we miss Psygnosis/Studio Liverpool, Evolution & Japan Studio.

Hang on a moment, didn't they just last month (or two) copy all the existing MM created textures and all other associated stuff on to the LBP servers so people could use it on the PS4 version and then they go and close the server down? What gives?

I've got his "Bang! Tick.. Tick.." CD somewhere.

Seem to remember Superfrog was available on the Vita?

I still find it strange that even after all this time, the latest 2DS and 3DS models only have the same screen resolution as the PSP!

I still have and play on my PSP 3000 even though there's a Vita parked next to it as Sony got lazy with their PSP titles for download via the PS Store. And with the retail trade-in prices of the two systems getting remarkably close in the UK, I wonder which one I'll trade in first?

Sony could enter a handheld market again but I think the approach would need to be different. Perhaps a big-screen Xperia with clip on/slide out thumb-stick and button controls and access to an official PSP/Vita emulator with the ability to download games from the PS Store..? A bit like an od Xperia Play but done properly.