Tim Sayre

Downgraded yesterday. Looks like it was just in time. I've been hesitant to do it, and pushing x to agree to accept the risk made me sweat for sure. Downgraded to 1.5 and then upgrade to 3.40 with no problems. Now I just have to figure out what homebrew is worth installing.

+5 strength
+10 spirit
+20 agro ftw

Happy Holidays! Santa loves Swag!

Here's to us!
Who's like us?
Damn few,
And they're all dead!

Anyone else ever wonder why a PSP Fanboy website isn't formatted so that you can easily read the text on a PSP?

Some downloadable episodic content would help alot of people dust off their PSPs. I love Lost enough to have spent time on their fake websites and reading the book that was written by an author that died on Oceanic flight 815. There is nothing I would love more than getting more LOST delivered to my PSP.

Having to read japanese to download the demo of Loco Roco was a pain, but it made me feel like there was a little ray of hope that maybe the PSP would finally get some unique use. The PSP has been out long enough that we should:
-Be able to download music/video from Sony Connect
-Be able to download games from Sony
-Have more support from Sony for people that want to put out Pspmagazines/comics
-Download PS1 games
All of these are things that people would even be willing to pay for!

I'm tired of loading up the Sony Connect once a month in hopes of seeing something new to increase the utilization of this wonderful piece of hardware, only to find the same damn Speed Racer video. At least Sony updated some of their own PSP website while E3 was going on. I even bought the PSP media manager software hoping that it would make the situation better, but its like the most gimpy version of a file manager that you could imagine. Sony doesn't even update the RSS feeds that come up within the program. You would think that they would at least come up with some that do a little self promotion for Sony Music/Games/Movies...

PLEASE SONY: LET THE HARDWARE LIVE UP TO ITS POTENTIAL!

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I've had the PSP Media Manager for a while now and I like it, although it is a bit quirky. Main points:

Media Manager takes a while to refresh its display of media such as photos on its display. This causes some minor frustration when digging through my music folder which has about 600 sub folders for each artist.

This works great with my video recordings made with Snapstream Beyond TV (An AWESOME PVR program for your computer.)www.snapstream.com I usually keep a few episodes of the Daily Show and Lost on my PSP. I record into wmv format and then let Media Manager re-encode. Video quality is great.

Do a search for vodcasts and you will find many sites that have free video rss feeds that will update onto your PSP video folder through media manager. www.pspmagazines.com has some great ones that will go into your photo folder.

I had the GBA Media Player and liked it when it was all there was. I also used it with the same Snapstream recordings. The PSP is a huge improvement other than the fact that it doesn't fit in my pocket as well. (or at all)

Media Manager does a nice job of showing you how big the file will end up being AFTER it is encoded onto the PSP. Takes the guess work out of filling up your gig.

When you use Media Manager to move music onto your memory card it creates a folder for each artist automatically. Since there isn't much space for music on my card, I prefer to have all the files together in the main music folder. So I use file explorer to move the music.

I had no installation problems.

Over all I would give this a 7.5 just because of the menu refreshing issue, and the automatic folder creation for music.