FYI

dont know how much games it affects but:

 

whoops!

 

That's like me complaining the first time I plugged in my Component cables to my PS2 and noticed all the Canvas lines on 3D sprites charcters in Final Fantasy 6. The game was made before Component video options were available, so those thin Photoshop lines at the edge of the character art weren't visible.

Yeah it, sux, but the games were made for a previous display type, so a cleaner display will show up with previously unseen artifacts.

 

That kinda sucks.

 

...except that the only way to avoid scanline artifacts in future PSP games will be to have no brightly colored or fast moving objects. A lot of fun, intense games that would get us. The scanlines are in the hardware, not the software.

 

Call me crazy but I don't think a hardware upgrade within one console's life cycle should make it's older games look worse. Perhaps people should just hold out for the PSP-4000 and hope for the best.



Sony: Sony Has "No Plans" To Fix New PSP Display Problems

 

Don't forget current & future games as well. The old games do not have scan-lines in them that the new screen is now exposing, The issue is with the screen itself. The 3000 would be a tremendous improvement if I were going to use a PSP as a still picture viewer. As it is, if and when I get a PSP, it will not be a 3000.

 

I'm happy with the 2k, never saw the screen as that huge of a difference to warrant buying a new one, not in comparison to 1K vs 2K.

 

I have the silver one that came with Family Guy & Daxter. Which version is that? The only other game I have for the PSP is Patapon.

 

I think that's 2K. Also I've been reading on some of the forums that while the issue is there, it's not nearly as bad as IGN is making it seem. It's not better than "not" having it, but it's not horrible either.

Like I said, I'll stick with my 2K, but I hope 2Ks remain an option, though I doubt it.

I have Ace Combat for my PSP and I play games like God of War on it, so I don't want too much of an interlacing issue. But it is nice if it makes for a better picture when plugged into my LCD which I do from time to time.

Oh and I didn't want to start a thread for this game, but on the topic of PSP, I picked up Star Ocean the other day. It's badass little update to the game

 

That comes with star ocean 1 and 2 right?

 

No it's just 1, but another one comes out in Novermber. I hope it's a remake of the PS1 game, with Claude. I LOVED that game.

This is First Departure, and I'm digging it so far.

 

How bad or not bad it is will depend on how irritated you are by interlacing effects. If watching non-progressive DVDs on a progressive screen without any de-interlacing doesn't bother you, you'll be fine. If having those lines through anything that's high-contrast and fast-moving bothers you, you'll probably get annoyed very quickly.

 

We get commericals like at at work all the time and air them in Prog. I try to draw attention to them and people barely notice them, some don't even see the big deal.. So personally, it would bother me because that stuff stands out when I see it, but some people think it's normal. Hell I had someone think that it was an effect in the spot.

So it wouldn't kill me, but I would notice it, especially in movies, which I watch a lot on my PSP..... at work....instead of working...

 

The Real Issue of PSP-3000

so i guess PSP-4000 will go back to the vertical way...