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Does anyone know where I can get some Persona (the whole series) PSP wallpapers. I've tried resizing the ones here, but they always look a bit pixelated (even in Fireworks). I've trawled millions of PSP sites but all I ever find is Anime, Gears of War, Halo and porn.

I'd love some links, if you can.

Or, if anyone has any experience re-sizing pics and the like, I would most appreciate it if you would be kind enough to re-size some for me or even make some.

Thank you.

NB aerozero, just reminding you - the PSX games I want are all PAL region.

FF7
Star Ocean - The Second Story
The Legend of Dragon

Do the regions matter? I wouldn't think so as the PSP is region-free. Just checking.

Also, could you tell me what you've got happening on your PSP? I assume it's homebrewed. I just wanna know what the homebrew is capable of (I know, but from a persons perspective).

OK - I'm just warning you I might hafta be led by hand through this, but I'll try my utmost.

My PSP is V3.40.

And.....dammit. A brick wall. I don't own Lumines.

Edit: I'm downloading V3.50 now so it'll just be easier when I do get Lumines. Plus it's something to do in the meantime >.<

Edit No.2: Phew. Reading up on this is hard work. aerozero, I've read up on everything I can and I'm pretty sure what to do. The problem is....why do I need Lumines? I read Dark Alex's step by step (amazing guy) but he doesn't say what I actually do with Lumines. Help?

Yeah, I've found a good one and I'm waiting for my registration email.

I own all the games I want on PSP (PSone games, mostly rare RPGs), I just need the emulator itself. I don't think that's illegal - it's illegal if you own the ROMs but not the games themselves.
I think homebrew is where you change the skins and all that on your PSP, but I think it encompasses everything as you said. What worrys me is the upgrading/downgrading stuff. I have a V3.40 PSP at the moment and it would be annoying if I had to buy a special game (Lumines apparently) to be able to downgrade, upgrade and have the OE.

It's all so confusing....

(I had a look through the rules and I think I'm allowed to talk about this)

Basically, I want to know what it is. Is it an emulator or something else?
I've just found out that Sony will make me pay £450 for a console I don't want right now to download old PS1 games off their (incredibly limited) list, which they will also make me pay for (even though I own the games). I would like to know what an emulator is also (I know what it does, but naught else). I've been looking for one for ages but they're all so damn complicated >.< so I need some help.

I wonder if it's more of a "finally, more gay characters in a game, so I'll take what I can get" kind of thing, though lol.

I think the tailer brothers are as much a French stereotype as homosexual. I still think they're hilarious and I'm glad one of them had a comeback in SH3. The "Biker lovers" were just taking the piss out of biker boy American stereotypes which was quite funny.

Thanks for the help. Looked better than ImageShack but I guess I'll find out later.

Yeah, it is heavily based on Serph's demon design. Of course, it's just an idea now but I really want to do a nice inked version of it with bits added, taken out etc.

I remember calling my Devil Summoner character "one black god" in Japanese. I've lent out my PS2 at the minute so I can't play it.

I think I called the character in Lucifers' Call Hito Shura/Schwarz Angelo (what was I feeling when I came up with that one).

I always loved Vishnu, Brahma and Beelzebub from Lucifer's Call.

My favourite of all time though is The Harlot. Her design is awesome and has a lot of symbology going on. Her attacks kick demon arse too.

I have a 170 hour DDS1 file - played it, leveled to the max, did all the sidequests and got all the mantras on my first Cycle, then blasted through the second playthrough, max leveled, beat the Demi Fiend and then went onto a third Cycle to just mess around. I love that game.

Yeah, I often beat Covenant around 55 hours and From The New World around the same.

Awww. No male/male dating? Shucks. I wanted Akihiko

As an aspiring concept designer, I thought I might upload one image I like. I drew this myself in pencil, scanned it in and was hence annoyed at the crappy quality.

This is line art for a monster/character I'm designing for my game project (I go to uni). It might be basic and mono, but I was quite pleased.



Sorry for the overly large picture, but I'm new to this whole image hosting lark.

NB As you can see, this is signed (it's dated but you can't see it). Don't try it (you know who you are).

[Fran:]

Fran: I hate to say this but though Fran has potential to be an awesome character she is simply eye candy for the fellas. Despite her intelligence and battle prowess all she is going to end up being known for is "Rpg slut desperate male gamers want to tap the most." Poor Tifa suffered a similar degrading rep. Still because I'm a guy...I liked having a nice ass to look at. I know I'm awful. This was  the type of girl I did pay attention to in HS. Sadly though they looked hot like Fran they weren't  as helpful or nice as Fran.

I agree. I admit it - Vaan, Balthier and Fran were my party members for the whole game. Vaan because I thought I should, Balthier because he's suave and Fran because I liked her weapon stances.

Fran was possibly the most interestingly designed character, but she is a walking otaku fetish. She's a bunny girl (hell, why didn't they make her a neko-girl) about 6ft tall with very tight, black bikini armour and she holds her weapons in her mouth as her victory stance. She's cool, but it's painfully obvious what she actually is.

She also was the most disappointing in terms of development - when Vaan asked her "How old are you?" in Eruyt Village it would've been so cool if she explained more about herself. The fact that she stamped off was a poor narrative choice on SE's part. I could've cried when I watched that scene (she was my favourite character up until that point).

Uh? The gay jokes were offensive to some people?! That's taking it too far  - I mean, it was a bloody joke and no one I know thought it was offensive. On the contrary, everyone I know who has played Covenant found it hilarious and I don't mean that in a laugh-at-gay-Joachim way, but in a wow-this-game-is-brave-enough-to-make-that-quip type way. The Man Festival was awesome.

Squall was weird for me. I hated him at first because he was a conceited arrogant elitist snot but then as the game progressed further he grew past his pettiness and became a good person that gave a damn about others. It was an interesting metamorphosis from a negative extreme into a better opposite extreme.

That's exactly what I loved about him. He had a complete character change and the love-story between him and Rinoa touches me everytime I play it. I suppose that's why I don't like Vaan much as well - he doesn't go through much or any change. His "journey" is crudely symbolised by the airship he gains at the end and I don't feel he gains much out of the journey.

Each to their own I guess.

Regardless, in an RPG world full of kiddy storylines, SMT and Shadow Hearts are some of the few that stand out.

I thought it was pretty cool, the Devil May Cry 2 Dante (my favourite one) was in Lucifer's Call. Capcom love cameo-ing their characters in other games and I was pretty spiffed with Dante being in my group. It's not like he hugely affected the storyline or anything, so why not?

(I love that comic kekeke)

In the FFXIII trailer it shows that girl doing somersaults, but I don't know if she is the main character. Or that black-glad bloke with the wires.

I can see when people say they like Vaan for the "just going along for the ride"ness. I like my lead characters to have a bit more depth to them though - a bit more a link to what's happening around them, however the scenes when Vaan and Penelo kidded around with each other when they got to a new place were quite heartwarming - shame there weren't enough of them.

To be honest, I'm the sort of FF-player that loved Squall (loved his story to bits), so Vaan was never going to click with me.