Saturday, September 30, 2017

TV on UMD: Red Dwarf


Released only in England it is basically a collection of outtakes from the series.

Original series ran from Feb 15, 1988 to April 5, 1999

Plot 
The main setting of the series is the eponymous mining spaceship Red Dwarf, which is 6 miles (9.7 km) long, 4 miles (6.4 km) tall, and 3 miles (4.8 km) wide and is operated by the Jupiter Mining Corporation. In the first episode set sometime in the late 22nd century, an on-board radiation leak of cadmium II kills everyone except lowest-ranking technician Dave Lister, who is in suspended animation at the time, and his pregnant cat, Frankenstein, who is safe in the cargo hold. Following the accident, the ship's computer Holly keeps Lister in stasis until the radiation levels return to normal – a process that takes three million years. Lister therefore emerges as the last human being in the universe – but not alone on-board the ship. His former bunkmate and immediate superior Arnold Judas Rimmer (a character plagued by failure) is resurrected by Holly as a hologram to keep Lister sane. At the same time, a creature known only as Cat is the last member on board of Felis sapiens, a race of humanoid felines that evolved in the ship's hold from Lister's cat, Frankenstein, and her kittens during the 3 million years that Lister was in stasis.

Collection of clips


No Nonsense Review: Activision Hits Remixed PSP

For fans of the Atari 2600 only even then they should be warned the games don't play full screen, only in a small box....unless you hit the select button and they do become full screen.


No Nonsense Review: After Burner: Black Falcon PSP

Literally one of the best shooters I ever played.

Tuesday, September 26, 2017

TV on UMD: Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo


reverse






Original run October 5, 2004 – March 29, 2005

Episodes 24

Plot

The story takes place in the far future of the 51st Century, during the year 5053.

While visiting Luna for the festival, Viscount Albert de Morcerf and Baron Franz d'Épinay make the acquaintance of the Count of Monte Cristo, a self-made nobleman. When they part, the Count promises to visit Albert in Paris. After he arrives, he introduces himself to the most powerful families in France (the Morcerfs, the Danglars, and the Villeforts).

The general plot of Gankutsuou, while broadly the same as the novel on which it is based, changes many aspects of the source material. In the novel, the narrative arc follows the Count chronologically; in the anime, the story begins with Albert and Franz meeting the Count on Luna (which occurs, in Rome, many hundreds of pages into the book), and the Count's back story is pieced together throughout the series. The anime's plot includes futuristic elements, talking about space travel, computer systems and robots, different fates for some characters, the disposal of several side-plots, and an altogether different ending.

DVD

Originally released by Geneon Entertainment in 2005 in six DVD compilations and was distributed by Madman Entertainment. FUNimation has now gained the rights and released the complete series in a 4-DVD package on April 28, 2009 and not currently available.

UMD

Only 1 was ever released which contains the first 2 episodes of the series. "At Journey's End, We Meet" and "Until the Sun Rises on the Moon"

Funimation has made the entire series available to watch on YouTube



Bonus




Saturday, September 23, 2017

No Nonsense Review: Scarface... Money, Power, Respect PSP




Does the words one of the lamest games I ever played mean anything to you. The whole game is one gigantic pile of poo, you would think you get some action sorta on par with GTA. If you did you would be disappointed, all you get a RTS game where you build up your territory with drug houses, thugs and pushers. Even then once you go after another's territory all you character do is stand in one spot and shoot the crap out of each other. In fact, the only thing you have any control over is which rival to gun down.

LAME

Thursday, September 21, 2017

The DS Ruins Everything: Open Season (the game)

This is my 3rd in my direct comparisons of PSP vs the DS, a system which I have been told repeatedly by DS owners is either equal to or has graphic powers greater than the PSP. Then why is it when I do these comparisons the PSP always wins.

Open Season PSP


Yep another kid's game and when you're an adult and try to play this you know you're not a kid anymore. A simple series of tasks that must be completed to continue...a time killer at best.

But compared to the DS version?!!!



No wonder the PSP version always wins

Wednesday, September 20, 2017

TV on UMD: Family Guy

Total number of seasons as of this post: 15
Total number of episodes 289 (as of this post)

Personally, I think it would be silly to post this series plot or even a clip



Family Guy volume one season 1 & 2



Season 1 - 7 episodes
Season 2 - 21 ""

As far as I know of only 2 volumes were released of 4 UMDs each

Family Guy volume two Season 3

Total number of episodes 22


Family Guy Presents Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story
All-New, Outrageous, Uncensored!

                                                                     USA Cover



                                                          British release cover


Inside cover





Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story is a 2005 direct-to-DVD animated comedy film set in the Family Guy fictional universe. Released on September 27, 2005, the film's main plot point concerns Stewie Griffin trying to find who he thinks is his real father after seeing the man on TV. He travels to San Francisco, only to find that the man is him from the future. The DVD contains commentaries and a sneak preview of the American Dad! Volume 1 DVD.

The UMD only has the film

The film was written to be a feature-length direct-to-video film based on the series.

Fox eventually aired the special as three separate episodes for the Family Guy season 4 finale in May 2006. Fox had several scenes cut out, new scenes put in, and other scenes altered to make it only 66 minutes long. The shortened and separated versions of the three segments – "Stewie B. Goode", "Bango Was His Name, Oh!", and "Stu and Stewie's Excellent Adventure" – were aired on May 21, 2006.

Family Guy The Freakin' Sweet Collection


Inside Cover





episodes in this volume

When You Wish Upon a Weinstien
Road to Rhode Island
To Live and Die in Dixie
I am Peter, Hear me Roar
Lethal Weapons

Bonus






Monday, September 18, 2017

TV on UMD: Creature Comforts






Original Film: 15 July 1989
                                        Series: 4 June 2003 – 11 December 2011
                       Total Number of episodes BBC 26 plus the animated short, CBS 7

PLOT

Since the series is basically the same as the original short.  I feel it best describes both the best.

The original Creature Comforts short film was five minutes long and was conceived and directed by Nick Park and produced by Aardman Animations, featuring the voices of British non actors in the same vein as the "man on the street" Vox Pop interviews. It was produced as part of a series called Lip Synch for Channel 4. The film won Nick Park the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 1990.


The film shows various animals in a zoo being interviewed about their living conditions. These include a depressed gorilla, a Brazilian puma and a young hippopotamus who complain about the cold weather, the poor quality of their enclosures and the lack of space and freedom.


By contrast, a tarsier and an armadillo praise their enclosures for the comfort and security they bring, and a family of polar bears talk about both the advantages and disadvantages of zoos for the welfare of animals. Rather than the subject being one-sided or biased towards one viewpoint, there is a strong balance of opinions in the film, with some interviewees who are happy with their living situation, some who are not, and some who have a neutral opinion.


The voices of each character were performed by residents of both a housing estate and an old people's home. Stop motion animation was then used to animate each character, and the answers given in the interviews were put in the context of zoo animals. The polar bears were voiced by a family who owned a local shop, while the mountain lion was voiced by a Brazilian student who was living in the United Kingdom, but missed his home country.

                                                                UMD

Contains all 13 episodes from the original series, but not the animated short and was the only Creature Comforts UMD ever released.

                                                                  DVD

A total of 4 DVDS were released BBC series 1 and 2, a Christmas special "Merry Christmas, Everybody and finally the American series. All are currently out of print but can be watched on YouTube, thanks to Aardman who made the series.

                                                       Original Animated short


Friday, September 15, 2017

TV on UMD: Cowboy Bebop


Bonus




Original run April 3, 1998 – April 24, 1999
Episodes 26 

PLOT
In 2071, roughly fifty years after an accident with a hyperspace gateway made the Earth almost uninhabitable, humanity has colonized most of the rocky planets and moons of the Solar System. Amid a rising crime rate, the Inter Solar System Police (ISSP) set up a legalized contract system, in which registered bounty hunters (also referred to as "Cowboys") chase criminals and bring them in alive in return for a reward. The series' protagonists are bounty hunters working from the spaceship Bebop. The original crew are Spike Spiegel, an exiled former hitman of the criminal Red Dragon Syndicate, and his partner Jet Black, a former ISSP officer. They are later joined by Faye Valentine, an amnesiac con artist; Edward Wong, an eccentric girl skilled in hacking; and Ein, a genetically-engineered Pembroke Welsh Corgi with human-like intelligence. Over the course of the series, the team get involved in disastrous mishaps leaving them out of pocket, while often confronting faces and events from their past: these include Jet's reasons for leaving the ISSP, and Faye's past as a young woman from Earth injured in an accident and cryogenically frozen to save her life.

The main story arc focuses on Spike and his deadly rivalry with Vicious, an enforcer for the Red Dragon Syndicate. Spike and Vicious were once partners and friends, but when Spike began an affair with Vicious's girlfriend Julia and resolved to leave the Syndicate with her, Vicious attempted to have Julia kill Spike. Julia goes into hiding to protect herself and Spike, while Spike fakes his death to escape the Syndicate. In the present, Julia comes out of hiding and reunites with Spike, planning to complete their plan. Vicious, having staged a coup d'Ă©tat and taken over the Syndicate, sends hitmen after the pair. Julia is killed, leaving Spike alone. His heartbreak feeds his desire to kill Vicious once and for all. Spike leaves the Bebop after saying a final goodbye to Faye and Jet. Upon infiltrating the syndicate, he finds Vicious on the top floor of the building. In a final battle, Vicious is killed and Spike severely wounded. The series ends as Spike descends the main staircase of the building into the rising sun. He falls to the ground, leaving his ultimate fate ambiguous.

UMD 
Even though the case says volume 1 that was the only volume ever released and it contains the first 5 episodes of the series. Including Asteroid Blues, Stray Dog Strut, Honky Tonk Woman, Gateway Shuffle, and Ballad of Fallen Angels.

DVD

A complete set was released on 12/16/2014 and is currently available

Video of a complete episode

Cowboy Bebop- Episode 5 Balled of Fallen Angels




                                                          The Movie is excellent




Thursday, September 14, 2017

PSP APP and Homebrew Site

Yes there really is one It's The ISO Zone.com they have everything from custom firmware, games, emulators and believe it or not OS' you can actually run on a PSP. It even goes one better than some sites it tells you which PSP version whatever is posted actually won't work upon. It even has some official game demos.

No Nonsense Review: Syphon Filter Dark Mirror PSP



My first reaction to this game was WOW!!! and I hit the Training mode option by accident. The game is incredible. Graphics even for the PSP was great, even the feel of the game feels perfect for you actually feel like you're on a mission. 10/10

2 suggestions though be sure you do the Training Mission unless you know the controls (and I do mean know the controls as your life depends on it), and you might have to use a YouTube gameplay video to figure out where you have to go...if you were like me and was unsure where you had to go 1st..

No Nonsense Review: Star Wars: Battlefront II PSP

I was actually disappointed when I saw the gameplay, really to me it felt more like a game of "Capture The Flag" than anything else.

Good for killing time or a moments of boredom

Tuesday, September 12, 2017

TV on UMD: Aeon Flux

This is the first of many posts that covers what TV series were released to the PSP on UMD. Since some of you may not be familiar with the series I will try to include whenever possible a clip of the series.

First up Aeon Flux






Number of seasons 3

Number of episodes 16

Series ran between November 30, 1991 – October 10, 1995

The PlayStation Portable (PSP) handheld system received a 2-Universal Media Disc set release of the complete animated series in January 2008 only release to ever do so. This set included all ten digitally remastered episodes and the original MTV pilot and shorts.




DVD release was released on November 22, 2005 the only difference between the 2 is that the DVD includes clips of the ill fated movie.


Series clip



PLOT


Æon Flux is set in a bizarre, dystopian future world. The title character is a tall, leather-clad secret agent from the nation of Monica, skilled in assassination and acrobatics. Her mission is to infiltrate the strongholds of the neighboring country of Bregna, which is led by her sometimes-nemesis and sometimes-lover Trevor Goodchild. Monica represents a dynamic anarchist society, while Bregna embodies a police state—referred to on one occasion as a republic by Goodchild. Although Bregna is shown to be repressive, in the first full-length episode, "Utopia or Deuteranopia?", Clavius, the president deposed by Goodchild, is described by a questioning journalist as having been democratically elected. In the same episode, an upper house of parliament is also mentioned by the character Gildemere.

Monday, September 11, 2017

Talkman PSP


Maplus The Forgotten PSP Attachment





Would you believe me with this and a specific UMD, it turns your PSP into a GPS system

(It was only available in Japan)

Saturday, September 9, 2017

PSP Apps

I decided after looking around to share what PSP apps I have. This download includes the Comic Book Reader and the SenseMe Channels.

You can download it HERE

Then place the unzipped folder in the PSP folder on your device

I also have a comic book in that MNB file format Sony used for it's Comic Book Reader. I am unsure if it will work on yours, all you need to do is unzip the folder and place it in the PSP main directory. The same place you find both the music, picture and other folders.

You download the comic HERE 

Really I tried copying my LICENSE folder into another PSP to see I could read it there. I am so sorry it wouldn't work for me. But it is something more a memento of what Sony once had available.

Thursday, September 7, 2017

Printing Your Own PSP Covers

Ever since I got my brand new printer HP Officejet Pro 6978 I have been driving myself crazy trying to figure out how to print game covers. You see my old printer was easy all I had to do was set the size of the image and it would print it perfectly. But not this printer, through a couple of programs I have on my PC they were either coming out either too big or too small, but generally way too big. Either way nothing I could exactly use. Then today at work it hit me after I saw a coworker was print some images using Office.

Using this as my guide a list of game case sizes and my own PC and Open Office I am happy to say it worked.

You simply open a new document and insert the cover image then adjust the size of the image to whatever size you want and then hit print. I assure you I did this with both Open Office and regular old Microsoft Office and it worked both times

Here are the sites I found game covers

The Cover Project

All CD Covers

No Nonsense Review: Star Wars The Force Unleashed PSP




Fun, Fun, FUN I was completely blown away by how well this game plays. First of all, it's fun playing as Darth Vader, the locations actually appear as if they could be found in any Star Wars film. But the addition of the force powers, except for the PSP graphics that this game could easily appear on the PS4 or Xbone . Really it's that good, and then some. I can't praise this game enough, if you're a Star Wars fan, especially of the earlier films. As the game takes place between films 3 and 4 it's a must own.

No Nonsense Review: Spider-Man Web of Shadows - Amazing Allies Edition PSP



I really can't believe I am saying this, I picked up the PSP but I am playing the same game that once appeared on the Sega Genesis. Really the only difference between the 2 is that you can choose what Spider-man says. In other words, get the Genesis version it plays better.

Monday, September 4, 2017

PSP Humor



“Pennsylvania State Police”

Me: "You mean 'PSP'?