"Playstation Store Soon Open For PC's" - Sony

[Piranha5p33d5]

It looks like people wanting their nostalgic WipE'0ut" fix for the PSP won't have to rely on PS3 transfers anymore. It was recently announced at the Tokyo Game Show that the Playstation Store will be accessible to PC owners. This privilege has already been extended to the Japan store, with US and Europe / PAL to follow suite.

Finally!

[lunar]

Great news, let`s hope we get the euro store soon, with loads of classic PS1 driving games for download!

[Rapier Racer]

There are about 8 classic games on the store and it's been that way for a while

[Infected]

Wipeout is enough! Im so happy about it! finally im gonna play Wipeout on my PSP without changing PSP firmware

[Rapier Racer]

And what firmware do you have? Some of the lower ones don't support the games.

[Infected]

3.71 so there will be no problems with running Wipeout on my PSP I will download for sure Wipeout and Crash Bandicoot I love both series so much

[Chill]

Crash Bandicoot would be good!!

[RJ O'Connell]

Wipeout and Jet Moto will keep me occupied for awhile, thanks. Oh and Wipeout XL once it's available in the US Network.

[chri5]

so can I download Wipeout on my PC yet to run on the PSP?

[Sausehuhn]

If you register between the 22th November and 7th December, you will get the original WipEout for free*
The game is then playable on PSP and PS3

*that's at least the case for Germany. Can't find the article for the rest of the world, but here's the german one.

[lunar]

You certainly can`t knock Sony`s pricing policy with all this PSN stuff, though I`m not sure if WipEout would be even playable on PSP. But it would look nice anyway.

[Rapier Racer]

It is playable on PSP

[lunar]

It looks amazing, loads quickly, and is really a very nice job, but a few laps of Altima and I couldn`t get the hang of playing it at all, just found the controller way over-sensitive. Hopefully I`ll find the technique and crack it in the end. Seems the physics are slightly different and the walls a little more forgiving than ye olde Playstation version, as I didn`t get turned upside down on internal view when hitting the walls, and I hit the walls a lot.

Judging by the colours, and the way your ship reacts when rammed by AI craft, this is based on the PAL version of the game.

edit:

Well I found out I was playing without airbrakes which didn`t help. Once the game is loaded, you have to press Home, then choose "Assign Buttons" then "Type 2" and then the brakes come on and it all suddenly becomes possible, and it really is great fun. It`s much more challenging to beat the AI than playing it on Playstation, but I`m fairly sure the handling is slightly more forgiving and grippy in the big ships.

[Medusa]

Wellll, I sign up for all these PS Store goodies to download to my PC...only to find that my Win98SE is not compatible with the installer. 2000 or newer only. !! Just need to bite the bullet and set up some wireless network for my PSP....

Sony sure covered their butts with that Privacy Policy (in real-speak: "We can track your life policy"...)

[stin]

What I`m curious to know what size of Wipeout for PSP?

stevie

[lunar]

91mb of happiness, Stevie.

[stin]

That`s brilliant and thank you cos, I just want to make sure!

stevie

[stin]

I downloaded few mins ago and played it, bloody hard game but I loved it!

stevie

Edit, Well, I got to admit, it`s absolutely fantastic feeling, also music is really good too.

Lastly, one thing I want to ask (foxy), is it eligible to enter the original records? (good question though)

[G'Kyl]

bloody hard game

Since when do you tend to make understatements?

;-)

Ben

[chri5]

bloody hard game

You can say that again, I totally forgot just how hard this came is. Wipeout pure has softened the game so much. Love it though.