Nah, I ran down TWO batteries in one day. I'm a sad bastard, I really am
Nah, I ran down TWO batteries in one day. I'm a sad bastard, I really am
OK so assuming no new battery is coming, read whats been said about how long the current battery would last, but no one has taken into consideration how much the PSPs wireless function guts the battery, I'm going to make a bet that if Pulse runs at 333 you won't get more than an hours worth of online play out an official PSP battery. I know there is a good chance you will be at home anyway when playing Pulse online but what about when you try to play ad-hoc at a mates house?
Don't know about the others, but all my mates' houses have the luxury of electricity ^^but what about when you try to play ad-hoc at a mates house?
Both, purE from stick, Virtua Tennis 3 from UMD. I had my screen brightness remembered wrong, though. It's on 3. On 4 it costs about another hour.Are you sure you had it running for that long? Did you use UMDs or were you loading stuff from your memory stick?
Another note: I turn off my display everytime longer loading times occur, like when starting a game, loading a tournament in VT3, ... and have the PSP muted pretty much anytime I navigate through menus or do other stuff than actually play.
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Yes, but then you are telling me I need to remember to carry my power adapter with me? Cables? What happened to it being portable..
Also one adapter between 2 PSPs doesn't work so well that was tested on Kai lol
Fine, it's no power plant, sure. But seeing a PSP's abilities as a handheld (this is quite important for my apologia ), its battery performs very well. Also, my experience was based on spontaneous cumulated handheld gaming. You on the other hand described gaming behavior that's beyond simple portable pick up and play on the bus or where ever, but tells of something you planned. When I know I'm gonna play for hours with my mates I can be expected to bring some cables.
Yeah, my PSP only goes up to 4 when it's plugged in. You had it at "max" anyway, and that's the important point. 8 )
I have no idea how long my battery will last, it's never even gotten to the "low" stage. If I could find 4 consecutive hours for gaming where I couldn't plug in... well, I probably wouldn't be a dad. 8 D
If I know I'm staying somewhere I just leave the thing plugged in my room, car, etc. So it shouldn't be a terrible issue for myself...
I beg to differ kind sir!
Compared to other handhelds, it's not that great. I have a DS, and all GameBoy's and all of them are capable of lasting 10 hours straight. Of course, they don't have Wipeout, but that's not the point
I love the PSP. It's sexy, it has good games (should have more...) and the screen blinds me with pleasure. But really, I hate it's battery life. I like carrying my handhelds anywhere I go, and I really can't do that anytime I want with the PSP. I turn it on just to find it only has 17 minutes of sexyness to give me. Nah. I need sexyness for MORE consecutive time.
Of course, I'm young (20), always on the move, living life at it's fullest! I'm not going to carry that big charger and cables around. It's just not healthy for my status quo.
Jokes aside, PSP = good. 5000mAh PSP = better. DS = even better
Cheers!
And then there's always the option to buy a 2nd battery
Which I've been considering for some time now. Didn't do so already because I live in a dream where Sony is going to release a truly powerful PSP battery and not just a 200mAh increase.
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I don't really mind the battery life, but then I always seem to be near a power outlet. Either that or I don't exhaust the battery in the time I'm away from one.
Still, it'd be nice not to have to even think about it - charge it every few days and just forget about it. Unfortunately, I wouldn't want to sacrifice anything my PSP gives me for greater battery life.
I leave it on standby permanantly because it's set to download a bunch of podcasts at 7am every morning, and I play it every day, so for the demands I make of it I'm happy enough.
The only problem with a second battery is that you lose anything saved in sleep mode when you swap them. I always make sure I save up when I see the low battery light before swapping over. No problem with the date/time though
Indeed. I just found out that one has to input the time and date when batteries switch. That's actually a good thing for me since I really never know what day it is. The PSP forces me to remember or at least it forces me to go check it.
Nice feature. Take that DS.
Ok, now I'm confused
You do need to reset the date and time when you swap batteries, or you do not?
Not that re-entering the date/time is that hard but I am curious about this.
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I can however confirm that you do need to reset it when your PSP falls out your pocket and bounces down the stairs.
At RR: Oeps it bounced down the stairs!! And you only had to reset it and then it work again?! It's just like Fisher Price!!!