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Nov. 12th, 2015 03:14 amTested that PSP out with The Legend of Heroes II: Prophecy of the Moonlight Witch. System works, but it turns out I need a memory stick in order to save any data.
Mom and I had agreed to let me pay her the amount she already paid for it if I'm to use it beyond testing and it works. That, of course, is a moot point, because I'm not interested in buying something to wait around for first when the point of playing it in the first place is to actually keep myself busy while having a break from writing.
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Also turns out that the LoH series in general has a rather convoluted history. For starters, it turns out that that game is actually the third game's latest remake in the series, with I and III being the fourth and fifth respectively. (To be fair, though, both here and in Japan, all three games in question were released less than a year apart from one another, so no surprise there if Namco-Bandai just happened to finish "II" before "I" while working on all of them as simultaneously as possible.) So, I guess I could say that I actually have the first game of the initial PSP trilogy.
That, however, says nothing about the actual first two games of the series, both released in Japan for multiple systems between 1989-98, ending with an updated co-re-release for the Saturn and original Playstation (unless you count both games' Mega Drive versions on the Wii Virtual Console since 2009). Of those two, only the first got released here ever, and even then, only for the TurboGrafx-16 CD, and there are currently no translation patches for any version of either game either.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legend_of_Heroes
And then there's the fact that the series itself actually spun off from another series called Dragon Slayer, consisting mostly of action RPGs (as opposed to the turn-based RPGs that these games are), and of which few games were ever released stateside. Of those, only five different translation patches have been made to date, three of which are for different versions of one game (Romancia), and only one altogether for anything other than the MSX or MSX2 (neither of which I've ever played anything for, let alone on any emulators for experience).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_Slayer
All things considered, my best bet might just be to play the aforementioned TG-CD version of Dragon Slayer: The Legend of Heroes I for now. Hopefully, running that on an emulator shouldn't be much more trouble than with Sega CD or 32X games on Gens.
Mom and I had agreed to let me pay her the amount she already paid for it if I'm to use it beyond testing and it works. That, of course, is a moot point, because I'm not interested in buying something to wait around for first when the point of playing it in the first place is to actually keep myself busy while having a break from writing.
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Also turns out that the LoH series in general has a rather convoluted history. For starters, it turns out that that game is actually the third game's latest remake in the series, with I and III being the fourth and fifth respectively. (To be fair, though, both here and in Japan, all three games in question were released less than a year apart from one another, so no surprise there if Namco-Bandai just happened to finish "II" before "I" while working on all of them as simultaneously as possible.) So, I guess I could say that I actually have the first game of the initial PSP trilogy.
That, however, says nothing about the actual first two games of the series, both released in Japan for multiple systems between 1989-98, ending with an updated co-re-release for the Saturn and original Playstation (unless you count both games' Mega Drive versions on the Wii Virtual Console since 2009). Of those two, only the first got released here ever, and even then, only for the TurboGrafx-16 CD, and there are currently no translation patches for any version of either game either.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legend_of_Heroes
And then there's the fact that the series itself actually spun off from another series called Dragon Slayer, consisting mostly of action RPGs (as opposed to the turn-based RPGs that these games are), and of which few games were ever released stateside. Of those, only five different translation patches have been made to date, three of which are for different versions of one game (Romancia), and only one altogether for anything other than the MSX or MSX2 (neither of which I've ever played anything for, let alone on any emulators for experience).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_Slayer
All things considered, my best bet might just be to play the aforementioned TG-CD version of Dragon Slayer: The Legend of Heroes I for now. Hopefully, running that on an emulator shouldn't be much more trouble than with Sega CD or 32X games on Gens.