No, seriously. You don’t get it. I have, in my hands, a silver PSP. I am a good 10 miles away from my house right now. At my house, there is a Sony Playstation 3. In this Playstation 3 is an original Playstation 1 disc (Breath of Fire III if you must know).
I am playing Breath of Fire III on my PSP right now. As if I were at home.
With the newest round of firmware updates for the PS3 and the PSP (v2.10 on the PS3 and 3.80 on the PSP), the PSP’s Remote Play feature has been upgraded to allow the play of any original PS1 game – whether on disc or purchased through the Playstation Store, over the network.
Over a local network, the quality is perfect. Over the internet, as I am seeing it right now, the picture is slightly compressed and I can see some slight compression artifacting, but otherwise the game is perfectly playable. The music is spot-on.
You sign in to the PS3 with your PlaystationID, and you do the same thing on the PSP, and somehow they find each other. I didn’t have to open any ports on my router – perhaps there is a central server forwarding the remote play info to the PSP, I couldn’t say.
This is pretty much revolutionary. When I was a kid, and I had a weeks-long epic game of Final Fantasy or Legend of Zelda II going on my NES, I used to dream that I could somehow take the game with me when I left the house, and play it at school or at the store when I was bored while shopping with my mom.
Kids these days have no idea how good they have it.
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