Comparison of PSP and PSP Slim - in the wake of smartZone podcast # 5

I received a letter from one of the listeners of our podcast.
In a slightly angry form, so to speak, with a few statements that go against the words we said in the podcast. As a result, the correspondence turned out to be an interesting overview of the advantages and disadvantages of PSP not only through the eyes of the owners of smartZone.ru but also from an outside observer.

below correspondence:

gadzilla69:

I will now express my personal opinion, simply, for the future. I listened to your post about comparing PSP FAT and PSP Slim. Comrade With all due respect to your artistry ... I would advise you to see at least the prefix config. What is 6 MB of RAM on FAT? There are 32 mb. On slim 64. In general, it was very unpleasant for me to listen to lies and nonsense, especially since you still did not reveal the main topic. The main advantages of consoles, I have not heard.

Talik:

Dear, you are wrong - for everyone there is at least one opinion about the keys of the old and the new psp. The
pros that we found for ourselves - we indicated in the podcast.
Probably for you these are completely different features - so pleasing to the core.
If you have a reasoned opinion about YOUR PROS and MINUS on psp and psp slim - you are ready to publish them on www.smartzone.ru as a separate material.

Regarding the RAM - the console is not a computer - the real amount of RAM has absolutely no value. I think you know perfectly well that only in the world of computers games are written and then they make iron, in the world of consoles, on the contrary, they make games for a specific iron and the user does not bother with his head but how many brains do my psp have and will the game start and so on ...

And where is the lies and nonsense ??

gadzilla69:

RAM is still an important point, it is still worth considering what it is used for. Data from a UMD disk, or from a FLASH-memory (almost no difference) is copied to the same RAM, and then roughly “picture” comes from it. How many models, textures, sounds will fit into your rough 6 mb? It's not even about them.

For the test, take the PSP with “custom” firmware, turn on the game from the memory card, for example, GTA: Vice city stories, and then remove the memory card. What will you see? The game continues to work as it worked, and the information remains in the RAM, the game only “loads” the model unnoticed by the player, and again uses its volume of RAM. By the way, yes, if in the same VCS “drive a car” further down the road, the road will soon become transparent - because there is no place to upload files, a memory card is not inserted. Well, this is so, for example, so that you can understand the essence of RAM in the console, that this is really an important thing. Tried to run GTA on FAT, and next to Slim? Accelerate by car and feel the difference. Firstly, on Slim, the movement of the car will be “thicker”, and the models will be loaded much faster.

This is all said as an example, but it all works in absolutely any game. And this is an undeniable plus. Regarding access to TV, as far as I remember, you said that this is basically an unnecessary thing. Have you tried connecting the PSP to a 40-inch LCD TV and enjoy the picture? Moreover, it is possible to watch movies in such a way that, in my opinion, is more than convenient - you can carry a portable multimedia center with you, while watching the same movies anywhere, playing games, and more.

Regarding the weight of the consoles - at my friend's FAT, honestly, I played for half an hour, it starts to “wring” in the hands. Unpleasant, for a heavy console. With Slim, I have been walking a lot for good, and his subtlety is almost annoying. But let's really look at things - PSP Slim, this is the same development, only improved, completed, completed. They added what we needed, removed what we do not need. and what you read on the forums, about how convincingly people kept saying that FAT is better, should not be taken seriously. This works according to the principle “My sandbox is better”, because you need to find an excuse why you will not change your prefix to a new version.

Talik:

Those who listened to the podcast carefully - will confirm - the final conclusion of my opponent is the same as mine.

such a dialogue turned out :)

as mentioned in the podcast for us, the strengths of the old psp are kernel support from firmware 1.5 and, as a result, the launch of emulators of old consoles such as NES, Sega, SNES
launch of homebrew to watch video in .AVI format without converting to mp4

otherwise psp slim - more pleasant in terms of time, performance and weight.

About the podcast:
The fifth issue of the podcast of the Territory of Smart Electronics - smartZone.ru

Having both versions of Sony PSP on hand, we argue what exactly became better in the new version of the console, and what fans of the portable console lost from the appearance of PSP Slim
The difference in configurations
Programs and emulators
To and what do you like in the end?
Podcast hosted by Talik and Ana

This podcast is another test of new equipment for recording a podcast. Unlike the previous recording options, when we used the Audacity program today, we used Skype and the MX program Skype Recorder as
recording stations for recording the dialogue. The Skype Recorder was recorded on the Asus EeePC.
But mixing the voice track and the music background was still in Audacity.
As a lining, an excerpt from the mix dj_iridium _-_ open_air_sunrise

You can download the podcast via the direct link
smartzone podcast # 5
size: 14 megabytes
duration: 30 minutes 32 seconds,
bitrate: 64kb / s

( C )