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Anyone pick up Atari Advance for PSP?

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Posted Tue Jan 29, 2008 12:28 PM


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View Postchris_lynx1989, on Mon Jan 14, 2008 1:10 AM, said:

Anyone pick this up yet?


Thanks for making me laugh.
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View Postwgungfu, on Sat Jan 12, 2008 8:35 PM, said:

I have to say, I truly agree with much of what's been said here about this release. My own opinion is that they should have called this "Atari Classics Devolved".

Pong is yet again another failed attempt to capture the arcade version, and I'm almost glad my technical adviser credit never made it in, because it looks like very little of it was followed. Besides the problems with Pong, all the emulated games are of poor quality. The emulated graphics on some of the games aren't much better than the GBA collections (including the vector lines which are fat and blocky). There's almost 0 original sounds as well - tempest's almost sounds like it was sampled off of those lcd keychain games. How hard would it have been to include samples from the original, the PSP is certainly capable of supporting them?

The "updated" versions are terrible as well. The graphics and game play can only be described as typical shareware/homebrew style. I.e. low level untextured 3d graphics with overdone lighting, obligatory mushy color explosions everywhere (in an attempt to say "look, modern explosions!"), etc. In some cases as people have reported, they move to far from the original game play and as someone said to me, from the very formula that made the game popular in the first place.

Just doesn't make any sense. Have to chalk it up to people not as familiar with the games as they should be being hired to develop it, and a starving management desperate to get a product out for Christmas (which they wound up missing anyways).

Thank you! this is exactly how i feel about this game the other thing that burns me up is i payed money for this thing i should have unfettered access to all portions of this game and not have to complete idiotic tasks to unlock things.
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i have been unable to find this game at any store around me.
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http://www.amazon.co...0...amp;x=0&y=0

http://www.gamestop....amp;find=Search

http://www.walmart.c...duct_id=7080076

http://www.overstock...tari%20classics
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i was hoping to find it locally before I went online. I don't like purchasing new games online. Not sure why.
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View Postkroogur, on Mon Feb 4, 2008 5:46 AM, said:

Thank you! this is exactly how i feel about this game the other thing that burns me up is i payed money for this thing i should have unfettered access to all portions of this game and not have to complete idiotic tasks to unlock things.


I downloaded a gamesave from a Google search and it unlocked all the 2600 games. Not a big deal to access them if you really want to.

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This game is pretty much terrible all around. The Evolved games aren't interesting enough to warrant buying it, and the regular versions of these games, both arcade and 2600, are emulated so poorly, it almost feels like they rewrote them for one of those crappy NES-on-a-chip emulation toys, and then ported them to PSP.

MAME4ALL PSP and PSP2600 both deliver flawless emulation of all the games in this collection, and a whole lot more that atari stupidly left out.

Don't waste your money. Dowgrade your PSP to Custom Firmware and download the Emulators. You'll be much happier.
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Well i got this one today but haven't had the time to play it yet. Hopefully it isn't too bad.....
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finally found this locally, not worth $20. waste of money.
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Played some of this last night. Yeah, it wasn't that great. At least I got a portable version of asteroids now.....
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How do you reconfigure the 2600 controls so the fire button isn't a shoulder button for player 1? I can't seem to figure it out even though I've selected each controller configuration.

Barely even worth it at that, nothing sounds halfway right even.
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yeah, what the hell genius decided to make the default fire button the shoulder button, and the left one at that? fricking retards.

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Yeah, I was shocked how bad it was. I hadn't had a chance to give the 2600 section much of a try until last night, I was hoping that would redeem the rest of it. But its even worse...
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It would be sweet if they had an updated version of Yars Revenge in there :twisted:

I would just drool
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just picked this up at Wally World and god it sucks. hard.
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