Man inexplicably brings touchscreen to the PSP
By Paul Miller 
posted Aug 9th 2008 10:55PM
posted Aug 9th 2008 10:55PM
[Thanks, Craig]
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The PSP needs dual analogs before it needs a touchscreen...
YOU BEAT ME TO IT !!!
The PSP's biggest problem is emulating the PS and the PS2 without having a controller that properly emulates the control available ont hose systems. We don't need R2, R3 and L2, L3 but the analog sticks themselves are a must.
Imagine having both sticks and getting Call of Duty4 on there !
I played Rainbow 6 Vegas on PSP and was disgusted. The game looked great but without being able to properly look around (right stick) it felt totally wrong.
As for the touchscreen...if your gonna take the PSP down the iPhone route, speed up the CPU and add more onboard memory including a 4GB (or better) NAND drive.
I think its fine time for a new PSP to be released while we wait for Xbox 720 and PS4.
Just get a Pandora. It has everything. http://openpandora.org
:)
There is a dual analog mod already out! Its called the Razor and its made by those guys on www.acidmods.com
@atomicthumbs
So I went to http://openpandora.org
but I didn't find a way to "Just get a Pandora."
i found myself using the PSP for browsin the web more than playing games, to be honest.
would be nice to have the touchscreen for the keyboard... or something.
but i sold it and got an ipod touch. i woulda kept it but there wasn't many good games out at the time, i miss loco roco very much though :(
And if it gets a touchscreen, wouldn't it then need dual screens, since otherwise you won't see the action behind your fingers?
Hmm, dual screens. Someone should make a handheld like that...
@atomicthumbs
Why am I not surprised to see you here?
Yeah, buy a Pandora....whenever it's released.
A PSP touchscreen is useless, unless it's standard. I don't know why this guy went through the trouble.
If the PSPII will be all touchscreen then they will have a big problem with touch feedback. Maybe haptics will solve the problem but a dual analog, touchscreen PSP will rule. The UI is great. The device could have a better CPU and a SSD would be great. Put Bluetooth Object Push profile support in and you have a winner.
@atomicthumbs
So is this thing a handheld video game device or a UMPC/netbook? From the specs, it sounds more like a netbook without a mouse and with hand held video game controllers to me...
Openpandora sounds nice, except that nobody will develop games for it (it's 'open' after all), bit of a bummer to only have backgammon and solitaire on it I imagine.
I think that he does this by putting the psp in usb host mide with an external usb enabled microcontroller (such as some if the PIC 18Fs or arduino) getting coordinates from the touchscreen. 1337 setup huh.
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1ST POST! WOOT!!!
try fourth
try 17th
Try not. Do, or not do.
hell of a lot prettier than gluing a phone to the back of it.
never mind the first comment part. how old is this post 10 minutes?
there's already 3 more people!!!
i see what you did there.
I see what you failed to do there.
Excellent work! Finally, RTS gaming will be the way it was meant to be.
All we need now is an emulator running old PC Strategy games.
How about we use a PC to play PC games.
Or, wiseguy, we can have a way to expand the PSP genre library by adding a practical way to play RTS games.
lets just say you all tied for first, how about that?
unfortunately that probably isnt good enough for them. i say fight to the death is a better idea
Only if they all die and the world is spared from their genetics.
the psp does not need touchscreen.
what would be the point of it?
for browsing the internet?
for viewing movies/pictures/music?
as previously said, i would much rather get dual analogs before getting a touchscreen...
why not have a touchscreen?
have you ever tried typing on the PSP?
cool this is looking, now it just needs multi touch, then this
will be perfect
cool this is looking, now it just needs multi touch, then this
will be perfect
lam are you looking
double posts are you having
Weird you are talking.
omg dude... that was funny. +1 rank from me.
Paul Miller, your opening sentence is effing awesome.
WOOT 1+
"quixotic"
presumably in the manner of Don Quixote? Hmm. Nice word. *remembers*
KINDA LIKE THE IPHONE!!!!???
no, nothing like it
You should know by now that just thinking that word around here gets you low ranked.
Seriously, iPhone kinda like Plam too!
but the best thing about the touchscreen is we can put load p0rn application on it and.....
ok seriously MARSHAK just saying that sentence qualified you for hell.
the iphone is a curse word on engadget and anyone that says it should got hell...........i am alredy going there so there.
lol.
http://meow.catsplz.com/cats/pictures/234/I-see-what-you-did-there.jpg
Not like this is a serious place for discussion, but...
If the PSP had an iPhone quality multitouch screen, and Sony didn't DEMAND that people use the touch screen features to death like Nintendo does with the Wii's feautres and DS's features, it could be pretty cool.
Puzzle games would benefit, RTS's would be awesome (can't wait for one of those to show up on the iPhone), selecting menus is better with a touch screen (like battle menus in FF for DS).
@ the other guys sayin we need a new PSP, I don't think we need an upgrade just yet... at least I don't want to pay for another hand held lol
epic FAIL!
win.
This is ONLY for Homebrew and CFW PSPS.
Next version replaces (with) Analog.
And believe me,
HOMEBREW COMMUNITY makes atleast 20% of entire PSPs manufactured.
This man is going to be RICH, in a very short time.
haha!! HAHA LOOK CLOSELY AT THE DPAD WHILE HE PRETENDS ITS A TOUCH SCREEN. you can see a ghost of his fingers touching it the same time as he pretends to touch screen. just look closely. its a fake. haha you guys fell for it. he put two vids together.
Where? What time?
Don't do drugs and post at the same time perhaps?
His other hand is on the camera, you unabashed idiot.
It's obviously your stupid website in an attempt to scrounge money off of unsuspecting people in a bid to go buy a very expensive DSLR, and then leave the donators with nothing. And by the way your website is crap. and the answer is NO.
its just on one of the videos after!!
oh it actually did say it was a fake
See,
Ofcourse other videos ARE fake...
YOU'RE
ANNOYING.
I don't think that a touch screen psp would be the way to go. The ds solves the biggest problem with touchscreen gaming and that is that if you are using a finger to touch the screen then your view of the screen is blocked. Also most games for the ds that use the touch screen are kinda gimmicky, only a few really use it in a way that works well.
Christy Mcstrunz you're crap. If you want donate, do it...otherwise shut up pleease! If you'd really know what's a Canon 5D, you'll try to buy it. See you little girl.
Despite what your website says, buying a better camera will not make you a better photographer.