PSP out in August??

[A Black Falcon]

I'm not talking about ports or original titles, I'm talking about how they could pass for SNES games. You said that the PSP will basically be a portable PS2, as if that were a bad thing. The GBA is like a portable SNES. See where I'm going with this

No, because the GBA is more powerful than the SNES. Yes it has ports but not exclusively and it's more than just a portable SNES.

Yeah, the Gameboy was totally just as powerful as the SNES.
So... what you're saying is that it's bad that the PSP is so powerful and that Sony should have made it as powerful as say, the PSX in order not to have games looking as good as ones on their current home console? Forgive me for not understanding your inane logic. If all of the games end up being PS2 ports then that would be bad, but that's not what is going to happen. Sure there will be plenty of PS2 ports just like there are tons of SNES ports on the GBA, but there will also be plenty of original content, and the ratio of ports to original content will increase after the PS3 comes out.

Now if you were to say something like "Handheld games should be 2D, and not just SNES-quality 2D like the GBA but more like Baten Kaitos 2D" then I'd agree with you. But calling a handheld too powerful because you've run out of real reasons to complain about it is just plain stupid.

Game Boy - 1989. SNES - 1991. :)

Okay it wasn't quite a portable NES, but it was very close. Almost identical except for the color... later titles like Mario 2, Wario Land, the Kirby games (not to mention Link's Awakening!) prove that... they may not be as long as NES titles but except for the color you can't see much of a difference. Yes, the GBC was closer to the power of the NES. But its biggest addition was the color, I'd say...

And I'm not saying that it's power is bad, but that their clear intention to use it for direct ports of major-console titles (seemingly as the main group of games) isn't that great... especially since they are CURRENT games. At least SNES ones are old and out of print!

Oh, on the subject of the Game Boy, I was playing some GBC games... and went back to the old question 'which are the best GBC games?'. Now my top 4 is obvious -- the two Oracles titles, Mario DX, and Bionic Commando. Ages is the best. But after that... I just don't know. At the moment I'm feeling like Bionic Commando (Elite Forces) should be second, but ... above Zelda? But Seasons isn't exactly the best Zelda game, despite how good it is...

Anyway, my real point was to mention something (again, I'm sure, but do I care? :) ). Bionic Commando: Elite Forces on a GBA. Oh, I've mentioned the brightness problem many times before (it only looks right under DIRECT, very bright light -- unlike any of my other GBC games. It's like the brightness setting was knocked down a few notches...), but I'd forgotten about the bugs... the crash bug, to be specific. Now tell me if it's just my copy, but when I play it in my GBA, the game will freeze when I try to start a stage (on the 'select item' screen) if I've done (at least) one of the overhead missions since the last time I finished a level. So you can't fight any overhead missions, because after you do and try to enter a level the game freezes... makes the game a bit hard. And you can't go to the secret levels at all... I thought it might be the cart, but I checked my GBC and it worked fine...

Oh, on that note, is it easy to replace the screen cover for the GBC? Mine is in amazingly bad shape, with a lot of scratches in the middle of the screen... it looks almost white in places...