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[Marty Chinn]

So I'm sitting in my living room tonight and I decided to hook the PSP up to the receiver to play some Lumines and it was cool to have the music fill up the room. Then I looked up at my 50" HDTV and started thinking, damn, this would look so awesome on it. Anyone else hoping they make a console version? Heh my g/f for a second thought I figured out how to hook up the PSP to the TV. =)

 

[Wario64]

I just want Lumines, PERIOD. But if I had to choose, consoles definitely. The game demands a kick ass sound system, just like Rez. I don't think I would have enjoyed Rez as much if I played it with crappy speakers

 

[newsguy]

Marty, how do you hook the PSP up to your receiver!?!?!? I have a 6.1 setup and I would love to hear the Rotterdam Nation Remix from Ridge Racers in Dolby PLII. TELL ME MAN!!

 

[ourumov]

In theory PSP was capable of 7.1 but well...no more news about it appeared and people stopped talking about it. But I didn't know the games were making use of multiplexed dolby digital effects (DPL II)...I think they should have add an optical IN/OUT input.

 

[Socreges]

I do, very badly! Unfortunately it sounds like it didn't sell well enough to justify a port (or sequel).

 

[TheUnknownForce]

I would. It's the most interesting game I've seen of the PSP. Now, I'm going to go out and say that a majority of PSP games would be playable on a normal TV without any major problems, besides the low polygon models appearing worse.

What I'm trying to get at is whether or not we will see a PSP or DS-to-TV adaptors.
I mean, they both have items to get TV signals. Why not go the whole nine-yards.

 

[Gattsu25]

I'd rather play it using headphones as it's never quiet around here

 

[dog$]

me me me me me me me

What I'm trying to get at is whether or not we will see a PSP...-to-TV adaptors.

I'd still only view a PS2/etc version as worth considering.
I'd never believe such an option to be "legit".

 

[Marty Chinn]

Marty, how do you hook the PSP up to your receiver!?!?!? I have a 6.1 setup and I would love to hear the Rotterdam Nation Remix from Ridge Racers in Dolby PLII. TELL ME MAN!!

I just fed the headphone jack as a line out to the receiver which I hooked up with a pair of stereo rca cables on the receiver end. Works pretty well. Heh I notice you post on avsforum =)

I think what I love about Lumines is that it doesn't have the problem that most puzzle games have which is rare. What I'm talking about is the lack of the ability to spaz your way out of a situation. If things get hectic in most games, you can spaz your way out and tend to get lucky about half the time. I've always hated that. Tetris Attack which I love was extremely guilty about this. Tetris, Magical Drop, and now Lumines are some of the few puzzle games where you can't spaz your way out of a situation.

 

[chespace]

I just fed the headphone jack as a line out to the receiver which I hooked up with a pair of stereo rca cables on the receiver end. Works pretty well. Heh I notice you post on avsforum =)

I think what I love about Lumines is that it doesn't have the problem that most puzzle games have which is rare. What I'm talking about is the lack of the ability to spaz your way out of a situation. If things get hectic in most games, you can spaz your way out and tend to get lucky about half the time. I've always hated that. Tetris Attack which I love was extremely guilty about this. Tetris, Magical Drop, and now Lumines are some of the few puzzle games where you can't spaz your way out of a situation.

I love hooking Lumines up to the speakers in my office or the sound system in my car and cranking the bass/volume. With the sound turned up, you really feel as though you're contributing musically to each of the songs as you turn/move/and drop your pieces. It's fucking awesome.

True, Lumines doesn't let you spaz out of a situation -very often- but you can still get very lucky. You don't know how many times I'd get a second lease on life just as I was struggling to stay afloat, thanks to the lucky placement of a magic block.

Best puzzle game evar. Too bad the versus mode isn't more... I don't know, robust.

 

[duckroll]

I love hooking Lumines up to the speakers in my office or the sound system in my car and cranking the bass/volume. With the sound turned up, you really feel as though you're contributing musically to each of the songs as you turn/move/and drop your pieces. It's fucking awesome.

True, Lumines doesn't let you spaz out of a situation -very often- but you can still get very lucky. You don't know how many times I'd get a second lease on life just as I was struggling to stay afloat, thanks to the lucky placement of a magic block.

Best puzzle game evar. Too bad the versus mode isn't more... I don't know, robust.

Yeah I just love the fucking rare moments in Lumines where you think you're dead, it's all piled to the top, there's little to no hope, then you drop a special block with all the same colors in the block on a line that just happens to connect to just about all the blocks of that color on the field and you go "OMG OMG OMG YAY THANK YOU LORD!!!".

And yeah Versus mode is pretty random and simple, you can't afford to pull off big attacks and it's all about being faster and luckier than the CPU. But versus mode does have all the BEST skins for playing in single skin mode so I guess we can look past that.

 

[newsguy]

I just fed the headphone jack as a line out to the receiver which I hooked up with a pair of stereo rca cables on the receiver end. Works pretty well. Heh I notice you post on avsforum =)

You've uncovered my identity, I'm too lazy to change my name I'm going to try hooking up to my receiver but it may be a pain cause I have a switcher. I ordered Lumines based on the positive posts in the strategy/high scores thread. It should be here soon.

But I didn't know the games were making use of multiplexed dolby digital effects (DPL II)...

ourumov, what I meant is that the reciever would do it's own "faking" of the DPLII when I fed it a stereo signal. I didn't even know that the PSP would support anything but stereo so that's interesting.

 

[newsguy]

Marty, I tried with the RCA cables buy I had no luck. I may be doing it wrong. I have the headphone extension which is male to female. I hook the male end to the PSP and the female end to an RCA cable, then the RCA to the receiver. All I get is static when I trun on the PSP. Am I doing something wrong?

 

[Amir0x]

I just want Lumines announced for the US on PSP first.

Then we can think about all that other fancy stuff.

 

[Drek]

I'm so importing this for my PSP come late march.

 

[Socreges]

I'd rather play it using headphones as it's never quiet around here

Your television has a headphone jack.

 

[Marty Chinn]

Marty, I tried with the RCA cables buy I had no luck. I may be doing it wrong. I have the headphone extension which is male to female. I hook the male end to the PSP and the female end to an RCA cable, then the RCA to the receiver. All I get is static when I trun on the PSP. Am I doing something wrong?

It doesn't sound like it, but I'm a bit confused on what the female end looks like? Is it a splitter with rca connectors at the end? The cable I'm using is a male headphone jack on one end and two rca male jacks at the other. It's just one cable. Oh ya, heh turn up the volume, I had to turn mine up a bit louder than normal before I could hear it.

 

[ZeMMiK]

Give me Lumines on a CONSOLE!!!
:lol