Virtua Tennis : World Tour

Tusky

Wow. Its really addictive and lots of fun. Ive only been playing quick games and after about 15 minutes play I seem to have mastered it. please tell me it gets harder?

How are yea finding it ?

kaisersose77

did u change the difficulty settings? hard is hard enough, havent tried very hard yet.

I thinks its very good but dont like the fact theres no save option in tournament mode as its gets hard at semi-final and final stages and you have to start all over again if u wanted to get to that again a few hrs later.

Dont be at yourself

If it's anything like Virtua Tennis II on the Dreamcast and PS2, it's a game that can, at times, require an almost zen-like concentration to master. It's one of those rare games that so incredibly simple to pick up and play, but takes months to really master.

Any more feedback on it? I'm considering picking it up, but I'd be interested to know what the loading times etc are like. Is the World Tour mode still there?

qz

Is this the PSP version?

kaisersose77

ye world tour mode is still there

heres a review:
http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=60726

Tusky

Yeah its the PSP version. I just put it up to hard and im still beating them fairly easy. Ive never played virtua tennis before..maybe its just the quick match thats easy.

Heres some more info.

quick match
tournament
exhibition
world tour
ball games ( baloon smash, blocker, blockbuster & Fruit dash )

Theres 16 peoples to choose from ( 8 guys, 8 girls ) & 2 unlockables.

Loading times inbetween games are around 15 seconds which is grand. However, after you win a point in some games it freezes for about half a second which is slightly anoying. The thing that has impressed me the most is the animations of the guys. They look real.

So far, really fun, really addictive and easy to pick up but a little on the easy side. ( ive only played quick match though )

kaisersose77

Ye quickmatch seems to be set to easy even if you have hard selected in the options. Start a tournament and you wont find it as easy in the latter stages.

Tusky

I just tried hard in exhibition mode and its alot harder than quick match...thankfully

steviec

I tried gamestop but they were sold out

That was the one in Santry, gonna try town over the weekend. They said this was the only PSP game they've sold out, I guess it's doing well!

Tusky

steviec wrote:

I tried gamestop but they were sold out

That was the one in Santry, gonna try town over the weekend. They said this was the only PSP game they've sold out, I guess it's doing well!

HMV Blanchardstown had loads. They were sold out of Lumines though which was a pain. They only got one copy in!

dregin

NekkidBibleMan wrote:

but I'd be interested to know what the loading times etc are like.

Loading times on most games can be considerably improved by ripping the UMD to ISO and running it from the memory stick. It also saves insane amount of battery power.

If you're on 1.52 the WAB downgrader will make this possible for ya.

Tusky

dregin wrote:

Loading times on most games can be considerably improved by ripping the UMD to ISO and running it from the memory stick. It also saves insane amount of battery power.

If you're on 1.52 the WAB downgrader will make this possible for ya.

Can you downgrade form 2.0 to 1.50 ? How exactly do you rip a UMD ? is it difficult ? whats the size of an average UMD ?

voxpop

tusky - check some of the other threads around,these questions have been answered loads - you cant (right now) downgrade from 2.0 to 1.50 only from 1.52 to 1.50.

kaisersose77

Ye as angry says you cant rip your games to the memory card atm with 2.00 and not with 1.51/1.52 yet either but thats supposed to change over the next few days. Theres a homebrew program that just rips the inserted umd to your memory card and saves it in iso format. UMD's can hold 1.8gb but i think most games atm are under 1gig.

dregin

Alot of developers are putting in fake "padding" data that bumps the ISO size up to 1.8 gigs. There are apps out there to strip these out. I got Tiger woods down to 760 megs from 1.8 gigs by taking these out. Made absolutely no difference to the game.

Furp

I got virtua tennis yesterday or so i thought, i was really looking forward to it, but when i opened the box the guy has put in world snooker champion becasue the back of that manual has the virtua tennis cover and he thought it was the right one, I cna;t belive i didn't check it, as I normally always check dvd's etc that i get in xtra vision, luckily they are changin it.

Although i'v spent hours playing Mercury which is also really addictive, more so than i thought it would be.

Ciaran500

So whats Snooker Champion like?

TinCool

dregin wrote:

Alot of developers are putting in fake "padding" data that bumps the ISO size up to 1.8 gigs. There are apps out there to strip these out. I got Tiger woods down to 760 megs from 1.8 gigs by taking these out. Made absolutely no difference to the game.

Mercury out already ? Where'd you pick it up ? that looks like a really cool game. Reminds me of spindizzy on the old Atari ST. Addictive as hell but as hard as an ass.

dregin

I'll sell you mercury for €30.

steviec

Mercury's still my fave PSP game. Until I actually get my hands on some of the new releases for Europe.

Has anyone played Race Driver 2 yet? There don't seem to be many reviews of it floating about. I love that series, wondering how the conversion is.

kaisersose77

ye a friend has it, looks very similiar to the version i played on the xbox, but I hated that game!

check the ntsc-uk.com forums, theres a thread about it and i think one of the game developers was replying in it. You can use custom soundtracks i think.