This week I finally got around to enabling homebrew on my PSP. It was very easy, mostly thanks to my PSP being one of the old “Phat” models. I eventually found some suitable emulators and some questionable software – It was a bit tricky thanks to the gamut of sites that are mostly keywords designed to send you round and round in circles, hopefully luring you to click on their adverts for some revenue. But still, as the title says – I’m currently playing key Nintendo franchise Pokémon Leaf Green on my Sony PSP. It’s funny – I know this version is enhanced, I know the original ones were on the black and white Game Boy (I played Red and Blue when they first came out in the US), but this full colour one is exactly how I remember the game! I’m told that the graphics used to be that horrid shade of “Game Boy green” and black, and the monsters themselves were ugly, pixelated things, but I generally remember them as vibrantly coloured, beautiful creatures.
It’s been a delight so far. I’ve went with Bulbasaur as my starter, caught a Pikachu, beaten Brock, bought a Magikarp, beat up Misty, put the Magikarp in day-care (by the time I get back it’ll be a Gyarados, surely), traded a Nidoran♀ for a Nidoran♂ and am still wondering what to replace my awful Mankey with. Something will turn up.
Other classics I picked up are Sonic, Sonic 2 and Sonic 3 & Knuckles, Bubble Bobble, Wario Ware and some lovely Megadrive shooters: Biohazard Battle, Thunderforce III and Thunderforce IV, but none have grabbed me in the same way as Leaf Green has. When I do get a job, I may well pick up a DSi XL and one of them new Pokémon games – I hear there are Black and White versions, packed full of new features on the way.
