QUOTE(S4PH @ Aug 13 2009, 07:29 PM)
Izit worth buying Persona 1 for the PSX or better just play the PSP version?
Hmmm I quote again for you :
Persona was released in 1996, making it one of the few RPGs to be published before the boom started by Final Fantasy VII. It also features a somewhat infamous localization, which changed most of the character art and mangling much of the text, in addition to other somewhat aggravating issues. Atlus was a different company back in the day, and North American wasn't nearly as familiar with anime and other elements of Japanese pop culture, so the English script does as much as possible to convince the player that the game totally doesn't take place in Japan. Almost all of the major characters have been renamed to sound American and given a makeover - some are pretty minor, but one character, Mark, a strange guy with a rather eccentric fashion sense, was changed to an African-American for some reason.
All of this in spite of the fact that Persona is obviously a very Japanese game - where do you find Shinto shrines in America? Some odd things slipped through, as the Pharmacy song is still intact. If this butchering wasn’t enough, a whole chunk - the Snow Queen plotline, a huge alternate storyline, worth several hours of gameplay - was completely removed from the English version. Why? One story says there wasn’t enough time for Atlus to translate the dialogue - another says it would have been too hard for Western gamers. The American game in general has been toned down from the Japanese version, with fewer random battles and easier enemies. Regardless, Persona stands as one of the most atrocious translations in American RPG history, and while it doesn’t completely ruin the game, it does notably hinder it.
One of the more amusing parts of Persona is the Satomi Tadashi Pharmacy. Playing in the background is an oddly infectious, upbeat little tone with a funny little Japanese man singing. While the lyrics aren't anything too important - it just lets you know what items to use in order to cure various illnesses - it lends a lot to the bizarreness of Persona, especially since real life Japanese pharmacies tend to use annoying jingles like this. The song appears in various forms in Persona 2. Well worth checking out is Dale North's Northside Remix, complete with redone hilarious English lyrics.
Although the Persona titles did well in Japan, their popularity didn't really explode until the release of the third title in 2006. Due to this resurgence, Atlus remade and published the original Persona on the PSP in 2009. It might be a shocking change for fans who jumped on with the third and fourth games, because they don't share much in common beyond the monster recruiting and school setting, but it's still interesting to see how the series evolved.
Unlike many Playstation to PSP ports, Atlus did a lot of retooling to modernize Persona. There's a brand new interface, multiple difficulty levels, and many more save points. The game itself is significantly quicker, with a faster walking pace in dungeons and much speedier battles. There are new CG rendered cutscenes for key plot events, although nearly everyone "speaks" with subtitles - only Philemon is voiced, like the original game. A couple of the dungeons have some extra floors too. The soundtrack is almost completely new, in the style of later Persona games, which is a bit of a shame, because the original's soundtrack was pretty excellent. It still looks and feels a bit dated, but it's also signicantly more accessible than the PSOne game. And since it's also scheduled for North American release, English speakers can expect a more faithful localization.
Aug 13 2009, 06:21 PM
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im having problems with ps1 memory card as my Ps1 memory card is detected when in game but at the browser its not available why is that. 
pls pm me pricing if u can get 
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