This is a small sampling of my E3 prospers and finds. I had the pleasure of playing a new game for PSP called Loco Roco. Straight from the Japanese game designer ‘Tsutomu Kouno’s brain. The quality of the demo is best described by playing it yourself. Its a 2D side scroller, but you would never even pay attention to that technical detail. The imagery, sound and gameplay are so enthralling your locked into this kindof Loco Roco trance while playing it. Its a great game for adults and kids alike. The controls are so simple. its the left and right triggers to tilt your world landscape left or right by varying degrees and if you click the two triggers at the same time, it jumps one way or the other. Thats it!
The object of this game is to gobble up as much flowers and fruit as possible in each level and grow your little yellow rolling blobby guy. As you grow in size it becomes harder and harder to roll up steep slopes, etc. But wait, there is a special feature to break your rolling blobby guy into smaller rolling blobby mini guys. So if you need to squeeze through a small gap, or escape from a monster into a secret passage, you can at the flic of a button. This feature comes in handy! So, withought further ado, I send you the link to download the demo for PSP from the Japanese site for Loco Roco…
Download the Loco Roco Demo
Some caveats before you read through the page link provided and try to download the game demo (its in Japanese)…
• WARNING: You need to be running the latest Firmware on your PSP 2.70, this update disables any hax0r type downloads from working, so no more MAME or whatever dev stuff your goofing on PSP. If you have or want to keep your Hax0r type mods intact DO NOT update your firmware and stop here…
• If you want to do the update… then first go to your PSP control panel and select Network Update. Once you are done with this process, then move on to the next steps…
Before you copy the demo to your PSP, you need to create a couple of folders in your PSP directory structure to copy the game to once its downloaded…
1. Go into the PSP folder
2. Then the GAME folder (if you dont have one in there, make one right now)
3. Then create a folder called ‘UCJS10041′.
This is where your going to copy the downloaded Loco Roco Demo file.
At this point go to the Japanese site as translated by Babelfish.
Loco Roco Demo for PSP
Once here scroll towards to bottom, and click on the Download link at the bottom of the page. Once clicked a file called ‘EBOOT.PBP’ will start downloading to the desktop of your Mac or PC. Once downloaded, just copy the file into the newly created ‘UCJS10041′ folder.
At this point you need to restart your PSP for the file to be available as a playable demo. Once your PSP has restarted, navigate to the folder on your memory stick duo and select the splash screen for Loco Roco, it will start up the demos introscreen. Its all in Japanese, so be ready to just use your CIRCLE button alot to get to the game play. Once again the controls are SIMPLE, the L and R triggers and the circle button for special powers. Have fun!
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