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Title: PSP play with Aibo - control your toy dog w/ a PSP
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on April 13, 2005, 03:27:14 PM
Wireless Watch Japan (WWJ) has found another use for your PSP

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In Japan, Nintendo just released the machine in four additional colors, packaging them with new virtual pet game, Nintendogs. Now WWJ has found out that Sony's PSP goes one better with a trick that will make technogeeks sit up and beg -- the Japanese version of the PSP apparently (and unintentionally) works electronic wizardry on Aibo the wonder 'bot as well! Japanese entertainment weekly Famitsu put the PSP through its paces in their 15 April issue and sure enough: pressing combinations of buttons on the PSP will make Aibo do different tricks -– no hacking necessary!
Don't know anyone with an Aibo but nice to see that Sony has left yet another loop hole in their system.

But it would be cool if the next generation Aibo was designed to work w/ the PSP - Camera in the dog gives you wireless video and you could also control where the dog goes and perform different tricks as long as the dog is in wireless range.  Could be used for all the wrong reasons, but it would be so much fun while it lasted.

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Title: RE: PSP plays with Aibo - control your toy dog w/ a PSP
Post by: Stimutacs Addict on April 13, 2005, 05:58:16 PM
aww.. cute puppy! oh you like to snuggle in my lap, dont you?  
Title: RE: PSP plays with Aibo - control your toy dog w/ a PSP
Post by: KDR_11k on April 14, 2005, 02:46:33 AM
Now all we need is a sniffer device that automatically sets all Aibos within range on self destruct.
Title: RE: PSP plays with Aibo - control your toy dog w/ a PSP
Post by: MaleficentOgre on April 14, 2005, 04:50:37 AM
that's actually kind of cool.  Its still cheaper and more efficient to go with nintendogs, but that is cool.
Title: RE: PSP plays with Aibo - control your toy dog w/ a PSP
Post by: KDR_11k on April 14, 2005, 08:30:10 PM
It's only cool until the robots start becoming self aware and desire to kill those human ressource hogs.

I wonder if there are access control restrictions implemented or if anybody can come over and use your Aibo to spy on you?
Title: RE: PSP plays with Aibo - control your toy dog w/ a PSP
Post by: Deguello on April 15, 2005, 08:53:23 AM
This sounds like the kind of idea that if Nintendo came up with it, there would be no less than 40 reactionary game site editorials about how Nintendo doesn't "get it."  I'm still waiting for someone to tell Sony connectivity is a bad idea.
Title: RE:PSP plays with Aibo - control your toy dog w/ a PSP
Post by: Flames_of_chaos on April 15, 2005, 11:50:35 AM
Oh look a expensive walking spy cam  go sorny praystation portible go!
Title: RE: PSP plays with Aibo - control your toy dog w/ a PSP
Post by: oohhboy on April 15, 2005, 07:50:31 PM
Nintendo did come up with controling a robot with a console first but it never had anywhere near the capablities the Aibo has considering this was back in the NES days.

Robotics isn't a game. Give me a cat any day.
Title: RE: PSP plays with Aibo - control your toy dog w/ a PSP
Post by: KDR_11k on April 16, 2005, 10:03:38 AM
I'm still waiting for Sony to make an android girl... Then we can be sorry for her because she's a Sony and will live maybe two years before going "Disk Read Error".
Title: RE: PSP plays with Aibo - control your toy dog w/ a PSP
Post by: kirby_killer_dedede on April 17, 2005, 08:47:36 AM
Think waht "Disk Read" might mean.
Title: RE: PSP plays with Aibo - control your toy dog w/ a PSP
Post by: KDR_11k on April 18, 2005, 08:54:39 AM
Unfortunately there's no universal expression for Sony's modes of failure like MS's BSoD. Also, who says Sony wouldn't stuff a harddrive into a heavily moving device? Okay okay, that's more like "Primary Master is not bootable, replace disk and strike any key" and bad blocks popping up everywhere but the system wouldn't report that as "headcrash".
Title: RE: PSP plays with Aibo - control your toy dog w/ a PSP
Post by: KDR_11k on April 19, 2005, 09:14:02 AM
BTW, this article was a fake.