The PSP Show #28 - Steve Lycett [TOCA Race Driver 3 Challenge] Interview
The PSP Show #28 - Steve Lycett [TOCA Race Driver 3 Challenge] Interview
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Bit of a difference in today’s show, as I junk the whole news and reviews and sit down with someone in teh PSP scene - so I called up Sumo Digital to speak to Steve Lycett. He’s a long term PSP producer, with titles such as TOCA Race Driver 2, Outrun, Virtua Tennis and Go Sudoku. But what I’m interested in is TOCA Race Driver 3 Challenge, one of the games that I am looking forward to (wish I remembered that when someone asked me last week in the show).
Normal service resumes for the next show, so feel free to ask questions in teh comments, more suggestions for reviews,and sites to look at. And if you want to be subtle, ewanspence@gmail.com works as well.
Tags: PSP, podcast, TOCA, TOCA Race Driver 3 Challenge, Codemasters.
January 23rd, 2007 at 2:46 am
great interview! i missed out on the first TOCA game, never again. online multiplayer would’ve made it the ultimate kick a$$ racing game for the psp but i guess the (4player) game sharing mode makes up 4 all the short comings. now if only i could find 4 people with a console to play with.
January 23rd, 2007 at 10:00 pm
Nice show,Enjoyed the interview ! Roll on the next PSP podcast !
January 24th, 2007 at 5:08 am
hey ewan, nice show there!
I was just wondering if you could give me some details on the connectivity with the psp to the ps3, i have heard about remote play, but i don’t actually know what it dose. Just wondering if you know anything, and will it be worth buying a ps3 in the UK when it comes out, because of the psp?
January 24th, 2007 at 10:43 am
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January 24th, 2007 at 1:20 pm
can u do mpo? cheers
January 25th, 2007 at 9:37 am
Me again, just listened to your podcast again (music was on shuffle) and Steve Lycett said that their going to introduce the custom music if you have mp3’s with no conversion to a differnt format needed. But i just realised that tiger woods PGA tour 07 already dose this…..Just pointing it out.
January 25th, 2007 at 8:38 pm
Heyup,
I didn’t know that Tiger did it, but after a quick spot of research, it seems you can’t play the MP3’s during a round (so during actual gameplay).
You can in Toca mind, basically we use the sound hardware in the PSP to decode the MP3’s for us, which doesn’t have a hit on the CPU (which is the way they’re doing it in Tiger I would guess) and allows you to still have the same framerate as you would if you weren’t playing the music.
Anyway, I stand corrected, so I won’t make the same bold claims next time someone asks me about it
January 25th, 2007 at 8:46 pm
Steve, I think you should always make bold claims, after al;l the development cycle means Sumo and the Tiger coders probably worked ‘in secret’ on this idea at the same time. And maybe it will become a “standard” thing to include in all PSP games (Imagine Lumines with Flight of the Bumblebee… yeek!).
What’s important to me is that (a) you’ve engaged in the conversation here on the blog, and (b) you’ve engaged honestly and openly. I think that’s great, and hope others take the same opportunity!
January 25th, 2007 at 11:00 pm
nice thoughts, I dont have anything to say but:
um ewan in your post it says (a) but where the hell is (b)?!
haha
(Ewan syas… yeah yeah yeah, it’s fixed now)
January 26th, 2007 at 1:25 am
hi, great show. You can alos add your own mp3’s in NBA live 07, which is great as i am not a big fan of the tracks on there! anyway great show, keep it up!!
January 26th, 2007 at 3:29 am
LOL - Like I said, I try and do some unofficial community support
The stuff we used to put the Custom Soundtracks into Toca 3 is available to all Sony PSP devs now, so with any luck it’ll become a more common option.
Still it depends on what you’re doing though, for example, it’s not something that’ll be in Driver 76, since we need all the memory for something else. I suspect they’d be able to get away with it in something like Lumines though, where you’re not streaming loads of data all the time.
January 27th, 2007 at 6:48 am
Hell Yeah. 3.03 exploit!
January 27th, 2007 at 5:49 pm
yeah I hope you are gonna at least say something about it ewan! the new 2.00-3.03 exploit, works with the old GTA.
.. trying to make some cool questions for you!
ooh how about:
Now the new exploit is there, what are you gonna do!?
I got 3.03 OE-C, and have fullscreen good qualtiy movies on my Memorystick! and I backup my games for protection.
January 27th, 2007 at 7:56 pm
Im really jealous right now! I really want 3.03 OE-C!