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How to play Kosmodrones on your PSP

Back to the days of side-scrolling shoot-'em-ups

How to play Kosmodrones on your PSP
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Remember those heady days of Turboraketti or Gravity Force on the Amiga?

Of course not. You were too young but as part of our continuing education programme at Pocket Gamer, we're happy to provide the opportunity to experience what all us old farts considered fun back in the day of steam-powered calculators and properly-floppy floppy disk drives.

So this week's How To will see us getting homebrew side-scrolling shoot-'em-up Kosmodrones running on your PSP. It sports many of the features from those classic games of yore while introducing some of its own as well.

Download Files The first step is to download the files you will need. If you are tidy little bod you may want to collect them together in a folder on your PC. You need to download the following: - Kosmodrones (v1.02, 44MB): here" class="releaselink" target="_new"> How to scratch DS 1
Unzip the files The first step is to unzip the Kosmodrones file into a folder on your PC. 1. Unzip the Kosmodrones_v102.zip file that you downloaded during Step 01. 2. Keep the folder to hand on your desktop or similar location. How to scratch DS 2
Copy files on Memory Stick Duo This game requires a homebrew enabled PSP with custom firmware 3.xx or above. 1.50 or 1.00 firmware is not currently supported. 1. Copy the entire Kosmodrones folder to PSP/GAME on your memory stick.
Start game You can now fire up Kosmodrones on your PSP: 1. Remove your memory stick from your PC. 2. Insert into your memory stick into your homebrew enabled PSP. 3. Navigate to the Game menu and run the game which should be the first item in the list. How to scratch DS 4
Play game Once loaded the game controls are as follows: 1. Select New to start a new game. 2. The default keys are as follows: Left Trigger: Burst Fire Right Trigger: Single Shot Square: Fire Explosive X: Thrust Triangle: Detonate Explosives Nub: Steering How to scratch DS 5
Check high score progress The game uploads high scores to a central list. Check your score as follows. 1. Open browser 2. Navigate to the high score page of the Kosmodrones' website - here 3. Click on one of the level links to view your score for that level. Further information can be found here As ever, check out our past How Tos to discover various options for increasing the functionality of your PSP and DS. How to scratch DS 6