Yesterday afternoon I finally caved in and purchased something that I had my eye on for quite some time – a PlayStation Portable. I also picked up a couple of games to go along with it, including Dissidia: Final Fantasy to satisfy my Square-Enix fanboy tendencies. Naturally, the wrappers were torn off the second I got home, the PSP’s charger got plugged in, and the instruction booklets were thrown into the massive tub-o’-manuals beneath my kitchen sink. For the next three hours I sat impatiently waiting for the silly thing to finish charging.
As soon as I noticed that the charging indicator had turned off, I plopped myself down in my living room rocking chair to fiddle with the unit’s display settings. The XMB menu was fairly easy to navigate since I was already used to it from both my TV and PS3, so I had made the necessary changes in no time flat. It wasn’t until I attempted to play Dissidia, however, that I started to encounter problems.
Like other PSP games, Dissidia has a standard option that allows you to install a portion of the game onto a memory stick, letting you play the game with less loading time than you would have if you solely relied upon the UMD disc media. Since this was a brand-new PSP, I decided that I had nothing to lose by opting for the largest installation file size option…and promptly got treated to a message that said “installation will take approximately an hour.”
I sat the PSP down (on edge) on the end table next to me and decided to go make supper while it was installing. Forty-five minutes, a plate full of spaghetti, and a sink full of dishes later I returned to discover that the installation had been aborted. Apparently the PSP had fallen flat on the “cancel” button when my cat decided to treat the living room furniture as his own private playground. Not exactly the wisest decision on my part, leaving it unattended.
Since I actually wanted to play the game for a bit before I went to bed, I decided to re-try installing it in my office. This time though I left the PSP on my desk face-up - well out of reach of the devil with fur – while I was cleaning the mess I call a workspace. Another 30 minutes later or so and the game finished installing.
After playing the game for about an hour I decided that I should make sure that I had gotten the most recent system update before going to bed. I set up the MAC filters on my wireless router, configured the wireless networking settings on the PSP and…nothing. The thing didn’t respond. I tried entering the WPA passphrase a second time to make sure that I didn’t miss any characters, but still it wouldn’t connect to the network. I even tried doing it a third and fourth time to verify that I wasn’t doing anything wrong.
It was at this point that I started to panic a bit. I had just purchased a new gadget and it wasn’t working properly. Disappointed, I sat down to see if I could find anything online that would help me troubleshoot the problem. It wasn’t until had been browsing Sony’s support site for at least 15 minutes that I realized I had never turned on the WLAN switch.
Apparently there’s a reason why you’re supposed to read instruction manuals…
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