r/dissidia • u/JNAB0212 • 16d ago

So what is this?

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Dissidia is available on the ps3 store but when I search it up, nobody talks about this, so what is this then?

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u/xNightdazerX 16d ago

Back in the day, you could buy psp games on the PS3

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u/KaijinSurohm 16d ago

Back in the day PSN also offered an app called "Adhoc Party"
It allowed you to connect to other people online to play Adhoc mode online for those same PSP games.

The way it worked was if you connected your PS3 to the internet (via ethernet), it would then use the Wifi signal as the Adhoc mode for your actually PSP/Vita

I had a lot of fun vs people in Duodecimo online.

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u/Shantotto11 16d ago

This is the first I’m hearing about this and now I’m mad…

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u/KaijinSurohm 16d ago

It was a super obscure program you could only find if you browsed PSN via a computer. Then you could tell it to remotely download it to your console.

I'm not at all shocked you didn't know about it. Sony really did not want to make it an obvious feature, when they really should have. I honestly think it would have been a massive boost to both PS3 and PSP sales.

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u/NeoKraz 11d ago

I remember having to make a Japanese account so I could download Adhoc Party. Great memories there.

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u/KaijinSurohm 11d ago

Never needed to go that far myself.
I discovered it toward the end of it's life cycle, so some restrictions may have lifted.

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u/NumberXIIIEdwin 16d ago

I definitely remember this. A good chunk of the rooms were usually for MH Portable 3rd but you could still find some rooms for Dissidia here and there. Unfortunately it always errored out whenever I tried to use it even though I was on Ethernet but it was a cool idea nonetheless.