P3 is my favorite Persona too, I've played from 3 to 5 and a year ago or so I tried the first one for PSP, man, what an outdated gameplay, the random encounters were so fucking annoying, and it's kinda the same on Persona 2 I see, not even Nocturne had that many random encounters, but the cheats are a very good option if you don't want to hate the game in the end.
How long are the games though? I'm curious about that.
Yeah, we’ll see if I muster up courage for Persona 1 since it sounds like gameplay is dated.
Since I used cheats with a PSP emulator on my PC, each game (both Innocent Sin and Eternal Punishment) took me about 20 hours. It’ll probably take MUCH LONGER if you don’t have cheats.