PS3 backwards compatability...what gives?
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The worst part is that they made more effort on making retro compatibility with the shitty games from the PSone... yeah they're classics, but still most of them still suck, and i don't believe that many people buy them online...
They took it out to make it cheaper as far as I know.
It's not like that. The PS3 needs to emulate PS2 games, but it can run PSone games fine, because PSone games used standard discs. It's not because "they made more effort on making retro compatibility with the shitty games from the PSone"Orcus_35 said:
There are a lot of good GC games that were underrated (like Eternal Darkness) and old favourites that i love (Soul Calibur 2 [With Link] and the MGS 1 / Resi Evil remakesUnusualStranger said:
Only down side is you need to have a GC controller and memory card which go in under the top flap (Classic Controller wont work) though i use the GC controller for Smash Bros Brawl and Mario Kart Wii along with Virtual Console so its worth it to me to keep it anyway
They need to emulate the PS1 games too though, they arent run natively. PS1 Games are CD-Roms PS2 games are either CD-Rom (earlier titles) or DVD-Rom, all of which are "standard discs" so i dont see that argument working either...reg42 said:
Also like i said before on this thread the PAL PS3 60gb model used software emulation (not hardware like the US and Japan versions) to run PS1/2 titles so i dont see how that saves money, maybe a little R&D time would be to get it optimised for the slim but i cant see what would make the original emulator not be compatible.
Just to remind everyone...
Back when the PS3 was backwards compatible it was several hundred dollars more expensive. The drop in price is likely because they took out the Backwards compatibility.
As well At future shop and EB in my town the ps2 sells for 75$ CAD before taxes....
----Opinions past here----
Though i have a fat PS3 and i don't play my ps2 games anymore... I keep them for the memories they had but i played them to death. I also plan to sell my PS3 to my friend once i can afford the new slim ones, for no other reason then the much larger HDD. If i ever wanna play my old PS2 games i have my girlfriends PS2 we use as a dvd player in our bedroom. Though i haven't had the desire to do so in quite some time.
As well to the guy saying PS3's break down in a year or two with a yellow light of death... Well. I got mine three months after launch and she still works like she just came out of the box. The only time i have heard of one breaking is because a friend of mines mom stuck his on a radiator.... And it took three hours running for it to die
Back when the PS3 was backwards compatible it was several hundred dollars more expensive. The drop in price is likely because they took out the Backwards compatibility.
As well At future shop and EB in my town the ps2 sells for 75$ CAD before taxes....
----Opinions past here----
Though i have a fat PS3 and i don't play my ps2 games anymore... I keep them for the memories they had but i played them to death. I also plan to sell my PS3 to my friend once i can afford the new slim ones, for no other reason then the much larger HDD. If i ever wanna play my old PS2 games i have my girlfriends PS2 we use as a dvd player in our bedroom. Though i haven't had the desire to do so in quite some time.
As well to the guy saying PS3's break down in a year or two with a yellow light of death... Well. I got mine three months after launch and she still works like she just came out of the box. The only time i have heard of one breaking is because a friend of mines mom stuck his on a radiator.... And it took three hours running for it to die
I've played some Xbox games off the disc, it required me to download a patch though for each and every game I tried to play though.Snotnarok said:
Xbox360 doesn't emulate the Xbox. They actually do a minimalistic port of the game to the Xbox360 instead. That's why it has to be done for each and every game, rather than doing it once and supporting 97% of all games like the PS3's software solution was able to do before they dropped the GS chip.
They really did try to get it working, they may still be trying to get it working now. They had a team over in England working on it for at least 2 years before I heard the word that they had given up on full software BC. That was about the same time they announced that they were taking it out entirely. I've seen patents on EE emulation in the Cell since then, but not a peep about them actually taking advantage of them.
Thanks for the kind words.Hubilub said:
Yeah, It really is a bit of a niche thing. I love having my 20gig though. The only thing that can be gained from PS3's BC to PS2? Smoothed graphics scaled up to 1080p, and nearly unlimited storage of saved games. Even without the BC, if you buy the PS2 card adapter the PS3 makes an excellent library for saved game archival. You can copy the saved games to the PS3, then copy them to USB to archive them, etc.
Negatives? There's a slight delay in the rendering of the video on PS2 BC. This can be deadly for rhythm games. I actually switched Steambot Chronicles to the native PS2 because of this problem.
Actually, this only works if you have a PS3 that is already backward compatible. It doesn't work on the ones that aren't. All it is, is a partition emulator to let hard drive using games use the PS3's hard drive instead.stabnex said:
I actually played FF11 on the PS3. It was really muddy and low quality, but it works. It's better to play it on a PC if you have it, or even an Xbox360. Looking forward to FF14.
On the plus side, if it does break down, you can send it back to Sony to be repaired for $150 even without the original receipt. I've done this once to my 20gig PS3. (One thing to never do: Don't use your original PS3's for folding at home 24/7. I burned the graphics chip out in about a year and a half of folding.)Alphavillain said:
As I said, it's just something I'd like to see. I DO understand that there's a lot involved but when a company just drops something when they already set out to do it/had it working, but then drop it, it's disappointing. They are by no means bad consoles, and I honestly I shouldn't be complaining because I have all the systems (and a PS3 that is BC). But it's more of an irk that they had it going, but stopped.kazriko said:
It's just something I wish they kept up with, perhaps as a just in case the system DOES die and there's no means of getting another working one. Sure that's a bit of a hard situation to picture but these are disc based systems and they do break easier than say a Genesis or a NES because of moving parts.
Huh, did not know that.kazriko said:
But, still, I don't see the point in it if you have PS2 still. I've even used mine a few times since I got my PS3 (About a month, a month of pure bliss, mind you, but still). 80 used, 100 new, 70 for a used Fat. The used fat is a bloody new game in this generation, and since the PS2 games are dirt cheap now a days, what does it matter/
I can't see how anyone would care. If you have PS2 games you should have a PS2 anyway. If you don't have PS2 games then why the hell would you buy any if you have a PS3? Kinda obvious in my opinion.
If you really need a PS2 game then go buy a PS2. They are shit cheap. Less than what PS1 was when PS2 was the current console
If you really need a PS2 game then go buy a PS2. They are shit cheap. Less than what PS1 was when PS2 was the current console
