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[GrayFoxPL]

I've been meaning to complete covenant, I only stopped playing it because my X button went on the fritz, and I literally couldn't use the Judgement ring.

Been meaning to get that one to.

By the gods man! So do you stare at the title screen and flip between "New Game", "Load Game" and "Options" the whole time?

Buy a new joypad!

 

[Cruzader]

Guys i have a question. Since Sony has released the 40 GB PS3 with no BC then will they continue adding BC fixes for the 60 and 80 GB PS3s in their future updates or are those types of software emulation updates over with?

Kind of unfair for the 60+80GB PS3 owners...

 

[Arthursw1]

Guys i have a question. Since Sony has released the 40 GB PS3 with no BC then will they continue adding BC fixes for the 60 and 80 GB PS3s in their future updates or are those types of software emulation updates over with?

Kind of unfair for the 60+80GB PS3 owners...

They better continue giving support i was trying to play GT4 after i installed firmware 2.0 and still dosen't work (US 80GB)

 

[tanod]

Guys i have a question. Since Sony has released the 40 GB PS3 with no BC then will they continue adding BC fixes for the 60 and 80 GB PS3s in their future updates or are those types of software emulation updates over with?

Kind of unfair for the 60+80GB PS3 owners...

There was a thread about somebody's DMC3 SE working now after 2.0. They're definitely still tweaking the emulator. I'm also gonna guess that they're working really hard at a full PS2 emulator for the 40GB model.

 

[BeEatNU]

I'm curios....the 40GB version of PS3 can play ps1 games right but not ps2?

 

[dallow_bg]

I'm curios....the 40GB version of PS3 can play ps1 games right but not ps2?

That is correct.

 

[Gokurakumaru]

That depends more on how your TV handles deinterlacing than anything else.
FF XII (and X-2 I believe) have 60 fps interlaced FMVs, and that's a little more rough on the, err, overly simple signal processing in many LCD TVs than most of the other things that can happen in a game.

I'm runnning PAL FFXII on a standard definition tube set over composite. Not sure what the issue is but both FFX when I ran through it a couple of months back and FFXII play back FMVs with blurry frame transitions and seem to be dropping frames horribly. What sets are you guys playing on?

 

[BeEatNU]

That is correct.

yay thank you sir

 

[GrayFoxPL]

Tested few more games. (Note, I haven't tested most of theese before).

Taito Legends 2 - Works like before. Thank heavens. One of the best classic game compilation. Darius Gaiden, G - Darius, Super Space Invaders, Space Invaders 95, Elevator Action Returns, Dungeon Magic - all awesome .

Ridge Racer V - seems to work fine like on PS2.

Burnout 2 - Graphical glitch - parts of the cars are bright white like rear lights, whole underside and others. Some traffic cars like trucks are whole white. Playable thou, runs great besides that. (Still better damage model then NFSS :lol). Forgot it had widescreen.

We Love Katamari - runs and sounds great. No problems.

 

[Zombie James]

Fire Pro Wrestling Returns
Nine times out of ten it'll boot up improperly deinterlaced on the 80GB model.

 

[Dali]

There was a thread about somebody's DMC3 SE working now after 2.0. They're definitely still tweaking the emulator. I'm also gonna guess that they're working really hard at a full PS2 emulator for the 40GB model.

I don't think this is ever going to happen. People that bought the 40GB PS3 knew it didn't have PS2 BC and bought it without any promise of it ever having PS2 BC. Sony would need to start emulating the GPU of the PS2 in order for this to work and that seems like a huge, costly undertaking (if it is even possible) when the whole purpose of the 40GB SKU was to lower costs. They might continue to tweak the PS2 emulation that is assisted by hardware PS2 components, but I wouldn't hold your breath for PS2 emulation on PS3's with no PS2 hardware on board.