PS3's Backwards compatibility in doubt?

[Carl B]

I think having an old NES lying around in the livingroom is a very classy piece of Retro furniture. Better if open with the cart sticking out.

Well, I don't wholly disagree WRT the NES, if only mine worked still...

(who else used to do the 'blow on the cartridge, blow in the console' trick to try to get things going when it seemed it wouldn't 'boot'? Or all the rumors of stuff like, 'They've got Mario 9 in Japan already!' Ah... good times, good times...)

 

[Phil]

@Phil: And then you post just as I'm writing! Well for myself I don't actually expect GS emulation to be all that simple - I just expect them to get the job done. I won't lie and say I won't be dissapointed if they fail at it - that's for sure!

Neither do I actually (because of eDRAM, bandwidth & latency) - in fact, I think we'll see the GS on PS3......

BTW: Sincerest appology for never getting back to your pm. Heaps of stress.

 

[Carl B]

Neither do I actually (because of eDRAM, bandwidth & latency) - in fact, I think we'll see the GS on PS3......

BTW: Sincerest appology for never getting back to your pm. Heaps of stress.

LOL Phil that's ok, that was like two months ago man.

 

[Nesh]

total of 38 PSone and nine PS2 games were listed, including Tekken 5, Hitman: Contracts and Resident Evil. !

What the?those 3 games are important PS2 titles

 

[London Geezer]

What the?those 3 games are important PS2 titles

Tekken5 works fine until you try to play the old versions (tekken3 i think).

 

[NavNucST3]

Well, I don't wholly disagree WRT the NES, if only mine worked still...

(who else used to do the 'blow on the cartridge, blow in the console' trick to try to get things going when it seemed it wouldn't 'boot'? Or all the rumors of stuff like, 'They've got Mario 9 in Japan already!' Ah... good times, good times...)

Guilty. As a matter of fact the first thing that came to mind when you said "if only mine worked still", was 'he just needs to blow in it'

 

[Alpha_Spartan]

I could care less. I buy consoles for forwards compatibility.

 

[London Geezer]

Guilty. As a matter of fact the first thing that came to mind when you said "if only mine worked still", was 'he just needs to blow in it'

Yeah that trick was my first ever blowing experience. I was very young. My dad taught me.

 

[seismologist]

"It's hard to say the PlayStation 3 will be 100 per cent backwards compatible"

uh yeah that's pretty obvious especially since the new PS2 isn't even 100% compatible.

 

[thatdude90210]

A harddrive would come in handy now, wouldn't it? Then they could patch games for B/C instead of having to build it in the operating system.

 

[Carl B]

I don't think they'll be taking a game-by-game aproach and releasing patches in any event; they'll try to find the emulation scheme that covers the greatest amount of content and just go with it. I don't think it's worth it for them to release several 'per game' patches; if there are fixes it will probably be firmware updates that improve the scheme in general. But before we speculate on that we probably need to know the whole of how they're implementing it in the first place.

 

[London Geezer]

Am i the only one with a big feeling of deja-vu. Or more like a deja-deja-deja-vu?

Maybe it's the Matrix.

 

[Titanio]

A harddrive would come in handy now, wouldn't it?

You can stick a HDD into PS3 you know..

That said, I'm pretty sure they'll be looking to get as close to full compatability as possible right out of the gate, ala PS2, so every PS3 has it with or without a HDD. I'd say that probably will be the case - as said countless times already, even PS2 wasn't 100% backwards-compatible.

 

[Nesh]

Can you stick any HDD?

 

[London Geezer]

Can you stick any HDD?

I guess you "could" do that through USB2. Not sure if Sony wants to allow this or sell their own PS3 HDD at a premium.

 

[Tap In]

Well, but percentage wasn't my bold claim that L-B queried me on though, was it?

I simply said 'numerically superior.' That's not to say that I don't indeed think percentage-wise it will be the winner (at launch) as well, but I'm only willing to toss out the $1000 bet things on matters I feel supremely arrogant on. For 'percentage at launch'... I can do... a $100 bet!

game over. Sony wins the war.


MS concedes