Playing PS2 games on a PS3?

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I have to admit Kinnie, you had me doubting my self there!!!

I had a long hard google and then a search on the web page and have a ink to CNet News PS3 Info

CNET NEWS said:
Does it play PS2 games?
No dice. Like the recent PS3 models, the PS3 Slim does not offer backward compatibility with PS2 game discs. However, it can play older PS1 titles (on disc or via download from the PlayStation Store.)


Are there flash card readers?Again, no. Ports for Compact Flash, Memory Stick, and SD cards existed on the earliest PS3 models, but they were dropped on more recent iterations. If you want to access digital media files, you'll need to put them on a USB drive, burn them to a disc, or access them over the network.


Any change to media support?
No differences that we can discern. The PS3 Slim still plays all manner of Blu-ray movies, DVDs, and CDs, and it doubles as an excellent media streamer from other PCs or DLNA-capable media servers.
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I believe that there is an *incompatability* list I will have a lookie =D
 
Well heres my 2 cents worth.
I don't know anything about the internal workings but i do know i have never come accross a problem with any ps1 or ps2 game i've thrown at my 60Gb Ps3, including Final Fantasy VII which works perfectly via my discs and the PS store download.

The only thing i do know is that i read on sony news there was talk of making ps2 titles available via the Playstation Store just like the already available ps1 classics.

The other thing i know is that the titles from the Playstation store are NOT REGION LOCKED.

I know this because i have download both PS1 and PS3 games from both the UK & US PS stores and all are working perfectly on my machine.

Mike
 
scrappysphinx said:
Well heres my 2 cents worth.
I don't know anything about the internal workings but i do know i have never come accross a problem with any ps1 or ps2 game i've thrown at my 60Gb Ps3, including Final Fantasy VII which works perfectly via my discs and the PS store download. <snip>
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Yes Mike, because your PS3 being the 60GB model had the Emotion Chip on the PS3 Mainboard. ;)

The 80GB Models upwards either do not, or it was disabled? The Slim PS3 does not have it on the PCB afaik. I've tried everywhere to find this info & for the life in me, got fed up of ending up in dead end bs forum threads. I even tried to find a reference list to the PS3 model number changes in order to determine just what was what. I'm pretty crap @ searching some stuff like this, so I'm looking forward to Zeets perhaps picking some other notes up. Good luck bud. :thumbsup:

@ Zetr0

Yeah m8, the Slim PS3 wont do PS2 Titles, because it does not have an Emotion Chip on it's PCB. It will do PS1 games, because PS1 games were not written to use the Emotion Chip. This Emotion chip first appeared on PS2's, early PS3's upto what model number?; - & got totally axed on the new Slim PS3.

Kin
 
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Slight correction to that info.

Only the Jap and US versions of the original 60GB PS3 contained the hardware emotion engine processor for PS2 compatibility. This chip is not present in any EU PS3's regardless of the version. Instead PS2 support is completely performed on EU PS3's through software emulation.

Why was this the case? The original emotion engine equipped PS3s actually had some compatibility issues with PS2 games, whereas the later thinking for the EU version was that making it completely software based would allow for updates to be included with newer firmware revisions to fix PS2 game compatibility.

It is a bit strange therefore that after making the PS2 compatibility completely software based that is was then ditched for the PS3 slim.
 
don't manufacturers ditch old software support in order to allow new ways forward without the old stuff bogging it down?
 
So as said earlier in the thread it looks like the easiest way to make this work with the newer PS3s is to buy a PS2 and play them on it.

Dave G :cool:
 
I tried a couple of PS2 games on my 60GB PS3 and they run smoothly.
 
A PS2 Slim is small enough that it doesn't use up much room and offers full PS2 compatibility. ;)
 
In the near future, we will have PS4, why bother with PS2 games then? Stick with Amiga m8s. :drinkin:
 
It's a proper can of lol-ness all round, but then as most folk know, Sony always happily pedaled in their own cr4p. :nod:

Kin
 
Personally I've been quite impressed with Sony and their games systems. If you consider the number of firmware updates released over the years for both the PSP and PS3, which are not just to stop hacking of the system exploits, but to actually add real useful new features, it is quite impressive. The difference between the original PSP 1.5 firmware and the current one for example is miles apart and nearly a completely different OS.

However with the PS3 slim removing the support for second OS installation, and the removal of PS2 compatibility it is a backwards step for enthusiasts, locking the system down into a specific PS3 only device now.

I can understand the removal of the second OS support as I think hackers were getting close to using it to software hack the PS3 to run backups. For that reason, in the current times of recession, you can understand Sony's logic here. They are not doing well financially as is evident from one of their film studios, MGM, having just gone bankrupt.

But I can't see a reason for the removal of PS2 support. Unless it was held in the firmware and they needed to free space for other features? Not sure.
 
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However with the PS3 slim removing the support for second OS installation, and the removal of PS2 compatibility it is a backwards step for enthusiasts, locking the system down into a specific PS3 only device now.
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Look (as we use to say here). What you pay is what you get (in almost all circumstances). So I paid 660 euros back then (PS3 launch date, March 2006), and now the price is about 300-350 euros for the new PS3. Therefore, the difference in the price tag represents what is missing from the new PS3, but also that the prices of electronics/technology-related in general dropping down day by day.
 
Console price reductions over time are more to do with redesigning the components, moving to different methods of fabrication and combining chips into single chip solutions, making the manufacturing costs cheaper, and also the hardware more reliable, so less money is lost through returns. It has happened with every console in the last few generations.

The most amazing evolution for me was the PS2 slim. I couldn't believe how small that was compared to the original PS2 Phat system.
 
Harrison said:
Personally I've been quite impressed with Sony and their games systems. If you consider the number of firmware updates released over the years for both the PSP and PS3, which are not just to stop hacking of the system exploits, but to actually add real useful new features, it is quite impressive. The difference between the original PSP 1.5 firmware and the current one for example is miles apart and nearly a completely different OS.

However with the PS3 slim removing the support for second OS installation, and the removal of PS2 compatibility it is a backwards step for enthusiasts, locking the system down into a specific PS3 only device now.

I can understand the removal of the second OS support as I think hackers were getting close to using it to software hack the PS3 to run backups. For that reason, in the current times of recession, you can understand Sony's logic here. They are not doing well financially as is evident from one of their film studios, MGM, having just gone bankrupt.

But I can't see a reason for the removal of PS2 support. Unless it was held in the firmware and they needed to free space for other features? Not sure.
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because people playing thier old ps2 games doesn't make any money, new console kerching! new games that will only run on said new console, kerching! and what's just round the corner? oh yeah the ps4 KERCHING!!!!
 
Actually thinking about it, I think it has everything to do with the soon to be launched system to release PS2 games in their download service. If users could just use their old discs, or buy them second hand they they wouldn't need to pay for them again! ;)
 
Harrison said:
Actually thinking about it, I think it has everything to do with the soon to be launched system to release PS2 games in their download service. If users could just use their old discs, or buy them second hand they they wouldn't need to pay for them again! ;)
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oh they'll pay, believe me they'll pay with thier souls...............
 
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