sony ps3 having backward compatability issues.....

oh hey, sony is planning on making a cheaper ps3 by removing some content from the hardware
unfortunately, it means making the backward compatibility even worse-perhaps you can't even play ps2 games at all.
that just sucks but i think its for europe
maybe i'll buy one if the price drops down enough

 

yeah but i never had a ps2.
in fact, the last console i had was the NES and then after a 13 year hiatus,
i decide to buy a console-the wii (because i was basically getting two consoles
for one) but i missed out on the ps2. *sigh*

 

you euro's are screwed. intel are not the chip makers, ibm is. even if they did exclude all the ps2 parts that would make playing a ps2 game possible on a ps3, sony will still charge you the same asking price[500-600].

 

I think it's kinda sad that they have to downgrade the damn system just to get more sales, but whatever.

 

it must be a downgrade! I just got a ps3 last week, and when i tried to play "FFVIII" the game was not recognized!! very interesting I thought, because "FFIX" worked just fine....... oh, and on a side note, "Driver" and "Driver2" also did not want to load; whats up with that?!

 

in a way it kind of makes sense why they downgraded the system because you can now download ps1 games to play on the ps3. however, you have to spend money again on a title you physically already own. very niice! "borat".

 

Well, hopefully they find a way to work around this, as I am sure that I am not the only one who would like to flip Sony a bird!! I mean, if you spend over 500 ducats on a system that everyone believed was supposed to be backwards compatible(as was the ps2), only to find out that you can only play all those classics by paying for them a second time, well......tweet,tweet!!

 

The Virtual Console was apparently insanely easy to hack into so you could get the games for free

Here is one such example, although this is old and probably doesn't work anymore.
http://www.siliconera.com/index.php/2006/11/30/wii-shop-channel-hacked/

 

Well, I tried your hack Asmadi, and yes...It does work, although trying to find similar hacks is not so easy! But I'm sure some buding code monkey is out there hard at work trying to find a way around that too. I have already modded my ps1, and my ps2 with ease(you have no idea how many i turned into paper-weights trying to get it right!!). I am currently trying to figure out a way do the same with my new ps3.

Unfortunatley, 2 things severely hamper my progress:
1: ps3 code IS NOT the same as ps2(contrary to public belief!), and cracking it for new emulation platforms is not so simple;
2: its very hard to justify doing it after I just coughed over 500 ducats on the little bugger!

But at any rate, will continue onwards and keep you posted(man, this thread is really chasing!! !!)