My 40GB ps3 cannot play ps2 titles

You had to do your research my son 40gig has no emulation while they 60/80 (not sure of the sizes) do.

J
 
CD Disc media (read only):

PlayStation CD-ROM
PlayStation 2 CD-ROM
CD-DA (ROM), CD-R, CD-RW
SACD Hybrid (CD layer), SACD HD
DualDisc (audio side), DualDisc (DVD side)

DVD Disc media (read only):

PlayStation 2 DVD-ROM
PLAYSTATION 3 DVD-ROM
DVD-Video: DVD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW

Blu-ray Disc media (read only):

PLAYSTATION 3 BD-ROM
BD-Video: BD-ROM, BD-R, BD-RE
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Speechless......:eek:
 
jsheed_sa said:
You had to do your research my son 40gig has no emulation while they 60/80 (not sure of the sizes) do.

J
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Quite correct. They have software emulation as a solution to play PS2 games. The move to drop PS2 compatibility was a purely strategic move.:(

They need to recover the costs. The way to do that is sell more PS3 titles, and at the same time pay off the research.

I do agree that its ass though. Imagine u were Japanese! Threy have more PS2 titles than anyone else.
 
Note to PS3 fanboys: you don't experience this problem with ANY version of the Xbox 360 :P
 
Seems a pathetic thing to do. They swapped to software emulation some time ago and then dropped that from the 40gig. I can't see how they are saving money by dropping something that is not hardware reliant.

If I had not bought a 360, I would have been pissed off since I have a large PS2 library.
 
Iwojima said:
Seems a pathetic thing to do. They swapped to software emulation some time ago and then dropped that from the 40gig. I can't see how they are saving money by dropping something that is not hardware reliant.

If I had not bought a 360, I would have been pissed off since I have a large PS2 library.
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It was partly software/hardware. Now they took away the hardware part and thus its broken.
 
supersunbird said:
It was partly software/hardware. Now they took away the hardware part and thus its broken.
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You sure about that? My understanding was that the original US/JP PS3 included only the PS2's "Emotion" chip and that it was removed from the EU/2nd line of PS3's and replaced by software emulation. I can't recall any other PS2 hardware still being present in those.
 
sum1 must have modded a PS3 by now...

Xboxs are modded as much as PS2's these days...
 
ou812ltd said:
can it be fixed with a chip?
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As far as I know no such mod can be done to a PS3, but assuming I'm correct in saying that the PS2 emulation is done purely on a software level then I'm sure it would be possible once/if PS3 homebrew becomes a reality
 
With some custom firmware you could probably get PS2 emulation back.
There is rumour that PS2 games will be sold on the PSN, so hang tide for a little bit, though more likely is that it is titles changed to work on PS3 and take advantage of HD.

PS3 40 - no emu
PS3 60 (NTSC) - hardware support for PS2
PS3 60 (PAL) - software emulation
PS3 80 (NTSC) - software emulation

wikipedia, a good source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playstation_3
 
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