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EU PS3 Back Compatibility List Released

Posted by Zonk on from the it's-not-a-playstation-without-moogles dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Via the semi-official ThreeSpeech blog, Sony has released the backwards compatibility list for EU's PS3's earlier than announced. The list itself offers a lot more games than Phil Harrisons previous statement of 1000 but noticeable problematic games include GTA:San Andreas, Gran Turismo 4 and the Final Fantasy Series."

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  1. In other words by Edward+Kmett · · Score: 2, Interesting

    In other words, half the games I own.

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    1. Re:In other words by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Good thing you have a PS2.

    2. Re:In other words by Headcase88 · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Funny how Sony's PR was bashing MS's BC so recently.

      Interesting that the only company with perfect last-gen BC is the company that largely keeps their mouth shut about it.

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    3. Re:In other words by jandrese · · Score: 4, Informative

      Your PS2 longevity can depend a lot on which version you got. From what I've seen, most slimlines are crappy, and the very early (v.1 and v.2) fat style PS2s are dodgy, but the v.3 through v.6 are ok, and the v.7 through v.9 are actually pretty good. The very early slimlines are apparently the worst, with the lasers burning out at an alarming rate due to a manufacturing defect.

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  2. It looks like... by Xest · · Score: 4, Interesting

    ...Lots of games run, but not an awful lot run without issue. There's a massive amount in that list rated as having problems.

    I've said to myself in the past I'll buy a PS3 eventually when the price goes down primarily so I can see what the fuss about the Final Fantasy and Devil May Cry series is all about but with the official news of Devil May Cry 4 coming to the 360 at the same time as the PS3 and so forth my interest is dropping furthermore. That said Sony may well have managed to improve their backwards compatibility list by the time of a price drop at least! It's just a shame that in the meantime Sony's backwards compatibility list for the European release of the console appears on better than the 360's backwards compatibility list, the difference being MS never advertised full compatibility whereas Sony did so unless this list improves fast, full backwards compatibility as promised feels like a big fat lie from Sony - at least with the European console.

    1. Re:It looks like... by apoc06 · · Score: 4, Interesting

      "the difference being MS never advertised full compatibility whereas Sony did so unless this list improves fast, full backwards compatibility as promised feels like a big fat lie from Sony - at least with the European console."

      -- not quite... --

      http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/games/archives/2005/05 /20/rumours_of_xbox_360_nonbackwards_compatibility _explained.html
      http://www.majornelson.com/archive/2005/05/19/no-y ou-do-not-need-to-recompile-your-xbox-games.aspx

      "Our goal is to have every Xbox game work on Xbox 360. You will NOT need to purchase a new 'version' -- your original games will work on Xbox 360."

      http://www.joystiq.com/2006/06/01/xbox-bc-not-a-pr iority-says-moore/
      here they claim that they underpromised and overdelivered and are going to slow down their BC push.

      -credit: jackson98

      since my xbox broke, i would really like to finally finish my copies of mercenaries, jet set radio future, xmen legends, TES: morrowwind, and mechassualt. not to mention the fact that unless i buy a new xbox, i'll never be able to play "top" games i always "wanted to get around to playing" like panzer dragoon orta, otogi and chronicles of riddick. [they DEFINITELY promised that the "top" games would work]. i own a xbox360 and my original xbox no longer works, so outside of buying an used xbox, what options do i have left?

      the xbox360's 10-20% BC is really not cutting it for a gamer like me. i dont mind playing the older titles. 72% BC out of the gate, with room for much improvement is not a "shame", as you put it; it actually looks like sony may be better at keeping the BC promise than MS.

  3. People forget by fistfullast33l · · Score: 3, Informative

    That Sony had these issues with the hardware BC engine in the initial SKUs as well - and they patched it. FFXII specifically was cited as one game that suffered from the issue and now it runs very well. I expect them to issue at least one patch for these issues. It's obviously something the customers want and Sony is getting a bit better about adressing them.

  4. Sony rules... by rbarreira · · Score: 3, Informative

    Weird, the english version has a legend saying:

    3 squares = No known issues to date
    2 squares = Should play on PLAYSTATION®3 with some minor issues
    1 square = Should play on PLAYSTATION®3 with noticeable issues

    However, the Portuguese version says, roughly:

    3 squares = same as above
    2 squares = ... with noticeable issues
    1 squares = ... with intermittent problems

    The other languages I know enough about to check (French, Italian, Spanish and Danish) say about the same thing as the Portuguese version. What's happening here?

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  5. Holy broken Back button! by _xeno_ · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Wow. The webpage they released the list on - wow. Just - wow. So bad.

    Each of the letters executes a POST request, so you can't simply go Back after going Next, since it's a POST request. Next up, the "previous" and "next" links turn out to go to the current page, but read "?page=previous" and "?page=back". So they store the actual page in the session.

    Ultimately: you can't use the back and forward button in your browser to go to the previous page.

    But this has another side effect, which I can't help but expect that Sony intended: it's impossible to link to a given page or game. So while I can say that Final Fantasy X is marked as having "noticeable issues," I can't actually link to it. You'd have to navigate to it manually, through each page.

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  6. Ratchet & Clank, Katamari Damacy by geders · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Wow, no Ratchet and Clank games listed. Only the Katamari Damacy sequel (We Love Katamari) works. It seems the US/Japan launch version will be the highly desired version on Ebay in a few years. At least for anyone wanting to have only one system hooked up to their TV...

  7. i have a question by apoc06 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    with the 1.6 firmware download, is the software emulation included in the US distribution as well?

    personally, if they ever get to the point where they can upscale the ps2 games via software emulation, i would love the ability to toggle between hardware and software BC.