PS2 compatibility in terms of hardware revision vs game?

[BetaWolf47]

I know that there is some complication in which PS2 games are fully compatible with which hardware revisions. Is there a list anywhere? For example, I know Gauntlet: Dark Legacy is incompatible with certain slim models.

[kupomogli]

There used to be a Sony website that let you type in a game and told you what models had issues with the games that pulled up and what the issues were with those games.

All I can find now is this one which just gives the hardware revisions themselves. Basically anything that was an original 60GB model will play 99.9% of the games perfectly. The 20GB models also had full compatibility but no wifi. The 40GB models up to the MGS4 one included backwards compatibility(the MGS4 bundle that includes a black PS4 does, the one that includes gun metal grey does not.)

https://support.us.playstation.com/a...-PlayStation-3

[Gameguy]

Is this with the PS2 or with the PS3? Are there certain PS2 models that can't play certain PS2 games?

[Emperor Megas]

Is this with the PS2 or with the PS3? Are there certain PS2 models that can't play certain PS2 games?

IIRC, the PS2 slim can't run Jak X Combat Racing, or can't run it properly.

[Gamevet]

I believe the question was about certain models of PS2 not being able to run game x.

Speaking of PS3, I have the 60gig PS3 model. I've had Big Mother Truckers crash on me after about 30 minutes of play.

[BetaWolf47]

There used to be a Sony website that let you type in a game and told you what models had issues with the games that pulled up and what the issues were with those games.

All I can find now is this one which just gives the hardware revisions themselves. Basically anything that was an original 60GB model will play 99.9% of the games perfectly. The 20GB models also had full compatibility but no wifi. The 40GB models up to the MGS4 one included backwards compatibility(the MGS4 bundle that includes a black PS4 does, the one that includes gun metal grey does not.)

https://support.us.playstation.com/a...-PlayStation-3

Is this with the PS2 or with the PS3? Are there certain PS2 models that can't play certain PS2 games?

Wait, there are slim PS3 revisions that can play PS2 games? I don't ever remember seeing anything on that.

[kupomogli]

No Slim model can without CFW and every 60GB, 20GB, and black 40GB models that launched could, though the 40GB models were software emulation only. It was completely removed starting with the 40GB Gun Metal Grey MGS4 PS4s.

Aside from that I thought the thread was PS2 bc with PS3 consoles, didn't know it was PS2 compatibility with certain PS2 hardware. I never had a PS2 game that didn't work on my fat model.

[Ze_ro]

IIRC, the PS2 slim can't run Jak X Combat Racing, or can't run it properly.

For shits and giggles, I tested the game out in my slim PS2 (SCPH-70011). Played through the tutorials and one race... in the middle of the last lap of the race, I got a message saying the disc was removed and to reinsert it to continue the game. I waited about 30 seconds while it re-read the disc and the game resumed. The disc is in good shape, as is the system (I bought it new back in the day, and it's only seen fairly light use), so maybe this is due to an incompatibility, but it seemed extremely random and only happened once. Other than that, everything in the game seemed to work fine.

--Zero

[Ogreatgames]

I had no idea that any revision in the PlayStation 2 hardware would cause a game to malfunction especially mid-game.

Around what percentage of games were incompatible for the PlayStation 2 slim?

Also if the list was publicly available couldn't anyone use the waybackmachine http://archive.org/web/ to try and decipher and recompile the list?

Or was it strictly search only, thus the only thing anyone could go back to would be at maximum a search box?

[Kwyjibo]

Does anybody know if the games that don't work on the slim do work when using a USB drive or network share with OPL? Or maybe if there are patches for the ISOs?

[theclaw]

No telling how many foreign games have issues we don't know about. There might be surprises scattered around Japanese websites and stuff.

[spooie]

Here is the list Sony provides for the 7500x line...

http://us.playstation.com/news/consu...etitles_75001/

[theclaw]

Here is the list Sony provides for the 7500x line...

http://us.playstation.com/news/consu...etitles_75001/

Cool. That'll narrow down a bunch of games to explain in better detail. Sony is amazingly vague what happens, lol.

As I was pointing out before, North American compatibility is best known to English speakers. For reference here's a similar thing in Japanese.
http://www.jp.playstation.com/info/n...scph75000.html

It doesn't appear to me there's any official list for PAL regions.