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What? I heard the PS3 slim has no backwards compatibility whatsoever. Is this not the case? Everywhere I read it says NO PS2 or PS1 games at all.
The current PS3 slims that are on the market do not have backwards compatibility with PS2 games. However, they do have backwards compatibility with PS1 games (some games work better than others though). In addition, if you have the PS2/PS1 memory card adapter that hooks up to the PS3, you can still store your game saves on the hard drive via their virtual memory card slots for safe storage
That list of PS2 incompatibility is obviously not complete. It is missing Tomba, which freezes every single time you try to load a game. I have confirmed this myself.
I suppose you could play through the game as long as you never try to load a saved game.
As for the OP, I thought all "Greatest Hits" PSone games were silver?
You're thinking of the label side. Greatest Hits PSone games usually have simpler artwork. This topic refers to the data side.
Lum fan.
"And the book says: 'We may be through with the past, but the past ain't through with us.'"
For PS1 games, I think it actually streams the game data, not just the I/O.
Dan, I must highly advise you that you should really give this game a proper play-through. Grandia is wonderfully charming and the kids in the game seem much more real than most video game characters. The engine is much like Xenogears with polygonal backgrounds with character sprites, all very good looking and well-animated by PSX standards. The art direction is very folksy and had a real feeling of tradition to its patterns. And the game's world and characters are permeated with a rustic, quaint charm that is reminiscent of Mega Man Legends and LUNAR. GameArts did good work.
I mean, this is the same game that I haven't played (I was trying to help my sister get started with RPGs using this and Chrono Trigger at the time.) but I bought *two* copies of the game when the first's second disc wouldn't work, and she had stopped playing the game years ago by then! Heck, I even have an EB Games Grandia promotional standee and the game's piano sheet music book from Japan!
I think there could be 1 more possible silver back ps1 game in the future, or already out there. Not a square-enix game either. If Konami re-prints Metal Gear Solid from the Metal Gear Solid: The Essential Collection, we could see a silver disc from that set. It came out in march of 2008, and the silver discs for the ps2 started around June of 2008.
Since I do collect ps2 games and variants, I started a list of silver back games.
Game is only found on silver back: (11 total)
Army Men: Soldiers of Misfortune
CID The Dummy
Falling Stars
Ford Racing: Off Road
Garfield: Lasagna World Tour (This game is the 1st silver back) 6/27/08
Jeep Thrills
Namco Classic Fighter Collection - Tekken Tag Tournament
PDC World Championship Darts 2008
Pipe Mania
Professional Bull Riders: Out of the Chute
Women's Volleyball Championship
Games that got a silver back reprint: (10 games, so far....)
AMF Xtreme Bowling
Dance Factory
Future Tactics: The Uprising
Midnight Club: Street Racing (GH)
Mountain Bike Adrenaline
Raiden III
Rebel Raiders: Operation Nighthawk
Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure
Star Trek: Encounters
Strawberry Shortcake: The Sweet Dreams Game
Anybody find any others yet?
Last edited by bcks007; 06-08-2011 at 05:36 AM.
"And the book says: 'We may be through with the past, but the past ain't through with us.'"
Why would you want to play Judge Dredd?
If i recall correctly Tombi (PAL version of Tomba) works fine on my PS2
do the problems start early in the game, or at random intervals?
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It's Tomba! 2 that has the issues. It won't get out of the menus. Can't load or do anything.
Because it makes no attempt to be great, it is therefore extremely great.
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