Introduce me to the PS3, just fixed a junked system yesterday!

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Introduce me to the PS3, just fixed a junked system yesterday!

A little background...yesterday I was out running errands after work and I stopped by one of my favorite shops that has a small game buy-sell-trade operation. I spotted a fat PS3 marked bad and end up walking out of the store with it, blowing my small monthly arcade/gaming budget. I think we're all fond of an electronics project now and again. I had success fixing some fat PS2 systems a few years ago, so I figured it could be fun.

I get it home and cleaned it with a leaf blower and my vacuum, and hooked it up to my TV so see what I had as a project. Long story short, the hard drive was in the process of dying and made the system behave like it had multiple hardware problems (and no warning it was crapping out).

I had a dead laptop sitting around with a 160GB SATA HDD and I threw it in, learned about system updates (v4), formatted it, and it seems to have fixed the system! I was finally able to enjoy my only blue ray- a copy of Toy Story 2. It was one of the last fats before the slim came out, so no PS2 backwards compatibility. But the silver lining is that it plays all PS1 games, so I was rocking R-Types, Final Doom, Road Rash, etc last night.

I got it online last night and registered for the Playstation network. I also "activated" it for games and movies...which I am not sure what that does. I am very familiar with the 360 home, and I found some good free small games to play on that service. Are there any free give-away games on PSN also? I'll be a free user

Looking forward to some of the PS3 exclusives like the Drake games, Infamous, and whatever J-RPGs I can find. I think the recent Final Fantasy is now only $20....but that will be for next month....Not sure how long this will last, but I'm enjoying it so far.
 
well PSN is not like live and they don't usually give freebies. You can also play online without paying as PSN plus is just a bad discount program that lets you get the game of the month that quits working if you stop paying for the service.

I can recommend a few games to get but personally I don't like sony anymore. The main one you should download is "Fat Princess" as it's CTF with RPG/medieval troops and a top down view(also PS3 exclusive). It's dead fun with friends :)

PSN ID: jmdavies
 
I'm pretty sure that once the PS3 does its updates, your ability to play PSOne and PS2 games will go away.
 
I couldn't get into Fat Princess (the PSP version though).
 
I'm pretty sure that once the PS3 does its updates, your ability to play PSOne and PS2 games will go away.

Wrong! guess again. Sony sells PS1 classics that run off the PS1 EMU so that will never go away. As for PS2 games there are only three models that play them: CECHB01(20 gig), CECHA01(60 gig), and CECHE01(80gig). Sony has not stripped the ability out of those and probably never will unless someone uses the feature to feed their pirate phobia.

Edit: I have a CECHA01 and it plays PS2 just fine with 4.0
 
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Yes, it was taking everything PS1 I threw at it and my system had the latest 4.0 update. I am surprised Sony doesn't highlight PS1 compatibility in the marketing of the system, it's a big plus for me. The PS3 also correctly displays PS1 games on my HDTV, they would never sync correctly on the PS2.

So far my list of games for next month seems to be Disgaea 3, Valkyria Chronicles, and Star Ocean. All JRPGs that I missed out on the 360 with 8/10 or so scores. I would also like the cheap $15 Final Fantasy XIII but everyone says it is junk so I'm a bit torn...
 
You can download DC Universe Online for free and the game is Free-To-Play now. It's an Action MMORPG if you are into that sort of game.
 
So far my list of games for next month seems to be Disgaea 3, Valkyria Chronicles, and Star Ocean. All JRPGs that I missed out on the 360 with 8/10 or so scores. I would also like the cheap $15 Final Fantasy XIII but everyone says it is junk so I'm a bit torn...

Have fun running ahead in a straight line for 30+ hrs spamming Auto-battle and letting the AI do all the work for you.(this is why I won't buy FF13). As for Valkyria Chronicles I just started playing that and it seems like fun from the small amount that I played...
 
Have fun running ahead in a straight line for 30+ hrs spamming Auto-battle and letting the AI do all the work for you.(this is why I won't buy FF13). As for Valkyria Chronicles I just started playing that and it seems like fun from the small amount that I played...

Thanks for this. Yes, after talking to the nice game area folks at Fry's during my HDMI cable run, I figure this isn't the game for me. They even told me there are no towns to even explore. Lame! I guess I wait for FFXII-2 to drop in price for my FF fix this generation.

The other games still look good to me, along with (maybe) Dead Space. But new purchases are going to have to wait until next month at the earliest. Stupid budget!
 
It is pretty much obligatory to mention

3D Dot Game Heroes.

It is the only game I actually own (have had my PS3 for 2 years)
 
If you want a fun cheap game, get the Impossible Game, one of the few games I still play for my PS3 . . . if you can beat all 5 levels your better than me!
 
Wrong! guess again. Sony sells PS1 classics that run off the PS1 EMU so that will never go away. As for PS2 games there are only three models that play them: CECHB01(20 gig), CECHA01(60 gig), and CECHE01(80gig). Sony has not stripped the ability out of those and probably never will unless someone uses the feature to feed their pirate phobia.

Edit: I have a CECHA01 and it plays PS2 just fine with 4.0

Just a friendly FYI to anyone who wants to replace the lasers and drives in broken systems:

There is also a CECHE01-MG which plays backwards games. Anyone who wants to try and replace burnt out lasers should know that THIS particular model uses a "dual-eye" which is the same used on the NON backwards compat systems.

The standard launch models (20gb,60gb,80gb) all used single eye lasers. You can tell them apart as all PS2 compatible systems are chrome faced, where the non PS2 are silver, matte finished. Except for the 20 which was all black.
 
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I own 2 of the 60 gig backward compatability models one for homebrew and the other to run normal with all updates etc...
 
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