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My friend told me he could play his old PlayStation games on his PS3 but I cant. Is there a way to make mine backwards compatible? |
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PS3 Slim is not backwards compatible with all PS2 games. The older versions of the PS3 are. |
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Yes, but only with old versions of the PS3... only few version of the fat version... |
» Comment article From siliconera.com: [QUOTE] PlayStation 3s without PS2 backwards compatibility are missing the Emotion Engine, a chip Sony designed as the PS2's CPU. What if the PS3's cell processor could emulate the Emotion Engine? Theoretically, all PlayStation 3s would be able to play PS2 games even if a console didn't have the proper hardware. According to a recent patent filed by Sony Computer Entertainment in the US, Sony has the code and technology ready to do this. There are two main ways to emulate hardware. Interpretation is when target code is decoded and converted into a language the host can understand. The other strategy is to decode and recompile programs in the host's language. Maybe the concept is better explained another way. Interpretation is like having someone constantly translating English to Japanese for you, non stop, twenty four hours a day wherever you go. Decoding and recompiling is like someone translating a sets of words and putting them in a dictionary you can reference. [/QUOTE] |
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Unfortunately, there is no way to make your PS3 backward compatible if you did not buy a backward compatible capable PS3. I will never understand why Sony removed this feature, along with the other features they removed. I am sure it had something to do with money. Perhaps they could have 2 models. One where you pay a "Premium" price and get backward compatibility, and another with a lower price that is not backward compatible. I am not surprised Sony did remove it, however. Sony does weird things like this all the time. |
