Playstation's official backwards compatibility list

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Playstation's official backwards compatibility list

Posted Nov 17th 2006 4:30PM by Nick Doerr
Filed under: News, Culture

This is to all those who think Sony's been lying down on the job. How about a comprehensive search of any and every US Playstation and Playstation 2 title you can think of? How about Sony listing any problems the game presents with backwards compatibility? No more how's about's it's. Search for yourself and see if your personal gaming library will have any issues with your PS3.

This is almost a game in itself -- try to find the title with the most glaring errors! From our searchings, the original Playstation titles are pretty much error-free, so we'd recommend seeking out PS2 games for this fun contest. Winner gets a PS3! Just kidding. Winner gets to laugh at everyone else.

[thanks to those who sent this in!]

Tags: Playstation 3, Playstation3, PS3, Sony

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1. Hmmmm...Okami isn't in the registry. Good news or bad?

Posted at 4:38PM on Nov 17th 2006 by FSK405K

2. Pretty much every game suffers from this: piss poor image resizing. The PS3 somehow resizes the PS1/PS2 screen output to fit your TV... except without any filtering whatsoever.

What you get is a grid-like double pixel effect that's most noticeable when seeing a 2D object scrolling.

Funny thing is, ps2 games running in progressive scan run fine, without this visual flaw.

Posted at 4:43PM on Nov 17th 2006 by MiKE

3. The site seems to be getting hammered at the moment, but this is off the top of my head from some earlier searches:

Okami is there, and apparently the problems it had were fixed with the 1.10 firmware update.

Oddly enough, Guitar Hero 1 and 2 were also both listed as having no major compatibility issues.

So I guess you can play them...except for the part where you can't actually use the controller that is required to play them...

Posted at 4:57PM on Nov 17th 2006 by Strike Man

4. i know it defeats the whole purpose and is probably no fun but... can you play guitar hero with a standard controller?

Posted at 5:03PM on Nov 17th 2006 by get over it

5. i think you can.
and it looks like ffviii has a problem.

Posted at 8:18PM on Nov 17th 2006 by matjet

6. A few Mortal Kombats and a few Gran Turismos have problems.

Posted at 2:39AM on Nov 18th 2006 by Ghost

7. Most PS1 Final Fantasies have issues (albeit minor). Looks like I'll be keeping the PS2 if I ever upgrade.

Posted at 7:23AM on Nov 18th 2006 by Gerwurztraminer

8. I can't play Tomba, or Megaman Legends?!
Unless I'm doing it wrong?

Posted at 5:47PM on Nov 18th 2006 by MikeC

9. Both Mega Man Legends are listed as fine. Squaresoft's entire PS1 library looks to have taken a beating, though; the worst off appears to be FFV in FF Anthology, which hangs when you try to save.

Posted at 3:29PM on Nov 19th 2006 by Dan

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