PS3 80GB US backwards compatibility checker online

I'm still looking for comments from all of the Sony fanboys who were criticizing the 360's backwards compatibility as half asses while praising the PS3's superior hardware enabled backwards compatibility.

*crickets*

Yeah, thought so.

Barbie Horse Adventure
80:When Mini-Games is selected, the title hangs.

DAMN YOU SONY!!!!!!

I did the liberty of looking up the top 5 games and bottom 5 for the PS2 on Metacritic:

Top:

Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3
Description: In Career Mode, when the Statistics screen appears, the text jitters.

Grand Theft Auto III
Description: No major problems for this title.

Resident Evil 4
Description: No major problems for this title.

Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty
Description: No major problems for this title.

(next two was more GTA, so I just skipped those)

Gran Turismo 3: A-Spec
Description: Throughout various FMV sequences throughout the title, the title stutters.

Bottom (just listed not found games):

Little Britain: The Video Game

Gravity Games Bike: Street Vert Dirt
Description: No major problems for this title.

Earache Extreme Metal Racing
Knight Rider 2
Miami Vice

Godai: Elemental Force
Description: Throughout gameplay, various characters do not perform as intended.

Crazy Frog Racer 2
Transformers Tataki

Antz Extreme Racing
Description: No major problems for this title.

MTV's Celebrity Deathmatch
Description: No major problems for this title.

PS1 Top Titles:

Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2
Description: No major problems for this title.

Tekken 3
Description: Throughout gameplay, with the VSH Display setting set to 480p, 720p or 1080i, the character graphics appear slightly corrupted.

Gran Turismo
Description: With a controller set to Analog Mode, when the user selects Simulation Mode, and the “simulation map” screen appears, the controller switches to Digital Mode.

ISS Pro Evolution 2 (not found)

Final Fantasy IX
Description: The following conditions have been confirmed on PS3 System Software Version 1.82: Throughout gameplay and FMA sequences, when the user’s character walks up or down on screen and the camera pans up or down to follow the movement, four transparent horizontal lines appear across the screen. All conditions have been resolved on PS3 System Software Version 1.90.

Chrono Cross
Description: Throughout gameplay, when the user's character encounters a battle, the text/menu boxes intermittently flicker from transparent to black.

Bottom:

Dragon Ball Z: Ultimate Battle 22

KISS Pinball
Description: The following conditions have been confirmed on PS3 System Software Version 1.82: Throughout gameplay, when the camera pans up or down to follow the movement of the ball, four transparent horizontal lines appear across the screen. All conditions have been resolved on PS3 System Software Version 1.90.

HBO Boxing
Description: At random points throughout gameplay, when any character throws a punch, and the punch lands, the impact sound effect does not play.

Mortal Kombat: Special Forces
Description: No major problems for this title.

Disney's The Lion King: Simba's Mighty Adventure

Hooters: Road Trip
Description: Upon boot-up, the title hangs.

Powerpuff Girls: Chemical X-Traction

Simpsons Wrestling, The
Description: No major problems for this title.

All ratchet and clanks run poorly on the 80GB

Prince of Persia 2&3 have FMV graphics issues

No FF VIII or Anthology on the 80GB

To translate all that, that's only one game effecting problem on the list with Godai: Elemental Force out of 10 PS2 games I checked. The PSOne titles aren't so lucky, with possible game effecting problems in 4 titles, two of them top games rather than the PS2's only 1 game effecting problem from a rather shitty game.

If that says anything PSOne emulation isn't the best, but the PS2 titles are pretty much covered.

Well I'm an owner of an 80GB PS3 and every PS2 title I've thrown at it so far works great, Sony is doing a much better job with BC than Microsoft has, so as far as im conserned, this isn't a problem, look at how cheap the PS2's are, just go out and buy one if you need to play a PS2 game so badly.P.S Im doing this from my PS3's Internet browser! XD I love this thing!

why not do youself a favor and stop being a fucking sony fanbot. allthe games they picked are major ps2 games. so how does it equate to them being biased, except that you dont like them saying anything about sony?

Like i said most of my games dont work, and thats a pretty fucking big deal. It eally doesnt matter how many work on ps3, it matters if the biggest ones do.

so you can suck my ass for all I care sheppy, cause i happen to own 3 of the 4 games they listed as wella s 24 otehr ps2 games and 12 ps1 games (4 of which say they dont have problems).

Jesus christ, do you see anyone attacking your beloved sony? no we are just talking about the list. just be a sensible fanboy and say "well at least its better then 360's list"

Ouch, check Odin Sphere's entry:

Description: When the user attempts to create new game save data, a message indicating that all previous save data files are corrupted appears.

What a cop out on Sony's part.

I'm still undecided on which next-gen console to get. Right now I'm leaning toward 360 but that changes frequently. Backwards compatibility does matter to me because I still have PS2 games I didn't finish and my PS2 has started scratching discs so it'll probably have to be retired soon. All that being said the PS3 software BC is obviously not as good as the Emotion Engine but it's still LEAGUES above 360's BC.

Also, found this - Devil May Cry 3 (original and special edition). "At a specific point during gameplay, the user's character is unable to progress." Doesn't that pretty much make the game completely broken? Also, Devil May Cry 1 isn't listed for 80 GB.

Well if there ever was a reason too get the 60 gig EE ps3 i guess this is one....but when they are gone then what..ouch.

My personal top 5 PS2 games came out like this:

God Hand: No problems

Okami: No problems

Odin Sphere: When the user attempts to create new game save data, a message indicating that all previous save data files are corrupted appears.

Psychonauts: Throughout various FMV sequences, the title performs at approximately 90% of the normal performance speed.

Raiden III: No problems


Being that I haven't beat Odin Sphere yet (I'm slowly making my way through it), I guess there's no way I'm buying an 80gb PS3 anytime soon.
But at least God Hand and Okami work. I still play those games pretty often.

Some kids on the IGN board were trying to claim I was wrong that about 80GB having poor backwards compatibility. I linked them to this article and the sony database and they still wouldn't change their opinion. I guess they're just stubborn 80GB owners. I'm glad I got the 60GB, even if I don't use the backward that much, it's still worth more to me than an extra 20GB. Plus, you can get the console + motorstorm for cheaper than the 80GB bundle so it really is just a matter of emotion engine vs 20GB.

This is another reason i wanna get the 60 gig, 20 gigs extra minus the EE chip for an extra 100$? Really not worth it. I would reccomend you guys to get the 60 gig with EE and shove in an 120 gig for about less than a 100$. Plus you get an extra 60 gig hdd which you can encase in a hdd case and sue it as a portable disk. You can plug it into the ps3's usb and bam 180 gigs. All this with the emotion engine.

Guitar Hero II
Publisher: Red Octane (Activision)
Product No: SLUS-21447
Description: At various points during gameplay, the title may hang.

Star Wars: Battlefront II (Greatest Hits)
Publisher: LucasArts
Product No: SLUS-21240
Description: In network mode, on the Pick a Session To Join screen, games may not appear.
At a specific point during gameplay, various graphics appear corrupt.
At various points during network gameplay, the title hangs.
WTF?

not a big deal almost everyone with ps3 has ps2. not hard to get off your ace and hook it up again.

Devil May Cry 3 (both editions)
At a certain point in the game, the user's character is unable to progress.

How does that even happen?!?

Seems I am the only person VERY pleased with the quality of software emulation of PS1/Ps2 games on my Euro PS3.

I have about 80 games, every single one works fine, and only 2 titles out of 80, I can spot anything even remotely resembling dodgy emulation (Gran Turimo 4, graphic corruption block on the L/H side f the screen sometimes, and a couple of flicking glitches on Crazy Taxi).

I think before the Xbots come here and throw stones, I think they sould consider the laughable emulation that Microsoft offers.

I'd like to know, from actual console owners, do you actually use BC? I mean when I got my 360 I started a new 'Jade Empire' and 'Sid Meier Pirates!' just for the sake, and because I only had one 360 game... but now i've got 9 or 10 games and all my xbox 1 games are in the basement in a box with an inch of dust.

It seems like BC sometimes factors a lot into the purchase of a system when after a month or two you'll probably never use it again.

I mean Goldeneye I played for hours a day years ago, and maybe once every 5 years I'll hook it up, realize it hasn't aged as well as i'd hoped, and return it to a box. I'd rather play bioshock.

Am I alone in this?

Damn, everyone is spoiled over this. You young'uns are lucky to have all this backwards compatibility stuff. Back in the day, when we upgraded our NES and Master Systems, we just had to keep them around with the new one. Be happy these companies are wasting time and millions of dollars to give you the ability to play the old games for the 6 months it takes before you get bored of them and never look at last gen again.

The only reason they even HAVE BC is because Microsoft and Sony know perfectly well their hardware is awful and will not last 20 years like an NES or Genesis will.

I ran out and got a PS3 60GB model as soon as they lowered the price. So far I've played a few PS2 games and folded some proteins! Hooray for saving the world!

I bought a 60gb ps3 recently and the opening sequence of FFX jitters anyway...
Do the later 60gb really have emotion engines?

Just got a PS3...not sure about the significance of the backward compatibility. Why would anyone ever play an old game? Weird. Oh well, I'll never touch my 7 year old PS2 again, except to take it and its lousy games to EB for credit.