Remember that YouTube video from forever ago that exposed the apparent terribleness of the PlayStation 3's backwards compatibility? You know, this one?
A lot of people speculated that this would be fixed with firmware updates, right? Then why is it that playing PS2 games still looks like crap on my PS3? Well, I figured out a simple fix for this.
In the PS3's display settings, make it so that only 480p is selected for available video output when you're going to play a PS2 game. This is annoying to have to keep going back and reversing it to utilize any other applications, but so far it's the only thing I've found that works. The color might still be a bit desaturated, but it definitely helps with the jaggies. And as for playing the handful of PS2 games with widescreen support, I merely have to make my TV display "Full" instead of "Normal." (This doesn't crop the image or stretch it.)
I was this close to going out and buying a component cable figuring that it was somehow my HDMI cable that the PS3 hates when playing PS2 games, but the above method works fine. However, down the line I still might buy the component cable since it works with both PS2 and PS3s and this would be handy since there are still a couple of things I need my PS2 for (namely for utilizing my old savegames since apparently the Memory Card Adapter is out of production).
I'm very disappointed in Sony for not having fixed this yet. You would figure that they'd still be touting backwards compatibility with two tremendously successful consoles, but of course we all know that they don't really care anymore since PS2 backwards compatibility has been absent in PS3s for quite some time, and according to NPDs, the $100 slim PS2 is still selling quite well. It's a shame that I spent $500 on a modern console to find that it makes games that already looked terrible even worse purely out of apathy and laziness on Sony's part.
And while we're on the point, it's not just "hardcore gamers" that are upset that current production PS3s don't have PS2 backwards compatibility -- there are numerous people I know who have outright told me that they don't want a PS3 because it won't play PS2 games (anecdotal evidence, yes, but I do hear it a lot from people that aren't tech savvy). Coupled with the still sky high price, Sony sure does have a winner on it's hands don't they?
To be fair, I do think that 2009 will be the year of the PS3. If you've already got one or you don't care about backwards compatibility, titles like Uncharted 2, the new Ratchet and Clank, Infamous, and Heavy Rain along with multi-platform games like BioShock 2 and Brutal Legend are sure to make the system worthwhile in terms of software -- and it's about damn time!
In the PS3's display settings, make it so that only 480p is selected for available video output when you're going to play a PS2 game. This is annoying to have to keep going back and reversing it to utilize any other applications, but so far it's the only thing I've found that works. The color might still be a bit desaturated, but it definitely helps with the jaggies. And as for playing the handful of PS2 games with widescreen support, I merely have to make my TV display "Full" instead of "Normal." (This doesn't crop the image or stretch it.)
I was this close to going out and buying a component cable figuring that it was somehow my HDMI cable that the PS3 hates when playing PS2 games, but the above method works fine. However, down the line I still might buy the component cable since it works with both PS2 and PS3s and this would be handy since there are still a couple of things I need my PS2 for (namely for utilizing my old savegames since apparently the Memory Card Adapter is out of production).
I'm very disappointed in Sony for not having fixed this yet. You would figure that they'd still be touting backwards compatibility with two tremendously successful consoles, but of course we all know that they don't really care anymore since PS2 backwards compatibility has been absent in PS3s for quite some time, and according to NPDs, the $100 slim PS2 is still selling quite well. It's a shame that I spent $500 on a modern console to find that it makes games that already looked terrible even worse purely out of apathy and laziness on Sony's part.
And while we're on the point, it's not just "hardcore gamers" that are upset that current production PS3s don't have PS2 backwards compatibility -- there are numerous people I know who have outright told me that they don't want a PS3 because it won't play PS2 games (anecdotal evidence, yes, but I do hear it a lot from people that aren't tech savvy). Coupled with the still sky high price, Sony sure does have a winner on it's hands don't they?
To be fair, I do think that 2009 will be the year of the PS3. If you've already got one or you don't care about backwards compatibility, titles like Uncharted 2, the new Ratchet and Clank, Infamous, and Heavy Rain along with multi-platform games like BioShock 2 and Brutal Legend are sure to make the system worthwhile in terms of software -- and it's about damn time!
1 comments:
Hmm... My method might be on a game-by-game basis. For Final Fantasy XII, 480p mode is definitely less blurry and jaggy, whereas on Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence, it only looked slightly less blurry on 480p mode versus 1080p.
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