The great thing about the PS2 was that it was backward compatiable with the PSone in everything, the PS3 however has trouble playing some older games and I hate the fact that there is no slot in the system to put your memory cards in. I think there is a adapter you can use, but that will be something else to buy just to contiune playing your saved games on the PS3.

Good job making yourself look even stupider than usual. This is a false statement, and there were a very select few titles which the BC on the PS2 could not handle properly. FACT.

Get some braincells in that head of yours before opening your mouth again, alright?

I like them so far. They feel pretty comfortable and fun to click on, unlike the GC's shoulder buttons. I get what you're saying, as I felt a little ackward ducking in Resistence, but you don't have to push the button down all the way; just a slight click will do the job.

I'll have impressions on Resistence later on too. The online mode is pretty fun.

As for the memory card slot, Gamestop didn't have the adaptor. They said they should receive it around next week. Surprisingly the only PS3 accesories they had were extra controllers.

As for FFXI and the HDD, I have a USB adaptor for HD's that I use for my PC, so I'm going to hook that up later to see if it works on PS3.

EDIT: I inserted a couple of PS2 games, but they wouldn't appear in the menu. It turns out I had to manually restart the system, which would then boot up the PS2 game.

Hoo boy, FFXII got hit with an ugly stick. There's some serious compression issues with the FMV and actual game. Looks like the PS3 has some major updating to do. I'll try a few more games, but I'm not about to sell my PS2 just yet.

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On the upside, Shadow of the Colossus seems to have improved a little. I replayed it recently, so I can tell that the textures are a bit cleaner, a few less jaggies. I'll take requests on what games you'd like me to try out later in my journal.

wow just played the demo of motorstorm and god this game is good, well at least the demo XD it's fun and weird to try to steer with the motion sensor XD

now I have a problem I think my ps3 is taking a lot of my wireless network, what I mean is that every time i go online on my ps2 the other comp in another room loose the wireless signal... I'm not sure is it really due to the ps3 but it just started to do this...(but we had some trouble with it like it always say that there's a low signal even if the router is only 2 room away (not very far)

Have you set up a static IP address with the PS3? I think that might help things.

I think I've seen enough of the system now, so expect some journal impressions soon.

hmm I'm not sure how to set up a static IP XD

edit:ok when I plug my psp with an usb cable to my ps3, the ps3 detect everything (video, music, photo, etc) but when i put the memory stick directly into the ps3, it detect nothing... is it because when I put it directly into the ps3, it act more like a "external drive" and can detect the folder that are within it?

You call that trolling?

Wait, the PS3 recognized your PSP? I tried hooking mine up but didn't get any indication that it worked.

As for a static IP, open up your command prompt (type cmd in the "Run" option), then type ipconfig/all. Then just copy the info you see there to the internet settings in the PS3.

"Sir, whenever one of these tanks comes barreling down the highway, all the other cars get smushed!"

"Ensign, the clear solution is to stand in the middle of the road and masturbate swiftly. that will keep the tanks at bay."

"how do i rub dick?"

"use this pair of scissors"

The Smash My PS3 video us up! HOT DAMN IT'S AWESOME!

Today is official PS3 insanity day, and this is the best way to end it.

I can't wait until they have the longer video for the PS3, and the Wii video in two days!

I will stop referring to the PS3 as a video game console. It has definitely set itself apart from a console with such advanced features and configurations. From what I have read the past three weeks and from you guys, this is not a console, but PC.

To me, this isn't necessarily a good thing. Although it is interesting.

well you did select USB mode in your psp? XD because I thought it was like a computer and immediately go in usb mode and the ps3 found everything in my psp immediatly

ok for the ip static I'll try that

I went to Best Buy yesterday. About 30 tents rapped around the store, all the way to the back lot. I went inside. I waited 30 minutes to try out the new PS3 demo kiosk. I decided to play Motor Storm. I came.

There is no way I cannot purchase this system. I want it. Bad.

When do you guys think we will see the first price drop :(.

It's not my fault that only a couple of people managed to snag the system. I'm posting with updated impressions because I assumed the people who missed out wanted to hear about them, but if you're saying that isn't the case, I'll stop. I know the back and forth with just 2 members is pretty stupid, but there's nothing I can really do about that.

I'm a bit perplexed by all the Motorstorm love, because I found the online demo slightly underwhelming. The thing even glitched up embarrasingly when I tried to turn motion sensitivity On during the bike races.

hmmm it's been about one to to hours that I play the demo and didn't had any problem with it and the motion sensitivity worked perfectly ... so I don't know... maybe you got unlucky and god a defective system or maybe try to re-download the demo ...

Of course he couldn't just offer his own solution, then. The IP Address was just a guess, but I suppose what Inhert's really suffering from is bandwith problems. In which case I'm not sure how to fix that.

I didn't know we couldn't ask any question anymore... sorry if I don't know as much as you about wireless network >.>

A possible second chance for those who missed it.

The GC's shoulder triggers were pretty fine in my opinion, and I can tell the PS3's triggers would be awkward for my fingers just by looking at them - Aren't they convex? That's not really too ergonomic.

Anyway, is there anything in the way of actual PSP connectivity aside from file buggery-about yet?

Smashmyps3.com is the best. The reason I love it is because of that loser who waited in line and got nothing. Priceless. Good job wasting 18 hours of your life and walking away with nothing. On second thought... if you can afford to waste 18 hours of your life, your time must be worthless to begin with.

WOOOOOOOOOOO

The GC shoulder buttons always felt a bit hard to me. It wasn't too bad when you're just clicking them, but they were an absolute pain when I had to hold down L1 to read text in Metroid Prime. Left my finger nice and sore after a while. The PS3 triggers only feel a little ackward because your finger extends a bit further down, but at least it's soft on the skin.

I tried hooking my PSP up while using it in USB mode, but I couldn't get anything out of it. Inhert says otherwise though. I'm a bit busy cleaning up my room to mess around with the system some more at the moment.

Okay finally I have access to the forums again... It wasn't showing up all of yesterday and this morning for me. Here's what I was going to post right when I got home.

No drama, no assaults, no loss of first born children. Just in, console get, chatting with other preorder people that showed up to pick theirs up, hopped on to the bus, and went home. No easy task, though. Thing's bloody heavy. I'm still feelin' it in my arm. Thankfully it's safely perched on my desk now, where it sort of rules over the other electronics with a reflecty all-encompassing presence.

Bullets:

- Touch buttons are awesome, has little beeps to acknowledge that you've succeeded in getting the console's attention.
- Effortlessly hooked it up to the monitor with HDMI->DVI, and it's running sexy in 720p
- Got sound routed through my old composite cable, just unplugged it from my PS2 and into the PS3.
- Wi-fi didn't work with my house's AirPort. It couldn't establish and IP address. So I ended up getting another ethernet cable and hooked it up directly. Internet works just fine now.
- XMB interface is totally smooth. I wish it could be brought up during a game, but hopefully that might come later.
- Loaded up a bunch of websites, including my own, which streams the music in the flash player perfectly. Yay!
- Playstation Store is well layed-out and easy to use, downloaded a whole bunch of stuff from the Motorstorm demo, to an HD trailer for House of Flying Daggers.
- Speaking of which, the Motorstorm demo is fantastic. I had so much fun, and will probably continue playing it until it releases.
- Resistance and RR7 are both very solid launch titles. The former being a a totally enthralling FPS that I want to get into more later. Really excellent sound design. Music almost has a bit of a Sakimoto flavour to it, straying just enough from the Hollywood sound to catch my ear as standing out quite well. The physics and control are also fantastic. I always struggled with Halo... yet not nearly as much with this, for whatever reason.
- The latter, RR7, is actually the first racing game with real cars that's actually held my interest. I picked up drifting and nitro usage pretty fast, though I've also heard that the AI ramps up significantly... We'll see how that works out XD
- Blast Factor, one of the downloadable games, is really nice imo. Some people weren't as impressed with it, but it's a lot of fun. Contrary to previous reports, the tilt control function of washing things to one side comes in handy when trying to clear out enemies quickly. The faster you clear a cell, the more difficult the next cell is. So a lot of it is about speedy shooting/clearing. Also, the wave exposes certain enemies weak spots whereas the time-slow "bomb" exposes other ones.

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so you're saying that the hdmi > dvi solution work pretty good?? because is it work I might tried that ^^

I agree with everything you said ^^ I just didn't tried RR7 but like I saw some video of it, it seem good but not for me (I don't like how the car drift like they are racing on ice >.>)

I didn't buy any game because I really wasn't sure if I would really like resistance and I'm a little short in money now XD but after playing the demo, even if I don't like all that much console fps, I find it very good XD well at first I was cursing after the 5th death in 10min of play XD but the more I played the more use I became about the control and the game mechanic and now I can really enjoy it ^^ so I order it online with a 10$ instant saving yay! XD

and soldier: I really don't know what to said about the psp, all I did was plug my psp with a usb cable and choose the usb mode in my psp and immediately all my songs, video and photo appeared in their respective category...

oh I just think about it, what firmware do you have on your psp? I always keep my psp up to date, (I don't use any emulator or other things) so maybe it need the 2.82 version to work with the ps3...

I don,t know but even with all the bad review I kind of want to try untold legend: dark kingdom XD it remind me a lot about Gauntlet: dark legacy on ps2 and I kind of liked it XD so I might try to rent it or maybe buy it. Even if it doesn't have next-gen graphic I think it could be fun enough XD anyone that have tried it can give a little review?

Yeah, HDMI->DVI works great. Totally crisp and shiny.

Like SOLDIER mentioned a few posts back though, HDMI seems to screw up PS2 games. At least FFXII. I switched to S-video to play it, and it looked okay... but still not as good as it does through S-video on my PS2. Oddness.

Finally back up. I read on another forum that to fix the problem with FFXII, you have to set your resolution to 420p. I haven't actually tried this, but it makes sense.

Resistence in single player is good fun, but so far nothing that the PS2 couldn't really handle. Online Mode, however, is the real meat and potatoes of this game. It's chaotic, clever, and it has yet to lag for me.

Other than that, I haven't used the system much since yesterday, and instead have spent most of the day moping. I've been tempted to sell my PS3 on Ebay, not out of greedy profit like everyone else, but because I wanted to use the money to buy this very pricey but very sexy TV.

http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-LN-S40...productDetails

But after a lot of thought, I've decided not to worry about things too much and enjoy the system I have now. Yes it sucks that I have to play Resistence in 420p and not 1080i (what I wouldn't give for an update announcement) and I also hate the grayish blurs I occasionally see, but I've decided to stop letting that stuff eat away at me. The blurs may go away all on their own, and a firmware update should come eventually.

That said, I DO have the system up on Ebay, but only to see how much I can get from it. I'll only go through with the sale if the bid goes above $1,000, but I'll cancel it if I don't see the price improve in the last hour or so.

Also, there's a youtube video showing a possible NES Emulator in action.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIWwcGCI_nY

Has anyone encountered an audio feedback problem with their PS3? I've got the 20GB version and I'm using the standard AV cables. I don't have an HDTV yet. :(

Anyway, I tried swapping the PS2's cables, still got the problem. Swapped inputs on the TV (from "Front" to AV1 and then AV2) and still got the feedback. I think it's a problem with the AV output on the system, but I wanna make sure.