ACESELRI'S PROFILE

author=Jude

author=Fallen-Griever

author=Jude

author=kentona
laptops are too bulky and warm for a 3-5 mins jaunt to the loo.

You are fast. I always end up sitting there for 15-20 minutes if I bring the DS in with me.

Is that because you need to be there, or is it because you brought the DS?

DS.

Not in my case. Mine ranges from 10 minutes if I have a good one, to 30+ if it got much uglier than I expected... even if I didn't bring anything with me. I mostly use the PSP, and mostly play Patapon 2 with it. The results were good. In rare cases, I use the laptop if I still need to look up stuff.

Heh... it seems it's a tough crowd. But I'm ok with it, even though I really am inexperienced. It takes one to know one, so that includes me, especially when I come up against games that are more unforgiving than my counter-insults. I can't give out names, since I have a hard time remembering them.

The Halo series is the most memorable case I have. Sometimes in fighting alone in Legendary, there's always a surprise that caught me off-guard. In the first game, there's a Flood that came with a Rocket Launcher... never had it coming when a rocket flew right at me. Second... er... gets very ugly when surrounded in a small space. Third, beam rifles... need I to ask more? That, or a kamikaze grunt that came out in the most inopportune of moments. ODST makes a point that being a sniper is a better way to take out unshielded enemies. Reach... erm... with new weapons, I get treated with more explosions around me, not the other way around.

In all, it is frustrating to do Legendary alone. It gets too much that I needed to take a long break and make a new strategy. I even get headaches trying to fight in the same area for the 30th time or more. The controlled face more abuse with the dirt from my hands (even though I did wash my hands. the skin must have worn out raging through baddies left and right.).

It may not seem much, but I'm making a point that people can blow out from frustration, and everyone has their own levels of tolerance. But from what I hear... they must have little time playing them.

Anyone would like to shift my opinion on a different angle? I'm always in the uncanny gray, so indecisive; never judging things so black-and-white...

author=GreatRedSpirit
Yes. The fundamental hardware never changed besides die shrinks and adding additional hardware that wouldn't have an adverse effect on playing PS1 games. I don't know if PS1 playback on the PS3 is perfect (see the FFAnthology on the PS2 for rare and minor issues with PS1 playback on the PS2). If a game doesn't work it's more likely due to issues with reading the disk (damaged read surface or shitty laser, take your pick!) than issues with playing that particular game.

I see... It's similar to playing Xbox games on a 360. There's bugs on some games I played in (made playing some split-screen multiplayer games difficult to do). Too bad I left behind my games in the past. Then again... most or all my games are pirated ones at that time, so I... uh... right... probably not safe to do.

author=GreatRedSpirit
Correct. They never removed the PS1 hardware (or emulator, I'm not sure how it does it). The PS2 on the other hand was taken out.

But then, since I have played the PS1 games in the past decade... Does it work on both PS1 models? After wondering why one of my games failed to work in the PS1 is that I had the original PlayStation console (with custom firmware installed in it, but I was too young to comprehend that) that reads the usual PS discs with a shiny surface. But one day, I purchased a game, but realized that its readable surface is black. That actually confused me as I have made attempts to make it read... Despite my then age, I was a competent player that reaches the amateur/casual skill tier (Got through Armored Core: Master of Arena story missions, finished games that are considered too easy by experienced ones, etc.), but not this.

Several years later, I received a PSOne and a few games. I noticed that they all have the black surface, and the console is a bit... roundish and smaller. That's when I found out. Technology apparently got the upper hand on me with a later-generation console.

In short, could the PS3 read both generations of the first PS?

There we go.

This should fit at the best of my knowledge...