No, me neither, but it would seem that the price of pre-owned 60Gb European consoles just went up…

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Sony: No plans To Bring Back Backwards Compatibility

Posted by A.B. Frasier On Mon Jan 26, 2009

There was this rumor floating around for a while now, that there would be some form of emulation in a update that would enable the PS3’s without backwards compatibility to play PS2 games. I’m not even sure where the rumor started, but we brought it up back up on the recent Co Op Podcast and decided to hit Sony up for some answers. So rather than chop up his words here is a direct quote from the email:

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Thanks for your email

When we removed backwards compatibility from PS3, we said that it would not be coming back as our priority was to make great next generation games. I am not sure where you are getting your information from, but at no point did we say that there would be some sort of emulation being brought to PS3. At no point has this strategy changed and therefore I can tell you that there are no plans to bring back backwards compatibility to PS3. I think you will agree that the list of 1st party exclusive games for PS3 is growing quickly and the quality of them is great. Games such as LittleBigPlanet, Motorstorm Pacific Rift, Resistance 2, GT5: Prologue and the up-coming Killzone 2 show that we are very serious about bring exciting, innovative and fun games to PS3.

Many thanks
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Well, that’s one rumor killed. Probably a few dreams caught in the gunfire as well.

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BFN,

fp.

But for me the most important thing about this update is that they are starting to add features as programs on the HDD and not in the limited flash ROM. Optional too, although I cannot seem to remove the Photo stuff once downloaded?

So can you get Q~games to release the Earth music player with live clouds, HD textures and a starfield that is real mapping and not patched together from 4 textures thus generating symmetry were there is none. Cannot get my eyes of that when using the PS3 as a music player.

And make it possible to off load > 4gb files for PlayTV stuff.

How about copy to from DLNA servers?

It would be really nice if they would release a PC version of this software as it could be quite useful when looking for photo’s to print out…

I think you’ve highlighted a few good points there! Definately the relocation of the controller charge away from the clock because that’s really annoying!

Auto updates would be good too, the PS3 should knows what games have been played/installed on the system so should be able to to detect if there are updates/patches for these games and automatically download them and install them, instead of wanting to play a game, put it in then finding you have to download a 50MB Patch before you can do anything. And on the back of this, being able to download game data/patches in the background aswell would be good, least you can listen to music or such while it’s doing it.

Also Bluetooth both ways would be very helpful!

in regards the PSP firmware, I would like to see the ability to access your friends list on your PSP and see what games they are playing, PSP or PS3

Also to be able to download files/demos/PSP games onto the PSP via PS3 Wi-Fi and not having to physically connect the PSP to the PS3.

Yeah, I’d love that too but I think it is unlikely Sony would do this, ditto making it DVD region free. In theory enabling PAL in US and Japanese machines should just be a case of turning a ‘no’ to a ‘yes’ somewhere in the software as I’m guessing the European machines can play both.

The hidden “safe mode” feature was in version 2.50…

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Comment by fanpages — Oct 22, 2008 @ 9:30 pm
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…Firmware 2.50 adds hidden recovery menu

Posted Oct 18th 2008 12:50AM by Andrew Yoon

It appears that firmware 2.50 also added one other feature, meant to help PS3 owners that are trying to troubleshoot their system. A recovery menu [image at the above URL] gives users access to a variety of restore features. It will even allow users to install a new firmware update, should anything go wrong during the installation process. To access the menu, you must hold down the power button to turn on the PS3 until you hear three beeps. Then the menu will show up.

There are a few reports of systems bricking after firmware updates, so this may be Sony’s attempt at creating a fix for future problems. Hopefully, we’ll never have to actually use this feature — but if we do, it may be a quick way of avoiding a trip to the post office to send the PS3 to Sony’s support center….
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BFN,

fp.

- support for NTSC and PAL across all territories machines: many UK blu-rays have PAL menus but are region free and unfortunately cannot be played on US or Japanese PS3s (see Zaroichi blu-ray)
- support for more media formats: surely it can’t be that hard just to load every variation of every codec under the sun onto the PS3?

I’d dearly love to be able to just use my PS3 for my media watching needs but the lack of the above.