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PS3 owner here. There are three levels of backward compatibility for the PS3: - PS2 in hardware / PS1 in software - PS2 in software / PS1 in software
by cuckcuckspruce 10y ago
PS3 owner here.
There are three levels of backward compatibility for the PS3:
- PS2 in hardware / PS1 in software
- PS2 in software / PS1 in software
- PS1 in software
The PS2 in hardware was only select launch consoles (20 GB and 60 GB). PS2 in software were the 80 GB consoles, but that feature was patched out in an OS update some time ago. All PS3s have PS1 backwards compatibility for games from the PlayStation Store and the physical media. I was playing Chrono Cross the other day on my PS3 slim with no issues.
- Dylan16807 10y ago> PS2 in software were the 80 GB consoles, but that feature was patched out in an OS update some time ago. I never heard of that happening, when was that? Wikipedia says that those 80GB consoles still had hardware PS2 GPUs and only did the CPUs in software, and that later models took out everything. No mention of software downgrades.
- cuckcuckspruce 10y agoI stand corrected. There is an 80 GB model that is backwards compatible with disc based games (though it's backwards compatibility is only listed as "limited"), and, according to Sony, all PS3s can play PS2 classics downloaded from Sony. See this article for more details: https://support.us.playstation.com/articles/en_US/KC_Article/Play-PSone-and-PlayStation-2-Games-on-a-PlayStation-3 https://support.us.playstation.com/articles/en_US/KC_Article...