I have two mini-USB cables I keep around as the PS3 Dualshock 3 controller is mini-usb. Otherwise I too would have lost them. I typically don't keep older gen

I have two mini-USB cables I keep around as the PS3 Dualshock 3 controller is mini-usb. Otherwise I too would have lost them. I typically don't keep older generation consoles around, but the original launch PS3 was a marvel for its time (despite being a relative flop compared to the Wii-360) The original launch PS3 contained the hardware emotion engine, so it had 100% backward compatibility with PS1 and PS2 games. Later revisions removed the PS2 hardware, in favor of software emulation, and iirc, eventually backwards compatibility was removed all together. It also supported Super Audio CD format as well, and before it was patched out, had the ability to dualboot Linux.