Archive for August, 2009
Wished your PS3 pad was more like a 360s?
Then wish no more thanks to the Mad Catz Modern Warfare 2 Controllers. Check out their full range here with some rather neat looking throat head sets ;
As you can see on the IGN video their PS3 pads are very similar to the Xbox design with triggers and even lime green colours. I think its a good idea as gamers will always prefer the design of one pad over another but i can’t see any Xbox pads mimicking the PS3′s. Interestingly I can see some PC pads resembling PS2 designs…
Uncharted 2 “impossible” on Xbox 360.
Naughty Dog co-president Christophe Balestra stated on Eurogamer that Uncharted 2 would be impossible to make for the Xbox 360 and be completely like-for-like.
“It’s the combination of Blu-ray and hard drive,” he explained, revealing that “every single bit” of the 25GB disc had been filled.
“You can play the entire game without loading. We don’t require an install. We’re doing all the post-processing effects on the SPUs [Synergistic Processing Units]. The quality of the depth of field we have, you can’t do that on the Xbox.
Its great to hear a developer is getting the best out of the console (even if it is in-house) and i hope to see more in the future. Unlike the shambles such as Ghostbusters…
Ghostbusters gets graphical update patch.
Ghostbusters wasn’t exactly well recieved technically on the PS3 due to inferior resolutions and graphical detail. Terminal Reality has at least tried to address these issues although they seem to have fell short. An article on Digital Foundry did some research and reveal the resolution is now 960×540 1024×576 (Thanks Emrah) but that’s still less than the 360 version 720p (1280×720). TR definitely deserve credit for trying to fix the situation its just a shame it doesn’t create an equal parity.
PS3 Locked Game Saves [Compilation List]
I’ve been wanting to do this post for a long time. It’s something that has always bugged me. There are certain game saves that are locked to the console itself. Now this isn’t an issue as long as your PS3 doesn’t break. But what if you want to “upgrade” to the PS3 Slim? Or if your PS3 breaks down, and you get a different PS3 back from Sony?
Even if you do a full back-up to a external hard drive. It won’t restore the locked save data to a different PS3. But if you restore it to the same PS3 you did the back-up on, your fine. For example if you upgrade your hard drive.
Most of the PS3 games are NOT locked, so this may not even be an issue for some.
I can understand locking save data. But don’t lock it to a specific PS3. Lock it to a PSN ID instead. That way if you move to a different system you won’t lose all the hard work you’ve done. You could lock copyright-protected movies and music to a PSN ID as well.
I’ve found a list of game saves that are locked to the system:
Army of Two: The 40th Day
Assassins Creed II
Bakugan Battle Brawlers
Band Hero
Bayonetta
Bomberman Ultra
Brain Challenge
Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood
C&C Red Alert 3
Cloudy With A Chance With Meatballs
Crash Commando
Dante’s Inferno
Dark Mist
Dead Nation
Demons Souls
Devil May Cry 4 (Only the online file is locked)
DJ Hero
Dragon Age Origins
Dragon Ball Raging Blast
Dragonball Z Burst Limit
Earthworm Jim HD
Eye Of Judgment
Fat Princess
Fight Night Round 4
Funky Lab Rat
Get Fit With Mel B
Godfather 2
Guitar Hero Greatest Hits
Guitar Hero Metallica
Guitar Hero World Tour
Heavy Rain
High Velocity Bowling
Janline R Mahjongg
Killzone 2
Lara Croft & The Guardian Of Light
Lego Rock Band
LocoRoco Cocoreccho!
Lost Planet: Extreme Condition
Mainichi Issho
Marvel vs. Capcom 2
Mega Man 9
Mega Man 10
Mercenaries 2: World In Flames
Mortal Kombat 2
Nail’d
Namco Museum Essentials
NCAA Football 10
Need For Speed: Carbon
Need For Speed: Pro Street
Need For Speed: Shift
Rock Band
Rock Band 2
Sam & Max: The Devil’s Playhouse
Shank
Simple 500 Vol 1 The Mahjongg
Singstar
Skate 2
Skate 3
Sonic The Hedgehog 4: Episode 1
Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing
Star Ocean Last Hope International
Street Fighter IV
Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo HD Remix
Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix
Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection Online (Your online stats won’t transfer)
The Saboteur
Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Vegas 2
Tom Clancy’s HAWX
UFC: Undisputed
Uno
Vanquish
Wolfenstein
WWE Smackdown vs Raw 2010
LittleBigPlanet is kinda unique, see below. Thanks go to Andrew for this.
I believe the game save data is now locked, but all game progress and created levels are now actually stored as game data rather than as a game save.
From in game you can export your profile, which generates a file in the save data folder, which can be copied around, and imported on another system. This file appears to contain everything you would have expected to be in the save file (character customization, single player progress & created levels).
You need to export your profile each time before you are able to save it to an external device.
Profile Locking
- Red Faction Guerrila – copy locks your personal profile and settings, but not your game saves.
- Mass Effect 2 Profile (Game progress/Settings) is locked. Actual game save file for ME2 is not locked.
Games saves patched to remove copy protection:
Batman: Arkham Asylum (Said to not have copy protection)
Gran Turismo 5
MotorStorm: Pacfic Rift
Resident Evil 5
Resistance 2 (Been told it isn’t copy protected)
Valkyria Chronicles [System Data (settings) file is locked, but the Play Data file is not]
Let me know if you find any more and I’ll add it to the list.
Vote Yes for these ideas!
Remove Copy Protection From Game Save Files
Storage of Game Saves Online – Cloud Saving has arrived!
What does the inside of the PS3 Slim look like?
This;
Rest of the gallery @ ifixit
Why does the press hate the Sony PlayStation 3?
Good Gear Guide has written a pretty accurate article on Sony and why the gaming media/press hates the PS3.
The arrival of the PS3 Slim has done nothing to quell the fires of hatred from the gaming press. For reasons I can’t begin to fathom, fair and balanced journalism seems to have gone out the window when it comes to Sony, with many commentators treating the Nippon conglomerate with as much distaste as a sniffling swine flu victim. Just what has Sony done to tick you all off, exactly? Did Ken Kutaragi pee in your drinks? Did he punch you in the nose or steal your partner? Or is Sony simply an easy target to kick in the butt — like celebrity Tom Cruise or Star Wars character Jar Jar Binks?
Whichever way you shake it, it’s obvious that certain elements of the press were determined to sink the PlayStation 3 before it even set sail. And the hate has only intensified over time — look no further than Gameplayer’s volatile Sony Gives 64 Million Gamers The Finger article for concrete proof. Even relatively sober critiques can’t help adding sensationalist headlines. (e.g. 10 things I hate about the PS3). Those of you who own a PlayStation 3 are already aware of the anti-PS3 bias in the press — it’s kind of hard to ignore. Well, it’s time that somebody made a stand. It’s time to step up to the plate and shout “no more!” To other games journalists I say: lay off Sony and the PlayStation 3. We need to bring balance and fairness back into games journalism.
The article goes on to remind those who obviously didn’t get the memo on how it was Sony who started the motion technology with the Eye Toy.
Even the popularity of motion control can be partly attributed to Sony: the Sony EyeToy was a household name long before people started trashing their homes with nunchucks. At every turn, the PlayStation is there, helping to shape the video game landscape. So where’s the love, people? If Nintendo can get by on broken shovelware and a fading sense of nostalgia, surely Sony deserves better treatment? I know which console I’d rather be playing, anyway.
Since our community was recently hooked up with DSL, my Sony bashing brother ( who I’ve mention several times before ) has bought a PS3, plays T5DR: Online, and preordered Tekken 6( PS3) and Demon’s Souls. He even admitted after 3 years of riding the PS3 hate train and after 4 RROD 360s, that the PS3 is the better system. ( I think PSN being free vs LIVE was the turning point. )
I don’t know if the gaming media will ever change their biased stance toward Sony but I think gamers that used to be anti Sony since 2005 are slowly realising that they are missing out on a great, reliable machine with the PS3.
Read the full article here
Shuhei Yoshida Interview.
Shuhei Yoshida was interviewed by Eurogamer and was asked a range of questions from the PS3 Slim to the PSP Go to Firmware 3.0 and i noticed this quote about Sony’s approach to the XMB;
Shuhei Yoshida: I think we have the fundamentals in there, so the approach we are taking is to make managing your digital content easier in terms of how you get it and how you move it from PS3 to PSP. We are also updating the Media Go software to manage your PSP products. Definitely there’s no [claim that] this is the ultimate user interface for the PS3, but the incremental approach that we are taking I think is the right way to go.
Microsoft have made big changes to their interface with the NXE that was launched earlier this year and i couldn’t help comparing their approaches to how the PC market with OS upgrades. Microsoft seem to make big , radical changes after periods of time (see the gap between Windows XP and Vista),
whilst Apple chooses to update their OS gradually over short periods of time (only a year between Leopard and Snopw Leopard). Sony’s approach sounds very similar to Apple’s…
A Collection of GamesCom Interviews
Posted by Jay in Heavy Rain, Interviews, LittleBigPlanet, Lost Planet 2, MAG - Massive Action Game, PS3 software, PSP Software on August 25th, 2009
Here’s a collection of in-game interviews conducted by the Official PlayStation Blog. Some of these you’ve already seen, but here’s the whole collection (so far) in case you missed any:
ModNation Racers
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Lost Planet 2
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