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60GB EU and 80GB US (Motorstorm/MGS4 Bundles) are one in the same. Both relied on the inclusion of the PS2 GPU.



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fillet said:
the2real4mafol said:
It's a shame you have to hack your machine to do this, it's like a choice between PS2 games and PSN, it's hard to say which to choose when you already have a PS2 anyway.


You can still go on PSN with a hacked console, things have moved a long way since only 3.55 firmware being available.

I though sony banned people if they used hacked consoles on PSN



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the2real4mafol said:
fillet said:
the2real4mafol said:
It's a shame you have to hack your machine to do this, it's like a choice between PS2 games and PSN, it's hard to say which to choose when you already have a PS2 anyway.


You can still go on PSN with a hacked console, things have moved a long way since only 3.55 firmware being available.

I though sony banned people if they used hacked consoles on PSN


I amsure they do, but these kinf of things are usually like back and forth. A fw will release that blocks some of the hacking, than the hackers hack the new firmwre



kain_kusanagi said:
think-man said:
kain_kusanagi said:
think-man said:
Isnt this illegal?


How could it possibly be illegal modify your property to play your property.

What's criminal is that Sony is sitting on fully functioning PS2 backwards compatability and forcing people to re-purchase thier PS2 Classic games they already own on disc from the PSN store.

Don't even no why im replying to this but....

It requires CFW to run which if you use will void your warrenty plus you will have to illgally download or copy ps2 games to play them on your ps3....Makes sense aye?

It's also not criminal that sony doesn't use this software, people dont have to rebuy anything!?!?! you just keep your ps2 its that simple. When you buy your ps3 you no full well that it isn't going to play ps2 games, and if I were sony I wouldnt use the software that would only support 70-90% of ps2 games.


Voiding warrenty isn't illegal. Modifying your property isn't illegal. Backing up your property isn't illegal. None of that is illegal. It may be a breach of contract with the EULA, but that's not a crime.

Emulation is not illegal.

When I said it's criminal that Sony sits on backwards compatbility software I was not saying that it is actualy illegal. I was pointing out that Sony should do what MS does and let people play older games they already own on disc. The Xbox 360 backwards compatibility list isn't complete either, but it's better than asking people to re-purchase the games they have on disc just to play on their new system. Sony is obviously sitting on backwards compatibility to sell more digital "Classics". MS sells original Xbox games on XBLA but all those games can still play from their original disc too..



This is almost an exact parallel to your argument that it's acceptable that Xbox Live isn't free. Except from the opposite end.

the2real4mafol said:
fillet said:
the2real4mafol said:
It's a shame you have to hack your machine to do this, it's like a choice between PS2 games and PSN, it's hard to say which to choose when you already have a PS2 anyway.


You can still go on PSN with a hacked console, things have moved a long way since only 3.55 firmware being available.

I though sony banned people if they used hacked consoles on PSN

It's quite easy to avoid being banned on PSN with a hacked console if you look into it.  EDIT - deleted advice on how to do that, don't want to break rules here.