Yeah, I had a lot of luck. I installed linux. Safe, doesn't void your warranty, and best of all, gets completely forgotten every time someone writes a story about hacking or running emulators on the PS3. Oh, wait.

P.S. Dosbox works the best, since you don't have to set up the controller.

Sorry, but the European 60 GB does in fact have partial PS2 hardware; it doesn't have the Emotion Engine CPU but it still has the Graphics Synthesizer GPU from the PS2. It's exactly the same as the U.S. 80 GB PS3.

No PS3 has a pure software emulator for PS2 games.

probably got yanked so there could be a bugfix, like they did with some PS1 games. Otherwise, why pull it?

Well, if you're counting the outfit you get when you bowl 12 games, there's also the rapper outfit you get with a certain number of shots to the "junk", plus an entirely different person, the cow mascot. That kinda adds up to four characters... counting the outfits.

Hey, that's great, thanks! I'm one of those with a PSP, a PS3, linux installed on my PS3, and a linux desktop computer, and was left unable to purchase Beats. Last I checked I thought Sony was trying to compete with MS, not force customers to fork over hundred or so dollars to MS just so we can get some great games on the PSP. (and no, wine doesn't work with Sony's software).

So, uh, anyone know what firmware version Beats requires? Just curious. ;)

zik: "Has this guy ever seen the same movie on both formats played on equally configured equipment?"

Many have. The problem is whenever the same movie is available on both formats, it's always using the same encode, one that has a low enough of a bitrate to work on HD-DVD. I'm not aware of any movie released on both formats getting the higher-bitrate encode that blu-ray is capable of. Of course, blu-ray exclusive titles get to enjoy higher bitrates, but then it's harder to compare.

It's no wonder they look the same, it is the same. Encode a movie twice, one at HD-DVD's highest bitrate, then another at blu-ray's highest bitrate, using the same codec and equipment, then we'll talk.

As for this article, MS trying to prolong the format war to promote digital downloads is a bit far-fetched, but not that much so. They've already started with the xbox 360's HD movie downloads, which are selling far better than the HD-DVD add-on. Mainly I'd think MS is pushing HD-DVD because HD-DVD uses MS's software for interactivity, and Blu-ray uses Sun's Java.

I still find it odd that there's so much effort being put into convincing people that HD-DVD looks almost as good or sounds almost as good (or you really can't tell the difference) when talking about a high definition move format. Why settle for second best? It's not really price, the only reason Toshiba's players are so cheap is they're taking a huge loss on them. If they won the format war, they'd have to raise their prices to blu-ray levels just so that other manufacturers would join in. Apart from slightly different optics and different firmware, the players from both sides are doing all the same things, normally they should cost the same. Even disc replication is within a few cents of each other, it's really all pointless.

I'm not sure the U.S. has the network infrastructure to make this work well, South Korea has plenty of bandwidth for everybody. Oh well, I guess we'll know if it makes sense for the U.S. when (if, really) Microsoft finally gets around to implementing it.

The funny thing is Divx support almost counts. Unlimited titles to choose from, but ya gotta download them first. ;)

ryan bean: The 80 GB emulation isn't pure software, it still has the graphics chip from the ps2 (the ps2 cpu was removed). The 40 GB had even the graphics chip removed. I'm too busy for links right now :p

@Consolcwby: I'd read the full paragraph before. It actually makes sense if you replace "Cell chip" with "PS3 motherboard".

Shrinking the Cell and having it use less power has absolutely no impact whatsoever on what it can do. He's talking about taking the GS chip out of the motherboard.

"How do we allocate things within the Cell chip?" Lol. This is why you don't let the executives pretend to understand tech, they should just repeat what the techs told them. It's okay, we know PS2 emulation is hard. Just ask the people working on the open-source PS2 emulator. :)