Playstation 3 woes…

gamr

Would it help if you deleted the saved game data for the ps2 games and retried the disc? Also, have you checked the ps2 games compatibility list on the sony/ps3 website. Not all ps2 games will run on ps3.

Cat695

i was on the understanding UK PS3's no longer support PS2.....after you upgrade the system

gaming_guy

Cat695 wrote: »

i was on the understanding UK PS3's no longer support PS2.....after you upgrade the system

any 60gb ps3's will play ps2 games, but the 40gb ones currently on sale in the UK only play ps1 and ps3 games.



EDIT: OP, have you tried reloading the firmware?

im not sure if it will allow you to do this or not but you can get the firmware from here. transfer it to a usb flash drive/external hdd/flash memory card etc then go to system update and select from storage media

financialbliss

@gamr - did a full hard disc reformat taking around 4 hours. This clears everything down on hd, effectively to a factory default state.

@gaming_guy - I'd previously upgraded to OS 2.36. Once I'd done the re-format, this remained at 2.36.

Very bizarre that PS1 games work, PS2 don't , but PS3 do.

Anyway, phoned Playstation customer care today and a replacement should be coming to me tomorrow to swap over. Never had to deal with Sony in the 8+ years I've had Playstation consoles and it's very pleasing to see that they're helpful and keen to get the matter resolved quickly.

financialbliss

Hi,

Just a quick update to say at about 3.30pm today, I received a replacement 60Gb Playstation 3 - sealed, packed and came in a pink box! Courier took mine away.

Thanks to everyone who replied on this thread...

FB.

renegade

Financialbliss

I also had this problem with a couple of PS2 games.
Not all PS1/2 games are backward compatible , and there is nothing you can do about it, my favourite game Black onPS2 kept freezing on certain levels and so I gave up and play it only on my PS2 which thankfully I kept when I bought my PS3.

superscaper

renegade wrote: »

Financialbliss

I also had this problem with a couple of PS2 games.
Not all PS1/2 games are backward compatible , and there is nothing you can do about it, my favourite game Black onPS2 kept freezing on certain levels and so I gave up and play it only on my PS2 which thankfully I kept when I bought my PS3.

If you read the thread you'll see that these are games that were working at one point but all suddenly stopped. That's definitely a fault and not a compatibility issue.