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Thanks for the info! I've been unable to decide between versions-leaning towards PS3 'cause the rest of the series (basically) is on Playstation, but if I can't even back up my save file, I'll do 360.
 
I wonder why there are certain games you cannot copy or transfer the saves. Doesn't seem like something on Sony's side, especially considering we're talking about two Capcom games. The PS3 is a lot, lot easier to deal with when it comes to moving stuff around and such. You can back up the drive with ease, you can share PSN games, you can transfer and share saves from all different games, etc.
 
[quote name='$hady']After reading around a bit more i've decided to just go ahead and buy the cross battle adapter. I'll post all the details and some game tests once I receive it. I'm happy to be a crash test dummy. :)

I'll hide the rest in spoilers so as not to bore those who don't care:
I had been eyeballing a blue version 1 on Ebay for $59 shipped but gonna skip it after reading a bunch of disconnect troubles even after a fix was found. The new black version supposedly fixes all known issues and adds rumble support. I dont care about rumble but yea that's what i'm getting...

Best deal I found was from Amazon surprisingly. It's sold by Total Consoles but shipped from Amazon for free. $69.99 (plus I have a couple $5 GCs)
Clickety

Absolute cheapest I found was Total Consoles own website for $64.69 shipped...
Clickety 2

If you need one Walmart.com lists the wired 360 controller for $29.73 or you can grab one from Amazon for $29.49.

Kinda pricey for the combo but hopefully worth it to be able to use a superior controller. :pray:
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Damn, I like the 360 controller better for most game types than the PS3 controller and was really excited after your earlier post. However, my excitement melted when I saw the $69.99 price tag.

I "MIGHT" pay that much for a new 360 style controller (even if necessarily USB instead of wireless) with a switch that made it work on both the 360 and PS3 with full functionality except tilt. A toggle switch to switch L1 L2 and R1 R2 on the hardware side would be awesome and seal the deal since PS developers seem enamored with the damn R1 button.

I just don't see myself paying that much for just an adaptor unless it works really well.

I think I'll just stick with the clunky Nyko controller for my PS3 control for now. At least the weight and size on it are ok and the sticks are close to the comfort of the 360 sticks-instead of the crappy convex Sixaxis/Dual Shock sticks.
 
[quote name='xeno']ok my war hawk headset decided to not work so which headset should i get for under 60 bucks.[/quote]
The official PS3 Bluetooth headset with SOCOM == $59.99 :lol:
 
A couple people had asked for a review of the adapter I ordered that lets you to use a 360 controller on the PS3.

Well I received the adapter friday and after playing probably a dozen game of NBA 2K9 and then several rounds of CoD 5 tonight i'll give this thing my seal of approval. It does exactly what they promised it does and is really smooth. Everything felt right as soon as you get it in your head that the X that they show on screen is actually A and not X on the controller in your hand. lol my first game of basketball I kept passing to the wrong guy, no biggie just be aware of the position you need to pass to. After swapping the fire/zoom buttons CoD5 handled just like on the 360 except I had crappy guns since i'm a level nothing on PS3. :lol:

Only downside is of course the price but it's worth it I suppose if you really dislike the PS3 controller. Wires suck but it's no big deal. The adapter wire is a little over 3' long and the 360 controller cable is a big boy as well...

EDIT: just remembered when I was measuring the cable that you also can flip a switch on the adapter face for each individual button enabling rapid fire. I know alot of assclowns have bought some rather expensive modded 360 controllers for rapid fire on shooters so if you are a cheater you can use this. I'll never use it but yea it's there...
 
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OK guys, one simple question, and I couldnt find it in any of the OP threads. Do all PS2 games work on the 60GB? Basically, is the idea of the 60GB that it has the highest rate of games that will work for it? Its all so very confusing...
 
The 20/60GB model has near perfect PS2 BC, because it does it with the hardware, not software emulation. There are still some issues, I believe, but they are minimal.
 
Also, is there a way to tell if your PS3 is refurbished or not? And is there a list of 60GB serial numbers somewhere?

EDIT: In retrospect, this is kind of a stupid question. So nevermind.
 
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[quote name='optimusprime8062']Also, is there a way to tell if your PS3 is refurbished or not? And is there a list of 60GB serial numbers somewhere?

EDIT: In retrospect, this is kind of a stupid question. So nevermind.[/quote]

The US/NA 60 gb model was model CECHA01. However, I'm not sure if you'd be able to find an itemized list of serial #'s for EVERY 60gb model out there. The 60 gb models released in Europe had SOFTWARE BC from the get-go and NOT hardware BC.


[quote name='cochesecochese']What's the final verdict on cleaning out the inside of the PS3? Should I vacuum it or use compressed air.[/quote]

I just use a vacuum with a hose and set the suction to low. If you want to get any other dust that may be trapped in the vents though, use a toothbrush with soft bristles.

[quote name='munch']Is there a way to delete users from the PS3?[/quote]

I believe you just have to go all the way to the left on the XMB, select the user you want to delete, press triangle and confirm a couple of times and....POOF.....they're gone.
 
Are you supposed to turn the PS3 off in the back or leave it on so the red light shows? I've been leaving it off in case of thunder storms and having less electricity used, even though it's probably almost negligible as long as the front is off.
 
The red light is off for the PS3. It is the same as any other electronic device. You don't hit the back button on your dvr, computer, receiver, etc. You just power off like normal.

However, you might want to unplug it to save power. All electronics bleed power even when powered down if they are plugged in. In fact a power cord that isn't attached to anything except a outlet will bleed power.
 
[quote name='Baron O Hell']The red light is off for the PS3. It is the same as any other electronic device. You don't hit the back button on your dvr, computer, receiver, etc. You just power off like normal.

However, you might want to unplug it to save power. All electronics bleed power even when powered down if they are plugged in. In fact a power cord that isn't attached to anything except a outlet will bleed power.[/quote]
Red light means power is supplied to it but the unit is off so if a storm sent a surge and the red light was on it could get damaged. I don't have any other devices that have that surge protector type power setup. I know all devices use electricity simply by being plugged in, but it's nothing compared to in use so I won't bother unplugging PS3 when its not in use. I guess I will keep the red light on as long as storms are not in range.
 
Has anyone tried running the Playstation on a monitor (4:3 or 16:10 or whatever) with an HDMI->DVI cable?

I like that I can run my Xbox on a regular monitor, for...uh...situations where you don't have a TV :whistle2:D I'm not clear on if the Playstation really supports that too or not. At the least it would have to support non-HDTV resolutions, like 1280x1024 or 1920x1280 or whatever the case is for a particular screen.

And then too I'm not sure if the monitor would have to support HDMI maybe...
 
[quote name='J7.']Red light means power is supplied to it but the unit is off so if a storm sent a surge and the red light was on it could get damaged. I don't have any other devices that have that surge protector type power setup. I know all devices use electricity simply by being plugged in, but it's nothing compared to in use so I won't bother unplugging PS3 when its not in use. I guess I will keep the red light on as long as storms are not in range.[/QUOTE]

I shut mine off if I'm done for the day. I figure it saves a bit of power, and I suppose probably extends the life of the power supply a bit too (though Sony's probably using a better-than-needed power supply anyway).

I did the same for my PS2.
 
[quote name='Wolfpup']Has anyone tried running the Playstation on a monitor (4:3 or 16:10 or whatever) with an HDMI->DVI cable?

I like that I can run my Xbox on a regular monitor, for...uh...situations where you don't have a TV :whistle2:D I'm not clear on if the Playstation really supports that too or not. At the least it would have to support non-HDTV resolutions, like 1280x1024 or 1920x1280 or whatever the case is for a particular screen.

And then too I'm not sure if the monitor would have to support HDMI maybe...[/quote]

I actually did this last week and it worked pretty well, although YMMV based on what monitor you have. For instance, mine is 1680x1050 and doesn't have 1:1 scaling, so the picture was a slightly stretched 720p. It still looked amazing and the stretching was barely noticeable, but I can imagine some people might be concerned.

Also, make sure you have a way to output sound if your monitor doesn't have speakers.
 
Thanks! In another thread they said something similar-that it can still only do 480p, 720p, 1080i, or 1080p. So it sounds like on a standard 5:4 monitor you'd basically be stuck with 480p if it can't add the black bars to 720p.

That's still much better than nothing, and better than the old systems could do at least! (The Xbox has better monitor support, but at least some games don't like 4:3/5:4 monitors. I had to play Tomb Raider: Legend at 480p 'cause it stretched it weirdly at 1280x1024, though most Xbox games add black bars as needed for whatever resolution you pick).
 
I didn't see any kind of link in the first post on how to back up saves and reload them on a new PS3, so how does one do that? I ask because I have to send mine into Sony for repairs and I want to back up some of my save files.
 
[quote name='J7.']Red light means power is supplied to it but the unit is off so if a storm sent a surge and the red light was on it could get damaged. I don't have any other devices that have that surge protector type power setup. I know all devices use electricity simply by being plugged in, but it's nothing compared to in use so I won't bother unplugging PS3 when its not in use. I guess I will keep the red light on as long as storms are not in range.[/quote]

Turning the system completely off via the button on the back is not going to protect you against electrical surges. If you're concerned about lightening storms, you should get a surge protector.

[quote name='IAmTheCheapestGamer']I didn't see any kind of link in the first post on how to back up saves and reload them on a new PS3, so how does one do that? I ask because I have to send mine into Sony for repairs and I want to back up some of my save files.[/quote]

Just plug in a storage device, go to games saves, and copy whatever saves you want over to the device. If you have a larger storage unit, like a USB hard drive, you could just back up the entire drive and then restore it later, if need be.
 
[quote name='bigdaddybruce44']Turning the system completely off via the button on the back is not going to protect you against electrical surges. If you're concerned about lightening storms, you should get a surge protector.



Just plug in a storage device, go to games saves, and copy whatever saves you want over to the device. If you have a larger storage unit, like a USB hard drive, you could just back up the entire drive and then restore it later, if need be.[/quote]

I have a surge protector and I had to actually go in and reset my custom wallpaper after a storm the one night since it went back to the standard PS3 one.

Thanks for the heads up on the USB drive and backing up my saves, since those are the only things I wanna keep off of my PS3's HDD.
 
Some save files are copy protected, so that way may not work.

If that's all you want to keep, but have some that are copy protected, you could delete everything else and do a full system backup.
 
[quote name='mguiddy']Some save files are copy protected, so that way may not work.

If that's all you want to keep, but have some that are copy protected, you could delete everything else and do a full system backup.[/quote]

I don't really care about some of the files(GTAIV, for one), but I don't wanna have to replay some portions of Mercenaries 2 and I'm about one third to possibly halfway done with Rise Of The Argonauts and I wanna save that file.

Hell, I don't care about any of the trophy information either, but that's saved on Sony's servers though, right?

I still don't get the copy protection thing though. It's a pain in the ass.
 
Yeah, trophy stuff is saved on Sony's servers. And yeah, copy protected saves are stupid. Seriously... I saw their SAT scores... I don't think they even spelt their names correctly.
 
Unfortunately, Mercenaries 2(thanks EA)was one of the games I wanted to save my saves from and they ended up being the ones that were fuckin' copy protected.

YAY!! Now that means I have to go back through that friggin' glitched church mission once I get the PS3 back.
 
[quote name='IAmTheCheapestGamer']Unfortunately, Mercenaries 2(thanks EA)was one of the games I wanted to save my saves from and they ended up being the ones that were fuckin' copy protected.

YAY!! Now that means I have to go back through that friggin' glitched church mission once I get the PS3 back.[/quote]
Just delete all the stuff on your PS3, except for the saves, and do a full backup (which, since everything but the save files are deleted, would just be of the saves). Full backups "bypass" the copy protection. Though... I'm not sure if it works if you restore the backup to a different system (like, if yours was totally messed up and they had to send you a complete replacement instead of just fixing yours).
 
[quote name='mguiddy']Just delete all the stuff on your PS3, except for the saves, and do a full backup (which, since everything but the save files are deleted, would just be of the saves). Full backups "bypass" the copy protection. Though... I'm not sure if it works if you restore the backup to a different system (like, if yours was totally messed up and they had to send you a complete replacement instead of just fixing yours).[/quote]

I'm wondering how the hell this works though, since I just had to drop off the PS3 after it was sealed up in it's coffin at the UPS store.

They didn't say I had to wait and get some sort of slip or something, so hopefully they'll be able to e-mail me with tracking info as it's en route to Sony.

If not, this is going to be a LOOONG 3 days till it gets to Laredo, Texas.

By the way, a full backup would've been like 18gb's before I started the formatting. I ended up doing a quick format first, which wiped everything out, then I did the longer one and that took 2 hours and 30 minutes.

I'm just glad I still had my Xbox in my closet, since otherwise I'd be relegated to the Genesis model 3 I have downstairs.
 
[quote name='IAmTheCheapestGamer']
By the way, a full backup would've been like 18gb's before I started the formatting. I ended up doing a quick format first, which wiped everything out, then I did the longer one and that took 2 hours and 30 minutes.
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That's why I said delete everything except the save files.:lol:
 
[quote name='mguiddy']That's why I said delete everything except the save files.:lol:[/quote]

After doing the quick format, that wiped everything out, so it shouldn't have taken 2 hours or more to fully format.

Oh well....
 
[quote name='IAmTheCheapestGamer']After doing the quick format, that wiped everything out, so it shouldn't have taken 2 hours or more to fully format.

Oh well....[/quote]
If it's anything like computer formatting, the quick format just says "This area is empty" when it really isn't and the full actually "empties" the area, that's why it takes so much longer.
 
[quote name='bigdaddybruce44']Turning the system completely off via the button on the back is not going to protect you against electrical surges. If you're concerned about lightening storms, you should get a surge protector.
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True, the safest option is to unplug the PS3, but I think having the red light power off would be better than having it on if a storm surge happens? Doesn't it almost function as a surge protector? I heard 360 has one built in. I use a surge of course, but I don't know how much protection it has left in it.
 
I would say that if you're worried at all about power surges affecting your systems, you shouldn't do the bare minimum to protect.

My first PS2 was completely fried, as in all of the electrical glue was melted off on the inside when I had a friend check it out to see why it stopped working, even though it was already on a surge protector.
 
Why does my PS3 sound like a jumbo jet? It's louder than a 360. I'm worrying about it dying. What can I do it make it quiet?
 
Could be something messed up with the fan or the thermal control hardware. Otherwise mine ramps the fan up and down sometimes, but I think at worst it's usually quieter than my 360 without its disc drive running (and MUCH quieter than when a 360 disc is spinning of course).
 
[quote name='Wolfpup']Could be something messed up with the fan or the thermal control hardware. Otherwise mine ramps the fan up and down sometimes, but I think at worst it's usually quieter than my 360 without its disc drive running (and MUCH quieter than when a 360 disc is spinning of course).[/quote]

How would I go about checking if the fan or thermal control is messed up? A couple people I know have had their PS3 die recently, that's why I'm kinda worried. Could there be a lot of built up dust in the system? I barely dust the thing.
 
[quote name='Blackout']Could there be a lot of built up dust in the system? I barely dust the thing.[/QUOTE]

I would say there is probably a lot to dust then, the PS3 attracts dust like a magnet. I would take your vacuum clear hose and vacuum out the vents. That should help with the noise. The build up of dust or clogging of the vents causes the system to run hotter, which makes the fans run on high more often, which could be the cause for it running louder.
 
[quote name='js1']I would say there is probably a lot to dust then, the PS3 attracts dust like a magnet. I would take your vacuum clear hose and vacuum out the vents. That should help with the noise. The build up of dust or clogging of the vents causes the system to run hotter, which makes the fans run on high more often, which could be the cause for it running louder.[/quote]

This won't mess up the system at all or void any warranties?
 
My PS3 recently came down with a case of the bricks, the old yellow light then flashing red problem. After trying all the usual things like cleaning out the dust, letting it cool down, etc I decided to bite the bullet and send it in to Sony. The Coffin comes this week.

My question for anyone who's encountered the same issue or knows more about it: Is the Sony service typically reliable in terms of stemming the problem completely, or is it more likely to crop up again if the system is refurbished? Of course, that's moot if they just send me a new one (I made sure that if they did I would get the same backwards-compatible model).

Thanks!
 
[quote name='Blackout']This won't mess up the system at all or void any warranties?[/quote]

No, just dont open it up. Vaccuum the vents form the outside, and you should be good.
 
[quote name='Blackout']This won't mess up the system at all or void any warranties?[/quote]

When my one buddy called about his PS2 last gen, Sony themselves suggested using the vacuum method.

Personally, I kept the exterior of my PS3 clean with a microfiber cloth(bought a 2 pack, dollar store FTW)and I vacuumed my PS3's vents about once a month.

However, I still sent my system in since it wasn't reading as well as last year when I bought it, so why not take advantage of the warranty while it's still active?

As for your problem bvharris, my one buddy sent in his PS2 last gen and it took them sending out 3-6 replacements before he finally got one that didn't have either the SAME problem he sent his in for or WORSE issues.

He only had the dreaded DRE, but they sent him back ones which had dead controller/memory card ports, scratched his games and so on.

But definitely check the model # if you do send in your system. If you have a 20 or 60 gb model, they are model #'s CECHB01 and CECHA01 respectively.
 
I came home from getting a haircut to find that Sony received my PS3 today. They told me that turnaround time is 7-10 days. Not bad though, considering I just shipped it to them on Saturday.

Now, the waiting begins though.....

Here's to hoping they replace the BR lens and don't just clean it to make it read better.
 
[quote name='IAmTheCheapestGamer']I came home from getting a haircut to find that Sony received my PS3 today. They told me that turnaround time is 7-10 days. Not bad though, considering I just shipped it to them on Saturday.

Now, the waiting begins though.....

Here's to hoping they replace the BR lens and don't just clean it to make it read better.[/QUOTE]

Sending mine in this morning.. I'm going to take this opportunity to plow through some of my extensive 360 backlog.
 
[quote name='bvharris']Sending mine in this morning.. I'm going to take this opportunity to plow through some of my extensive 360 backlog.[/QUOTE]

Sony sent me an email this afternoon saying they shipped out my Playstation 3 complete with a tracking number for UPS.

If the shipping is the same as the one they used for me to ship it TO them, then I should get it back on Monday.

Two days for service. That's better than I thought it'd be. I figured I was gonna be without a PS3 for two full weeks.

Of course, I wonder what they did to the PS3 that it only took 2 days. I hope they replaced the BR lens instead of just cleaning it. But if they just cleaned it, then so be it, since I've found a site selling BR lenses for $70-80 in the event I need one after the 90 day limited warranty they gave me on my PS3 runs out.

Btw bvharris, was yours in or out of warranty? I ask because I keep hearing the $150 flat rate repair cost bandied about when discussing price quotes for repairs from Sony and I was wondering what they might've quoted you for repairs.
 
[quote name='IAmTheCheapestGamer']
Btw bvharris, was yours in or out of warranty? I ask because I keep hearing the $150 flat rate repair cost bandied about when discussing price quotes for repairs from Sony and I was wondering what they might've quoted you for repairs.[/QUOTE]

Out of warranty. Which is just as well, since I couldn't find the original receipt anyway. And yes, they charged me $149. It's a lot to pay, but if it fixes the problem I'm willing to pony it up, considering the alternative of buying an all new PS3.
 
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