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 HOLY poo poo NEW PLAYSTATION 3 HARDWARE! Official images:   Blog post on European site about it. €299.99 500GB PS3 will come with FIFA 13. Official 250GB hard drive also confirmed as upgrade for 12GB PS3. Blog post on North American site $269 250GB PS3 will come with Uncharted 3 Game of the Year Edition and $30 in voucher items for DUST 514. $299 500GB PS3 will have Assassin's Creed 3 bundled with it. Threads Playstation 3 Games Discussion Playstation Move Playstation Import Thread PSN Game Sharing Playstation Store PS3 Goon Database Hardware  Current PS3 Models Sony PlayStation 3 160GB Sony Playstation 3 (250 Gig) PlayStation 3 320GB System/PlayStation Move Bundle Playstation Plus Playstation Plus is the premium online service from Sony that offers full version game trials, discounts on DLC and games, and lets you download game demos a week early. Recently added was a extended warranty option. Pricing: 3 Months: $17.99 1 Year : $49.99 3DTVs, Blu-rays, and Gaming in 3D (put on your 3D Glasses in order to view this part of the thread properly please) A recent firmware update has added 3D support for games and movies. Game developers can add it to their already existing games with a patch, and some have already done so. A lot of upcoming games such as Gran Turismo 5 and Killzone 3 will have 3D support right out of the box. Blu-ray movies are also supported. Sony has made it known that they are really going to push 3D on this system. They make 3D HDTVs anyways, so it makes sense. The Playstation 3 is becoming hands down the best platform to view 3D content. The Official PS3 Headset It will work with not only your PS3 but with Bluetooth enabled cell phones. This is not your only option for a PS3 headset however, there is a huge selection of bluetooth headsets that work with the PS3 aswell as a wide selection of USB headsets also. As for this official one however:
Playstation Eye The Playstation Eye is the successor to the Eyetoy for the PS2. It's a much higher quality camera complete with microphone for use in videochat, as an in-game microphone or with a variety of software for the PS3. It originally came bundled with the game Eye Of Judgement which made use of it's motion sensing capabilities and has since gone on to support games such as Rainbow Six Vegas 2 and Burnout Paradise, with upcoming support for games such as Little Big Planet if you wish to upload your own art assets to the game for use in user-created levels. You can also use it with the free downloadable program EyeCreate to record and edit your own movies, and with upcoming titles such as EyePet. Fragnstein Designed for people who would like mouse aiming in games. It can be used with ANY PS3 game at all, and has fully customizable firmware, allowing you to tweak sensitivity and button mappings to your liking. The build quality is solid, and many goons swear by it. The elitist COD4 top scorers love it too if that means something to you. Playstation Move Coming September 17th The Playstation Movie is Sony's answer to the motion control trend and so far is shaping up to be the most promising. Check out the Move thread for more information. This is a great trailer for the PS Move: Kevin Butler's Epic PlayStation Move-tage [list][*]Online play on the PS3 is entirely free of charge. The PS3's online network, which includes multiplayer games, friends lists, messaging (video, voice and text chats), a web browser and access to the PlayStation Store are all free. The PlayStation Store is far more than just demos and microtransactions for games however. Developers also have access to an API that lets them access the store from the game, with each having it's own front end with just that game's products. Outside of games, the Store offers both standard and hi-def trailers for movies and games, PS one games (complete with digital manual and playable on both the PS3 and PSP, plus the saves can be shared between the two so you can continue on the go), and of course all those little add-ons and demos for released and upcoming games. Besides that there is also a large quantity of games available to buy on the PSN. These all vary from region to region but there has been a push to substantial PSN game releases with large downloadable titles. [*]Gaming with other Goons Once you've gotten your very own PS3, we have a couple different threads you can explore to get the most out of your system and shoot the poo poo with fellow Goons: -Visit the PS3 Goon Database. The thread is located here. Or go straight to the site. -Official PS3Goons IRC channel is located at #ps3goons on irc.synirc.net. If you've never used IRC before, get mIRC and go here for help FAQ Before you try to ask how to do ANYTHING in the XMB, press Triangle. I'm dead serious. 95% of questions can be answered by simply pressing Triangle and playing around with the menus. If you've already tried pressing Triangle to try and solve your XMB dilemma, then ask in the thread. I got a big huge hard drive and need to put it into FAT32 ha;lp McLarenF1 posted:This Website has this tool and this GUI file. It will format any size partition (I did a 124 GB) to FAT32. Just partition and quick format a drive to NTFS (Windows 7 has built in tool, just search "create and manage disk partitions"), then save the two previosuly linked files to a common folder (NOT on the soon to be reformatted disk), run the GUI exe file and select the desired drive and format it to FAT32. That's it, you're done! Blu-ray Playback?! If you're interested in watching HD movies on Blu-ray, the PS3 (any version) is currently the best value for your money. Priced similarly to other comparable players it offers an internal hard drive for data storage, and internet connection for BD-Live, and DivX playback. Basically, it's the best blu-ray player on the market, and feature updates have kept it consistently so. Movies play in up to 1080p over component and HDMI, though around 2012 studios will have the option of restricting full HD to HDCP secured HDMI connections only. No disc currently does, and hopefully it won't come to pass, as it's frivolous to bootleggers anyways. What's This I Hear about Keyboard & Mouse? That's right, the PS3 allows any game that chooses to implement it to use Keyboard and Mouse controls. Unreal Tournament 3 supports it. Now, many games have chosen not to as well, for fear of the game being unbalanced. Can I make a PSN account for different regions Yes you can. You need an original e-mail address for each one you want to create. During the account creation process, just selection the country that you want to access to the PSN store too. When is the PSN Store updated?  Every Tuesday around 6pm Pacific Time. You can still get full HD without HDMI dammit Both component and DVI will allow 720p/1080p signals for games if your TV supports it. The only catch is that Blu-Ray movies will eventually (in 2012) have the option to require HDMI on a per-disc basis. For games, your trusty PS2 component cables will work just fine -- for that matter all PS2 cables will work. However, if you are using an HDMI cable, it needs to be connected to a HDCP-compliant device or you'll get no video/audio. If your TV doesn't support HDCP via HDMI/DVI, you'll have to use one of the above-mentioned connections. What's the cheapest place for HDMI cables? https://www.monoprice.com In fact this is hands down one of the best websites to shop on for TV, audio, and computer equipment. Comes highly recommended by a lot of goons. I want to stream my gay porn to my HDTV, from my PC http://ps3mediaserver.blogspot.com/ Works on Windows, Mac, and Linux. If I loving replace the hard drive in my PS3 with a bigger one, will it void my warranty? Hell naw son. In fact, there is a section in Sony's manual which shows you exactly HOW to replace the hard drive. Pretty neato, eh? Don't bother with a Solid State drive though. It increases install times, while providing at most a 2 second boost in some scenarios. I hosed up, and now my PS3 won't output video to my TV. If you happen to use the PS3 on another display or you just start messing with the settings and screw things up follow these simple instructions: 1. Turn off your PS3. 2. Power it on by holding the power button for at least 5 seconds. You will hear a delayed beep. 3. Profit . The PS3 will automatically detect what it needs to output to, and at that point you should be prompted with a wizard. Follow it. To the land of Oz. I said come in! fucked around with this message at 07:14 on Sep 19, 2012 |
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I guess I'll start off the new thread with a question. Is there any way to check the total amount of memory available/being used on the PS3? The only way I've found is to check each individual file and add it all up.
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Sep 3, 2010 04:22
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Thankyou so much for making a new thread!Cbouncerrun posted:I guess I'll start off the new thread with a question. Yup. Go to the settings tab in the XMB and scroll down to System Settings, then something along the lines of general info or some such. I forget exactly but you should be able to find it in there.
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Sep 3, 2010 04:25
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Cbouncerrun posted:I guess I'll start off the new thread with a question. Under System Settings --> System Info. MUFFlNS posted:Thankyou so much for making a new thread! Somehow I managed to leave out the really good FAQ in the previous thread. Going to update with that.
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Sep 3, 2010 04:25
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You need to toss the Frag FX and put the Frag N Stein in that OP in its place. Very very few of us have FragFXs. I can think of at least 10 of us that have FnSes, however, and we all love the poo poo out of them.
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Sep 3, 2010 04:32
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That video of Kevin Butler as the viking eating the drumstick to promote the Move almost makes we want to buy one. He really has a way of making me want to buy things.
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Sep 3, 2010 04:33
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I was renting a game at rogers here in  and two ps3 boxes they had behind the counter had netflix stickers on them saying "netflix stream ready" Since netflix is not out in canada yet whats going on?
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Sep 3, 2010 04:34
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Fuzz posted:You need to toss the Frag FX and put the Frag N Stein in that OP in its place. Very very few of us have FragFXs. I can think of at least 10 of us that have FnSes, however, and we all love the poo poo out of them. This device right? http://imgur.com/QoDZN.jpg
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Sep 3, 2010 04:36
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They probably just got them from an American distributor.
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Sep 3, 2010 04:36
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keyframe posted:I was renting a game at rogers here in US boxes, probably. They most likely don't make PS3s just for Canada.
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Sep 3, 2010 04:50
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Anyways, from the other thread...skippdogg posted:Depends. I'm a little out of the loop on YLOD repairs, but I'm pretty sure those are a temporary fix, on the other hand, I replaced the laser myself in my 80GB BC fat over a year ago and it's still going great. Yeah, I was talking about YLOD repairs. Of course, even if you send those to Sony, and you've got a BC system, I wonder if what they can do to fix it is really any better.
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Sep 3, 2010 04:53
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quote:[*] Tired of wearing the headset during a long multiplayer gaming session or is your headset battery running out of charge? Just dock the headset in the supplied charging cradle, and the headset will work as a desktop microphone while charging. Is there a trick to getting this to work? I have never been able to get it to work, do I need to enable an option somewhere?
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Sep 3, 2010 04:58
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Some third-party controllers that some of you may be interested in: For anyone out there who prefers playing with a Xbox 360 controller and can't handle the Dualshock 3 for whatever reason, there is this MLG Pro Circuit Controller for PS3  It's a wired controller for PS3 that is made like a Xbox 360 controller. Good things are swappable PS3-style directional pad and sticks, swappable Xbox 360 style directional pad and sticks, Xbox 360 style triggers in the back and a mode to swap functionality between the front L1/R1 buttons and rear L2/R2 triggers. Bad things, from reading reviews, are that both directional pads are not as good as the directional pad on the Dualshock 3, no vibration, no Sixaxis motion controls and the biggest con: a $100 price tag.  Another controller is Power A's Pro Elite Wireless Controller with concave L2/R2 buttons, concave analog sticks, and swapped positions of the directional buttons and left analog stick. It has rumble and Sixaxis support, but no Bluetooth. It uses a USB dongle, and it has a built-in rechargeable battery that can be charged up with a USB cable. Yechezkel fucked around with this message at 06:26 on Apr 16, 2012 |
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Sep 3, 2010 05:31
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I'm a little interested in that Xbox controller. Both because it's cheaper than a Sony one and also because I'm interested in the alternative layout. The question is, does it suck? Most third party controllers leave a lot to be desired.
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Sep 3, 2010 05:42
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Only found unconvincing answers to this question via Google: Why does my PS3 play Blu-Ray DVDs in 1080p but games only play in 720p?
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Sep 3, 2010 05:48
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Childlike Empress posted:Only found unconvincing answers to this question via Google: I thought the PS3 plays the game at the designed resolution. ie: the games are 720p, so they are played at 720p. It doesn't upscale or whatever the Xbox 360 does.
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Sep 3, 2010 05:53
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Different games have different maximum resolutions. Not many games can be played in 1080p, the only one off the top of my head is FF XIII.
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Sep 3, 2010 05:55
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My 80gb PS3 is starting to freeze sporadically when it plays some games, particularly Red Dead Redemption (which I know is buggy as poo poo anyway, but I should be able to play for more than five minutes at a time, shouldn't I?). If I wanted to dust it out a bit, what would be the best (and safest) way to go about doing that?
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Sep 3, 2010 05:58
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Childlike Empress posted:Only found unconvincing answers to this question via Google: The PS3 does not have a hardware scaler like the 360 does, if I remember correctly. So the max resolution is up to the developer. Most just do 720p, its that way with the 360 too. The vast majority of console games are really 720p. As far as differences go, it really doesn't matter anyways.
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Sep 3, 2010 05:59
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Lair and Ninja Gaiden Sigma are also 1080p. Also, one accessory that I love for my PS3 and should be included:  HIGH HEELS FOR YOUR GOD drat CONTROLLERS No but seriously I love these things. I remap everything to the shoulder buttons and these really help. These alone upped my Warhawk game by quite a bit.
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Sep 3, 2010 06:02
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Wipeout HD is 1080p but no one bought it and Studio Liverpool was closed 
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Sep 3, 2010 06:04
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I forgot about Wipeout HD. Wipeout HD owns, son. But yeah, sucks about Studio Liverpool...
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Sep 3, 2010 06:08
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Also, Blu-ray's are not DVDs. They're not even a format of DVD. It's pedantic, but it annoys me. I mean, did you call them DVD CDs when they came out just because they were the same size and shape?
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Sep 3, 2010 06:26
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I must have missed this because where the hell is our Castle Crashers discussion? I can't even find it!
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Sep 3, 2010 06:53
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Is there still a goon that fixes YLOD for cheaper than Sony?
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Sep 3, 2010 06:54
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ChewyLSB posted:Lair and Ninja Gaiden Sigma are also 1080p. Do these in any way help with infuriating habit of at least one shoulder button firing whenever you set the controller down?
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Sep 3, 2010 06:59
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dis astranagant posted:Do these in any way help with infuriating habit of at least one shoulder button firing whenever you set the controller down? Essentially they are the greatest of things. The fact the PS3 pad wasn't designed with triggers like that is amazing, and it's such an immediate and noticeable difference. Things just click hold, hold solidly, and feel exactly the same as the original buttons. Don't even affect the function of the triggers too, they depress as far as before. There is no downside.
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Sep 3, 2010 07:13
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However, many games you'd want to use them on bind shoot to R1 and don't let you swap.
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Sep 3, 2010 07:27
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dis astranagant posted:Do these in any way help with infuriating habit of at least one shoulder button firing whenever you set the controller down? Haha, this happens to me all the time.
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Sep 3, 2010 07:37
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Supplementary to my earlier question about goon YLOD repairs: I got my PS3 as a gift and the person who got it for me purchased the Walmart extended service plan. I've heard all sorts of different things (both good and bad) about whatever company it is that Walmart outsources this kind of stuff to, but I was wondering if anybody here had any personal experience re: the quality of the repairs, whether you get the same system back, whether I can just take the hard drive out and keep it so that they don't erase it, etc.
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Sep 3, 2010 07:39
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Why would you get a Walmart extended service plan when you get get one straight from Sony?
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teekun posted:Why would you get a Walmart extended service plan when you get get one straight from Sony? RichterIX posted:I got my PS3 as a gift and the person who got it for me purchased the Walmart extended service plan. I wouldn't worry about it too much, as most PS3 owners don't ever have to utilize there warranty plans, it's not an XBox after all.
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Well, you'd have to ask the people who bought it for me, but it's a 2-year service plan that starts when the Sony one ends, so it's not like they overlap or anything. Edit: I'm asking because my PS3 just yellow lighted, and I'm trying to figure out if I would be better off: A) Paying Sony for a refurbished or for a Slim and losing all my gameshares and poo poo B) Using the Walmart warranty (and possibly losing my gameshares and poo poo?) which would be free, but the quality of which I can only estimate based on wild internet hearsay C) Paying someone on here or on eBay to fix it so I can keep my poo poo, but taking a chance on the fact that I'm paypaling some random guy money to fiddle with my PS3. RichterIX fucked around with this message at 08:12 on Sep 3, 2010 |
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RichterIX posted:Well, you'd have to ask the people who bought it for me, Ahhhh whoops. Totally missed that. Sorry. I think that if you're looking to retain your data, the only way that's going to happen for sure is by having some third party do it for you. It's my understanding that Walmart will try to repair the actual system, but if they can't they'll just replace it. Once that happens you lose all your stuff. A big dumb baby fucked around with this message at 08:19 on Sep 3, 2010 |
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Sep 3, 2010 08:14
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You could add MLB.tv and Hulu+ to the Services section.
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Sep 3, 2010 11:56
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Yechezkel posted:Here is another accessory that many people may be interested in: Thing about controllers like this though, is are the face buttons analogue or digital? Many third party controllers just go digital because it's cheaper which really screws you over if you want to play something like MGS4 or GT5 with the controller. The Amazon page doesn't say anything about it either so I'd be cautious. Edit: You might wanna put a little info about the 3D capabilities of the PS3 also OP, since the PS3 can now play some games in 3D and I think Blu Rays too? Unless that firmware update is coming later on? Also since so many people ask, perhaps a small section to let people know that cross game chat is being worked on might be useful too. MUFFlNS fucked around with this message at 12:17 on Sep 3, 2010 |
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Sep 3, 2010 12:14
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Hey OP in the services thing could expand on Netflix? Like say that you have to get Netflix to send you a disc (for free) in order to stream stuff, but they're gonna put it on the XMB at some point in the future. Also maybe change the text in the official headset part since SOCOM Confrontation came out two years ago. Good job and yay new thread!
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MUFFlNS posted:Thing about controllers like this though, is are the face buttons analogue or digital? Many third party controllers just go digital because it's cheaper which really screws you over if you want to play something like MGS4 or GT5 with the controller. The Amazon page doesn't say anything about it either so I'd be cautious. Now I haven't played the MGS series and I just use the analog triggers to drive in GT5, so I can't sympathize with those two. I'm just saying I would love if the whole industry just kept analog for the trigger buttons and let the face buttons be digital. Edit: Just so everyone doesn't think I'm some bitter old man pining for his NES Advantage, I do enjoy the sixaxis ability on all the many games it's been utilized properly in. I just hated the way it got shoehorned into everything when the ps3 was new. That's why I like the Move over the Wii. They either have to design games specifically for the Move or they have to shoehorn Move functionality into regular games without screwing up the games for people who use the dualshock. As a related question, how many of you are planning to play Killzone 3 with the Move instead of DS3? davebo fucked around with this message at 16:03 on Sep 3, 2010 |
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Sep 3, 2010 15:51
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For the neckbeards still holding onto their old-rear end firmware so they can play with lunix, the lovely emulation package has been updated. http://thezerogameproject.com/blog/zerogame-v052-beta-4-released I happened to have it in my RSS reader and saw that he had an update this morning. If you do happen to still run linux, this was one of the shittiest emulation experiences I ever had when I tried it earlier this year. I regretted installing it, and asked myself why I ever strayed from the emulation panacea of the PC. It was buggy, froze, and didn't even run the games that well, on top of a lovely controller pairing experience that didn't work half the time.
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This was sort of mentioned toward the end of the last thread, but what is involved in opening up your PS3 to make the fan stop spinning so fast so constantly? My warranty is long over, and it's a fat.
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