What makes a PS3 Backward Compatible?

why, and i believe it's more to do with the dvd-drive and the software having the codecs and drivers and such to run them
 
LanEvoXRacer said:
So what is it that makes a PS3 backward compatible? The motherboard? Thanks.
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The fact that they built the ps3 with the intention of being backwards compatible, which means they've designed it on top of a ps2 (which is already built on top of a ps1) to work as such. It's similar technology, but upgraded.
 
They included the PS2 hardware in the PS3 in models which are backwards compatible with it. For PS games, the original PS hardware is emulated.
 
The first PS3's had a chip on the mobo that emulated PS2 hardware. Then in 2007 they started making them without that chip and used software emulation (i.e. the same way the 360 can play original XBox games). Shortly after that they decided to take the feature out all together.

The thing is, even though the current PS3's don't officially support PS2 playback, they're perfectly capable of it. PS3's can be jailbroken and have a third party emulator installed to allow PS2 compatibility. Because PS2 games are printed in DVD format any PS3 disc drive can read them. The only reason Sony got rid of the feature is that most of the PS2 market is in used games and Sony doesn't see any money from that.
 
PohTayToez said:
The first PS3's had a chip on the mobo that emulated PS2 hardware. Then in 2007 they started making them without that chip and used software emulation (i.e. the same way the 360 can play original XBox games). Shortly after that they decided to take the feature out all together.

The thing is, even though the current PS3's don't officially support PS2 playback, they're perfectly capable of it. PS3's can be jailbroken and have a third party emulator installed to allow PS2 compatibility. Because PS2 games are printed in DVD format any PS3 disc drive can read them. The only reason Sony got rid of the feature is that most of the PS2 market is in used games and Sony doesn't see any money from that.
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ok so how do i do this my ps3 wont play my ps2 games
 
PohTayToez said:
The first PS3's had a chip on the mobo that emulated PS2 hardware. Then in 2007 they started making them without that chip and used software emulation (i.e. the same way the 360 can play original XBox games). Shortly after that they decided to take the feature out all together.

The thing is, even though the current PS3's don't officially support PS2 playback, they're perfectly capable of it. PS3's can be jailbroken and have a third party emulator installed to allow PS2 compatibility. Because PS2 games are printed in DVD format any PS3 disc drive can read them. The only reason Sony got rid of the feature is that most of the PS2 market is in used games and Sony doesn't see any money from that.
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I have one of the Motorstorm 80gb models that has the hardware based compatibly. I think those models are the best ones as they have more ports on them also.

The systems don't play every PS2 game either. There are lists online of what the different PS3 models would play. The hardware based PS3's would play more than the software ones. The last % I heard was 80+% of games would work.

I never was happy with the way PS2 games looked on a big screen so the feature went unused. I think this may be another reason why they stopped bothering with it. It looked fine on a smaller tv though.
 
PohTayToez said:
The first PS3's had a chip on the mobo that emulated PS2 hardware. Then in 2007 they started making them without that chip and used software emulation (i.e. the same way the 360 can play original XBox games). Shortly after that they decided to take the feature out all together.

The thing is, even though the current PS3's don't officially support PS2 playback, they're perfectly capable of it. PS3's can be jailbroken and have a third party emulator installed to allow PS2 compatibility. Because PS2 games are printed in DVD format any PS3 disc drive can read them. The only reason Sony got rid of the feature is that most of the PS2 market is in used games and Sony doesn't see any money from that.
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Oh, I see what you mean. Well, does that mean I can just swap a motherboard then?
BTW, I am highly interested in the jailbreaking my PS3. If you can just PM me the name of the technique, or software, I can figure everything out myself. Thanks!!

Masterfulks said:
I have one of the Motorstorm 80gb models that has the hardware based compatibly. I think those models are the best ones as they have more ports on them also.

The systems don't play every PS2 game either. There are lists online of what the different PS3 models would play. The hardware based PS3's would play more than the software ones. The last % I heard was 80+% of games would work.

I never was happy with the way PS2 games looked on a big screen so the feature went unused. I think this may be another reason why they stopped bothering with it. It looked fine on a smaller tv though.
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Yeah I know what you mean. Everything is blown-up pixelated. LOL.
 
LanEvoXRacer said:
Oh, I see what you mean. Well, does that mean I can just swap a motherboard then?
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Well, no. If your PS3 isn't backwards compatible, then a backwards compatible mobo won't fit in the same housing. Actually, almost all of the innards are different, just the PSUs and the Blu-Ray drives are the same and the drives are married to the mobo they shipped with so that further complicates things.

I wouldn't recommend a backwards compatible PS3 anyway. They're unreliable (high rate of chipset failures due to overheating and the lasers in the blu-ray drives are pretty much guaranteed to fail eventually) and expensive. You'd be better off just getting an actual PS2.
 
PohTayToez said:
Well, no. If your PS3 isn't backwards compatible, then a backwards compatible mobo won't fit in the same housing. Actually, almost all of the innards are different, just the PSUs and the Blu-Ray drives are the same and the drives are married to the mobo they shipped with so that further complicates things.

I wouldn't recommend a backwards compatible PS3 anyway. They're unreliable (high rate of chipset failures due to overheating and the lasers in the blu-ray drives are pretty much guaranteed to fail eventually) and expensive. You'd be better off just getting an actual PS2.
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So is there a jail break technique? Thanks.
 
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