Danno

I'm sorry. I should have spelled that "fanboi." |You know whats the most ridiculous thing in this thread? People getting self righteous about choosing Microsoft over Sony, because they claim Sony is "jamming unwanted overpriced products down our throats." Sony is doing this and Microsoft is the "Good Guys". Apparently, No one here owns a home computer. Holy shit, that's some serious delusion.

Wow. Such hostility. Sounds like fanboyism to me... but telling people I'm pulling things out of my ass isn't hostility? You can't afford a PS3? Get a better job.

And this seems to be the defacto comment against Sony. Two thoughts on this: #1 - Sony's not ramming anything down anyone's throat. You aren't being forced to buy a PS#, and there's nothing keeping you from buying another less expensive system, or simply waiting until the PS3 comes down in price, except your own insatiable desire to have the latest and greatest toy. Why not wait? #2 - Considering it's been the cheapest Blu-Ray player on the market (until next month when the $499 models come out), and a ridiculously kick-ass videogame system, sounds like a pretty decent deal to me.

This dude has pulled more than one "fact" out of his ass. I think it's safe to say he has an un-natural love for Blu-Ray. Also, I think it's disengenous to attach Microsoft to this video format war, because MS doesn't really have a stake in it. If Toshiba is forced to cave and give up HD DVD, this really won't hurt MS much. MS will simply license it's VC-1 video codec (the advanced codec currently used in HD DVD) over to Sony and make money on BD. And MS has already admitted that they would release a Blu-Ray add-on if HD DVD dies, a logical action. I wonder if Danno would so vehemently object to a *gasp* Blu-Ray add-on Drive AFTER THE FACT for the 360?? Would that be equally horrible as the HD DVD add on? Of course that would make sense. and I never really stated that Microsoft has a stake in it, because they don't. In fact, I didn't bring the X-Box into the discussion, since it's really a discussion about the Home Video Format war, and has nothing to do with the video game market - except for the fact taht Sony's lowest priced Blu-Ray player happens to be the PS3. I don't have a problem or object to any company doing anything. But it's a pretty clear FACT that both Blu-Ray players and discs are far outselling HD-DVD, by a sizeable margin, and the larger number of prominent Movie Studios are supporting Blu-Ray as it's next-gen home video format, where as only one studio, Universal, is backing HD-DVD. and now Blockbuster has sided with the Blu-ray camp as well. those are the facts. they are absolute, and you can feel free to stick them up your ass, or whatever other oriface you prefer.

Actually, they couldn't include it, because Toshiba didn't have the drives ready in time. MS wanted to beat PS3 to the market (this was before the PS3 launch delay) so MS decided not to wait for Toshiba, and went with DVD instead in order to get a head-start on the PS3. Yep, you can't sell what isn't made. The fact remains they announced they were going to be supporting HD DVD and would release an add on in the future before the 360 launch. They didn't wait 6 months and charge $200 more for the 360 , they gave people a choice. Right. they jumped to market early, with a technically inferior product, and then charged people $200 after the fact for the ability to upgrade to an HD video platform that was obsolete nearly as quickly as it went to market. Had they launched the 360 with HD-DVD, Blu-Ray wouldn't be beating the snot out of HD-DVD right now. Mircosoft won the share of gamers by launching the 360 early, but lost the video format war, which is a MUCH larger market.

The first DVD player came out in 1996....PS2 launch happened in 2000. Plenty of folks had DVD players when the PS2 came out including me and the player I bought one when the price dropped to under $100. Not the same thing as what we are looking at here. Sony forced a new format on folks and as a result their system is more expensive than it needs to be and for reasons most gamers don't care about.... The ability to watch Blu-Ray flicks. Sony needed the extra storage of the Blu-Ray for the PS3's games, as standard DVD's weren't enough, so you would have gotten a new format anyway. The fact that it's the better (larger capacity) of the two new HD formats, and NOT another proprietary Sony-Only format like UMD's is actually a good thing.

No, but if you want to play PS3 games they ARE forcing you to spend about $200 on a feature you won't use. Frankly, it's too bad Sony wasn't smart enough to give people a choice. Something (amazingly) Microsoft has done this round. Microsoft didn't give people a "choice" on purpose. the additional HD-DVD drive was an afterthought. And seriously, if you look at the sales numbers for ps3's and Blu-ray discs versus All HD-dvd players(including the X-Box add-on) and tell me people aren't going to use the Blu-Ray movie features - you're either blind, or just talking completely out of your ass. the PS3 is one of the cheapest blu-ray players on the market, and tens of thousands of people are buying it with no intention of playing games on it.

Sony has SOLD (not shipped, SOLD) 1.3 million PS3's since launch.

You're kidding, right? Blu-Ray has outsold HD-DVD like 5 to 1. There are close to 2 million units already sold. HD-Dvd is near 400,000, maybe. I wasn't comparing one to the other. Neither has caught on was the point I was makng. I thought for sure there were a lot more than 2 million units out there...where did you get those #'s btw? Is that really all? dvdfile.com has all kinds of numbers on it. I'm paraphrasing Considering regular DVD took like 4 years to catch on, the fact that either format has over 1,000,000 units sold in less than a year is pretty amazing. Of course it doesn't hurt that the PS3 is a Blu-Ray player. Sales of Blu-Ray discs are through the roof compared to expectations to this point. Also - the shear number of Movie Studios who've sided with Blu-Ray (20th Century Fox, Sony/Columbia/Tristar, Warner/Disney, Miramax, MGM/UA) versus HD-DVD having only Universal Pictures in their corner is daunting.

You're kidding, right? Blu-Ray has outsold HD-DVD like 5 to 1. There are close to 2 million units already sold. HD-Dvd is near 400,000, maybe.

There was a manual in the box??? I'd better go dig it out of the trash tonight and take a look. I didn't completely open the box, so I probably missed it. Tempest You threw the box in the trash?

Get a computer.

If you wait, you'll never be able to take advantage of the benefits of Custom firmware.

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night is plenty of proof that the PS1 wasn't crippled 2D-wise. It just too more ingenious coding to get better results.

I guess that means those of us few million people who bought their HDTV before HDMI was available are just shit out of luck?

You can't run emulators for the PSP unless you first install one of the Custom Firmwares. From what you've posted here, you're obviously running on an official Sony Firmware. There are entire websites dedicated to how to do this. www.psp-hacks.com is a good place to start.

It's been replaced with PSP2600. look here: http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=54121

You can either have someone here Build you a cart, or you can buy a CC2 and put the rom on it to play it on real hardware.

You CC2 owners and your crazy ROM buying. If it isn't going to make my 7800 collection look more extensive and enviable, I don't want it. I don't collect. I actually play the games.

All I'd like it to be able to get/buy the rom for my CC2.

Maybe I'm wrong, but since this is a 7800-specific forum, and Atariage prefers positive and constructive conversation in it's forums, and somebody here asked for positive reasons to keep a 7800; wouldn't that mean that all the fucking clowns who show up in here shouting people down complaining about things on the 7800 they don't like are really the A-Holes? I think Vinny is hilarious, if for no other reason than to laugh at the people who think calling him a "fanboy" is going to make him feel bad or change his opinion to fit in with the crowd.

I've been using the custom firmware for almost 2 years now without a single problem with the UMD drive.

To make these games still playable, and keep up the insane amount of action going on. If you added in a realistically limited health meter, but kept the intensity of these games where they are, they would be ridiculously difficult to the point of being unplayable.

http://forums.maxconsole.net/showthread.php?t=54346 I had that problem once using in that time the 3.10 OE-A ( not OE-A´). The only thing i know it happened was when i was playing, and my battery exausted once. I put it to recharge, and go to bed, in the next morning, i turned on my PSP and my UMD drive stoped work. Always when i turn my PSP on, the reading icon appears, the drive spins and nothing, or appears " Disc can not be read" or my PSP locks up. I send it to repair, they exchanged the UMD drive, and still doenst worked. So i asked to put my old drive again. Now the trick. Everyone knows there is a little delay when you turn on the PSP using the OE firmware. It´s loading the 1.50 bootstrap. 1st - Disable the UMD auto loading from System Settings or SCE logo and TURN OFF the PSP 2nd - Open your drive with the disk inside 3rd - Turn on the PSP - when it is in the black screen , close the UMD door. It´s tricky because it is only timing. If it doesnt works, repeat the steps again. After the disc appears in the XMB, everything works perfectly and you don´t need do that again. I don´t know why it happened, or why, but it worked. After that you can turn on the UMD loading or SCE logo if you wish. PS: I hope D_A can discover what can be wrong and fix it to do not happens again whit another users from his wonderfull firmware. PS2: Sorry for the bad english, that´s not my primary language.

there is a fix for this drive problem, it's posted somewhere in the maxconsole forums. I'll see if I can find it.