Navaho Gunleg

I did a little survey this weekend, cross-checking all my Playstation games with the PS3 downwards compatibility list.

PS1: 66,6%
Only 3 of the 9 PSone games that I still have, will not run on the new Playstation 3 hardware. That is about 66,6% that still works.

PS2: 57,4%
Of the 47 PS2 games, an astounding 20 titles will not work, and that includes the PS2 Linux Kit. This gives me a slightly higher than 57% success rate.

Luckily, most of those titles I hadn’t touched for ages so it doesn’t bother me that much.

Hoping to see all those older titles be moved to the attic, my girlfriend made the remark that it’s still too much that is still supported; she’d been expecting only 1 or 2 titles to still work — so ‘purging’ our PS titles did not give her the cupboard space she hoped for.

Oh and by the way, remembering I read somewhere that, perhaps, the Multi A/V to VGA cable that I got with the original PS2 Linux Kit, could possibly work to connect a monitor to the PS3, I tried that this weekend (and perhaps the monitor I used is too old) but I didn’t get any more than the ‘No input signal‘-message. (I booted into the GameOS mind you; it might work booting linux but I didn’t try that yet.)

And I found out that, although the PS3’s web browser doesn’t seem to support streaming (the PS3 wants to download the files prior to playing them), it does happily play the files created by my Hauppauge 150 and 350 in my MythTV box — it just takes a while to download them through mythweb.

I also looked into making my Myth-box act as a USB mass storage device, so I can hook it up through USB, but apparently I need some chip that isn’t present in default PC hardware, well not in mine anyways.

In the event that I know you and if you’ve got a Playstation Network ID — why don’t you drop me a line so I can fill that void ‘Friends‘-space.