PS3 Q&A Thread

[Strazos]

I don't personally have a 360 to look at right this moment, but what kind of port does the HDD connect through to the 360? I somehow remember it looking similar to a SATA port.

[schild]

I just got my Play-Asia order with Gundam Musou in it. Suck on that, internet.

[stray]

When did you order it?

Just wondering how long it took. I haven't even tried yet.

[schild]

Oh I ordered it during their 20% off sale, everything was delayed because they had so many orders.

It took 2 days from the day they shipped it though. EMS is love.

[schild]

This is by FAR the best Gundam game I've ever played. It makes the whole series fresh. The new engine (seemingly new) is just spectacular. The movement is awesome. And since Senko no Ronde isn't out for the 360 yet (GO GO MAY!) this is the best robot fighting game since Tech Romancer (lols).

[schild]

Yep. Official. This game meets 3 requirements:

1. Best Gundam game. (Only good Gundam Game? HARHARHAHRHARHR)
2. Best Musou Game.
3. Best Robot game.

This needs to hit America fast. Bandai US and KOEI need to come to a fast agreement. The PS3 needs this. And yes, it's as good as Zone of the Enders (though obviously not as fast as Zone of the Enders 2, which is ridiculous at some parts).

[stray]

Huh. I was interested in it, of course, but I could have never seen all of that from the videos. If it's as fun as ZoE, then I'd really like to play it.

Best Gundam isn't hard to accomplish though... But best musou?

Seems to be selling well, so it probably will make it here soon (started off at 170k, and keeps climbing. Almost 300k now, topping other PS3 and 360 games significantly -- [EDIT] In this thread, we will not compare it with Wii numbers...).

[schild]

Well, it could just be the shocking change of pace from china/japan that makes it the best Musou game. It sure is incredibly pretty though.

Also, hard.

[stray]

So I got my first piece of GAP swag today. A t-shirt that can't be found in stores.

I truly am elite.


What the hell does it say anyway?



[EDIT] Oops. Didn't see that 20GB news earlier.

A shame really. If only because it's cooler looking than the 60 gigger.

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Does anyone remember this one Dragon's Lair type game that was more anime based, and contained a story with helicopters in it?

I think it was called Cliff Hanger.

They had one at the Showbiz Pizza Place by my childhood home.  Happy birthday boy or girl.

Brief review and some tiny tiny pictures.

IMDB

That's it. Thanks! :)

[schild]

That shirt is awesome.

[stray]

It is kind of cool actually.

Just realized it said Playstation in Kanji (should have guessed that..  ).

[EDIT]

Heh, I wish I had won this awhile back. The jacket may be cooler than the game.



I'd wear it.

[Murgos]

Well, it could just be the shocking change of pace from china/japan that makes it the best Musou game. It sure is incredibly pretty though.

Also, hard.

It's gotta be better than Samurai Warriors II Empires.  That game just didn't feel fun.  The demo to 99 nights was more fun to me even though it's almost identical game play.

I think they should use the kill hordes of everything mechanic in MMO's, party up, use some strategy and wipe out thousands at a time.  Massive Carnage!

[bhodi]

I seem to have a small PS3 problem.

My PS3 has huge bursts of static when there's too many audio things going on at once. Motorstorm is a particular violator. A lot of things start making sounds and it seems like it overloads and I get a crackle-burst of static. Flow has also done it, if you are using the charge-fish that can eat a whole ton at the same time, and you do, it can also happen. It seems to be like it runs out of audio channels or makes things on top of each other so loud that it goes off the top-end.

As for my setup, I've got the optical out hooked to my stereo reciever; I thought I'd ask to see if anyone has heard of this issue, because I did some searching but I haven't seen anything. It's really annoying, and I want to make sure I don't have a defective PS3.

[stray]

Weird. No problems here. Not sure how to help you.

Have you tried different settings in the Audio menu? If you're using stereo, make sure you're just using a standard PCM/Stereo setting. Maybe since you went optical, it's assuming you have 5.1 or something, and is trying to crank that through your stereo reciever (just a wild guess).

[stray]

Unrelated, but still pretty cool:

I've never been so happy with a piece of shareware before this. VisualHub.

Pretty fast video converter for OS X, and the next best thing to having DVD movies. I can just batch up multiple DivX or XviD movies (and just about anything else), and convert to a friendly PS3 format.

For example, converting one DivX encoded Heroes episode to MP4 takes 5 minutes (typical 22 min anime episode takes about 3 mins). After that, I can just burn on to a DVD, and they'll play like a charm in the PS3's video player.

[edit] Err, the reason I'm happy is because that encoding speed is pretty fast. Before I knew about it, I was almost ready to install Linux and try to get VLC working. Screw that.

[Strazos]

Why do you need Linux to have VLC work? Or do you mean Linux on the PS3?

[stray]

Yeah. VLC on PS3 Linux (and I'm not even sure if that works well anyways).

I was just looking for a way to get XVids and DivX's to play well (and conveniently) on my TV. Best way to go about it is converting files to MPEG 2 or MPEG 4 (which the PS3 can natively handle). Problem is, converting videos usually takes a fuckload of time. So....I was considering installing Linux instead.

Now I don't have to.

[Strazos]

I'll assume you cannot route the files through the PS3 through your home network?

[stray]

I'm not sure what you're asking. The problem isn't getting files on to a PS3. The problem is that the large majority of the (ahem) pirating world encodes in DivX, XviD, OGM, or Matroska. I could easily copy these files on to a PS3 if I wanted to -- What I can't do is decode them. The PS3 only decodes MPEG and Flash formats, as far as video goes. Therefore you either need

1) a universal video player like VLC (which Sony hasn't ported to the XMB....Hence, why Linux is the only option)

or 2) to reencode them to MPEG yourself (which wasn't a practical option until I found that fast ass app up above)


[EDIT] I could watch videos on my computer, of course. I just didn't see the point if I have a bigger screen to watch them on.

I have friends who'd like to see these shows too. It's easier to just lug a PS3 to their house rather than burning a small amount of episodes for their DVD players (and burning even that small amount in that format would take a long ass time anyways).

[Strazos]

Yeah, not much of a better solution if you want to transport the videos to another person's house.

But what I meant above is, in order to view the files on your big TV, can you play the files off your PC, through your PS3 using your home network? I believe the 360 does something like that.

[stray]

Nope, unfortunately not.

Even if it could network, you still couldn't stream these files by virtue of the format they're in.

Also, even though the Xbox360 can network, it still can't play these files either (it just does WMV). Someone would still have to resort to the process I'm going through to play DivX and XviD's if they had an XBox -- except they would have to encode to WMV instead of MP4.

[schild]

Once again.

Original Xbox + XMBC. Anything else is _just_stupid_.

[stray]

XMBC is cool and all, but my Xbox is gone. I don't care to get another one. And it's nice to have the media playing capabilities I need in the machine I'm going to be using the most.


Also, I convert vids in general anyways. That little app kicks ass. Never seen anything encode this fast and with little input from the user.

[schild]

I'm getting a divide by zedro error on "I don't care to get another one."

Shutting down.

Sleeptime.

[stray]

Yeah really. I don't care. I don't care to spend $50. I don't care to mod it. I don't care make room in the cramped theater space that I have. I don't care to do something on XMBC that I can basically do on the Playstation now. It's good enough for me.

[stray]

Ah wait. Here's something XMBC can't do.

I can fire up a PSP and play the videos stored on the PS3 remotely.

As long as you have the wireless/60gb model, of course.

Not much use for it personally, but what the hell. It's cool. :)

[Wolf]

here's a ps3 question:

NSFW: Why does sony think this commercial will sell in Europe?

Edit by Trippy: remember over here, violence is okay but sex is bad

[Miasma]

here's a ps3 question:

Why does sony think this commercial will sell in Europe?

Jesus Christ there is at least one really NSFW part of that which caused me to quickly close the browser.  Fuck.

[Wolf]

Sorry about that. 

I constantly forget that people don't live in the third world around here.

[HaemishM]

WHAT THE FUCK DOES THAT HAVE TO DO WITH A FUCKING CONSOLE?

Holy shit. It's not like I mind sex and violence on TV and in commercials. But fuck, 5 goddamn minutes and there wasn't one gameplay screen, not one controller, not even one hint of the product in the commercial. You didn't even get to see the fucking console. WHAT THE FUCK?

[ahoythematey]

That reminds me a lot of the dreamcast commercials at launch, but minus the narrative.  Really, Haemish has it: What the fuck does that have to do with a fucking console?

[schild]

There are absolute shittons of commercials that don't feature products or have anything to do with products. I mean, yea, it's funny whenever a company does that. But really, nothing new to see here.

[Yegolev]

@bhodi, I have optical going to a receiver with my PS3 and I don't have that problem, but I don't have Motorstorm either.  Maybe poke at your audio settings?  Do you have this in other games or media?

[bhodi]

So far, nothing else has done it; There aren't any audio settings for the PS3. You select what audio out you want (HDMI, Optical, HPDIF) and what kind of formats you can output (DD, DTS, etc.). I need to fool around some more; see if I can get it to happen through the hdmi port and maybe get my friend to bring his ps3 over and hook it up the same way.

[Yegolev]

Firmware 1.7 allows you to actually play the PS games you downloaded on your PS3... on your PS3.  Now, fix up that store selection.