Will older games look better with a PS3?
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Will older games look better with a PS3?
I'm just curious about this. I recently finally got an HDTV, and pretty soon after hooked up my PS2 only to discover how crummy (flat, soft, washed out) most of my PS2 and all of my PS1 games look blown up via component connections.
So I was wondering, if and when I get a PS3, will these games look reasonably good to much better via HDMI on my large screen? Or is the lack of definition inherent to the games themselves? I'm particularly concerned about PS1 games, as I have several of these that I like playing better than any later generation games, and would like them to at least look bright and well-defined on the large display, even if the inherent graphic shortcomings of these older games will always be readily apparent.
So I was wondering, if and when I get a PS3, will these games look reasonably good to much better via HDMI on my large screen? Or is the lack of definition inherent to the games themselves? I'm particularly concerned about PS1 games, as I have several of these that I like playing better than any later generation games, and would like them to at least look bright and well-defined on the large display, even if the inherent graphic shortcomings of these older games will always be readily apparent.
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Enter this combo as the PS3 boots up while a PS1/PS2 game is in the console:
up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, X, circle
With that combo, the PS3 will unleash its massive power and fill in all the missing definition and replace low-poly models with high-poly models that the developers of these old games forgot to put in. Doing this will make the PS1 Resident Evil look even better than the Gamecube remake.
up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, X, circle
With that combo, the PS3 will unleash its massive power and fill in all the missing definition and replace low-poly models with high-poly models that the developers of these old games forgot to put in. Doing this will make the PS1 Resident Evil look even better than the Gamecube remake.
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Originally Posted by taffer
Enter this combo as the PS3 boots up while a PS1/PS2 game is in the console:
up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, X, circle
With that combo, the PS3 will unleash its massive power and fill in all the missing definition and replace low-poly models with high-poly models that the developers of these old games forgot to put in. Doing this will make the PS1 Resident Evil look even better than the Gamecube remake.
up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, X, circle
With that combo, the PS3 will unleash its massive power and fill in all the missing definition and replace low-poly models with high-poly models that the developers of these old games forgot to put in. Doing this will make the PS1 Resident Evil look even better than the Gamecube remake.
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Originally Posted by Suprmallet
But seriously, no. No upconversion for PS2/PS1 games.
Of course I don't expect these older gen games to have HD/native PS3 level resolution. But I was hoping for something akin to what the Microsoft did for first gen Xbox games on the 360.
Originally Posted by taffer
With that combo, the PS3 will unleash its massive power and fill in all the missing definition and replace low-poly models with high-poly models that the developers of these old games forgot to put in. Doing this will make the PS1 Resident Evil look even better than the Gamecube remake.
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Yup, current PS3's, at least here in the US have a PS2 chip inside for emulation. There was a big stink a month back about the European launch and their backwards compatibility done all in software. It lowered the compatibility rate, but the belief that it could actually upconvert was brought up.
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Originally Posted by Sex Fiend
And I assume from your reply that you don't even know what upconversion is...
Originally Posted by Sex Fiend
I understand that the bc for PS3 is based on a PS2 chipset rather than emulation, so perhaps Sony never intended it to do so (which is disappointing).
I wonder if this will raise the value of the current PS3 model since it will become rare and not have the emulation problems of the new model. Maybe it will sell for a premium price on ebay again...
Last edited by taffer; 04-13-07 at 08:12 AM.
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If the software emulation could re-render the graphics of PS1 and PS2 games in 1080p (no reason why this couldn't be done considering the power of the PS3 processor), then people will be selling their first gen PS3s to upgrade to the newer ones.
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Originally Posted by PerryD
If the software emulation could re-render the graphics of PS1 and PS2 games in 1080p (no reason why this couldn't be done considering the power of the PS3 processor), then people will be selling their first gen PS3s to upgrade to the newer ones.
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I thought I remembered a Youtube video in a thread similar to this that showed Final Fantasy on a split screen with the PS2 and the PS3 and it looked much worse.
Ah, here it is. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoCD9TwLrVs
It does say that the issue was "somewhat resolved" with firmware upgrade 1.5, but that PS1 games still looked like crap.
Ah, here it is. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoCD9TwLrVs
It does say that the issue was "somewhat resolved" with firmware upgrade 1.5, but that PS1 games still looked like crap.