PS3 Compatibility List - PS2 on PS3

I am working on a definitive fix for SSX now. Turns out I was half right on the freeze being tied to character rendering...it is actually the "smoke" effect. There is snow smoke from character's board which I initially lessened in my config a few months back (the one I didn't know what I disabled), and that one fixed the "hold backwards on warmup" freeze. Additionally, I fixed the next freeze a few days later by completely disabling the board smoke. I did not know what I disabled until looking closely at it a few days ago.

After that discovery, I noticed perks/pickups leave a smoke effect after picking them up. And the Aloha Ice Jam freeze has fire (very similar to smoke) effects at the beginning of the stage. There are some random freezes now that I believe are tied to the sun beam effect, which is tied to another function that I am working to disable properly.

After a lot of trial and error, the perk/pickup freeze and Aloha Ice Jam freeze are both(!) fixed in this new config that I am working on. I will post it here after I am finished figuring it out and revising it (it disables more than it should now). It will work for all regions. :)
 
mrjaredbeta said:
I am working on a definitive fix for SSX now. Turns out I was half right on the freeze being tied to character rendering...it is actually the "smoke" effect. There is snow smoke from character's board which I initially lessened in my config a few months back (the one I didn't know what I disabled), and that one fixed the "hold backwards on warmup" freeze. Additionally, I fixed the next freeze a few days later by completely disabling the board smoke. I did not know what I disabled until looking closely at it a few days ago.

After that discovery, I noticed perks/pickups leave a smoke effect after picking them up. And the Aloha Ice Jam freeze has fire (very similar to smoke) effects at the beginning of the stage. There are some random freezes now that I believe are tied to the sun beam effect, which is tied to another function that I am working to disable properly.

After a lot of trial and error, the perk/pickup freeze and Aloha Ice Jam freeze are both(!) fixed in this new config that I am working on. I will post it here after I am finished figuring it out and revising it (it disables more than it should now). It will work for all regions. :)
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Woow !! fantastic job man !! keep up the good work :triumphant:
 
mrjaredbeta said:
I am working on a definitive fix for SSX now. Turns out I was half right on the freeze being tied to character rendering...it is actually the "smoke" effect. There is snow smoke from character's board which I initially lessened in my config a few months back (the one I didn't know what I disabled), and that one fixed the "hold backwards on warmup" freeze. Additionally, I fixed the next freeze a few days later by completely disabling the board smoke. I did not know what I disabled until looking closely at it a few days ago.

After that discovery, I noticed perks/pickups leave a smoke effect after picking them up. And the Aloha Ice Jam freeze has fire (very similar to smoke) effects at the beginning of the stage. There are some random freezes now that I believe are tied to the sun beam effect, which is tied to another function that I am working to disable properly.

After a lot of trial and error, the perk/pickup freeze and Aloha Ice Jam freeze are both(!) fixed in this new config that I am working on. I will post it here after I am finished figuring it out and revising it (it disables more than it should now). It will work for all regions. :)
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100% PS2 compatibility by 2024 confirmed (j/k, or am I?)
 
Here are the biggest games IMO left that would be cool if they were fixed although I realize some will likely never be fixed. I left off games like Ratchet & Clank 1, 2 and 3 since that have HD collections on PS3 already or are on PSN, and games that work in one region but not another etc... and some I left off because I wasn't sure if they were fixed with a config or not. I have like every other console and even a gaming PC that I can easily play these on PCSX 2 no problem so it's not a selfish thing just games that I think would really move compatibility from good to excellent.

Legacy of Kain Soul Reaver 2
Mortal Kombat Shaolin Monks
WRC games (1-4 all have major issues)
Wipeout Fusion
True Crime NYC
Timesplitters 2
Tenchu Wrath of Heaven
SSX (coming soon looks like)
Spartan Total Warrior
Sega Rally 2006 (Jap only game)
Secret Agent Clank
Ridge Racer V
Oni
Need for Speed Carbon
Motorstorm Arctic Edge (perhaps menu only problem?)
Guilty Gear Isuka
Gran Turismo 4 just skip cutscene
Gauntlet Dark Legacy
Gauntlet Seven Sorrows
Driver 3
Driver Parallel Lines (perhaps only a problem with entering settings?)
Darkwatch (seems neither pal or ntsc work perfectly?)
Buffy Chaos Bleeds
Battle Gear 2 (Jap only)
Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance
007 Agent Under Fire
 
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Here are the biggest games IMO left that would be cool if they were fixed although I realize some will likely never be fixed. I left off games like Ratchet & Clank 1, 2 and 3 since that have HD collections on PS3 already or are on PSN, and games that work in one region but not another etc... and some I left off because I wasn't sure if they were fixed with a config or not. I have like every other console and even a gaming PC that I can easily play these on PCSX 2 no problem so it's not a selfish thing just games that I think would really move compatibility from good to excellent.

Legacy of Kain Soul Reaver 2
Mortal Kombat Shaolin Monks
WRC games (1-4 all have major issues)
Wipeout Fusion
True Crime NYC
Timesplitters 2
Tenchu Wrath of Heaven
SSX (coming soon looks like)
Spartan Total Warrior
Sega Rally 2006 (Jap only game)
Secret Agent Clank
Ridge Racer V
Oni
Need for Speed Carbon
Motorstorm Arctic Edge (perhaps menu only problem?)
Guilty Gear Isuka
Gran Turismo 4
Gauntlet Dark Legacy
Gauntlet Seven Sorrows
Driver 3
Driver Parallel Lines (perhaps only a problem with entering settings?)
Darkwatch (seems neither pal or ntsc work perfectly?)
Buffy Chaos Bleeds
Battle Gear 2 (Jap only)
Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance
007 Agent Under Fire
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not trying to be a morom,but a lot of those games only have minor issues.

i don't think wrc series can be fixed.

wipeout fusion have a config,list might be oudtdated.


@mrjaredbeta metal gear solid 3 subtstance ntcs works with config auto loaded by webman,don't have idea wwhich one,add to the list plz.
 
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NoSoul said:
100% PS2 compatibility by 2024 confirmed (j/k, or am I?)
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I wish...but USB peripheral games will never be compatible. :(

And it turns out SSX has yet more problems?? I found yet another consistent freeze via warmup...with no discernable effects/anything else on screen. I will have to debug this one more.

In the meantime, here's another WIP patch for SSX (SLES-50030)
Code: 
3D 00 00 00 57 44 00 00 0A 00 00 00 03 00 00 00
F0 CD 11 00 56 5E 04 0C 00 00 00 00 80 2A 1E 00
B0 FF BD 27 08 00 E0 03 84 2A 1E 00 20 00 B2 FF
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Rough patch for now. Disables snow smoke from board and other smoke/particle effects. I think particle effects (like fireworks) can stay enabled, but this config just breaks whole function, so I will need to go further into that later. This one DOES fix pickup freeze and Aloha Ice Jam freeze.

So...major issues now? It seems Elysium Alps has around 50% of freezing, otherwise it works fine. And then the *new* consistent warmup freeze. More work to be done, but we are much closer now. Thanks @johnc123 for original testing and first test of this new config. :)

Rafaelrios said:
i don't think wrc series can be fixed.
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Expect something soon for this. @Agrippa and I have something up our sleeves. ;)
 
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NoSoul said:
Here are the biggest games IMO left that would be cool if they were fixed although I realize some will likely never be fixed. I left off games like Ratchet & Clank 1, 2 and 3 since that have HD collections on PS3 already or are on PSN, and games that work in one region but not another etc... and some I left off because I wasn't sure if they were fixed with a config or not. I have like every other console and even a gaming PC that I can easily play these on PCSX 2 no problem so it's not a selfish thing just games that I think would really move compatibility from good to excellent.

Legacy of Kain Soul Reaver 2
Mortal Kombat Shaolin Monks
WRC games (1-4 all have major issues)
Wipeout Fusion
True Crime NYC
Timesplitters 2
Tenchu Wrath of Heaven
SSX (coming soon looks like)
Spartan Total Warrior
Sega Rally 2006 (Jap only game)
Secret Agent Clank
Ridge Racer V
Oni
Need for Speed Carbon
Motorstorm Arctic Edge (perhaps menu only problem?)
Guilty Gear Isuka
Gran Turismo 4
Gauntlet Dark Legacy
Gauntlet Seven Sorrows
Driver 3
Driver Parallel Lines (perhaps only a problem with entering settings?)
Darkwatch (seems neither pal or ntsc work perfectly?)
Buffy Chaos Bleeds
Battle Gear 2 (Jap only)
Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance
007 Agent Under Fire
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Parallel Lines would be a great fix! That character twitching is awful, plus, reflections and the sun flare don't work right :/
 
MadSaint1998 said:
A quick tip for people playing Gran Turismo 4 in a non-BC PS3.... when you guys complete the championship races and appears the Ending Movie (in real life Nissan in the Nurburgring) you will need to skip it as fast as you can because it will freeze after 5-10 seconds and making you repeat the championship, unfortunately i found it out the hard way... :chuncky:
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Didn't Gran Turismo 4 have random freezing moments, or was it fixed? My Back-Compat died this week, and im lazy to play it on the PS2 again or fix the 60Gb [emoji24]


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NoSoul said:
Legacy of Kain Soul Reaver 2
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Well, I am interested in this case, if you have got the save near the problem you could send me it.

NoSoul said:
Need for Speed Carbon
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It was released on the PS3.

NoSoul said:
Gran Turismo 4
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It already works on the PS3, apart from the freezes during the video playback (e.g. arcade mode course selection screen). But the GT mode does work (remember to skip the ending movie).
 
Rafaelrios said:
it does have on arcade mode only.


Career mode works fine.u have to move quick on menu.
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Good, i never bothered to try Gran Turismo Mode on a PS3, mostly because i have almost a 80% Save Game on my old and trusty memory card,which i never imported as a PSV Save,so mostly played on Arcade, and i know it had some ocasional freezes, thought that was patched via Config,but no big deal.
 
kozarovv said:
it's not a bug it's a feature :D No time to loss.

Game have issue with threaded VU1. Gonna be hard to fix it.

What's up with Oni?

RRV have shadows bug only, or something else? Wiki is not really descriptive here.
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Honestly some of these I just go by the wiki and haven't tried them myself. I see now Oni only has texture problems during cutscenes. I just skimmed the list and added the games that don't show as playable, but I guess some are close enough. Maybe it's not a good list.
 
NoSoul said:
Honestly some of these I just go by the wiki and haven't tried them myself. I see now Oni only has texture problems during cutscenes. I just skimmed the list and added the games that don't show as playable, but I guess some are close enough.
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a lot of those games have only minor issues that can easily be ignored.but if someone on here want to fix them,i woudn't mind.
 
NoSoul said:
Here are the biggest games IMO left that would be cool if they were fixed although I realize some will likely never be fixed. I left off games like Ratchet & Clank 1, 2 and 3 since that have HD collections on PS3 already or are on PSN, and games that work in one region but not another etc... and some I left off because I wasn't sure if they were fixed with a config or not. I have like every other console and even a gaming PC that I can easily play these on PCSX 2 no problem so it's not a selfish thing just games that I think would really move compatibility from good to excellent.

Legacy of Kain Soul Reaver 2
Mortal Kombat Shaolin Monks
WRC games (1-4 all have major issues)
Wipeout Fusion
True Crime NYC
Timesplitters 2
Tenchu Wrath of Heaven
SSX (coming soon looks like)
Spartan Total Warrior
Sega Rally 2006 (Jap only game)
Secret Agent Clank
Ridge Racer V
Oni
Need for Speed Carbon
Motorstorm Arctic Edge (perhaps menu only problem?)
Guilty Gear Isuka
Gran Turismo 4 just skip cutscene
Gauntlet Dark Legacy
Gauntlet Seven Sorrows
Driver 3
Driver Parallel Lines (perhaps only a problem with entering settings?)
Darkwatch (seems neither pal or ntsc work perfectly?)
Buffy Chaos Bleeds
Battle Gear 2 (Jap only)
Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance
007 Agent Under Fire
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I striked the ones that are ok. Any other?

Agrippa said:
Well, I am interested in this case, if you have got the save near the problem you could send me it.
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I don't I beat the game many moons ago on an actual PS2. Not long after it first came out.
 
NoSoul said:
Here are the biggest games IMO left that would be cool if they were fixed although I realize some will likely never be fixed. I left off games like Ratchet & Clank 1, 2 and 3 since that have HD collections on PS3 already or are on PSN, and games that work in one region but not another etc... and some I left off because I wasn't sure if they were fixed with a config or not. I have like every other console and even a gaming PC that I can easily play these on PCSX 2 no problem so it's not a selfish thing just games that I think would really move compatibility from good to excellent.

Legacy of Kain Soul Reaver 2
Mortal Kombat Shaolin Monks
WRC games (1-4 all have major issues)
Wipeout Fusion
True Crime NYC
Timesplitters 2
Tenchu Wrath of Heaven
SSX (coming soon looks like)
Spartan Total Warrior
Sega Rally 2006 (Jap only game)
Secret Agent Clank
Ridge Racer V
Oni
Need for Speed Carbon
Motorstorm Arctic Edge (perhaps menu only problem?)
Guilty Gear Isuka
Gran Turismo 4
Gauntlet Dark Legacy
Gauntlet Seven Sorrows
Driver 3
Driver Parallel Lines (perhaps only a problem with entering settings?)
Darkwatch (seems neither pal or ntsc work perfectly?)
Buffy Chaos Bleeds
Battle Gear 2 (Jap only)
Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance
007 Agent Under Fire
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The first Baldur's Gate DA seems unlikely, but I'd love to see it fixed, one of the most fun ps2 games for me. A fix for Dark Alliance 2 would be cool too, it plays like half the speed it should be in the second area with the water and even without water it gets slow when there are many enemies.
 
There is a Wipeout HD Fury published for PS3 btw
Is like a remaster of the previous wipeout games published for PSP (pure and pulse)

Is different than the "wipeout fusion" published for PS2, but well... not so much :D
 
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