Does the ps3 system play ps2 games

ItchyIsVegeta 4 years ago 7. VeryDarkSoul posted This was why a lot of the early PS2s eventually had issues reading disks it would not read CDs but would read DVDs or vice versa , which could be fixed by taking apart and realigning that laser focus gear.

ReggieBush09 4 years ago 8. Ps4's play psone games? Manticore 4 years ago 9. ReggieBush09 4 years ago More topics from this board List PS1 games that you want other PS1 fans to play, and why. How to fix a PS1 that freezes on loading screens?

Tech Support 2 Answers Why won't my disks spin? Tech Support 1 Answer. Ask A Question. Browse More Questions. Keep me logged in on this device. Forgot your username or password? You will be looking toward the end of the serial number for the 4 letters CECHxxx. Once you find that section of the serial number, the letter immediately following the H will tell us where you stand. You have full hardware backwards compatibility! Should that letter be a C or an E, you will have limited backwards compatibility.

You will be able to run many PS2 games, but there will be games that you run into issues with. How to get Chongyun in Genshin Impact. Adjust your PS2 playback settings. Your backwards compatible PS3 will have a couple of PS2-related settings that you can adjust. This will affect how the image is zoomed or stretched to fit your screen.

Choose "Off" if the game doesn't look good when upscaled. Choose your Smoothing settings. Smoothing will attempt to smooth out rough edges in your games. This will be more noticeable in games with 3D graphics. Smoothing may not be noticeable in the games you play, and may actually make things look worse.

Method 2. Open the PlayStation Store. You can do this from the PS3, or by logging into store. Open the "Games" section of the store. You'll see a variety of different categories. Select "Classics. Check the "PS2 Classics" box. This will filter the results so that only PS2 Classics are displayed. Add any games that you want to purchase to your cart.

The game selection will vary depending on your region. Purchase the game. Once you're done adding items to your cart, you can checkout.

You'll need either a valid payment method or have money in your PSN Wallet from redeeming a gift card. Download your purchased PS2 games. Once you've finished the purchase, you'll be able to start downloading the games. You can start the downloads from the purchase confirmation page, or you can open your Downloads list from the Store and start downloading them from there.

Play your downloaded game. Select the game to start playing it. Method 3. Jailbreak mod your PS3. If you have a jailbroken PS3, you can use it to play most PS2 games. See Jailbreak a PS3 for instructions on jailbreaking your PlayStation 3 if you can handle these risks. You'll need multiman, the most common game manager for jailbroken PS3s, installed as well. This comes with most custom firmware packages. Insert your PS2 disc into your computer.

You won't actually be playing the game from a disc on your jailbroken PS3. Instead, you'll be creating an image file of the disc and then adding the PS2 Classics emulator wrapper to it, allowing you to play it as a PS2 Classic.

You'll be doing all of this from your computer, and then transferring the finished file to the jailbroken PS3. Create an ISO from the disc. You'll need to use a disc imaging utility to do so: Windows - Download and install InfraRecorder, a free, open-source disc imaging program.

Mac - Open Disk Utility from the Utilities folder. Yes - When network gameplay begins, a network error message appears, and the user is disconnected. Yes - Occasionally Virtual Memory Card is not recognized. Midas Interactive Entertainment. Yes glitchy [2]. Yes - sometimes the gameplay slows down, and some graphics are corrupted like Maria's Car becomes white, and the other car's wheels look strange. Yes [2]. Yes - throughout the title, a random character model shadow graphic appears in the center of the screen.

Throughout gameplay, various environment graphics intermittently appear corrupted. Yes - Gameplay may randomly freeze when exiting into another area causing a black screen freeze before the download data initiates. Online Gameplay has been discontinued in March for the PlayStation 2 platform. No - Not Available in North America. No - At a random point during gameplay, the title hangs. Yes - During various FMV sequences throughout the title, the audio is overlapped by static audio distortion.

The character has no shadow. Yes FMV issues [2]. Yes - Funny bug like in GT3 : when you are viewing the demonstration videos in the license tests, the demonstration cars path are incorrect, the demonstration videos don't display correctly and the cars drive off the track. Yes - Vertical scan line artifacts are considerably more noticeable than on the 60GB; as well as more pop-ins. Occasionally, weather does not render properly, resulting in graphical glitches such as rain during a sunny day.

No - If a save is attempted game will freeze. Only way around this is only works for Growlanser 2 to turn auto save on. Yes - However freezes after opening the secret doorway in Diagon Alley. Needs a save file past that point OR hold L2 look mode as you press X to open the 'lumos' wall. This should fix it after a few attempts, but save regularly throughout. Yes - Throughout gameplay, the title performs at a significantly slower than normal performance speed.

Yes - Throughout Adventure mode, when the title autosaves, it hangs which can be avoided by removing the PS2 memory card from slot 1 and inserting it only to manually save. The save bug has been fixed in the Greatest Hits version of the game. Yes - During network gameplay, the user is randomly disconnected; Throughout the title, when a screen change occurs, the title freezes for approximately 1 second.

Yes - Most sound samples are played improperly or missing. No - Extreme graphical issues. No - Game will hang randomly during an in-game cutscene. Cutscenes are not skip-able forcing constant restarts.