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Why Robin Makes Batman Better At the 1998 NBA All-Star Game, fans received discs with the demo for a PlayStation game called NBA 2-Ball. The game was pretty bad – possibly defective – but it’s extremely rare. So a surviving copy may be extremely valuable.
Who doesn’t love it when golden oldies get a re-release over the PlayStation Network or Virtual Console? Game collector, that’s who. MTV Multiplayer examined collectable game values and saw many nosediving after getting a reboot on the current generation.
Namco’s Pac-Man Ghost Zone never made it to retail, never saw the inside of the more than 100 million original PlayStations that Sony eventually sold over the console’s lifespan. But it was playable, at least by a select group.
The fan-engineered English localisation of Hideo Kojima’s PSOne cult classic Policenauts is finally complete. The project’s page today announced that the patch is live.
Since the launch of the PlayStation 3, Sony has published nearly 30 original PlayStation Classics on the North American PlayStation Store. Which have sold the best?
It’s odd to talk about EA Sports’ Madden franchise, with the features it’s touting in the 09 release, now making itself more of a social gaming experience. For the better part of two decades it’s been one of the top titles to play with friends, offline or, lately, online. But the pattern of features that were added, upgraded or unchanged from last year points to a major push that’ll expand the game’s social appeal, especially to demographics well outside the paunchy, balding thirtysomething. In other words, EA is going where the growth is, and its marketing of this game absolutely tips that hand.
Former Sony Entertainment President Chris Deering has recently dished out two pieces of fascinating gossip about Sony development for those interested in the “woulda, coulda, shoulda” points in the company’s history. The first such program was a social networking platform for the PSOne ala Facebook or MySpace.
A pair of PSone classics that my be coming soon to the PlayStation Store—then ultimately to PSP and PlayStation 3—have been rated by the ESRB. Capcom’s Street Fighter Alpha and Ubisoft’s Rayman were recently added to the software ratings board’s database. Unlike some of the ratings for Wii Virtual Console games, the turnaround time for ESRB ratings to become additions to the PlayStation Store is generally fairly quick, but we have no details yet on when these games will see re-release.
A new batch of original PlayStation games has been added to the Japanese version of the PlayStation Store which features plenty of enviously available big names amid the Japan-only fare. The biggest PSone Classics to make their way to PSPs and PlayStation 3s are Biohazard 2 (aka Resident Evil 2) and Intelligent Qube, both of which would be welcome additions to the North American and European stores. Just sayin’, SCEA. The full list of newbies is below.
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Rumor has it that the latest firmware updates for the PSP and PS3 have allowed playing of all PSOne discs on the Playstation Portable via the PS3 using remote play.
I haven’t been able to check PSOne disc based games, because I can’t find a single one, but we do have readers reporting in that they work on the system via Remote Play. In a bit of unwarranted exuberance I decided to see if any PS2 games would play via Remote Play, and the answer remains no. I did test out some PSOne games I had downloaded from the Playstation Store and they all seemed to work fine.
Another neat feature I noticed is that you can now assign which buttons do what on your PSP while in Remote Play meaning Lair should finally work if you want to play it remotely… and still own it.
Comment here if you can get your PSOne discs to work via Remote Play. We’ve contacted SCEA for comment, but haven’t heard back from them.
