NTSC-J And NTSC-U PSone Classics Confirmed For SCEE

SCEE:Hello everyone,
I am very pleased to confirm that US and Japanese PSone emulations are being prepared for release on the SCEE PlayStation Stores.
While I cannot yet confirm dates or any of the titles in process at this time, there are a few that are already in process and you will start to see them publishing in the future.
What does this mean for you, the consumers?
Here are the key points:
Publishers who own the rights to release PSone titles that were previously only available in the US and/or Japan will now be able to apply to have them released on the SCEE PlayStation Stores (providing they are rated by the appropriate ratings boards for each territory).

[kenpachi]

it's about time SCEE got their finger out

[scruffy_bear]

So true :)

[himdeel]

If this means I can play my JP Dragon Ball games in particular DBZ Legends on my US PS3 then I am one happy camper.

EDIT: They say it has nothing to do with reading actual disc...

/cry

[DaTruth]

If you buy JP Dragon Ball games from the store you can!

[Ocelot525]

Actually you already can play us/jp ps1 games on dis or on HDD.

I also have a US account with PS+(trough wb) and I could play the US medieval.

Which means that technically nothing will be prepared . Only legal bs will be prepared

[WhiteLightning]

Tell me about it

Sometimes I think they don't give a crap about us

How long have we been waiting for Spyro as a PS1 classic

[xAlmostPro]

Things are easier said than done.

More comes into play than just sony adding the game to the store.. there's new ip's to cater for, which need advertising etc.

There's game rights, royalties etc.

Add to that, there is thousands of ps1 games for them to go through and sort all this out for.

Just saying

[WhiteLightning]

I'd understand if it was like a year...maybe two years after the PS3 launched but come on it's been over 4 years now and the US got theres like a year after the PS3 launced......to be honest they have more classics then us.

I understand all this stuff that goes on behind closed doors but as I've said it's been over four years we shouldn't be waiting any longer, by the time all the PS1 classics come out for us the PS4 will be announced.

[DualConsoleOwner]

Just to give you a sense of how hard it is...
Every since PS1 was released, many many many scenes has been working on PS1 emulators for more than 10 years.

and Scene Emulators works like shit- only 10 percent of the games work. and not all of them work perfectly.

Sony has made a working emulator. imagine it would been extremely difficult and took them a while to get it right.

[Oxymoron028]

:D!

[Undeadwolfy]

I want the Digimon Games on the PS Store. Man those gsmes were epic. Alot more fun that the Pokemon games.

D:1
D:2
D:3
D: Rumble Arena
D: Digital Card Battle

[SuperKing]

I got Digimon world 3, damn that was a great game.

[Undeadwolfy]

The first one and the second one are even better in my opinion. They are both different gameplay wise. Card Battle was awesome as well. I highly recommend you pick those games up if you can.

[ger101]

So does this mean we'll get the first Parasite Eve?!!!!

[hadouken007]

I can finally play my jp import games again.

[Lucreto]

If they put the games on the store you have to rebuy them the physical discs don't work.

[Errod88]

This going to be sweet.

[BrutallyBlunt]

Yet no word on any Playstation 2 games being emulated? How stupid. I guess consumers don't want Playstation 2 games on the SCEE Playstation Stores, right Sony?

[saladthieves]

The PS2 is one hell of a complicated machine to let alone emulate the CPU / and other components on the PS3 would be very performance hungry.

[blackburn10]

Exactly. People talk as if Sony can just magically put PS2 games on the PS3. No one ever thinks that maybe it could be a very complicated process and not easy to do.

[Chrono]

They made the system, they have the original code, they know how to make it work properly on their own systems, they can make it very optimized, they just don't want to do it.

[BrutallyBlunt]

The Playstation 3 is a complicated machine as well. Does that mean when the Playstation 4 arrives the only way to play Playstation 3 games is with a Playstation 3 system?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

Funny how the community is trying to run these games with no funding yet Sony refuses to emulate their own games.

Whatever developed over this?

http://kotaku.com/5304117/s...

Also didn't the 80GB model emulate Playstation 2 games?

http://www.psxextreme.com/p...

The fact is it can be done but for some reason Sony refuses not to. Whether the reason is because the Playstation 2 hardware is still available (which they likely make a profit on) or because they want to concentrate of Playstation 2 remasters begs the question why Sony continues to ignore such a vast amount of games people would buy off of PSN.

They removed the Playstation 2 backwards compatibility with Playstaion 3 hardware and never looked back. It was a business decision and they continue to focus on the original Playstation One library instead even though the Playstation 2 library offers a huge library of games people would buy off of the Playstation Store.

[TheDivine]

Um have yall seen the sly collection, gow collection, theres tons of ps2 games playable on ALL ps3s. Its not hard to get ps2 games running on ps3's sony has to do it though. I want persona 3-4, shadow hearts, ffx-12, and some other games on the store. At least make hd collections of the hard to find stuff like sh hearts or shin megami games. And no its not super impossible.

[Lucreto]

If only that included PS2 titles. I want to play Suikoden 3 so badly

[gamingdroid]

They should just put the BC chip back in. Solves all our problems, except current customers.

That said, Sony found a better business model, remake HDs so I doubt it.

[zero_cool]

The psn community wants PS2 software emulation back like the original fat 80gb PS3's had see for yourselves the demand is high & only second to cross game voice chat.

http://share.blog.us.playst...

[BrutallyBlunt]

Notice how nobody from Sony replies in that link you provided? It's the same with cross-game chat, they say they hear the community yet never disclose why it's not available.

[NewVegasTroop]

you want to play ps2 games? buy a ps2. the 60gb skus could play ps2 games but at what cost? $600 so people that bought the ps3 early on got what they paid for, a super ps3 that would destroy the current slims, which only cost half of what that monster was worth, besides i like hd collections remakes, trophy support and hd graphics are always great

[fossilfern]

Right I am sick of people on the PS blog and here moaning about Spyro, get on ebay

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/S...