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OddManOut
10/16/09

In reply to Woah, This Samurai Warrior USB Gamepad is All Kinds of Freaky
Someone needs to go back to Kanji class (possibly me :P)...

D-pad - Samurai

Top - 3
Right - Round, Yen
Left - Mouth
Bottom - Gentleman, Samurai

That's about the best I can do to translate those buttons. Maybe I'm missing something... #samuraiwarriorusbgamepadisfrea...
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HeartBurnKid: Agent of R.O.A.C.H.
10/16/09

@OddManOut: I'm pretty sure most of the kanji were selected for their shape rather than meaning. Other than the one on the right (which, as you pointed out, means "round", and is in place of the Circle button) , they look like their PlayStation counterparts (Triangle, Square, X) #samuraiwarriorusbgamepadisfrea...
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fluidexistence
10/16/09

In reply to Woah, This Samurai Warrior USB Gamepad is All Kinds of Freaky
I've seen discarded tranny corpses smeared with clown makeup more appealing than this.

I can't corroborate that, of course--even if I wasn't too exhausted to dig up the barrels, the sulfuric acid's done its job by now. #samuraiwarriorusbgamepadisfrea...
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Kaiser-Machead
10/16/09

@fluidexistence: I'm not sure which is worse, the fact that you actually saw a discarded tranny corpse with clown makeup smeared on it, or the fact that you saw them on more than one occasion (or a pile of them at once) and saw appeal in them.
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fluidexistence
10/16/09

@Kaiser-Machead: Many of the greats were unheralded in their own time, so it's at least a small comfort there.

I admit, I didn't come across this easily--the first one was a huge misunderstanding (long story--it involved a night of 151, Windex, hotornot, a box of crayons and a blowtorch), but after that, it became a hobby of sorts. There's just something about a pile of pancaked corpse parts that screams "Christmas!" louder than a thousand thousand wreaths, carolers and elves ever could.

Incidentally, don't try it with carolers, they tend to travel in packs. Makes for a hell of a challenge. #samuraiwarriorusbgamepadisfrea...
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Bokusatsu_Tenshi
08/22/09

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If I was considering buying a PS3, I'd wait a price drop for them and buy one that had BC, dismissing the PS3 slim.

Mainly because of having one console that could play both types of games, since I have a nice PS2 game collection.

It's a design decision after all, and I don't blame Sony for discarding BC... but if I have a product that can do more for about the same price (or a bit more expensive), even if it is bigger and older I'd still get it.
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VenomIreland
08/21/09

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I wish people would stop bitching about this, if you REALLY want to play PS2 games, just spend that saved €/$100 on a PS2, simple!

Oh you don't wanna spend more money? Well, you probably already have a PS2 if you wanna play PS2 games, so just shove that in underneath your TV, problem solved.
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Pope John Peeps II
08/21/09

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Well when they make a game as pretty as Odin Sphere on the PS3, maybe I'll buy a PS3.

*caresses PS2 slim*.
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08/21/09

@Pope John Peeps II: Also, BLACK still remains the king of all shooters. Nothing I've played on the PS3 even comes close.
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Donoho
08/21/09

In reply to PS2 Compatibility Never Returning to the PlayStation 3
I have a sh**load of PS1 and PS2 games I play on my PS3. I bought a First Gen PS3 because Sony has Historically made first gen devices Hardware Overkill. Castlevania SotN on PSN? Got the disc. Original Suikoden? Yup. I get that they want you to rebuy digital versions, but I paid more early on so I wouldn't have to.
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hodayathink wants WWFRD back!
08/21/09

@Donoho: PS1 backwards compat is still there. It's just PS2 that isn't.
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MacAttack7388
08/21/09

In reply to PS2 Compatibility Never Returning to the PlayStation 3
I never owned a PS2, or a PS2 game.
I got the PS3 for all the other reasons.
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Jitty
08/21/09

In reply to PS2 Compatibility Never Returning to the PlayStation 3
Seriously, all you BC people need to stop bitching and get yourself a PS2.

People say you're lazy if you complain about changing disk on the 360. Now hooking up two different consoles to your TV is TOO tedious and difficult?
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lilaliendog
08/21/09

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We only have ourselves to blame ... well those that wanted the price to be cheaper
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Noobs-R-Us
08/21/09

In reply to PS2 Compatibility Never Returning to the PlayStation 3
Koller said, "It's not coming back, so let me put that on the table,"

Translation: "What do you think we are, Stupid? Why would we do this when idiots are still paying us $100 a pop for those pieces of turds? When no one is willing to buy another PS2 unit, that's when we'll add the backward compatibility to the PS3."
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Pessimippopotamus
08/21/09

@Noobs-R-Us: Spot on. Spot on.
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badasscat
08/21/09

In reply to PS2 Compatibility Never Returning to the PlayStation 3
I don't think backward compatibility is a huge issue, but I will say it is nice to have. (I have a 60GB PS3.) I like to keep things neat and clean in my living room (I have a wife) so I don't really want a bunch of different consoles hooked up to my TV, and I do still have PS2 games that I play. Literally 2 nights ago I fired up Vice City again after watching season one of Miami Vice, which just put me in that mood. And I still have a few PS2 games that have not made it to the PS3 yet, like MLB Power Pros.

I still have a PS2 that I *could* use if I had one of these newfangled PS3's, but it's just nice not to have to.
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OMG! Ponies!
08/21/09

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Alas, poor PlayStation 2! I owned one, Kaiser:

A console of infinite games, of most excellent fancy: it hath played for me DVDs a thousand times;

and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is!
my gorge rims at it. Here hung that disc tray that I have loaded I know not how oft.

Where be your games now? your
exclusives like God of War and Shadow of the Colossus? your platformers and fighters? your catalogue of merriment,
that were wont to set the speakers on a roar?

Not one now, to boot your own classics? quite chap-fallen?
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k-napped
08/21/09

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Sucks, but luckily I have my PS2 right next to my PS3. So I can play all generations of PS games.
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Hello Mister Walrus
08/21/09

In reply to PS2 Compatibility Never Returning to the PlayStation 3
Yeah, I really think that the lack of backward compatibility is exaggerated as a problem. There are two main scenarios in which you would want to play PS2 games on your PS3: 1) you don't want to pay for expensive PS3 games, so you buy cheap PS2 games, and 2) you already have lots of PS2 games that you want to still play. The first scenario is unlikely, since people who buy $400+ PS3s are probably willing to buy PS3 games also. In the second scenario, you would probably have a PS2 already.
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k-napped
08/21/09

@Hello Mister Walrus: I'm hesitant to buy new video games for my 400 dollar console. Most suck and are buggy and not worth the money. I'm fine playing the few games I have and watching Netflix on it.
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Nick
04/14/09

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no ninterdo turbo pad
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GitEmSteveDave_HazEnvy
04/14/09

@Nick: No MAX Advantage joystick/platform. Nor the PowerPad step on controller.

I do see my little GameGear! I still love it and will play with it from time to time.
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