The PS3 store is shutting down for real this time. What PS1 Classics do I need to buy before I lose my chance to play them forever?
>>12670169CFW your console and pirate the games. You are tech literate enough to do that right?
>>12670173Fpbp fuck these retarded paypigs
>>12670169just use duck station or retroarch you dumb ass
>>12670169in what world is buying ps1 roms on the ps3 store retro. commit die tardo
>>12670169I would heavily advise doing the exact opposite of whatever this poseur recommends
>>12670169You mean aside from opening __PCSX2___ and choosing an iso?
>>12670169desu I'd only want to do this for my vita
>>12670169Isn't the PS3 backwards compatible? Just buy the PS1/PS2 discs and slap it into that bitch
>>12670339Only the launch model is compatible with PS2 games and the emulation is rather poor.
Buy? LMAO get a load of this faggot
>>12670230>commit dieI haven't read that in years, thanks for the laff bro
>>12670173>>12670174I pay for the official releases of games I like so that the people that make the games I like can afford to make more games that I like.
>>12670173>>12670174>>12670226do you know how many studios have shut down because of people like you?
>>12670339>Just buy the PS1/PS2 discs
>>12670427not my fault you want to play a literally who game that only had 5k copies ever printed
>>12670169Whenever people justify piracy by saying a game is out of print, I like to be a smart ass and say you can buy it on the PS3 store. I guess I won't be able to do that any more.If you have a Japanese PS3, you should pick up Policenauts since that game is almost certainly never going to get another official release.
>paying for PS1 games>in the big 26I shiggy diddy
>>12670351Certain models have the original hardware so emulation is flawless
>>12670427Just burn a new copy, faggot.
>>12670440>you should pick up Policenautsgo down to the playstation store and pick up your copy of policenauts, pick it up off the rack and place it into your shopping cart.
>>12670169That man looks like late gen X'er, why in God's name is he suggesting you pay for PS1 games on a fucking PS3?
Playing PS1 games (both retail discs and digital copies)on a PS3 adds a shitload of input lag.
>>12670169>buy these now
>>12670517If it has the guts of a PS2 inside it, then it's not emulation, ya dingus.
>>12670169The only game you should get it Vib Ribbon, if you're playing on an emulator you have to rip the music cd as a file and mount it which is kinda a pain in the ass if you just wanna quickly grab one of your albums and try it out. On the ps3 you just insert the music cd disc and it works like it should.
>>12671983Are you saying you can use any music disc if you swap while the game is running or am I hallucinating like a retarded ai?
>>12672024guessing you've never heard of vib ribbon? It's a rhythm game where the whole gimmick is that it will create stages based on any music cd you put in. It works somewhat decently, doesn't feel like the timing is that close to the actual song but it's a cool gimmick I suppose and maybe it depends on the song itself. and yes on the original ps1 version you would take out the game disc and insert your music cds for it to generate a song. The game's total memory is so small because the graphics are so simple that it can fit on the ps1's console ram without needing the game disc.
>>12670173This. Imagine giving money to the company that just deleted a bunch of digital purchases. If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing.
>>12670418None, zero, ziltch, nadda
>>12670169Just hack it or emulate and pirate everything instead of giving Sony your money like you have Stockholm syndrome.
>>12670418Yes, zero. I'm not playing the game if I can't download it for free
>>12670169>What PS1 Classics do I need to buy before I lose my chance to play them forever?You shouldn't buy anything on a storefront which is about to be shut down. No matter what you do your PS3's HDD will eventually fail and when the storefront is gone there will be no way to recover what you bought from them. Aside from that, PS1 games are easily available on other platforms and by other methods, so why would you insist on buying them this way? Don't listen to that youtuber.
>>12672841>your PS3's HDD will eventually fail and when the storefront is gone there will be no way to recover what you bought from themStill shouldn't waste his money but if you have you account login you can just buy another ps3 and redownload all your stuff it it breaks. So far we haven't seen any company shut down the ability to redownload games you bought.
>>12670418According to my studies, the result is:0
Lol I just burn the cd and play on my ps2. I was just emulating before that.
>autistic heavy metal rock music starts playing
>>12670169americans will do this and then complain about not being able to afford rent
>>12673282based americans, fuck off communist
>>12673253you just know
SoftRockJudas beats his wife. He is vile.
>no more discs>Also your games will go bye bye when we say so
>>12670418PSX Classics are 27+ years old. No one that worked on those games is receiving any sort of recompense.
>>12670173Aren't those purchases tied to your account so you can download them on any playstation console afterwards. Worth the money.
>>12673337If the PS3 store is shutting down, how are you gonna download what you bought? The download history is inside the store.
>>12673350The store shutting down doesn't mean downloads are shutting down. You can still download all your old Wii games even though the Wii shop shut down 7 years ago.
>>12673350on the xmb you go to account managment and there's a menu that will take you to your downloads without having to go on the store.
>>12673352We'll see how it goes. The PSN store is the first step, the online services will follow, like they already tried to do in the past. Enough time has pass, it's inevitable that the PS3 will become an offline console only.
>>12670418They shut down regardless, it literally does not matterThe industry is bank to be looted and pillaged before it completely collapses
>>12670364You aren't supporting a damn thing by buying 30yo games on the PS3 store made by people who no longer work at the respective companies, for 6 bucks a piece (only 70% of that going to the publisher).
>>12670418Not enough.
The ps3 store doesn't work most of the time anyways lol
>>12670169Officialy is dead for almost a decade no one cares, was shutdown when they pulled the plug of psvita.
>>12670173Based. Paying for downloads is retarded.
>>12670418not enough
>>12672841They're normal 2.5" SATA drives, just clone it and store that in a safe spot.
People trying to rescue ps1 games instead of all those DLCs that will actually get lost
>>12673380>The industry is bank to be looted and pillaged before it completely collapsesThis, it's a money laundering operation for DEI investors at this point. How many multi-year developed, 100+ million $, full woke cast loot'em shoot'em games turned into complete flops at this point? Sony alone made several.There's no way the industry is profitable at this point, it has to be some kind of tax dodging or money laundering operation now.
>>12672841If that were to happen, he could just get a new hard drive, log back in, go to account information, transaction history and download list and redownload the game again.
>>12675578>If that were to happen, he could just get a new hard drive, log back in, go to account information, transaction history and download list and redownload the game again.Will that still be accessible if that transaction history is hosted on the store (which will no longer exist)?
>>12671902Probably his target group are braindead zoomers and even younger retards, he doesn't want to overwhelm them with complicated haxxor stuff like "move iso file into that folder".
Controversial opinion inbound: buying games physically is just as irrational as buying them digitally when piracy is an option.
>>12675741No it's not. You buy a physical item with resale value, as opposed to just buying a download which can be gotten for free also as a download. Unless you are going out and stealing physical games, it's really not comparable at all.
>>12675743People who speculate on popular culture are retarded.
>>12670339Yes but it's cheaper and better to buy a much cheaper and more durable later model PS3 and a PS2 with the money you'd have spent on a backwards compatible model
>>12670169I have MiSTer for PS1, PS2 for PS2, soon to be CFW PS3, and a hacked PSTV. Doesn't affect me. Imagine trusting these scumfuck companies to actually care about their legacy games.
>>12675750Speculate? Are you stupid? It's about having your value exchange retain value. Quit being so imageboard brained.
>>12670173Fpbp
>>12673352For now later it will shut down, Nintendo already confirmed it
>>12670169PS1 games aged like milk, only a few hold up, why bother?
>>12670169How did people play their PS1 games before there was a PS3 store to buy Classics from? Now that its shutting down, maybe its time to revert to that previous method.
>>12676362>>12670427
>>12673229>So far we haven't seen any company shut down the ability to redownload games you bought.How did "we" suddenly become so young and ignorant?
>>12670427Is that game even on the PS3 store? If its not, then your point is invalid. Its also invalid if its on the PS4/5 store.
>>12670331Buy an SD2VITA and load custom firmware on it.
>buy
>buying digital PS1 games on PS3Why are you loading up on system where everything can be emulated as easily as NES roms? Why not get some PS3 games for your PS3, since a quarter of them are unplayable on the current best emulator.
>>12679701it doesn't know
>>12679674Maybe if I start downloading all the ps3 store games from the internet archive the downloads will finally finish by the time they shutdown the PS7 store
>>1267036499% of these companies no longer exist and those that do have less than 3% of the employees from that time. Only Sony makes money from these purchases and fuck em.
>>12680794So that makes it ok to break the law? The guy who invented coca cola is dead, he doesn't get any money from it anymore. Does that mean it's acceptable to walk into a store, grab a coke off the shelf and walk out without paying?
>>12680417About what
Just use NoPayStation
>>12680865>steal a cokeStore loses a coke>pirate a video gameSome game maker loses an imaginary "potential sale" and they're very sad because they're entitled to become billionaires by playing around and having fun all day.
>>12680865That's not comparable at all, if I go to the official coke website and download one of the images off it is that considered wrong? If I have have something and make a perfect copy of it is there anything wrong with that?Honestly the only real way I can think of a real world equivalent is like this, say I have a key to a building, I make a billion copies of that key and give it to everyone for free. It's not theft, it's access.
>>12680887A great many things
>buying roms
>>12680935>>12680952so how many games can a game publisher be ethically allowed to sell before its ok to steal from them? If everyone steals the game then they make no money and have to file for bankruptcy because the development costs need to be recouped after publishing for the business model to work.
>Paying for emulation
>>12680952Do you you consider downloading an image to be the same as enjoying an ice cold coca cola because they're not the same thing. You don't get the experience of drinking a coke by downloading a picture, you get to experience a game by downloading the game. Your comparison would be more apt if you downloaded the games cover art but you're a mong so that idea is beyond your grasp.
>>12670173fpbp
>>12670169>can't use analog on official psn ps1 gameswhy were they thinking?
I don't understand buying PS1 roms to play one a PS3 in 2026
>>12677894Yes, it's $6 on the PS3 store.
>>12681813>Yes, it's $6 on the PS3 store.That's not bad. Especially in comparison to what the original disc is going for these days. Is the game actually any good though or do people only pretend to care about it because its rare?
>>12672841>No matter what you do your PS3's HDD will eventually failthat's a little odd to single out when you can easily put a newly made hard drive in it and the other components will fail much sooner. particularly the RSX if you have a fatty.
>>12675497a lot is already lost because it got delisted over a decade ago during the console's lifetime. sucks.
>>12673337>so you can download them on any playstation console afterwardsWrong. You can't download them on PS4 or PS5, and most PS1 games on PS3 aren't available on PSP or PS Vita. It's not worth it, believe me.
>>12673352>You can still download all your old Wii games even though the Wii shop shut down 7 years ago.That’s not true anymore; you can’t do it now. Nintendo revoked the right to redownload in 2023.
>>12682491>That’s not true anymore; you can’t do it now. Nintendo revoked the right to redownload in 2023.Can you link to some article or announcement that confirms this?
>>12681045The developer can sell as many copies as they please, the issue here is simple supply and demand, the issue here being a functionally infinite supply so demand is almost meaningless. The laws are in such a way now to artificially limit the supply.The issue of digital copyright infringement only exists because people are upset they can't make more money. You can look up whatever you want but the "issue" never was a problem, it's not as if you can't go download almost any game ever made right now for free, you can do that right this second. Yet people are still paying money for these things, because as hard as it is to believe people are willing to spend money on something they like. I personally have bought hundreds of games that I pirated.>>12681062Nah you make a good point, but it still never addresses the original one that digital copyright infringement is fundenmentally different from theft and conflating them together is simply lobbyist rhetoric.
