Final Fantasy XI

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Anyone here play Final Fantasy XI? I am going to check it out, see if its any fun... If anyone has a character, help me out!
 
FF7 was on the PS1, and yes they did make a PC version.

I played FF1 a little bit but it was a god awful tedious grind, incredibly punishing, and somewhat boring. This is coming from a guy who's played WoW since the beta, up until the end of the first expansion, only quitting before of real life issues.
 
Chicken technically it was on whatever system he played iT in since PS2 had a ps1 processor for such use and 3 uses software emulation. But yeah twas a ps1 game.

I refused to pay to play when 11 came out.
 
Yeah Rain, that's what I meant, that it was a PSX game.

Also, only the 60gb PS3 is backwards compatible. They stopped making those pretty soon after the PS3 launch because of cost cutting. Really aggravating for me, since I was hoping I could play all my PS1 and PS2 games on the PS3, instead of having 2 consoles hooked up at the same time. Without having to jailbreak my PS3 that is.
 
Chickenbomb said:
Yeah Rain, that's what I meant, that it was a PSX game.

Also, only the 60gb PS3 is backwards compatible. They stopped making those pretty soon after the PS3 launch because of cost cutting. Really aggravating for me, since I was hoping I could play all my PS1 and PS2 games on the PS3, instead of having 2 consoles hooked up at the same time. Without having to jailbreak my PS3 that is.
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For PS2 games yes no effect on PS1. 60GB had both the gsx and ee chips from the PS2. A couple models had just one chip and partial emulation and the compatibility is low.

It took the PCSX team about 5 years to get their PS2 emulator in a fashion to do its job on one complete game never mind the library it now runs. The ps3 uses a dual threaded power PC core for primary computing and then 7 of the 8 SPEs are somewhere between vector processors and how we now use GPGPUs to compute. This radical break from MIPS which the ps1 2 and PSP used meant emulation through software is the only means without physical hardware from the previous machine as there is no compatibility for the main instruction set forgetting extra hardware such as the graphics and physics co processors. The PS2 as powerful as it wasn't is difficult to emulate. Even with the inside knowledge Sony has I don't think the PS3 is suited to the job.

In the end they cut out the PS2 hardware to save a few bucks.
 
Interesting, never knew the specifics. But how come I can't play PS1 games on my PS3 then?
 
Chickenbomb said:
Interesting, never knew the specifics. But how come I can't play PS1 games on my PS3 then?
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You shouldnt have a problem. I have the late 40GB phat model right before they redesigned the laser and came out with the stripped down 80GB with 2 USB ports and no reader. Best I remember the first slim models came after that point. But mine is the 100% no PS2 compatability thought I can still use the memory card reader accessory and store saves on it.

I rarely used it for Ps1 games. FF8 works any game that worked on official or hacked PSP firmware should work on the PS3.

I believe the PS3 has broader compatability as FF8 for example crashed pretty hard on PSP until late firmware like 4.01 and 5.00.
 
I played FFXI for many years, was one of the first US Beastmasters to hit 75 on our server. Was pretty fun but the end game when I quit was limited to camping dragon's that only appeared every 24hrs.
 
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