Bought a PS3 last night

[scottsee]

Sure.. First lets talk about the hardware..

PS3 supports dual boots and multipal partitions (fat32 only). You can donload somthing called "Other Os" from the Playstation webiste. They don't give support out for it, but they do igknolage it and even provide a "how-to". Once loaded you can format the hard drive, partition the space for linux and vwala. Dual boot PS3/Linux. Once installed, Linux will boot every time untill you hold the power buttion down for 5 seconds, then it resets the "other os" software an will boot back into PS3. To get back into the Linux mode you have to change the boost sequence through the PS3 os.

Once you get redhat, unbuntu, whatever loaded you can connect through the internet via the Ethernet or Wifi (60gig only) and get all your drivers to support external hard drives, usb drives, keyboards, mice, printers, exc..

So far people have figured out how to mount external hd via USB upto 750gig, rip the data from PS3 games & Blueray to the hard drive. They have also figured out how to use the PS3 controller in windwows envierment for gaming, not much else.

I'm going to spend a some time tomarrow installing Unbuntu and trying to figure out how to run windows PC games on it. No one has figured out how to get into the Sony PS3 partrion and play around with the PS3os. It's pretty well hidden. It wont be for long. Allowing people to run linux on their PS3 is the LAST thing they should have done if they were concerned with privacy. They were stupid.. It will only be a matter or time. My goal tomarrow is to get on the internet, find drivers, get it to print, link to a usb external 250gig hard driver and maybee try and get Company of Hero's to load in vga mode.

As for Grand Turismo HD. The 668meg Demo verson is pretty basic. One screen, 19 cars. You can run 1 track in either time trial or drift mode. You start with one car and every time you beat the target time you open up the next car, it took me less then a hour to open everthing up.

Drifting is the same track as time trials, but the corners you 'attempt' to drift via the hand brake. When you come upon a drifting corner 9-10 empty black flags appeir on top of the screen, as you drift around the corners they fill up red. If you go into the grass, or spin you loose all your red flags (points). The track it broken into sections, I only played it for about 2 hours. I think I got #100'n somthing place with 3700 points on one lap.. Recrord is in the 7800 range. With practiace I could get up their. Insted I downloaded the NBA 07 demo (886megs). but havn't had time to play it..

Merry Christmas Everyone!

I got cams !!!

[Blackcrow64]

Originally Posted by nova1313

And orange Gatorade to chase the Smirnoff watermelon

What? Why do you need a chaser for Smirnoff??

I can't drink orange gatorade anymore because I used to use it as a chaser for 151 when I started drinking. Now theres nothing like some straight shots with no chasers so you can feel the buuuuuurn... Ahhh...

[nova1313]

i had a very bad experience with smirnoff watermelon once. My friends strictly drink watermelon so it's what we keep in our state store (erm fridge?)... and therefore thats what I drink but I have to chase it or it makes me vomit shortly after.

But otherwise I'm a huge vodka person


Btw I'll save you time on the running windows games. You can use cedega/wine on linux to run windows games on linux. However alot of the code in wine and cedega is assembler for interl/amd x86 platform. Therefore I'm going to bet you can't get many games running without and emulator for x86 first. You have to keep in mind that the linux's running on cell are for the power pc instruction set if I recall correctly.

I use linux and develop for it as a living. If you have any questions or problems let me know. It would be quite a feat at getting it to run.. but my final question is why would you want to? Maybe I'm wrong and they have some way to get it to run binaries for the intel architecture for those api implementations of windows but none that I am presently aware of.

<-- runs gentoo x86 + E17 + Cedega for all gaming needs on the PC.

[EDMUND65]

i have a bottle up at school forgot to bring it home... good shit that 151

[nova1313]

the state store comment may not make much sense to many of you. In PA we have specific stores we have to go to if we wish to buy liquor. They are run by the state.. So no going in walmart to get wine for us...

[airFS]

I got a PS3 today for x-mas and it's pretty good, but the only bad thing was it didn't come w/ a hdmi cable so now I have to go out and buy one. Has anyone played ridge racer yet?? I got 3 games with it but I'm only keeping fight night and I'm debating if I should keep ridge racer. I also got call of duty 3 which I didnt want to play b/c I already bet it for ps2. If I decide to return them I'm going to get gran turismo hd and reserve rainbow six: vegas, most likely. Also how do I get demo games on it??

[nova1313]

hdmi cables usually aren't cheap but check out monoprice.com they are like 5-6 bucks. I know best buy sells really expensive monster brand cables for like 50-60

[violent31601]

try the wii you will love it

[scottsee]

Originally Posted by airFS

I got a PS3 today for x-mas and it's pretty good, but the only bad thing was it didn't come w/ a hdmi cable so now I have to go out and buy one. Has anyone played ridge racer yet?? I got 3 games with it but I'm only keeping fight night and I'm debating if I should keep ridge racer. I also got call of duty 3 which I didnt want to play b/c I already bet it for ps2. If I decide to return them I'm going to get gran turismo hd and reserve rainbow six: vegas, most likely. Also how do I get demo games on it??

I've decited to keep my PS3 after looking at the TBA games coming in Febuary. My wife also gave me the ok to buy a new 60in Sony TV if I switch jobs. After watching BlueRay at Sears on the 60a2000 I was hooked. It's funny, before buying this dumb PS3 I could care less about about HTDV, Blueray, exc. I guess it goes the same with my car. I bought my DSM not knowing what DSM ment, or that it was even popular.. I always just seem to mindlessly wonder into shit.

I'm going to by the Elder of Scrolls: Oblivioun & F.E.A.R & Final Fanticy when they come out next year. I've played every Tom Clancy Rainbow Six game from the original back in 99. They all seem to blend together after a while. As for downloading Demo's you need to boot up into your PS3 OS, and setup the Network settings, and setup a Playstation 3 account from the 'Internet' Section. Then just connect to the Playstation 3 Store via the PS3 and download whatever Demo or games you wish. Don't get your hopes up with the Grand Turismo HD game, it's very limited, but cool.

[defiancy]

I got my xbox 360 for 100 bucks plus 80 for a harddrive for it. I'm happy.I see no need in spending that kind of money for a system. I will however probably buy a Wii only because I have a secret love affair with Zelda.

[Talon69]

my brother has 3 Hard Drives hooked up to his x box 360,also 360 communicates with his pc plus he also has a webcam on his 360.

His front lights are now blue instead of green, looks pretty sweet

[airFS]

Originally Posted by scottsee

I've decited to keep my PS3 after looking at the TBA games coming in Febuary. My wife also gave me the ok to buy a new 60in Sony TV if I switch jobs. After watching BlueRay at Sears on the 60a2000 I was hooked. It's funny, before buying this dumb PS3 I could care less about about HTDV, Blueray, exc. I guess it goes the same with my car. I bought my DSM not knowing what DSM ment, or that it was even popular.. I always just seem to mindlessly wonder into shit.

I'm going to by the Elder of Scrolls: Oblivioun & F.E.A.R & Final Fanticy when they come out next year. I've played every Tom Clancy Rainbow Six game from the original back in 99. They all seem to blend together after a while. As for downloading Demo's you need to boot up into your PS3 OS, and setup the Network settings, and setup a Playstation 3 account from the 'Internet' Section. Then just connect to the Playstation 3 Store via the PS3 and download whatever Demo or games you wish. Don't get your hopes up with the Grand Turismo HD game, it's very limited, but cool.

Ya I just did that and I also downloaded the F1 game which is pretty good too. Do you have any trouble with online play?? Every time I play online I get disconnected which I dont understand b/c I'm using the eternet and my router works perfectly. I think I'm going to call sony about it soon. If you dont have resistance fall of man yet I would highly reccomend it. I love playing it online for like the 3min. I'm connected...It's just like Halo.

[scottsee]

Originally Posted by airFS

Ya I just did that and I also downloaded the F1 game which is pretty good too. Do you have any trouble with online play?? Every time I play online I get disconnected which I dont understand b/c I'm using the eternet and my router works perfectly. I think I'm going to call sony about it soon. If you dont have resistance fall of man yet I would highly reccomend it. I love playing it online for like the 3min. I'm connected...It's just like Halo.

I was reading about F1, I didn't know it was available for download, I'll do that tonight.. I have probably only logged a total of 20 hours on my PS3. Someone told me Sony's online network play is terriable. They are suposidly still using the ps2 online network. I don't know much about it.

I've already beat Resistance: Fall of Man, on easy, now I'm playing the second campaine on medium with the new wepons.. Its turning out to be a better game then I expected.. It's pretty fun, but the game engine isn't anything special. I havn't gone online yet with it though.. I'll try that tonight too.

[scottsee]

I played Restistance of Man online for about 3 hours tonight. Wow, thats hard.. I need to learn those map, spawn points, wepon areas exc. My screen name is the Scottsee if you want to do some team stuff.. I got bored and started downloading F1 racing, it's only like 28% of the 678megs. So I'll be surfing the net on my lappy for a bit.

[Thor06]

Originally Posted by violent31601

try the wii you will love it

I've heard the exact opposite. I dont know anyone that bought one that likes it. I have seen one played, I thought it looked lame as hell. The graphics are *maybe* up to the original xbox standard and the game play seemed super limited. Their sales boomed because they are so cheap and innovative, but I cant imagine that they will be popular for long at all. I mean, obviously die hard Smash Bros and Zelda fans will keep it going, but I cant imagine they will keep a strong following. Not to mention they will break your TV.

If I ever get anything, it will be a 360. Right now though, a certain girl and my broke ass Talon are a little more important than video games.