Re: General discussion chat Is your PS3 8 years old? It still technically works at its somewhat ancient age for a games console, but it won't read any disk, used the last of my compressed air on it to try to breathe life into it and followed a few youtube fixes, still won't read. Cant just download games, it only has the 20gb hard drive.
Re: General discussion chat Yes, my ps3 was bought on launch day, and it still works perfectly :3 Is there any way to replace the laser for it?
Re: General discussion chat probably best to replace the entire drive, it can't even open under its own power anymore, just worn out. It has been used heavily over the years.
Re: General discussion chat Can't you replace the hard drive? It's probably a laptop drive or something. Also pcmasterrace
Re: General discussion chat they are firmware locked to certain hard disk ID's, can work around that (actually I probably have the stuff to do it in my box of bits). But I dont have a spare hard drive and certainly won't be spending money on a new hard drive when the new optical drive is cheaper and negates the need for the hard drive.
Re: General discussion chat I SO want Far Cry 4 sorta big trailer. You get so cool stuff, but since i really liked all games in the Far Cry series, i am really looking forward to this. They give us all sorta new stuff (Terminator one hand 1887 and Robocop's auto-9, Tuk-Tuks, clothes, elephants, and 80's Indian pop music most notably, also boobies again.) Then Hurk from FC3 is returning for fun. Gimmie alredy! pls include d3dx9 support pls - (FC3 had, and since its the same engine i have some hope)
Re: General discussion chat After ubisofts last release I have little hope for fc4. Wouldnt native linux be better than dx9
Re: General discussion chat Native Linux would definitley be the best, but since Ubisoft is a greedy AAA company in the wold's gaming industry, I don't, and can't expect native linux support. i need d3dx9 because wine does not support d3dx10 in useable state yet.
Re: General discussion chat Guys, guys, guys... PS2. 13 years an no issues whatsoever. Sega Dreamcast, 14 years and still strong... Probably.
Re: General discussion chat But the PS2 and Dreamcast are on a new godlike level compared to the others.
Re: General discussion chat My original gamecube is still going. One of the very very early models that has a second digital video output along with the original analog output, this was a feature that was dropped about 6 months into production. I still use it. My PS2's both broke after about 3 years each. - - - Updated - - - Oh yeah I fully understand, but of course native linux is still the most boss option. If Visual Studio was available on linux I think I'm just about at the point where I can make the switch to linux as daily driver and windows in a VM rather than other way around. Tbh, although I don't expect VS on linux, it wouldn't surprise me now considering microsoft are now releasing .NET CLR, ASP.NET, C#, VB.NET and the base class library as open source with official OSX and Linux support. VS for linux isn't a stretch much further. VS also seems to be getting the ability to work with XCode projects with an emphasis on iOS stuff, although of course the actual iOS SDK can't be run on windows and I doubt microsoft will get away with a 3rd party hacky version so it will probably just be a case of being able to edit commercial apps from a windows machine and then resorting to an OSX machine or VM for the actual deployment.
Re: General discussion chat My 360 elite is still going good. Admittedly it did red ring at one point but Microsoft fixed it outside of warranty and they paid for the postage to Frankfurt where it was fixed. It did take them about a week to sort out though which sucked a bit. My 360 now sits in a box under my bed with all cables and games, if one of my friends has a gaming night then i just pick up the box and can play LAN halo via an Ethernet cable when i get there. My PC is really a bit to much work to fully unplug and transport etc.
Re: General discussion chat I have a nintendo 64, still works (although it takes a ton of blowing and restarting before it actually reads the game, but we've had it since launch) a ps2 (also still works) a gamecube (open disk compartment button sticks, but it still works) a wii (still works) and a 360 slim, which of course works Sent from the 3rd galaxy via the talks of tapping
Re: General discussion chat My PS2's 12 years old and going strong. The controllers have seen better days though (I still have the original controller shipped with the PS2). It's been put through hell, but survived like a champ.
