December 8, 2010
What do PlayStation 2 controllers, Rock Band guitars, the EyeToy and the PlayStation 2 DVD remote all have in common? They’ve all been in your closet since you bought the latest and greatest console. Put those devices to use by connecting them to your computer. It’s understandable that you don’t play with your PlayStation 2 [...]
October 27, 2010
While the latest and greatest game consoles, like the Wii, PS3 or XBox 360 are certainly a blast to play, there’s just something nostalgic and awesome about firing up an older console like the classic Playstation 1. Experiencing all of those old adventures and nail-biting fight scenes brings back a lot of very cool memories. [...]
October 5, 2010
Sony traditionally only allows the PlayStation 3 to run signed software. Much like the iTunes App Store, this means all software has to be specifically approved by Sony. But in the case of the PlayStation 3, nearly all software comes from Sony, and the closest an amateur developer can come to running his own software [...]
September 23, 2010
It was a sad day when Microsoft announced that Xbox Live support for older games was ending in April this year. Classics like Halo and its sequel which introduced many to the notion of playing against foes across the world lost their online communities overnight. But long before the announcement was made a service called [...]
August 22, 2010
There are some amazing, free rhythm games available online, and we’ve covered the best of them. JamLegend can be played from your browser, with impressive functionality, and Frets on Fire is a multi-OS desktop variant. But however great these games are, it’s easy to get cramped when you’re using your keyboard (even if you hold [...]
March 28, 2010
If you ever tried, you’ll know it’s not too easy to watch a subtitled movie on your PlayStation 3. For starters, the PlayStation fails to recognize most video files with embedded subtitle streams. Installing a subtitle ‘interpreter’, like we’re able to on a regular computer, holds no avail either. Drop an AVI and SRT subtitle [...]
February 3, 2010
If there’s a Playstation 2 somewhere in your closet gathering dust, chances are you have an EyeToy in there somewhere too. And if you have an EyeToy, you have a USB webcam. That’s right: the EyeToy can be used as a regular webcam on Windows XP, Linux and Mac computers. If you’ve been meaning to [...]
December 11, 2008
One of the main advantages of PS3 (apart from the great graphics and insane processor power) is its accessibility. The XrossMediaBar (XMB in short) was first used for the PSX. At the moment it’s the user interface system for both the PSP and the PlayStation 3. Although we’re still far away from the customizability we [...]
August 12, 2008
In the previous installment of these emulation series, you saw how to play Sony PlayStation (PSX) games on your PC. Many of you told me (in the comments here and on Digg.com) how the first PlayStation was too outdated, and thus not interesting. ‘Passé’, one might say. Because of that and because it was planned [...]
July 26, 2008
I’m sure most of you have heard of emulation somewhere. So what is it exactly? Wikipedia says that “an emulator duplicates the functions of one system, using a different system, so that the second system behaves like (and appears to be) the first system.” This means that we can make our PC mimic a specific [...]
