It was first released in Japan on December 12, 2004, in North America on March 24, 2005, and in PAL regions on September 1, 2005, and is the first handheld installment in the PlayStation line of consoles. I want to figure out whether or not I just wasted $10 double-dipping on a PS2 game that runs exactly the same as my physical copy. The PlayStation Portable (PSP) is a handheld game console developed and marketed by Sony Computer Entertainment. People were swearing that the slowdown was gone in Odin Sphere, but it's definitely not on my PS3.Īny insight into this matter would be greatly appreciated. What is happening here? Do 60GB PS3's default to using their internal PS2 hardware for downloaded PS2 Classic games? I thought that it used software emulation for these regardless of PS3 model, but now I'm not so sure. So, I theorize that this is why people are claiming that the software-emulated PS2 Classic version of Odin Sphere runs much better than the original release.īUT when loading it up last night expecting to be greeted to a flawlessly-running version of Odin Sphere, I noticed slowdown typical to the original release in the first few minutes. I suspect that the game simply benefits from running off of an HDD with software emulation probably helping even further. I noticed that the disc version of Odin Sphere ran perfectly on that machine, with zero slowdown and super-quick load times. I previously owned an 80GB partially backwards-compatible PS3, which used a hybrid of hardware and software emulation.

They were replaced by subtitles in the PAL versions. I'm pretty sure this isn't the case, however, because the PS2 Classic version that I got from PSN just last night features the word bubbles that were only present in the NTSC release. However, I noticed that while emulating PS2 the fan is working really hard. Some people purport that this is because it's actually the PAL version ISO, and in that version the slowdown was mostly fixed. I have succesfully set my system up to play both PS3 games from an USB drive and PS2 ISO games off the HDD. From what I've seen claimed both on GAF and elsewhere, people have reported that the PS2 Classic version of Odin Sphere doesn't suffer from the egregious slowdown of the original disc release.

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