How do I unlock each of the “alternate” videos in MGS3?

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How do I unlock each of the alternate videos for Metal Gear Solid 3's "DEMO THEATER"? There seems to be a real lack of information online about it! :(

Thanks for any SPECIFIC explanations that go through each alternate video and how you unlock them.

Thanks!

Asked by Django Reinhardt

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Well, as it turns out, you have to play through the game at least four times. The alternate scenes are:

When you're fighting The End, and your final duel with Ocelot.

THE END:

1. Beat him normally.
2. Beat him by saving, quitting out, and then setting your clock several weeks forward.

There's also:

1. Letting your stamina drain down.
2. Saving, quitting out, and setting your system clock forward a day.

OCELOT:

1. Pick the left gun, shoot Ocelot.
2. Pick the left gun, miss Ocelot.
3. Pick the left gun, don't fire.
4. Pick the right gun.

When you've unlocked all the of the videos in DEMO THEATER, you get access to the PEEP SHOW. Which is all the scenes in the game with semi-nudity.

Answered by Django Reinhardt

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Why doesn't the cpu full load to make PCSX2 (PlayStation 2 emulator) run game faster? [closed]

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My CPU Q6600 (QuadCore) only loads 50-70% when I run PCSX2 (PlayStation 2 emulator) and only has fps around 30-50 when I disable speed hacks. See picture :

I wonder why the cpu doesn't load more to make it run faster ? Or it has been bottle-neck at VGA card or RAM ?

My specs :
Mainboard GA-P35-DS3 (rev. 2.0)
CPU Intel® Core™2 Quad Processor Q6600
2 x KINGMAX DDR2 800 PC6400 1GB
GIGABYTE GV-RX26P512H Radeon HD 2600PRO 512MB 128-bit GDDR2 PCI Express x16

ps : I use GDSX video plugin with DX10 and SSE3. And I also enable MTVU (Multi-­Threaded microVU1).

Asked by JatSing

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Because not all code is parallel (i.e. able to take advantage of multiple cores) and because PCSX2 is very much a work in progress. I had the same model CPU and about the same sort of performance. Keep in mind that the PS2 has some very exotic hardware, so emulation is necessarily complex.

Looking at your hardware, though, an upgrade to your RAM would definitely help your PC's performance in general, and so would a GPU upgrade, if you do a lot of gaming.

Also, you are not meant to disable all of the speedhacks most of the time, the lesser settings are quite compatible.

Try using a GPu monitoring utility to see how much load it is under, it could help identify the bottleneck.

Your plugin selection can also make quite a bit of difference. Try looking for GPU plugins that support SSE3 and DirectX 10, and play around with the settings.

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Play PS2 data on remastered PS3 game

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I have reading up on this online but I haven't found anything. Say I were to copy data from my PS2 memory card and transfer it to my PS3, using Sony's memory card adapter. Could I then use this data on a game made for the PS3? The game is Tomb Raider Anniversary, it has been re-made for the PS3 along with Legend and Underworld.

So could anyone confirm if I could play my PS2 save game on the PS3 version of the game?

Thanks very much.

Asked by Bali C

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Original PS2 and PS1 games running on the PS3 (this applies both to the disc versions and the downloadable versions from the PSN store) save and load to virtual memory cards on the system. If you use the adapter on your original memory cards, they'll transfer into these virtual cards and be usable by the original versions.

Remastered (i.e. HD) versions of PS2 games, however, use the PS3 save data format, and don't access the memory cards at all. So unfortunately, no, this won't work.

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Does Captain Tsubasa on PS2 have English version or English patch?

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Does Captain Tsubasa on PS2 have an English version or English patch? This game is great but unfortunately I don't know Japanese at all.

Asked by JatSing

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No. And it looks like there hasn't been any attempts by fans to rewrite the script for the game (at least not that I could find). PS2 games are usually not quite as easy to 'patch' as, say, a PC, NES, or Gameboy game.

It does look like you aren't the only one who wants to see it though.

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Open Entrance in Shrine of Worship?

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This video shows the entrance to the Shrine or Worship open in Shadow of the Colossus. How exactly do I achieve this?

Asked by Keaanu

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I could be wrong, but I believe the open gate is just in the demo. The video you mention says that the version of the game that s/he is showing is the demo from the Official Playstation Magazine demo disk.

In the normal game, you can reach the secret garden he mentions, but I don't know that you can open the gate to the Shrine of Worship.

Answered by Michael Herold

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How Can I Increase the Probability of a Mystery Room Appearing in the Item World?

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In Disgaea 2, there anything I can do to increase the probability of a Mystery Room appearing when I go through the Item World?

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Well, as Artless indicated, Mystery Rooms show up every 3 floors.

Can you increase the probability that one shows up on every 3 floors? No. The chance is fixed.

You can, however, "fix" yourself a 100% probability if you have a spare Mr. Gency's Exit. Once you have cleared 3 floors (wherein the first floor had a Mystery Gate), then the next floor is eligible for a Mystery Gate if it isn't a boss floor. If you don't get a Mystery Gate when you first enter that floor, then use the Mr. Gency's Exit to leave the Item World, and save your game. Upon your return to the Item World, the floor will change, and a new chance for a Mystery Gate is rolled. If this also fails, then you reload your save and try again. It usually doesn't take that many tries, the chance isn't particularly low.

If you're trying to maximize an item by getting every Mystery Gate, you're going to need a lot of doors and a lot of patience. So make sure to save up!

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How many versions of “Ico” are there?

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As seen on this question about Ico, there are different versions of this game with slightly different puzzles in some rooms. Many walkthroughs and youtube videos published show different solutions for the version I played in PS2 & PS3. What version was the first and how many are there? It is related to the region, may be? Thanks in advance.

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With respect to gameplay, there were two versions released for the PS2 (an original version and a U.S. version), and one remake for the PS3:

          U.S. Version               Original Version

          PS3 Remake

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With respect to language and region code, there were eight releases, including one reprint in Europe coinciding with the release of Shadow of the Colossus:

PlayStation 2

NA September 24, 2001
JP December 6, 2001
EU March 22, 2002

Re-Release

EU February 17, 2006

PlayStation 3

JP September 22, 2011
NA September 27, 2011
AUS September 29, 2011
EU September 28, 2011

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Do PS1 games play quietly on a PS2?

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I've got a slim silver PS2 and wanted to buy some PS1 games. I've noticed that the PS2 games that come on CDs instead of DVDs (blue disc vs normal silver) spin loudly - it's like I left a hairdryer in my game cabinet! Just like how CDs spin up noisily in a PC or laptop DVD drive - I always found it an obnoxious design flaw.

Well my question is do you know if PS1 games are like this in the PS2? If so I'll probably spend the extra few $$$ to get a PS1 to catch up on my vintage gamez.

Thanks

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I don't recall any PS1 games being particularly noisy in my PS2. Generally the drive speed is slower for PS1 games unless you change the settings in the menu.

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When does the Ico / SoTC HD remake come out? [closed]

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does anybody know when the upcoming remake of Ico and Shadow of The Colossus is going to be released?

I have heard many conflicting stories about when, the nearest I could find to a definitive timing was in this Playstation blog article.

Anyone have any more info?

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This article on Pinoytutorial and this one from GameRant say the game's been pushed back to the holiday season of 2011. Can't confirm how true this is, but it's the most recent news I could find regarding a release date for the Ico and Shadow of the Colossus Collection.

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How can I copy my PS2 saves to my PC?

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I'm considering crating up my PlayStation 2 in order to free up inputs on my TV. I don't play it very often any more, and it looks like emulation is currently good enough for the games I still play on occasion. However, I definitely don't want to start over in all of them!

As the PS2 has USB ports, it seems likely there's some way to copy games from a memory card to a USB drive (using a custom disk, presumably). However, Googling for it gives me a lot of contradictory (and fairly old) information about what software is available and how well it works (or for that matter, whether it's even necessary).

Can someone who's done it offer advice on transferring my existing saves from their memory cards onto my Windows 7 PC? If at all possible, I need a software-only solution — my PS2 is unmodded and I'd prefer to leave it that way. I envision downloading a legal(!) ISO which will allow me to perform the memory-card-to-USB transfer on the PS2 and which produces save files which can be used with PCSX2.

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This can be done with the uLaunchELF browser. uLaunchELF is homebrew software, so must be run on a modded PS2 or via other methods for running unsigned software (the same techniques can be used to run pirated games, so I won't go into detail).

Once in the browser, copy your saves from mc0:/ or mc1:/ (the first and second memory card slots) and "psuPaste" them to mass:/. This will produce files which can be used with mymc to produce PCSX2-compatible memory card images.

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Why is it so difficult to emulate PS2 games in a PS3?

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I know that PS2 games can only be played in a 'fat' PS3 with the right hardware to run it. But why is so difficult to emulate a PS2 game in the PS3 without that hardware? Is the processor, the architecture, both? Thanks in advance.

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Short Answer

PS2 games were made for an older CPU. They cannot run on the CPU designed for the PS3.

Long Answer

PS2 games were created to work on Sony's Emotion Engine CPU and their Graphics Synthesizer GPU. This CPU/GPU combo was put in all PS2 units and in the first variants of the PS3 (the NTSC 20GB and 60GB models) to make them backward-compatible. These models can play almost all PS2 games.

The 80GB Metal Gear Solid IV bundle had the GPU as well, but replaced the Emotion Engine chip with software emulation of the chip. It can still play most PS2 games, but support isn't as good as the earlier models with the actual EE CPU.

Models since the MSG:IV bundle had neither the CPU nor the software emulation of the CPU required to play older games.

Sony has a knowledgebase article that explains which three versions can play PS2 games. They also have a compatibility tool that you can use to see if specific games can play on those specific models.

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Open Entrance in SotC Shrine of Worship?

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This video shows the entrance to the Shrine or Worship open in Shadow of the Colossus. How exactly do I achieve this?

Answer

I could be wrong, but I believe the open gate is just in the demo. The video you mention says that the version of the game that s/he is showing is the demo from the Official Playstation Magazine demo disk.

In the normal game, you can reach the secret garden he mentions, but I don't know that you can open the gate to the Shrine of Worship.

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Can I use classic PS2 gamepads on the PS3?

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I have the classic PS2-Controllers. Can I use them (obviously not per se) on the PS3?

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Yes you can use them ... obviously you need an adapter. There are several 3rd party adapters on the web. This is one of them: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Playstation-PS3-Controller-Adapter-rumble/dp/B001WH620M/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=videogames&qid=1278532604&sr=8-1

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Identify this PS2, TPS, Dungeon game.

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I remember playing this PS2 game, on a demo disk. The premise (i think) was that your town (and all its people) were taken and put in orbs or something, and stashed in this dungeon. You had to explore and fight down in the descending levels against increasingly harder monsters to get them back, and then you got to build the town anyway you wanted.

The main character was a young male, I believe. Fairly sure it came on the PS2 demo disc that the original PS2's came with out of the box, if that helps. Thanks in advance.

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Is the game you are looking for Dark Cloud ?

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