PS3 General Discussion
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nick09
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That would involve getting into menus that could wreck your TV.
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Well, my wife and I have run into a bit of an issue with her Christmas gift.
She wanted SingStar Country. So, with the new disc-swap feature on SingStar I got SingStar for the PS3 with microphones and SingStar Country.
We load up SingStar and it works great. The online servers are clunky though, but we do purchase a couple of song packs. Anyway, we then decide to swap discs for SingStar Country. It says, "Please Wait. Reading Disc" and shows a percentage. It gets to 100% very quickly and then just sits. We wait five minutes and exit out. We reload and try it again, same thing.
So, I decide that since my PS3 is a 60GB backwards compatible system that I can just try loading the game directly. It starts up fine and we even get through two songs. Then it starts freezing up mid-song and even while loading. It seems sporadic, so I think it must be a bad disc. We exchange it and when we get the new disc home we have the same problems.
I test multiple other PS2 games to make sure my system isn't going crazy but it works fine.
So, then I hop on to the forums at Playstation.com and find this is happening to others on multiple different system models, but not everyone, or even a majority, just a few of us. And it is only on SingStar Country. I left a comment that it is doing it to me as well and what model my system is.
Now I wait to see if there is a solution.
My fear is that this will be much like the Blu-Ray laser issues; where it is often enough to be able to find others complaining about the problem, but still rare enough to fall within normal failure rates, thus not being directly addressed. I'm especially not hopeful as the support SingStar has gotten in the US is horrible in contrast to games like Warhawk, LBP and PAIN.
If anyone has any suggestions I would love to hear them.
If this were any other game I wouldn't be so put off by this, but this was a Christmas gift for my wife, and a game where she actually says that she wants to play it with me without me having to ask her if she wants to first. I might hate the music but I will suffer the indignity if it means having a game that my wife truly is excited to play. So, a gift to my wife turned out to be a dud through no fault of mine and what could have possibly been our best bonding game is virtually unplayable.
Bless my wife though, she has no problems just resetting the system whenever it acts up and trying again. I am a bit too impatient for that though. Fortunately, she has seen other song lists and has a huge interest in Amped, 80's and 90's. So, this may be salvageable, if not to her optimal enjoyment.
On the upside, I get out of having to listen, and sing, country music on a regular basis.
She wanted SingStar Country. So, with the new disc-swap feature on SingStar I got SingStar for the PS3 with microphones and SingStar Country.
We load up SingStar and it works great. The online servers are clunky though, but we do purchase a couple of song packs. Anyway, we then decide to swap discs for SingStar Country. It says, "Please Wait. Reading Disc" and shows a percentage. It gets to 100% very quickly and then just sits. We wait five minutes and exit out. We reload and try it again, same thing.
So, I decide that since my PS3 is a 60GB backwards compatible system that I can just try loading the game directly. It starts up fine and we even get through two songs. Then it starts freezing up mid-song and even while loading. It seems sporadic, so I think it must be a bad disc. We exchange it and when we get the new disc home we have the same problems.
I test multiple other PS2 games to make sure my system isn't going crazy but it works fine.
So, then I hop on to the forums at Playstation.com and find this is happening to others on multiple different system models, but not everyone, or even a majority, just a few of us. And it is only on SingStar Country. I left a comment that it is doing it to me as well and what model my system is.
Now I wait to see if there is a solution.
My fear is that this will be much like the Blu-Ray laser issues; where it is often enough to be able to find others complaining about the problem, but still rare enough to fall within normal failure rates, thus not being directly addressed. I'm especially not hopeful as the support SingStar has gotten in the US is horrible in contrast to games like Warhawk, LBP and PAIN.
If anyone has any suggestions I would love to hear them.
If this were any other game I wouldn't be so put off by this, but this was a Christmas gift for my wife, and a game where she actually says that she wants to play it with me without me having to ask her if she wants to first. I might hate the music but I will suffer the indignity if it means having a game that my wife truly is excited to play. So, a gift to my wife turned out to be a dud through no fault of mine and what could have possibly been our best bonding game is virtually unplayable.
Bless my wife though, she has no problems just resetting the system whenever it acts up and trying again. I am a bit too impatient for that though. Fortunately, she has seen other song lists and has a huge interest in Amped, 80's and 90's. So, this may be salvageable, if not to her optimal enjoyment.
On the upside, I get out of having to listen, and sing, country music on a regular basis.
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I just bought the Play TV package from Currys which cost me £58.71 and is well worth the money. Just great being able to pause the TV when I need the toilet or is someone phones me. Very handy to record programs such as Top Gear and the likes.
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Sorry to hear that and I have no solution , but have you tried playing the game on a friend's PS3 or something ? Would be interesting if its the game itself or the laser acting weird.
Sorry to hear that and I have no solution , but have you tried playing the game on a friend's PS3 or something ? Would be interesting if its the game itself or the laser acting weird.
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Thanks Nick and Giancarlo.
@ Kenjlusa, my screen displays in the ration 16:10 rather than 16:9, so not sure if its that but the size of the text seems fine on mine, maybe I just sit too close!
@ GBWH1991, PlayTV must be great if you had to post twice about it! I probably will get it soon, just waiting to see if the Irish digital TV, which is suppose to be rolled out in the second half of 2009, will work with it first.
@ Kenjlusa, my screen displays in the ration 16:10 rather than 16:9, so not sure if its that but the size of the text seems fine on mine, maybe I just sit too close!
@ GBWH1991, PlayTV must be great if you had to post twice about it! I probably will get it soon, just waiting to see if the Irish digital TV, which is suppose to be rolled out in the second half of 2009, will work with it first.
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It appears to be system-related as the majority have no problems. But from others that have the same issue it seems that it is random, as I have seen three different system models listed.
If I had to guess it is an odd glitch and it may work itself out in the next firmware update. But it is only this game. No others. All my other PS2 games are working, and everyone else with this issue on a backward compatible system have said the same thing.
I am thinking of loading up the system control menu (holding the power button down until it beeps three times) and rebuilding the database and any other options that won't erase my hard drive.
I'm in no hurry though. As I said, it keeps me from having to sing country music with my wife, and so it isn't a completely bad thing.
I am thinking of videoing the problem and putting it on You Tube so that anyone at Sony that may have an answer can see what it is doing.
Regarding the awesomeness of Play TV: Let it never be said again that Europe gets screwed and the US gets all the good stuff. I'll throw GTI Club+ in that list of evidence too.
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Sorry, I didn't know I double posted until now, my browser crashed and had to reboot my laptop several times...
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Oh ok, i understand could be just a problem with BC, as for the country music I understand too... 👍 xD
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Is Socom worth getting? Maybe it's gotten better with time and patches...plus I want a cool headset.
If you get it, not only are you getting a great game, you're practically stealing the headset.
(Game = $40, so that means you get a $50 headset for $20)
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Most of the issues have been fixed, and any left will be fixed in the patch in January. And as of right now it's pretty good.
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Question: Is there anyway to adjust the ratio of a ps3, not just from 4:3 to 16:9, i need to do it customly. The problem is, the bottom, top, right, and left are all cut off a bit too much. I cant read subtitles sometimes when they are right down the bottom as I cant see them
. So, is there any solution? Note that this is not on my HD TV, the HD is fine but this is an SD Sony Trinitron, about 10 or 11 years old, 60cm I THINK.
. So, is there any solution? Note that this is not on my HD TV, the HD is fine but this is an SD Sony Trinitron, about 10 or 11 years old, 60cm I THINK.
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They don't have the Sony PSN cards in your area?
Be very careful of 'gift' cards. Crooks take the number off the package and test the numbers until the card is activated. If you activate the card, but don't spend ALL the money at once, they take it all and there's NOTHING the card issue company will do for you. You can report it as theft to the police, but they do nothing.
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Sony doesn't sell PSN cards up here in Canuckia. It's credit card or nothing. The US ones don't work with Canadian accounts too.
Prepaid visa or mastercards DO work. Once it is activated by you online it is just like a real credit card but with a built in limit on the card.
Before the PSN cards came out I boought a $25 mastercard. After activating it online you might not have the whole amount to spend, some of them sell you a $25 card but then charge you when you activate it.
Before the PSN cards came out I boought a $25 mastercard. After activating it online you might not have the whole amount to spend, some of them sell you a $25 card but then charge you when you activate it.
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Would laser or debit cards work with the PSN?
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Considering a laser is used to emit light particles and not money I would go with a debit card.
I use a debit card and it works just fine. I'll try my laser though although it will probably just make a green dot on the PS3's case.
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