PSP Minis On PS3: Not Great So Far
Told you so?Published 10/12/2009 at 6:58 by nofi
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Firmware 3.15 is now live, and with it comes the ability to play PSP Minis on your PS3. Well, as I hinted at earlier in the week, this isn’t going to just ‘work’ for every Mini – I knew not all games would work off the bat (some require a patch to work on the PS3’s Minis emulator) but I had no idea which, obviously. However, now I’ve had chance to go through them, the list of games that do work isn’t all that impressive.
The best way to check is to go into your Download List on the PS3’s PSN Store and see what’s there – the Minis are the ones with the purple box around them. The first game I tried was Blast Off, one of my favourite Minis, and when I ran it the XMB told me that this content is exclusively for use with the PSP system, and wouldn’t run. I then tried quirkly puzzle-platformer Kahoots. No dice. Echoes? Surely that would work?
Well, at least it started. And then crashed, on the loading screen when a PSN friend signed in. Controller was locked up, so I had to do a hard reset to get back to the XMB and try again. Second boot – still no joy, freezes at the “loading…” prompt, so for my third attempt I tried it signed out of the PSN – ha, that worked. So, out of three games tested, only one worked and I had to be signed out of the Network so it to actually boot up.
Looks and plays fine (with black borders) but not impressed overall. Rumour has it that most games aren’t working at this stage, including big hitters like Tetris, so if this is a case of the developers having to patch up the games as we hinted at, Sony should really have left 3.15 for another couple of weeks until they’d actually got some Minis that work – big fan of the Minis idea and the chance to play them on my HDTV would have been welcome.
EU Minis working on PS3:
- Echoes (if not signed in to the PSN)
- Stand O’ Food
EU Minis not working on PS3:
- Blast Off
- Kahoots
- Dracula
- Circles, Circles Circles
- Pinball Fantasies
- Pinball Dreams
- Puzzle Scape Mini
- Zombie Tycoon
- Breakquest
- Tetris
- Fieldrunners
- Spot the Difference
- X Fighters
- Alien Havoc
- Bloons
- Brainpipe
- Bubble Trubble
- D-Cube Planet
- Fortix
- Hero of Sparta
- Majongg Artifacts: Chapter 2
- Sudoku
- Vempire
- YetiSports
- Yummy Yummy Cooking Jam
I’ve run out of time this morning to test any more, if anyone’s able to let us know which ones in the untested pile work and which ones don’t, I’d really appreciate it. US owners appear to be having more luck – Kahoots works on American systems, for example, so whether this is just SCEE related or not I don’t know, but if you were looking forward to some Tetris action on your big screen tonight, you’re going to have to skip, for now at least.
It’s worth pointing out though that when the Minis do work, they really shine – Stand ‘o Food, which was a little bit unresponsive (especially on the menu) on the PSP absolutely flies along on the PS3, it’s a massive difference and it’s a great game too. Visually you can tell the PS3’s upscaling the sprites, but it’s certainly not as ugly as you’d think. So, please let us know which of the other Minis do and don’t work and we’ll update the list.
Let’s hope Sony work hard to get the majority working before the 17th of December.
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kassatsu | 10/12/2009 07:06
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The games that work will have a small minis icon when you first go to them on the XMB. Ones that won’t work will have a small PSP icon. Hope that helps anyone.
nofi | 10/12/2009 07:07
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You still have to download them from the Store first, yeah, to see?
kassatsu | 10/12/2009 07:15
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Yea it is on the XMB under Games. It has those little icons to the right before it loads up the information for each game you cursor over.
TSBonyman | 10/12/2009 20:36
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I thought they weren’t gonna be available til the 17th…..
ligtningrod1 | 10/12/2009 08:02
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3 not working for me EU side
Zombie Tycoon
Tetris
Breakquest
It’s a good Idea It’s a shame they brought it out before it was fully working : /
I’m just thankful I have a PSP to play em on.
nofi | 10/12/2009 08:05
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ta
flatspikes | 10/12/2009 08:07
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Breakquest, Field Runners and X Fighters all fail to run… so guess that’s no surprise… ah well work beckons…
nofi | 10/12/2009 08:09
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thanks
illogicology | 10/12/2009 08:37
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Very sad about fieldrunners, that’s one of my faves.
brillerment | 10/12/2009 09:28
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I really wanted to give Fieldrunners a go
carlosfilippsen | 10/12/2009 08:21
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They did say it was going to take a bit of time so that they could make most minis compatible with the ps3.
TOTAL__ANARKI | 10/12/2009 08:25
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EU Spot the Difference not working
would be much easier on a bigger screen too!
Vandix | 10/12/2009 08:29
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Just when I wanted to buy Pinball Dreams and Fantasies… Good that you’ve checked if they work…
Thank you, Nofi…
nofi | 10/12/2009 08:31
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Yep, neither work. Yet.
illogicology | 10/12/2009 08:38
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I wonder when the first patch will roll in.
PrettyVacant | 10/12/2009 08:53
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Minis can’t be patched. When they’ve been fixed you need to download the whole thing again.
carlosfilippsen | 10/12/2009 08:58
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They arnt very big anyway, so its easy to re-download
commuterzombie | 10/12/2009 09:22
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I guess this is why it’s an optional update. Once all the minis are patched (or updated for re-download) they’ll make it compulsory.
Fresh191 | 10/12/2009 09:32
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Its a shame Tetris and Fieldrunners arent working yet, still looking forward to giving them a go on the big screen when they get patched. I think the minis have been great so far and when this gets smoothed out I might have to purchase some more.
skibadee | 10/12/2009 09:42
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best to wait a while then till everything is working 100%.
TheDeathAvenger | 10/12/2009 09:44
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Echoes – worked with no problems and I was signed in to the PSN on my PS3.
I checked all of the minis (available in the UK) not on either of the lists above and none of them worked, they were all put in the PSP folder and I got prompted to copy them to a PSP when I clicked on them.
TheDeathAvenger | 10/12/2009 09:54
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The rest of the minis that don’t (yet) work on PS3
# Alien Havoc
# Bloons
# Brainpipe
# Bubble Trubble
# D-Cube Planet
# Fortix
# Hero of Sparta
# Majongg Artifacts: Chapter 2
# Sudoku
# Vempire
# YetiSports
# Yummy Yummy Cooking Jam
Sympozium Gro Mak | 10/12/2009 09:52
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Tetris?? NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
Person678 | 10/12/2009 09:53
BOOM! Headshot!
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I’ll check out Vempires for you later.
Bankzy108 | 10/12/2009 10:37
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Aww man I need a Tetris fix….and the missus has my PSP =|
Oh well looks like I will have to wait – Modern Warfare Time!
KwietStorm | 10/12/2009 10:48
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Sounds like a last minute decision. I wonder if they’ll even bother with this. Doesn’t matter to me though. I never had any intentions of playing minis at home. They just kill time on the train.