1881

Super tempted by DR2 and Driver SF (despite the Ubifail DRM).

1882

Driver SF is totally worth the price.

1883

For PS Plus, the following games are currently free. Completely awesomeness and I’m glad I just upgraded my hard drive. (Yes, I know they are only free as long as you keep subscribing).

  • Virtual Fighter 5 Final Showdown
  • Little Big Planet 2
  • Infamous 2
  • Ratchet & Clank All 4 One
  • Choplifter HD
  • Hard Corp: Uprising
  • Kaleidoscope (mini)
  • Just Cause 2
  • Lara Croft & the Guardian of Light
  • Saints Row 2
  • Sideway New York
  • WH40K: Space Marine
  • Zombie Apocalypse Never Die Alone

Holy awesome value for PS+.

1884

I deleted a ton of stuff and I still don’t have room left on my 120gb for everything this month. Rachet and Clank and Infamous 2 are each 15gb, and bunch more are sizable.

1885

I suppose it is for someone who’s going to play it right now, when the auth servers are likely to stay up for a while. If it may be a few months to a year, who knows? I don’t think that Ubi’s made any statement as to whether they’ll patch out the DRM when they take the servers down.

1886

On PSN, Sony is moneyhatting VF5: Final Showdown. $45 for game+DLC normally, $30 for complete package with sale, PSN+ get base game free and DLC for 20% off.

This is a fully-featured fighter with excellent online netcode so well worth the money if you like 3d fighters.

1887

Matrix Games having a sale starting tomorrow:
http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=3118387

1888

Space Rangers 2: Reboot - $4 on GOG.

1889

Whoa, that might be the best price I’ve ever seen for that.

1890

Steam is offering all the Far Crys for $5.

All of them.

1891

Great deal, that.

1892

Wow, that’s a very good deal. How long is it running for? And what happens if I get plus, let it lapse, and later rebuy it? Would I then regain access to free games, or do you need to maintain continuity?

1893

Not sure on the length of sale. As far as I understand it, yes, you’d regain access to those games once you resubscribed. They still appear on your console and are tied to the console, they just have some sort of wrapper that checks your PS+ account access.

1894

Suddenly interested in PS+ for the first time… But then I’d need to replace my dinky 60GB hard drive too. Is an SSD worthwhile in a v1 PS3?

1895

Apparently it really only affects load times…which aren’t that terrible to begin with. I would just throw a larger size mechanical in there.

1896

Don’t be silly. That doesn’t include Far Cry: Instincts or the expansion thereof.

1897

I threw in a 200GB drive that I had lying around (has to be a 2.5" laptop drive). Load times from anything on the hard drive are pretty quick. SSD is likely overkill.

A few things I learned about installing a new hard drive:

  1. To backup your existing drive over USB, it can only write to FAT/FAT32 devices. NTFS and exFAT don’t work. There are some shareware utilities to quickly format a FAT32 drive in Win 7, since it can’t do it natively.

  2. Once you install the new drive, the system will insist on you giving it a firmware image before it’ll do anything. This is available on Sony’s site and you can throw it on a USB drive.

  3. Backup/restore took about 1.5 hours each direction for 40 gigs filled of an 80G drive.

1898

I think the firmware thing depends on your model. Some versions of the hardware store part of the firmware on the hard drive, but others have it store on flash.

1899

I have the Super Awesome Model. (Hardware PS2 compatible.)

1900

IIRC you probably won’t need the firmware but I can’t say for certain. Probably better to be prepared with the firmware on a usb stick in case.