riffttrax members on the ps3

[k1]

I'm in a similar boat with my 60 GB model.  I'm pretty much at the point where I'm deleting stuff whenever I get a new game.

Unfortunately my PS3 doesn't care for my WD Passport Drive, so I'm stuck until I manage to clear off another one of my external drives...

But that blows about the locked game saves.  But did I read it correctly that you'll be ok as long as you're swapping out the HD with a new one into the same PS3?

[SJP]

I'm in a similar boat with my 60 GB model.  I'm pretty much at the point where I'm deleting stuff whenever I get a new game.

Unfortunately my PS3 doesn't care for my WD Passport Drive, so I'm stuck until I manage to clear off another one of my external drives...

But that blows about the locked game saves.  But did I read it correctly that you'll be ok as long as you're swapping out the HD with a new one into the same PS3?

I had the same issue with a WD drive...the PS3 likes FAT32 formatting, whereas if you have XP or higher, chances are your new hard drive prefers NTFS.  If you have no clue what any of that means, just think that somebody out there had no ability to predict how big storage stuff was going to get, and decided, as per the famous quote mis-attributed to Bill Gates, "640K of memory will be enough for anybody."  People made storage spaces with a fixed max capacity, and when that capacity got reached, they had to come out with a whole new system capable of handling the larger sizes.  The max hard drive size FAT32 can handle is 8 terabytes, but the max FILE size FAT32 can handle is 4 gigs, much less than most video files, and so, voila, NTFS.  Problem is, NTFS has its own compatibility problems, and FAT32 is still used in a lot of things, so...essentially, it's all a big mess.  Flash drives are mostly FAT32, though, so if you have a decently big one, you can back up to that, and prices are plummeting on those all the time.

As for swapping out the HD...well, guess what?  It works!  The Wolfenstein data copied over properly, so it shouldn't be a big deal, as long as you use the "Back-up" Utility and not just copy and pasting the files between devices.  So, everything's rosy...except having to install all my games again, but I think that's a small price to pay.

But make sure you buy the right type of hard drive if you do upgrade...it takes a laptop-sized hard drive (2.5", not 3.5"), spinning at 5400 rpm (it may still work at 7200, but a lot of websites aren't sure if that could cause problems or not).  The one I picked up is actually a larger capacity model of the same brand I pulled out, a Seagate Momentus.  The process is pretty self-explanatory, though make sure you use the right screwdriver...it's apparently pretty easy to strip the screws if you're not careful.

EDIT: Oh, and DO deactivate before changing the hard drive.  I just noticed all my PS Store downloads are 'activating' before they do.  All you'd probably have to do if you forget is put the old hard drive back in and deactivate it to fix that, but if you can save yourself an additional step, go ahead and do it before hand.  Although, chances are you probably don't have 5 PS3's, in which case, it's not too big a deal.

2nd EDIT: Well, almost everything's reinstalled...I would also say, if you have the space, back up your system with all your game data intact.  The thing is, the trophy system, while it saves on the Sony servers so you never have to worry about losing your status, has a little issue on the local end...namely, it doesn't like to restore trophies on a new system unless it detects the installed game data.  So, if you swap your drives, if you want to look at your trophies, you'll have to have your games installed when you access the server point.  I wasn't lucky enough to have the space to do that, so now I have to make sure every game is loaded up in order to get back to normal again.

What's funny, though, is that because of this, I've noticed something Bethesda does that is incredibly sneaky and clever.  Unlike every other game, which installs all the data up front and forces you to wait, I noticed Elder Scrolls IV let me sign right on and get gaming, even though I knew for a fact that its game data was the biggest of any of the games on my system.  They avoid this by...get this...installing the game while you have it paused, or are sitting on the status screen.  So, you can run the game off of the disc while playing, but let the game sit idle on a menu and it will start installing files to speed the game up for later.  I'm assuming the same thing happens with Fallout, since there were no files loaded when I started that, either, and that game is at least 4 gigs when it's done.  It's brilliant, and more companies need to do stuff like that.

[SmilinJackRoss]

Earlier this year I upgraded my 40GB PS3 hard drive to a 320GB, and it was largely painless, with the exception of my Rock Band 2 data.  It's completely ridiculous that you cannot transfer save game data from that game.  I had gone through the game, unlocked every venue and song, and none of that transferred over.  I don't care what the reasoning is, it makes no sense that you can't (at the very least) transfer your scores and progress in the game.  So I had to start all over to have access to all the songs.  Which didn't really bother me too much, the game is fun and I don't mind playing it from the start...but I also lost access to my online "band".  The server remembers the band name, so you can't re-name your new band the same name, and I had put a decent amount of time into customizing my band members appearances, the band logo, etc.  In this second playthrough, I haven't touched any of the charater creation stuff, it was too time consuming the first time.  At this point I just want access to all the songs (which I've done).

So, k1, beware of upgrading your hard drive, your RB2 stuff will completely disappear.

[k1]

Earlier this year I upgraded my 40GB PS3 hard drive to a 320GB, and it was largely painless, with the exception of my Rock Band 2 data.  It's completely ridiculous that you cannot transfer save game data from that game.  I had gone through the game, unlocked every venue and song, and none of that transferred over.  I don't care what the reasoning is, it makes no sense that you can't (at the very least) transfer your scores and progress in the game.  So I had to start all over to have access to all the songs.  Which didn't really bother me too much, the game is fun and I don't mind playing it from the start...but I also lost access to my online "band".  The server remembers the band name, so you can't re-name your new band the same name, and I had put a decent amount of time into customizing my band members appearances, the band logo, etc.  In this second playthrough, I haven't touched any of the charater creation stuff, it was too time consuming the first time.  At this point I just want access to all the songs (which I've done).

So, k1, beware of upgrading your hard drive, your RB2 stuff will completely disappear.

Crap.  I spent alot of time making my avatar look like me, complete with all my tattoos (which reminds me I need to add my most recent 2 I got last month).  I also don't want to lose my online band CraptasticA.

So I guess I should tackle the Bladder of Steel trophy before I upgrade then?  That's pretty much the last one I am going to go for in it.

[k1]

Peggle & Peggle Nights is out on PSN this Thursday.  (Finally)

Because playing it on my laptop and DS wasn't enough.

[SmilinJackRoss]

Peggle & Peggle Nights is out on PSN this Thursday.  (Finally)

Because playing it on my laptop and DS wasn't enough.

i love peggle, but I think I'm kinda done with it.  And if I really want to play it, it's on my computer.  But those PSN trophies will be tempting...

[Compound]

Well,  it looks like my  oft-neglected PS3 will get some playtime in May. (And sooner if I ever sit down to actually play Demon's Souls.) Cause we're kicking it old school with 3d Dot Game Heroes!





Oh yeah. Only the PS3 can handle this graphic firepower, baby.

(And yes, I see the water and lightning effects in those 2 pics. I'm just amused that the next PS3 game that  I'm truly interested in looks very low-res.)

[k1]

I would really like to platinum Buzz....I'm pretty close, but with the new one coming out tomorrow, I doubt I will.  I need A LOT more online wins.

Same here.  It's the Sofa vs Sofa ones that will be the problem.  Then add in the issues of the leaderboards not updating all the time they've had since the game came out...  (I played a handful of games online over the past few week and they still haven't shown up.)

Should we try to pick a time to play and knock out a few more rounds every now & then?  I'm free most days Mon - Fri during the day, and occasionally after 8 PM EST any day of the week.

[SJP]

I'm game for it.  Weekends are best, though Thursdays all day are good, too (and that's not just Thanksgiving).

[SmilinJackRoss]

I'm game as well.  I did pick up the new Buzz, and it's a definite improvement.  But Buzz is Buzz, and I'm more than happy to jump back into the old one.

I'm at work all weekdays, so that wont work, but I'm online almost every night.  if I see you guys online, I'll send out some invites.

[SJP]

Oh, dear.  Interesting story about Buzz....

Apparently if you delete your game data for any reason and then re-install, it resets your games played.  So, basically, since I installed the new hard drive it's like I have to start from scratch again.  I thought maybe it didn't update the leaderboard again, but it appears I just lost about 5 or 6 Sofa v. Sofa games.  Not too big a deal...I'm guessing we're going to be playing quite a bit of Buzz, anyway...but it's still resetting everything to square one in that regard.  My "MyBuzz" quizzes are okay, though, and it has leaderboard stats for singleplayer, so hopefully I won't have to do all those again.  At least MyBuzz games go quick, even if Single Player gets a little boring after awhile.

[k1]

Oh man that sucks.

Yeah I'm glad we stopped when we did last night.  I'd been up since 5AM EST and was starting to get sloppy.  (Did I get ANY right in that final round of movie questions???  I knew the answers and was still picking the wrong ones.  "Casablanca" *picks Citizen Kane* Wait what?)  And yes, I know Brian is a dog.  Not a kid. 

[SmilinJackRoss]

Can't believe I got that "left my heart in San Francisco" one wrong  As soon as the answer came up I was like "DUH."  But I'm still not sure how I won that first game!  Cool that we each got a win though.

[spaceforarent]

Was looking around the movies on the Playstation Store and I found Robot Holocaust, unriffed. It's available in HD too, but that's only a rental. Quite odd, considering that it doesn't even seem to be on DVD.

[SJP]

Speaking of Buzz trophies, I was glancing through the lists and found that 90% of the stuff keeping me from Platinum on most games are a couple of weird MP trophies that I don't know if I could do through sheer luck...you know, the "Impossible" trophies.  If you don't have 'em either, I'm more than happy to put aside life, work, and general productivity to help get them for anybody else, but otherwise I just don't think many of these are attainable without a couple of REALLY good friends and a lot of free time.  Sure, trophies are about as important to life as finding a penny in a parking garage, but hey, we're all obsessive-compulsive here, aren't we?   

So anyway, I'll start with games I know people here have:

Ghostbusters: Gozer's Most Wanted...get that and you get everything else, pretty much.  Annoying as crap, though...you have to WIN every mode to get it.  By the way, Containment decides the total number of ghosts by (number of players X 5) +5.  So, 3 people have to capture 20 ghosts to WIN Containment.  With a total of 30 slime tethers between 3 people, that makes it the easiest number to beat without the game being too difficult.  Everything else is simply a matter of surviving until the end of the level without the ghosts winning (be it killing all the stuff in Destruction, staying alive in Survival, etc.) or being #1 at the end of it (Slime Dunk).

Grand Theft Auto IV: The Petrovic trophy is similar to the Ghostbusters one, but it's just a "Top Earner" in every job type, not a "Perfect" victory.  Still sucks, but nowhere near as hard.

Buzz! Quiz: I put it here, but we all know what the deal is with this one.  Bloody 50 Sofa wins.   

And ones I don't think anybody has, but am listing anyway:

Brutal Legend: Main problem is you need 50 wins, and nobody ever signs on, and you can't do it with friends because it pairs you up randomly.  But, since only 3 people are ever on worldwide at any given moment, you'd think it would be easy to get paired up with a friend.

Resident Evil 5: 30 Wins in every MP type, basically, and a team one where you have to get 40 Combo kills in a row.  Trouble is, either everyone online is better than me, or a complete dickhead who I wouldn't be caught dead playing a game against.  It's really weird, but that does seem to be the breakdown of Resident Evil players.  I think for every 1 pleasant match-up I've had, I had about 5-6 matches run by complete turd burglars. 

MLB '09 The Show: Let me put it this way...I like baseball, but I really have no clue what the hell is going on in it outside of hitting and catching.  And it wants me to win an online league.  Yeah, that's going to happen.

I still have a few other games I could use MP help with, but at the same time they aren't ridiculous trophies that require strength of will to achieve.  These are the 'Meh' games I need to get:

Borderlands: Don't think any of them are too hard, just some are time-consuming.  I still need to duel and co-op 15 missions, but that's about it.

Wolfenstein: Annoying to have to do them, but nothing here is too weird, just time consuming nonsense.  Maybe getting to Rank 50, but friends aren't really going to help with that unless you join opposite sides of the war effort and just bump each other off with different weapons.  Well, maybe getting the Veil Strike kills one, but only because the Veil Strike is so telegraphed a blind and crippled monkey could get away from it in time.

But hey, if you have the list of ones you need, put 'em up.  I can't guarantee I can help you get them, but I can try.