오늘 북미지역에서 PS3 온라인샵을 이용한 PS1 에뮬레이터 게임 다운로드 서비스를 실시하였습니다.

현재 다운로드 가능한 게임은 크래쉬 밴디쿳, 철권2, 모두의 골프2, 쿨보더스, 사이폰 필터 등 5가지입니다.

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Crash Bandicoot (478mb, $5.99)
Tekken 2 (535mb, $5.99)
Hot Shots Golf 2 (157mb, $5.99)
Cool Boarders (283mb, $5.99)
Syphon Filter (385mb, $5.99)

PS3 온라인샵에서 게임을 구입한 뒤 PS3를 PSP와 연결하여 파일들을 다운로드 받습니다.
이때 라이센스 파일과 게임파일 두가지 파일이 존재합니다.

Upon purchasing a game, you must connect your PSP to download the file (it does not save onto the PS3 hard drive). There are two files: the game (the huge file) and the license (100kb).

다운로드 시간은 얼마 걸리지 않지만 PSP로 인스톨하는데 시간이 20분 정도 걸립니다.

The download doesnt take all that long...its the install process that kills ya. It was nearly twenty minutes before the install process was done. Thankfully the license took about five seconds to download and install, so no problems there (the game does not run without a license, giving a "you must activate the system" error).

펌웨어 3.0이상에서만 게임을 설치할 수 있고 라이센스 아이콘이 생깁니다.

You know that Certificate Utility icon new in 3.00? This is where the license is kept, with "Crash Bandicoot- No Time Limit" displayed underneath (bringing up Information allows you to see when it expires and how many hours are left...both "never" in this case). Perhaps there will be a way to rent games later in the future? (By the way, you cannot back up these games on the PS3 as far as I can tell...you can, however, back them up on a PC and swap them out if you lack space on your memory stick).

GAME 메뉴에서 다운로드 받은 게임을 선택하면 바로 게임을 할 수 있습니다.

When you boot up a PS1 game, it gives you all kinds of warnings...much like Nintendo does at the start of the DS Lite. Gah! Once you load the game you can press Home and a new screen pops up...from here, you can select the screen size, select four different types of control emulation methods (all of which are pretty interesting, with the analog stick functioning as L2 and R2) and you can even view box art and the original instructions included with the game, in it's full black and white glory (complete with the usual warning pages and notes pages...hah!)

Saving looks to be done internally via a virtual memory card...I havent been able to save yet, but the load doesnt bring up the standard overlay that the PSP usually uses. Unfortunately you cant save your state anywhere like an emulator can...too bad, because it would have been nearly perfect.

Another odd note, and Im not sure if its just with Crash, is that the game doesnt take up the whole screen even when using Full Screen...there are small black bars on the top and bottom. Could be just the game, not sure.

Here are the four configs for controls (universal for every game):

Face Buttons are all the same.

TYPE ONE: Analog stick left and right is L2 & R2, L and R emulate L1 and R1 obviously.
TYPE TWO: L and R on the PSP simulate L2 and R2, with the analog stick left and right emulating L1 and R1. Pressing the stick upwards is L1+R1.
TYPE THREE: L and R = L1 and R1; Analog Stick Up + L=L2, Analog Stick Up + R=R2, Analog Stick Down= L2 + R2
TYPE FOUR: Analog stick emulates digital pad, with the digital pad on the PSP emulating like the analog stick does in Type Two. Hope that makes sense.

So there you go. Ill have more info later in the week but thats the gist of it...and the games look great on the system. More impressions to come!