That SingStar PS2 titles are not playable is a major annoyance -- especially if you sold your PS2 when you brought your shiny new PS3 home. Or at least, it was -- it seems Sony has decided to make these incompatibilities a thing of the past.
According to Three Speech, a free online update will be available as of December 16th at 10 am that will allow you to play all your SingStar PS2 titles on the PS3. Nice one Sony -- thank you! Looks like you may be able to have that drunken kareoke themed Christmas party you were dreaming of after all (make sure to place mistletoe in the kitchen so you can innocently make out with people after make drunken fools of themselves).
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8:22 AM on 12.16.2008
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The patch does NOT allow you to play the PS2 games on the PS3 versions. It allows the PS3 versions of SingStar to be able to read THE SONG TRACKS from the PS2 discs.
So you are still playing the PS3 version (either running completely in system RAM or from the HDD)...it's simply reading song data from the PS2 discs.
I got my hopes up. I've reread the article with more care and sadly you're right meaning Sony are still doing it wrong damn them.
Guess I'm still waiting for PS2 emulation with game support on a linux OS on the PS3.