{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"Rainbow Dash Network","provider_url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/","type":"link","title":"Northern Dash (rpb3000)'s status on Thursday, 05-May-11 15:52:15 UTC","author_name":"Northern Dash (rpb3000)","author_url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/rpb3000","url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/notice\/76032","html":"@<span class=\"vcard\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/user\/166\" class=\"url\" title=\"Strawberry Spice\"><span class=\"fn nickname\">strawberryspice<\/span><\/a><\/span> The very first model of PS3 was fully backwards-compatible (could play PS2 and PS1 games).  Later, they removed the PS2 hardware due to cost and tried having the backwards compatibility via emulation, but it wasn't 100% so rather than deal with attempting to support it they dropped it entirely with models after that.  All PS3s are compatible with PS1 games.  I have one of the first models with full backwards compatibility myself ^_^  !<span class=\"vcard\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/group\/25\/id\" class=\"url\" title=\"Video Game Ponies! (videogameponies)\"><span class=\"fn nickname\">vgp<\/span><\/a><\/span>"}