After formatting to fat32, are you creating folders MUSIC, VIDEO, PICTURES ????, if you are not creating those folders and then storing the right files in the right folders, the ps3 will not find them. BUT if your too lazy to create the folders in the external hdd, just go on the xmb to what your looking for (i,e pics, to go pictures on the xmc) press triangle on the external hdd and select display all.carterhc

You don't need to create said folders. I have a HDD based media player and when set it to removable disk mode and connect to the PS3, the PS3 is able to recognise it and by choosing display all files I'm able to play the videos/music/photo etc.

The problem is that connecting a purely portable HDD to the PS3 it doesn't recognise the HDD at all, no icon appear under the respective folders etc.

It's quite puzzling that a HDD media player can be recognised by the PS3 whereas a portable HDD (formattedto FAT32) can't. I don't see any logical explanation unless there is a bug in the PS3 firmware.

My question is whether the PS3 supports a portable HDD (formatted in FAT32) connected to it via USB as I can't seem to get it to work.

So you're saying it works? When I slot in a media card, the XMB will appear an icon under Music, Video Pictures etc but connecting the HDD to it does not show any icon so no way to access the content in the HDD.

Have anyone tried connecting a USB external HDD (32GB to 160GB) to the PS3 and use the PS3 to access images, music and videos from the HDD?

I've been trying to connect my 2.5" portable USB HDD (60GB) to the PS3 via USB but it won't recognise the drive. I've tried formatting the HDD in FAT32 with different sector sizes (from 1 to 128) but still my PS3 won't see it when connected.

Anyone had any idea?

I used a windows 2000 servermachine to format my external 160GB hard drive to FAT32. It worked fine, and my ps3 detected.protek_0813

When you said detected, are you referring to using the 160GB as the internal drive for PS3 or connect to the PS3 as an external USB drive and PS3 able to recognise it?

Just look at the poster's post history and they pretty much speak for themselves.

Don't feed the trolls,ignore them is the best option.

The game has been out in Japan for quite some time, the US and Asian versions of the game will only differ in the languages, i.e. English for US version, English and Chinese (selectable) for Asian version.

So expect to see the same graphics (which I felt is good enough for a PS3 RPG game) as in the demo.

BTW, if any of you have played the Japan demo version, it actually had some dialogues and cut scenes etc which for some reason were taken out in the US/EU demo. However, the US/EU demo did have more boss monsters and slightly different path :)

If you understand how HDTVs work, you'll realize that all input signals will be scaled internally in the HDTV to your TV's native resolution.

So if your TV has a 1920x1080 panel resolution, the SD and HD signals fed to it will be upscaled to display on the screen at 1920x1080. The reason you see a 720p text on your TVbasically means it is telling you the input is 720p, but the final image you saw onscreen would have gone through the HDTV's internal enhancements, processing and scaling etc before being displayed at 1920x1080.

What you should know is that there are different qualities in scalings depending on how good the electronics circuitries are being designed. There is a scaling function in the player, there isa scaling function in the HDMI A/V amplifier, and there is a scaling function in the HDTV. If your HDTV is of a high-end model, it can actually do a very good job of upscaling SD and HD signals, better than the player in fact. So you need to play around to see which of the 3 components gives you the best upscaling result. However, the fact that aHDTV with 1920x1080 resolution will always upscale all the SD and HD signals (except 1080p which it will display as it is) makes it a bit more difficult to isolate the individual components.

It's just a matter of time that moving forward allPS3s will ultimately run on software emulation for PS2 games,irrespective of whether the Emotion Engine chip is found inside the PS3 or not.

So I won't be too worry to secure a PS3 with the Emotion Engine in it as moving down the road, it'll still be bypassed by the software emulation.