Years ago, a friend of mine lent me Devil May Cry and said "Good Luck". At first I thought he was referring to the game's difficulty but when I pop in the disc in my relatively new slim PS2,I faced a different type of horror........the game didn't run. Apparently it was scracthed to hell, a new game wouldn't begin and even my old save files from back in the day didn't work. I tried every "cleaning" technique I could think of in order to make the game work. I hadn't played the game for years so I wanted it to work but at the end of day, I decided to give up. I never gave it back to my friend because he wasn't going to miss it and besides I just don't like throwing away games even though they don't work and that's exactly what my friend was going to do if I returned it to him. So the game just sat there for years in my collection........until now.

Last night, I was trying out some PS2 games on the PS3, to check the whole upscaling thing which works fantastic by the way. The games look really smooth on my HD now. Anyways, among those games that I tried was Devil May Cry 3. I played a couple of missions and then I thought "Hmm...I wonder if DMC will work on the PS3". I was a little reluctant to try it at first because I didn't want to insert a really scratched up disc on the PS3 but I did it anyways. I clicked on new game, the screen went black for a few seconds and then it happend........the opening sequence of the game. I was shocked to see that the game actually works! I played the first two missions flawlessy, it feels like its a brand new copy because it would load the missions so quickly.

Now I own a "brand new" copy of Devil May Cry thanks to the power of the PS3. I even added the game to my collections this morning because I hadn't included it until now. I might even place Ninja Gaiden Sigma on hold just to play DMC. If you're thinking of buying a PS3, go with the 60 GB version because the backwards compatibility is a must.

Well I'm off to play a PS2 gem, later!