For those of us who still support the PS2 version of FFXI

[Retiti]

I guess your only option is to find one online and have them ship it to you. ><

/cry. $40 controller, here i come :/
there are seriously no drivers out there for windows 7 for the ps3 controller? /stabbity.

[Krashport]

/cry. $40 controller, here i come :/
there are seriously no drivers out there for windows 7 for the ps3 controller? /stabbity.

Nuuuu thats to much...hope this helps! http://www.microcenter.com/single_pr...uct_id=0219451

[Kailea_Nagisa]

well i would, but since there are exactly 0 stores within an hours drive of me that sell them, that idea is out the window lol.
living in hickville canada kind of sucks.

I have windows 7, all I did was plug the PS3 controller into my PC with th e USB cable attacked and it worked, yo uof course have to keep it plugged in. that or get your self a USB 360 controller or a PS3 Power A control (what I use and is wonderful)

Never buy those cheep PC game pads...... they are cheep for a reason ;p

[Tsukino_Kaji]

except that i couldnt pay 700 bucks for a pc/laptop.. now if you told me i could get a pc/laptop that could run ffxi for 100 bucks then sure Id get right on it lol

You can... you wont like though.

[Trangnai]

This cannot happen. The disc for Wings of the goddess isnt even produced anymore by SE. I have 1 computer and me and wife are gamers, and it was becoming a real issue when we both wanted to play something. So i decided to rip out the PS2 and the ffxi i bought for it when it first came out, only to find out i had all expansions except for Wings of the Goddess. I spent a week tracking down this freeeeeeking game only to find out, its not produced anymore. I had to buy a copy from Amazon.com for 50 dollars. As big a hassle as it was, i did finally get wings installed on my PS2 and have all expansions for it. But if u notice, on the game ordering section of the playonline site, they offer the games for PC and GAYBOX 360, nothing for PS2 except for original game. They dont produce PS2 ffxi games anymore, if i were u, id ebay, or Amazon that crap before its too late, or ur stuck having to buy a gaybox 360.

As an extra note, for some reason when i was looking for copies of Wings of the Goddess for the PS2 on amazon, the other expansions were like, 9 bucks, and wings of the goddess was 50 dollars, kinda irked me i got stuck with the one that had to be 50 dollars. But warning to those who wish to seek this game for PS2. Your prolly looking ata total cost of about 300 dollars probably, since the HD and game will prolly be the most expensive piece u get aside from the 89-99 dollar PS2

The only PS2s that are 89-99 dollars are new, which are incompatible with the HDD meaning that you must use older systems only going for 49-59 Dollars used.

In terms coming from a PS2 user, I enjoy playing the game on the PS2, however, the memory limitations mean that it is rather hard for SE to add new content to the game. I'm sure if we could enjoy new content in the game most of us would be willing to upgrade, those who won't will be lost. And honestly, good riddance i think SE being able to release another disc based expansion would be very beneficial to both SE and the players. all PCs with required specs can easily run this game, be it new or old. Unless your PC was made before the game was released (god i hope not). Xbox 360 also has more then required specs, but its not worthwhile until SE fixes the bugs in the 360 version.

FFXI wouldn't be the first MMO to drop support for increasing the abilities of the game. However I recommend SE giving fair advance warring.

[Necrose99]

I was Forced to Abbandon my ps2 system for a Laptop , however I will say that with more rez offten FFXI lags out more so At times less i'm on my desktop with Quad core power.

The PS3 can run FFXI with recent Firmware updates rather well, but I would Agree , that it'd be nice to See Via Digital Downloads A Dedicated PS3 FFXI Kernel and system specific Patches.

I lost my Ps2 in the 2008 Collection it froze for 5 hours and wouldn't budge , I figured it'd be better than Adding WoG to it , since my CoP Disk was missing Via Roomies Brats. and cost of Replacing it is well High. n my plans were to eventually get a PS3.

Sometimes a HDTV , and a Soffa offers more cozzy Grind Experience , PC back or neck Begins to Ache after a bit.

Despite the lower resolution , while ppl in Parties were getting Windows update'd and thier pc would drop the game and restat w/o warning or a Virus would wipe out most thier system , the ps2 even up to Toah was none to Laggy and reliable.


I'm just hoping that updates detect the Ps3 and allow it to be the platform of chose for ps2 players offering rez up like a pc , detecting the ps3 hardware etc, etc, and downloading eventually PS3 specific game code.

Most the game code is shared IE dat files etc. even on pc , just the platform specific , sections ie the pol etc differ a bit.

hopefully if they release another Expansion IE with the Sothern Lands , etc, that they will Mesh all the prior contents into some of the quests , and offer a PS3 specific bundel but Wishlist .....

as well as it'd be nice to Ensure a better migration path to pc or Xbox or etc. though one can upload profiles macros etc , not sure thier non system specific. IE my pc Macros uploaded can be impoted on a chums XBOX or PS3 .

Despite a PS2 being slower often for mule parking in Rollanberry's typical bazzar it didnt go down less updates / storms or power issues. as well as in besiged my old Laptop wasnt to gifted on that Intel GFX chip was offten verry laggy, sometimes I get booted. PS2 however I may lag rarely and 1-2 secounds but no drops , despite the lower resolution at times the stability was enviable..


Just hoping that they over time add PS3 detection routines and via the update allow a migration to a Game core code base thats Ps3 Specific. or add on items that allow for Grafix enhancments.

Windows 7 is nice , however with 2 computers 2 Graduate students , one Middle School ager would be nice to have a spot when i have time, & if booted off my own pc to get my fix.

not nocking an XBOX but it's anoying they just dont have an I'm a player kit on SE store W/o Codes to get one up. though
IE a migration kit , though for PC the Steam option along with less ahem Legal means of getting media. Stem is purely all digital . just that that XBOx controler seems a bit off , i'd have to get me one the ps2/3 controler ports converter thingy. and only a minor few number of games on XBOX i'd like to try.
My PC controler is basicly a PS3 Style one. XD. Granted the ps2 is showing it's age , the ps3 and ps4 are remarkable systems , and talk is that the ps4 is coming sooner than latter.

[RAIST]

about the drivers for the controller... did they finally do away witht he standard controller types? Still on XP myself, as it does all I need it too (haven't even booted the PC in 3 days now, pretty much just for FFXI and paying bills online anymore). Forget exactly how they were named, but in Winblows you've always been able to manually pick a driver and select something from a list full of things like "standard 6 button, 2 axis controller" or something like that. Had to do that once with an old knock-off gamepad I had back in Win98SE. XP has a bunch more options that covered all the buttons on my PS2 controller just fine. Might not be able to find a profile that enables all the buttons, but should be enough to work with. The windows calibration may look weird, one stick will be full x/y axis, while another will be seperate bars like for throttle and rudder, than the d-pad may show as regular buttons and not like a hat switch control--but you should be able to set it up as a standard controller type.

Raist

[Capn]

You can get a laptop for 200$ that can run FFXI flawlessly. Head to Best Buy or, a computer store.

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[NightDagger]

I still have all my original discs but I have also seen that people are nice enough to put the torrents up for FFXI (including all disc expansions). So i would not worry about losing your discs or them getting wrecked as there are cheap/free alternatives.

I play on Xbox now so I would be willing to mail my PS2 disc ( with all expansions) to anyone who ever needed them ^^

NightDagger
Server - Lakshmi

[RAIST]

might want to try Amazon for some of those PS2 discs. On a whim I just searched and found some PS2 CoP discs going for $10.

Raist