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this is a playstation 3. well at least it

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sort of is it does function as a ps3 but it would

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be better described as the decr 1000a

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reference tool it's two feet long weighs a whopping 40

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pounds and it makes even sony's largest

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finished playstations look like fisher-price toys

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but where did this thing come from it was spring of 2005 and sony was

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producing the tools that developers would need to build games for their

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upcoming platform the earlier silver colored models were used by internal

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sony game devs while the later black models

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ours included were destined for third-party studios closer to the launch

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of the console that is as long as those studios had deep pockets

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the exact cost of each reference tool in

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those early days isn't known for sure but we've seen accounts that suggest

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they could have run up to 50 000 dollars per unit and that is on top

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of alleged early adoption fees the truly wild part though is that any decent

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sized studio would need a lot more than just one of them and then you can

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imagine the pain of dropping that kind of cash only to see the price for these

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plummet first to twenty thousand dollars each then to ten when they were released

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more broadly in 2007 by 2009 a dev kit with a much more

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traditional playstation 3 look could be had for as little as 2 000

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it's almost like sony was having a heck of a time attracting developers

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in the early days so how did they use these hulking behemoths to craft games

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on the playstation 3 and what secrets lie beneath its thin steel chassis we're

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hardware and out of respect for dev jeff the one who sent it to us we have agreed

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to obey a few ground rules first of all

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we cannot show you these two binders of documents only this one

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we cannot disassemble the ps vita we must shout out obscure gamers for

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providing us some software and we are not to touch buttons or switches on the

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ps vita's bare board ps vita you ask

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ah yes the ps3 dev dedicate is only part of the story today but we will get to

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that later first let's take a closer look at this thing because it is

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absolutely wild the ps3 went through

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several hardware revisions but even aside from the sheer size and girth

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there are a number of things that set the reference tool apart from all of

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them first up is io like the original

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playstation 3 fat you know the one that had four usb ports as well as an onboard

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playstation 2 it's got an sd card reader memory stick pro reader compact flash

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all that good stuff four usb ports a hard drive and a blu-ray disc drive but

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unlike that one it's got two more usb

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ports an entire additional freaking hard drive whatever the foot switch is

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actually that's really cool we're going to explain that later and oh flipping it

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around to the back excuse me not one but two network ports

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one for developer use one for regular use four analog audio outputs apparently

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this is for sound mixing a monitor port

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for your vga crt monitor and we look

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really carefully under this definitely super secure tape we can find two more

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Ethernet ports these are apparently for low level debugging only for sony's use

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oh sorry sorry sony and it's got a lot more going on under

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the hood 512 megs of RAM compared to the standard

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256 in the playstation 3 extensive debug

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menus this was a lot less exciting that i was hoping do you know where

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everything goes if i just start tearing it apart are you able to put it back together

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cool that sounds like something for dev jeff to figure out this totally explains

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why it weighs so flipping much oh my

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god this is all just air ducting and daughter boards sorry i got distracted i

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was supposed to be telling you other cool stuff it's got extensive debug

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menus and get this no copy protection

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the firmware can be upgraded or downgraded at will and those drives in

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the front they're not 30 or 60 gigs they

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are 400 gigs so you can load this baby up

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also it should be noted that they feature no redundancy whatsoever oh i

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guess i can't open them right now while it's powered off so we'll have to show you that later

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if one of them dies you lose everything look at this power supply

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this whole freaking thing wait what hold on a second is this a

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thousand watt power supply is that right am i misunderstanding here or is this a

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thousand watt power supply why does it need a thousand watt power

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supply

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copper bases four heat pipes giant aluminum fin

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stacks and each the cell CPU and the

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NVIDIA 6 7000 series based GPU get one of these

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but what's the purpose of this daughter board here then because i see some older

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standard memory i see some kind of

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central processor of some sort a firmware chip and then what appears to

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be an fpga

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shut up it's a web server oh my god that makes sense it's right

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next to the dev lan port right here so that you can connect to

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and control and monitor all the elements

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of the rest of the system without actually relying on the system itself so

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if you suffer some kind of catastrophic crash you're still going to be able to

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log those errors and well hopefully fix them i've been informed that under this

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daughter board is another daughter board would you call that a granddaughter

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board a second daughter board

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sunboard another fpga though so it's

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clear that they're doing some very custom shiz in here if you don't know

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fpgas or field programmable gate arrays are essentially chips that are a blank

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slate so instead of designing them fabing them

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and then them serving one fixed function you can program them in the field as the

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name would imply to serve any number of different functions they are much more

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expensive per unit so they only make sense in very small volumes but they're

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super cool and are actually how retro enthusiasts have managed to resurrect

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outdated hardware designs for the next generation of gamers i have to imagine

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that this is the original thermal paste and it's never been pulled oh it's

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really stuck

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that is definitely original thermal paste hey dev jeff i'm gonna do you a

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favor i'm gonna put some new thermal group on here for you all right one fun

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fact while we pull off the last panel here is that compared to the first

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generation fat ps3 the reference tool is actually missing a crucial feature it

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does not contain the dedicated playstation 2 hardware that enabled

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sony's up until now never before seen multiple

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generations of backwards compatibility this was only for developing playstation

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3 games not for validating your old ps2

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games on ps3 hardware because you didn't need to that hardware would be in the

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final units what is a cxd2973

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agb-1 it's the southbridge oh okay

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uh-oh i think it had a back plate on it and i

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think it shifted no i got it i got it it's back in place

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okay i'm gonna screw that back on right now

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ah remember how i said i'd explain the foot

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switch this is super cool it was so that developers with their foot in case they

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were doing other things with their hands could stop code from executing like

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immediately we'll be using a wired ps3 controller by the way we don't have any

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ps3 controllers that still have working batteries

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which is why i always say

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double a's microsoft good job just get rechargeable double

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a's oh no i want to play with this hard drive mount first

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okay that's kind of cool actually

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okay pc case manufacturers i want to see that mechanism

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whoa it's not that loud which makes sense

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given that this would have to sit at a developer's workstation right so you

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don't want to have it be like freaking 85 decibels sound like a jet ticket wow

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that that was really fast to boot up was that supposed to be so fast wait this is

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running the latest playstation 3 firmware so like you could just run any

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modern game with this thing what

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all right uh debugger game output resolution oh okay you just set all

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kinds of different game output resolutions sure why not

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game output sound maximum number of channels

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fake other region

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i mean sure hdcp just see you later

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this is amazing and unlike the other

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developer kit that we looked at recently this one existed before the days of just

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you know remote kill switches sony apparently hasn't even locked out the

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ability of this thing to connect to playstation network it should still

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function as a full-on playstation 3. fake free space what is this

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sure let's fake some free spin

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fake system storage access speed oh cool

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slow mode 20 gig hard drive so you can just turn this thing into whatever

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you want it to be format blu-ray disc emulator hard drive

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that is awesome so you can just load isos on it you can do up to four games

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with that imagine if they just shipped hardware that was this good and this

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convenient to end users how much better of a world would we live in whoa

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transfer rate pacing for blu-ray disc emulator

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you can lock the blu-ray disc emulator to the equivalent of a blu-ray drive or

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you can run it at hard drive native for like presumably way faster loading times

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what if what's what if hold on a second

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is this a development build of what if

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oh shut up so you actually walk around

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wow we teleported a little bit there they have a level selector that clearly

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was not intended to make its way into the game like what is over this wall i

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want to know can i oh oh oh denounce nathan protect

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nathan um we'll obviously protect nathan oh cool i haven't played this game sorry

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but i can see what's happening here this game has a choice system so what it's

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doing is it's taking us through the previous one so we can play that version

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of the level okay well we did take a picture of victoria she's hot i i don't

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know i'm just making this up is victoria a love interest i come out and blame

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chloe okay now i now i play the level that is

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wicked town

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bus oh

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goodbye floor reload last checkpoint

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trip up

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oh no i'm in the bus oh bye buzz

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if you ever find yourself complaining that a game is super bug yet released

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let's all just remember this okay it could have been a lot worse

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oh no way little big planet deploy build that one

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hello this one's not even doing a thing forget it forget it i'm out fine we'll

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try we'll try the less broken little big planet

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okay so how do i go to the dev menu

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settings oh debug settings oh my god that is awesome

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disable tutorials just don't bother with that

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see you later music if i don't care about that streamer friendly okay this

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is a long menu oh wireframe

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i want to play on wireframe yup oh that's hilarious

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grab yourself a keyboard a keyboard okay

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keyboard's plugged in now what do we do go to your unreal

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tournament looking one unreal tournament wait unreal tournament that says gears

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of war 3. oh no way so i have to hacksaw the

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mainframe to play this wait a minute gears of war

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3. why did it take me so long to register that are we about to play gears

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of war 3 on a playstation is this like games industry drama that's well known

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that i just was not aware of was it was it going to be multiple platform and

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then because it still has the xbox button what push the tilde button

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that start gear game underscore p

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question mark chapter equals

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zero okay

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what it's only running at 17 18 19 FPS but it's gears of war 3

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running on a playstation honestly though

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it's impressive that this runs at all given how different the playstation 3

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was compared to the xbox 360 which this game was designed to run on 12 FPS

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yeah this is a very brown flashback 10 game oh okay how many of these guys do

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you have to kill geez and they blow up i mean that makes perfect sense

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and we saved the best part for last remember how i alluded to that

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definitely actually a ps vita thing at the beginning well believe it or not

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this ps3 dev kit was instrumental in

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developing for the ps vita and i'll show

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you how the early vita prototype dev kit

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units hooked up to it we've got the whole thing hooked up and here's how it

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works you've got a psp power adapter

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that powers this little breakout board then you've got a dvi input because

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this actually drives this guy right here which is going to be

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the display that we're using as a game developer there are actually some

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cameras as well we've got two cameras they sort of work and this back here

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that's a touch surface apparently developers would actually

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take this and like duct tape it to the back of a controller for development so

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that they could try out their control schemes pretty wild right

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then the way the ps3 dead kit figures into all of this is that dvi input over there

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that's actually coming from the HDMI output of the ps3 dev kit so we're

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essentially emulating the ps vita hardware

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here on the ps3 as for a controller we

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just plug that in via usb to our dev kit and we should be good to go

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unfortunately this is as far as we can get with this guy you need a special

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firmware in order to enable the back touch as well as the front touch screen

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and we weren't able to find any working ps vita roms that were able to fire up

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with our system here but it's still cool to see how developers

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had to had to build for this thing

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