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[goodcow]

I was thinking of buying Tomba along with a few other old PSOne platformers, and then I remembered, wait a minute, isn't that one of the few games they said years ago wasn't backwards compatible with the PS2?

And then, thanks to Google...

Not PS2 Compatible
December 5, 2000

Sony has officially announced the list of PSX games that are not compatible with the PS2's backwards-compatibility feature. While many of these games will boot up and play, at some point in the game they face significant problems rendering them unplayable. Unfortunately the list features a few more high-profile games (notably Final Fantasy Anthology) than the Japanese list did, but overall it isn't too bad. The following PSX games are not compatible with the PS2:

Arcade Greatest Hits/Atari 2 - Midway
Arcade Party Pak - Midway
Fighter Maker - Agetec
Final Fantasy Anthology - Square EA
International Track and Field - Konami
Judge Dredd - Activision
Monkey Hero - Take Two
Mortal Kombat Trilogy - Midway
Tomba! - SCEA

So... does it really just not work at all? Did later PS2 revisions fix any of those?

 

[jgkspsx]

Arcade Greatest Hits/Atari 2 - Midway
Arcade Party Pak - Midway

Fuck! I need to get a PSone?! Oh those bastards!

 

[Gattsu25]

I worked on mine (beat the game on my launch system)

Game kicks ass BTW...need a PSP sequel STAT (2D characters please...keep that aborted 3D shit contained to Tomba! 2)

edit: wait...I think I actually used ePSXe to beat that...thinking about it...I remember my PS2 locking up during some load screens

 

[Littleberu]

Mortal Kombat Trilogy seems to work fine with my PS2.

 

[goodcow]

So those old compatibility lists are just bogus?

 

[Baron Aloha]

Yeah, those are the games that aren't 100% compatible.

There is a good chance that Tomba! might work though.

Mortal Kombat Trilogy works on all PS2s but there is a bug where sometimes you can't continue and occasionally some of the music on the menu screen loops strangely iirc.

 

[Lyte Edge]

Final Fantasy Anthology works on PS2 just fine as well. Almost every time I come into work, I find that the kid there the day before has been playing it.

 

[hooded pitohui]

Final Fantasy Anthology works on PS2 just fine as well. Almost every time I come into work, I find that the kid there the day before has been playing it.

yeah, I finished FFV on the PS2 just a few month ago. the only glitchy part was that sometimes the subcreen menu is a little fucked up, but exiting and bringing it back up usually fixes it.

 

[Shin Johnpv]

I went through about 4 or 5 copies of tomba! a few years ago trying to find one that worked untill I realized shit let me try it on my PSX and sure enough it worked fine

so yeah Tomba does not work on the PS2

 

[ToyMachine228]

Tomba should see ressurection on the PSP! In the style of the first game though...Not the second.

 

[ourumov]

Tomba 2 (Tombi 2 in Spain) deffinitelly worked for me...Dunno about part 1...