Well, its the 10th of November. The PS2 gets released in Japan tommorow! Yay! Which means my PS3 gets shipped tommorow (assuming play-asia gets the PS3's and everything....)

Does anyone know if post offices are even open on Saturdays over in Japan, because they arent here. So, i shall have a PS3 by Thursday or friday next week

You might yours before my brother. Good luck

Well i just paid for the PS3. Stupid paypal charged the money to my dads credit card, not my bank account! Damn. Thats gunna be interesting 'Hey dad heres $1500 that i accidently charged to your credit card' lol

Anyway i was reading today that on the 30th of october they cancelled all PS3 preorders to Europe. I know australia technically isnt Europe, but i really hope they dont turn around and say they cant send my PS3 becuase they cant ship to Australia. Anyone know whats happenin with this? Its got me a bit worried lol

The PS3 gets released in Japan in about 9 hours (if its a midnight launch)

Good luck. Europe usually means everyplace besides Japan and NA.

Shit. But youd think p-a wouldve cancelled my order by now? And that theyd say in the description noone from Europe can order a system?

Also, i just read through an email they sent out saying the cancelled the orders, and it says only people in the European Union (EU) cant preorder. A quick google search shows Australia isnt in the EU. Sooo....lets pray i still get my PS3....

Yeah if it was that specific, EU, than I wouldn't worry. My comment was just how the console companies split up the market.

I just got an emil back from p-a (I asked when they would ship and if they will ship to Australia) and they said the shipping date wasnt confirmed (not good) and they didnt answer my question about if theyd ship to Australia, so im guessing that means they will ship to Aus.

UPDATE: I just got an email confirming the PS3 will be sent on monday the 13th of November. Woot!

nice

w00t! I just checked my emails and i got an email from play-asia to say my PS3 was sent out yesterday (saturday) So i might even have the PS3 on wednesday or thrusday.

OK, so i got bord this afternoon and made this:




Ahhhh, photoshop, is there anything it cant do?

It can't make her love you!

Nice work on the chop. Now watermark it and upload to your site.

Well, the PS3 arrived today......Woot.....So i will write a small reveiw of my thoughts...

So, first thing to do when I got home was to plug it all in and play it. I must say the PS3 is frigging huge.....but the controller weighs next to nothing... I also bought Ridge Racer 7, so im only going to be commenting on this game. I will sum it up in one word.....dissapointing. I thought the graphics were a big let down. To be honest the graphics didnt look much better than a PS2 game, and yes, it was on a HD TV with full 1080P resolution.
Another thing that sucked about the game was the physics of it. It reminded me of NFS: Underground. It sucked.

I had quite high expectations for this system, and i was very, very dissapointed with all of it. So after the game we pulled apart the PS3. Lot of pictures were taken. Theyll go up on the PS3 Grill site shortly.

The insides were a lot more interesting than any other aspect of the system.....I must say I detest those stupid ribbon cables....theyre a pain in the ass.....


To all who actually want to buy a PS3 or are getting a PS3, I dont mean to dissapoint you......but you have nothing to look forward to.....

Anyhoo, the PS3 will fit a grill nicely in it...I cant wait to start making the grill.

So wait, we were right all along? And pics should be good. Cant wait to see the grill.

lol, yeah. I've already seen the screen shots of RR7 next to RR6 for the 360 and both games look dissappointing. Secondly I doubt anybody here bought a PS3 strictly RR7 so I'm sure nobody is terribly disappointed with their PS3 because of lack luster launch titles.

http://dreamgamers.blogcindario.com/2006/1...s-rr-7-ps3.html

There is a good comparison of the graphical differences between RR6 (a launch title for the 360) and RR7 (a sequel and launch title for the PS3).

From what I've heard they're essentially the same game but RR7 has some extra cars/tracks etc. You can see that a number of details have been removed for the PS3 version, IMO the most noticeable differences is the water: on the 360 it's got ripples, some shiny reflections etc, and having played the game I can tell you that it actually moves around like water should. The water in the PS3 is just flat and lifeless. This is same thing is carried over onto other elements like the reflection of the glass windows on the building etc.

This could tell us a few things, and I'll leave it up to you how you'd like to interpret it
1. - it could mean that developers had a harder time getting these effects to work properly on the PS3 then they did with the 360 either do to difficulty programming for the platform or time constraints.
2. - it could mean that the PS3 couldn't handle that extra level of detail and it had to be cut out.
3. - (if they're going 1080p) it could mean that details had to be cut out to get the game running at a higher resolution, which begs the question if support for the higher resolution on a small small number of TVs where it makes a differences is worth the loss of quality in the details.
4. - any combination of the aforementioned.

It still remains that the the game was released a year later on supposedly superior higher priced hardware and it is missing graphical details and effects.

I wasn't impressed with RidgeRacer 6 to begin with. Now, TDU, and Forza2 (from screenies from the site), now you're talkin'. I hope GT HD is in the same tier graphics and game-play wise.

I agree with most of what you said, but there are a couple things.

1. PS3 version has better lighting. If you translate the spanish below the picture he says illumination.
2. Car models look better
3. Entire scene looks sharper and more crisp. Due to 1080P?

I acknowledge lesser textures

The water is odd. On the first set of pictures the 360 water looks good and is better than the PS3s water. On the second set if you look towards the lake you see the ripples, but they look stuck on and it almost appears the water on the PS3 has translucence/depth and appears to show reflections. Can also be seen when looking at the bow of the ship in the PS3 screen.

I say give it, the PS3, time before coming to any conclusions. I mentioned this before in another thread and I'll mention it again. I remember some harsh words on the 360 and some of it's launch games not looking next gen, i.e. Madden, and now look at games like GoW.

NVM he made the pictures links to see the full size versions.

OK now the pics are up and working....i still have to rearrange the site a bit and put the pics in different categories but the current layout will do for a couple of days...

Its stupid how when you upload photos, it makes them a .JPG instead of a .jpg so i have to hcnage them back so the pics work...

BTW, the inverter blew up last night.....it overheated and blew the thermal fuse inside the toroid transformer....and i cant find where these thermal fuses are. Anyone know where abouts thermal fuses are in toroial transformers?

Since we have a hardware modding forum for PS3 now I think we should move this there... it is the first real case mod

You can make a PS macro to watermark those pics for you

Oh yeh i forgot to watermark those pics....oh well....ill definatly watermark all the other pics when i put them up..



And thats why it took me half an hour to find this thread.....lol i thought it might have been deleted....

Anyway, I have the internal dimensions of the PS3 and im going to buy the grill to put in it today.

Yay! 400th post!

Alright, I finished the tutorial (finally!). And im currently uploading it.

Damn I spent the whole afternoon making this tut lol

Looking real good dude. I've been looking for a disassembly tut for the ps3. Congrats on being the first one to actually make a good tut. I saw a you tube video of it, but yours is far better.

Sucess!! The PS3 grill has been built! The pics have been uploaded to the site....

its hilarious. lol. u should post some pics of it actually working. looks like u just slapped on some sausage without any power to the grill. looks great!!!

Yeh we had power to it, but it wasnt heated up, so it wasnt really cooking them at that point. Ill have to cook some more stuff on it today and take some pics of it.

Haha.. That is some funny shit, now send it back to Sony and say your PS3 over heats!!

Well, I just finished cooking some steak on it.....i took lots of pics and im uploading them right now.....



Good idea lol

put the innards in a foreman

i bet thats already been mentioned.

does it heat from the top? or did u just add a bottom grille?

Nah the grill is just in the bottom of the case.....did you see the pics of the steak i cooked on it today....that was nice steak...

BTW i just won a 20GB PS3 on ebay for $760.....good price, hey?

so what do you plan on doing with the innards from the PS3?

I might be interested in the PSU and the heatsink/fan

Then I'm gonna get a PS3 case and put an Xbox 360 inside it

http://www.therealps3grill.com/ps3grillpics.htm

Thats some seriously funny shit.

Well, heres what I decided yesterday. Since we probly would get much for parting it out or just selling the innards, we just put the case back on the PS3 and sold it on ebay. It finished today for US$890 (very dissapointed, since I bought it for US$1050) I was hoping to make a profit.

Anyhoo, ill have this second PS3 in the next week or so and I will decide its fate in the next few days....

And the 360's insides fit very nicly inside the PS3 case.....I shouldve took pics when i tried it....

Hey all,
Just thought id give everyone a bit of an update about the grill and the site..............Well, the site seems to be a huge sucess, there have been more than 100,000 people visit the site each day for the past 3 days. With all the sites that have linked to it about 95% of people love the idea (Of course you get the occasional off sour-puss/sony fanboy who thinks the idea is stupid)

Sometime in the near future im planning to build another one and sell it or something....

wait
you made it allready?

Hah, yep, it's been around the internet and back already. It was posted on my pretty small forum (250 members) a few days ago.

Lmao, did you let the winner know a steak's been inside his ps3?

Erm......maybe i forgot to mention it to him........

The idiot who bought it wont beleive me that the PS3 will work off 240v so im mailing him the origional power cord......idiot.....

did u line the top with sheet metal? for greese splatter or plastic melting

Nah I didnt, but whenever I had the grill turned on i had the top up, so there want any chance of the top melting. That could be something I could add to the next grill tho.

dude you're on hack-a-day http://www.hackaday.com/2006/11/27/crazy-holidays-extra/

well done bigjimmy. being featured is awesome

i love this thing

Sweet!

BTW the grill is getting an article about it put in Electronic Gaming Monthly. Anyone know of that magazine? Its obviously an american magazine lol so I cant really get it over here. Im having a few issues sent to me and everything aswell.

This grill thing is turnig out to be rather popular lol. I never expected to be featured on anything.



Perhaps I should take off that donation meter thing.......

Awesome... EGM is quite a popular publication

Probably the most popular gaming magazine that's not specific to a particular console.

I believe that's the same group that runs 1up.com

Kool. Im still suprised how its going to get put in a magazine.

And yeah, it runs 1up.com. Just had a look at the mag' site.

Congrats man, you worked hard. It's wrong of hack-a-day to leave a remark about your fundraiser though. You bought it on your own dime. You weren't even looking to make a profit, just recoup some money.

Haha, I've been following this since I first saw it mentioned, and it's great! Do you plan on cleaning it up a bit, cuts, design and such? Either way, good job.

Thanks. Yeh it was a bit silly to mention the donation meter, but I have been planning to remove it ever since the grill was built anyway.



Yeh, im planning on buying just a case (ill start looking once the PS3 BST section opens up) and ill do a lot cleaner job on building the second one. Then once I finish it ill sell it on ebay lol youd be surprised how many people have emailed me asking if id sell the grill.