Sony Europe has recently filed an incredibly exciting patent for fans of the classic PlayStation titles who are also addicted to trophies.
According to this new patent you could soon start earning full trophies for achievements completed on these old titles. And best of all they aren’t redeveloping the old titles at all.
According to the patent application via (Neogaf) the system works by checking how the system is accessing the media of the game. So if you access sector 558A of GTA: San Andreas it knows you are going for some hot coffee and you can be duly rewarded for it.
It becomes more complicated as it goes on but you get the idea. I think it’s a great idea that will reinvigorate people’s desires to replay the old classics which in turn gives PlayStation another income stream.
The only part I can see being a real issue is the dodgy gamers out there who hack their system and then simply read sectors to unlock trophies… however I’m sure Sony is going to cater for that to make sure it doesn’t happen.
I’m guessing step 510 will cater for that quite well.
So does this excite you?
Last Updated: March 28, 2013
TechniKyle
March 28, 2013 at 11:26
Yell Yeah! I think I’m going to put my Final Fantasy replay’s on hold until this comes into effect!
Jim Lenoir (Banana Jim)
March 28, 2013 at 11:26
Trophies… achievements… ? Sigh!
Back when I was a young whippersnapper with the thumbs of Hercules, we gamed purely for the fun of it, rather than hunting superfluous trinkets to inflate our e-peen.
Sir Captain Rincethis
March 28, 2013 at 11:38
You called for LE SIGH?!
Sir Rants-a-Lot Llew
March 28, 2013 at 12:03
Did you just use up your daily sigh?
Sir Captain Rincethis
March 28, 2013 at 12:10
FUCK!
Sir Rants-a-Lot Llew
March 28, 2013 at 12:20
Don’t you mean…. *sigh* ?
Sir Captain Rincethis
March 28, 2013 at 12:21
I wasn’t ALLOWED to mean that O_o
Sir Rants-a-Lot Llew
March 28, 2013 at 12:28
hehehehe
Jim Lenoir (Banana Jim)
March 28, 2013 at 12:32
Every day requires Le Sigh!
Eric Viljoen
March 28, 2013 at 11:44
Trophies and achievements are the modern high scores. It has one major flaw though. Being finite.
umar bastra
March 28, 2013 at 11:49
I find made up Trophies more fun. like the insane light no bonifre challenge that someone made up for dark souls
Verrayne
March 28, 2013 at 13:00
Not me. Back in the day we made our games fun like playing cs with only shotguns or smg’s first one to 50 kills wins. Or in Final Fantasy by playing only a blue mage. or seeing how far you can make a city go without a police station.
We did a bunch of crap to makes more interesting that what they were designed for. And some trophies (ni no kuni as a most recent example) try and do that as well.
You are not forced to get trophies. You don’t have to care about them. But somehow deep down I can sense you want the plats otherwise this article wouldn’t have bothered you in the slightest 😉
Jim Lenoir (Banana Jim)
March 28, 2013 at 15:02
Nothing bothers the Banana, except for the pain and anguish that comes from his family being brutally killed by Teenage Mutant Ninja Orang-outangs!
I will avenge you Big Pobba Squash!
umar bastra
March 28, 2013 at 11:49
So just to clarify, the games stay as is, but certain sectors in the game (let’s say,Final Fantasy 9, defeating Ozma), will trigger a trophy? will the trophies be installed like a pack? like Final Fantasy 9 Trophy pack? not too sure how trophies work.
Admiral Chief Erwin
March 28, 2013 at 11:59
What? No E37?
Admiral Chief Erwin
March 28, 2013 at 12:00
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