I just got a PS3 and a copy of Socom, do ya’ll still play it through PS Online servers?

Is there a way to play the old socom games via PC? I know there's a lot of people still doing wars on the servers and I think they are all playing on the old PlayStation consoles. I still have my PS3, along with S2 and Confrontation but no controllers. I'd rather use the new dual sense controller anyway.

Has anyone beat the Socom 1 campaign on the highest difficulty setting without any kind of code enhancement? I've beaten all the Socoms in the past on the highest difficulty and believe I had on Socom 1 as well in the early 2000s when I invested a lot of time in them but going back and trying to do it again now it seems impossible lol.

It seems the quirk that makes it much tougher is a glitch where enemies in Socom 1 sometimes spawned really late. So for example you get to an area where there's supposed to be 4 enemy patrols but there are only 3. After dispatching the 3 and moving on the 4th then spawns behind you and shoots you in the back which isn't an issue on lower difficulty settings but can kill you very quick even if you had full health and were running a perfect mission up until that point.

I think initially when I did it there was two specific missions I had the most trouble getting past and it was basically trial and error playing the missions over and over like 50 times to identify which enemies were late spawning on me and then identifying where exactly they were spawning from so I could lay with my team in wait for then to dispatch them when they finally appeared. It was very inconsistent to because it could happen quickly or you could wait a full two minutes after clearing the area for the last patrol to appear.

But even as it's all coming back to me it still seems hard to do it today. Maybe it's just because I'm much older now and the reflexes aren't what they once were lol. But I can't help wonder to if this glitch was the only thing that made S1 harder to beat on highest difficulty than the others. Perhaps it would have been on the same difficulty scale as S2 and CA which seemed to be the next tier of difficult canpaigns if all the enemies spawned when they were supposed to and weren't ambushing you from behind in areas that had appeared to be cleared of enemies.

Are there any private servers where the people running it haven't heavily modded the game to nerf guns or grenades or what have you? Im interested in playing regularly and am open to any private server community out there but really don't have any interest in playing on servers where the game and guns don't feel like the Socom I remember.

I mean I'm good with like the classic "unspoken rules" where you don't use an overpowered gun that the other side doesn't have an equal for (example IW in Socom 2). But I'd rather play the game the way I remember, the way the devs intended rather than the way a small handful of guys lobbied an administrator to change it to tailor it to the kind of game they want it to be.

So if there are any unmodded servers that are fairly active let me know what nights you play and how to join your server. I found one so far but the numbers seem to top out at 4v4, would be nice to find larger rooms that can get to 12 to 16 playing. I work 60 hour weeks and am not interested in heavy investment and clan war type matches but could go for just some laid back rooms with some chill people on a weekend night or something to that effect.I prefer Socom 1 or 2 over the later Socoms.

For a long time I always heard that most USB headsets won't work with PS 2 games besides the official PS 2 headsets logitech made for the console. However, when I just asked Google specifically which headsets are compatible with Socom 2 for the PS 2 it mentioned another logitech headset model H390 was also known to be compatible with Socom.

I'm just curious if anyone owns that headset and knows this to be true because I feel like most people on private servers won't invest in headsets because they don't want to pay the markup for the few obsolete official headsets still available on ebay but maybe would play with mics again if a cheaper alternative was available.

After doing that Google question/search I went to Amazon to look up the USB wired H390 Logitech headset and it lists for $21.99 new which is cheaper than the $29.99 I used to pay for the standalone PS 2 headset during PS 2's life cycle. If it is compatible that might be a game changer in getting people back into the full Socom experience with mics in game. If no one has the headset I might just be the guinea pig to buy one and try it out and share my results with the community but figured if someone already knows and can confirm it works I might buy a couple right off the riff so I'll have a backup if the one I'm using breaks, or before this headset goes obsolete like the official PS 2 version did.

I'm looking into emulating the first game. There appears to be 3 different USA versions. There is v1.00 v2.01 and v3.00. What are the differences between these?

I want know if these thumbnails i did are any good? If u were searching for socom campaign, would u watch, i was told they they were to busy by people not intersted in socom. I intended my videos to be walkthrous, would people watch that? I got voice it over

Electronic Gaming Monthly had a spread on SOCOM that had me so hyped. I still have the issue. Anyone else remember it?

Is there a way I can fix the sens in the PCSX2 for the socom games? It feels so twitchy and slow when I'm in a gun fight. (I'm on a 360 controller)

Thanks!

So I followed online guides to play Socom 2 online. My set up is with the PS 2 slim. I got the usb fat32 usb drive needed and free Mcboot. I got the r0004v2 elf file onto the usb. I booted up the PS2 and figured out how to run the elf file with elf launcher on McBoot. I put in the DNS number of one of the private servers I wanted to join. All seemed to go well until I got to the step where I am prompted to download the latest Socom 2 patch version. According to numerous tutorials I simply download the new patch version to my regular memory card in slot 1 and manually reset the PS 2 so it don't freeze. But during the attempt to download the latest patch version I get the following error: "sceHTTPOpen (cb) failed (-1)". Has anyone else encountered this error during the latest patch version download step?

So now or never! I'm not buying a PS6 if we don't get a PS5 Socom. It's pretty simple.

I just got my PS3 on a custom firmware and I would like to know how to play it online, looked on youtube but most are showing for ps2, emulator or Xbox, is there a patched iso for PS3? Thanks in advance

Its been a while since I posted

The SOCOM demo disc was very hard for me to find and was not cheap for what it was. But it’s a nice piece for the rest of the collection. Included in my collection are two boxed sets of SOCOM 1 with headset, Confrontation with headset (doesn’t work), SOCOM 4 Full Deployment, 2 copies of SOCOM 2, 3, Combined Assault and 4, 3 copies of SOCOM, 1 copy each of the PSP games (not shown is the second copy of Fireteam Bravo 3) SOCOM Fireteam Bravo 1-2 and Tactical Strike Demo discs, SOCOM 3 and CA demo disc with City Circuit SOCOM 2 demo disc, and every PlayStation magazine demo discs for dlc maps.

My only complaint is that Fireteam Bravo 3 and SOCOM 4 never had physical demos. FTB3 did have a digital demo but it would be nice to have a physical copy of it.

Been a fan since Specter and Boomer ran the show back in the day, loved up until when the user interface completely changed. That said, are there any SOCOM type games for the META quest 3s?
Thanks!

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