Playing on your PS3 tomorrow: Tekken 2 and other downloadable PSOne games

Sony released Playstation 3 firmware version 1.7 last week and one of the new features allows some PSOne downloadable games to run on the Playstation 3. On April 26 the first wave of PSOne downloadable games that play on the Playstation 3 are coming out in Japan. Resident Evil: Director’s Cut, Arc of the Lad, Tekken 2, Gunners Heaven and Marl Kingdom: The Adventures of the Puppet Princess are among the eleven initial games. SCEJ also announced fourteen additional PSOne to PSP downloadable games and five of them are from SNK. Instead of releasing an old version of King of Fighters, SNK Playmore selected the Last Blade and Samurai Showdown: Warrior’s Rage. See the full list of titles past the break.

PSOne downloadable games that work on the PS3:

Spectral Force

R-Type S

A.IV. Evolution Global

Resident Evil: Director’s Cut

Arc of the Lad

Gunners Heaven

Marl Kingdom: The Adventures of the Puppet Princess

Bishi Bashi Special

Ganbare Morikawa-kun 2nd

Tekken 2

Ore no Shikabane o Koete Yuke

New PSOne downloadable titles that only play on the PSP:

WaiWai Tennis Plus

Ikasama Mahjong

Jigsaw World

Philosoma

A5: A Ressha de Gyouko u 5

Lunatic Dawn III

Fushigi Deka

Jiisan 2 Tabi Bikkuri

Metal Slug X

Real Bout Garou Densetsu

Garou Densetsu Wild Ambition

Samurai Showdown: Warriors Rage

The Last Blade