Do you care?; PS2 Emulation

**Bretmaster5** · 01-09-2011,04:47 PM

The PS2 part of my life has lived longer than I've expected I love my classic games very much and all the people who have kept it possible to let me play these great game 1 more time every single day.

But let me say this Piracy ASIDE.. Would PS2 emulation be Possible on Non B/C PS3 models speaking from a Technical stand-point and would you actually care if it never made it on to the PS3 scene.

/discuss.

**p-hiddy** · 01-09-2011,05:51 PM

Originally Posted by Bretmaster5

The PS2 part of my life has lived longer than I've expected I love my classic games very much and all the people who have kept it possible to let me play these great game 1 more time every single day.

But let me say this Piracy ASIDE.. Would PS2 emulation be Possible on Non B/C PS3 models speaking from a Technical stand-point and would you actually care if it never made it on to the PS3 scene.

/discuss.

I would say that it is EXTREMELY unlikely that PS2 emulation will ever work on non-BC models. The PS3 just isn't powerful enough, unless an extremely optimized emulator could be written. It certainly won't be as simple as porting PCSX2 over. This is something that even Sony didn't/couldn't make work. Just use your PC for PS2 emulation. Or just use a real PS2 (c'mon, they're really cheap now.)

**iLLNESS** · 01-09-2011,05:58 PM

dont forget, a real ps2 looks better playing the games.

emulation on ps3 looks like shit

**xRaVeNx** · 01-09-2011,06:03 PM

.....say, what p-hiddy? List when the Playstation 3 was released, the technology was so new that it cost more to make a Playstaion 3 than it could be sold for, thus making Sony a loss on every sale. To reduce this loss, Sony began looking at options to reduce this cost, namely by getting rid of non-essential technology. Now because the old Playstation 3's basically had a Playstation 2 inside them too, they removed this first, thus reducin production costs by roughly $130 a unit. Although they still make a loss on every unit, it is not as great. Perhaps when the current technology has aged, and it makes a profit, they will offer a Playstation 3 with backwards compatibility again.

**Simon66** · 01-09-2011,06:04 PM

Originally Posted by p-hiddy

I would say that it is EXTREMELY unlikely that PS2 emulation will ever work on non-BC models. The PS3 just isn't powerful enough, unless an extremely optimized emulator could be written. It certainly won't be as simple as porting PCSX2 over. This is something that even Sony didn't/couldn't make work. Just use your PC for PS2 emulation. Or just use a real PS2 (c'mon, they're really cheap now.)

Do you even know what your talking about?Seriously.
The older PS3 had PS2 backwards comp and they work just fine.

**mister** · 01-09-2011,06:05 PM

I still have the old 60gb backwards comp ps3 but I do not know if there will be a back up loader for ps2 games but it'll be nice if there was.

who doesn't want to replay the classics like ff,ico,shadow hearts etc.

**caveman85** · 01-09-2011,06:17 PM

Originally Posted by Simon66

Do you even know what your talking about?Seriously.
The older PS3 had PS2 backwards comp and they work just fine.

ok i have a 80gbb ps3 that has software to emu the ps2 and a 60gb ps3 that has the phisical hardware in it to play ps2 games. majority of games play like shit on the 80gb console that is trying to emu the ps2. like painfully slow, crashes, textures missing or in wrong places, things that should exist just not existing. then you put it in the 60gb console that has the hardware and, it runs 100% like it should on any ps2 system. so if sonys programers put there best efforts into the ps2 emu on the 4port 80gb console then how the hell do we expect regular people to program one better, for free?

**Simon66** · 01-09-2011,07:34 PM

Originally Posted by caveman85

ok i have a 80gbb ps3 that has software to emu the ps2 and a 60gb ps3 that has the phisical hardware in it to play ps2 games. majority of games play like shit on the 80gb console that is trying to emu the ps2. like painfully slow, crashes, textures missing or in wrong places, things that should exist just not existing. then you put it in the 60gb console that has the hardware and, it runs 100% like it should on any ps2 system. so if sonys programers put there best efforts into the ps2 emu on the 4port 80gb console then how the hell do we expect regular people to program one better, for free?

From what I read long time ago, Sony took out a chip that emulates the PS2. I belive that a PS2 emulator is possible, dev just got to use the right libs and coding so it wont lang.

**Chaos-Kid** · 01-09-2011,10:41 PM

i have a 60gb Backwards comp Launch model.
i would love to see a PS2 emulator or something so i can play PS2 Back-ups.
my PS2 broke after i got my PS3 (Lucky :P)
but i would love to play back-ups of games like FF.

**dvdxploitr** · 01-09-2011,10:46 PM

PS2s are now on sale at GameStop for $50 and includes

Sony Playstation 2 Redesign System - Used
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City - Used
MX Unleashed - Used
SOCOM US Navy Seals (Game Only) - Used

or

Sony Playstation 2 System - Used
Need for Speed: Underground - Used
Jak II - Used
Ace Combat 4: Shattered Skies - Used

For the price, its just better to get another PS2…you'll get another controller out of the deal, u can still use your memory cards, game saves, etc….so just get another PS2

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