Article: CobraUSB Update 3.55 Cobra CFW

[Coerryenzyday]

Greetings to all users

[CaptainCPS-X]

The ps3 cannot handle it.

Yeah, I believe that is the reason why emulation of the PS2 on the PS3 is not mentioned much at all, it would be very hard to use the PS3 specs to 'emulate' it. Emulation always need more resources than the original hardware.

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[jawgee]

On page 6 and 7 of the User Manual PDF you can see a screenshot of the manager.

http://www.cobra-usb.com/downloads/u...english_v3.pdf

SeeYa!
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Cool, thanks for the info. Yeah, the backup manager looks very basic, circa November 2010.

I'm going to install the Cobra CFW later tonight. I ordered the Cobra a few months ago from some Chinese dealer. I didn't think I was going to receive it as I never received an email confirmation of my order, but a few weeks later, I received the Cobra in the mail.

I've been sitting on it for a few weeks now waiting for 3.55 support. Since it's finally here, I might as well jump on it. I'll be updating from fw 3.21 (been using the dongle JB method this whole time) with a near launch day US CECHA. I'll let you know how everything goes.

[NuclearAqua]

OR, the other solution (that no dev. seems to be working on atm) would be a PS2 emulator for the PS3. Whats the difference here?, well an emulator can make use of any graphic device, the dev. can specify that when coding it, and because of this PS2 would be possible in any PS3 model because it will not depend on a single Graphic Device. But there could be other complications in the making of a PS2 emulator like the memory limits of each PS3 and other stuff.

No it wouldn't. How do you expect the PS3 to handle a ps2 emulator if it simply doesn't have enough horsepower?

[ahou]

No it wouldn't. How do you expect the PS3 to handle a ps2 emulator if it simply doesn't have enough horsepower?

Well, it is possible, as long as you don't mind playing at 15~30 fps or so.

[CaptainCPS-X]

No it wouldn't. How do you expect the PS3 to handle a ps2 emulator if it simply doesn't have enough horsepower?

Did you read my previous posts well?

I will quote myself just to be clear

Yeah, I believe that is the reason why emulation of the PS2 on the PS3 is not mentioned much at all, it would be very hard to use the PS3 specs to 'emulate' it. Emulation always need more resources than the original hardware.

I been in the emulation scene long enough to see things get emulated when people were saying it wasn't possible, of course they didn't know what they were talking about.

Anyway, I understand that the PS3 specs could limit the performance on certain applications, in this case a PS2 emulator would have many complications to handle the Emulation Core + System Core at 100%, and lets not forget that if we apply some "speed hacks" it may gain a bit of speed by reducing the quality, disabling features, checks, reducing the audio quality, etc, but I'm not gonna enter in many details. But the fact that it could be emulated is there.

Time will tell what is possible and what is not.

SeeYa!
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[krytonic]

Did you read my previous posts well?

I will quote myself just to be clear



I been in the emulation scene long enough to see things get emulated when people were saying it wasn't possible, of course they didn't know what they were talking about.

Anyway, I understand that the PS3 specs could limit the performance on certain applications, in this case a PS2 emulator would have many complications to handle the Emulation Core + System Core at 100%, and lets not forget that if we apply some "speed hacks" it may gain a bit of speed by reducing the quality, disabling features, checks, reducing the audio quality, etc, but I'm not gonna enter in many details. But the fact that it could be emulated is there.

Time will tell what is possible and what is not.

SeeYa!
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But isn't the software already on ALL PS3's, which can be force unlocked like cobra say, already an emulator? So what use would installing a second emulator bring?

[Spazkid]

Well, it is possible, as long as you don't mind playing at 15~30 fps or so.

That IS a decent play rate, so long as it isn't 10

[CaptainCPS-X]

But isn't the software already on ALL PS3's, which can be force unlocked like cobra say, already an emulator? So what use would installing a second emulator bring?

Yes it is possible to force the PS3 to run PS2 as I previously mentioned here as well.

http://psx-scene.com/forums/f6/artic...tml#post900963 (Article: CobraUSB Update 3.55 Cobra CFW)

I been trying to clarify a few things in my recent posts , that's all .

Emulation of PS2 may sound like forcing the PS3 to run PS2 using the Software method, but its not really the same thing. Emulation allows more flexibility in most cases, and allows you to optimize things that the original hardware was not able to, for example there is a very well known emulator of the Nintendo Wii that allows 1080p, while the original hardware can't handle it.

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[ahou]

But isn't the software already on ALL PS3's, which can be force unlocked like cobra say, already an emulator? So what use would installing a second emulator bring?

Sony's emulator sucks. It is disabled for a reason.

That IS a decent play rate, so long as it isn't 10

1/4-1/2 fps is hardly decent. I mean, you could still manage to play anything that doesn't require any timing at all, but it would be miserably slow.