I don't believe it's impossible to do. The PS3 should be powerful enough to emulate the PS2 adequately. Not an easy programming task, but Sony should be able to manage it - they designed both consoles after all, and have demonstrated ability with their PS1 and PSP emulator for minis on PS3.
Also, Sony has already done most of the work to emulate the PS2. All Sony would need to do is write an emulator for the GPU, which was present in the early PS3s, but removed from later ones. Sony removed the GPU to cut costs, which also allowed them to focus development and testing elsewhere.
Sony were under a lot of pressure at that time to reduce the price of the PS3. Whatever discussion Sony had internally to remove backwards-compatibility, I suspect their plan to create the new "HD collection" series also came about at the same time. The "HD collection" contains mostly PS2 games re-made with up-res'd graphics.
This is Sony's new "backwards-compatibility" focus. I'm answering 2. The blog contains many interesting articles about the difficulties of emulating the PS2. Of course, they are writing for the PC, not the PS3, but the same difficulties would apply. Imagine trying to teach someone spanish by talking to them purely in german.
Writing an Emulator is hard but I think the real answer here is simply that Sony does not want to. Any computer that is Turing complete can be emulated on another given enough memory,speed, and processing power. In the case of Bleem! They ultimately failed, but Bleem! Sony are still pretty quick to lawyer up or even send the cops around, like what happenned to Graf-Chokolo.
Truth be told they can easily emulate PS1 and PS2 games on PS3 but they don't want to due to the fact that not a lot of people were buying newer games made for PS3 a lot more expensive etc and because of that game makers were also sticking to making PS2 games for a few more years.
This was noted in an article few years ago after the introduction of the PS3. Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. Why is it so difficult to emulate PS2 games in a PS3?
Ask Question. Asked 10 years, 8 months ago. Active 7 months ago. Viewed 16k times. Improve this question. Ither Ither 1, 5 5 gold badges 15 15 silver badges 20 20 bronze badges. Part of me says this would be better suited to gamedev. Not sure you're going to get a good answer here. Raven Dreamer: This is kind of iffy territory but the question itself does focus on backward compatibility of the console. My answer addresses his concern and also specifically states which models have such backward compatibility.
I think that will make it more relevant to Gaming's audience. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Community Bot 1. Shaun Shaun TheAnnoyingPyro: Basis of your claim? In addition to Shaun's very good answer, consider the cost of emulation. Matthew Read Matthew Read It's not really the processor emulation that's the problem. There is a fundamental difference in the bus architectures of the PS2 and PS3 that make it quite hard to work around. Thanks, I've added that info.
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You can't chat with this user because you have blocked him. You can't invite this user because you have blocked him. Posted September 17, Are you trying to run it on a literal toaster? King's Field is not worth the trouble to play though. Cannot give a reason "why? Someone is asking why an 'emulator' sucks? Hahahaha, Of course it sucks, when do they ever NOT suck???
That's the real question? Frankly i am surprised that when you look up the definition of the word emulator in the dictionary it does not just say "that which sucks". Dray2k Dray2k Sorry, data for given user is currently unavailable. Posted June 20, I am personally using ePSXe emulator for my Android smartphone and it is working fine for me.
I think you should try some new technique for emulating ps2. There are lots of good ps2 emulators like Damon Ps2 and RetroArch etc. Posted July 30, StingingVelvet StingingVelvet Sorry, data for given user is currently unavailable.
Usually Zelda games are the only console exclusives I really care about, so luckily I never had to use others that much. SpaceMadness SpaceMadness Sorry, data for given user is currently unavailable. I once used espsxe and seemed to work alright for the few games I tried. Because a while ago I made q thread with the exact same title, it just said "Gamecube" instead of "PS2".
No it's not a joke, did you read the post rather than just the title? Joined Oct 19, Messages 1, Website www. Last edited by a moderator: Apr 24, Sorry monstercameron, your A comes nowhere even remotely close to a 17W Ivy Bridge i7 in the single-threaded performance crucial for performance for PCSX2. It probably won't even come remotely close to the Trinity you mentioned. There were a number of PS2 titles converted to it which were fairly close to the original ones this being said the PSP is way less powerful, 3d wise, than the PS2, and it shows.
PS2 emulation on portable hardware, not before another years, and I may be optimistic still. Exophase said:. I'm going to be straight up with you.. I've talked to a ton of people over the years who wanted to prove to me that emulator X runs "good enough" or "playable" on platform Y. This is totally subjective and can mean anything, everyone is going to have some different opinion on this, and it could pretty much extend to the very slowest emulation you can imagine.
It's just not worth talking about. If you want to, knock yourself out. Seriously though don't let me get in the way of you mentioning Temash in every post you ever make. Please explain to me how you feel I was being combative. Unless it's that Temash comment. Which I put a smiley at the end of. But seriously, you do promote Temash a LOT. This isn't the first time you've been like this. And I hope you realize that when you start judging my intentions towards you it's you who is making things personal.
Are you trying to guilt me into never again saying anything contrary to what you post? Because that's not happening. I suggest you get some thicker skin. Franko Active Member. I stole Binky's keys when he was asleep and now I'm sheriff So lets see some shaking of hands and acknowledgment that Exo has a big brain and that Cameron respects that but just wants to learn and have a pleasant dialogue and exchange with Exo.
Sort of like colleagues, but without the annoying Christmas parties and phone calls Exo, just be YOU. Don't ever change. Not that a few thousand Pandora owners and fans aren't thinking the same thing - don't overtax that guy's mind. Bless you, Exophase. Thanks for your personal sacrifices and efforts and love towards this project. You improve and continue to improve a device that awes me. What a great community we have. Franko said:.
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