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darkknightkryta on 22 July 2012
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brendude13 said:
darkknightkryta said:

We knew this already, an emulator is just a recompiler.  Samuel mentioned that porting would a better term as publisher/Sony are using game specific hacks on a base emulator to get games working.  Some hacks can be used on multiple games especially if they use the same game engine.  This is essentially why there's so few games on PSN and why they just can't enable the emulator for every game as the majority of games would either, not run, or run very slowly.

So it's an emulator that ports the game?

Well emulators generally "ports the game", it's just emulators do it in real-time and do it for a majority of games.  In these PS2 PSN games case, it's doing it for a minority of the games, or even just one.  It's even possible each game has its own tailored emulator.  So in the non complicated way, yes it is.