SvennoJ said:
sc94597 said:
SvennoJ said:
Nocturne123 said:
Or you could, you know, pay for them and support Sony so they can put that money into the PS4 infrastructure and it's games. |
That's a strange concept. But yes, I rather buy Burnout again then mess with an emulator and show that there is still enough interest in the series to spend money on. It's all convenience in the end which is worth a bit of money to me. Time > money.
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Honestly the time I spend tweaking settings for a specific game I rip off a disc is about 10-15 minutes (including ripping the iso.) That is less than the download time for the PS2 game from Sony servers would take. I'd argue that if you already own the game, it is more time-efficient than downloading the title again. Especially for larger PS2 games that used multiple discs.
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Out of the interest of curiosity I gave the download a try. However 5 minutes later I'm stumped...
PSCX2 requires a legal copy of the PS2 BIOS to run games.
You cannot use a copy obtained from a friend or the internet.
You must dump the BIOS from your *own* Playstation 2 console.
How do I do that? Is that even legal?
How do I connect my ps2 console to my pc to dump the bios?
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If you care about everything being "legal" and not everything being "ethical" or "moral" then here is how you can extract a bios.
http://forums.pcsx2.net/Thread-Guide-to-Dumping-Your-PS2-Bios-over-LAN
Nevertheless, if you already had a PS2 I really don't see the big deal of using another PS2's bios unless you are obsessed with the legality of things. There is a good argument against the piracy of games (i.e you are hurting the developer by doing so), but since Sony isn't selling Playstation bios', unless you only care about intellectual property abstractly and are obsessed with following the law, it isn't an issue to find one and download it, unlike finding games that are being sold legally.
Edit: Yes, you can use a copy obtained from the internet. PSCX2 just can't say that you can for legal reasons.
