zero129 said:
SvennoJ said:
sc94597 said:
SvennoJ said:
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.
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Both are free and legal—none of the code in the emulators themselves belongs to Sony
While that is technically true, you have to mod chip / jail break your ps2 to get the bios to be able to use the emulator.
Sony doesn't sell the BIOS nor made it available for use on anything besides the ps2, therefore pscx2 is in a gray area when it comes to legality.
Anyway I'm not going to download the bios from a dodgy site, nor am I going to jailbreak my ps2. So pointless download.
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Yes cos Sony is going to lose so much money from you downloading a Bios from the internet for a system you already own and payed for but cant rip the bios yourself...
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Well they'll lose the money from people buying the games they're putting resources into upscaling to 1080p and adding trophy support to, since there is another way of doing this by reverse engineering the BIOS out of a PS2 for use in a program not created by Sony.
Anyway tagging this for a read about encouraging people to circumvent buying games from digital marketplaces, just to see if such a thread is fine on Vgchartz forums. Just interested to see.
