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markers on 09 January 2009
Kasz216 said:
gebx said:
What would happen if MS announced that the 360 could play PS2 games??

I doubt they could announce it.  Someone making a PS2 emulator could probably rig one to work on a 360 if they really felt like it... framerates would be horrible though.

What people don't realize is that emulators have to emulate the system.

Its still up in the air whether the 360 and PS3 would have enough juice to emulate the other "half" of the PS2.... AND play games at a good framerate.

 

and there might be a lawsuit or two filed?



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Kasz216 on 09 January 2009
markers said:
Kasz216 said:
gebx said:
What would happen if MS announced that the 360 could play PS2 games??

I doubt they could announce it.  Someone making a PS2 emulator could probably rig one to work on a 360 if they really felt like it... framerates would be horrible though.

What people don't realize is that emulators have to emulate the system.

Its still up in the air whether the 360 and PS3 would have enough juice to emulate the other "half" of the PS2.... AND play games at a good framerate.

 

and there might be a lawsuit or two filed?

Emulators are perfectly legal.

To my knowledge anyway.

Infact plenty of oldschool systems emulated Atari games i believe.

Like coleecovision or something did.

Unless they've changed the laws since then it'd be perfectly legal... it'd just make it look like you had no faith in your own product.

 



markers on 09 January 2009
Kasz216 said:
markers said:
Kasz216 said:
gebx said:
What would happen if MS announced that the 360 could play PS2 games??

I doubt they could announce it.  Someone making a PS2 emulator could probably rig one to work on a 360 if they really felt like it... framerates would be horrible though.

What people don't realize is that emulators have to emulate the system.

Its still up in the air whether the 360 and PS3 would have enough juice to emulate the other "half" of the PS2.... AND play games at a good framerate.

 

and there might be a lawsuit or two filed?

Emulators are perfectly legal.

To my knowledge anyway.

Infact plenty of oldschool systems emulated Atari games i believe.

 

but i cant see how its legal for a company to make money off the rival companies abilities (ie playing ps2 games in this case)

im not a lawyer or anything so i wouldnt know

 



FilaBrasileiro on 09 January 2009
Kasz216 said:
markers said:
Kasz216 said:
gebx said:
What would happen if MS announced that the 360 could play PS2 games??

I doubt they could announce it.  Someone making a PS2 emulator could probably rig one to work on a 360 if they really felt like it... framerates would be horrible though.

What people don't realize is that emulators have to emulate the system.

Its still up in the air whether the 360 and PS3 would have enough juice to emulate the other "half" of the PS2.... AND play games at a good framerate.

 

and there might be a lawsuit or two filed?

Emulators are perfectly legal.

To my knowledge anyway.

Infact plenty of oldschool systems emulated Atari games i believe.

Like coleecovision or something did.

Unless they've changed the laws since then it'd be perfectly legal... it'd just make it look like you had no faith in your own product.

 

I doubt it you could legally run PS2 emulators on the 360, you can only run SNES, NES and N64 emulators on the PSP through CFW and illegal hacking, I don't see this being any different, MS would not get themselves in a position where they would have to give Sony a lot of money.

 



TWRoO on 09 January 2009

I didn't realise Sony lost PS2 emulation.... perhaps they should look in the hem of their trousers.



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wholikeswood on 09 January 2009
gebx said:
What would happen if MS announced that the 360 could play PS2 games??

Would never happen. Would be a field day for Sony's lawyers...

 



Kasz216 on 09 January 2009
FilaBrasileiro said:
Kasz216 said:
markers said:
Kasz216 said:
gebx said:
What would happen if MS announced that the 360 could play PS2 games??

I doubt they could announce it.  Someone making a PS2 emulator could probably rig one to work on a 360 if they really felt like it... framerates would be horrible though.

What people don't realize is that emulators have to emulate the system.

Its still up in the air whether the 360 and PS3 would have enough juice to emulate the other "half" of the PS2.... AND play games at a good framerate.

 

and there might be a lawsuit or two filed?

Emulators are perfectly legal.

To my knowledge anyway.

Infact plenty of oldschool systems emulated Atari games i believe.

Like coleecovision or something did.

Unless they've changed the laws since then it'd be perfectly legal... it'd just make it look like you had no faith in your own product.

 

I doubt it you could legally run PS2 emulators on the 360, you can only run SNES, NES and N64 emulators on the PSP through CFW and illegal hacking, I don't see this being any different, MS would not get themselves in a position where they would have to give Sony a lot of money.

No seriously, it's legal.  Or at least it was back in the day.  One of the really old systems around the Atari era played a completly different companys games.

It's just... why do that when most companies lose money on sales, or make a minor profit... and all the liscensing for those games would go to your competitor.

 



Kasz216 on 09 January 2009

It was the Colecovision!

It played Atari games.

So unless the law was changed since then... it should be perfectly legal.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ColecoVision

From its introduction, Coleco had touted a hardware add-on called the Expansion Module #1 which made the ColecoVision compatible with the industry-leading Atari 2600. Functionally, this gave the ColecoVision the largest software library of any console of its day. The expansion module prompted legal action from Atari, but Atari was unable to stop sales of the module because the 2600 could be reproduced with standard parts. Coleco was also able to design and market the Gemini game system which was an exact clone of the 2600, but with combined joystick/paddle controllers.

If you could emulate the PS2 software completly... it would be perfectly legal.



NJ5 on 09 January 2009

@Kasz216: Well as I said before, the problem is probably not in the emulator, but in the required firmware which the emulators require. The emulator would most likely be legal unless it uses part of the firmware.

 



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Kasz216 on 09 January 2009
NJ5 said:

@Kasz216: Well as I said before, the problem is probably not in the emulator, but in the required firmware which the emulators require. The emulator would most likely be legal unless it uses part of the firmware.

 

Yeah.  You'd have to independently engineer it.

If microsoft really wanted to though... they could pull it off.